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A picture is worth a thousand words. For some, it portrays their image to the world. If you are frequently posting and editing photos for Instagram like I am, the search for the perfect app never ends. However, there are a handful of apps that will make a world of a difference towards your Instagram game.

1. Adobe Lightroom

This is my absolute favorite editing app for photos. The simple yet effective presets and tools amplify any image to look 5x better (and brighter). See the transformation with the before and after pictures below!

2. Airbrush

Airbrush is another great editing tool. From whitening teeth to smoothing out your face for an “airbrushed” matte look, this app is pretty great for being free. There are a few features offered at upgrade, however I have only used the tools that come with the free version and they do the trick!

3. UNUM

A good strategist thinks one move ahead. With UNUM, you can grid out your pictures before they are posted on your Instgram to map out how the final product will look. The app pulls in current content from your profile to give an accurate view, which is very helpful.

Have another photo editing app you love to use? Let me know!

I still think Pinterest is underrated when it comes to its ability to share information and serve as a search engine. It’s actually my favorite social media platform following Instagram. If you are a blogger, wannabe influencer or Pinterest fanatic who wants help enhancing your profile, I highly recommend setting up an account with Tailwind.

Tailwind is a scheduling platform that allows you to connect your Pinterest (and Instagram) account to plan out and share posts. The tool is great for scheduling Pins as it takes in to account the best times for those posts to be pinned, however the real money maker of Tailwind are its Tailwind Tribes. Tailwind Tribes are essentially engagement groups you can join based on genre (i.e. specific to travel, women’s fashion, or just a general anything-goes group). Members of each Tribe are encourages to not only share their pins to the group feed, but also share others pins who add to them as well. By all helping each other share our pins, we help everyone get more eyes on their content.

Within a month of actively using Tailwind for scheduling and sharing Pins on Pinterest (I was actively engaging in three Tailwind Tribes – you get what you put into it with these) I saw my monthly views on my Pinterest profile grow from 6k, to 12k, to now currently 20k. When I first saw this I couldn’t believe it. I even double checked in incognito mode to make sure my profile was correct. But low and behold, a little engagement goes a long way. The best part of this type of engagement is that it only takes a few seconds to share someone else’s pin from one of your Tailwind Tribes and the content is usually something you would be interested in pinning anyway. Since then I have not only had more monthly views on my Pinterest profile, but an increase in Referral traffic to my blog’s site from Pinterest as well. This was all done using Tailwind’s basic free version (an upgrade option is available for a fee if you want more pin shares and Tailwind Tribe joins per month).

Sign up for Tailwind here! Have more Tailwind questions? Feel free to email me at sweatingchampagne@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram!

*Disclaimer: the Tailwind join link above is a referral link. If you join using it, you’ll get a free month of Tailwind Plus and I get a little credit towards my own. Win, win!