Editing Your Image
Editing Your Image
As good and as classy as the in-built filters on Instagram can be, there are many other (and subtler) options that can make your images shine. Take Afterlight for example – though it will cost you a couple of pennies it comes with loads of colour grading options, as well as wacky light leaks and grain templates. Or for a true ‘vintage’ look, Plastic Bullet will pile on random effects and filters to make it look like you really do have that old school Holga.
You can even edit pictures in multiple apps, saving them to your phone in between tweaks. Likewise, if you want to turn up settings like contrast beyond the slider limit, or apply more than one of the standard Instragam filters, then try the following:
1. Switch to airplane mode.
2. Open instagram and perform first edit
3. Hit ‘share’ (upload will say ‘failed’)
4. Go into your photo reel and import your newly-edited image into Instagram.
5. Apply second filter/more changes, turn off airplane mode and then share.
Be warned, however: sometimes going au natural is a winner, and Insta-filters like X-Pro II and Earlybird can leave snow looking yellow and just a bit piss-tinged. So don’t forget about the ol’ #nofilter.