10yearchallenge

What were you like 10 years ago? Now that we are starting the year, we are also launching a new challenge on Instagram. It is the 10yearchallenge, which consists, neither more nor less, than comparing your current self with your self from 10 years ago. If you dare, sure. A good way to see how time has passed in this period, compare styles or, most morbid of all, compare physical transformations. In any case, a challenge that you can surely also take on and share on your social networks. And here we tell you how to do it step by step.

Retrieving old physical photos

Ten years ago digital photography already existed and was established. Of course, perhaps the graphic documents that you keep from that time were still printed from your digital camera or from your brand new Smartphone If so, don't worry because there are a simple and direct way to scan or digitize these documents thanks to the Google FotoScan application.

You just have to install it for free from the Google Play Store for Android or from the App Store for iPhone. Then launch it and follow the steps. Just take a picture of the photo you want to scan, but following the points on the screen. This way the application takes several perspectives and detects glare and imperfections to get the best possible result Even when you don't take the photo with the best pulse or perspective.

In this way, the photo is digitized and you can upload it directly to the Google Photos system to keep it safe. From here we move on to the next step.

Searching in the Google Photos trunk

If you are one of those who saves all your memories in Google Photos, you are in luck. You will have saved yourself a step. You will also have at your disposal all those snapshots to consult, share or, as in this case, participate in an Internet challenge.

Search photos in Google Photos is really simple and fast. Just move to the photos tab and slide the button on the right to some month in 2009. There you will find, if there are photos with that date, all the available images.

Another way to do it is to directly use the search engine of the Google Photos application.Remember that here you can type “2009” or even a specific month to jump directly to that collection. From here you will have access to all those photos to download them to the phone's memory, share them directly on WhatsApp or even on Instagram.

However, the 10yearschallenge consists of make a collage with your past and your present. So there is still one more step to participate in this interesting comparison challenge.

Creating a collage 10 years apart

Google Photos has a built-in feature to create collages quickly and conveniently. Just jump to the Assistant tab and look at the top of the screen for the Collage feature. Here you can choose between 2 and 9 photos to create a composition. In this case, we would only need a photograph from 2009 and another from 2019. The application takes care of all the dirty work, so you only have to save the result and share it on Instagram or the rest of your social networks.

Of course, if you want something a little more elaborate you will have to do it through other photo editing applications such as PhotoGrid. It is free for both Android and iPhone. And the good thing is that it allows you to create a personalized collage. You choose the photos you want to join, and then you choose the frame, the background, the division format, etc You can even add text to write “2009 vs 2019”, for example, and identify each photo in your period. When you're done with the creation, all you have to do is go to Instagram and post the photo as usual, either through Instagram Stories or through Instagram's permanent posts.