And it looks great — basically indistinguishable from a portrait
mode photo on an iPhone or Note 8.
In addition to 2x optical zoom, the Note 8 takes portrait
mode photos with a bokeh effect you can adjust on the fly, and you can shoot wide - angle and close - up images with a single shot.
The tool for uploading a photo for the customized accessories seems to work well, but I was disappointed to see that a full - resolution portrait -
mode photo from my iPhone 5S was not large enough to fill the entire cover for a Kindle Fire HDX 7 ″ or a Paperwhite.
Thanks to the developer behind Camera NX, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 6P, and Nexus 5X owners can now enjoy taking portrait
mode photos by merely sideloading an APK...
Instead, Google uses software to create the bokeh effects, which means you won't be able to see a preview of a portrait
mode photo until you take it.
I take a lot of iPhone Portrait
mode photos of our cat, but often her whiskers either suddenly fade out or just cut off into blur prematurely.
Save regular photo in Portrait mode: If you want a copy of your Portrait
mode photo without the depth effect added, head back into the camera settings and scroll down to the Portrait section.
A few people have found that their
private mode photos are no longer accessible after updating to Lollipop.
A new autofocus mechanism figures to reduce blur, with fused video stabilization that incorporates both optical and electronic image stabilization promises to keep the shake out of videos.A portrait
mode photo shot with a Pixel 2 XL.
The HTC One X had a strong camera focus; it was one of the first Android devices to fully feature
burst mode photo capture and an easy toggle to capture images while you were shooting video.
Portrait mode photos taken on the iPhone 7 Plus could be edited with the iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus, if only Apple felt inclined to enable the hidden feature.
It was also Apple's first phone capable of taking Portrait
mode photos, which produces striking images with a blurred background and sharp foreground — approximating an effect that professional photographers call «bokeh.»
It was also Apple's first phone capable of taking Portrait
mode photos, which produces striking images with a blurred background and sharp foreground — approximating an effect that professional photographers call «bokeh.»
Next, the Google Camera uses machine learning to identify the subject of a portrait
mode photo.
By most accounts, the Pixel 2 consistently takes better portrait -
mode photos than the iPhone X.
Google made headlines with the Pixel 2 for using one single camera to produce excellent portrait
mode photos, thanks largely to artificial intelligence that can detect backgrounds and blur them to create a bokeh effect.
Primary among those features is far better selfies, as only the X's 7 - megapixel TrueDepth Camera offers Portrait
mode photos.
The secondary camera is a telephoto lens which helps for things like depth of field, allowing users to get those beautiful portrait
mode photos that blur the background so the subject in the foreground is the only thing in perfect focus.
Step 1: Open the Photos app find a Portrait
mode photo.
The secondary sensor collects depth information which then used to capture portrait
mode photos.
The iPhone's dual rear cameras definitely produce better portrait
mode photos than the Pixel, and the Pixel definitely produces better portrait photos from the front camera.
The iPhone's telephoto lens is the primary capture for Portrait
mode photos, and it ships with a f / 2.8 aperture that prefers portraits to macros, and well - lit shots to evening snaps.
The Pixel and the iPhone let you toggle the blur on or off after you've taken a portrait
mode photo, and the iPhone lets you change the different «portrait lighting» effects, but they don't let you adjust the severity of the effect.
These combine to produce background blur on portrait
mode photos and also enable a quick 2x zoom without losing much detail.