This just goes to show you that Instagram isn't meant for photographers, and to see the effort people go through to have their shot look the best on instagram, but what if you would lose the original image and be left with a low resolution presharpened version of it for an instagram post?, and stuck to 4by5 crop. I've personally completely stopped "shooting & cropping for instagram", I'd rather shoot horizontal if i want to, or vertical with the original crop, if I want to, and I always export the images at 100% resolution to be viewed on a screen or my website, and If I wanna share it on instagram I just share that photo, regardless if it could look better with some photoshop sharpening and cropping it before exporting, at the end of the day instagram is a social media app where you can post photos, If it was for "professional photographers" they would atleast have more crops available and have the picture in full resolution., anyways ben, I love you and would love to do a photoshoot with you if I'm ever in london
You have to go to all this effort to master music for SoundCloud, Spotify, and other streaming platforms too. They're even more involved - you have to battle with their compression algorithms AND the automatic loudness/volume levelling. A platform is just a platform - unfortunately it's up to the artist to prepare media for it.
@@spyrosbotetsios1910 a lot of photographers use instagram as their main portfolio place for all their photos, a lot of them don’t even have a website to showcase their work.
@@gunnarbjarkiii Yeah but thats because Social media is the biggest platform to show your portfolio. No one said its made for photographers but Social media is the future. Even companies that are hiring photographers or cinematographers look on social media. So i understand why they use Instagram as a main.
@@lvrvisuals7800 yeah I understand it as well, but I love it when artists care more about the art it self than the followers, views ect, for example when people make video arts here on youtube, and have a vimeo link to it, so you can see it in better quality! that's the kind of artists I admire, because for vimeo, you have to pay to upload, for youtube, you get paid for views, so if anyone dares to have a vimeo link as well, that goes to show that they care more about people seeing it in the best possible quality.
You said double the longer side, but then you used that figure on the shorter side. You described doubling 1080 by 1350. So 2160 by 2700 would be what is expected. But then in the video made it 2700 by 3375. It maybe still works fine and these figures end up with nice sharp images after insta compresses them. But you've not done the sizes you described. Can you clarify if you described them wrong or if you put the 2700 in the wrong box just this once? What dimensions would you usually use? Thanks
I've applied this method for the past couple of weeks 2160x2700 and have noticed the image Quality comes out alot sharper when uploading, it's only until watching this back I've noticed what you mean by him applying it to the width therefor making the height 3375. I tired this method also and the images didn't come out as sharp when uploading to insta therefor I believe he's correct in making the height 2700 and the width 2160 however the wrong value was changed in the video. Great video nether the less! Cheers Ben
OMG you are the best!! I just a size up a photo in Lightroom and upload it to Instagram the same picture I have uploaded before and what a huge difference!!!! Thank you so much!!!
You are the only video i found saying do not crop 1080 x 1350 and you are 100% correct it is much better doing it this way. thank you for sharing! It was super hard to find this specific video and I just knew that there was a way to get it looking better and sharper on instagram because I see people doing it all the time. it sucks to know that instagram photographers like me are searching for this video as well and will give up the search before finding this video. it took me literally an hour of searching youtube to find this
I will never understand why Instagram cant just upload and represent the photos in the highest possible quality like Flickr does. it cant be that hard. its not 2006 anymore where everybody has slow internet connections.
My friend this can't be done couse we store this images in our data base and if we allowed +20 mb images the app will start to be bugy and people will upload very large images to crash app and our date base will get be full
@@mohammedramadanmohammedkam1023 are you kidding me? So a rather small company like Flickr can do it but a multi billion company can't? What a silly excuse. I'm sure ig is rich enough to upgrade their storage to infinite.
@@MikedieONE I mean it's one of the reasons and the app wasn't made to show quality of images it was made to share memories + there is poor country like my county for example that can't afford to watch 720 vid imagine having to load 20mb image for 2 hours a day or something I swear to God I'll delete the app u know here we only have 100 gp for the whole month for full family 😂😂
@@MikedieONE and am sry if this made u made but I love photography too and I work so hard to get my first lens and am sure I'll be sad if people can't see full quality but it's better than fucking other people up
Great vid and presentation. I appreciate the clarity of your advice. One issue though... you and most everyone else says you need Lightroom to edit. I don't think you do, as Photoshop only should do the trick. You can go Adobe Bridge -> Camera Raw -> Photoshop -> the save to computer. Am I correct here? LR is fine, just wondering. Also, can I rotate the 4x5 so it's in landscape orientation? I have many pics where the 4x5 cuts of people on the sides. Would love to know!!!
