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JP/Yuliasri PerdaniWith its simple features and photo filters, Instagram has gained a loyal following among photography lovers and selfie fans â a must-have app to give a professional photo editing look to their pictures
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With its simple features and photo filters, Instagram has gained a loyal following among photography lovers and selfie fans ' a must-have app to give a professional photo editing look to their pictures. Below are several tips on how to use Instagram from the platform:
BRING IN YOUR CIRCLE
Find your friends who are already using Instagram by clicking 'Find Friends' on your profile tab. It will bring a list of people who have connected their Facebook and Twitter accounts to Instagram. Additionally, you can input contact lists from your phone to produce more connections.
EXPLORE!
The 'Search & Explore' tab generates a tailored list of photos, videos and people you might like. The tab will show posts that are liked by a large number of people in the Instagram community.
'I just use the explore page. When you're looking at the explore page, you're seeing images that are being triggered by all the people that you follow and what they're liking, what they're engaging with, so essentially what you follow is what you see in many ways,' said Teru Kuwayama, a member of Instagram's community team and a former war photographer. 'I think that is an interesting thing, in that every single person's experience is completely different.'
#HASHTAGS
Putting a suitable hashtag on your photos will bring you to find new followers with the same interests or locations. Choosing specific tags will connect you to like-minded people. For instance, instead of putting the tag #car, you could explain more by using #ferrari.
'What I do is put hashtags on my location ' the city and the country. For example, when I uploaded photos with hashtag #Jakarta, some people made comments on my photos ' suggesting interesting sites in the city,' said American documentary photographer Lauren DeCicca.
DISCOVER MORE
New experiences are just a click away. You can take a journey to the moon by following the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA) account, @nasa, see the adventures of a hand-holding couple around the world on @muradosmann, or join 29.1 million Instagram users to take a closer look to the life of celebrity Kim Kardashian on @kimkardashian.
'I follow a thousand different accounts. They range from everything from a chef from Thailand traveling and cooking around the world. I see a lot of stuff in the military community. I see a lot of stuff from journalists around the world,' said Teru.
TOUCH UP
Instagram provides plenty of ways to improve and decorate your photos. First, there are dozens of photographic filters ' ranging from the faded soft-look 'Sierra' to the color vibrant 'X-Pro II'. Some filters have their own borders. However, you can choose to forego that.
The contrast and exposure of your photo can be adjusted by clicking a button of a sun symbol, known as Lux effect.
How to best apply the filters? 'It is up to each person. The important thing is to create your style and not just follow the trend,' said Genies Vinonda Wilhelmina, a 21-year-old university student with 51,800 followers.
