If you do 1 of these things – you’re on the right track, 2 of them – you’re almost there and 3 of them – you’ll be in BLUR heaven. So, separate your subject from the background as much as you possibly can. If your subject is right up against the background, it will be much harder to not have it in focus. The further your subject is from the background, the more blur you will get. Position Your Subject Away from the Background I can get amazing background blur with my 85, 1.2 or my 70-200mm, 2.8.ģ. The longer your lens, the more background blur you can get! A longer lens allows you to get further away from your subject and zoom in, which will create greater amounts of blur. So, if you focus on your subject’s eyes with a very shallow depth of field, the focus will not cover the background – and wahla – you gots da BLUR! Woo! Depth of field is the amount of the photo that will be in focus. The wider your f-stop is, the smaller the depth of field will be.
Try these 3 easy steps and see how you do! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results.Ī very large part of a blurry background is caused by a wide f-stop like 1.8, 2.8 or as wide as your lens will go be it 3.5 or even 4. Any time you can make your subject pop out from the background to be the “star of the show” this is a veeerrrrry GOOD THING! You will constantly be impressing friends or on-lookers with your stealth photo skills.īesides impressing people, which is always fun – you will also get drastically better photos. It will allow you to create photos that the human eye cannot see. It can take a busy, despicable background and make it tolerable or dare I say, fabulous! Instead of feeling like an amateur you can feel like a magician with a camera. This is a technique that can take an “ehhhh” photo and make it fabulous. Although, bokeh really is kind of fun to say. But, if you’re like me – you just say blurry – because that’s what it is.
#Blur background how to#
There you have it, a blurred photo background in Canva.įor more Canva tutorials, check out our guide on how to make a digital calendar and how to use alternate glyphs.Background blur…you want it, I want it, we all want it, right? If you’re a fancy pants you might call it bokeh. You can also play around with the other adjustments like desaturating your background by dragging the saturation slider to the left to make your subject stick out. Try not to make it too blurred to make it look natural.īring your second photo back with the background removed and position it exactly where it was. Add some blur by dragging the blur slider to the right. Go back to your original photo and with it selected, click the “ adjust” button from the toolbar above. For the complete tutorial on removing photo background, check out our tutorial on how to use the background remover tool. Remove the background of your second photo by clicking on the Effects button on the top corner and select Background Remover.
Step 3 - Remove the background of your photo Position your photo by clicking any of the white circle handles on the corner and drag it out.ĭuplicate your photo and paste it to a new canvas by clicking the “ duplicate page” button. Click on the image you just uploaded, it will be inserted into your canvas. Once uploaded, your image will then show up in the Gallery tab.
#Blur background plus#
We’ll be using this woman shopping photo from the Design Bundles Plus Membership.
From the side panel, click on the Uploads tab and then click on Upload Media.Ĭlick Upload from Device and select the image you’d like to work with. Step 1 - Insert your photo to CanvaĬreate a new document, and upload the image from your computer.
#Blur background pro#
You will need a feature from the Pro subscription which is background remover to be able to do this. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how you can create a fake blur or bokeh effect behind your photo in Canva.
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