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iPhone users hove one less reason lo lord it over the Android-toting masses now that Instagram has been ported over. The Android version of the popular photo editing and sharing app is more or less identical to the iPhone one, with 17 different filters you can apply to snapped photos, the option to upload to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr (the iPhone app offers a couple of more sharing options), and integrated access to Instagram's own social network for sharing photos with your followers.
If you haven't stumbled across the Instagram phenomenon yet, its beauty lies in its ability to make the most mundane photos look interesting. Boring shots of your cat, the chicken schnitzel you ate for lunch, and even your grotty old gym shoes are transformed into arty masterpieces, courtesy of the retro-style filters that you apply on top of your original image.
The fact that it's free and easy to use has made it a huge hit with smartphone users. Filters are applied with a single tap, and you can apply them to photos you've already taken or to o photo that you've shot from within the app. There are also basic editing options for fixing exposure and rotating the image.
If you're more of a power user, however, the limited selection of filters ond options - not to mention the inability to layer filters for different effects - may have you seeking out richer apps like Vignette, which comes with no less than 76 filters and effects (including the ability to double-expose shots and add a tilt shift effect) and works as a full camera replacement app as well.
Also worth mentioning is that Facebook recently bought Instagram for a whopping $1 billion. Great news for the developers, but whether it continues as a separate service or is folded into Facebook remains to be seen.
If you haven't stumbled across the Instagram phenomenon yet, its beauty lies in its ability to make the most mundane photos look interesting. Boring shots of your cat, the chicken schnitzel you ate for lunch, and even your grotty old gym shoes are transformed into arty masterpieces, courtesy of the retro-style filters that you apply on top of your original image.
The fact that it's free and easy to use has made it a huge hit with smartphone users. Filters are applied with a single tap, and you can apply them to photos you've already taken or to o photo that you've shot from within the app. There are also basic editing options for fixing exposure and rotating the image.
If you're more of a power user, however, the limited selection of filters ond options - not to mention the inability to layer filters for different effects - may have you seeking out richer apps like Vignette, which comes with no less than 76 filters and effects (including the ability to double-expose shots and add a tilt shift effect) and works as a full camera replacement app as well.
Also worth mentioning is that Facebook recently bought Instagram for a whopping $1 billion. Great news for the developers, but whether it continues as a separate service or is folded into Facebook remains to be seen.
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