Taking selfies with our phones is quite common, in fact there are those who take this type of photos especially to demonstrate the multitude of places they visit throughout the year. With the arrival of dual front cameras, more and more people fit in, but surely you have noticed some distortion in some of these selfies , so we can avoid them.
Taking a selfie is not complicated at all, but taking a good selfie is no longer so easy. And many, we are the first, we do not always have all of us with us to be able to take good selfies. Especially due to certain effects that the lenses themselves transfer to our photos, distorting the images.
The dreaded barrel effect of selfies
This happens not only with selfies, it also happens with other rear cameras of our phones, of the many they now have. This is common, and does not respond to a failure of our phone. The reality is that when we take a selfie with the face very close to the phone , we see that the subject appears with the face deformed, due to the barrel effect , or when we take photos with the wide angle of the rear camera, the people at the ends of the image are usually stretched across. This is a consequence of the distortion of the lens, that the more to the extremes, the more the image is stretched, from the inside out.
Well, in selfies it is common to find results that are not very faithful to reality, and the normal thing is that we look fatter in those photos, and sometimes even deformed if we get too close. Well, there are some tips, and some native tools, that can limit this effect.
Does your mobile have an anti distortion function?
Well, there are several manufacturers that offer us this type of functions to be able to correct that annoying effect of the lens in the photos. They are few, but thanks to their own b, they can combat this distortion. What the software does is narrow those areas that have been deformed by the action of the lens, as if we were editing them in Photoshop, for example. We can do it on mobiles from the following manufacturers:
Samsung
The mobile phones of the Korean firm have a functionality in One UI that allows correcting the distortion when taking selfies, for this we must do the following:
- Open the camera app
- Click on the nut icon to enter the settings
- Select “save options”
- Now click on ” Selfies shape correction ” and activate it
In this way when we take a selfie, the Samsung camera software will retouch the image to correct the deformation of the lens.
Realme and OPPO phones
In both phones we have a way to easily correct the distortion of the selfies, in such a way that instead of reducing that deformation to the sides that the photos of the front lens suffer. In the case of these mobiles, we only have to do the following:
- Open the camera app
- Click on the nut icon to enter the settings
- Swipe to the “Photos” section
- Activate the “Portrait Distortion Correction” function
In this way, the software of the Realme and OPPO cameras , thanks to their algorithms, will save the portraits or selfies, automatically correcting that distortion, in such a way that the dreaded barrel effect of these photographs will not be produced.
If your mobile doesn’t solve it by itself, try this
If our mobile does not have one of these smart functions, we can try other more practical solutions. The most practical thing is to move the camera of the phone away from the face, in such a way that our face remains centered in the scene, avoiding the edges of it. The closer, the more we will occupy the edges, and therefore there will be a greater distortion. So the best thing to fight it naturally is to get away from the phone . This is difficult when our arm does not give more of itself.
In that case, it is best to use a selfie stick , in this way we can move away from the phone and not occupy that peripheral area of the lens . If our mobile has a double front lens, we can use the ultra-wide-angle selfie, even if we are only going to be in the image. In this way we will also avoid distortion. So the rule is simple if our mobile does not have one of these effects, move as far away from the lens as possible, and stay focused on it.