Instagram Releases Version 2.0 With Higher Quality and New Filters

Tuesday September 20, 2011 11:30 am PDT by Jordan Golson

Hit photography app Instagram has released version 2.0, with live effects, new filters and much higher resolution photos.

Instagram now offers live previews of filters:

See the world through Instagram’s stunning effects before you even snap a photo. Simply select a filter, hold the camera up to the scene and see the world through Instagram’s visual effects. We’ve re-written your favorite Instagram filters to be over 200x faster so even after having taken a photo, switching between them takes no time at all.

The app has four new filters, Amaro, Rise, Hudson, and Valencia -- the company worked with popular Instagrammer @colerise to create the effects.

Perhaps most importantly, the app now supports images up to 1936x1936 on the iPhone 4, up substantially from the prior version, which only supported images of 612x612.

The app also has a slightly upgraded icon. Instagram is available free on the App Store. [iTunes]

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Geckotek

Posted: 22 months ago

Really wish people would turn OFF the filters when taking pics of things that need some fidelity to appreciate. Food for example or that pic floating around of a gorilla made of clothes hangers. How can I appreciate the details when you got rid of all the details with some stupid Instagram filters?!??!??! :mad::mad:

/rantoff :D

Rating: 6 Positives

msb3079

Posted: 22 months ago

I like this app in some circumstances, but people that use it for every picture they post on Twitter/Facebook is SO annoying. Makes a lot of things hard to see. At least resolution is upgraded... I wish it would support landscape though.

Rating: 5 Positives

RyanR.

Posted: 22 months ago

That's nice. Where the **bleep** are the keynote invites!!!!!!!

Rating: 5 Positives

fun173

Posted: 22 months ago

That is the best app icon I have ever seen.

Rating: 3 Positives

Seanozz

Posted: 22 months ago

They removed a few key filters. Gotham and the filter interface sux now.

Hopefully they will fix it and bring those filters back ASAP.

Rating: 2 Positives

AppleDroid

Posted: 22 months ago

Same with sunsets etc! How can I appreciate the beauty of what you saw that evening when I have to look through a green chemical burn filter with dirty corners?!

Also for added "grump" once everyone uses the same filters on every photo they cease to be unique. Just like kids who shop at Hot Topic.

Rating: 1 Positives

b11051973

Posted: 22 months ago

I have a guy on my Twitter feed that only seems to post photos using instagram. It drives me nuts as so many photos I wish were effect free.

Rating: 1 Positives

a.jfred

Posted: 22 months ago

There's a "normal" filter ... which I find I use more often than not. I think the biggest issue I have with a lot of the filters now is that there's very little difference between several of them.

I do like the integration of the filters into the camera part (where you take the picture), but I prefer the old filter interface, as it was easier to see the differences between the filters.

It's still the camera app I find myself using the most (I also have Hipstamatic and Camera+ )

Rating: 1 Positives

Umit

Posted: 22 months ago

They changed earlybird filter and made it complete rubbish! Worst update ever!

Rating: 1 Positives

zachlegomaniac

Posted: 22 months ago

I'm mostly a no filter guy myself. Enjoying the update. I find IG to be the most compelling of all social media outlets. Personally, I'm tired of knowing when a 'friend' is brushing their teeth in the morning, but a good picture of it is somehow 1000x as interesting. :cool:

Rating: 1 Positives

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