How to Post HIGHEST QUALITY Photos to Instagram

[@gunnarbjarkiii]

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

[@aspected]

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]

My question is, who told you instagram is for photographers?

[@gunnarbjarkiii]

@@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.

[@lvrvisuals7800]

@@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.

[@gunnarbjarkiii]

@@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.

[@marinjelcic2691]

God I love the way brits pronounce the word "photos",so classy👨‍🎓👨‍🎓

[@dylanleach3895]

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

[@richardrawdingphotography776]

We need more POV car photography 🙏

[@joshuam459]

Been needing this for a hot minute!!!

[@osismiracle1931]

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!!!

[@peterdavis4720]

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

[@thomasschwandner1890]

This is really good! It worked perfectly! Finally I uploading crisp sharp photos! Thanks!

[@chankamei4558]

Absolutely loved your thumbnail 🔥

[@camerondarby1870]

Shooting pictures today definitely gonna use this method 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@xg3400]

I come back to this video often. Thanks so much 🙏🏽

[@thewintereaglefly]

This actually works really well, cheers mate you kinda cracked the code

[@MikedieONE]

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.

[@f.iph7291]

they can't even bother to at least give the option to us

[@mohammedramadanmohammedkam1023]

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

[@MikedieONE]

@@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.

[@mohammedramadanmohammedkam1023]

@@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 😂😂

[@mohammedramadanmohammedkam1023]

@@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

[@iamlogannelson]

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 (:

[@andraegregoire9515]

Subscribed + thumbs up for being generous enough to share knowledge like this. Love tips on how to improve video + photo content

[@jamiedryden4194]

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

[@voilex]

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

[@lilpac7628]

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.

[@Shivrajsinh24]

Only one word I can say about Ben is Legend!!

[@BenMaclean]

ahaha thanks dude comment made my day!👌

[@Shivrajsinh24]

@@BenMaclean this made my day brova!!!

[@theshopper6902]

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

[@gausselim1474]

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?

[@dhirenphotovideo]

Following this now. Fingers Crossed :)

[@dhirenphotovideo]

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!

[@AmosSantiagoArchiv]

​@@dhirenphotovideothats the downside of this method

[@AmosSantiagoArchiv]

​​​@@dhirenphotovideoi forgot why it does that but yeah thats the price

[@lemonking3644]

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 :(

[@TheosAdventures2018]

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

[@rafal.daniecki]

🙃 Very good tutorials for Instagram images. Thanks!

[@ryanrothwell3863]

Another sick video🙌

[@galihgori]

Thanks, and how about the feeds video?

[@gayanearakelyan1419]

The best way I have ever tried! Thank you for sharing!

[@liamedwards_9624]

Your the goat of street photography 👌🏻🔥🔥

[@DaltonWhite]

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 😩

[@leonardoalegrepenza3617]

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!

[@Blanket-guy]

did you saw any difference?

[@RalphMayhewPhotography]

Love it! And your channel. Thanks heaps Ben. I've subbed up :)

[@Racc1-1]

10/10, earned a sub here. I’m a simple hobby “photographer” but I as well was frustrated with the quality difference when uploading.

[@bassembboustany]

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.

[@nonameishere7234]

Cool tip 👍 thanks

[@phoenixldn4089]

You're a wizard! I needed to hear this!!!

[@giancarlosimpson4196]

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.

[@gausselim1474]

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!!!

[@alx6386]

thanks man! I'll will try this out. I have tested so many methods and i hope this one will work for me!

[@LionOfKingston]

In camera I set 4:5... for instagram fit

[@ConceptNewEra]

I also always forget ordering things HAHA. Definitely going to try this for my Instagram photos, thanks bro! 💯✔️🔥

[@WVMUSIC_NL]

Thanks man! Gonna try this! How is this for landscape shots?

[@NickHaigh]

I find IG changes the colour on my images, on my phone it looks identical to how it looks on my mac, then upload it to IG and is washes the colours completely out

[@rambopunk1989]

That is the colorprofile if you edit in photoshop, convert it from pro color to srgb and it will look fine, i think the option's name is convert to profile.

[@NickHaigh]

@@rambopunk1989 thanks, I only save in rgb, I don't see an option for pro colour or srgb

[@rambopunk1989]

@@NickHaigh when your picture is open in photoshop, click edit-> convert to profile, and hit okay.

[@NickHaigh]

@@rambopunk1989 ahhh gotcha, nice one...thank you very much

[@districtmanager2053]

@@rambopunk1989 This is the answer i was looking for! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@naveenbenjamin9864]

Ben, Definitely I will try this method . Thanks Brother. God Bless.

[@panyoscreate]

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?

[@iamjustfantastic]

Can we do this on Android phone Adobe LR please let me know how can we fix this in phone

[@johannes15900]

Another amazing video :) Have a Fantastic Day.

[@parismalaspinas2488]

Does instasize-like apps reduce quality? If yes, should I manually add white borders around my photos and then do what you did?

[@dimasanugrahillah127]

im just using this method,try to upload to insta but why the color changed to more darker?? any solution?

