Snapchat is updated so you can create your own skins

The Snapchat social network seeks a way to renew itself in order not to die into oblivion. Something that seems to be working with an update to its design, which has once again made the application grow by 40 percent on the stock market when everyone already considered it finished due to the unstoppable progress and the shameless copies of Instagram. Not content with this, now they are releasing new functionalities to improve and make their use more attractive for everyone. We tell you everything in detail below.

We found the new features in the latest app update. A new version for both Android and iPhone with which to expand the creative possibilities when creating a snap or small photo or video story. Something that results both in drawing and decoration tools and in the famous masks with augmented reality technology that are so successful in this or through this tool.

New labeling tools

First of all, and available to both Android and iPhone users around the world, we find the new tools to customize the snaps that are published through the application for 24 hours, either in photo or video. We are talking about captions or labels with which to decorate these ephemeral stories. Something that allows you to place captions, label or simply define what is being seen in the image with a beautiful and visually pleasing text.

To use these new label styles, all you have to do is display the function and select one of the new options that have been available since the last update. There are different styles such as Glow (bright), Rainbow (rainbow), Italic (italic or italic), Brush (brush) or Gradient (decline), among others. The good thing is that it is possible to choose up to two of these styles in the same Snap to write at will with more variety.

This feature has already been rolled globally with the latest update for all users of the two major mobile platforms. But there are other interesting developments in this latest version or revision of Snapchat.

Custom Skins

However, the most interesting thing about this latest version falls only for iPhone users in the United States.And it is that these can now design their own Lenses or masks All they have to do is go through the application section or directly access the special service through the computer creation that Snapchat has put at your service. Here you can design, customize and specify where they can be used. Of course, you have to pay to use this service. A direct form of income for Snapchat, if it's ever used. The prices depend on the location and the availability time for them to be used by the rest of the users.

Currently, users who can play with this function have 150 templates to decorate and personalize. Elements that are attached directly to the user's face with party hats and other elements typical of a celebration. Something focused on these masks being used on birthdays and parties of different types. In addition to the images, it is possible to apply stickers and your own text so that the experience is as personalized as possible.After that, it only remains to establish the availability time and the geographical area on which it will be applied. And ready.

With this, it only remains that, with a margin of three hours for its creation and availability in the Snapchat system, any other user is within the hour and the place of these Lenses or augmented reality masks By displaying the Lens options within this period and place, it is possible to find the mask created especially for the event, available to create snaps of all kinds with she. As simple as that.

Now, for now, users from the rest of the world and from the Android platform will have to wait. Only in the USA they have started to be available for iPhone.