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

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

To make the blurry a part of your photograph mix, Telegram says that you need to use the eyedropper device to match the colour of the blur brush to your picture. Additionally, Telegram is including a method to change the scale, font, and background of textual content (sort of like Instagram or Snapchat) when including it to images or movies.

It says its revamped drawing instruments “dynamically change width” relying on how briskly you are drawing and robotically clean strains. Telegram additionally added a method to rapidly add shapes akin to rectangles, circles, arrows, stars, and chat bubbles by tapping the “plus” icon within the editor. And if you don’t need your recipient to see what you are sending immediately, 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.

Exterior of picture enhancing instruments, Telegram’s newest replace contains new storage choices that mean you can robotically delete cached knowledge in non-public chats, teams, and channels after a sure time period, whereas additionally excluding any chats of your selection. Whereas Telegram beforehand allowed you to clear your cache in all chats, this could make it simple to unlock house robotically with out affecting essential conversations. It additionally introduces a helpful new pie chart, displaying how a lot storage is taken up by several types of recordsdata, akin to movies, paperwork, music, and images.

There are additionally different new settings that allow you to select profile footage for contacts that solely you will notice, excellent you probably have an unflattering picture that you simply’d prefer to be reminded of each time somebody messages you. You’ll be able to even counsel profile footage for particular contacts, which they will then alternate in the event that they like what you have chosen. And should you already restrict the visibility of your profile photograph to solely your contacts, Telegram now provides you the choice to set a public profile photograph that everybody can see. Then again, now you can set the visibility of your profile photograph to “no person” if you don’t need anybody within the app to see your photograph, not even your contacts.