Instagram Launches New Layout App With Multi-Pic Tool, Photobooth And Mirror

Whether you’re a Valencia fan or more of a Lo-Fi snapper, Instagram have upped the ante on perfecting the perfect Insta thanks to the new ‘Layout’ app, with a string of new functions.

The photo-sharing app’s 300 million-strong community can as of tonight edit multiple pics together, use a mirror tool and even turn their phone into a photobooth.

Selfie anyone?

The new ‘Layout’ app - which synchs with Instagram but exists separately from the main application - allows users to combine nine photos in 11 different combinations.

Up until now Instagrammers had to use collage-creating apps like picframe, diptic, and picstitch in order to knit pictures together.

But the new affiliated tool - which is available on the App store from 5pm today - lets you ‘remix’ your preferred layout as well as using mirror effects, pinch to zoom and rotation tools.

Yahoo had a sneak peek at the new app before launch and found it to be a much better user experience than other photo-mixing apps on the market - with the noticeable ability to make easy edits and changes using your finger tip.

The app pulls pictures in from your camera roll and lets you share to Instagram or Facebook once complete - as well as being saved to your camera roll to be shared to elsewhere.

With 90 per cent of all collages on the social network containing faces, the team have installed a ‘faces’ options which pulls in all the photos of people on your roll.

The new 'mirror' feature comes in response to a trend the team have noticed for symmetrical repetition on photos - and is likely to be used for creative arty shots.

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Whilst the Photo Booth element allows you to set a timer and capture photos in the moment - perhaps responding to Snapchat’s playful immediacy which is so hot amongst the young audience right now.

Instagram said: 'Layout is a new creative tool, a further effort in Instagram's commitment to help our community explore and maximise their creativity.

'1 in 5 of our monthly active users share images to Instagram that combine multiple photos, but until now there hasn't been an easy and fun way to do it — especially in a single app.

'A beautiful multi-picture format is difficult to achieve, so we wanted to create a tool which lets Instagrammers be as creative as possible – capturing beautiful images that feel native to Instagram.'

Facebook owned Instagram’s popularity shows no sign of abating, having hit the 300 million global user mark in December.