Blur Background

Phone cameras keep everything in focus, which is why a selfie in a kitchen looks like a photo of a kitchen. Blur Background gives it the shallow depth of field of a portrait lens: the subject stays perfectly sharp, the background melts into a creamy, even blur, and the edge around hair, ears and shoulders is handled cleanly instead of with the halo that phone portrait modes leave behind. Nothing in the background is replaced or invented — it is your room, your street, your park, softened.

It is the quickest way to turn a good selfie into a usable profile photo: distractions disappear, the eye goes to the face, and the photo looks intentional. It works on head-and-shoulders portraits, full-length photos and group shots, and it handles tricky edges such as curly hair, glasses and a raised hand. The output keeps the aspect ratio and resolution of the original, so it slips into an existing edit without cropping.

A Standard run costs 4 credits and takes seconds; Pro and Max quality refine the edge mask around fine hair and the smoothness of the blur. Blur Background pairs well with Face Retouch for a two-step headshot from a phone photo, and with Relight when the light on the face needs help. If you want a different scene rather than a softer version of this one, Background Changer is the next tool over.