Roger Fingas
Facebook on Thursday released an update to its Instagram apps for iOS and Android, opening up the media-sharing service to posts in landscape and portrait ratios.
When choosing an existing photo or video to upload, Instagram users can now tap a format button to choose one of three dimensions. The full-sized content will then appear in feeds, although profile grids will still show images in cropped squares to preserve symmetry.
Instagram has traditionally forced users to post all content in a square format, a deliberate throwback to old analog cameras such as Holgas.
The update also breaks down barriers between filters. The apps previously maintained separate filters for photos and videos, but these are newly interchangeable. On videos, users can now scale the intensity of effects.
The iOS version of Instagram is a free download, and requires an iPhone or iPod with iOS 7 or later. It also has a companion Apple Watch app that can be used to browse photos or check feed notifications.
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Yay! More pixels is better, right?
I am not seeing this option. Is this another one of those "America only" updates?
Is this another one of those "America only" updates?
Interestingly, while traveling in Europe, everyone would say "Oh, you are from America?" That sounds really odd to me because if someone were to ask where we're from we might say "The US or United States", not America, although we do refer to ourselves as Americans so I guess it makes some sense, but it still sounds odd.
[quote name="lowededwookie" url="/t/187901/instagram-loosens-limits-enables-portrait-landscape-modes-for-photo-video#post_2766808"]I am not seeing this option. Is this another one of those "America only" updates?[/quote] Nope. In Oregon and not seeing option either
About goddamn time. @mstone: Yes, I agree. We should have just called ourselves United States of North America or something else. A very stupid presumption of The United States of America seeing as that represents North, Central and South America.