The first thing that you need to recognize is that Instagram forces you to post your images in a square style, sized at 650px by 650px. The second thing that you must understand is that you should export the pictures at the appropriate size as well as resolution if you want to maintain the pictures looking sharp and of top quality. That indicates that they must be exported at 650px on the lengthy side.
For my workflow, I use Lightroom, Photoshop, DropBox, and also Instagram to handle all the prep work and also posting. I've attempted a few other ways to upload my photos on Instagram, however the following workflow has actually provided me the very best and most regular results.
If you don't want to undergo the process that I comply with below, and also just wish to post pictures without IG cropping your photos, there are apps that you can install on your smart device like Squaready as well as InstaSize. I don't utilize either of those applications myself.
Resize Instagram Pictures
Tip One - Lightroom
The first thing that I do is process my photos normally, as well as prepare them for just how I publish them, or upload them to my site. You can evaluate that process in previous messages in this very same post-processing area. I won't duplicate every one of that below.
Once you have do with all of your post-processing of the photos, then you could start selecting the pictures that you wish to prepare for posting to Instagram.
In the Library module, pick every one of the pictures that you wish to publish to Instagram, and develop a brand-new collection of them. You could call it anything that you like, however I suggest that you make use of "IG" in the name, either at the start or the end, to make sure that you remember exactly what it is for.
As soon as you have selected them, as well as have actually produced a new collection, you have to experience and also see if you can crop any of them to a 1-to-1 proportion. You can utilize the plant device for that, and pick 1 × 1 as the proportion.
The ones that can be exported as 1 × 1 in proportion, can be refined exclusively in Lightroom, and can use your normal 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 very easy, and that is all you have to provide for them in resizing. For every one of these, you can leap to Step Three-- DropBox, and also avoid Step 2-- PhotoShop.
For the pictures that do not look great in a 1-to-1 ratio, you will end up exporting these at 650px on the long side, however with no watermark on them. See the settings below. I suggest that you export these into a devoted folder. Once they are exported, you will proceed to Step 2-- PhotoShop.
Tip Two-- Photoshop
The entire factor of this step is to place your picture on a 650px by 650px background, as well as to add your watermark to the bottom of the square. Doing it manually is a laborious process if you try to do it manually, so I suggest that you perform a set process and also make use of an action to automate the procedure, which will make it basic to repeat over and over.
If you don't know how to produce Activities in PhotoShop, you will certainly need to assess that initially. When you understand the process then the following directions will certainly make good sense to you.
Your activity will have to do the complying with points in this order:
- Open your picture from your import folder as well as load it to a layer. By default, it is filled as a background. I replicate the background to a new layer, as well as name it "cars and truck", leaving the opacity at 100%.
- Then it needs to open up Image > Canvas Size as well as established the elevation to 650px.
- Create a brand-new layer, and tag it "black".
- Load the "black" layer with the black shade using the paint bucket device.
- Use File > Open to open your watermark logo that you wish to position below the picture. Position it on a new layer as well as name it "logo".
- Relocate the "logo" layer listed below the cars and truck layer.
- Relocate the "black" layer below the "logo" layer.
- Close the watermark that you previously opened up.
- Save the finished 650px by 650px picture to a brand-new folder someplace on your disk drive (you will certainly need to have currently created this folder before developing the action).
- Shut the data in Photoshop.
Once you have the activity, you can open up PhotoShop at anytime, and run the Data > Automate > Set Refine command, and select the folder where you have kept the pictures that were not already at a 1-to-1 proportion.
Tip Three-- DropBox
When you have actually exported every one of your images, you should obtain them approximately Instagram There are programs that permit you to post from your PC to Instagram, however I located that I had issues getting the hashtags to work correctly when I used them, and I needed to begin a new account to repair the hashtag concern. The fix was to just remain to utilize my mobile phone as well as make use of the Instagram app to upload the images, but to do that I should have the pictures where my phone could access them. The simplest method was to utilize DropBox to obtain the photos where my Instagram application could access them.
Go to DropBox.com and also enroll in it. Download and install the application to your phone and login to it. Utilize the DropBox.com internet site to submit your images to your online storage space. I recommend that you utilize folders to organize your images. 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 separate the images right into smaller, much easier to watch, sections.
When you have published a collection of photos into DropBox, you are ready for the next step, which is to order your smart device and also open the Instagram app.
Tip 4-- Instagram
At this point, you must already have the Instagram and DropBox applications on your smart device, and you are ready to upload one of your images on Instagram.
Open the application, and click the blue button in the middle of the icons below the display. The take photo display will certainly pack, and also in the reduced left-hand corner, you will certainly see a symbol that looks like a "landscape/mountain" symbol (just to the left of the "take a photo" switch). Click it, and also it must prompt you to "Pick a Source" for your picture, as well as the DropBox icon should be shown as one of the selectable sources. Click it and you will certainly see your DropBox folders as well as documents detailed in a data internet browser. Browse to the image that you posted that you want to post to Instagram as well as select it.
From there, you publish it to Instagram much like you would any other photo that you just took.
Tip 5-- DropBox
This last action is not called for, however highly suggested. In order not to misplace what you have submitted currently, you should return into DropBox and remove the picture( s) that you have currently posted. This will certainly make it much easier in the future to not publish the exact same photos multiple times.
Conclusion
That's it, my entire process to preparing my pictures for Instagram. It's not made complex, yet complying with these directions will certainly see to it that you are uploading images in the best top quality that Instagram can sustain.