By Nina Carlsen
Made is a photo editing app that allows users to enhance their Instagram stories by providing unique templates, backgrounds, fonts and filters.
This is an app that I have utilized for a project in my intercultural communications class. The templates allowed for me to benefit from the pre-made creative layouts where I could easily enter the text and images of my choosing.
Image presented is an example of content that can be made using the Made app. Content created by Nina Carlsen in May 2021.
I discovered the app based on a recommendation from a friend who has edited instagram posts with it for our sorority's official Instagram.
Image features Marisa Sadauskas and is courtesy of Kennedy Ewald. Content created using Made in March 2021.
The app is free but if the user wants to have access to the entire collection of templates it is a monthly subscription cost of $4.99. This is a limiting factor of this app, as some reviews point out that they wish the entire collection was readily available instead of having a monthly payment.
It could potentially be a useful tool for journalists as a way of gaining traction on news pieces if it is used as a promotional tool for social media stories. A news organization or individual journalist could utilize this tool to upload images and a summary related to the story being promoted.
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