The first thing that you have to comprehend is that Instagram forces you to upload your images in a square style, sized at 650px by 650px. The 2nd point that you should understand is that you need to export the pictures at the correct size as well as resolution if you wish to maintain the photos looking sharp as well as of top quality. That indicates that they need to be exported at 650px on the long side.
For my process, I make use of Lightroom, Photoshop, DropBox, and Instagram to take care of all the preparation and publishing. I've tried a couple of other methods to publish my photos on Instagram, however the following operations has actually offered me the very best and most regular results.
If you don't wish to undergo the procedure that I comply with below, and also just want to post photos without IG cropping your pictures, there are apps that you can mount on your mobile phone like Squaready and InstaSize. I do not make use of either of those apps myself.
Resize Photo Instagram
Step One - Lightroom
The first thing that I do is process my images usually, as well as prepare them for just how I print them, or upload them to my website. You can evaluate that process in previous messages in this exact same post-processing area. I won't duplicate all that here.
As soon as you have do with every one of your post-processing of the pictures, after that you could start choosing the images that you intend to prepare for uploading to Instagram.
In the Library component, select every one of the pictures that you want to post to Instagram, and also create a new collection of them. You can call it anything that you like, yet I recommend that you use "IG" in the name, either at the beginning or the end, to ensure that you remember just what it is for.
As soon as you have actually chosen them, and also have produced a new collection, you have to undergo and see if you can chop any one of them to a 1-to-1 proportion. You could utilize the plant tool for that, and also pick 1 × 1 as the proportion.
The ones that can be exported as 1 × 1 in ratio, can be refined exclusively in Lightroom, and also 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 are able to be resized as squares are very easy, and that is all you have to do for them in resizing. For all these, you can jump to Tip 3-- DropBox, as well as skip Action Two-- PhotoShop.
For the images that do not look excellent in a 1-to-1 ratio, you will wind up exporting these at 650px on the long edge, but without any watermark on them. See the setups listed below. I recommend that you export these into a specialized folder. Once they are exported, you will certainly proceed to Tip 2-- PhotoShop.
Step Two-- Photoshop
The whole factor of this step is to position your photo on a 650px by 650px background, as well as to add your watermark to the bottom of the square. Doing it by hand is a laborious process if you try to do it manually, so I suggest that you execute a batch procedure and utilize an activity to automate the process, which will make it easy to repeat over and over.
If you don't know how you can develop Activities in PhotoShop, you will certainly should examine that initially. Once you recognize the procedure after that the following guidelines will make sense to you.
Your action will have to do the following things in this order:
- Open your image from your import folder as well as load it to a layer. By default, it is packed as a background. I duplicate the background to a new layer, and call it "cars and truck", leaving the opacity at 100%.
- After that it needs to open up Image > Canvas Size and established the height to 650px.
- Develop a new layer, and tag it "black".
- Fill the "black" layer with the black color utilizing the paint pail tool.
- Use File > Open to open your watermark logo that you intend to place at the bottom of the photo. Position it on a brand-new layer and also name it "logo".
- Relocate the "logo" layer listed below the automobile layer.
- Relocate the "black" layer listed below the "logo" layer.
- Shut the watermark that you previously opened.
- Save the finished 650px by 650px image to a brand-new folder someplace on your hard disk drive (you will certainly should have actually already produced this folder before developing the activity).
- Close the data in Photoshop.
As soon as you have the activity, you could open up PhotoShop at anytime, and also run the File > Automate > Set Refine command, and select the folder where you have actually kept the photos that were not already at a 1-to-1 ratio.
Step Three-- DropBox
When you have actually exported all your pictures, you have to obtain them approximately Instagram There are programs that enable you to publish from your COMPUTER to Instagram, yet I discovered that I had issues obtaining the hashtags to function appropriately when I utilized them, and also I needed to begin a brand-new account to take care of the hashtag issue. The fix was to merely continuously use my smart device as well as make use of the Instagram app to post the images, but to do that I should have the photos where my phone can access them. The simplest means was to utilize DropBox to obtain the images where my Instagram application might access them.
Go to DropBox.com and also register for it. Download the app to your phone as well as login to it. Use the DropBox.com site to publish your pictures to your online storage. I recommend that you make use of folders to arrange your pictures. In my situation, I have a "Photos" folder, and also inside it, I have an "Instagram Photos" folder. Inside that folder, I produce folders as I require them, in order to divide the images into smaller, much easier to check out, sections.
When you have actually published a set of pictures into DropBox, you are ready for the next action, which is to grab your mobile phone as well as open the Instagram app.
Tip Four-- Instagram
At this moment, you should currently have the Instagram as well as DropBox applications on your smart device, and also you prepare to post among your images on Instagram.
Open up the application, and click the blue switch in the middle of the icons at the bottom of the screen. The take picture display will certainly pack, as well as in the reduced left-hand edge, you will certainly see a symbol that resembles a "landscape/mountain" symbol (just to the left of the "take a photo" switch). Click on it, and also it must motivate you to "Choose a Resource" for your image, as well as the DropBox symbol must be presented as one of the selectable sources. Click it as well as you will certainly see your DropBox folders and also data listed in a documents web browser. Browse to the image that you posted that you wish to post to Instagram and also pick it.
From there, you post it to Instagram similar to you would other image that you simply took.
Tip 5-- DropBox
This last step is not called for, yet very recommended. In order not to misplace just what you have actually posted currently, you should return right into DropBox and delete the photo( s) that you have currently uploaded. This will make it much easier over time to not publish the very same photos numerous times.
Final thought
That's it, my entire process to preparing my photos for Instagram. It's not made complex, yet following these instructions will certainly ensure that you are posting pictures in the most effective high quality that Instagram could support.