As photographers, it’s important to use all social media platforms as a marketing tool. Instagram is a personal favorite, but the upload process is by far the most annoying. There aren’t many options to upload images, but here is the most efficient workflow from resizing to uploading.
On my Instagram, I commonly get asked about the biggest issue many people face when uploading images to this platform. Not being able to upload directly from a PC to Instagram is an annoying hassle. While there are services like Grambler, it is not recommended to use them. Lately, Instagram has been very strict with third party apps and there are many reports of accounts getting shut down when these third party apps are used. The last thing anyone wants is get their account taken away. This leaves no choice other than getting the photo from a PC to a cell phone in the most efficient way.
When it comes to resizing a photo for social media, there are many articles that explain it. Once a full resolution edited image is saved to its destination, the best thing to do is to resize the image in Photoshop for all social media platforms, especially Instagram. Anything around 1900 pixels on the wider side will do. The shortcut to resize is ALT + CTRL + I.
Once saved, there are a few options to get the file to a phone. Emailing it to your phone, Bluetooth and Dropbox are all options. After doing this, browse the gallery on your phone to find the saved image. However, there is an issue with this method. Instagram only allows us to upload a square crop. Although there are apps such as SquareIt (iPhone) that will generally add a white margin, it comes with a price. The landscape/horizontal image will be pretty small on a cell phone screen. Cropping the image to a square or adding a margin is a battle and for each image, you’d have to decide whether or not it adds or detract from it.
Once the photo is found in the gallery it can be opened in SquareIt first or straight to Instagram.
The most useful app to date for Instagram is Statigram (update: now called "Iconosquare"). It gives all sorts of stats to help decide when and how to post photos to Instagram. Another useful app to create collages is Photo Grid (iPhone).
I am trying to use Instagram for a total of two days and am having surprisingly many problems. The first question is this: is there an online comprehensive tutorial for dummies?
Now, the question about the best size when moving a photo from a PC to Instagram. Is there a consensus on the proper size? I tried several sizes, sent them to my LG phone, then uploaded to Instagram. The all get cropped regardless of what I do.
Another option I just tried was to share my Flickr photos with Instagram. The horizontal image was ok, by the vertical one was cropped at the top and the bottom. They both looked crisp enough on the LG screen but fuzzy on the PC screen.
Strangely (to me) enough, the two test photos, captured with the phone, are displayed in Instagram with no cropping.
Any advice is appreciated.
Deskgram uses the API just like Gramblr. It says so on their site. So, it can get you banned just like Gramblr.
Try using deskgram.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sdy_dsmxU
Any Instagram users here have the problem of having a red colour cast on their images? It looks fine when in its thumb nail size but when I expand it the image has a red colour cast!
Couple of updates on some of the comments here; Gramblr can get you banned because of misuse of the API, as mentioned in this article. Well, push.photo and deskgram use the SAME API; it says so right on their sites. It seems there are a bunch of apps that are essentially Gramblr knockoffs. So, if you're using any of the tools that use the API, you can get banned. I haven't used the Instapic app on windows, but I think it would be safe as it's not using the API. The other non-API method is to use Bluestacks emulator, which is free. I don't use Instagram myself a lot, but I had a client with some needs that forced me to figure this out and I posted a video here; https://youtu.be/WBHbkcD_CQs
What about younity? It gives you all access to EVERY photo on your computer, with no synching or uploading required. It cuts out the cloud services and emailing-yourself runaround. I’ve been using it for about a year now and the app gets better with every update they release. ‘Hope this helps! http://www.getyounity.com/
Thanks for the article! Wondering, the image in the article says 300dpi...that makes a huge file! Is that what people are uploading to IG? Could I possibly get a definitive resolution setting please and thanks!?
Am I the only person who read this article to find out how to upload images to Instagram from PC, and left disappointed? Not being too critical, this article does not tell how to upload from PC, it gives the wrong size advice and wrong format advice. Good job for attempting to write something informative, but sometimes reading something back to yourself before posting can be a good idea. It makes you realise it may not be worth posting.
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