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How To Avoid Instagram From Compressing & Ruining Your Photos
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2020
- In this video I share with you what are the best ways to export your images in order to avoid Instagram from compressing your photos. I use two softwares in oder to upload the best quality photos to my Instagram.
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Something that confuses me is when I post one picture the quality comes out good but when I post multiple slides in one post the quality turns out bad even thought it’s the same pics
same
Sameeeee. I need help on how to fix this cuz it’s soooo annoying
Also have this exact problem :(
Yoooooo I’m having this problem 😭 guess I’ll have to post them one by one sadly 😂
Me too omg
Just started a new IG profile and didn’t notice IGs been compressing all of my photos 😖. When you first upload it doesn’t compress right away.. I’ve noticed it takes effect a couple of hours later. Very helpful thanks!
Awesome, thanks a lot for watching. Hope the vid helped out in anyway.
Bruh I’m POSTING IN MY STORIES CONSTANTLY AND THEY ARE ALWAYS BLURRY WHEN ADDING “MUSIC” help!!!!
me who can't even use instagram music bcs it's not available in my country: 👀👄👀
Mine too dude
Its even worse with an Android 💀
@@RyanlovesTh bruh insta hates android they never fix it!
I notice that the quality isn't nearly as good when I post my pic directly to my IG story as well. What I do is share my post (the photo I added to my timeline) to my IG story and the quality is retained. Let me know how that works for you.
doing a 1:1 ratio seems to help a bit, I'll be using that tip. However, when zooming in on instagram, still not as crisp as when zooming in on my phone's camera roll. Assuming there's no helping that, just the cost of posting to social media like insta I guess.
omg tysm it's a short, simple tutorial and there's no stalling! just straight to the steps. love this so much.
Im so glad you appreciate the video!
Thank you man I've been wondering why my almost 4k pictures look 144p when I send them to someone
People don't understand the anger that brings man
Thank you. I have been doing this completely wrong. I appreciate your clear and concise explanation.
Great to hear it helps. Thanks for watching!
This is the purest video I have ever watched so smooth ,audio is perfect, and most importantly very easy to follow Thank you... new sub!
I did as you said and still my pictures are getting extremely compressed. I have seen so many tutorials and I don't know what to do. I see all of these photographers uploading images in very high resolution on instagram and mine look terrible. I am simply not gonna post anything until I figure out what's going on, but I am running out of ideas. :(
There is a chance that Android uploads are treated differently than iPhone ones. There is a video from Amir on youtube regarding why he is switching to Apple. He explains that apple released barely 2-3 phones per year while Android based are hundreds if not thousands. Reason why apps can tailor better to apple than the rest resides in the sheer number of releases and adaptations they must undergo to fit a device. But if you're using iphone and still have that issue, disregard my message as there is then an even more mysterious situation at hand :D
Me too!!!
@@cinialvespow1054 I am still playing it with, but I had good results using Photoshop 'save for web' option when you go into file-->save menu. Ideally keep the ratio as we generally know that works the best on insta and other platforms. But also make sure to set resolution between 73% and 80%. That made a hell of a difference in terms of weight of the file, which now I believe is a parameter that they take into account when they severely compress your images on these platforms
Try and let me know :D fingers crossed
I feel the same way. I am very discouraged because no matter what settings I export with, Instagram ruins my photos. I don't know how other accounts have very sharp and crisp photos.
@@SpaceLion87 fax bro, im android user and my insta stories are blurry AF! shit was embarrassing to see i delet3d all my posts :(
It works when i upload a single photo, when it comes to multiple photos, instagram still compresses it. What do I do??
same
ive noticed this too. instagram just fucking sucks
I dont notice that on mine but at the same time I mostly post one photo at a time. Sorry to hear it. I'll look into this obvious issue. Thanks
Same with me, plss help us
following this
Thank you very much, a client showed me how when she tried to post my photos on instagram stories they all looked grainy and horrible. I just had to resize it to 1080 width
AWESOME, glad it helped!
Omg you the OG man 😭😭 the lightroom dng option worked so well. Thank you♥️
LoL im glad it worked out for you! Subscribe to stay tuned for more useful photo tips and advice! Thanks for watching.
I have had this blurry problem for a long time. My next upload I will try this first. I usually upload from my gallery on my phone > share > instagram feed.... The quality is different if you upload the picture by selecting it in the instagram app. But still very blurry and ugly. I will try this technique next.
