Telegram’s revamped media editor provides a blur software and extra textual content choices | Darkish Tech

The newest Telegram replace contains an overhauled media editor outfitted with a bunch of latest instruments to embellish, or disguise, elements of your picture or movies. In an replace on its weblog, Telegram says it is introducing a brand new blur software that permits you to block out sure areas of a photograph or video, permitting you to cover delicate data or blur the faces of passers-by that seem within the background.

To make the blurry a part of your picture mix, Telegram says that you should use the eyedropper software to match the colour of the blur brush to your picture. Additionally, Telegram is including a technique to change the dimensions, font, and background of textual content (form of like Instagram or Snapchat) when including it to photographs or movies.

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It says its revamped drawing instruments “dynamically change width” relying on how briskly you are drawing and mechanically easy traces. Telegram additionally added a technique to rapidly add shapes equivalent to rectangles, circles, arrows, stars, and chat bubbles by tapping the “plus” icon within the editor. And if you do not need your recipient to see what you are sending straight away, now you can apply a spoiler impact that provides a “shiny layer” to a picture or video that hides its content material till the recipient touches it.

Outdoors of picture modifying instruments, Telegram’s newest replace contains new storage choices that assist you to mechanically delete cached information in personal chats, teams, and channels after a sure time frame, whereas additionally excluding any chats of your alternative. Whereas Telegram beforehand allowed you to clear your cache in all chats, this could make it simple to unlock area mechanically with out affecting necessary conversations. It additionally introduces a helpful new pie chart, displaying how a lot storage is taken up by several types of information, equivalent to movies, paperwork, music, and photographs.

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There are additionally different new settings that allow you to select profile photos for contacts that solely you will note, excellent when you’ve got an unflattering picture that you just’d prefer to be reminded of each time somebody messages you. You may even recommend profile photos for particular contacts, which they’ll then trade in the event that they like what you’ve got chosen. And should you already restrict the visibility of your profile picture to solely your contacts, Telegram now offers you the choice to set a public profile picture that everybody can see. Then again, now you can set the visibility of your profile picture to “no one” if you do not need anybody within the app to see your picture, not even your contacts.