If you’re just getting into Instagram, the social shoot-and-filter app that hit Android last week and sold to Facebook yesterday, then you might want appreciate a primer on each filter’s quirks strengths, rather than flip through all of them with every shot. The Atlantic offers just such a profile.
If Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram has you put off from using the service, there are more than a handful of alternatives out there. Here’s a look at other apps you can use to get the same results from a still-independent developer.
Maybe you don’t love the idea that Facebook just bought photo-sharing service Instagram. Maybe you just want to backup your photos. Previously mentioned website Instaport lets you export all your Instagram pics in one simple step, allowing you to download the results compressed in a ZIP. [Instaport.me]
Right on the heels of the release of its Android app, Instagram was acquired by social media giant Facebook. What does this mean for Instagram users? For now, not much. The creators of Instagram want you to know that the service isn’t going anywhere and this should only mean positive change:
I’ll come right out and say it: I’m not a big fan of Instagram. And no, it’s not because iOS users have had their underpants in a knot over the Android release, but because for me, it really doesn’t live up to the hype. Here’s why, and more importantly, here are some just-as-good alternatives for Android users (and some for iOS users too!) who want to take and share photos with or without those filters that make a 5-megapixel phone camera look like a 70s’ Polaroid?