Short 3 min video with great explanation, really appreciate it.
Super helpful! Awesome quality, well thought out 💭 👍🏽
thank you so much!
Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge!
Absolutely my pleasure!
I only clicked for the representation in the pic... What I got was the ONLY TH-camr who fully explained all the ways to upload a photo properly.
WOW, thank you so much! Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!
Excellent video with very good information. This information will help a lot of people, and they will benefit from this video, and the information.
Thanks so much for the kind words Albert!!!!
Robert this was a good video, direct and straight to what matters. I'm not on Instagram yet but will join in the next week. I am on Fine Art America and always post the images at full-size but with the resolution as 72 ppi and have never had a problem. I'll try out what you say because I like your approach. Thanks Robert!
All insta and FB photos are automatically downgraded to 96ppi, so use that resolution instead of 72 for more accurate details and instead of 300 to save yourself some storage space
@@DIEGO.L Actually ppi is a print thing, just worry about the pixel dimensions. That's why 72ppi and 300ppi produce exactly the same size image if you input 1080 in both. They would print differently perhaps but the image will be the same. Try it out. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
This video is just like other videos on the youtube. This will not help you.
The first thing you should not saturate the RGB colors. Open it in lightroom mobile or pc. Size : Small (2048) and quality must be on 70% otherwise instagram will ruin your photo quality.
Now while uploading increase the sharpness inside instagram edit section & donot increase too much.
Problem solved 👍✌️
I resized my photo to 1920x1080 but still my photos getting ruined as quality on stories..(
how do I select the "Pixels per inch" on light room mobile? I only see the option to change long side 1080 px
I couldn't find it either but at least export at a 4:5 aspect ratio for portraits to give you the best chance accurate composition when you post. Then save to camera roll, and upload to IG. I've never had a issue with the quality of my posts when doing this. Hope this helps in any away.
Pixels per inch is irrelevant. PPI is only used when printing. Otherwise, the OS display software automatically scales the resolution for the actual screen in use, be it phone, tablet or monitor..
The PPI setting does not change any pixels stored in files. If you set the image size to 1080 pixels, that is what will be stored in the file, regardless of any PPI setting.
what happens for me is i post a photo and the quality is fine for a bit and the more time passes it gets worse, what do i do?
what about for videos? can you use lightroom still?
The photos looked perfect when I first posted it on Instagram but then when I went back to it after few days later , they look very compressed. Like there's a noticeable difference. So I reposted the photos again and the quality looks fine once again like before.
Any idea why's this happening? I've followed the right settings . I initially thought it might be cause of bad internet speed but that's not it.
Oh no! That's really weird. AS I mentioned to others, the blurry issue hasn't happened to me before. But im quite sure that an Instagram issue. Im sorry to hear about your frustration. Thanks for comment.
when I post my photos hi resolution, it stay high res for a couple of hours, so i can zoom them with my fingers and everything is good. but 3 hours later the same pictures turns out low res and pixelated.... I can't understand...
Me too ! But it happens after 5 mins
@@ahmadah2594 same to me its so annoying i dont what to do..
@@lice.nasynwa we have to get a new phone i guess :/
What are the recommended settings when using Lightroom mobile because that is the one that I'm using.. 🤔
Does this work for profile picture logos? They keep ruining my logo
Same problem. Did you solved it?
@@batukarpuzoglu5331 maybe I'm just crazy, but I swear that the fix is uploading it through your phone. Whenever I upload a profile pic through the browser it gets fucked but if I upload it though my phone it works (pngs work better)
so do you have to shoot the image as a jpeg for it to render without compression? Can I shoot raw and still do a jpeg file as you showed?
Hi Justin, I do the later. I shoot RAW then export jpeg. I do this for all the posts I've made on my Instagram to this day. Thanks for checking out my vid.
@@RobertSilverPhotography awesome thank you very much man, I appreciate your work
@@justinwilliamson5834 Simply my pleasure!
I have a question a little unrelated, when I post videos , the audio quality is compressed, how can I prevent this ?
I am doing this already but instagram is still making my photos blurry😣...
Ouch, sorry to hear it. At 75 or 300 ppi? I keep mine at 330
same thing! I am so frustrated :(
@@RobertSilverPhotography how can you have 330ppi when you have 1080 pixels wide?
