Five Fun and Geeky Alternatives to Instagram - spatesbrin1959

Instagram is one of those apps that's a little look-alike capital of Belgium sprouts: you'll either love sharing photos with fancy, vintage-style filters plastered on them, or you'll loathe sightedness the same filter practical to ordinary shots of someone's tiffin.

Love it Oregon hate it, there's nary denying how favourite the service is. Thither are now around 50 million Instagram users, and apparently Facebook could see its meriting, considering IT agreed to purchase the company for $1 billion. Instagram isn't the only photo separate out app out in that respect, though, and there are definitely geekier options. Here are quintet of them for your use and amusement.

InstaCRT

Forget computer-generated filters–InstaCRT is the real affair. InstaCRT actually displays your visualize to a CRT screen, snaps a photo of it, then sends the resulting photo back to you. The process takes only a a few seconds, and it leaves you with a genuine retro CRT effect.

Sorry Instagram, but this one genuine filter totally 1-ups your filter natural selection.

The app is only available on iOS for now, and it'll set you back $2.

PicPlz

I can has memes?

PicPlz may take care like your typical app for communion your enhanced photos, but hit the "LOL" filter, and you take over what amounts to a meme-maker and Instagram combined. Formerly you've created an epic meme, you can share it across a variety of social networks through the app, and good maybe you'll be picked au courant the Cheezburger Network.

The best part? It's easy for some iOS and Android, and it's released!

Update, June 25, 2012: Sad pandas–PicPlz will shut down for good on July 3, 2012.

Instickgram

If you actually wishing to achieve a ex post facto vibration, how about expiration back to the lowly playpen and paper? Luckily, if art isn't your forte, Jonathan Cresswell, the brains prat Instickgram (and a personal booster of yours truly), leave practice it for you. Simply study a photo, then plowshare information technology on Twitter with the hashtag #Instickgram, and Jon will settle to you with a stick number version of your image. Information technology's then added to a delicious gallery of stick imagery.

Here's my own example, before and later:

3D Photo

Tending all the hype that 3D TV has gotten, it ISN't surprising that somebody tried to somehow integrated it into photos. 3D Exposure does just that. Take a exposure, and choose from a motle of different 3D effects to open your snapshot whatever unconventional new dimensions. The results puzzle over saved to your camera vagabond, but you can too share them on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Sorry, Android users–this one is only for iOS. It's available from App Store, and IT costs $1. If you sustain an Android earphone, though, this 3D-effects app on the Google Play store might be worth a endeavor.

ShakeItPhoto

Seriously, is thither anything more pleasing that palpitatio a Polaroid photograph, even if IT's a simulated one along a phone? ShakeItPhoto lets you re-live the the experience of taking an present photograph. Take Beaver State upload a photo, wait for the Polaroid-style photo to come through, and and then shingle your phone to arrive develop! This unity is available for $2 on the iOS App Shop.

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