Enhance Your Instagram Feed with These Fantastic VSCO Filters

VSCO is an app that allows you to take photos directly from the app as well as import images from your phone’s gallery and apply various filters to them. Well, most of the filters on this app are available for free to use, but there are some filters that need a subscription to get accessed. In this article, we will share some excellent VSCO filters that will completely transform your photos and help you enhance your Instagram feed. Let’s take a look.

M3

M3 is a pretty decent natural-feeling filter that you can use to tweak the colors in your photos in order to give it a soft brown tone. You can use this filter to enhance the natural shots.

P5

P5 is a very popular VSCO filter that basically gives your images a bit emphasized cooler, edgy, and atmospheric look. You can use this filter to add a little grit and grunge to your photos. Besides that, you can add grain and scratches to your images using this filter.

C1

C1 is another great VSCO filter that you can apply to your images to give them a bit colorful and vibrant look. It looks great when you apply this filter to images containing flowers, beaches, or nature scenes.

F2

F2 filter is great for enhancing the tone of an image. You can use this filter on images containing everyday moments.

M5

M5 is a great filter to give your images a vintage look. This filter can make your images look a bit mellow and desaturated. You can use this filer on portrait shots, it will give you a retro feel.

G3

G3 is another great filter for portraits. It can enhance your skin tone, and sharpen the vibrancy and colors of the images containing still-life scenes. Well, this filter doesn’t work for most images, but when it works, it gives your image entirely a different look.

B1

Well, this list would be incomplete without the B1 VSCO filter. It’s a black and white monochrome pre-set that will turn your images black & white in a subtle way. The best thing about this filter is that it doesn’t even lose contrast and shadow details in your images.

These are all the free VSCO filters that we think can completely change your photos and make them look appealing. We would strongly recommend you try the above-mentioned VSCO filters in order to enhance your Instagram feed.

However, there are some paid-for VSCO filters that you can also try if you take the app’s premium membership. Some of the best premium VSCO filters are:

HB1 – for a dramatic and grit look.

A6 – for adding clean brightness and warmth look to your image.Dog 1, Dog 2, and Dog 3 filters – you can use these filters for muting vibrant colors, boosting yellow hues and brightness, enhance purple-pink hues in your image respectively.

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Top Instagram Updates in 2020 (By Far)

 We are more than halfway through this year, and it has been one crazy ride so far. The world is in turmoil, and nothing seems to be the same anymore. Nobody is allowed to meet each other, go to the office daily, travel or leave the house. It is an introvert’s paradise right now. But the one constant thing in everyone’s life is Instagram updates. Instagram is known to assess the market needs very quickly and roll out updates to fill that gap before anyone else. Let us take a look at some of these updates Instagram provided this year.

Paid Badges on Instagram Live

The company is aware that a lot of the app’s promotion and increase in traffic is primarily because of the social media influencers or creators on the app. Brands try to collaborate with more influencers because they are the easiest way to divert the traffic towards IGTV. That’s why Instagram ensures that there are multiple ways for popular creators to earn on the social media platform. To keep these creators happy, invested, and motivated, Instagram came up with the idea of “badges.” These badges are offered by the creator to purchase during IGTV live stream, and the users who are in attendance can buy them.

Support Small Business

In May 2020, the users noticed a sticker named “Support Small Business” that they could add to their stories. This sticker lets users mention their brands without any fuss. It enabled people to directly view the brand account and all products it has to offer. All the brands mentioned with the sticker are displayed together in a shared story to support the growth of all small brands.

Monetized IGTV Ads

Instagram is known to pick up the basic ideas of other apps and rebrand it to make it their own. The company introduced IGTV to the users in 2018, and it was a bigger success than anticipated. The features of IGTV are similar to that of YouTube. To further the use of IGTV for money-making, Instagram will air short ads when the users begin to watch anyone’s Instagram TV video. the ads will be crisp, short, and mobile-friendly. This is similar to YouTube’s ad policy, as well. Since this is a new idea for them, they intend to experiment with different formats of ads all through this year to see what works the best with the audience.

Post Caption Shopping Tags

Instagram has come a long way in the field of on-platform shopping. They also went ahead to update the Instagram store for commercial purposes. But then the company decided there was more scope to it. The latest update in terms of business and brands is that their pages are allowed to mark their pictures and IG stories with a clickable tag. They intend to allow this feature on the accounts of social media influencers as well.

Share Live Videos to IGTV

Instagram initially allowed users to live stream on their stories, but the issue was that similar to the stories, those live streams were only visible for the next 24 hours, and then they vanished on their own. But then an update allowed everyone to save and share their live video via IGTV right after they stopped recording. It was useful because, previously, the live videos could be shared on stories only. Now, since the stories had a 15-second time frame, the 15-minute video had to be broken down into several stories. It was annoying to watch and hence lost potential engagement. But, IGTV lets you upload long videos so that users could upload the live video in its entirety.

Messenger Integration

Mark Zuckerberg established himself as a social media giant when he took over Instagram in 2012 and then WhatsApp in 2014. Naturally, it became easier for them to consider merging their chat boxes into one. In 2019, sources revealed that the company plans to merge the Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct Message, and WhatsApp into one to allow smooth and flawless communication. The company did not start big with this move and took little steps towards it to ease in the customers and assess their reactions. A while back, users noticed an option to sync Messenger to their Instagram. The company has officially confirmed that they are conducting tests, but the final product is far from ready.

Instagram is a fun social media app that lets people share their moments with friends and family. The app initially only supported photo sharing, but now features like live videos, stories, messaging, long videos (IGTV) have been included as well. It is also popularly used by brands, famous people, and influencers to gain more recognition.

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