One of my yoga students recently asked me if I had an app that would clean her house. I laughed, but then I realized that for Instagram purposes, I had an app that virtually accomplished the same thing. Do you find that many of your Instagram yoga poses are plagued by cluttered backgrounds or distracting details? If so, look no further. I have the perfect app for you: AfterFocus.
With a few swipes of your finger, you can keep the subject of your photo in perfect focus while blurring the background. This is a great app for removing the focus from other people or objects that happen to make it into the frame of your photo and detract from your fabulous yoga pose.
Take a look at my two photos. In the top picture, the white fence in the background isn’t an eyesore, but it is receiving the same amount of attention as the yoga pose. By running the photo through the AfterFocus app, I can blur the fence into the background. This app will automatically recognize your focus object and blur the background, just by drawing a few lines with your finger inside the object of focus.
Give this app a try, and allow some of the visual clutter and distractions to blend away into a soft haze. Enjoy this Instagram quick tip, and please let us know if there are specific topics that you would like to see addressed in this series!
What app do you use for your videos (with music)?
Thanks for your help. Love following you!
I use iMovie, although there are probably plenty of other apps to add music to videos. I just happened to already have that app on my phone because I like making little home movies of my kids.
Thank you so much for sharing such a helpful app with us! I just downloaded it and tried it out- professional looking focused pictures in minutes! Namaste!
I just downloaded both this app and the other one you suggested. I need to play around with them more, but do you use both apps on the same photo? My pics didn’t turn out nearly as cool as yours!
Sometimes I use only 1 app, and sometimes I use 2 or 3. It depends on how much time I have, and how much I want to play around with the look of the image. You probably just need to get used to using the apps and adjusting the strength of the effects.
Do you take these pics with your camera or phone? I think they are gorgeous… but, wondering how if you take them with a camera you use a phone app to edit them? I’m COMPLETELY tech illiterate, but have really enjoyed your instagram tips, so it may be just a simple thing that EVERYONE does, I’m just not sure of how to do it.
The vast majority of my yoga photos are taken with a Nikon DSLR. Most of the time, I do not use apps to edit them, but if I do want to use a phone app, I email myself the photo, save it to my phone’s camera roll, then edit on my phone.
Thank you for these tips! I really want to know what app you use for speeding up video on Instagram. Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing!!