I’m a sucker for camera apps for the iPhone. I have two folders full of them including Camera+, CameraBag, CrossProcess, PictureShow, ShakeItPhoto and more. I just love trying out new apps to see what effects they give my photos. The latest one to impress me is Instagram.
Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.
The social aspect of Instagram is what makes this app interesting and enjoyable for me. You can add friends from your contact list, Twitter, Facebook or simply search usernames and names. I can view a feed of all the photos my friends are uploading aswell as ‘Like’ and comment on them, reminding me somewhat of Tumblr. You can also share to various websites including Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr and Foursquare.
Instagram comes with 12 great filters to make your photos look great. Images are saved at only 600×600 pixels, but for me this absolutely works fine for sharing through Instagram. I rarely print photos from my iPhone, for which case I would want it saved at full resolution, but for sharing through the app and on Twitter then I have no problem with the low res. Resolution may be increased in future updates.
I’m really excited to see what more Instagram will have for us in the future – and it’s hard to believe that this app is absolutely free! This app has already started to replace Camera+ which was pulled from the App Store almost 2 months ago for violating the terms and conditions. With no word from the developers on it’s return, it seems this will be a forgotten project with no further updates so myself, like many others, are looking to exciting alternatives that do have a future and won’t slide into obscurity when the next iOS update kills it off.
If you’d like to view the photos I’m snapping regularly and sharing to Instagram then feel free to follow me; purplelime.
I generally don’t post my photos from Instagram to Twitter or Flickr via the app as that would get annoying for my followers, so the only way to view them is through Instagram which is why everyone should have it, hehe!
So it doesn’t save a full-res copy to the camera roll?