Maybe Instagram’s privacy blunder took the bloom off the rose, but that’s no reason to stop sharing photos through social media as Instagram alternatives continue to emerge.
Take Tadaa, an app with some serious photo editing features that can also share your images through your social networks or keep them privately on your phone.
Tadaa has so many features that it can be a little daunting, but the basic features are easy to grasp.
As with most photo apps, you can apply any of 20 or more filters to alter photos that you take or import. I say, “or more†because the app gives away new filters on a limited time basis â€" you have a week or two to grab them when they become available.
It also lets you make manual adjustments to photos. You can do minor adjustments like brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness to primp up the look.
It has some pretty sophisticated features, like a tilt shift effect, which lets you make part of your picture focused and part of it blurry. Other apps have tilt shift too, but this one you can orient in any direction, customize the width of the focused and blurry areas, and degree of blur.
It also has a paint brush tool, so that you can designate exact areas of your photo to apply effects. Pretty sophisticated for an app.
Once you set it up, you can share with Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr with a single click. You can also send your finished work as an e-mail. It can automatically share with other Tadaa users, just the way Instagram shares with its users.
If you prefer though, you can set it to keep all your shots private on the phone. That is not the default though, so make sure you go to the settings menu before you start shooting.
One feature that really sets it apart â€" with a single click you can import all of your Instagram photos into Tadaa. It doesn’t erase your Instagram shots in the process, though. You’d have to do that manually.
