The bokeh effect relies on a separation between the subject of a photo from the background. Smartphone cameras default to autofocus, meaning the app will attempt to guess the subject of an image.

Background blur, often called “bokeh” after the Japanese word for blur, is generally associated with high-end cameras with wide-aperture lenses. The effect is popular for portraits, and is ...

This effect is used with the Blur Gallery effects so you can add back some detail or texture to a blurred section. We first used the Iris Blur (set to 200) to blend out the background of a red tulip.

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects ...

Some of the best phones for background blur effects: the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, iPhone XS and Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Brought to you in association with Nokia and Android One, helping you make more of ...

Google Photos will soon have the ability to add portrait mode to any photo of a person.; Most recent iPhones and Androids have portrait mode, which focuses on the subject and blurs the background ...

Bokeh is the name given to the out-of-focus blur that appears in the background of a photo. The wider the aperture of a lens (which refers to the f-stop number, like f/2) then the greater the ...