Instagram has managed to get us all the photographers inside. And every time we go to more thanks to the advances in cameras that include smartphones, with several objectives, manual mode, and even portrait. It is precisely here that the latest photographic trend that obsesses everyone has emerged: to achieve that bokeh or unfocused effect. Your mobile does not include this option? You can still get it with these apps.
The word bokeh comes from Japanese and means blur. It refers exactly to get a photograph in which one plane is fully centered while the other (usually the farthest) is blurred getting a very professional look.
Something that the portrait mode of some mobile phones do automatically and artificially, without the need to involve diaphragms and depths of the field as traditional cameras do. Of course, there are applications to force it if your smartphone does not carry it as standard.
This photo editing app from Google includes all the tools to take your technique to infinity. Of course, the bokeh effect that blurs the background of your images is one of them, under the name of Lens Blur. It also allows you to adjust colors, exposure, play with perspective, white balance, brightness or elimination of facial defects.
After focus
This app includes many filters and the possibility to blur the background of the photographs. To do this you only have to mark the areas focused on your finger. It also has a moving bokeh option.
Real bokeh
One of the most magical and precious wonders that are achieved with this filter is the blurry lights that seem to be seen through a fogged glass. If you want to do it yourself from your mobile, this app will add them to you in a thousand ways and colors, because it specializes precisely in the bokeh of lights.
Insta Bokeh
This app includes numerous different bokeh effects, from romantic proposals tonight or fantasy filters. That way we don’t just settle for blurring the background, but we can mix reality and fiction in our photo, adding them when taking the picture or in postproduction.
PhotoDirector Photo Editor
Another image editing program for those who already have some photography skills. Include this bokeh effect, plus many options to edit your photos
Google Camera
If you want a simple app and without too many complications with which you can make unfocused background photography, our recommendation is the Google Camera App. With the help of its software, you can separate the focused part from the unfocused, with an intuitive operation that does not need too much theory. In addition, it maintains the original image so you can modify the bokeh to your liking.
Facetune 2
If what you want is to have the same advantages as the most leading iPhone users and have portrait mode, this app is for you. Because it specializes in retouching photographs in the foreground, with tools such as skin softening, teeth whitening, red-eye removal, etc. Among them, an automatic bokeh that detects the backgrounds and blurs them. It is not perfect, but it allows you to control the intensity.
