What is the term for filling a landscape frame with a blurred copy of a portrait image?

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I often see portrait photos or vertical smartphone videos displayed in a landscape frame by adding a zoomed-in, blurred version of the same image behind it to fill the sides. What is this technique called?

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Banding the sides of an image is called pillarboxing (as opposed to banding the top and bottom, i.e., letterboxing). Wikipedia's page refers to the technique you describe as "stylized pillarboxing" or "echo pillarboxing".

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The general framing term is pillarboxing when vertical content is placed inside a wider landscape frame with space added at the sides. When those side areas are filled with a blurred or enlarged copy of the same image, it’s commonly called stylized pillarboxing or echo pillarboxing.

What is the term for filling a landscape frame with a blurred copy of a portrait image?

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