How to blur a background in a photo

[Gregorym38]

Anyone know how to blur thd background of a photo on iphone? Looking to post a picture, but i dont want to blow up the spot

[GaryH]

Sure. Send me the photo and I’ll see what I can do.. ??? Honestly no idea 

You could enlarge the photo on your phone just showing the bass and take a pic.then post it.

[Craig P]

Depending on the version of IOS you have, you can touch and hold on the subject of the picture, let's say it's you holding a fish and you can lift out just what you pressed.  It's a pretty neat feature.

[Troy85]

Or just take a screenshot of the photo.  On the screenshot edit screen just change the marker color to black and scribble your finger across the background.  That way all your buddies know you intentionally hid info from them and it makes them all the more curious. lol

[Bankc]

Try taking your glasses off.  That works for me!  

 

As noted, some phones have this ability programmed into them.  I always do this on a computer using Photoshop, but you could use Gimp, which is free.  If you don't have or want to use a computer, there are probably some apps that you can download on your phone.  I don't know of any, but I have seen some sites where you can upload a photo and they'll make some edits like this for "free".  I've never used one, as I've got Photoshop, so I don't know how "free" it really is.  

[flyfisher]

blurring a background does nothing if you still have the metadata embedded in the picture.

[Koz]

On a DSLR: https://expertphotography.com/blurred-background-portrait/#:~:text=The aperture of the lens,will offer even more blur.

 

On an iPhone: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/edit-portrait-mode-photos-iph310a9a220/ios

[TnRiver46]

A person chasing after your spot from the background of a photo will always be one step behind, maybe two. I wouldn’t worry bout it 

[Cbump]

3 hours ago, Craig P said:

Depending on the version of IOS you have, you can touch and hold on the subject of the picture, let's say it's you holding a fish and you can lift out just what you pressed.  It's a pretty neat feature.

Once you do that then what? I tried It and I can drag around the screen but as soon as I let go It goes back to original. 

[Craig P]

18 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Once you do that then what? I tried It and I can drag around the screen but as soon as I let go It goes back to original. 

When you let it go, a little pop up should come up with copy and share. You can copy it and then paste it anywhere, or share and save it to a file. Quick note though, this site has a size limitation on the image so the image has to be a reasonable size. 

 

 

 

 

[Deleted account]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

A person chasing after your spot from the background of a photo will always be one step behind, maybe two. I wouldn’t worry bout it 

 

I got buds at DHS who can get the Lat Long from pictures, but it costs me a good bottle of Scotch. 

[TnRiver46]

3 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

 

I got buds at DHS who can get the Lat Long from pictures, but it costs me a good bottle of Scotch. 

I like scotch 

[Big Hands]

12 hours ago, Gregorym38 said:

Anyone know how to blur thd background of a photo on iphone? Looking to post a picture, but i dont want to blow up the spot

Hold your finger on the subject in the photo and drag it just a little ways. You will see that part of the photo have like an . . . aura appear briefly. Take your finger off of it and a popup appears asking if you want to copy it. Select copy, and then paste it wherever you want it to appear.

[Big Hands]

19 hours ago, Craig P said:

Quick note though, this site has a size limitation on the image so the image has to be a reasonable size. 

When I email that to myself from the photos app, the size of the file shrinks way down. The one I posted above shrank to 383KB when I emailed it to myself, which is well within the size restrictions of this site. 

 

I have photoshop, so I can shrink it much further if I wanted (and I did), but I could post it easily with the file being that size. This one is 29.5KB and gmail shrank it to that size when I downloaded it from the email I sent to myself. And, no meta data is passed on when you use this method. The only thing it shows in the file properties is that the 'file' was created today, and the photo is actually from October 2022.

 

If you are so inclined to use it, Microsoft PowerPoint also has a very powerful and fairly easy to use background removal tool for images. By importing a 1.92 MB file into PowerPoint, removing the background, and then right clicking it and choosing 'save as picture', the file size shrank down to 391KB.

 

[geo g]

An easy solution is to just don’t use the shoreline in the pick.  Quick an easy, I do this all the time.

[GANGGREEN]

7 hours ago, geo g said:

An easy solution is to just don’t use the shoreline in the pick.  Quick an easy, I do this all the time.

 

I do the same thing.  I've been doing a lot of Crappie fishing this winter/spring and they can be on very distinct spots and often recognizable spots (like bridges).   I always just turn around so that the background is just water or homes very far away on the opposite bank.   I don't worry too much about location, but with social media and a fair percentage of anglers being new/inexperienced, they DO try to find your spots and take advantage.  

