Guide to blur the background of a photo with Google

One of the novelties that have arrived on Android devices in recent days is the 'Universal Portrait' of Google Photos. For more than two years it was possible to blur the background of any portrait, that is, any photo with a person in the foreground, but now the options are expanded.

Google has expanded the tool to blur the background or foreground of a photo. It is no longer limited to humans, but now you can also blur photos including animals, plants, food or any object and even for older photos.

Next, Infobae brings you how the Google Photos blur tool works.

This is how you can blur any image with Google Photos

If you want to blur an image through Google Photos, you have to open the image and click Edit to open its entire menu of options.

In the Tools section you can see the desired option under the name Blur.

This tool will allow you to change the focus by touching the photo to tell Google Photos which elements you want to focus and which ones you want to be out of focus. This allows you to blur the unwanted background or foreground.

Once the focus is achieved, all that remains is to play with the Blur and Depth levels.

With the Blur option you can adjust how much blur you want the background to have; with the Depth option you can adjust from what distance you want the blur to start applying.

For photos not taken with the camera's portrait mode, Google Photos uses its artificial intelligence to calculate virtually all planes and distances of the image, so it can provide a variety of more effective results for the most photos, allowing you to give the photos a more artistic and professional look.

Three tricks to save space and make the most of free storage in Google Photos

Google Photos established a feature that stopped allowing you to save photos for free last year, so it's as if it were paid. However, there are several methods by which you can add some mega or gigs to make more room for photos and videos.

These are fairly simple tricks and will be a great help in saving a lot of space. They're not complicated at all, just ideas to consider in case you're missing a few gigabytes for all your photos.

1. Perform a cleanup in Drive

Storage space is shared between Google Photos and Google Drive, so anything you upload to Google's cloud affects how much storage you have on Google Photos.

Here, the ideal is to consider whether you want to continue using Google's cloud for large files, and remember that both Microsoft on Windows and Apple offer free space in their own clouds.

Ideally, you can combine free repositories from different platforms, or at least search Drive for the files they occupy the most to move them and save space.

2. Delete large photos

Google Photos has an option to find large photos. To do this, you need to follow these steps:

1. Tap on your profile picture and enter the Photo Settings option in the menu that opens.

2. Here, tap on Backup and Sync

3. Now, click on Manage Storage.

4. Finally, enter the Large Photos and Videos option

Here you can eliminate what weighs the most in terms of space and have more storage available.

3. Change the quality of photos

In the Photos settings, simply select Memory Saver as the image download quality.

You can also compress any downloads that already exist, but keep in mind that it will lose the original quality, so you may want to make a backup first.

You have to do this on the web by going to photos.google.com/settings.

Once inside, click on the Reclaim Space option and the changes will be applied.

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