PubertyChallenge

Yes, we are not going to deny it. It is a more passing fad on Instagram. But it is really fun to see the changes in a person over the years. Especially if there has been any notable physical change such as the process of puberty. And therein lies the grace of this challenge called PubertyChallenge that proposes to compare two of your own photos before and after this natural process. Of course there are many users who are doing it for mere vanity and showing off We are not here to judge, but to teach you how to do it on your own.

Find your best photos from the past

You probably didn't use Google Photos back in 2008 or earlier But you never know if you've scanned, saved, or collected a snapshot from that time . Therefore, you lose nothing by doing a quick search in this application. Access it, look in the gallery and take advantage of the search engine at the top.

You can enter a date directly to find more specific search suggestions Even for months of that year. The other option is to take advantage of the slider bar on the right side of this application. While keeping your finger on the screen, you can calmly slide it down. Soon you will see an indicator with the date, thus knowing how far back you go with this gesture. Very useful and comfortable for this kind of temporary searches.

Retrieve them from the physical format

You may still prefer to create physical albums in your teens to touch and sit and watch your snapshots. Do not worry because there are tools that transform our mobiles into a scanner to recover them. You can practically scan any snapshot to save it later safely in services like Google Photos.

Precisely from Google comes the FotoScan application, in charge of making this process simple. With it you only have to take a photograph of the physical image in question. Then, follow the points to scan the entire surface and avoid, as much as possible, any defects in perspective or light. You just have to carefully move the mobile and aim at the corners.

In a few seconds the FotoScan application does all the dirty workIt recognizes the corners, cleans the image of reflections and builds a scan that is almost as efficient and of quality as that of a special device for it. And that's it, the next step is to save the resulting image to the gallery or directly to Google Photos.

Creating the image of the PubertyChallenge

Now it's time to get your hands dirty and create the collage or composition of the before and after. For this we can use retouching applications such as PhotoGrid. It's free for both Android and iPhone phones, and it's really complete in everything it allows you to do.

We just have to open it and select the Grid option. By doing so we can navigate through the gallery of the terminal to find the photos that will make up the collage. Once the dl before and after have been selected, click on the Next button and see the automatic composition proposed by the application

The good thing is that this tool has all kinds of options. We can customize a frame, change the layout of the grid, add text to put what is before and what is now, etc. We just have to be patient and navigate through the options on the bottom bar.

Once we finished with the creation, click on the Save icon and carry out the action. We may have to wait while a . When finished, we will have the resulting image in our gallery.

And that's it, all you have to do is access Instagram and publish the photo as usual, either with or without filters. Of course, remember to use the hashtag or tag PubertyChallenge By the way, you can mention other people to show their change after puberty.