Take Professional Portraits with Your iPhone with Portrait

This article provides a clear overview of Take Professional Portraits with Your iPhone with Portrait, with the main facts, useful context, and practical details organized for easy reading.

This is an iPhone photography mode that allows users to take focused shots that open certain objects and have a blurred background (also known as a "bokeh").

How to use this photography mode is very simple, you just need to know where to look and how to use it. Particularly with the latest iPhone models like iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR, you even have other changes.

How to take Portrait mode

Start the photography application first, then select an object to capture. On most iPhone phones, this object can be a person, an animal or simply a tree. Note that for iPhone XR alone, Portrait mode is for people only.

Next, press and hold the area on the camera application with the Word "Photo" in yellow, slide your finger to switch to "Portrait" mode.

Now point the camera lens at the object you may need to capture. When Portrait mode is ready, you will see the area below the screen light up and the words "Natural Light". This information indicates that you can already start taking pictures.

Use the Lighting effect

Apple has provided Lighting effects that you can use in photos taken with Portrait mode. You can create pretty funny pictures, like the following:

How to do the following: Open the photo you have taken with Portrait mode - Touch the square icon to the right of the photo and slide your hand - You will see the photo changes according to the changes of lighting effects with it - Select The level of effect you want and touch "Done".

Adjust the blur in Portrait mode

If you're using Apple's newer iPhone models, like the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max or iPhone XR, you can customize the amount of background blur in your photos taken using Portrait mode.

To do so, open the photo in Portrait Mode - tap Edit - swipe along the right side of the screen. You will see the opacity of the wallpaper changes in real time.