Today our smartphone gives the opportunity to immortalize the moments of our life easily and quickly. And manufacturers have understood this well by creating technological innovations offering the possibility of competing with the photo quality of SLR cameras. This is how the vast majority of 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. That's why we'll see today how to use the bokeh effect on a Samsung Galaxy A04s . To get started, find out how to take an image with the bokeh effect using the built-in features of your Samsung Galaxy A04s. And then, learn how to use bokeh mode on a Samsung Galaxy A04s with a third-party application.
Take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your Samsung Galaxy A04s
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 bokeh effect for? It is neither more nor less than put a blur effect on the background of the photo to bring out the subject well in the foreground.
Although this action seems easy to perform, it is not necessarily easy to find the function on our mobile phone. This is why in this first part we will discover the use of the bokeh effect on a Samsung Galaxy A04s using two techniques: during the photo taking and after taking the image.
How to use bokeh mode while taking a picture
To use the bokeh effect on your Samsung Galaxy A04s in an easy and fast way, the best solution will be to use a mode to blur the background which is by default on your mobile phone. This mode will be used the moment you take the shot . You will therefore not need to do any photo editing. Find out how to use the bokeh effect directly on your Samsung Galaxy A04s:
- Open your application » Camera "
- Select the » Portrait Mode »Present in the parameters displayed at the bottom of the screen.
- Automatically, a list of effects is displayed. On some Android versions you will have to press the effects icon on the right side of your screen.
- Select the effect " Flou ».
- Adjust the blur intensity you want using the adjustment bar that appears.
- Once configured, all you have to do is take the snapshot.
It is possible that to have a successful bokeh effect on your Samsung Galaxy A04s, the procedure is different due to the fact that you are on another Android version:
- Open the application " Camera From your smartphone.
- Select the option Live focus " or " Live Focus ».
- Adjust the blur intensity you want using the adjustment bar that appears.
- Take the photograph when the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.
How to add a bokeh effect in post production
It may happen from time to time that you want to add a bokeh effect on a photo after taking it. In this context, you will have to use certain functions of your Samsung Galaxy A04s by post production . There are two possibilities available to you:
The first of the solutions only applies in the event that your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode which we have just discovered. So, in the event that you took the photo with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any shot taken by your Samsung Galaxy A04s:
- Open the Photo gallery from your phone.
- Display the photo on which you want add bokeh effect .
- Click on the option " Change background effect ».
- Select the type of effect vague.
- Set blur intensity .
- Save the photo by clicking on » Apply "
In the event that you want to add the bokeh effect to an image of your Samsung Galaxy A04s that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen a little above, another procedure exists:
- Open the application Gallery .
- Show photo on which you want to add the bokeh effect.
- Click on " Edit »Then on the function» Mosaic "
- Select the kind of blurry effect that you want to add.
- Select manually the areas where you want the bokeh effect to apply.
- Adjust focus slider until the desired blur effect is obtained.
- Save the photo.
Use the bokeh effect on a Samsung Galaxy A04s with an application
It happens at times that you do not have access to the features presented above because of the Android version installed on your mobile phone. If this is your case, in this specific case you will have to download third party app to use the bokeh effect on your Samsung Galaxy A04s. A multitude of applications exist, and among them, we suggest the app » DSLR Camera Blur Effects ". The latter is very fast and easy to use. It has many operations to get the blur you want. Among these functions you will find for example:
- The option 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 Samsung Galaxy A04s. You can suddenly play on bokeh effects to obtain a style of blur worked on each of your photos.
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