Resizing images for Instagram
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this video, I show you how to prepare your images for Instagram
How to upload a vertical without cropping the image
How to export from Photoshop for Instagram
How to post to Instagram from your desktop computer.
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1:15 Instagrams magic size
2:00 Resizing rectangle and square images
5:05 Why Vertical images get cropped
6:50 Resizing Vertical images
7:00 Adding canvas
8:40 Running as an action
11:11 Exporting a jpeg instead of "Save as" a jpeg
14:00 Posting to Instagram without a phone
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I have been puzzled about this forever. Thanks for the clarity.
Any time!
Thank you! Of all the tutorials I have seen yours is the most concise and complete. I believe I will be able to use the information to display my photos correctly now. 🙂
Thanks Julie, glad it has helped you out, cheers Dean
Dean, thank you so much for this! Today was the FIRST day using photoshop EVER for me but you've made it completely stress free. Keep up the great work mate!
Great to hear! Thanks Duy
Excellent! I've spent ages looking for precise and clear instructions on thism- you nailed it!
Glad it helped!
Cool video thanks for sharing
you are welcome
Brilliant idea to add white border for IG. Thank you for sharing!
thanks dean this is the best video on how to resize!!
Cheers, glad it was of help.
Hi Dean: Thank-you so much for making and sharing this video. Your approach to re-sizing large portrait images is so straight-forward. Truly brilliant. Cheers, Keith
You're very welcome! Thanks Keith
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Awesome Dean
Cheers
You are welcome, hope you are well.
6:50 thanks exactly what I was looking for. 👌🏼
Glad it helped you out, cheers
Thank you so much, you've helped me so much!
Happy to help!
So helpful! Thanks so much for this video
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting me know Justin
Thanks for all of your great videos
Glad you like them! Many thanks for letting me know.
Thank you for the informative video. I wonder, do you have a video showing the different downsizing stages you use in your action for resizing images for Instagram?
Hi
Sorry I don't have a video on that.
@@deancooperphotography2896 Thank you for confirming, just thought it would have been interesting to see the stages.
Hi Paul, my action is as I showed in the video, it resizes a vertical to 1350 pixels high, which will then be 900 wide, the action then runs the canvas resize to add the white borders and make it 1080m pixels wide. I hope that helps, if you were meaning do I do it in stages, then I don't, I used to years ago but find now that PS is good at resizing in one jump. Cheers@@paulcrutchley4348
Thanks Dean - concise and understandable! And yes, the way how IG functions is annoying the hell out of me as well :)
Glad it was helpful! Yes and the other annoying thing IG does is, if you post multiple images to one post they are all square 😬
@@deancooperphotography2896 oh, thanks again, Dean - was not aware of that... not sure what the logic is other than creating more annoyance - or maybe creating traffic on the youtube website...
THANK YOUUUUU
you are welcome
this was a really helpul tutorial! Why isnt it possible to rescale the vertical images without adding white borders ? Thanks
Hi Marie, if you rescale the vertical image, the height will be too much and Insta will crop the top and bottom to bring it down to 1350 pixels. Any vertical image uploaded to Insta will end up 1080 pixels wide x 1350 pixels high, when you rescale your vertical to 1080 pixels wide the height is 1620. Hence Insta will crop the height to 1350. Very frustrating as 99% of cameras are not this native format.
This was amazing! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this; this is awesome. Question on the vertical canvas (7:00) - is you leave the white space and you post it like that, will the post show as the picture and the white space? Do you suggest we make the image wider to fit the canvas?
Hi William, the white bars on each side become part of the image and is shown when you post, its purpose is to create a vertical that is 1080 x 1350 pixels, that way IG won't crop your image. If you make the image itself wider to start with then your height will be more than 1350 pixels and IG will crop parts of it off. The reason for this procedure is to be able to post a vertical without IG cropping any part of it. Hope that makes sense. Cheers
@@deancooperphotography2896 Thank you
Amazing thanks a lot , so clear explanations , blessings , new subscriber here
Welcome aboard! and thanks.
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
Thanks heaps mate! The new Lightroom update has changed the Navigator panel. You used to be able to choose image size before export but it seems to have gone.
Good to know!
Thankyou, so very helpful..
You are welcome
Hi , i just wanted ask if i should use computer ? Because Ps is too much different in phone
Hi
I have never used PS on a phone so not sure how this would go. Dean
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Thank You!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
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Thanks
Hi Dean,
Another question I have for you. What would the image size be for a pano that can fit on Instagram?
