The first thing that you have to comprehend is that Instagram forces you to publish your images in a square style, sized at 650px by 650px. The 2nd thing that you ought to understand is that you should export the images at the appropriate size and resolution if you want to keep the pictures festinating as well as of excellent quality. That suggests that they should be exported at 650px on the lengthy side.
For my operations, I make use of Lightroom, Photoshop, DropBox, and also Instagram to handle all the preparation and publishing. I have actually attempted a number of various other methods to upload my photos on Instagram, but the adhering to process has actually provided me the very best and also most consistent results.
If you don't wish to go through the process that I comply with below, and also just wish to post photos without IG chopping your pictures, there are applications that you could install on your mobile phone like Squaready and also InstaSize. I do not utilize either of those apps myself.
Instagram Resize Photo
Tip One - Lightroom
The first thing that I do is process my pictures typically, as well as prepare them for just how I print them, or publish them to my site. You can examine that process in previous articles in this same post-processing area. I won't duplicate all that right here.
When you have completed with every one of your post-processing of the pictures, after that you could start selecting the pictures that you intend to plan for publishing to Instagram.
In the Library module, choose every one of the pictures that you want to publish to Instagram, and develop a new collection of them. You could call it anything that you like, however I recommend that you use "IG" in the name, either at the beginning or completion, to ensure that you remember just what it is for.
As soon as you have actually chosen them, and have produced a new collection, you need to go through and also see if you can crop any one of them to a 1-to-1 proportion. You can make use of the crop tool for that, as well as choose 1 × 1 as the proportion.
The ones that can be exported as 1 × 1 in ratio, can be processed only in Lightroom, and can utilize your regular watermark (I used mine on the example below). These will certainly be exported at 650px x 650px.
The ones that have the ability to be resized as squares are easy, which is all you have to provide for them in resizing. For all these, you could leap to Step 3-- DropBox, and skip Step 2-- PhotoShop.
For the images that do not look great in a 1-to-1 proportion, you will end up exporting these at 650px on the long side, but without any watermark on them. See the settings below. I recommend that you export these into a dedicated folder. Once they are exported, you will continue to Tip Two-- PhotoShop.
Step Two-- Photoshop
The entire factor of this action is to place your photo on a 650px by 650px history, and also 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 recommend that you perform a set process and also utilize an activity to automate the process, which will certainly make it easy to repeat over and over.
If you do not know how you can create Actions in PhotoShop, you will need to examine that initially. Once you understand the process after that the following guidelines will certainly make sense to you.
Your activity will have to do the following things in this order:
- Open your picture from your import folder as well as load it to a layer. By default, it is packed as a background. I replicate the history to a brand-new layer, and call it "auto", leaving the opacity at 100%.
- Then it needs to open Image > Canvas Size as well as established the elevation to 650px.
- Produce a brand-new layer, as well as label it "black".
- Fill up the "black" layer with the black color making use of the paint pail tool.
- Usage File > Open to open your watermark logo design that you want to put at the end of the photo. Position it on a new layer and name it "logo".
- Relocate the "logo" layer listed below the automobile layer.
- Move the "black" layer below the "logo" layer.
- Shut the watermark that you formerly opened up.
- Save the finished 650px by 650px photo to a brand-new folder someplace on your disk drive (you will certainly have to have currently produced this folder before producing the action).
- Shut the file in Photoshop.
As soon as you have the action, you can open up PhotoShop at anytime, as well as run the Data > Automate > Batch Process command, and also pick the folder where you have kept the images that were not currently at a 1-to-1 proportion.
Tip Three-- DropBox
Once you have exported all of your images, you need to get them up to Instagram There are programs that permit you to upload from your COMPUTER to Instagram, however I located that I had issues getting the hashtags to work properly when I used them, as well as I had to start a new account to fix the hashtag problem. The fix was to just continue to utilize my mobile phone as well as use the Instagram application to submit the images, yet to do that I should have the images where my phone might access them. The easiest way was to make use of DropBox to obtain the images where my Instagram application might access them.
Go to DropBox.com and register for it. Download the app to your phone and also login to it. Utilize the DropBox.com site to upload your images to your on the internet storage space. I recommend that you use folders to arrange your photos. In my instance, I have a "Photos" folder, as well as inside it, I have an "Instagram Photos" folder. Inside that folder, I produce folders as I need them, in order to separate the images right into smaller, much easier to view, sections.
When you have posted a collection of pictures into DropBox, you are ready for the next step, and that is to get your smartphone and also open the Instagram app.
Tip 4-- Instagram
At this moment, you must already have the Instagram as well as DropBox applications on your smart device, as well as you are ready to post among your pictures on Instagram.
Open the app, and click the blue switch in the middle of the symbols below the display. The take image display will pack, and in the reduced left-hand edge, you will certainly see an icon that looks like a "landscape/mountain" icon (simply to the left of the "take a photo" button). Click it, and also it should motivate you to "Select a Resource" for your picture, as well as the DropBox symbol need to be presented as one of the selectable resources. Click it as well as you will see your DropBox folders as well as files noted in a file web browser. Navigate to the image that you posted that you want to publish to Instagram and pick it.
From there, you publish it to Instagram similar to you would certainly any other picture that you simply took.
Tip 5-- DropBox
This last step is not required, but highly recommended. In order not to lose track of what you have actually submitted already, you ought to go back right into DropBox as well as remove the picture( s) that you have already published. This will certainly make it much easier in the future to not upload the same pictures multiple times.
Conclusion
That's it, my entire procedure to preparing my images for Instagram. It's not complicated, yet following these guidelines will make sure that you are uploading pictures in the very best high quality that Instagram could sustain.