That's all it does, and its designers are happy to admit it. Layout is a determinedly simple app - choose your pictures, choose your layout, and make a few quick adjustments. When exporting to Instagram, Layout transfers you right to the post-camera section off the app for selecting filters and making adjustments before posting and sharing. If you know you nailed your layout on the first try, though, Layout presents you with one-tap options to export to Facebook and Instagram it also uses the iOS share sheet for exporting to other apps. Barnett said that was because they've found lots of users like to make multiple versions of different collages and compare them before posting the best one to Instagram. Once you've tweaked your collage, you have to save it to your camera roll - it's a requirement, not an option.
Instagram app for photo collage frames android#
iPhone version out today, Android version coming in a few months.
#Layout, a new app from Instagram, allows for simple photo collage creation. Instagram played up those mirroring features heavily in the sample images it shared with us - rather than only making grids that are clearly composed of several shots, Instagram wants to see people get creative and try more abstract designs. You can also pan around each image inside of its grid square to make sure the crop shows the most important parts of the picture.
You can grab the grid lines to adjust a photo's size, swap photos in and out of different slots, and use mirror and flip tools to create some unusual (and goofy) collages. That's only the first step, though - once you've picked a basic grid option, Layout lets you tweak it to make it work better with the specific photos you've chosen. You can add up to nine images, and the Instagram team says you'll be presented with between six and 12 different layout options as you go. The Layout app then does the heavy lifting of actually arranging your photos for you - once you have a few images selected, you'll see a handful of suggested grid configurations with your pictures already placed for you. (Unfortunately, it misidentified a host of images as faces, like a remote control, when I tried it out. Since many photo collages posted on Instagram are made up of selfies and other face-centric images, Layout has a tab designed to let you quickly see all the photos in your library that have a face in them. From there, you can just swipe through it and start tapping pictures to add them to a new collage. Layout reverses that process: the first thing you're presented with is your camera roll. Instagram is gunning for the many third-party collage apps out there As they were building Layout, Barnett and Dickens noticed that most third-party apps present the users with a big grid of potential layout designs, which forced users to figure out exactly how many pictures they wanted to include and how they wanted to arrange them as a first step.
As project manager John Barnett and designer Josh Dickens told me, Instagram had looked at the other photo collage apps and felt like they could make one much simpler and easier to use. Like Hyperlapse before it, Layout is focused on making one thing as simple as possible - in this case, building photo collages that are easily exported to Instagram. (An Android version is due in the next few months.) Instagram has noticed this trend - the company says that one in five of the app's 300 million monthly active users post collages - and it led the company to build Layout, its second standalone app, which launches today for iOS. If you've spent any time on Instagram over the last few years, you've almost certainly noticed the proliferation of collage pictures - even though Instagram's default image size is rather small, users often take several photos and mash them together using third-party apps before posting them.
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