{"id":17964,"date":"2013-01-23T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:00:39","slug":"mixel-for-iphone-builds-instagram-friendly-collages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/mixel-for-iphone-builds-instagram-friendly-collages\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixel for iPhone builds Instagram-friendly collages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/mixel-for-iphone\/id549650476\">Mixel<\/a> for a long time, and now it&#8217;s become much more useful to me as it creates square collages that can be sent directly to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>I find this highly useful after shooting a burst of shots of my kids (as one never knows which one will best capture fast-moving action): I select an arbitrary number of shots, feed them to Mixel, let it auto-create a collage, and then shuffle or manually adjust the results as desired. It&#8217;s often a faster, visually richer alternative to apps like Diptic (which I also like). It&#8217;s not something I use constantly, but when I do want it, I find the $1.99 well worth the investment.<\/p>\n<p>In semi-related news, Mixel has been <a href=\"http:\/\/mixel.cc\/mixel_acquired\">acquired by Etsy<\/a>. Congrats to Khoi &amp; the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Mixel for a long time, and now it&#8217;s become much more useful to me as it creates square collages that can be sent directly to Instagram. I find this highly useful after shooting a burst of shots of my kids (as one never knows which one will best capture fast-moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}