Does anyone know how to blur the background of a photo?

The blurring of the foreground and background of an image is usually done with a DSLR, and is a result of the F-stop you select when capturing the image. The smaller the number the less depth-of-field you get in the resulting image. The depth-of-field is what you are referring to when you see the blurred image. Now there are some point-and-shoot cameras that allow you to simulate that blurring effect. My Fuji Fine Pix F500EXR has a "pro focus" mode that allows you to do that. Otherwise to try to emulate it on a point and shoot camera, you could try to stay close to your subjects and focus on them only. Another trick is to find an object in the image that is closest, press the shutter half way down and focus on it. While continuing to hold the shutter release half way down, move the camera to frame the shot, then push the shutter release the rest of the way down. In this way, the focus would be concentrated on the near object. This will probably not produce DSLR-like results, but you may introduce more blurring (less depth of field).

Not with a camera but I have a program on my computer that can blur out an area of a photo somehow. I will have to look it up though, I have only used it but once.

I have not tried it by have read where you can use the Portrait Mode to acheive a clear object and the background is out of focus or softer. I think it works best when the subject is closer with no close background, such as other people or objects.

Hi, If you are using a pocket camera, it is not easy to capture photos with blurry background. It is normally done using DSLR camera by adjusting the aperture and focus distance. But, you can also use Photoshop to make the background blurry. You can try search for some of the videos in YouTube. Some of the tutorials are very useful.

10 mega pix is still a lot and most people don't need it at all. The amount of pix say nothing about the quality of pics you can make (the kind of lens you use does) and since most of us only the digi pix for showing them on the internet it's a waste of money anyway (be honest how many enthousiastic photographers really make gigantic posters out of their pictures?). There are also plenty of programms (also free ones) you can use to change your pictures (if that option is not already in your camera). Professional photographers work exactly the same way, the finishing touch, the magic is made later not at the moment they make the picture.

Hey ther yanzalong, Me ilove taking pictures all the time, I am actually the unofficial photographer of my friends and my relatives i love taking pictures of them since this will be important in the future to come it will be memories that we can treasure forever.

yeah they said it... most of it are can be done with an slr... it's that depth of field thing if you can't adjust it then the only thing left for you is the post processing... photoshop.

If your camera does not have the option of changing the F-Stop, you can edit the background in a photo editing software like Photoshop or the free GIMP which is designed to work very much like Photoshop. There are tutorials all over online for both programs but essentially, for blurring the background, you would paste the photo into a document as a new layer then duplicate that later (you would have three layers in the layer window - two layers of your photo and a transparent background). In Photoshop there is a background erase tool, or in GIMP you have to do it manually. Turn off the lower layer of your photo and erase the main subject from the top layer. Use filters to blur what's left until you get it to look the way you want and then turn the lower layer back on. Once the two layers combined look the way you want them to, flatten the image and ... mission accomplished

Track the subject through the viewfinder and ensure your camera is focusing properly on the subject. Take the photo with confidence.