Fresh off its Android debut, Instagram has added the popular tilt-shift feature to its latest mobile platform, giving photos more depth of field and a realistic blur.
The company has rolled out its Instagram Android v1.1.0 update, now available in the Google Play Store. The update comes as many Android users anxiously awaited the inclusion of the tilt-shift tool, which was already available on the iOS version of the app.
The handy tilt-shift feature gives users the flexibility to alter the depth of field of images with a few swipes of your finger. The tool worked just as well for us on Android as iOS, making it easy to add a slight blur to emphasis certain focal points. For example, you can emphasize the heart of photos and blurring the rest, while also making some scenes look miniature.
"Tilt-shift within mobile photography applications is often the process of selective focus in order to simulate a miniature scene, also known as miniature faking," Instagram said in a blog post. "Selective focus can also be used to give the appearance of a shallow depth of field (DoF), or placing the focus on a subject in the background while blurring out the foreground and vice versa."
It also included a few user tips to make the most of the tilt-shift feature.
Instagram, which was recently purchased by Facebook for $1 billion, now has more than 50 million users and is growing its user base by about 5 million each week, according to its API.
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