Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

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Smartphones may have smaller sensors and lenses than DSLRs, but what the cameras in our pockets lack in hardware, they can (sometimes) make up for with software and computing power — as well as tweaks ...

You can adjust the Portrait mode photo blur on iPhone and Mac — even after you’ve taken the picture. Your iPhone stores the depth data that it uses to create the blur effect along with the photo. So, ...

I traveled to Alabama over the weekend to attend my younger sister’s wedding and visit family which gave me a great opportunity to put some of the iPhone 7 Plus camera features to good use. I usually ...

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. I had my reasons for not going phablet-sized (again) even though everyone who's made the ...

Using Portrait mode is easy: you just take the photo, and the iPhone takes care of it for you. Portrait mode lives in the camera app along with the other picture-taking modes like square, slow-mo ...

Apple has released iOS 10.1 today, bringing the awaited Portrait mode to the iPhone 7 Plus. The new feature uses a simulated bokeh effect to make your portraits stand ...

Apple’s newest iPhones (specifically the iPhone 8 Plus and the soon-to-be-released iPhone X) have a hidden talent: They’re both really, really good at making you (and all of your friends) look way, ...

Chinese brand Vivo has announced a 4K portrait video mode. This mode will offer automatic subject focus switching like the iPhone’s Cinematic Mode. Vivo claims that you can even change the focus area ...

Is portrait mode on your camera really any good? What happens when you take a smartphone to a model photoshoot, for example, and try it out under pro-lighting and with someone who knows how to pose?

Portrait Mode is an arty photo format that first arrived with the iPhone 7 Plus. It uses the twin-lens camera that’s present on the back of some iPhones to create an artistic depth effect, whereby the ...