To emphasize a scene contained in a photograph or a person's face, the most used technique involves blurring the surrounding environment so as to force the viewer to concentrate on the "in focus" part. The basic idea is to make backgrounds, landscapes and objects seem immobile, as if they had real dimensions, highlighting them and making them seem bigger and in perspective. This photographic effect is called Tilt Shift or Bokeh and can be done both with professional cameras, equipped with particular lenses, and on the computer using professional programs such as Photoshop. Those who want to apply this effect of highlight and blur the background without having to struggle too much and, above all, without spending money, in this guide we will show you the best sites to blend or blur a photo directly online, without having to download any program.
How to blend a photo online
Here below we can find all the best sites that can apply a pleasant gradient or blurry effect to our images, acting on some simple parameters that allow you to get really impressive and spectacular photos, without having to use complex programs and without buying anything.
TiltShift Maker
TiltShift Maker offers the possibility of highlighting an object or part of a photo, leaving the rest blurred, with background blur as if it were in the distance.
You can upload the images that are on the local computer or we can provide the internet address if it is an online photo. After choosing the photo file to edit, press the Upload button to upload it to the site; the image must be a JPG file, no larger than 6000 pixels on the longest side and a maximum of 8 MB in size. When you go to make the changes, Tiltshift immediately presents a number of options that cause the effect.
Next to the photo there is an arrow which, if moved, allows you to highlight a part of the photo with respect to the rest which remains darker; after each modification we click on Preview to see the final result in the box on the right. Through the " Focus Size " lever it is possible to adjust the focus and therefore to enlarge or decrease the area of emphasis. At the bottom you can activate or deactivate the Color Enhance effect that gives colors brilliance. Below are some more advanced settings with which to make the image more and more similar to the photos of travel or design magazines. Defocus Strenght and Defocus gradient determine how blurry the part of the image you want to fade out.
Once you have obtained the image you want, you can click on the Get Full Size button to bring up the Download button, which allows you to save the modified image on the computer in its real size.
TiltShift Fotor
Another site that allows you to blur the background to highlight a part of the image is TiltShift Fotor.
After loading the site, click on Open at the top and, once loaded, make sure that the TILT-SHIFT menu is selected, then adjust the effect by moving a circle in the center of the photo, so as to determine the area to be highlighted with respect to the rest that remains nuanced. From the levers on the left you can change the size of the area to be highlighted, the nuance strength and then the contrast, saturation and brightness. After completing the changes, click Apply and the Save button at the top, so as to save a copy of our photo with the effect applied.
Pho.to
Another site that we can use to apply a blur effect to photos is Pho.to.
After uploading the photo from the computer or from a site (using the respective buttons), we click the button with the magic wand ( Effects ) then we use Tilt-Shift to apply the blurred effect. We can adjust the effect by changing the indicators on the image or the lever next to the effect, indicated as Blur of the radius . Once the desired result has been achieved, we click on Apply, then on the Save and share button in order to download a copy of the image and share it on social networks (optional).
BeFunky
Another very interesting site to apply photo blur is BeFunky.
To use this site, click on Open at the top, load the photo to be modified from the computer or from a site, then scroll the list of effects on the left until you find Tilt-Shift ; immediately after selecting the effect, we will be able to choose the intensity of the effect, the area where to apply it and above all where to highlight lights and colors. After the change, we click on the button sees confirmation and we use the Save button at the top to save our work on the computer.
Fotoramio
Another site that we can use for free to highlight part of the photos by blurring the background is Fotoramio.
To upload the photo we click in the center on Tilt Shift, we upload the image from the Upload Image section (we can choose both an image saved on the computer and an taken from our Facebook account) and, when the photo is uploaded, make sure that the Tilt-Shift effect, so you can use the Amount and Focus levers to adjust the intensity and depth of the effect. When we are satisfied with the result, we save the new photo by clicking on Save at the top; if we want to share it on social media, we can use the Share button instead. Currently this is one of the best sites with which to apply the blurred effect, with a very realistic result.
Conclusions
All the sites that we have recommended are simple to use and give results that have nothing to envy to those obtainable with programs such as Photoshop or other professional photo editing programs.In another guide we already told you about the free online tools to improve photos and images, to be used to be able to apply improvements and other effects to our photos without downloading any programs.
If we are interested in modifying or highlighting other elements of our photos, we invite you to read our guides to Eliminate the background from a photograph by leaving a part of the image and Highlight one or more colors of a photo leaving the rest in white and black .