Hi Gary, A pano is treated the same as a Landscape or Horizontal image, you need to size it to 1080 pixels wide, you can put it in larger but IG will chop it down to this width. An advanced way of posting a pano is to cut it in two and upload two images, these are the ones that you scroll across the pano.
Hi there how do you resize for a horizontal image with white canvas? Gracias!!!!
HI, with a horizontal you dont need a white border, just size it to 1080 pixels wide. Cheers
What about the aspect ratio are you going 4 by 5?
Most cameras are ratio 2:3
It won’t matter if you are 4:5, IG will still crop the image to 1080 pixels wide by 1350 pixels high.
You can still use this technique to get to that size
Hello, hope all is well. So my image is ready for print by keeping the 300 resolution pixels/inch?
Hi David, yes you want the ppi at 300 for printing, if you have downsized it for Insta then 1350 pixels by 1080 pixels will not give you a very big print, i.e if you want a 10" print then the pixel dimension on that side will be 3000 pixels
This is great although i'm now finding when i want to add multiple images together the 1st one is sized perfectly yet the rest are cropped....So frustrating. Any ideas?
I know that if adding multiple images to Instagram they need to ALL be the same size/format, hence you cant add one vertical and one square. Maybe this is happening to you. Cheers Dean
@@deancooperphotography2896 Yeh that makes total sense, found resizing in Pollar 1st helps but still have to faff around sending via email to my phone etc...Appreciate your video though ;)
Hi Dean. I post to Instagram from the Lightroom Publish Service panel
Hi Ken, I'm not a Lightroom user, how does this work, will it do what I have done here for verticals?? cheers Dean
Lightroom Publish Service Panel? I will research this. I have not heard of it, very interested in learning about it now.
thank you, holy crap instagram's sizing options are such garbage
I hear you, adding multiple images is a headache too
Hi Dean, I have an image that has size 800 x 518 pixels, when I put my logo it pixel, and when I do your method about landscape images they do not work because of my logo again not clear, I wanna do it with millimeters, because with millimeters got high, and clear logo > What size do you recommend for high quality when I put my logo into the image and size and fit the Instagram originally size. If you would like me to explain more to you, I am following you on Instagram and I will send you the pictures so that you understand what I mean.
Hi, I'm guessing your logo is outside the image, send me pics to Insta and Ill have a look, cheers
@@deancooperphotography2896 instagram.com/p/CJ9Gm89pLEz/ , I did it with millimeters to gain more pixel , and have high quality .
if you use millimeters then ppi is critical, at the end of the day IG will resize it 1080 pixels wide, if you can I would stay with pixels not mm , less confusing. Most of your images are square or close to square, so IG won't crop anything off the top or bottom, this only happens with verticals, as they have to fit withen 1080x1350 pixels dimension.
Hey one thing I forgot to mention. You said you are starting with an image that is 800x518 pixels. If you start with one that is 1080 pixels wide then you will get better quality, especially in the logo area. Cheers Dean
Thank you. However, I resized my landscape-shaped painting to 1080 width and Instagram still cuts off one side of the image. I'm unsure how to fix it. Any suggestion?
Hmm that is odd, what are the exact dimensions of the image you are uploading??
@@deancooperphotography2896 Hi, thank you for writing. I'm posting small paintings. some are squareish and some are horizontal. I'm now guessing that I should crop the image to a square. using 1080 pixels for the width whatever the shape. I kept losing the sides of the images.
Marilyn, there should be no issue with posting a sq or horizontal image, so I'm not sure why it is cropping them. If you make a horizontal 1080 wide then the height is lower so IG shouldn't crop, can you email me an image at deancooperphotography@gmail.com and I will resize it for you. Are there some cropped sample on IG that I can see?? what is your IG handle. cheers Dean
how do you get the full image without the white border on either side?
Hi if you image is not the Insta format you will have to have borders as Insta will size a vertical 1080 wide x 1350 high. Every vertical image is sized by Insta like this. So the only way NOT to have borders is for your image to be sized at 1080 pix wide by 1350 pix high (or that ratio) If you don't size it to this ratio then Insta will crop into the photo and size it to this ratio.
Hope this makes sense.
hello do i need to download photo shop? I'm trying to add nice clean images to instagram and I don't like how they look
Hi, the main thing is to size them correctly as explained in the video. You don't have to use photoshop, just make sure they are the right pixel dimension that IG wants, 1080 wide for Sq and rectangle, 1350x1080 for vertical. It sounds like you are putting them in too small. Cheers
Ok thanks so much!!!
