Background blur, often called “bokeh” after the Japanese word for blur, is generally associated with high-end cameras with wide-aperture lenses. The effect is popular for portraits, and is emulated — ...

What's a bokeh you say? It's that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with ...

In last week’s blog entry on adding focus to your images with Bokeh, I showed you how you can use Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh plugin for Photoshop to draw attention to the subject of your photos by ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...