Saturday, 3 August 2013

Away From Still Selfies

by Jana Abenojar

Everydays’ itineraries vie for a lot of picture-taking, selfies and whatnots. From places you’ve been to, may it be at home, at school or the all fad mirror shot in the comfort room, to the camera-worthy breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner you had, and of course, down to some pout, smirk, duck face selfies, everybody has a knack for constant and persistent picture taking. It is no question that Instagram has swept the world off its feet.

Instagram puts an extra swag to photos with its significant number of filters to choose from. The easy navigation of the application and its sought-after filters add some dramatic experience to your most memorable still captures with just a few click, tap, and swipe on your phone or computer.

Instagram dug deeper into its technology toolkit to turn still images into moving ones, sprucing it up with the addition of video feature called InstaVid. Some need more than static images to capture moments and share their stories so following the heels of Twitter’s fast growing video-sharing application, Vine, Instagram, which was bought by Facebook last year, is adding the ability to record up to 15 seconds of webcasting. The use of filters to add contrast, saturation and different hues, which IG is loved for will be an option for the users’ recorded video so they can keep sharing beautiful content on IG.

To use this moving image feature, Instagram users must update or download the latest version of IG. Just tap on the same camera icon to snap photos. A new camera icon will appear on the right side. Tapping it, a screen with a red video button will let you record just any of those precious moments you’d like to share to the world. A feature called “cinema’’ adds stabilization to the videos so your freshly caught moment will look like that of a pro’s in just a click.

This new addition will definitely keep IG and Facebook on top of everyday staples list especially that of our tech-savvy folks.

A lot of users have swoon over this upgrade of IG exclaiming they couldn’t ask for anything more. Bye, still selfies. Hell-o InstaVid!

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