The first thing that you need to comprehend is that Instagram forces you to upload your images in a square style, sized at 650px by 650px. The second thing that you should recognize is that you need to export the pictures at the correct dimension and also resolution if you desire to maintain the photos looking sharp and also of premium quality. That means that they must be exported at 650px on the long side.
For my workflow, I make use of Lightroom, Photoshop, DropBox, and also Instagram to take care of all of the prep work as well as uploading. I have actually tried a number of other ways to post my pictures on Instagram, but the adhering to workflow has actually offered me the most effective and most constant results.
If you do not intend to undergo the process that I follow below, as well as just intend to publish photos without IG chopping your pictures, there are applications that you could install on your smartphone like Squaready as well as InstaSize. I don't utilize either of those applications myself.
How To Change Picture Size On Instagram
Step One - Lightroom
The first thing that I do is procedure my pictures normally, as well as prepare them for just how I publish them, or upload them to my website. You could review that procedure in previous posts in this same post-processing section. I won't duplicate every one of that right here.
Once you have actually finished with every one of your post-processing of the photos, then you can start picking the photos that you intend to prepare for posting to Instagram.
In the Library component, select all the images that you wish to publish to Instagram, as well as develop a new collection of them. You can call it anything that you like, but I suggest that you make use of "IG" in the name, either at the beginning or completion, so that you remember what it is for.
When you have picked them, and also have created a new collection, you have to go through and see if you can chop any one of them to a 1-to-1 ratio. You can utilize the crop device for that, as well as choose 1 × 1 as the ratio.
The ones that can be exported as 1 × 1 in ratio, can be refined only in Lightroom, as well as can utilize your normal watermark (I made use of mine on the example below). These will be exported at 650px x 650px.
The ones that have the ability to be resized as squares are very easy, which is all you need to do for them in resizing. For all of these, you could jump to Step 3-- DropBox, and skip Action 2-- PhotoShop.
For the photos that do not look excellent in a 1-to-1 proportion, you will wind up exporting these at 650px on the long side, yet with no watermark on them. See the settings below. I suggest that you export these into a committed folder. Once they are exported, you will certainly continue to Tip 2-- PhotoShop.
Step Two-- Photoshop
The whole point of this step is to place your image on a 650px by 650px background, and to include your watermark to the bottom of the square. Doing it by hand is a tedious process if you attempt to do it by hand, so I suggest that you perform a set procedure as well as make use of an activity to automate the process, which will make it simple to repeat over and over.
If you don't know how to create Actions in PhotoShop, you will need to review that first. As soon as you understand the procedure then the adhering to guidelines will certainly make sense to you.
Your activity will have to do the adhering to points in this order:
- Open your picture from your import folder and tons it to a layer. By default, it is filled as a history. I duplicate the background to a new layer, and name it "auto", leaving the opacity at 100%.
- Then it needs to open up Image > Canvas Size and also established the elevation to 650px.
- Create a brand-new layer, and tag it "black".
- Fill up the "black" layer with the black shade making use of the paint container tool.
- Usage File > Open to open your watermark logo design that you want to place at the end of the image. Put it on a brand-new layer and also name it "logo".
- Move the "logo" layer listed below the car layer.
- Move the "black" layer below the "logo" layer.
- Close the watermark that you formerly opened.
- Conserve the finished 650px by 650px picture to a new folder somewhere on your hard disk drive (you will certainly should have actually currently created this folder before developing the action).
- Close the data in Photoshop.
Once you have the activity, you could open PhotoShop at anytime, as well as run the Data > Automate > Set Process command, and choose the folder where you have actually stored the photos that were not currently at a 1-to-1 proportion.
Step 3-- DropBox
When you have actually exported every one of your images, you need to obtain them up to Instagram There are programs that allow you to post from your COMPUTER to Instagram, but I discovered that I had issues getting the hashtags to work effectively when I used them, and I had to start a brand-new account to take care of the hashtag problem. The solution was to simply remain to use my smart device and use the Instagram application to upload the photos, yet to do that I had to have the images where my phone can access them. The most convenient method was to make use of DropBox to obtain the pictures where my Instagram app could access them.
Most likely to DropBox.com and sign up for it. Download and install the application to your phone as well as login to it. Make use of the DropBox.com internet site to upload your photos to your on-line storage space. I recommend that you use folders to arrange your images. In my case, I have a "Photos" folder, and inside it, I have an "Instagram Photos" folder. Inside that folder, I develop folders as I need them, in order to separate the photos right into smaller sized, much easier to view, areas.
As soon as you have uploaded a collection of pictures into DropBox, you are ready for the next action, which is to get your smartphone and open the Instagram application.
Step Four-- Instagram
Now, you need to already have the Instagram and also DropBox apps on your smartphone, and also you prepare to upload one of your images on Instagram.
Open the app, and also click heaven button in the middle of the icons below the display. The take image display will certainly load, as well as in the reduced left-hand corner, you will certainly see an icon that appears like a "landscape/mountain" icon (simply to the left of the "take a photo" switch). Click it, and also it must prompt you to "Pick a Source" for your photo, as well as the DropBox symbol ought to be presented as one of the selectable sources. Click it and you will see your DropBox folders and files provided in a file browser. Navigate to the image that you posted that you intend to upload to Instagram and also choose it.
From there, you upload it to Instagram much like you would any other image that you simply took.
Tip 5-- DropBox
This last step is not required, yet extremely suggested. In order not to lose track of just what you have submitted currently, you should return into DropBox and also delete the picture( s) that you have actually already posted. This will make it simpler in the long run to not post the exact same pictures several times.
Conclusion
That's it, my entire process to preparing my photos for Instagram. It's not made complex, yet adhering to these instructions will certainly see to it that you are publishing photos in the best quality that Instagram can support.