Photo Editing Software and Applications

Photo editing with Instagram is a quick, easy and fun way to enhance your Smartphone pictures to share with friends.

Want to get more likes on Instagram? Make sure your images are predominantly blue, spaciously cropped, bright and mildly desaturated. At least those are those are the criteria handed down by Philadelphia-based research firm Curalate, which recently shared the results of an extensive study charting likes for 8 million Instagram posts against 30 image parameters.

According to the survey, other factors that contribute to an image's likeability include: Dominance of a sinle color, preferably blue. Brightness in the 65-80 percent range. A reognizable background (i.e. don't crop tightly). Mild desaturation, like what you get with the "Walden" or "rise" filters. Uploaded via Twitter.

Oddly, some of the Instagram results directly contradict an earlier Curalate survey popularity. That study advised going for reddish-orange hue rather than blue. Also good for Pinterest but apparently not Instagram: 50-percent saturation and multiple dominant colors.

Red Bull has an appreciation for the potential of mixing photography with death-defying stunts. If you need an example, look no further than some of the Red Bull Illume projects we’ve covered in the past.

But Red Bull’s most recent foray into photography didn’t have to do with epic light painting or expensive gear: instead, the company teamed up with three top U.K. Instagrammers to document the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in stop motion.

The event took place mid-September at the Blue Lagoon on the Pembrokeshire coastline in Wales, a photogenic location if we’ve ever seen one. And although you might think the location was wasted on Instagram, think again. Each of the three prolific Instagrammers involved — @danrubin, @jeera and @chaiwalla — used high-end SLRs to shoot the day.

Armed with a Canon 5D Mark II, a Canon 7D and a Nikon D600, the three photographers spent all day shooting everything from the setup to the actual competition itself. What turned out was a 2-minutes top motion summary of the competition that captured all of the highlights you might want to see.

The video finally debuted a couple of days ago on Red Bull Cliff Diving website — the culmination of some 21,000+ photos and three hours spent putting them together into a cohesive final product.

The popular photo-sharing app, Instagram has undergone many changes with the most recent being its Instagram video. As more users sign up and more apps are being created, there will be definitely be more changes. Keeping up with these changes may take some time, which is why we have collected.

Still think Instagram isn't for you? If you're a professional photographer, you might want to reconsider, because there's some serious marketing potential. 

Brooklyn-based photographer Daniel Arnold all but proved this a couple of days ago when he made over $15,000 selling prints over Instagram in a single day.