Britta is the former Deputy Editor of Pocket-lint and has covered the consumer technology industry since 2012. Her specialties include smartphones, smart home, speakers, and wearables. A number of ...

There's nothing like a perfectly composed picture to capture the essence of a person or moment in time. Often part of that perfect composition is a foreground subject shown in crisp clarity, and a ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

The Portrait Mode in iPhone XS is the best thing to happen to iPhone photography in quite a while. It uses the XS’ dual cameras, plus the A12 chip’s Neural Engine, to work out how far away everything ...

Patrick Holland has been a phone reviewer for CNET since 2016. He is a former theater director who occasionally makes short films. Patrick has an eye for photography and a passion for everything ...

One of the novelties that have arrived on Android devices in recent days is the 'Universal Portrait' of Google Photos. For more than two years it was possible to blur the background of any portrait, ...

iOS and iPadOS 15 bring a number of big improvements to FaceTime — including voice isolation and the ability to blur your background during video calls like you can on Zoom and other video calling ...

A photo with a busy background can be distracting and divert attention away from your subject. If you have no control over the background during your shoot, you can still make alterations using an ...

Creating a soft, out of focus background when you're shooting portraits will mean your subject will be the centre of attention and any distracting objects that are behind them are blurred out of view.