![]() All you have to do is select the photo, or take one using the built-in feature that uses your webcam, and then choose an effect from the list of available ones to edit it. It’s amazing how easy you can edit the photos with Pixlr-o-matic. Recent images show up in the bottom right corner of the main interface for easier access in the future. You can go to the previous or next step using the left and right arrow buttons located at the bottom left and right corners of the window respectively. After selecting an image from your computer (or taking one from your camera) then the main interface changes and a preview of the selected image is shown with a list of effects and some options displayed below it. At the bottom left corner there are a few thumbnails of photos that are included in the package and can be used as samples to play with. The interface of the desktop app is the same as the online version of the program it has a retro theme with a black-wooden background image, an old camera and the logo of the software at the top and two buttons in the middle of the screen, Camera and Computer. Moreover, there is a Chrome web app and a Facebook app for it, or you can just use it online from its website. The program is available to Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android users. The setup package is 100% clean from all types of malware (viruses, Trojans, spyware, etc.), and doesn't install any other additional 3 rd-party software. If you visit its website then you’ll be prompted to install Adobe AIR if you don’t have it already and the installation will be performed automatically afterwards (you’ll only have to make the basic configurations like shortcuts and pick installation directory). You can either download the setup package from here at Download3K, or you could head to the product’s website and grab it from there. Pixlr-o-matic on the other hand, is free and can create vintage looking photos in a just a few steps without much hassle. Sharpie uses Sharpie-drawn images and other topical and funny photos to encourage conversation in a much more engaging way than just posting product images.If you would like to create retro snaps of your photos, then although with Photoshop you have more options, it’s quite expensive and suitable for more advanced uses. Tiffany’s also used the app in its recent ‘What Makes Love True’ campaign, teaming up with well-known blogger The Sartorialist to document shots of ‘true love’ in New York and Paris and offering its own downloadable Instagram filter. Burberry presented its Instagram followers with a live feed of shots from its September shows – the Instagrammed shots were available before any other images surfaced. There are also apps to view photos away from your device, such as desktop apps or my favourite, Pinstagram – a mash-up of Instagram and Pinterest:Ī variety of brands are using Instagram to great effect, too. But now photos upload directly into their own Instagram Photos album, making sharing quick and easy. Before its acquisition by Facebook, sharing photos to your newsfeed was clunky and awkward – users would often forgo Instagram’s direct sharing to save the photo and upload it to Facebook through its own app. Users (myself includes) often use photo cropping apps such as Diptic to combine photos before laying a filter over them all, or share directly to Twitter and Facebook. Instagram is great by itself, but even better to use with other apps and social sites. This is where apps such as Pixlr-O-Matic come in handy, although it doesn’t allow the same in-app photo-sharing capabilities. The only feature that I dislike is the way that Instagram crops photos into a square – like many users, I often take photos using my iPhone’s camera and then edit and share via Instagram later, so sometimes I end up cropping out details that I’d rather keep. I love the filters, I love the social aspect both within the app and sharing to Facebook or Twitter, I love the use of hashtags and the new search features and I love the photos of cake. I know where my loyalties lie – I love Instagram. Instagram has also become a topic of debate among both photographers and social media/app fans – do real photographers use Instagram? Can you believe anything that’s posted on the app? Is it the best photo-editing and sharing app, or is Instagram bettered by alteratives like Hipstamatic, Pixlr-O-Matic and Camera+?Īt last count (May 2012) Hipstamatic only had four million active monthly users, so it seems that most photo app users are on Team Instagram. (Sadly it wasn’t stated how many of those photos were of cats/food/ hipsters.) ![]() Since its launch in October 2010, popular photo-sharing app Instagram has grown in users and popularity – just this week the app has reached a whopping 80 million users who have shared more than 4 billion photos. ![]()
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