@@RobertSilverPhotography 330ppi only make the file size bigger which is instagram will compress it even more. 72ppi is a sweet spot for file size.
Great video. Detailed but concise.
Glad you liked it Appreciate you checking out my vid!
Did not worked. When I check the propriety of the image, it says it's 864x1080 even when I put 1080x1080. When I posted on Instagram, it still went compressed.
Try 1500X1500 and see what happens. But do remember this video is advice from my experience. Instagram is an ever changing complicated best. Now the platform prioritizes video content of still images.
Hopefully someone can answer this. So, when you pinch zoom on some peoples photos on instagram, the quality is still pretty good but not always. Is there a way to always get higher quality when zooming into images? When I follow the resolution guides for uploading to instagram and I pinch zoom, my images are compressed liked crazy compared to some other images I see from other people.
Been having the same problem and it gives me the ick whenever i zoom in my pics and the quality is shit :(
I love this ..! Please do more 🙏😍 love to see..!
If i shoot in adobe rgb and want to convert it to srgb, do i convert it before i color grading in lightroom or after i color grading it..?
Rob I am still satisfied with the tutorial wanted to know if the 4-5 pic would completely maintain my picture size or there will still reduction even If I use the inshot
I'm glad to hear it. From my experience is noticed zero change in picture size whether I post one or multiple pics (carousel) in a post.
Thank you!
Hi! I don't understand if the ratio to don't have the compression is between 1.91:1 and 4:5 or is 1.91:1 OR 4:5. For example, if I'll post a pic with resolution of 1080*700 and not 1080*566, is it good?
thank you you just saved me!!
Awesome, glad i was able to help!
Hi! How do I select the aspect radio on Lightroom mobile? Thanks for the info!
Hi, this video show you how to adjust the aspect ratio (crop) your photo in Lightroom mobile. Hope this helps! th-cam.com/video/UaAYAOg2Jnw/w-d-xo.html
So if I am taking photos/videos off of Lightroom Mobile, I take the photo as a DNG, reside to a 4:5 ration, then export as a JPEG. What do I select for the image quality percentage? What about for Dimension? (Largest Available Dimension, 2048 px, or custom dimension? When I select custom dimension it lists “Long side ____px”
Using this to post pictures/videos (reels) on instagram
Still did not work. When zoomed in, photo looks horrible and pixelated.
Sorry to hear it. It's the same technique I use daily on my Instagram posts. I don't have that result.
Hi - I am hoping you can answer a question for me. I use PowerPoint to create my Instagram posts. Very often the posts appear blurry, not sharp or clear, after being uploaded. Some posts consist of a colored background and text, others have a background, some photos and text. I save the finished design as a JPEG. The PP file and Jpegs look clear on my computer but not after they have been uploaded to IG.
Why is this happening?
Are there specific settings I should use when saving my files?
Do PNG files work better than JPEGs?
I appreciate any assistance you can provide.
To be honest, I never used PowerPoint to create Instagram posts. What I shared in the video is how I create me posts. I highly recommend you checking out canva.com. Its a great website for creating social media content - its free to use. You can easily produce high quality IG ready posts. Hope that works! :)
Hey I bought a samsung galaxy s20fe around 1st december and since then everytime I make a new story they turn out pixelated after they're posted. I only add my picture and music. Any way to fix that?
Hey Robert this was an amazing video! To the point, exceptionally cured audio and video and great pace.
You remind me of Roberto Blake when he had just a few thousand subs and look how much he has grown. Take it as a compliment because I am sure you'll hit a million in no time. Thank you for sharing.
Seriously, thanks a lot! I really appreciate you checking out my vid and for the compliment.
What about with videos? Would it be similar?
can this be applied for vector graphics illustrations as well?
Great intro, great video
If my image is 1024x1024 should i upscale before instagram?
Should i compress the image as much as possible in photoshop before instagram?
The ideal size for square posts is 1080px by 1080px at a 1:1 aspect ratio. For landscape posts, use an image that is 1080px by 566px, with an aspect ratio of 1.91:1. Vertical images should be sized at 1080px by 1350px with a 4:5 aspect ratio. I hope this helps.
everytime i make a story my words come out blurry and laggy how do i fix that ?