I just edit on computer in Lightroom and photoshop save it back as Lr version , then wait for it to sync on Lightroom then open app on my phone and export it on that then post on Instagram
this is my method. works like a charm. double the resolution, e.g: a portrait 4:5 ig said it should be 1080x1350 change it to be 2160x2700, 1:1 to be 2160x2160 and set it to 76 quality in lightroom and if you CAN upload it from an iphone :) theres no such things that ig wont compress your photo with certain settings. they will compress all photos that are being uploaded everyday.
I crop 4x5 and export in max resolution out of Lightroom, don't sharper or resize to fit and it seems to be fine for me and my clients. I've watched so many videos on this and there's some contrasting opinions. I'll give this a go in my next few uploads and see if I notice a difference, seems a lot of extra work if you have loads of images to export though 😩
Try exporting in lightroom with “dimensions” (instead of width by height) 4000x3000 for clients. Each photo will weight 7mb and they’ll have it in max resolution!
This is good advice, but what if some of us want to upload with a landscape gallery? What are the dimensions for this trick? Also, what if our images are uncompressed and are huge sizes in pixels? I'm almost there just need a few more answers
Another great fix for banding after upload especially on flat areas of a pic: add noise (gaussian) to those parts of the pic. Almost prevents any sort of banding since it tricks the algorithm into thinking somethings there.
Hi Ben, I'm a bit confused in the vid you said to double the IG recommendations, but you then set the width to 2700px. Shouldn't the image size be 2160(1080 x2) x 2700(1350x2) px instead of 2700 x 3375?
For higher quality video you can link Instagram to Facebook and then you also have to link your Facebook page to Instagram. Then you can post high quality video to Instagram via Facebook on a pc with minimal compression. Just an FYI for anyone wondering.
Wow just wow... Can you please help me with what focal length lens Instagram fashion models use for their full body head to toe outfit shoot..(street style) with f1. 4
I have another problem. I use the sony a7r4. These are 61 megapixel files. Ps wants to make these a 1x1. Also, the pixel width is 5066. Should I reduce that to 2700? What should I do here?
QUESTION: I don't know why but the image on photoshop after color grading looks amazing, when I export it... it doesnt look as vibrant on my desktop & even worse on my iphone... its on srgb so I dont know the problem :(
I think you made a mistage in your video Ben. Instagram Says that max resolution is 1080(w) x 1350(h)> Then in your video you said its better to double it, and you put doubled amount of height into width box. It should be 2160 width doubled or 2700 HEIGHT doubled. Correct me if im wrong :)
Hey Ben, in Lightroom, what I do is I make sure every photo is cropped 4:5 ratio and then I go to export settings and I slide the jpeg quality slider to 100%. I don’t touch anything else, not even the resize to fit or output sharpening and my photos turn out mint.
do u leave ur dimension largest available dimensions, small (2048 px), or do u use custom? I’m trying to figure out a consistent way to do this all just straight from my iPhone.
Love the video Ben! Always so much value in every one of your vlogs. I will definitely have to try this! What has worked for me is exporting from lightroom at 72ppi at 100% quality and it doesnt completely botch it. Cheers mate (:
Super interesting, thanks !! :) Do you have advice for RUclips upload? You video looks very very sharp. Is it by simply adding extra sharpness when editing, or is there also something else that you do to avoid the YT compression to ruin your video quality? Thanks :)
Very helpful. I do all those same steps, but instead of selecting save as in photoshop, I select save. This then sends the new image to lightroom as 1 of 2. But does this mean lightroom is compressing the image that I've just edited in photoshop? If that's the case them maybe I should do what you say and select save- to desktop. What do you think?
Thank you for that video, you are completely right, that procedure works. In essence, we need to avoid the compression. Instagram is really not meant for photography, sadly, but it's a nice network. The recent "fix" for having landscape and portrait photos in one square format really killed my desire to shoot and post whatever is appropriate for the case, not to mention the useless 15 second reels that just go away and are really not having any added value.
I think so. You can crop it right there. I saw a tutorial saying you increase the image size on the export settings straight into lightroom. Then you can sharpen on the app. That *should* work. Best of luck!
Lightroom only isn’t a problem. Firstly only crop if you want to crop, don’t resize at this stage just for Instagram. When you’ve done your edits save as a 16 bit PNG in sRGB, longest side as 1350 pixels. Post.
Hey bro, Thanks for the tip! So, I am just wondering, what if I use the same width you have recommended (2700 pixels) but while exporting from Lightroom instead of doing the same thing in Photoshop!??
The Lightroom app on my Mac doesn’t give my he option for 4x5? Does anyone know why? Also, how did you turn the landscape photo to horizontal? Are you just shooting horizontal? I tried flipping but it’s not working with my photo 😏 good video nonetheless, new sub!
