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Social media is the best way to share your favorite Holland America Line cruise memories with all of your friends and family. And if you’re more about photos and less about status updates, Instagram is the channel for you. Unlike Facebook, Instagram is used to post only one picture at a time (rather than a whole album) so there’s no better platform to highlight your favorite cruise memories. If you’re a beginner and need to learn the basics of Instagram, check out our previous post “Instagram Tips and Tricks – Learn to Share Your Cruise Travel Photos.†However, if you want to improve your Instagram skills and learn about how to use the app’s latest updates for the most striking pictures, keep on reading! The new updates are all about manipulating the shape, size, texture and especially color of your photos. Once you’ve selected your favorite picture and hit “next,†you will be met with this screen: The far left icon that looks like a circle with three lines inside lets you scroll left and right to choose from a variety of filters. These filters have pre-determined edits that manipulate the coloring of your photo. For example, Inkwell or Willow make the picture black and white, XX-Pro II and Lo-Fi make the colors more vibrant, and Valencia and Brennan make them more dull. You also have the option to not use a filter at all by choosing Normal. The middle icon that looks like a sun adjusts Lux, which edits the exposure and contrast of a photo. Use the little circle shown in the middle of the scale to adjust. Simply slide the toggle left to decrease exposure and right to increase it. The far right icon that looks like a wrench edits 10 different aspects of the photo: Adjust, Brightness, Contrast, Warmth, Saturation, Shadows, Vignette, Tilt Shift and Sharpen. • Adjust is all about creating angles. You can turn the picture clockwise or counter-clockwise and tilt the picture side to side or up and down. • Brightness will add more or less light to the picture by using the […]
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Social media is the best way to share your favorite Holland America Line cruise memories with all of your friends and family. And if you’re more about photos and less about status updates, Instagram is the channel for you. Unlike Facebook, Instagram is used to post only one picture at a time (rather than a whole album) so there’s no better platform to highlight your favorite cruise memories. If you’re a beginner and need to learn the basics of Instagram, check out our previous post “Instagram Tips and Tricks – Learn to Share Your Cruise Travel Photos.†However, if you want to improve your Instagram skills and learn about how to use the app’s latest updates for the most striking pictures, keep on reading! The new updates are all about manipulating the shape, size, texture and especially color of your photos. Once you’ve selected your favorite picture and hit “next,†you will be met with this screen: The far left icon that looks like a circle with three lines inside lets you scroll left and right to choose from a variety of filters. These filters have pre-determined edits that manipulate the coloring of your photo. For example, Inkwell or Willow make the picture black and white, XX-Pro II and Lo-Fi make the colors more vibrant, and Valencia and Brennan make them more dull. You also have the option to not use a filter at all by choosing Normal. The middle icon that looks like a sun adjusts Lux, which edits the exposure and contrast of a photo. Use the little circle shown in the middle of the scale to adjust. Simply slide the toggle left to decrease exposure and right to increase it. The far right icon that looks like a wrench edits 10 different aspects of the photo: Adjust, Brightness, Contrast, Warmth, Saturation, Shadows, Vignette, Tilt Shift and Sharpen. • Adjust is all about creating angles. You can turn the picture clockwise or counter-clockwise and tilt the picture side to side or up and down. • Brightness will add more or less light to the picture by using the […]
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