Improve Your Pictures With These Instagram Photo Apps

Instagram is a great way of marketing your business to a huge audience of potential customers. Great photos or videos can help spark interest in your business and draw people in.

But, the default photos and videos you take using your Instagram account may not quite be enough to really ‘wow’ people. The good news is that there are many third party apps that help make your job easier.

Instagram, more than other social network, is all about the beautiful visuals. Up your game by making your pictures really stand out from the crowd with these 4 Instagram Photo Apps.

4 Of The Best Instagram Photo Apps

1. Layout

Layout is one of the simplest Instagram photo apps that lets you create collages quickly and easily. So, if you have a bunch of photos that don’t really work on their own, this app lets you quickly make them into an amazing collage. For example, if you do contractor or building work, this app lets you create easy before and after collages to showcase your work to your Instagram audience. It’s also helpful if you have a set of new products coming in at once. This handy app lets you easily showcase them all in one well-made collage.

• Download Layout For iOS
• Download Layout For Android

Bear in mind that your smart phone camera is not like a regular, standalone camera. It absorbs light in a different way when compared to traditional cameras.  By looking through your phone at your subject while moving in a complete circle around them, you’ll see how the changing direction of your light sources can reveal some outstanding effects and unexpected results.

 2. Boomerang

Boomerang is an Instagram app that lets you quickly capture moments and automatically turn them into a mini video to share with your Instagram followers. It will shoot a burst of 10 photos in quick succession and then automatically turn them into a mini video. If you want to capture something that happens quickly and share it with your Instagram audience, but you don’t want to use video, then Boomerang is a great option.

• Download Boomerang For iOS
• Download Layout For Android

Sometimes it pays to take a breath and use your eyes before you hold up your phone and start snapping pictures. Take a minute or two to really look at what is going on around you.  What is the background look like? Is someone about to walk in front of your subject? Is there something happening in the nearby area that might mean taking this picture in another location would be a better idea? Use nature before technology, and spend some time looking at your subject, your surroundings, lighting and everything else that is going on before you start clicking away. This can make a world of difference in the quality of the pictures you post on Instagram.

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3. Swipeable

If you’re trying to get a photo of a large product or a photo with a lot of customers or employees in it, then you’ll want to use a panoramic shot to make sure the photo contains everything or everyone you want. But, panoramic shots are difficult to take with Instagram. Swipeable fixes that. It’s an Instagram photo editor app that makes taking panoramic shots much easier.

• Download Swipeable For iOS
• Download Swipeable For Android

When taking photos try to use natural light whenever you can. That is, of course, unless you’re in a professional photographer’s studio with the right kind of lighting set-up. If you’re shooting outdoors, early morning and late afternoon are the best times. Believe it or not, shooting outside on overcast days are perfect for picture lighting.

4. Captiona

A great caption on your Instagram photo is the best way of engaging those who view your photo and actually converting them into customers. But coming up with a good caption is easier said than done! That’s where Captiona comes in. This app lets you enter a keyword and it will come up with a variety of famous catchphrases, famous quotes, and other phrases that you can use in your caption. It also includes some modern-day lines and quotes, so that you’re not just using famous quotes all the time.

Download Captiona For iOS
Download Captiona For Android

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The popularity for Instagram has boomed as the cameras in smart phones have become better at taking high-quality photos and videos. Research now shows that consumers are 58 times more likely to engage with branded content on Instagram compared to Facebook, and 120 times more likely to take some action than users on Twitter. To learn more about this social media powerhouse and to get more hints and tips on Instagram photo apps download my free checklist, the Instagram Marketing Guide.

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