Great video Ben! just wanna say one thing; Maybe i'm wrong and i missed something but you said instagram allows 1080x1350 pixels where 1080p is the short/bottom edge and 1350p is the long/vertical edge and you said to double the 1350p to make it 2700p but then you double the width, not the height. So by doubling the width, the long edge (1350p) becomes 3375p... and second thing, when you export it you left the embed color profile to ProPhoto RGB when instagram allows Srgb as color space... I'm not saying you're wrong, i'm just trying to understand...
Exactly what I thought with the color space. I was recently testing the differences with uploading photo with ProPhoto and sRGB color space and the result was indeed visible. However this technique with the 2700x3375 didnt worked for me. 1080x1350 isnt perfect, but still better than 2700, atleast for me. Cheers!
Yeah i find the same :) He made an mistake in vid. Instagram says that max resolution is 1080(w) x 1350(h)> Then in video Ben said its better to double it, and he put doubled amount of height into width box. It should be 2160 width doubled or 2700 HEIGHT doubled.
I would like to ask something about Instagram☺️ the heineken Instagram photos are so crisp how did they make it?... I mean Instagram usually downgrade image quality,..
I always just edit my pics in Lightroom on my PC in 4x5. Sync it with Lightroom on my phone and export with max res. That just works. I will still try your method next time and see if it makes a difference.
Tried and tested, photos look much better (sharper and more high res) than just exporting directly from Lightroom. Was a bit sceptical about the PS sharpening, but the desharpening that Instagram applies seems to nullify it and bring the photo back to its original state. Thanks a lot for the tip, mate!
Ive been reducing the width of my photos to max 1080 pixels even if I’m using a square or a wide aspect ratio. But it seems like my photos only stay sharp for a little while. Have you checked if your photos stay sharp days or weeks later using this method? I’ll be trying this too!
As I expected, a day later after trying this method with a photo, it now looks pixelated. It looked nice and sharp after uploading it, but not any more. This always happens, even when I use the “1080 method”. Looks nice at first, but becomes pixelated after a while. I wish Instagram cared about image quality. I also wish there was a real alternative to Instagram. VERO is trying, but I don’t think there are many users on it.
Wait, I did something wrong with that image. I did not use the same resampling method. I've tried using the same one as Ben used in the video on a new photo now. And one day later, the photo still looks nice and sharp. BUT now, for some reason, the previous photo ALSO looks sharp. I get the feeling that Instagram only sometimes loads the highest resolution image. Maybe based on traffic? Like if you open IG at a time where there is a lot of traffic, maybe they just dont load the high res images?
You say change the width to 2700 for a 4:5 but what if you are using a horizontal crop like a 16:9 or 4:3? Would you instead change the height to 2700 or what?
Question: Why can't you just resize in Photoshop? What is the best resolution for a 1x1? A 4x5 isn't wide enough for some of my photos... or am I mistaken? Any assistance would be helpful. Thank you!
Strange, for me when I select the photo from my phone which was downloaded off google drive after following these tips, I then click the arrow top right then the image changes its colour completely. I'm so confused as to why!
Log on to IG on your computer, on the tool bar find your developer option and change the format of the browser. You can convert it to an iphone/Samsung browser and then upload your photo directly from your computer.
My method: export to 85% quality into lightroom, import onto iPhone using 3utools and upload it from there, honestly it works really well. The key is really to upload from iOS, the web version creates garbage pictures.
Hey Ben, I just uploaded a picture to Instagram with your Settings. Problem was that you and me exported the file with "ProPhoto"-Colors and not sRGB :) how can I switch hit? Insta is not able to provide the whole spectrum to "ProPhoto" Colors...
this is very helpfull btw i was wondering when i upload 1 photo the quality is good but when i upload more than one photo the quality get really bad any tips ?
Here are my Instagram settings. I figured these out after scouring the internet for answers. Bear in mind, when you're posting galleries, make sure every photo is exactly the same resolution and orientation! Square - 1:1 (max length 1200px) Landscape - 1.91:1 (max length 1080px) Portrait - 4:5 (max length (1200px) Versatile - 4:3/3:4 (max length 1200px if portrait, 1080px if landscape) sRGB colour space, 76% quality or 1600kb max file size
@@aspected Still don't get it. Mine is 4:5 but I did like you on video. The pictures still come out bad quality when you upload multiple photos. I've searched everywhere on the internet on how to fix this. Nobody has got the answer to this. It's like some Illuminati shit, nobody knows.
@@yasing6970 you may be able to try uploading from desktop. Not sure if that allows you to upload multiple images though. Try going into a browser, opening developer tools, going to responsive view/device view, and changing the device to a phone, then refresh the page.
