Through this guide our mobile phone gives the opportunity to immortalize the moments of our life easily and quickly. And the brands have integrated it well by creating technological innovations that allow them to compete with the photo quality of conventional cameras. This is how most modern mobile phones have the bokeh effect. Allows so much to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to take a beautiful photo. This is why we will see in this article how to use the bokeh effect on a Xiaomi Poco M5 . To begin, we will find out how to take a photo with the bokeh effect using the integrated features of your Xiaomi Poco M5. After that, we will see how to use bokeh mode on a Xiaomi Poco M5 with a third-party application.
Take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your Xiaomi Poco M5
In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological change in our mobile phones, they now come to compete with them. But what exactly is the bokeh effect? It is neither more nor less than put a blur effect on the background of the image to bring out the subject clearly in the foreground.
Although this act seems easy to perform, it is not necessarily easy to find the function on our mobile phone. This is why we will discover in this first part the use of the bokeh effect on a Xiaomi Poco M5 thanks to two ways: during the photo taking and after taking the photo.
How to use bokeh mode while taking a photo
To use the bokeh effect on your Xiaomi Poco M5 in an easy and fast way, the best technique will be to use a mode to blur the background which is integrated as standard on your mobile phone. This mode will be used the moment you take the picture . You won't need to do any photo editing. Here is how to use the bokeh effect directly on your Xiaomi Poco M5:
- 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 the screen. 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 with the adjustment bar that appears.
- Once set, all that remains is to capture the photo.
It is possible that to have a nice bokeh effect on your Xiaomi Poco M5, the approach is different due to the fact that you are on another Android version:
- Open the application " Camera From your smartphone.
- Choose the option Live focus " or " Live Focus ».
- Adjust the blur strength you want using the adjustment bar that appears on the screen.
- Take the photo once the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.
How to add a bokeh effect in post production
There may be times when you want to add a bokeh effect to a photo after taking it. To do this, you will have to use certain features of your Xiaomi Poco M5 by post production . Two methods will be 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 photo with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any photo taken by your Xiaomi Poco M5:
- Open the Photo gallery of your device.
- Display the photo on which you want add bokeh effect .
- Click on the option " Change background effect ».
- Choose the type of effect vague.
- Adjust blur intensity .
- Save the snapshot by clicking on » Apply "
In the event that you want to add the bokeh effect to a photo of your Xiaomi Poco M5 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.
- Click on " Edit »Then on the function» Mosaic "
- Choose the type of blur effect that you want to add.
- Select manually areas where you want the bokeh effect to be added.
- Set focus slider until the desired blur effect is obtained.
- Save the snapshot.
Use the bokeh effect on a Xiaomi Poco M5 with an application
It sometimes happens that you do not have access to the functions seen above due to 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 Xiaomi Poco M5. A multitude 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 Xiaomi Poco M5. You can therefore play on bokeh effects to obtain a style of blur worked on each of your photos.
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