Instagram New Features Color and Fade

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By Chelsea Peng 2015-04-08T05:18:58Z

Hot dude admiration club Instagram will soon integrate tools for adding and adjusting color in your photos, meaning the sky will never have to be blue (booooring) again if you don't want it to be.

The image-sharing app announced Tuesday that it will introduce two new features this week: Fade, which "allows you to bring a quiet tone to your photos by softening colors," and Color, with which you can "tint the highlights or shadows in your photo…yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, cyan, or green."

Swell. Just swell. To summarize all the things you're now meant to do before you post, there's taking a photo, cropping it, putting a filter on it, tinting it, fading it, and sticking it in a collage. And that doesn't even take into account all the pre-click art direction.*gusty sigh*

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Chelsea Peng

I'm Chelsea Peng, the assistant editor at MarieClaire.com. On my tombstone, I would like a GIF of me that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, I'm into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard I have to go lie down.