If you want to share a video or a photograph on your social networks and send it to acquaintances and friends, but that it is not yours but your pet's and that it looks as if it were a drawing created by the great animation studios such as Disney, at present it is possible to do so thanks to the possibilities in the form of filters that it offers us Snapchat, the social platform that popularized the use of filters and the story format that were later copied by other networks such as Instagram.
One of the last filters to reach the social network and that has managed to triumph among users is the arrival of an option that allows you to change the real eyes of any dog or cat for caricature styles, which gives them a special die and makes them look much more tender and friendly, being very similar to those you will find when you watch any movie from the Disney factory.
After applying the filter in question, you should know that as with the rest of the contents of this social platform, you have the possibility of download it to your mobile phone and then share it on other social networks.
How to use the filter to turn a pet into a cartoon on Snapchat
In order to make use of this new filter, the process is similar to the one you must follow regularly to be able to enjoy this type of functionality so popular on Snapchat. To do this, you will only have to follow the following steps:
- First you must go to the application store of your smartphone, which depends on the operating system will be the Play Store (Android) or the App Store (Apple) and search Snapchat for download and installation.
- If you already have it installed or you have just installed it, you have to go to the filter section, where you must search and select the one that is identified with the name Cartoon Filter.
- Then you must enable your mobile phone camera and activate the video or photo mode to take the capture of your pet's image.
It's that simple to use this new filter, although you should bear in mind that it only works for animals and that when targeting the pet you must determine if it is a bird, a dog or a cat. The Snapchat filter, as usual, will do the transformation in real time, so you can preview the filter before taking the screenshot.
Its operation is really simple, since it will take care of change pet eyes so that they are seen in an animated style «Disney», using colors that are usually in the world of animation and cartoons and that attract attention, with bulging eyes and striking colors that attract especially attention. In this way you can see your pet as if it were a drawing, an image that, without a doubt, will be curious.
Once you have taken the photo or recorded the video, you just have to download it, so that you can use it if you wish to other platforms or simply save it in the gallery of your smartphone to share it through instant messaging services in the future or keep it for yourself. In any case, Snapchat filters can be found regularly on other platforms such as Instagram.
Also, you should bear in mind that if you wish you can combine this filter with bimoji, which is the function that allows you to create your own animated Snapchat avatar and thus create a composition between you and the pet.
Usually these simple filters and, a priori, with little or lower interest than other functions, end up becoming a trend in other social networks and are widely used.
Snapchat New competitor to TikTok?
The great success of TikTok It has made competitors start to appear everywhere. In this way, Instagram Reels have arrived or applications such as Byte or Triller have been created, and Snapchat is very attentive to the platform for creating short videos.
After seeing for years how its functions have been copied by its competition, now Snapchat could be the one to take a step in this regard and is testing a new feature that allows upload music-themed posts.
This is a key moment for all these platforms, since Donald Trump is close to banning TikTok in the United States, which will make the millions of American citizens who use this platform to create content look for alternatives, and all of them are taking advantage to try to position yourself and "eat" as much of the pie as possible.
Thanks to the new feature that Snapchat is developing, users they will be able to add music to their publicationsboth before and after making the video recording. In addition, it will have a fairly wide musical selection, which could come thanks to the collaboration that Snapchat maintains with major music producers such as Universal Music or Warner Music, among others.
As soon as the new functionality is implemented, when Snapchat contacts receive these new ones Snaps They will have the possibility to slide with their finger up on the publication to access information about the song, the album and the artist, so that the song can even be directly listened to in the user's favorite streaming service, already be Spotify, Apple Music or SoundCloud.
This new option will come to Snapchat in the fall for the English-speaking versions, having to wait longer for other languages such as Spanish. In this way, Snapchat tries to keep its more than 238 million daily users, being a platform that continues to maintain and even increase its user base despite the great existing competition and that its main rivals do not stop launching new functionalities and interesting features, as is the case of Instagram.