In photography, the term bokeh (derived from Japanese, meaning “blur” or “haze”) refers to the visually distinctive appearance of light in the out-of-focus areas of a photograph. Various lens ...

In last week’s blog entry on adding focus to your images with Bokeh, I showed you how you can use Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh plugin for Photoshop to draw attention to the subject of your photos by ...

Boost your standard iPhone photography skills by adding the bokeh effect to your everyday snaps. What is bokeh exactly? Bokeh is the blur that appears in a picture's out-of-focus area, and it usually ...

Google has been working on adding a manual blur adjustment setting to Google Photos for several months now, and the popular “Color Pop” feature has also been hinted for a manual release. Now, it ...

Our first scene is outdoors with our subject placed against a very distant background. We didn't talk about the importance of the distance of the background in our musings on the previous page, but ...

The Portrait mode in Apple's iPhone lineup was difficult to pull off, and the move into computational photography prompted managerial debate and some level of professional risk to those involved. The ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

Please verify your email address. Google's upcoming Pixel 2 flagship will apparently look very similar to the original model, but that doesn't mean it won't have new features. Artem Russakovskii†, ...