Tysm! Id been looking everywhere to know the max resolution IG lets you have and you literally told me everything I needed and wanted to know, and clearly! Tysm tysm 💗
I have another solution: Make a new "white document" with the instagram pixel dimensions preset. Open your desired image. Select the whole image (command or ctrl A), copy (command or ctrl C), and paste (command or ctrl V) it into your white document. Enlargen/shrink it to fit it in the white document and center it.
@@RomyMacias You can just google "instagram size" and it'll pop up first thing :) I can list them for reference: Square- 1080 x 1080 pixels Portrait- 1080 x 1350 pixels Landscape- 1080 x 608 pixels Instagram TV- 1080 x 1920 pixels
@@RomyMacias I just reread my explanation from a month ago, and I'll rephrase. Basically, when you click "create new" in photoshop, just set the width and height to your desired pixel dimensions (one of the four I just listed). For example, let's say you have a vertical selfie that you want to post, but instagram won't let the whole picture fit. One solution would be to first set your "new document" to 1080 x 1080 pixels. Then, you can copy and paste your selfie into this square document, and resize it to fit inside. However, one thing to keep in mind is that there will be a white edge on both the left and right side of the square document because the vertical selfie is not proportionate to the size of a square. There are many other methods of resizing/cropping images to be suitable for instagram, but that's just one as an example. Hope this helps!
@@SeanBagshaw Thank you Sean. I have just uploaded today some pictures on Instagram for the first time because some friends who use instagram wanted to see them on my instagram which I have never used before. I also had to change my laptop browser user-agent to be able to upload from a laptop. What an amazing user experience ! I am really impress by the number of peoples using Instagram this way :-) I have found this tool www.kapwing.com/tools/resize-image to resize images for Instagram quickly because I was too lazy to open photoshop to try your tuto but probably the next time I will because i am not sure what kapwing does after with our original picture, I need no read more about it . :-) . I will also try with Lightroom because I use only Lightroom most of the time.
I was looking for some tips that were easy to understand, as a visual artist working in traditional media, I don't necessarily know much about photography, still I needed to stock up my skills in this field to get good quality images of my art. This 'IG-problem' was getting on my nerves, but I think you really helped me here, definitely gonna try it again, thank you!
Thanks for the helpful tip Sean. I'm sure most photographers will find this quite useful. I however mostly shoot and with a 4X5 aspect ratio merely because I like the feel of it.
@@SeanBagshaw Truth be told I really dont' think any social media app was built primarily for photographers. Instead they have only been platforms designed primarily for advertisers and accessible for photographers.
KreygScott truth! But sites like 500px and Flickr are at least photography friendly. IG is the worst IMO. It was designed for phone snaps so when photographers started using it I was baffled.
@@SeanBagshaw That's also true. I think most photographers like myself who want to get our images seen tend to gravitate to IG because that's where the masses are.
Thanks for sharing your workarounds. Fell in love with that TK7 control panel for resizing pics just watching you use it... (Where has that been all my life!) Installing it now...
Thanks! it´s really cool for a professional insta account. I believe there are apps that do this like "instasize" but i´m not sure if the quality it exports is as good as Photoshop does. Greetings from Mexico
Absolutely there are many ways to accomplish this. I'm sure there are a bunch of phone apps. Snapseed is one I have heard people mention also. I'm always working out of PS to do my sizing and watermark so this is just the method that works for me.
Finally a video that helped. Thank you so much ! To save anyone one hour of watching stupid videos: ADD WHITE canvas to your photo, just use crop tool , set it to 4:5 in photoshop and enlarge it until your photo fits inside and u have white sides. Export, upload, done !
Thank you! I have issues posting screen shots of quotes, stories, etc. I used to just upload and go. Now the cropping causes a lot of headaches. I guess it’s back to PS I go!
This was great and thank you. For the vertical/portrait format images, I thought it would be great to have an action that would do the first crop 4X5, then resize the width to 1080 then convert colour profile to SRGB, then bring back the original and stop there. Then you manually resize the crop and save. Unfortunately I could not get the action to work and I have no idea why.....
In PS I resize to 1350 pix high (width will be 900 for 2:3 image) and then use Canvas Size to make width 1080, really quick and easy, even quicker when set as an action.
I literally have been trying to figure this out for months and even after this video I still cant. I am like so desperate at this point. I watched a million videos. I downloaded every single photo editing app possible. I just don’t get it. I don’t have photoshop on desktop. I just have the like PSexpress, Lightroom, etc etc. I have picmonkey and on their site you can enter your own aspect ratios. However, if I have a Snapchat photo which is a lot longer than your average photo. How do I resize it? What do I enter in the “width & height” to be able to upload the full size image into Instagram without cutting the photo off? Can someone PLEASE help me with this?? Like anyone lol. I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been trying to figure this out for literally months now. Ughhh😫😫😫😫this is prob my 3rd time watching this video because I have been searching for answers so much for so long that I always come back to the same results which this video is one of them. 😫plz help🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks for the tip. I struggle with this. I put so much effort into making a great digital art picture of a creature. When I try to put it on Instagram, all that is shown is the feet. It is sad. I use Krita for digital art. I hope it has a similar feature to resize pictures. I find Instagram very difficult to use. I can't upload using my laptop. So I have to use a work around. I can't post a picture without it cropping it really badly. I am trying to learn a workaround for that. It is so frustrationg. I don't think it is just because I am not techsavvy enough. I can upload pictures just fine on other social media sites. I may have to quit Instagram if the frustation doesn't get better. I even recommend using Pinterest as an alternative. Pintrest is a popular picture sharing site. It is so much easier to use. I can upload from my PC and the picture doesn't crop. I don't know whether Pinterest has cropping features. It doesn't matter. I can crop in the basic photos program on my PC anyway. I do like the pin and board feature in Pintrest. Boards make it easier to organize pictures. I just have a nitpick that Pinterest doesn't refresh right away. So after uploading, I should close the tab and then opean up the site on a new tab. This is a workaround, but it isn't nearly as bad as pinterest. I like Deviant Art and ArtStation. However they are more niche sites as opposed to popular sites.
