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After reading articles about it like this one, I installed Instagram onto my iPhone, and I have to admit it's pretty fun.
It's surprising what a handful of simple, preset masks and color filters (and a fall-down-easy interface for applying them) can do to turn blah phone photos into cool little artsy pieces. Earlier today, for example, I snapped a self-portrait that turned out so remarkably well I've started using it as a personal userpic elseweb.
I have a few other fun photographs on my stream that I wanna show you, but now that I'm writing this post I realize that I have no idea how to share or even link to them after the fact. I get the impression that the Instagram people would consider this a feature; they really want to keep the whole experience on the iPhone as much as possible. Still, it's still a little surprising that I don't even have the option to save photos I like. Hrm. Well, it's, what, a month old? Give it time to breathe.
The elevator pitch that helped sell me on trying Instagram is "Twitter, except with images instead of words". I'm pretty sure that's what it wants to be, which is cool. It's not quite there, in a few ways; for one thing, the fact that you can't choose to hide comments from your feed makes following more popular users impractical, as each of their posts is followed by a dozen column-inches of insipid "Nice pic! <3" blurbs to scroll past. I'd rather just have a stream of visual tidbits from around the world, with minimal yapping. I hope they'll improve it.
I'm "JmacDotOrg" on there, if you end up on it as well.
It's surprising what a handful of simple, preset masks and color filters (and a fall-down-easy interface for applying them) can do to turn blah phone photos into cool little artsy pieces. Earlier today, for example, I snapped a self-portrait that turned out so remarkably well I've started using it as a personal userpic elseweb.
I have a few other fun photographs on my stream that I wanna show you, but now that I'm writing this post I realize that I have no idea how to share or even link to them after the fact. I get the impression that the Instagram people would consider this a feature; they really want to keep the whole experience on the iPhone as much as possible. Still, it's still a little surprising that I don't even have the option to save photos I like. Hrm. Well, it's, what, a month old? Give it time to breathe.
The elevator pitch that helped sell me on trying Instagram is "Twitter, except with images instead of words". I'm pretty sure that's what it wants to be, which is cool. It's not quite there, in a few ways; for one thing, the fact that you can't choose to hide comments from your feed makes following more popular users impractical, as each of their posts is followed by a dozen column-inches of insipid "Nice pic! <3" blurbs to scroll past. I'd rather just have a stream of visual tidbits from around the world, with minimal yapping. I hope they'll improve it.
I'm "JmacDotOrg" on there, if you end up on it as well.