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Change Color effects and Fade the Images using Instagram new tool

Gone are those days, when we used to think that photographers always stays behind those lenses. In the current trend of Selfies, you will see that the photographer is not only the part of his/her snapped image but also the most focused area of that image. Meanwhile, Instagram is getting popular day by day as it manages to become the best online repository to store all your images which can be the part of your public profile.

What makes Instagram, something really special is its feature of editing the images with some really good filters and at the same time being a social networking platform to share images and short video clips. Instagram has always been updating their set of filters and other parameters which could be altered to make those images as good as possible. Recently they have added a Color Tool and Fade Tool, which are used to add a complete overlay of a certain color over the image, thus giving it a completely different outlook. In this article we will know that how you can use these tools and what effect will they exactly cause on your photos.

Use Color Tool and Fade Tool on Instagram

Update your Instagram application and then open it to add any image on your timeline.

Once you crop the image, add filters to it and then reach the last stage of the changes, where tool are supposed to be used. For example, changing the contrast of the image colors or the brightness levels or increasing the sharpness. You will see both the options of Color Tool or Fade Tool among the other tools as mentioned below in the screenshot.

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Now, tap Color tool, where you will see that you have many options of colors. You can tap on any of those colors and a layer of that color will be overlaid over the image, something which you are seeing below. You can tap on that same selected color again to change the intensity of color over that layer.

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Similarly on that Fade Tool, a layer of white layer will be covering the whole image and you can already see a bar to change the intensity of that color.

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So, you can now use these tools to change the colors altered by the filters or to add an extra effect on your own.

Conclusion

These features may not make a much difference but they are decent tool addition in the current applications and similarly by such mall efforts, Instagram has started involving more and more users on their application. They all fee that it is a one stop solution to share the best images over Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking platform. Stay tune to know more about such issues available over the internet.

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Abhinav Singh

Abhinav Singh, a software engineer who is very much interested in social engineering. He is responsible to manage all the social media profiles of Gadgets To Use. He also has a hobby of tracking new apps and gadgets and to share them with our readers as well.