Twitter presents its photo filters for smartphones
Some time ago we told you about the rumors announcing the arrival of photographic filters to Twitter A fact that has also been reflected in the apparent flight of Instagram from the social network of the 140 characters by ceasing to support your own photos, by preventing them from being embedded in your own messages A withdrawal to time, maybe? Now all the rumors are confirmed, and it is that Twitter has announced official way the incorporation of its photographic filters in applications for Android and iPhone
These filters come from the hand of an update for both platforms and thanks to Aviary , the company in charge of developing this feature for Twitter This is a function added to the official applications , so these remain unchanged. Although it is not the only novelty that is presented in this update. The first thing we will discover as soon as we start the application, after having updated it, is a new home screen prior to entering our user data. Here we can see the new direction of this social network, more focused on image, visual
To apply the filters to an image that we want to publish, we only have to follow a couple of simple steps.The first thing to do is start to compose a message We can write before or after editing the image. Press the camera button to capture a new snapshot or select the gallery to choose one already stored . After this the fun begins. A point in favor of these filters is their ease when applying them While we see the image on the screen we have three icons on the bottom bar to move through the editing tools.
From left to right we find: Auto-improved, which applies the corrections automatically so we don't have to worry about anything. Filters, where a grid is displayed with the eight filters plus the original photo to choose the what seems best to us. For now it is a small and very basic selection, finding the classic black and white, vintage, warm, cold, vignette , cinematic, happy and roughFinally, the third option that we find in this editing process is framing Here we can choose between the original format of the photography or the already classic square, like Instagram
After this, all that remains is to press the Finish button to return to the screen for writing the message. Here we can finish writing, mentioning and so on to finish publishing. Naturally, Twitter takes advantage of its own possibilities to display the images inserted in messages This allows you to view them comfortably both from a smartphone, and from the web version just by clicking on the message to display it
In short, a long-awaited update that gives a good boost to this social network that needed to encourage users to continue using their delayed official applicationThe filters are now available both in version 3.6 for Android, and5.2 for iPhone As always, the application can be downloaded completely free from the respective application markets : Google Play and App Store
