2016 has witnessed a fair share of design and performance tweaks in smartphones. There have been numerous improvements (at least the companies would like to call them that) but what we think has ...

When you do a lot of production work on your Mac, often times you end up running many processor-intensive tasks. Whether it is Motion, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, or Logic, there are times when even the ...

An image saved with the default settings in the patch app. Note the blurry background and some errors around the edges. Stan Horaczek One of the biggest recent mobile photography stories was born from ...

The iPhone XS camera is pretty incredible. The device uses its two rear cameras, plus the A12 chip’s Neural Engine, to record such an accurate 3D map of the scene that you can adjust the background ...

The Android camera app has usually been the worst part of stock Android devices, but it looks like Google is finally going to change that. The company has just released a revamped version of the ...

Portrait mode for iPhone arrived back in 2016 as a beta. The Bokeh effect photo feature has improved and evolved over the years but Apple still hasn’t offered the feature for shooting video. Now a new ...

Bokeh is an iPhone app (and web service) for easily “lifeblogging” your photos and thoughts. And because nobody but you really cares about the mundane details of your days, Bokeh can be used as a ...

The service aims to strike a balance that's not as locked down as a diary and not as public as Facebook. It's from the people behind the PetaPixel photo blog. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

A growing obsession with digitally archiving everyday life has given rise to countless apps facilitating your diaristic tendencies. Rising above the clutter is Bokeh, a new service that strips ...

Certain users report a new Google Photos manual bokeh effect appearing in the app. Along with the manual bokeh, it appears Google is also testing Color Pop…again. These two features appear to be in a ...

Instagram could potentially be working on a new portrait mode for its Stories feature. The Facebook-owned social network currently offers a number of different camera options, not to mention various ...

Dual lenses have smartphone cameras strutting their stuff in a faux bokeh jacket — but fancy hardware is no longer a necessity to fake a blurred background. Users who don’t have the cash to drop on ...