How about ratio 3:2? Is it okay as long as the width is 1080 pixels? :) Thank you!
No issues when you're using a 2:3 aspect ratio
That’s what I was wondering because I created a new account and my profile gotten so blurry and I don’t know what to do 🤷🏼
Hopefully it works out for you.
@@RobertSilverPhotography will it be fix soon
I upload my posts in 3200 x 4000. This is better than uploading in 1080?
Very helpful..
Super helpful
U mentioned that u can capture the photos in Lightroom in DNG format but, I didn’t capture the photo using Lightroom. The photo is from Snapchat. Should I still save it as a DNG versus the JPEG? (I’m using iOS, not desktop)
In the Lightroom Mobile app there is an option to change to DNG from JPEG. That gives you more metadata (information) to adjust with the photo.
@@RobertSilverPhotography when it saves to my camera roll as DNG it shows it as being black in my camera roll? The pic isn’t showing up?
@@agegirl Huh that sounds weird. That hasn't happened to me but Here is a Lightroom tutorial video I hope that helps: th-cam.com/video/pW8G7eeE14g/w-d-xo.html
@@RobertSilverPhotography I kno it’s so weird. Also, while I have ur attention can u tell me what is the difference between cropping to 4x5 and 1080x1350?
Thank you!!!
You're welcome!
What do you do if the physical framing of the subject is not possible in the square or looks completely stupid and you need to have a wider openshot like let's say for an example you do a landscape and you lose so much of the landscape because you can't have example rectangular framing because you don't want to have your shot be compressed yes you can do the swipe across shit but that is completely not acceptable replacement what do you do in incidences like
And if there is physically nothing Instagram needs to fix their backend so that they can physically hold capacity for what they use as want because they literally I've been on Instagram since 2015 and always had this issue and never really looked into it until I got so many comments about it on my post I thought I better do something discovered this video and then realised shitt I can physically not frame appropriate to not do this there is no physical way for the type of shots I take it will just look very silly framed into a square like Instagram want appropriate framing for non compression is not physically possible for the type of stuff I take because if I do I will cut off what I am taking and then people will complain about it being cut off
Hi I have a note 10plus but my video quality looks blurred from tiktok on whats app especially and Instagram help me please 🇹🇹🙏
I appreciate you reaching out. Unfortunately I don't use TikTok and Whats App. This video is all about posting/sharing still images - with Instagram in particular. I'll make a video dealing with video in the future. Thanks again!
What do you think about the phenomenon that the quality of sharp uploaded video's are getting screwed down so far after time, that they just look really bad? But maybe not for all accounts? Do you know more about this maybe?
I didn't hear about this effect on videos. Do you have a link to an article about this? I personally haven't seen degradation on any of mine, yet, lol.
@@RobertSilverPhotography i have send you an email but never mind! I only see it when i am logged in, in my own account. Other accounts see them sharp als normal... I don't know why i see them in such a bad quality... But anyway, solved!
Is that ok if i add landscape orientation photo on instragram with 1350 pixels on the width side?
I would export from Lightroom with 1,600 X 1,600 in dimensions if anything. Since IG recommends those settings for uploading images in a square.
Will this work in videos as well?
How do i upload original quality insta profile pic.
What do you mean exactly when you say upload origianl quality insta profile pic? Do you mean original, hi-resolution, straight from the camera, quality image?
If i make some art for instagram, i should draw it in 1080x1080px size or bigger?
I draw in multiples of 1080, like 3240 for ex. When finished just change the canvas size to 1080.
for some reason instagram keeps posting pictures i took in purple lighting super blurry, and whenever i compress the image with an app and post it the quality is worse than the original even though they both look the same in my camera roll. i posted a different set of pictures instead and had no issue, could it be the bright purple lighting affecting the quality? i don’t know what to do i’ve been trying to fix it for hours
I never had an issue with posting pics using colored lighting. Would you mind reaching out to my email? I want to try posting your photo myself and see what happens when I try to. info@robertsilverphotography.com
@@RobertSilverPhotography sure! i even had my friend try to post it from her phone and it didn’t work either though
@@ashlynrose393 I got your email :)
@@RobertSilverPhotography I’m having the same issue. Did you fingers out what was happening? Trying to post a picture taken in blue light and I’ve done everything but still comes out super blurry on my profile pic
@@RobertSilverPhotography *figure
I have two accounts of Instagram and I'm using dual apps in the same phone but the same photo when I upload it on one account it's a bit blurr and in another completely fine why one account is downsizing to 780kb another to 1.7 mb same pic why
Im sorry but it sounds like an Instagram issue. I dont get blurry issues and still personally use the process I explained on my instagram today. I would downsize to the maximum size that IG allows (not smaller). Check out my images on instagram instagram.com/robertsilverphotography
i’m just trying to set a pic as my pfp i’ve tried to resize it and stuff nothing will work
Same
I am exporting photos to this size but Instagram is still compressing my photo when I add them to reels! Do you have any tips for keeping high quality photos on reels?
