Despite being at a disadvantage, your compact camera can be used to make your subject pop from its surroundings or give you shallow depth of field. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and ...

Get a soft, out-of-focus bokeh effect on iPhone using Portrait mode or manipulating the standard camera mode. Portrait mode ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smartphones have radically changed nearly every aspect of our lives since the iPhone was introduced in June of 2007. We use our smartphones to access information, listen to music and podcasts, and ...

There are even portrait modes built into smartphones, such as the iPhone 8, which give the user bokeh-filled backgrounds at the press of a button. However, purists will still say that to achieve true ...

Video software remains an integral part of many people's lives in 2021 as the COVID pandemic continues to impact jobs and social lives. Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams—three of the most popular ...

Months after Zoom finally made it possible to blur out your real-life background without leaving the videoconferencing platform, mobile users still have so many questions about using the update on ...

The bokeh effect gives photos a certain look that we're sometimes willing to pay photographers hundreds to pull off. But you ...