@@aspected I’m not quite sure what you’re telling me to do here… I really don’t get why Instagram has to piss people off like that. The thing is I haven’t uploaded to Instagram in a while, and I’ve uploaded multiple photos in one post before many times, and there wasn’t anything wrong with the quality. I didn’t even need to crop the images or anything, the quality was perfect on every picture. I can’t figure out what it is, but it sure is really frustrating! I’ve looked through RUclips and the whole internet for answers, and it seems to be a problem nobody knows how to solve it. I appreciate the reply though.
Thank you for sharing what you found works. Because I was also trying the 1080x1350 rule that piximperfect suggests and I was wondering my photos were turning out goddamn awful. lol (Love that youtuber though). Do you know what pixel dimensions you would use for 16:9?
I think it's possible to do this without Photoshop - you should be able to configure these settings in your Lightroom export settings. I use Capture One and use the following settings on the Process tool: Square - 1:1 (max length 1200px) Landscape - 1.91:1 (max length 1080px) Portrait - 4:5 (max length (1200px) Versatile - 4:3/3:4 (max length 1200px if portrait, 1080px if landscape) MOST IMPORTANT: sRGB colour space, 76% quality OR 1600kb max file size Additionally, editing in 16bit and exporting in 8bit will ensure no banding appears in the final images! 76% is the sweet spot between quality and compression effects. 1600kb is roughly where Instagram REALLY starts compressing images. Instagram uses the sRGB colour space.
Bruh.. is it normal that the image and filter actions take forever to be completed. Sat in front of my PC for a solid 10 min for 1 image to complete lul. Thx for the info Ben
Interesting video, going to give this a try and see if doing this comes out better than my current method using PNGs! I personally have been bringing the full size image into photoshop, then cropping it to double IG's recommended resolution (IG: 1080x1350px for portraits so I do 2160x2700px) and then export as PNG. Interested to see if this will work out better (and save me storage space!) - great video as always Ben! :)
This just goes to show you that Instagram isn't meant for photographers, and to see the effort people go through to have their shot look the best on instagram, but what if you would lose the original image and be left with a low resolution presharpened version of it for an instagram post?, and stuck to 4by5 crop. I've personally completely stopped "shooting & cropping for instagram", I'd rather shoot horizontal if i want to, or vertical with the original crop, if I want to, and I always export the images at 100% resolution to be viewed on a screen or my website, and If I wanna share it on instagram I just share that photo, regardless if it could look better with some photoshop sharpening and cropping it before exporting, at the end of the day instagram is a social media app where you can post photos, If it was for "professional photographers" they would atleast have more crops available and have the picture in full resolution., anyways ben, I love you and would love to do a photoshoot with you if I'm ever in london
You have to go to all this effort to master music for SoundCloud, Spotify, and other streaming platforms too. They're even more involved - you have to battle with their compression algorithms AND the automatic loudness/volume levelling. A platform is just a platform - unfortunately it's up to the artist to prepare media for it.
My question is, who told you instagram is for photographers?
@@spyrosbotetsios1910 a lot of photographers use instagram as their main portfolio place for all their photos, a lot of them don’t even have a website to showcase their work.
@@gunnarbjarkiii Yeah but thats because Social media is the biggest platform to show your portfolio. No one said its made for photographers but Social media is the future. Even companies that are hiring photographers or cinematographers look on social media. So i understand why they use Instagram as a main.
@@lvrvisuals7800 yeah I understand it as well, but I love it when artists care more about the art it self than the followers, views ect, for example when people make video arts here on youtube, and have a vimeo link to it, so you can see it in better quality! that's the kind of artists I admire, because for vimeo, you have to pay to upload, for youtube, you get paid for views, so if anyone dares to have a vimeo link as well, that goes to show that they care more about people seeing it in the best possible quality.
God I love the way brits pronounce the word "photos",so classy👨🎓👨🎓
We need more POV car photography 🙏
You said double the longer side, but then you used that figure on the shorter side.
You described doubling 1080 by 1350.
So 2160 by 2700 would be what is expected.
But then in the video made it 2700 by 3375.
It maybe still works fine and these figures end up with nice sharp images after insta compresses them. But you've not done the sizes you described.
Can you clarify if you described them wrong or if you put the 2700 in the wrong box just this once? What dimensions would you usually use? Thanks
I've applied this method for the past couple of weeks 2160x2700 and have noticed the image Quality comes out alot sharper when uploading, it's only until watching this back I've noticed what you mean by him applying it to the width therefor making the height 3375. I tired this method also and the images didn't come out as sharp when uploading to insta therefor I believe he's correct in making the height 2700 and the width 2160 however the wrong value was changed in the video.
