Pixlr-o-matic: Android Instragram alternative
Instagram's recent policy change and retraction after negative feedback exploded on the Internet may have damaged the company's reputation at least for a short while. If you are looking for an Instagram alternative for Android devices, you may want to take Pixlr-o-matic for a test drive. The free application provides a similar functionality, that is, add effects to photos that you take with the device's camera or that you select from storage.
When you start the application on your phone you are presented with a couple of options. You can either take a new snapshot with your phone's or tablet's camera or load an image from local storage. It is alternatively possible to load the last photo that you have been working on again, or use one of the sample photos the developer of the app makes available to test the apps's functionality this way.
The photo editor makes available three basic types of effects that you can add to the selected picture.
- Color filters that you can add to the photo. The filters are named after people which can be a bit problematic as you can't really associate the names with a type of filter.
- Lighting filters to add light related elements to the photo such as shine, sparkle, metal or rainbow.
- Frames and borders.
You can add one effect from each category to your image. Here are three screenshots of the same photo. On the first only a color filter was added, on the second a lighting filter was added to the color filter, and the third shows all three effects.
The application makes available more than 100 effects, 280 overlays and nearly 200 different borders that you can add to your photos.
You can save the photo at anytime locally or share it via Bluetooth or another app like Google+ or Dropbox.
Pixlr-o-matic has a couple of interesting options on top of the functionality. You can use the randomizer to add a random color, lighting and border effect to the photo, or open the filter installer that is built in to the app to download and install additional effects and filters. There is a lot to install and I suggest you do that when your phone is connected via Wi-Fi to speed things up.
The new effects and filters add lighting, color and border effects to the application which you can then select when you edit photos. The app makes available so many filters and effects that you will spend a long time going through all of them to see what they add to the application. Definitely one of the best applications of its kind for Android.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.