{"id":101680,"date":"2015-03-24T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=101680"},"modified":"2015-03-24T06:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:16:59","slug":"instagram-finally-puts-together-its-own-collage-app-called-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/instagram-finally-puts-together-its-own-collage-app-called-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram finally puts together its own collage app, called Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collage lovers on\u00a0Instagram, it might be your lucky day.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram is rolling out Layout, a free, standalone app that merges multiple images into one. It&#8217;s available on iOS now (on the App Store), and an Android version is expected in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Users pick up to nine photos from their phone\u2019s Camera Roll \u2014 whether they were snapped via Instagram doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>The app organizes them in three sections: recent photos snapped, photos with people&#8217;s faces in them, and an area with all your shots.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a \u201cPhoto Booth\u201d feature, which employs the smartphone&#8217;s front-facing camera to snap four shots in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p>Layout suggests up to 10 collage templates to choose from, depending on the number of selected photos, and lets folks tweak their work any number of ways, like dragging and dropping photos in the collage, pinch-to-zoom, and a sci-fi-like \u201cmirror\u201d effect that duplicates part of a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, they can share their creations from inside the app to platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Flipboard, Slack and others. (Twitter integration is noticeably absent.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-shares\" data-description=\"\" data-fragment=\"m!bae4\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzAzLzIzLzYwL1VJRmFjZXNUYWIuOTFmOTQucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMTIwMHg5NjAwPg\/b5657818\/3a4\/UI-Faces-Tab.png\" data-url=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img title=\"UI-Faces Tab\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzAzLzIzLzYwL1VJRmFjZXNUYWIuOTFmOTQucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMTIwMHg5NjAwPg\/b5657818\/3a4\/UI-Faces-Tab.png\" alt=\"UI-Faces Tab\" data-credit-link=\"\" data-credit-name=\"\" data-credit-label=\"Instagram\" data-credit-provider=\"Custom type\" data-caption=\"Users can pick up to nine images to make into a collage. Layout recommends up to 10 collage styles depending on the number of selected images. \" data-width=\"640\" data-fragment=\"m!bae4\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzAzLzIzLzYwL1VJRmFjZXNUYWIuOTFmOTQucG5nCnAJdGh1bWIJMTIwMHg5NjAwPg\/b5657818\/3a4\/UI-Faces-Tab.png\" data-micro=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Users can pick up to nine images to make into a collage. Layout recommends up to 10 collage styles depending on the number of selected images.<\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-credit\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Why collages? Look at the numbers. According to Instagram, one in five active users \u2014 at least 60 million people \u2014 already use third-party mobile apps like Diptic, Moldiv and Stitch to make collages. Simply put,\u00a0<span class=\"microcontent\" data-fragment=\"a-standalone-collage-app\" data-description=\"a standalone collage app keeps users engaged with Instagram features and services for longer periods of time\" data-micro=\"1\">a standalone collage app keeps users engaged with Instagram features and services for longer periods of time<\/span>. It also lowers the odds of Instagram users checking out photo apps from competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Layout is the second companion app from Instagram. Last fall, the company rolled out an app called Hyperlapse that lets users create image-stabilized, time lapse videos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really wanted to keep the main Instagram flow simple, and adding a bunch of these features would probably make it more complicated,&#8221; Joshua Dickens, an Instagram product designer, told <em>Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s likely true, but with its newest app, Instagram also takes a lesson from Facebook. Over the last two years, the social network has employed a portfolio approach with mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of baking all of its new features into the main mobile\u00a0app, Facebook has introduced several standalone apps to mixed results, most notably its separate Messenger app.<\/p>\n<p>Others have included Mentions, aimed at celebrity Facebook users; an Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Camera; and Poke, a Snapchat competitor. (Facebook eventually pulled Camera and Poke from the App Store.)<\/p>\n<p>In Hyperlapse&#8217;s case, the app debuted strongly but now ranks #1,355 for daily U.S. downloads, according to mobile tracking firm App Annie. That&#8217;s much lower than Instagram and Facebook, which still hover in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>But whether Layout succeeds with users in the long run or quickly fizzles, expect more collages in your Instagram feed in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collage lovers on\u00a0Instagram, it might be your lucky day. Instagram is rolling out Layout, a free, standalone app that merges multiple images into one. It&#8217;s available on iOS now (on the App Store), and an Android version is expected in the next few months. 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