Key Features

Social media channels, especially Instagram, has changed the way photography is being perceived and pursued throughout the world, aided by smartphones and the innumerable special effects possible on this everconnected device. Consequentially, various photo editing apps have sprung up, targeting millennial digital artists who like to experiment with these special effects and share the results on their favourite platforms. PicsArt is one such application that provides numerous options for expressing yourself through visual storytelling. In addition to being an editing and remixing platform, it also allows you to share your creations

January 2021 within the community. PicsArt Gold is a premium subscription service providing many more effects and resources than the free version.

PicsArt App is an extension of its website. Once you create an account, you can access it on your desktop, laptop or smartphone. The app is available for Android as well as iOS. The platform allows you to create various art works such as invitations, advertisements, collages, marketing literature, social media properties from a vast bank of pre-set templates. In fact, it is dif icult to list everything possible with this platform in a few pages.

Apart from these, the app provides options to create collages, live camera effects including live video effects, create drawings and edit your photos and videos. It provides thousands of free photos that can be incorporated in your artwork in addition to backgrounds.

The Challenges section includes projects you can try out and share with other members. A very interesting feature of PicsArt is the ability to try out different effects that other members have created and shared, with the help of step-bystep instructions.

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Which of the following mounts is not a full frame mount? a) b) c) d) e)

L mount Z mount F mount EF mount EF-S mount

Which Japanese Camera Company took its name from “ripening rice fields”? a) b) c) d)

Minolta Nikon Yashica Canon

Which was the world’s first 35 mm SLR with a built-in cadmium sulphide (CdS) exposure meter? a) b) c) d)

Nikon FT Minolta SR-7 Olympus OM 1 Topcon RE Super

America’s first spaceship, the Friendship 7 carried a Japanese camera. Which one? a) b) c) d)

Nikon F

Canon F1

Minolta Himatic Rangefinder Miranda Sensomat