Great video nether the less! Cheers Ben
This is really good! It worked perfectly! Finally I uploading crisp sharp photos!
Thanks!
OMG you are the best!! I just a size up a photo in Lightroom and upload it to Instagram the same picture I have uploaded before and what a huge difference!!!! Thank you so much!!!
You are the only video i found saying do not crop 1080 x 1350 and you are 100% correct it is much better doing it this way. thank you for sharing! It was super hard to find this specific video and I just knew that there was a way to get it looking better and sharper on instagram because I see people doing it all the time. it sucks to know that instagram photographers like me are searching for this video as well and will give up the search before finding this video. it took me literally an hour of searching youtube to find this
I come back to this video often. Thanks so much 🙏🏽
I will never understand why Instagram cant just upload and represent the photos in the highest possible quality like Flickr does. it cant be that hard.
its not 2006 anymore where everybody has slow internet connections.
they can't even bother to at least give the option to us
My friend this can't be done couse we store this images in our data base and if we allowed +20 mb images the app will start to be bugy and people will upload very large images to crash app and our date base will get be full
@@mohammedramadanmohammedkam1023 are you kidding me? So a rather small company like Flickr can do it but a multi billion company can't? What a silly excuse. I'm sure ig is rich enough to upgrade their storage to infinite.
@@MikedieONE I mean it's one of the reasons and the app wasn't made to show quality of images it was made to share memories + there is poor country like my county for example that can't afford to watch 720 vid imagine having to load 20mb image for 2 hours a day or something I swear to God I'll delete the app u know here we only have 100 gp for the whole month for full family 😂😂
@@MikedieONE and am sry if this made u made but I love photography too and I work so hard to get my first lens and am sure I'll be sad if people can't see full quality but it's better than fucking other people up
Great vid and presentation. I appreciate the clarity of your advice. One issue though... you and most everyone else says you need Lightroom to edit. I don't think you do, as Photoshop only should do the trick. You can go Adobe Bridge -> Camera Raw -> Photoshop -> the save to computer. Am I correct here? LR is fine, just wondering. Also, can I rotate the 4x5 so it's in landscape orientation? I have many pics where the 4x5 cuts of people on the sides. Would love to know!!!
Shooting pictures today definitely gonna use this method 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I just edit on computer in Lightroom and photoshop save it back as Lr version , then wait for it to sync on Lightroom then open app on my phone and export it on that then post on Instagram
this is my method. works like a charm. double the resolution, e.g: a portrait 4:5 ig said it should be 1080x1350 change it to be 2160x2700, 1:1 to be 2160x2160 and set it to 76 quality in lightroom and if you CAN upload it from an iphone :) theres no such things that ig wont compress your photo with certain settings. they will compress all photos that are being uploaded everyday.
I crop 4x5 and export in max resolution out of Lightroom, don't sharper or resize to fit and it seems to be fine for me and my clients. I've watched so many videos on this and there's some contrasting opinions. I'll give this a go in my next few uploads and see if I notice a difference, seems a lot of extra work if you have loads of images to export though 😩
Try exporting in lightroom with “dimensions” (instead of width by height) 4000x3000 for clients. Each photo will weight 7mb and they’ll have it in max resolution!
did you saw any difference?
This is good advice, but what if some of us want to upload with a landscape gallery? What are the dimensions for this trick? Also, what if our images are uncompressed and are huge sizes in pixels? I'm almost there just need a few more answers
Another great fix for banding after upload especially on flat areas of a pic: add noise (gaussian) to those parts of the pic. Almost prevents any sort of banding since it tricks the algorithm into thinking somethings there.
Cool tip 👍 thanks
Does instasize-like apps reduce quality?
If yes, should I manually add white borders around my photos and then do what you did?
Nice nice, but you always have to plan your shot and shoot wider shot if you have to crop them in later in LR and PS? like always?
Hi Ben, I'm a bit confused in the vid you said to double the IG recommendations, but you then set the width to 2700px. Shouldn't the image size be 2160(1080 x2) x 2700(1350x2) px instead of 2700 x 3375?
True, that’s where I got confused as well
it's cause he changed the width to 2700 when it's supposed to be the height
For higher quality video you can link Instagram to Facebook and then you also have to link your Facebook page to Instagram. Then you can post high quality video to Instagram via Facebook on a pc with minimal compression. Just an FYI for anyone wondering.
This also works for photos as well :)
Very interesting tip!
U mean using the creator studio?
@@s0lit880 yes I think so
What camera are you using in this video ? Quality is amazing
🙃 Very good tutorials for Instagram images. Thanks!
