Comments on: Todd Lappin's Instagram tips http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 01:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1450068 teapot Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1450068 Photoshop/Lightroom users laugh in the face of your mobile apps and square pictures. Edit: This guys pictures are cool though. It's just the torrent of bad photography out these days drives me nuts. Geocities made everyone web designers, Blogs made everyone journalists... now everyone is an artist thanks to instashoop. Watching my mates all rush to beat each other at posting virtually identical pictures is a funny thing, but I hate that whatever we were doing is put on pause so they can show everyone on the tubes how awesome their life is. Photoshop/Lightroom users laugh in the face of your mobile apps and square pictures.

Edit: This guys pictures are cool though. It’s just the torrent of bad photography out these days drives me nuts. Geocities made everyone web designers, Blogs made everyone journalists… now everyone is an artist thanks to instashoop.

Watching my mates all rush to beat each other at posting virtually identical pictures is a funny thing, but I hate that whatever we were doing is put on pause so they can show everyone on the tubes how awesome their life is.

]]> By: Surly Driver http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449529 Surly Driver Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449529 Snapseed on iPhone and iPad is a great way to do on-the-fly image tweaks. I use it all the time to adjust brightness, saturation, and color balance, crop, and sometimes add sharpening. Snapseed on iPhone and iPad is a great way to do on-the-fly image tweaks. I use it all the time to adjust brightness, saturation, and color balance, crop, and sometimes add sharpening.

]]> By: Surly Driver http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449526 Surly Driver Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449526 Three comments in? I expected sooner. Three comments in? I expected sooner.

]]> By: DocPop http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449507 DocPop Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449507  That's like saying "Stop using Flickr".  That’s like saying “Stop using Flickr”.

]]> By: jere7my http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449471 jere7my Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449471 FYI: I've just started using SnapSeed on my iPad, and I've been very impressed. It's an Instagram-style program, but aimed more at amateur photographers than hipsters. (I may be being unfair to Instagram; I only used it a couple of times.) SnapSeed has some funky-hip filters, but it also saves photos at full resolution, gives fine-grained and intuitive control over contrast and white balance and saturation, works with RAW, and so on. It's not Photoshop, but for the price it's pretty amazing: it was free when I got it (though it may have gone up to its usual $5 since then). FYI: I’ve just started using SnapSeed on my iPad, and I’ve been very impressed. It’s an Instagram-style program, but aimed more at amateur photographers than hipsters. (I may be being unfair to Instagram; I only used it a couple of times.) SnapSeed has some funky-hip filters, but it also saves photos at full resolution, gives fine-grained and intuitive control over contrast and white balance and saturation, works with RAW, and so on. It’s not Photoshop, but for the price it’s pretty amazing: it was free when I got it (though it may have gone up to its usual $5 since then).

]]> By: electronicnonsense http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449419 electronicnonsense Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449419 You can use instagram to share photos without throwing a bunch of filters & borders on them. It sounds like you may have never used it before, so you may not know that it is actually a social photo stream in it's self, kind of like twitter/tumblr, but with photos as posts. You can follow people within the instagram and interact and comment within the service. It's more than just a program to put filters on your otherwise boring photos. That's why the guy is saying "these are a bunch of other programs that you can use to touch up your photos before you upload them to instagram". You can use instagram to share photos without throwing a bunch of filters & borders on them. It sounds like you may have never used it before, so you may not know that it is actually a social photo stream in it’s self, kind of like twitter/tumblr, but with photos as posts. You can follow people within the instagram and interact and comment within the service. It’s more than just a program to put filters on your otherwise boring photos. That’s why the guy is saying “these are a bunch of other programs that you can use to touch up your photos before you upload them to instagram”.

]]> By: Charles Vestal http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449414 Charles Vestal Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449414 What's wrong with being used? What’s wrong with being used?

]]> By: Sean Lally http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449371 Sean Lally Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449371 Here's a tip, stop using instagram.  So overused. Here’s a tip, stop using instagram.  So overused.

]]> By: espylaub http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449316 espylaub Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449316 You can (thankfully!) permanently turn those horrible borders off in Instagram off, just tap the square icon in the top left corner in the camera view. You can (thankfully!) permanently turn those horrible borders off in Instagram off, just tap the square icon in the top left corner in the camera view.

]]> By: nomad411 http://boingboing.net/2012/06/14/todd-lappins-instagram-tips.html#comment-1449300 nomad411 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=166243#comment-1449300 Hummm  I'll be following him too from now on.  I'm still amazed very day by what the beautiful images we can create with iPhones/Androids for photography.  I'm @nomad411 as seen on http://instagrid.me/nomad411 or http://eyeem.com/gerardgodin   Hummm  I’ll be following him too from now on.  I’m still amazed very day by what the beautiful images we can create with iPhones/Androids for photography.  I’m @nomad411 as seen on http://instagrid.me/nomad411 or http://eyeem.com/gerardgodin  

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