Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Instagram Hacks: How To Get More Out Of (and Into) The Electronic Polaroid

Since its launch back in October 2010, Instagram has rapidly turn the devout inheritor to the Polaroid. Anyone can take present photos, anywhere, and share them true away. The consequent images are weird-looking, only similar to Polaroids, and you even have to purchase a special camera to use it - in this case, the iPhone.

With Instagram, we frequently take improved photos on my iPad 2 than we do with my "proper" camera. But it's limited. There are third-party services that let you perspective Instagram images on Android or the web, but great fitness getting Mom to use those. There are moreover a entire lot of other ways to take and routine cinema that offer more features than Instagram. Here are a couple of Instagram hacks.

The iPhone's 5-megapixel camera is great, with more than sufficient fortitude for Instagram's minuscule 612-by-612-pixel images. Even the iPad 2's horrible camera can hoop this (although Apple's uncanny anti-noise algorithms uglify the source photo something awful). But what if you wish to fire cinema with your grown-up camera and share those?

There are two ways, in the field. First is to use the Eye-Fi wireless SD card to lamp photos send from camera to iPhone or iPad. This is so clunky, so untrustworthy and so damn irksome to use that I'd suggest the second, (much cheaper) method.

Instead of shopping the $50 Eye-Fi, purchase the $30 camera connection kit. You can then trip the SD card in to your iPad, duplicate the photos you wish to share and open them from inside of Instagram (you know you can use camera-roll photos in Instagram, right?)

The third way is to only wait for until you're at your computer, sync the photos to your iPhone in the standard way and go from there. This rsther than misses the point, though. The app is called Insta gram, after all.

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