I can relate to you on the arriving packages part 😂
Wow just wow... Can you please help me with what focal length lens Instagram fashion models use for their full body head to toe outfit shoot..(street style) with f1. 4
Been needing this for a hot minute!!!
Absolutely loved your thumbnail 🔥
I have another problem. I use the sony a7r4. These are 61 megapixel files. Ps wants to make these a 1x1. Also, the pixel width is 5066. Should I reduce that to 2700? What should I do here?
The best way I have ever tried! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks man! Gonna try this! How is this for landscape shots?
QUESTION: I don't know why but the image on photoshop after color grading looks amazing, when I export it... it doesnt look as vibrant on my desktop & even worse on my iphone... its on srgb so I dont know the problem :(
This actually works really well, cheers mate you kinda cracked the code
Subscribed + thumbs up for being generous enough to share knowledge like this. Love tips on how to improve video + photo content
I think you made a mistage in your video Ben.
Instagram Says that max resolution is 1080(w) x 1350(h)>
Then in your video you said its better to double it, and you put doubled amount of height into width box.
It should be 2160 width doubled or 2700 HEIGHT doubled.
Correct me if im wrong :)
Hey Ben, in Lightroom, what I do is I make sure every photo is cropped 4:5 ratio and then I go to export settings and I slide the jpeg quality slider to 100%. I don’t touch anything else, not even the resize to fit or output sharpening and my photos turn out mint.
do u leave ur dimension largest available dimensions, small (2048 px), or do u use custom? I’m trying to figure out a consistent way to do this all just straight from my iPhone.
Love the video Ben! Always so much value in every one of your vlogs. I will definitely have to try this! What has worked for me is exporting from lightroom at 72ppi at 100% quality and it doesnt completely botch it. Cheers mate (:
I also always forget ordering things HAHA. Definitely going to try this for my Instagram photos, thanks bro! 💯✔️🔥
great explanation! what is your computer wallpaper?
Super interesting, thanks !! :) Do you have advice for RUclips upload? You video looks very very sharp. Is it by simply adding extra sharpness when editing, or is there also something else that you do to avoid the YT compression to ruin your video quality? Thanks :)
10/10, earned a sub here. I’m a simple hobby “photographer” but I as well was frustrated with the quality difference when uploading.
Crop 4,5
export setting
short edge: 2700
shaper to screen. high
skip photoshop but if you fix in photoshop, do like ben
Very helpful. I do all those same steps, but instead of selecting save as in photoshop, I select save. This then sends the new image to lightroom as 1 of 2. But does this mean lightroom is compressing the image that I've just edited in photoshop? If that's the case them maybe I should do what you say and select save- to desktop. What do you think?
Thank you for that video, you are completely right, that procedure works. In essence, we need to avoid the compression. Instagram is really not meant for photography, sadly, but it's a nice network. The recent "fix" for having landscape and portrait photos in one square format really killed my desire to shoot and post whatever is appropriate for the case, not to mention the useless 15 second reels that just go away and are really not having any added value.
What is your PC and monitor in the back.? It looks nice 👍
Thanks for the tip but does it affect if I want to further edit on Lightroom Mobile (due to color difference)?
Ben, Definitely I will try this method . Thanks Brother.
God Bless.
A comparison would be cool to show us the differences.
What if you don't have Photoshop? Can you use only lightroom?
Nice video 🔥
I think so. You can crop it right there. I saw a tutorial saying you increase the image size on the export settings straight into lightroom. Then you can sharpen on the app. That *should* work. Best of luck!
Lightroom only isn’t a problem. Firstly only crop if you want to crop, don’t resize at this stage just for Instagram. When you’ve done your edits save as a 16 bit PNG in sRGB, longest side as 1350 pixels. Post.
Hey bro, Thanks for the tip! So, I am just wondering, what if I use the same width you have recommended (2700 pixels) but while exporting from Lightroom instead of doing the same thing in Photoshop!??
The Lightroom app on my Mac doesn’t give my he option for 4x5? Does anyone know why?
Also, how did you turn the landscape photo to horizontal? Are you just shooting horizontal? I tried flipping but it’s not working with my photo 😏 good video nonetheless, new sub!
thanks man! I'll will try this out. I have tested so many methods and i hope this one will work for me!
Great video Ben! just wanna say one thing; Maybe i'm wrong and i missed something but you said instagram allows 1080x1350 pixels where 1080p is the short/bottom edge and 1350p is the long/vertical edge and you said to double the 1350p to make it 2700p but then you double the width, not the height. So by doubling the width, the long edge (1350p) becomes 3375p... and second thing, when you export it you left the embed color profile to ProPhoto RGB when instagram allows Srgb as color space... I'm not saying you're wrong, i'm just trying to understand...
