Even if you haven’t shelled out money for a subscription, VSCO shows you previews of all filters, and even lets you adjust them, to make sure that if you decide to pay for the app, you know exactly what you’re getting. You can see previews for each filter in a grid - up to three per line - and classify them by Favorites, Recent, For This Photo, Warm, Cool, Vibrant, Black & White and more, so you don’t have to cycle through hundreds of variations to find the right look. Presets are identified by cryptic letter-number combinations - the vibrant C1 filter seems especially favored by the VSCO Girl crowd.
The subscription also unlocks advanced editing tools like HSL, Borders, video editing, challenges, and photo tips on how to best use the app.
The free VSCO gives you 15 presets while the subscription offers more than 200. VSCO comes in a free version alongside subscriptions costing $5 per month or $20 per year. You can even share your photos for curation by VSCO. The Discover tab, which is broken up into categories like Water, Humankind, Sun and Shade, Wanderlust, Style, and Solitary, lets you favorite the images from which you’d like to derive inspiration for your own emerging style. A quick scroll reveals a huge array of objects, landscapes, and photo-conceptual art - and yes, selfies and portraits. The first thing you encounter when launching VSCO on any platform is a user-based feed, where a vast diversity of photographic styles and subjects appear.
On VSCO’s feed, you signal your photographic appreciation by following that photographer - no likes or comments. While VSCO continues to target the youth market in its recent analog filter for Snapchat, VSCO isn’t for VSCO Girls only.įor creative photographers of any age or gender who shoot portraits of themselves or others VSCO can get you started creating beautiful imagery. Now, for the VSCO curious, here’s the lowdown on the app, which can be used on both an iPhone and iPad as well as various Android devices.
VSCO highlights two things: Gorgeous filter-based photos that let you create beautiful portraits of yourself, family, and friends and an easygoing, non-judgmental social media presence that eschews the pressurized “likes” popularity contest, artificial setups, and judgment. There’s also a social media aspect, but the app breaks out of the typical pressurized structure of such platforms with a novel and non-threatening approach to selfies, social media, and photography - and many are flocking to it. VSCO (short for Visual Supply Company, based in Oakland, CA and pronounced “Visco”) is a popular photo app for iOS and Android, launched in 2011, that became famous for its film-inspired preset filters. Whether you’re an aspiring VSCO Girl, or just getting your feet wet with photo editing, here’s all you need to know about mastering VSCO, and some alternative apps you might want to consider. With simple filter-based editing tools, apps like VSCO offer a multitude of unique styles to throw on your pictures, and allow you to do so in a few quick taps. Here, we focus on another VSCO Girl fave: The photo app VSCO that pulls it all together - for The Gram, of course. We’re going to pass on telling you exactly how to achieve this singular style, since real live VSCO Girls have been doing those honors for a while.