If you use Facebook but haven’t yet joined the 35 million-odd ranks of Instagram users then you may be in for a rough time. Instagram has passed into the arms of Facebook, meaning that there will likely soon be a host of new filters available for Facebook image posts. Whether Facebook opts to keep the Instagram-created names of these effects or not, they will likely remain unchanged on a purely visual level. But how will you tell your sepia from your high-contrast without any Instagram experience?
The Atlantic has compiled a guide to Instagram’s filters that will be supremely useful when the time comes to decipher what on earth those new image options on Facebook are. How you choose to use these options, when they become available, is up to you.
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Effect: Also known as “no filter” (or, more popularly, #nofilter), this is Instagram at its purest: filter-freeX-Pro II
Effect: Warm, saturated tones with an emphasis on aquas and greensEarlybird
Effect: Faded, blurred colors, with an emphasis on yellow and beigeLomo-fi
Effect: Dreamy, ever-so-slightly blurry, with saturated yellows and greensSutro
Effect: Sepia-like, with an emphasis on purples and brownsToaster
Effect: High exposure, with corner vignettingBrannan
Effect: Low-key, with an emphasis on grays and greensValencia
Effect: True-to-life contrast, with slightly gray and brown overtonesInkwell
Effect: Black-and-white, high-contrastWalden
Effect: Washed-out color with bluish overtonesHefe
Effect: Fuzziness, with an emphasis on yellow and golden tonesNashville
Effect: Sharp images with a magenta-meets-purple tint, framed by a distinctive film-strip-esque border1977
Effect: Gloria Gaynor-level ’70s flairLord Kelvin
Effect: Super-saturated, supremely retro photos with a distinctive scratchy border
Source: The Atlantic