I think you can double which ever side you want as long as the aspect ratio is locked.?...
Exactly what I thought with the color space. I was recently testing the differences with uploading photo with ProPhoto and sRGB color space and the result was indeed visible. However this technique with the 2700x3375 didnt worked for me. 1080x1350 isnt perfect, but still better than 2700, atleast for me. Cheers!
Yeah i find the same :) He made an mistake in vid.
Instagram says that max resolution is 1080(w) x 1350(h)>
Then in video Ben said its better to double it, and he put doubled amount of height into width box.
It should be 2160 width doubled or 2700 HEIGHT doubled.
@@davidjavorsky7946 which one of those profiles looks better for you after post it on instagram?
@@MakaiClicks help
Should we also do the same for the landscape size X2?
I would like to ask something about Instagram☺️ the heineken Instagram photos are so crisp how did they make it?... I mean Instagram usually downgrade image quality,..
I always just edit my pics in Lightroom on my PC in 4x5. Sync it with Lightroom on my phone and export with max res. That just works. I will still try your method next time and see if it makes a difference.
amazing its worked...thx
Spot on that was. Thank You
finaly!!!! thanks you man it works perfect!!
wow, i think you are a hardworker..
Only one word I can say about Ben is Legend!!
ahaha thanks dude comment made my day!👌
@@BenMaclean this made my day brova!!!
Tried and tested, photos look much better (sharper and more high res) than just exporting directly from Lightroom. Was a bit sceptical about the PS sharpening, but the desharpening that Instagram applies seems to nullify it and bring the photo back to its original state. Thanks a lot for the tip, mate!
Ive been reducing the width of my photos to max 1080 pixels even if I’m using a square or a wide aspect ratio. But it seems like my photos only stay sharp for a little while. Have you checked if your photos stay sharp days or weeks later using this method? I’ll be trying this too!
As I expected, a day later after trying this method with a photo, it now looks pixelated. It looked nice and sharp after uploading it, but not any more.
This always happens, even when I use the “1080 method”. Looks nice at first, but becomes pixelated after a while. I wish Instagram cared about image quality.
I also wish there was a real alternative to Instagram. VERO is trying, but I don’t think there are many users on it.
Wait, I did something wrong with that image. I did not use the same resampling method. I've tried using the same one as Ben used in the video on a new photo now. And one day later, the photo still looks nice and sharp. BUT now, for some reason, the previous photo ALSO looks sharp.
I get the feeling that Instagram only sometimes loads the highest resolution image. Maybe based on traffic? Like if you open IG at a time where there is a lot of traffic, maybe they just dont load the high res images?
This video helped a lot! Thank you very much for the advice.
Thanks, and how about the feeds video?
Are you gonna get the dji fpv
Love it! And your channel. Thanks heaps Ben. I've subbed up :)
Cool video thanks will give it a try, do you have the method for Facebook as they compress the hell out of it
If I use super resolution of lightroom CC before to do this tutorial, can it give me better results ? Or I am losing my time ? 🙄
You say change the width to 2700 for a 4:5 but what if you are using a horizontal crop like a 16:9 or 4:3? Would you instead change the height to 2700 or what?
But 2700x3375 is not a double of 1080x1350! You’re doubled the vertical resolution and applied it to horizontal.
Another amazing video :) Have a Fantastic Day.
Question: Why can't you just resize in Photoshop? What is the best resolution for a 1x1? A 4x5 isn't wide enough for some of my photos... or am I mistaken? Any assistance would be helpful. Thank you!
You can create a carousel with your wide photos
Following this now. Fingers Crossed :)
Strange, for me when I select the photo from my phone which was downloaded off google drive after following these tips, I then click the arrow top right then the image changes its colour completely. I'm so confused as to why!
@@dhirenphotovideothats the downside of this method
@@dhirenphotovideoi forgot why it does that but yeah thats the price
Thank you, this is just amazing.. It worked 😍
Log on to IG on your computer, on the tool bar find your developer option and change the format of the browser. You can convert it to an iphone/Samsung browser and then upload your photo directly from your computer.
My method: export to 85% quality into lightroom, import onto iPhone using 3utools and upload it from there, honestly it works really well. The key is really to upload from iOS, the web version creates garbage pictures.
You doubled the length size but on the width? Or did you mean to double the length?
Exactly he doubled the length. But then entered that in to the width.
Can't wait for the studio tour 2021
But you file size is 52.1 MB. Will IG compress the file size harder?
