Instagram Adds Creative Tools

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Wish you could edit a photo and make it a tint lighter, or darker based upon a color? How about changing a photo’s look slightly to create a vintage look? Yesterday, Instagram’s latest update made these quandaries a reality.

Expect to spend another half an hour deciding how you’ll filter your next photo…

Instagram Adds Creative Tools: “Color” and “Fade”

Yesterday, Instagram released two new “creative tools” on its app to help users enhance and edit their personal photos. By downloading this new update, we now have two new options: Color and Fade. The options are limitless– imagine a flooded newsfeed with eye-catching tints, or a rustic feel.

Color Tool

Shortly after the download, you can easily locate the new “Color” option by selecting the tools button– an image of a wrench– and  scrolling the bottom tool tab to the icon of a half full square with a paint droplet labeled “Color.” However after opting into using the color overlay, you must decide between two types: shadows and highlights.

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First let’s look at “Shadows.” If you decide your picture is needing a boost of your favorite color, selecting “shadows” will display eight colors to use at your disposal. Yearning for yellow? Done. Perhaps purple? Yes. With just a tap on each shadow color, Instagram users can choose between yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, cyan and green. Just be aware that the shadows will affect the main object of focus…. if it’s a photo of your dog, he/she will turn a tint of the color you select.

However, if you choose the “highlights” option, you are given eight new colors– yellow, gold, salmon, purple, violet, periwinkle, teal and lime. Some words of advice, highlights tend to adjust the background in relation to the color you select on the toolbar…. if it’s a photo of your pet, the background will change into the color tint selected instead.

Fade Tool

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Last and not least, the “Fade” tool is another option that can be found under the tools button. Shown as a hexagon made of faded dots, this new icon will allow user to increase the photo’s old aged film effect.

Overall, Instagram’s newest tool are new opportunities to spice up photos and make them truly unique. To download the new upgrade, visit the Apple’s App Store or Google Play.

 

Ellen Handa
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