It is not hard to understand the wild popularity of Instagram. It touches a piece of nostalgia that all of us have in our hearts for those childhood photos we love so dearly. However, not everyone wants to have to use Instagram to achieve the effect with their photos. It isn’t always desirable to share the photos you want to use Instagram-style effects with. Luckily, there are several other applications other than Instagram that will allow you to create these effects. Here is a look at five of the best of them.
1. Instantretro :
This is a web-based application that allows users to create Instagram-style photos without having to sign up for an account. This alone makes it very worthwhile. However, it does give you the option to connect your account with Facebook if you want to share your photos publicly. InstantRetro also allows you to save your photos to the website, allowing you to send the link to specific people who you want to see you photos.
2. Pickyou:
This service is much like Instagram. It allows users to create retro-style photos that they can share on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. However, there are some differences. The biggest is that this allows users to add retro effects to their photos without the Polaroid frame surrounding the photograph. Users have the option to use PicYou much like a social network which his another way this service is very similar to Instagram.
3. Picplz:
This is a nifty little app that is available for almost any device imaginable. It runs on iOS, Android and Windows. It is very similar to Instagram with one very important difference. PicPlz allows users to download it to use it on their computers when they are not online. This comes in handy for those people who are not always near to an Internet connection for whatever reason. It is very user-friendly and even technologically-challenged people will find it simple to figure out. PicPlz also gives users the ability to share their photos on Twitter and Facebook if they so desire.
4. Pixphr:
This software has a wide variety of effects for users, including a nice range of Instagram-style effects. Users will find it very easy to use, and it can be used without having to sign up for an account. Users will really enjoy the ability to quickly add filters to their photos with just a few clicks of a mouse on Phixr.
5.Google +
Because many people are using these photo filters to share their photos on social networks, Google decided they might as well cut out the middleman. Google+ offers a nice photo filtering package that includes many of the neat Instagram-style effects that users have come to love. It also has an amazing Auto-Fix feature that will instantly make almost every photograph look better.