Hey Ben, I just uploaded a picture to Instagram with your Settings. Problem was that you and me exported the file with "ProPhoto"-Colors and not sRGB :) how can I switch hit? Insta is not able to provide the whole spectrum to "ProPhoto" Colors...
Hey mate, I have the answer for that in this video if you are curious: ruclips.net/video/Rp-PR4K2qZc/видео.html
Omg It really works, thanks
this is very helpfull btw i was wondering when i upload 1 photo the quality is good but when i upload more than one photo the quality get really bad any tips ?
Here are my Instagram settings. I figured these out after scouring the internet for answers.
Bear in mind, when you're posting galleries, make sure every photo is exactly the same resolution and orientation!
Square - 1:1 (max length 1200px)
Landscape - 1.91:1 (max length 1080px)
Portrait - 4:5 (max length (1200px)
Versatile - 4:3/3:4 (max length 1200px if portrait, 1080px if landscape)
sRGB colour space, 76% quality or 1600kb max file size
@@aspected thanks so much
@@aspected Still don't get it. Mine is 4:5 but I did like you on video. The pictures still come out bad quality when you upload multiple photos. I've searched everywhere on the internet on how to fix this. Nobody has got the answer to this. It's like some Illuminati shit, nobody knows.
@@yasing6970 you may be able to try uploading from desktop. Not sure if that allows you to upload multiple images though. Try going into a browser, opening developer tools, going to responsive view/device view, and changing the device to a phone, then refresh the page.
@@aspected I’m not quite sure what you’re telling me to do here… I really don’t get why Instagram has to piss people off like that. The thing is I haven’t uploaded to Instagram in a while, and I’ve uploaded multiple photos in one post before many times, and there wasn’t anything wrong with the quality. I didn’t even need to crop the images or anything, the quality was perfect on every picture. I can’t figure out what it is, but it sure is really frustrating! I’ve looked through RUclips and the whole internet for answers, and it seems to be a problem nobody knows how to solve it. I appreciate the reply though.
Thank you for sharing what you found works. Because I was also trying the 1080x1350 rule that piximperfect suggests and I was wondering my photos were turning out goddamn awful. lol (Love that youtuber though). Do you know what pixel dimensions you would use for 16:9?
Your the goat of street photography 👌🏻🔥🔥
Great method bro thanks for the help 🔥
Very good Ben thank you.
Great advise brother thank you very much for your help, you saved the day! I hope your well and keep doing what you do!
I think it's possible to do this without Photoshop - you should be able to configure these settings in your Lightroom export settings.
I use Capture One and use the following settings on the Process tool:
Square - 1:1 (max length 1200px)
Landscape - 1.91:1 (max length 1080px)
Portrait - 4:5 (max length (1200px)
Versatile - 4:3/3:4 (max length 1200px if portrait, 1080px if landscape)
MOST IMPORTANT:
sRGB colour space, 76% quality OR 1600kb max file size
Additionally, editing in 16bit and exporting in 8bit will ensure no banding appears in the final images!
76% is the sweet spot between quality and compression effects. 1600kb is roughly where Instagram REALLY starts compressing images. Instagram uses the sRGB colour space.
Where did you get this info from?
God bless your sole❤️
It's even easier just to use Bluestacks on your computer and Emulate Instagram and Upload directly from your PC. All my uploads have been Tack sharp.
does this work ? may I know your IG handle please ?
@@roystan175 Absolutely works. UnorthodoxPhotographyGuy and Pixels_and_Petrol
Thank You this is the best setting!!!!
u a legend. ty bro, helped a lot!
Thanks dude, glad it helped 😎😎
Thanks for the tips mate
Fantastic, thanks for sharing the info. Would that work for the 1x1 format as well ?
Yes I should do just scale it to 2700 x 2700 which is square I believe 😎
Bruh.. is it normal that the image and filter actions take forever to be completed. Sat in front of my PC for a solid 10 min for 1 image to complete lul. Thx for the info Ben
Great tips ! Amazing love love photography videos
Ben incredible!
ps. surely another photography bingo sooon
pss. 24 1.4, 35 1.4, or 16-35 2.8? for photography and filmmaking
I'd say 24mm and 35mm. I think 16-20mm is too wide, and being able to go to 1.4 is awesome
Interesting video, going to give this a try and see if doing this comes out better than my current method using PNGs! I personally have been bringing the full size image into photoshop, then cropping it to double IG's recommended resolution (IG: 1080x1350px for portraits so I do 2160x2700px) and then export as PNG. Interested to see if this will work out better (and save me storage space!) - great video as always Ben! :)
im just using this method,try to upload to insta but why the color changed to more darker?? any solution?
Will this method work on Lightroom mobile as well?
Can you do one for how to get that nice glossy wet hard light look?