Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Thanks to everyone who followed along with me on Instagram this week at NAB 2017. For those of you who don’t follow Photography Bay yet on Instagram, take two seconds and follow me here on Instagram.
For those not on Instgram, below is some of the daily stuff you missed. I don’t have the stories in there, but there were dozens more photos and videos from those throughout the week. [Read more…]
After Facebook’s failed attempt to acquire Snapchat for $3 billion, the company has advanced another acquired property to become more like the rapidly growing ghost. In its latest update, Instagram introduces “Stories” to the app, which is a new feature that is essentially pulled right out of Snapchat. You can also edit your photos and videos with effects, scribbles and drawings – just like Snapchat. [Read more…]
Instagram has rebuilt its app for the Windows Phone and has released a new version for Windows 10 Mobile, now available in the Windows Phone Store.
The new app features a number of new features for Windows Phone, including Instagram Direct, Explore and video. Additionally, Instagram for Windows 10 Mobile supports Live Tiles, which shows you updates right on the home screen.
You can get the new Instagram for Windows 10 Mobile here on the Windows Phone Store.
This week Instagram is adding account switching to its app. It has long been a frustration for photographers and other users with business and personal accounts to log in and out of their accounts in order to us it on a single device. Now, you will be able to switch between multiple accounts on a single device without the need to login every time. [Read more…]
Instagram is singlehandedly responsible for the resurgence of the square format photo. It’s the reason we have a square photo template available in the iPhone camera app.
And now, Instagram is opening its doors to non-square formats. So, finally, we don’t have to squeeze a landscape or portrait image into a square frame. With this new version, you can share photos and videos with aspect ratios between 1.91:1 and 4:5. [Read more…]
Instagram has launched a new app, called Layout, which lets you combine multiple photos into a single, square image.
That’s something we have all done since nearly the beginning of Instagram. However, we have done that without the help of Instagram and, instead, used apps like Diptic and other collage-making apps to export images to our phones’ camera rolls and then upload to Instagram.
While Layout is still a separate app that you must install, it does include a share to Instagram feature within to make it a quicker process.
Layout also has a facial recognition features that will allow you to choose photos with only faces of people from your camera roll. Additionally, a Photo Booth feature lets you capture photos that instantly fill your layout.
For now, Layout is only available for iOS devices with support for Android promised in the coming months. You can get Layout for free here on the iTunes App Store.
Instagram released an update yesterday that added 5 new filters to the available selection. [Read more…]
Instagram 6.0 is now available for both iOS and Android devices. The new version brings a dandy set of new photo editing tools to the image processing menu of the app.
The new editing tools, accessible by tapping the wrench icon in the image editing pane, allow you to use a slider to make positive and negative adjustments for the following: [Read more…]
Instagram has released an update that corresponds with iOS 7 and includes size increases when displaying photos and videos. Now, photos and videos will take up the full width of your screen when viewing them in your feed. The photos are also larger in grid view. Additionally, profile pictures are now circular instead of square.
The update also cleans up the look and feel of the overall Instagram interface so that it melds better with iOS 7.
Instagram 4.2 is now available for free here in the iTunes App Store.
Instagram just released version 4.1 of its app and adds a couple new features for both iOS and Android users. [Read more…]