Well i added some photos on my IG i don't like the way it looks
Same thing for facebook too
@@lakeitharobinson855 whats your IG handle and I will have a look at them.
How do you get rid of the white borders
If you don't want white borders you need to crop your image to 1080pix wide by 1350pix high. The purpose of the borders is to avoid cropping.
Hey, so I am using Snapchat so the photos from that platform never fit on Instagram without cropping which really sucks😫 cuz I loose out on the photo. The only other option is the white borders which I want to avoid. I have researched how to crop it without having the white borders and, unfortunately I don’t think there’s any way around it.😫. And, it’s tough to use the expand feature on snapseed with a close up selfie. And, that’s what I’m working with is selfie’s. It ends up looking distorted. There’s an app called peachy and if u go to the “tall” feature u can change the direction and stretch the photo a bit. And, I found that helps. What I’m wondering is though....with the ratio “1080x1360.” That is what I have researched and it’s suggested to get the maximum amount of the photo on to ig, but, what is the difference between that and 4x5? (Btw I’m not on desktop-I’m on iOS)
H Adriana, IG format for a vertical is 1080x1350 pixels, this is a ratio of 4-5, i.e if you downsized it to 4 pixels wide it would be 5 pixels high. MOST cameras don't use this , they are 2-3 format, hence a vertical would be 1080x1620 pixels. If you posted an image this size then IG will crop it down to 1080x1350, hence its crops off the top and bottom.
Any App that says it can resize an image without cropping it just stretching or squashing it, not good for selfies as you have mentioned. You should be OK with square or horizontal shots as these won't be effected. When you are taking a vertical selfie, compose it knowing that a bit off the top and bottom will be cropped when you upload to IG. Other than that you really need a photo editor like Photoshop to run the procedure in this video, hope that helps. Dean
@@deancooperphotography2896 thanks Dean for the clarification. Appreciate it!!👍🏻 so basically there’s no difference between the 1080 x1350 and the 4x5. I use this app called image Resize which allows u to enter ur own dimensions. Would it be better to just crop with the iPhone considering uploading to diff apps decreases your resolution? Or it doesn’t make a difference. What size is good for a Facebook profile? (to get the most possible amount of the pic incorporated). Also, there’s an option to link ur fb and ig so when u upload to ig it also uploads to fb at the same time but, doesn’t fb allow u to upload a bigger pic ? So wouldn’t it be better to upload separately? Sorry for all the questions 🤦🏻♀️
Hi Adriana
1080x1350 is the pixel dimension, 4x5 is the format ratio, i.e 1080x1350 is a 4 to 5 ratio.
Download an app called Snapseed, it is brilliant and allows you to set your crop to 4x5, this will then be the perfect ratio for IG, use it for all your verticals.
As far as FB goes, I upload to both at the same time, you can upload a larger image, but do you really need to, mine look great on a desktop.
Cheers Dean
PS the crop ratio on Snapseed is displayed as 5:4
Dean
what if square photo the numbre still this .. im test another photo but croped ?
Hi, a square is very easy, just size it to 1080 pixels x 1080 pixels, cheers
@@deancooperphotography2896 Thank you very much sir i have already tried and succeeded, but there is an effect on quality when surrounded by white edges but when I just scale them without white edges the quality remains amazing .. what is the reason ?
@@hnjjm8357 Hi, do you mean a white edge on a square image?? If so how much white edge are you putting on ??
@@deancooperphotography2896 No matter what the picture itself looks like, square, horizontal, or vertical, I mean, in general, these white sides make their intensity less so when I download them on Instagram, what's the reason?
@@hnjjm8357 It may just be that an image with no white border is using the full resolution that Instagram allows, 1350 pixels high x 1080 pixels wide. Remember that we only need to add these white borders to vertical images to STOP INSTAGRAM FROM CROPPING INTO OUR IMAGE.We don't add white borders to square or horizontal images as these need to be sized to 1080 pixels wide. I'm happy to look at your instagram page if that helps, might give me more of an idea, if so whats your instagram handle.
ok guys I am a beginner photographer and when I crop my images in PS they become super pixelated.....Anyone have any recommendations as to how to fix this OR WHAT I SHOULD DO!?!?!?!?!?
Hi Brittany, when you crop in PS and still want the image to be High Res, make sure you clear the presets in the crop tool bar. , if you want to email me at deancooperphotography@gmail.com I will send you a screen shot of what I mean. It sounds like what is happening when you crop, PS is downsizing the image as well. Cheers Dean
@@deancooperphotography2896 ok thanks I am emailing you now
Thank you for this wonderful explanation
You're very welcome!