PicsArt Monthly June Issue 2014 | Page 68

WHAT'S NEW PicsArt’s Exciting New Features for iOS and Android Devices PicsArt recently released some exciting updates for Android and iOS. Most of the new features were available for both platforms, but they had their slight differences. The update included two new effects, Dodger and Vintage Ivory. The former softens your photo with pale colors and ambient lighting, while the latter is inspired by vintage color palettes and resolutions, but with a new whiter and brighter twist. PicsArt also gave users the ability to customize the colors of PicsArt Masks with a new Hue slider. Shape masks offer the opportunity to choose from a variety of shapes to overlay on your photos, and they have been made even better recently - by adding the option to customize them by texture, in addition to the previously available color and opacity. For a quick fix and speedy share of an image we introduced the Auto Enhance tool, which automatically brings you the basic best version of your image, while still allowing you to customize in small ways. In addition to these commonly shared updates, the two platforms have some differences as well. iOS users can now customize their collages by adjusting the inner borders, and can choose from a whole new variety of pre-made grids. iOS users will also be excited about our updates in the Social Network, as written tags and usernames written out in comments or photo descriptions now automatically become links to what they are referencing. This will make it easier for users to discover each other as well as trending tags. Don’t worry Android users, you have some cool stuff too! We know that photo stealing has become an issue in our network, so we have removed the save option for photos. Now only photos that have #freetoedit tag can be saved and reused by others. If you do not tag your miages with that tag, no one will be able to save them. We hope that this will help prevent photo theft and preserve the artistic rights of our creative userbase. 68| PicsArt Monthly