5 applications to get the blur effect on your Android mobile
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With the arrival of the dual camera on Android we could start playing with the depth of field. That is to say: with two lenses we can decide if the background of a foreground image is in focus or out of focus. Thus, the image that we see closer will look more beautiful and highlighted. This is called shallow depth of field, portrait mode, or bokeh mode. But not all of us are lucky enough to have a mobile with two lenses: these phones, especially the ones that give really good results, tend to have high prices.
Fortunately, we have the Google app store that can do anything. In its extensive catalog of utilities, we can find a series of applications with which to achieve that blur, that portrait mode that suits photographs so well, that seem taken by professional cameras for several thousand euros. We may not get those results, but we can get great images with which we can show off in front of our friends.
We have selected for you 5 applications to achieve the blur effect of the double camera, but having only one Isn't it great? Well, grab your mobile and start trying these apps, all of them free, and keep the one that gives you the best results.
A recent Instagram update allows its users to apply a blur effect to Stories.To apply this effect, you just have to enter the Stories screen, sliding your finger to the right on the main screen or by pressing the camera icon that you can see at the top left of the screen.
Just below, you can configure the type of Story you want, text only, Boomerang, Superzoom and, now, we find a new option: 'Focus'Choose it by sliding the different options with your finger. Now, face the mobile and the screen will automatically detect your face. Once you have the image, you can save it in your gallery, without sharing it, share it as one more Story or both. The truth is that the effect is quite successful, as you can see in the screenshot.
The best thing about the blur effect on Instagram is that it works with both the main and front cameras. Of course, it only works with people and human faces: forget about photographing your cat and the background being out of focus.
Afterfocus
AfterFocus is another application to get the blur effect in your spotlights. The application is free, although if you want to have the ad-free version and get results with higher resolution you will have to check out. To get the desired blur effect, we suggest you select the smart mode: there is another manual but it is a bit more cumbersome. We can apply the effect to a photo that we have in the gallery or that we take with the application at that moment.
On the effect application screen we have a column with tools With the first we select the object in the foreground, with the second we to select what we want to remain in the background and blurred. With the third, we are going to define the area that has been right on the border between the foreground and the background, so that the result is even more polished.It is not difficult to use, but it does require some practice.
Snapseed
One of the best Android photo editing applications could not be missing from this list. In its tools menu we can find, among other effects and tutorials to achieve very striking results, the blur effect. When you open the Snapseed app, choose a photo from the gallery that you want to touch up and tap on 'Tools'. Among all those that appear, you must press 'Blur'.
In 'Blur' you have three variables that you can modify. First, you have to place the center point of blur. Once we have it located, we will slide up and down the finger to change the intensity of the focus, the transition (changes size of the outer ring) and the intensity of the vignette.If we pinch our fingers, we can narrow the blur circle as well as rotate it on itself.
Pixlr
Another photo editor with which to highlight our objects in the foreground. We can edit a photo that we have already taken, extracting it from the gallery, or do it at that very moment. Once we have it, we press the first icon we see, which is a kind of suitcase. Among all the tool icons that appear, we look for ‘blur’.
Here we choose between two types of blur: linear or circular. Adapt it according to the image you want to retouch. You can increase the intensity of the blur by moving the bottom bar. You can also strengthen the color of the foreground object to make it stand out more, or add a small glow for the same effect. Pixlr is free and you can download it right now on the Google Play Store.
Pixomatic
This free photo editing Android app works in layers. We have to select the object in the foreground with a brush, which we can vary in thickness. To cut, we choose the scissors, we go through the silhouette of the character and then with the rubber and fill tools we are going to refine the selection. Click on 'apply'.
Now, to add the blur to the background, we will choose the 'blur' tool and choose the one we like best. We can adjust the blur with our finger, by clicking on the screen from left to right. Then, we save the photo and we can share it with our friends through WhatsApp or social networks.
Point Blur
We finish with the easiest application to use of all that we have told you about here today, with permission from Instagram.With Point Blur we are going to blur the background of the photo with our finger. As simple as that. We can increase or decrease the blur effect as well as the thickness of the line. We also have some practical guides that allow us to place the stroke above where we put our finger, but thus being able to see where we are painting.
Point Blur is free although it abuses the . Although, seeing the results, he is forgiven.