[@New_World_Assets]

Should we also do the same for the landscape size X2?

[@RvThesecond]

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,..

[@brooker_7883]

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?

[@wolfmetellus2030]

True, that’s where I got confused as well

[@ebtsoby]

it's cause he changed the width to 2700 when it's supposed to be the height

[@shirshak472]

I can relate to you on the arriving packages part 😂

[@joepearson6068]

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.

[@joepearson6068]

This also works for photos as well :)

[@aspected]

Very interesting tip!

[@s0lit880]

U mean using the creator studio?

[@joepearson6068]

@@s0lit880 yes I think so

[@HodsonMedia]

i think everyone appreciates Ben's content

[@tateterrific1]

Are you gonna get the dji fpv

[@13hubi13]

Any video for Storys?

[@lukasm.a6268]

finaly!!!! thanks you man it works perfect!!

[@peimei1006]

How about the mobile version of this for lightroom?

[@tallyhoswilly_4973]

A problem that still lingers is the RAM. It keeps telling me I don't have enough RAM to continue in a lot of cases. I have 5463 MB available in photoshop ( 100% ) And I disable alot of the services in system configuration. Still saying I don't have enough.

[@ijyoyo]

Great tips ! Amazing love love photography videos

[@fluxcapacitor8416]

hello is 4:5 ratio the same as 5:4 ratio?

[@mroblige1018]

It's truly amazing who will sponsor you and send you equipment to use on your channel. These companies spoil content creators

[@Jermo25]

This video helped a lot! Thank you very much for the advice.

[@StealthBlkEmpire]

Great method bro thanks for the help 🔥

[@kaltesc6611]

A comparison would be cool to show us the differences.

[@KirilVarbanov]

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.

[@actuallydharmesh6559]

Hey mate just request can u do this how in phone?

[@MrTheDougdougdoug]

u a legend. ty bro, helped a lot!

[@BenMaclean]

Thanks dude, glad it helped 😎😎

[@silviusmeria]

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!

[@ohitsdarren]

Thanks for the tip but does it affect if I want to further edit on Lightroom Mobile (due to color difference)?

[@thrufilms7607]

lets gooo!

[@Wasmm_]

Aah i wanted to try this but turns out my images are not that big, so when I'm in PS i can't resize them the same way 🙈

[@geethabk9844]

Thank you, this is just amazing.. It worked 😍

[@TamNguyen-wk2rz]

What is your PC and monitor in the back.? It looks nice 👍

[@stevenslr1361]

wow, i think you are a hardworker..

[@vernondekoker8797]

Cool video thanks will give it a try, do you have the method for Facebook as they compress the hell out of it

[@meronepal2069]

Thanks for the tips mate

[@vj-nikkolax8008]

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 ? 🙄

[@Descabelar2013]

great explanation! what is your computer wallpaper?

[@AttilaTevi]

Great video, keep it up.👍🏼

[@BenMaclean]

no worries man thank you 👌🏼👌🏼

[@shotbydmitry]

But 2700x3375 is not a double of 1080x1350! You’re doubled the vertical resolution and applied it to horizontal.

[@farhanishrak6715]

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!??

[@sadbravesfan]

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?

[@thibaudchaumard3968]

Super interesting, thanks !! :) Do you have advice for KZbin 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 :)

[@martinvonstoll4839]

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?

[@iliaschaitaris2956]

Great advise brother thank you very much for your help, you saved the day! I hope your well and keep doing what you do!

[@danielvres1207]

What if you don't have Photoshop? Can you use only lightroom? Nice video 🔥

[@otoshithekid2957]

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!

[@jeffstephens5266]

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.

[@91pimtim]

Crop 4,5 export setting short edge: 2700 shaper to screen. high skip photoshop but if you fix in photoshop, do like ben

[@multipolar101]

Spot on that was. Thank You

[@4qfamily277]

What camera are you using in this video ? Quality is amazing

[@ameenahsan9696]

what will be instead of 2700 for landscape photos?

[@jeroenvdw]

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.

[@kapilamohotti9099]

Im not even joking this is the most helpful video ever

[@BenMaclean]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@Johnny.Coss.]

Simple vid! Feedsaver tip for the gram! Great work Ben 😄

[@supercooldude824]

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 ?

[@aspected]

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

[@supercooldude824]

@@aspected thanks so much

[@yasing6970]

@@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.

[@aspected]

@@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.

[@yasing6970]

@@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 KZbin and the whole internet for answers, and it seems to be a problem nobody knows how to solve it. I appreciate the reply though.

[@dawoodbotai]

You doubled the length size but on the width? Or did you mean to double the length?

[@jamiedryden4194]

Exactly he doubled the length. But then entered that in to the width.

[@dls2417]

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! :)

[@robertoryuk]

do you have any camera to sell ?

[@therealconfidentiality7526]

Omg It really works, thanks

[@ROMAN8593]

amazing its worked...thx

[@Vexies]

Gonna re-edit my old photos and do this lol. I stopped posting to instagram because it always fucked me no matter the export settings

[@avidestroyer100]

Can't wait for the studio tour 2021