Pronounced "bo-kay," the bokeh effect refers to the out-of-focus background in a photo or video. Depending on camera type and distance to the object in focus, the bokeh effect is often unintentional; ...

The iPhone 17 could offer a big boost to photographers, by including a variable aperture that gives more control over the blurriness of an image. Standalone cameras, such as DSLRs and mirrorless ...

Photoshop cc tutorial showing how to make a great-looking bokeh background and bokeh text effect.

Portrait mode is a criminally underrated smartphone camera feature that can give your photos an extra bit of flair. It works by blurring the background behind the subject of your photo, giving you a ...

Don’t wait for the iPhone 12. Focos Live lets iPhone users film bokeh video today. Photo: Xiaodong Wang/Cult of Mac iPhones can automatically blur the backgrounds of still images but not video. Enter ...

Two new phones are doing something different with their cameras to create a stronger, more versatile depth of field effect, where the background is blurred around a subject. It’s a complicated ...

Apple calls pictures with the subject in focus but the background blurry Portrait images. Everyone else calls them bokeh images. It’s easy to snap these — iPhone 15 models and iPhone 16 models even ...

The Sony Xperia 1 V is finally getting the Android 14 update, nearly a month after its stable rollout by Google with the Pixel 8 series. But the list of changes or improvements still seems quite short ...

This week's Reader's Lens photographer shares how an effervescent-blur effect highlights a flower's beautiful details.