New Snapchat Filters Add Dramatic Skies to Photos
Facebook and Instagram have a new feature to "adopt," as Snapchat rolls out new Filters that can transform boring, flat skies into dramatic, rolling sunset clouds or starlit night vistas. The social media app is also adding animated 3D Bitmoji with this update, just in time for their sixth anniversary.
These new set of Filters is the latest of a series of augmented reality features from Snapchat that focuses on the world around the user, rather than the face in the frame, as Tech Crunch notes. These are called "Sky Filters," and come into play when the Snapchat app detects that the on-screen image has a bit of the sky in it.
A spokesperson for Snap describes the new feature. "When the sky is recognised in your photo Snap new Sky Filters will appear automatically in the Filter carousel inviting you to repaint the sky with a starry night, stormy clouds, a beautiful sunset, rainbows and more," the description reads, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
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The Sky Filters not only adds sunset clouds, starry skies or neon-colored hues to the sky, it also alters the rest of the objects in the scene to match. These new filters are now available for both iOS and Android, and every day, the set will be rotating in new effects as the app phases them out.
The new 3D Bitmoji, a new addition by Snapchat that adds virtual, 3D avatars on the scene, also has a new update. These new lenses add animated avatars that move and adjust with the camera, just like they are real-life objects, as shown by The Next Web.
All these new Filters and Lenses are out just in time for the sixth anniversary of Snapchat, which was started by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy in September 2011.
