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New picplz features - Borders & Collections

Borders:

One of the top feature requests we have gotten from the picplz community is support for image borders. Image effects are one thing, but adding borders can add a whole new dimension to a photograph.

Today we have released a version of the Android app that supports borders, and our iPhone app with border support was completed days ago and will be released once Apple approves it.

Please note that we still keep your original unmodified image, and that we apply the border and filter to a high quality version of the image. We pride ourselves on helping users create big, beautiful, high-res images.

Examples of picplz photos with image borders:

Collections:

We also added a new feature called “Collections”. A collection is a collection of photos from picplz. Any user can create a new collection, give it a name (for example, “blue things”), and then browse around the site and add photos that you find to the collection.

This creates a whole new way to organize and curate all of the great pics on picplz. We also added the ability to give someone (from the list of people that follow you) “editing” ability to a collection you create. This way you can have a group of friends, co-workers etc. add pics to a common collection.

The best way to explain a new feature is to demonstrate it, so here are some examples of collections we have created during the development process.

Examples of collections:

Color Explosion

Puppyplz

Head in the Clouds

Do I make you hungry?

NBA All-Stars 2011

Examples of borders: