Through this guide our smartphone makes it possible to immortalize the moments of our life easily and quickly. And manufacturers have understood this well by creating technological innovations to compete with the photo quality of conventional cameras. This is how most modern smartphones have the bokeh effect. Allows so much to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to achieve a beautiful photo. This is the reason why we will see today how to use the bokeh effect on an LG K30 . To start, let's see how to take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the built-in features of your LG K30. And then, find out how to use bokeh mode on an LG K30 with a specific application.

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Take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your LG K30

In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological evolution of our smartphones, they are now able to compete with them. But what is the use of the bokeh effect? It is neither more nor less put a blur effect on the background of the image to contrast with the foreground.

Although this manipulation seems easy to perform, it is not always easy to find the function on our phone. This is the reason why we will discover in this first section how to get started with the bokeh effect on an LG K30 using two ways: during taking the photo and after taking the photo.

How to use bokeh mode while taking a photo

To use the bokeh effect on your LG K30 easily and quickly, the best solution will be to use a mode to blur the background which is built-in on your phone. This mode will be used the moment you take the shot . So you won't need to do any photo retouching. Find out how to use the bokeh effect directly on your LG K30:

  • Open your application » Camera "
  • Choose the » Portrait Mode  »Present in the settings displayed at the bottom of the screen.
  • Automatically, a list of effects appears. On some Android versions you will have to press the effects icon which is located on the right side of your screen.
  • Choose the effect "  Flou   ».
  • Adjust the blur intensity  you want thanks to the adjustment bar that appears.
  • Once set, all you have to do is take the snapshot.

To get a nice bokeh effect on your LG K30, the procedure may be different, because of your Android version:

  • Open the application "  Camera   From your smartphone.
  • Choose the option   Live focus   " or "  Live Focus   ».
  • Adjust the power of the blur  you want using the adjustment bar that appears.
  • Take the photo once the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.

How to put a bokeh effect in post-production

There may be times when you want to add a bokeh effect to a photo after taking it. In this context, you will have to use certain features of your LG K30 by post production . There are two methods available to you:

The first of the methods only applies in the event that your photo was taken with "Portrait Mode" or "Live Focus" mode that we have just seen. So, in the event that you took the picture with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any shot taken by your LG K30:

  • Open the Photo gallery of your device.
  • Go to the photo which you want add bokeh effect .
  • Press the option "  Change background effect   ».
  • Choose the type of effect   vague.
  • Set blur intensity .
  • Save the snapshot by pressing » Apply "

If you want to add the bokeh effect to a photo of your LG K30 that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen previously, there is another approach:

  • Open the application  Gallery .
  • Show photo on which you want to add the bokeh effect.
  • Press on " Edit  »Then on the function» Mosaic "
  • Choose  the kind of blurry effect that you want to add.
  • Choose manually the areas where you want the bokeh effect to apply.
  • Set focus slider until the desired blur effect is obtained.
  • Save the snapshot.

Use the bokeh effect on an LG K30 with an app

It is likely that you will not have access to the features discussed above due to the Android version installed on your phone. In the event that this is your situation, you will then have to download a specific application to use the bokeh effect on your LG K30. A very large number of applications exist, and among them, we recommend the app " DSLR Camera Blur Effects ". The latter is very quick and easy to use. It has many operations to get the blur you want. Among these functions you will find among others:

  • The possibility of select focus area (circular blur, linear blur, blur on a personalized area, or on an area in contact with the finger). The brush size is adjustable.
  • The provision of multiple blur tools to get a custom bokeh feel on your LG K30. You can suddenly play on bokeh effects to get a blur style worked on each of your photos.

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