Honk honk! Goodbye pesky background. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPhone’s incredible Portrait mode does a great job of blurring the backgrounds of photos, making the subject stand out from ...

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You can adjust the Portrait mode photo blur on iPhone and Mac — even after you’ve taken the picture. Your iPhone stores the depth data that it uses to create the blur effect along with the photo. So, ...

These days, it's rare for a flagship smartphone to arrive without portrait mode. For the unfamiliar, portrait mode is a camera feature that keeps the subject of the photo in focus and slightly blurs ...

WE’VE SEEN A lot of creative photography trends during the coronavirus pandemic: taking pictures through windows. Documenting lockdown houseplants. Zoom photo shoots. Whether any of those will stick ...

Smartphones may have smaller sensors and lenses than DSLRs, but what the cameras in our pockets lack in hardware, they can (sometimes) make up for with software and computing power — as well as tweaks ...

When the fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) drove into the American West in 1979, he left behind ...

The iPhone 8 Plus and X are trying to make your snaps look like they were lit by a professional photographer. Patrick Holland has been a phone reviewer for CNET since 2016. He is a former theater ...