How to Make a PERFECT BACKGROUND BLUR on Mobile with Snapseed App | Lightroom | Android | iPhone

Today we are gonna try getting  a perfect background blur for this highly compressed mobile photo  using Snapseed and Lightroom apps. After opening the image in Snapseed, first I am gonna use Tune Image to add  contrast and a little bit of saturation. Also Details to add structure. I am gonna save this and  revert back to the original. Now you need to choose which part  of the image is the foreground. It should be easy here as it is the  bird and the pole it is sitting on. So using Healing tool, gonna brush  roughly on those parts to remove them. Don't need to be perfect here as  they are going to be blurred anyway. Next using the Lens Blur tool,  choosing the linear option. Decreasing the transition  and scaling down the tool. Moving it to a corner here. Setting the Blur strength to 100  and vignette strength to zero. You can notice the corner patch which I  am gonna fix easily with the Healing tool. I am gonna repeat the Lens Blur  step again to get more blur. Now using Double Exposure,   I am gonna add the saved image on top  of this and set the opacity to 100. Going to masking screen now. Tapping on this stacks icon, View  edits, Double Exposure and brush. Here with the image hidden and brush set at 100,   roughly brushing on and  around the bird to reveal it. Setting the brush value to zero. Now zooming in as much as possible. This is important to get a precise selection. Brushing on the edges carefully  to reveal the image underneath which is basically a fully blurred image. Taking a lot of time here to get the  selection right as the final look is dependent on how well the selection is made. On second thoughts, I will remove this thing  underneath which is quite distracting. The before and after. Next I am gonna crop the image using Crop tool. Adding vignette with the Vintage filter. After these edits, I am gonna export this to  Lightroom app to make it look even better. Here in Lightroom, first in Light menu,  adding whites with a two finger swipe   to make the brightest spots as bright  as possible without getting clipped. Same with the blacks slider for the darkest parts. In the color menu for the HSL sliders. Increasing the saturation of the oranges  and the reds to make them pop more. Detail menu now. First adding sharpening a little  to enable the masking slider. Now dragging the masking slider with two fingers   to get a selection mask where  the sharpening will be applied. Increasing the sharpening to desired levels. Also radius and detail sliders  which will pop the subject further. The final result here. Hope you found these tricks  useful and subscribe for more. Thanks for watching!

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023