Now onwards no need to depend on third-party camera apps to apply filters and stickers to your photos. Facebook testing a new feature in the camera module in its Facebook application.
Most of the times people use filters before uploading the photos to their Facebook profiles. For this, they download various camera apps from Google Play Store. Soon Facebook will directly provide the same options available on other camera apps inside it.
A few months back, in March, Facebook acquired a video effects app named MSQRD. Since then Facebook planning to implement real-time filters and stickers while capturing photos and videos from the Facebook camera module. We can compare the new feature with the one available with Snapchat. Already Facebook rolled out the new version with filters to Canada and Brazil. Soon we can get the feature in India also.
When you selected Camera option in “What’s on your mind?” status compose box, the camera opens in full-screen mode with various filters and stickers. If you selected front camera, MSQRD offers various augmented reality filters to capture creative selfies.
Facebook found that people are showing more interest in sharing selfies and videos on Facebook. That’s why Facebook is planning to bring more powerful options to the photo and video segment in coming future.