Instagram finally launched on Monday an important feature to its platform, the ability to create collage of photos through the feature named as Layout.
Instagram is a popular Facebook-owned smartphone photo sharing app that allows users to edit photos like adding filters, cropping, flipping, enhancement and more. But this new collage-feature seemed to come late. Users before need to use separate app to create collage before uploading to Instagram, which is a great hassle really.
This new feature will lets users combine up to nine photos in a single shot. Unfortunately though, this new feature will be exclusive for iPhone users only, but a version for Android is in the works and will be available in the coming months.
Users can select up to nine photos from their Camera Roll and they can be organized in three sections: recent photos snapped, photos with people’s faces in them, and an area with all your shots. The Layout app offers 10 custom layout options for your photo collage but you can also customize the photos with editing controls for layout, sizing, flipping, and rotation.
The new Layout app also has a fun add-on that is ‘Photo Booth’ button that allows users to capture more spontaneous moments. By simply tapping the button, the app starts a countdown timer then captures a series of photos that will instantly appear in a layout.
Layout also includes the ability to automatically find pictures containing faces, and the option of share collages at leading social network Facebook as well as at Instagram.
According to Instagram, one in five of the app’s 300 million monthly active users post collages, that is why the company decided to respond to customers’ request and finally build the Layout.
This move is the company’s strategy by social network co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to field separate, specialize applications aimed at ways people like to use mobile devices. Last August, Instagram also unveiled Hyperlapse for time-lapsed videos.
iPhone users can get this app live on the Apple App Store.
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