On Instagram, as in Lake Wobegon, everyone is above average.

Your college pal might be burned out at work and unlucky in love, yet her feed on the popular photo-sharing service is a parade of wondrous brunches, perfectly coifed pets and so many painterly sunsets you wonder if she’s moonlighting as a Hollywood location scout.

The sense of jealousy that Instagrammatic perfection provokes has been so well-chronicled that it even has a name: Instagram Envy. Here’s hoping the therapists of Park Slope and Noe Valley are prepared, because beginning this week, tech-savvy urban strivers are in for a shock. Soon everything on Instagram may look even more unrealistically amazing.

The service is rolling out a set of powerful new tools to let users quickly and easily enhance the images they post for others to cry over. Unlike the Polaroid-style photo filters that have been a hallmark of Instagram since it was founded in 2010, the new tools allow users to minutely customize a picture’s brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows and several other imaging characteristics using intuitive on-screen controls.

I’ve been using Instagram’s new editing tools — which are part of the new version of the app on iOS and Android — for the last few days, and I’ve found them to be terrific. They aren’t technologically novel; many similar ways to enhance images have been around in desktop and mobile photo-editing apps for years. But Instagram’s version of these tools is easier and more sophisticated than most others I’ve seen. In this way, they are an effort to stake out a more refined vision for the future of photography.