Curious what your downstream workflow looks like to get it to IG after that? I've usually saved them to LR and then I can just download the pic to my phone to post that way, however that would mean I would now have 2 photos in my cloud. Great video as always Sean.
But to answer your question, I send the two versions to my iPhone using the PhotoSync app and then post from my phone using the IG app. When I'm posting single images I use Later from my desktop computer because I can schedule them and it is easier to write captions. But I can't put two images in the same post with Later, so I'm stuck going through the phone for that.
Great job and thanks! Does anybody else share the same frustration with having a 2/3 ration on camera and then having to work with 4/5 all the time when you frame pictures or put them on Instagram? Why the need for the double standard? Why?
Thanks for the video, exactly what I was looking for! How do you deal with horizontal panoramic? I’m guessing if I size it to 1080 wide and the image is super short- say 200pixels tall, Instagram is going to crop that to a square? Should I just make a square version and then have a 2nd version with white bars on the top and bottom? Thanks
Yes, that's one way to go. You can also cut the pano up into a series of 1080 wide by 1350 tall segments and then add them all in the same post. That way you can scroll across the entire pano.
Even with what you explain, you're still losing some of your photo in the cropping. That's especially difficult for someone who is posting fashion pix and ALL of the image needs to be seen. I'm trying to find out how small to make the image, including the white borders to stretch it to Insta's requirements. There has to be a way to use the entire pic!!
This helped me so much Sean. I'm about to ask a client if she is going to be posting the images to Facebook or Instagram or both. If she says both, I'm trying to figure out if I should just give her the 4x5 ratio without the borders or both the one with and the one without. She already has the retouched high resolution. If I have to do this much sizing of images, I may start charging more to custom size them. Or just shoot a little looser and then crop it 4x5. What do you think?
Jamil Gotcher 4x5 works on FB just fine as long as the image looks good that way. For me it’s more about if I want to crop my images or not. I compose 2x3 so I prefer that they stay that way.
Thank you for the tutorial, I did the rescaling but how do I post both images? Instagram still crops to a weird square and I can only upload one image at the time.
I’m not sure if the pixels will be the same but you can try the app called IN SHOT and it will add the white background to show the full height of the image without letting ig crop your image. Hope this helps. I’ve used this app for years and I don’t see much quality change, if any to the image.
I wish I had a computer so I can edit those pics. I took vertical images on my note 20 ultra and IG won’t let me post the full pic. I’ve also did the 4x5 method and when I try to post multiple images together, IG crops so much the images doesn’t even look good. How I fix this problem. I’ve also used Lightroom.
Hey there. There’s a waaaayy easier method to use. All you have to do is crop tool>5:4(10:8)>then fit the crop outward to fit your image>export.... then your done
@@BeautybyDimplzbabyy Instagram accepts a limited resolution of pictures so, dosen't matter anyway instagram.com/p/B1gU6zmpHeG/?igshid=151dkh25f9y2c Check this picture.
I do sports graphics of my favorite NFL players. should i just stop poster vertical sizes? Because i have a poster design i made that i stick with for classic players. but evertime it crops? :(
Other than using Photoshop, can you use other programs such as Photopea to achieve this? And do you know if there is a way to do this with Lightroom as well?
I don't use other programs so I am not able to help you with that. Lightroom doesn't allow you to crop outside the image area, so it isn't able to do this.
It isn’t only the pixel height that causes the cropping, it is the aspect ratio. Vertical images need to have a 4:5 ratio. 400px wide and 500px tall fits the 4:5 ratio for example. So an image would need to be 1080 pixels wide AND 1350 pixels tall to have a 4:5 ratio.
The web sharpening action I use is part of the TK panel which is an extension you have to get separately. The closest thing in Photoshop is to go to File>Export>Export As...
Does anyone use MacOS and Safari to post to IG? It saves the step of sending the images to your phone then to IG. Start by opening Safari, and go to IG. Then click Develop, User Agent, I use the iPhone option. The screen will change and you will see the IG icons at the bottom of the page. Post from your computer to IG.
As far as I know, it is not possible to crop outside the image and create the white borders in LR. To automate this for multiple images, I would start by creating a custom PS action that would crop and save both 4x5 cropped versions (without white borders and with white borders) in a designated folder. Then I would use the TK7 Batch Module to size all the images in that folder to 1080 pixels wide.
Max Kitaev I made this video before dark mode came out. This video shows how to make a black border ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hmxcgPgq_K0.html
Apurv Swami sizing in Photoshop gives you more control over the outcome for sure. Some websites do a better job than others and some will still compress the image even if it is sized before hand. However, getting it as close as possible in Ps minimizes what the website will do to it. Just do a search for Tony Kuyper TK panel and you’ll find it. 😁
@@SeanBagshaw Thanks for replying! Can I use the Lightroom Mobile App for downsizing a landscape image with the long side being 1080 px and for a portrait the same being 1350 px while exporting. Will it give me the same result as Photoshop?
Lexie Castaneto I’m not particularly adept with PS Express, but I don’t think it allows cropping outside the image like PS CC does. I could be wrong. Anyone know different?
Hi Sean: I am now using the TK8 Panels and when I try to follow you step of re-sizing the image, I am unable to get the Web Sharpening to work. Is there a difference process for TK8 users? Thanks, Keith