[Koz]

On 3/31/2023 at 7:16 PM, Deleted account said:

 

I got buds at DHS who can get the Lat Long from pictures, but it costs me a good bottle of Scotch. 

All you need is an EXIF data viewer. There are a bunch of free ones online.

[Smokinal]

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=how+to+blur+background+on+iphone

[Bass Rutten]

Sweet, that is awesome! As a semi-techy years long iphone user I had no clue this was a feature.

On 4/1/2023 at 3:01 AM, Big Hands said:

Hold your finger on the subject in the photo and drag it just a little ways. You will see that part of the photo have like an . . . aura appear briefly. Take your finger off of it and a popup appears asking if you want to copy it. Select copy, and then paste it wherever you want it to appear.

 

[Gregorym38]

On 3/31/2023 at 7:16 PM, Deleted account said:

 

I got buds at DHS who can get the Lat Long from pictures, but it costs me a good bottle of Scotch. 

I have heard of that being a possibility, i have no idea how that works tho. 
 

[casts_by_fly]

34 minutes ago, Gregorym38 said:

I have heard of that being a possibility, i have no idea how that works tho. 
 

 

A phone has a GPS track on you.  Most phones have location services enabled for photos.  It will put the information in the meta data for the phone (EXIF data) if it is enabled.  However- if the photo is altered in another program, that program might strip EXIF data from photos.  The app I use to resize on my ipad doesn't carry over EXIF data I don't think.  Not that I care about others seeing that data, I just think its a paid feature for that app and I'm cheap.

On 4/1/2023 at 3:01 AM, Big Hands said:

Hold your finger on the subject in the photo and drag it just a little ways. You will see that part of the photo have like an . . . aura appear briefly. Take your finger off of it and a popup appears asking if you want to copy it. Select copy, and then paste it wherever you want it to appear.

 

 

So that's super cool.  I've been fully apple since 2007 (aside from my work computer) and I've never seen this.  thank you!

[Gregorym38]

8 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

A phone has a GPS track on you.  Most phones have location services enabled for photos.  It will put the information in the meta data for the phone (EXIF data) if it is enabled.  However- if the photo is altered in another program, that program might strip EXIF data from photos.  The app I use to resize on my ipad doesn't carry over EXIF data I don't think.  Not that I care about others seeing that data, I just think its a paid feature for that app and I'm cheap.

 

 

So that's super cool.  I've been fully apple since 2007 (aside from my work computer) and I've never seen this.  thank you!

Funny you say that, my friend sent me a pic of her holding some salmon in upper state ny, and it shared the location on the photo so i know exsctly where she was lol

 

On 3/31/2023 at 2:59 PM, Craig P said:

Depending on the version of IOS you have, you can touch and hold on the subject of the picture, let's say it's you holding a fish and you can lift out just what you pressed.  It's a pretty neat feature.

HOLY CR*P i had no idea this was a thing, its so easy to do!! Life saver

[casts_by_fly]

7 hours ago, Gregorym38 said:

Funny you say that, my friend sent me a pic of her holding some salmon in upper state ny, and it shared the location on the photo so i know exsctly where she was lol

 

HOLY CR*P i had no idea this was a thing, its so easy to do!! Life saver

yep. iPhone does it so you have a personalized map of where you took your photos. In photos you can look at a map view. 

[Troy85]

On 3/31/2023 at 4:50 PM, TnRiver46 said:

A person chasing after your spot from the background of a photo will always be one step behind, maybe two. I wouldn’t worry bout it 

Unless you live in South Louisiana, then they show up at your honey hole with Live shrimp....and man oh man do bass really LOVE live shrimp.  Next thing you know he's posting a pic of freshly caught and fried bass fillets! ?

 

1 hour ago, casts_by_fly said:

yep. iPhone does it so you have a personalized map of where you took your photos. In photos you can look at a map view. 

Just take a screenshot of the photo, then send the screenshot.  That doesn't display the location.

[Motoboss]

On 4/1/2023 at 3:01 AM, Big Hands said:

Hold your finger on the subject in the photo and drag it just a little ways. You will see that part of the photo have like an . . . aura appear briefly. Take your finger off of it and a popup appears asking if you want to copy it. Select copy, and then paste it wherever you want it to appear.

 

COOL!