VSCO Cam was already a well-designed photo editor with a unique minimalist interface. It's a really great addition because it lets you present a group of photos a lot like a magazine, but the interactivity of viewing each photo up close lets you appreciate the choices the photographer made to take the photograph and edit it in VSCO. When you touch an image you can look at a close up without distraction, then touch it again to go back to the Journal view.
What's really cool about looking at a journal is you get a nice layout for all the photos with variable sizes that lay neatly on the page. A new swipeable interface lets you go from the Grid to the Journal with a swipe to the left, then you can see examples for how people are using the new Journal features. What the Journal lets you do is assemble several photos of the same theme together, then write as much text as you want to introduce and talk about your project. Version 4.0 adds another great feature - and probably my favorite so far - with the new Journal. With the Journal you can write to describe your photo collection and the layout is great. I like that I can send a link to all my shots, but I'd prefer to have feeds that I can customize to include photos from both me and my friends. When you finish a photo, you'll see that it is pending for the grid, but it's pretty clear that the images that make it through are of high quality (judging from the feed), so you'll have to take a particularly nice shot and hope for the best.įortunately, if you want to share all your work, VSCO lets you create a URL to your personal "grid" of shots. There's also a chance your photo will make into VSCO Cam's Grid (the social feed I mentioned earlier), but that is left up to whomever curates the feed. In my testing it worked great, and synced images showed up almost immediately. In the latest version you can also use VSCO Cam's Sync tool, that automatically syncs up your VSCO photos across your devices. You can post to Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, Google+ or Facebook, or you can simply save to your camera library, or send via e-mail. When you're done adding filters and fine-tuning your image, you have a few options for sharing.