After WhatsApp and Instagram, Facebook is putting Snapchat like features on Facebook’s camera.

Rolling out this week o both iOS and Android, users can use the new camera with effects as well as share photos and videos in two other ways. You can tap on the camera icon on the top left corner of the Facebook app or swipe right from News Feed to try out the in-app camera.

The Facebook camera comes with dozens of effects like masks, frames and interactive filters that you can apply to your photos and videos. Reactive effects let you interact with dynamic objects — like falling snow — and style effects apply an artistic filter to your video in real time, letting you turn your everyday selfie into a Picasso-style work of art.

According to a blog post by Product Manager Connor Hayes, Facebook is partnering with brands to create masks for upcoming movies including Alien: Covenant, Despicable Me 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Power Rangers, Smurfs: The Lost Village and Wonder Woman. They are also including guest art from visual artists like Douglas Coupland and Hattie Stewart. We’ll regularly refresh the creative effects in the camera to give you fun new effects to explore.

Masks for Alien: Covenant (left), Despicable Me 3 (middle) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (right)
Masks for Power Rangers (middle), Smurfs: The Lost Village (left) and Wonder Woman (right)

 

Rolled out in Facebook owned Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook is now rolling out Facebook Stories on the Facebook app, allowing users to share multiple photos and videos as part of a visual collection atop News Feed. Friends can view photos or videos from your story for 24 hours, and stories won’t appear on your Timeline or in News Feed unless you post them there, too. Stories will be available on the “Your Story” icon in the Stories bar at the top of News Feed.

Stories feature is also available for just specific friends, with is called Direct. Direct allows users to send stories to individual friends for a limited time. Friends can view it once and replay or write a reply. Once the conversation on the photo or video ends, the content is no longer visible in Direct.
Facebook is also planning to introduce new ways for the Facebook community to create their own frames and effects that can be used on any photo or video created with the new Facebook camera.