Tips and apps for a good selfie

For those of you who don’t know, if there is someone out there who doesn’t, a selfie is a self-portrait taken with a digital camera or smartphone. The selfie is then usually published on a social media platform.

It’s sassy, it’s trendy and if you haven’t taken and posted at least one selfie, you’re not keeping up with the times. In 2013 the Oxford Dictionary chose the word “selfie” as Word of the Year, and for good reason.

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Apparently, selfies are not exactly a recent discovery or invention. They are also not a direct consequence of social networks or even cell phones. Selfies appear to be a resource that widely used in the early days of photography, circa mid-19th century.

Robert Cornelius – whose family had a local photographic studio in Philadelphia, USA – took the first self-portrait, in 1839.

The latest selfie trends have brought us derriere close-ups, cleavage snapshots and posts of glowing couples after making love. No matter what, it’s all about jumping on the selfie bandwagon.

With that in mind we have compiled some tips and apps that can help you achieve the perfect selfie.

How to take a good selfie

• Choose a well-lit area in which to take it.
• Remember you are the focus of the picture.
• Beware of photobombers! Scan your surroundings for them.
• Make sure the selfie portrays a personal update: a new hairstyle, an accessory …
• Don’t overpose. The best selfies have you being silly or smiling.
• Avoid no-no’s as scanty clothes and overtly sexy poses.
• Don’t publish 20 selfies a day!
• Experiment with different filters. Find an app on your phone that can add interesting features through the use of colors and filters.

To make it easier for you, we’ve listed our favorites:

10 best apps for selfies

1. Apple’s Sharing Selfies. Download it from the AppStore, which highlights the best apps for a self-portrait.
2. CamMewas awarded as the most innovative app at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It uses gesture control so that the user can take a selfie without even touching the phone. Just place it on any surface, raise your hand and close your fist for CamMe to snap the shot!
3. Facetune corrects the imperfections of the face, like blemishes, yellow teeth and dark circles.
4. Pixtr is very similar to the Facetune. We like them both.
5. Picr has a reminder alarm to alert the user to take a selfie at the same time every day. At the end of a month or a year, you can see a movie of yourself throughout that time period.
6. Frontback, from the AppStore. It captures two pics at the same time: the front camera immortalizes the selfie and the rear one captures the surroundings.
7. Perfect365 applies a digital makeover that is very close to a real life do over, thanks to Arcsoft face detection technology.
8. Selfie Studio lights the photo taken by the front-facing camera, supplementing the lack of flash.
9. Candy Camera removes blemishes, applies makeup and can even slim down your face.
10. Baby Selfie captures your baby’s expression as he or she watches colorful animals dancing on the screen of the phone.

Well, now you really have no excuse to stay on the sidelines of the selfie trend. I can’t wait to see you rock it!

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