Instagram debuts new look and icons

It wasn’t just a test. Instagram has changed the look of its apps to, as they say, “put more focus on your photos and videos without changing how you navigate the app.” Part of the redesign are new flatter yet more colorful icons for Instagram and its other creative apps: Layout, Boomerang, and Hyperlapse. As rainbow-inspired the icons are, the app itself gets more monochromatic. The update should be rolling out to your device soon. It’s already made its way to my devices (including a trusty old LG G3).

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Instagram debuts standalone app for photo collages

There are a large number of photo collage apps out on the market and they’re crammed with so many features that you don’t know what to do with all of them. Instagram is taking them on directly with its new standalone photo collage app called Layout. It lets you combine borderless multiple photos to show off selfies with your friends or even get a bit more creative with your landscape shots.

The app really is just meant to create photo collages but it’ll let you take selfies with its Photo Booth feature that will take four consecutive shots at once. It’ll let you pick photos from your camera roll. It even has a Faces option so it’ll just show you photos with people in them. And like other photo collage apps, you can adjust and rearrange photos individually to get your layout right. You can flip and rotate images to create mirror effect and the like. Layout is currently just available on iOS but it will be coming to Android in the coming months.

Source: Instagram | Via: Fast Company | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)