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Hipster for Android review

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Manufacturer: Hipster

Our Rating: We rate this 4 out of 5

Part Instagram, part Flickr, Hipster is an Android app that lets users quickly customize photos and upload them for the world to enjoy.

If you took a picture on your smartphone but nobody sees it, did you really take it? Hipster lets you solve that particular philosophical dilemma by offering a simple way to customize an image into a funky digital postcard and upload it for the world to marvel at.

To get started with Hipster, you'll need a picture that you want to customize. You can either take a new picture - using whichever camera app you have installed - or you can choose a picture from your gallery. Once you have an image to work with, you pick a look: Hipster contains a long list of preset styles, each with its own color effect and frame. Each preset has space for a caption which, by default, contains your location. You can easily edit the caption, and your text will carry through all of the presets as you pick and choose the one that's right for you. See also: Best Android Apps

Despite its variety of styles, image customization in Hipster ends up feeling limited. You can't mix and match frames or styles, and you can't control how the text looks on an image.

On the plus side, Hipster's community is fun and active. Both the app and the Hipster.com website contain a gallery where you can view and comment on other people's public photos. Several of the photographs I came across in the gallery looked quite beautiful, and you can spend a fair amount of time browsing the works of other Hipster savants. From the Hipster app, you can comment on images, follow other users, or "like" photographs - the same basic things you can do on the Hipster website.

Hipster may not rival other image processing apps for power and flexibility, but its vibrant community makes it a fun choice for sharing photos from Android phones and Android tablets., and for looking at beautiful, spontaneous pictures from all over the world.

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REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.2 and up
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  • Overall: We give this item 8 of 10 overall

Part Instagram, part Flickr, Hipster is an Android app that lets users quickly customize photos and upload them for the world to enjoy.

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