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It might not be an official app, and it may not last long, but Uploader for Instagram is the first app for OSX that allows you to upload your photographs through your computer, rather than your mobile device.
Built by Anobot LLC, the app is able to get around Instagram’s API through the clever reverse-engineering of...
Instagram has launched Layout, ‘a new app that lets you easily combine multiple photos into a single image.’
Apps like this are nothing new to most Instagram users, but up until now, users have had to rely on third-party applications to get the job done, which adds extra steps to the process of posting an image to...
Almost five years after its initial release, Instagram is still going strong as one of the, if not the, largest photo-sharing platform in the world. Thanks in part to a considerably open API, a handful of third-party apps have been developed around Instagram to further utilize its impressive user base and strong feature...
Yesterday, Instagram announced it will soon beef up its advertising platform.
Specifically, the Facebook-owned social network said it will soon allow marketers to display multiple images inside their sponsored ads using a dedicated ‘carousel’ format. Additionly, Instagram said these advertisements will also feature a...
Instagram has single-handedly brought to life a handful of companies. Today, we present you with one of the newest ones, Picattoo. As the name alludes to, the service allows you to easily turn your Instagram photos into temporary tattoos.
The process is a familiar one for anyone who has used Instagram for other outside...
There are numerous ways to turn your Instagram photographs from pixels on a screen into a physical print. Few of them are simple and comprehensive though. Here to change that is a new service called Postercat, a service that turns your most popular Instagram photographs into a poster.
The process of creating your...
Creating a good hyperlapse video can be a lot of fuss. The defining feature that makes the technique so much more interesting than a simple time-lapse is camera motion, but simply moving your camera by hand or shooting from a moving vehicle isn't enough. The accelerated playback speed of hyperlapse means that even...
Instagram has just announced version 6.0 of its popular photo editing and sharing app for Android and iOS, and the new version brings a couple of significant changes that many advanced users will appreciate. Besides a general retouch of the app's design and interface, Instagram seems to have gone in the same direction as...
One of the best ways to improve your smartphone photos is to introduce some apps to your workflow that expand your phone's photographic capabilities. In a recent video for The Guardian, Dan Rubin, Instagram early adopter and editor-at-large for The Photographic Journal, showed off some of his favorite mobile photography...
Some Instagrammers are positively swimming in likes. Their follower counts are sky-high off of nothing more than filtered snapshots of foamy latte hearts, it seems. If you’re craving that kind of positive reinforcement for your square-crop photos, The Bold Italic invites you to play “The Game of Likes.”
This...
"Awesome! Another way to comment about pictures on my phone!"
--No one, ever
Ok, we'll admit to some undue snark there. Let's be clear: Flickr's progress this year has been great to witness. The latest update, version 3.0, of its iOS and Android apps shows Yahoo! is still hard at work. The web giant revamped...
Who said that you can only upload unaltered photos from your smartphone camera to Instagram? This series of Instagram pictures showing death-defying stunts and other vertigo-inducing scenes were actually cleverly manipulated. Or did you really think there was a rollercoaster hundreds of feet above Manhattan? The images...
Terminal cancer is a terrible diagnosis for anyone, no matter their age. And while a chemotherapy can help slow down the spread of the malignant tumor cells, the crucial part of the diagnosis is the word terminal, which means that ultimately the person cannot be cured – at least not at the current state of medical science. But not everyone will...
Instagram has just updated its Android app to version 5.1. There are no new features, no tweaked filters, and it seems almost unchanged. But in some ways, what Instagram has done is even more important than that—the Android version has been overhauled to run faster, take up less space, and work better on low-end devices....
In terms of Instagram fame, prolific street photographer Daniel Arnold is probably one of the most well known. Lauded as one of the best photographers on the service his intense and varied street photography has won him legions of fans. Fans that he's managed to turn into a credible source of income, selling $15,000 in...
Most of the photography news surrounding this year's Oscars have been about Ellen's record breaking selfie, which was so popular that it briefly broke Twitter—and caused a minor kerfuffle when it came out that she was tweeting from a Samsung phone onstage, but an iPhone backstage. But even amidst all the attention on...
Selfiecity is a research project that has taken the much critiqued "selfie", and performed some deep analyses on who uses it, and how. By profiling users in five major cities, the project has broken them down by age, gender, mood, pose, and more. It's an intriguing trip down the demographics of Instagram, seeing just who...
In a move to try and get more people adopting rescue animals, Dallas Pets Alive has teamed up with ad agency Dieste to bring animals to your Instagram selfies. They've dubbed the movement #muttbombing, and they photoshop a dog that's up for adoption into people's selfies that they post online.
The images are going up...
When Instagram first rolled out ads last November, the reaction was mixed. Some brands quickly latched on to the Instagram specific look and feel, which made their photographs feel like a natural part of your news feed. Others, not so much. Famously, one of the first ads was from Michael Kors, and it looked more like it...
Teenager Chaz Rorick has taken to Instagram for a very different sort of selfie than we usually see. Rather than just take his own picture, he's taken to recreating images of US presidents, down to the pose, expression, and outfit worn. There's an impressive amount of work in recreting Martin Van Buren's legendary mutton...