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Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams offer ways to use virtual backgrounds for extra privacy or simply a change of scenery. An alternative is to blur the background completely. Here's how.
Zoom just released a new feature called blurred background, and it looks great. Blur background is a new native feature in Zoom meeting and I show you how to blur your video background with the ...
Yes, you can blur your background on Zoom. Now you don't have to worry about snooping colleagues or an unprofessional setup. Here's how to do it.
Months after Zoom finally made it possible to blur out your real-life background without leaving the videoconferencing platform, mobile users still have so many questions about using the update on ...
Life moves fast. Sometimes it even feels like a blur. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re celebrating the speed of life. Take a photo where a subject is sitting still and their ...
Not getting the dreamy out-of-focus backgrounds you were hoping for from your dSLR's kit lens? Here's how to do it. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and ...
You can blur the background in photos you take on any iPhone by properly positioning your subject. Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus and 8 Plus, newer iPhones feature a Portrait Mode that ...
Mind Why a blurred background makes objects in photos look tiny Photographs with a shallow depth of field trick the brain into assuming that the subject is small and close-up, and experiments show ...