Have you grown tired of rotating your filters from Sierra to Willow to Earlybird and all the 14 existing filters of Instagram? Well you have an early Christmas gift from the photo sharing juggernaut as the latest update brings users five more artistic and creative filters to choose from, to enhance your selfies or food porn pics or artsily framed shots before sharing it with the whole world.
The new filters are actually based on what they have observed with the global Instagram community (meaning the millions of us who upload millions of photos everyday). Looking at the current art, design, fashion and photography trends, they have come up with five new pretty filters you can apply to your own photos, depending on your mood, inclination or what looks best with it: Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden, and Perpetua.
The update also brings new ways of managing and choosing your filters. The filter icons at the bottom now displays a blurred preview of the photo that shows how it will look (albeit, vaguely) when the respective filters are applied. And since now there are 19 (20 if you include normal) filters to choose from, you now have the option to put the ones you usually use in front by clicking on the Manage button at the end of the tray where you can rearrange the order of filters and hide the ones that you very rarely use.
While there are many similar photo sharing apps that have come out the past years, Instagram still commands a huge portion of the market with over 150 million users. But that also means they have to continually keep up with all the features other apps are offering to make their users happy. Adding these nifty new filters is one way to go. Now maybe a native reposting feature next?
SOURCE: Instagram