Hi Marisa, now a video about posting to reels is a great idea. I haven’t done that yet. Unfortunately from my experience when I post videos to reels I will definitely expect compression. It’s apart of the game. The fact we don’t pay for the storage of all the video data on IG server and if we want the videos to be uploaded within seconds compression comes with the territory. But I very much appreciate you send me a message.
Recently I can upload a video just fine, but when I close and reopen Instagram the video is pixelated!
When ever I upload videos I use the very same video I used to upload to TH-cam. I never had an issue (export @ 1080p).
sadly, didn't work for me T_T It's red light picture... sooo blurry been trying things for an hour now. Nothing works and it's a hella sharp image... pffff
Wow, im so sorry to hear it. It use it regularly myself on my IG channel. I appreciate you checking out my video.
Such a nice video!
There is only one thing I didn't quite understand: you said to enter 1080 pixels for the width and allow lightroom to proportionally adjust the height, so you left the height also at 1080 (at 2:16). I get different size images when I do this compared to when I enter 1350 in the height. Resize to fit box is checked tho.
What should I do?
you need to crop your image in Lightroom/photoshop at a 4 x 5 ratio for a "portrait" image. The 4 is the width (1080) and the 5, the height will be 1350. For a landscape orientation use 1.91 x 1 ratio. That will be 1080 wide by 566 tall. (I get 565 for some reason)
Instagram ruins red-back photos, can someone help about that?
This is bs tho I have it in these parameters and it’s still being downscaled for no reason
I’m sorry to hear about your frustration . I still use this same method when I post to my IG account. Feel free to check the quality of my photo uploads. instagram.com/robertsilverphotography
Thanks for the great video. Very clear. However, I am just so confused. I take most of my photos on Snapchat. I kno I kno. I shouldn’t because the ratio is a lot different and is a pain to resize to accommodate most social media platforms. But, I like the filters lol 🤦🏻♀️. Anyways, from my understanding you get the most quality and real estate by resizing to 1080x1350. U said ur using photoshop on ur computer. I am using iOS. And, u mentioned if u upload from fb to insta... fb only gets the same resolution that ig uses. But, there is an option to link ur Insta and fb together so u can upload from Instagram first which in turn uploads to fb. So is there a difference when doing that? And, if u resize to 2x3 it looks like u get more of the pic and it doesn’t get cropped as much. I am trying to get as much real estate as possible without having to crop it off. And, I don’t want those white borders. Either way, Snapchat’s ratio is hard because it’s really tall and not wide as most platforms require so I have came to the conclusion that I have to resize no matter what😫 but, I don’t know if I should do it separately or what. There’s just so many questions. This is so stressful. Why can’t they just make it easy. Ugh.
Nope I resized to Instagram portrait on kuji and it was even worse (uploading to story, not post)
I use Adobe Lightroom (or Lightroom Mobile App) to resize all of my photos before I post to Instagram or social media. You can view the quality of my work on my Instagram instagram.com/robertsilverphotography
trying to uload grainy image, instagram applies noise reduction (((
Damn, cant win for losing with Facebook/Instagram.
This isn’t the solution. I’ve tried all this among additional things. Still bad. It seems more to do with what colors are in the photos and how dark the photo is. But if you want a specific aesthetic (like a dark vibe with a lot of red / pink color) you’re seemingly screwed.
Sorry, that's the case for you. All the photos I post on my Instagram beg to differ. Though this video is 2 years old it still works for me today. I wish you the creative best. instagram.com/robertsilverphotography
@@RobertSilverPhotography I'm talking specifically about dark photos with a lot of red color. Not "all the photos." You're not having issues with dark photos with a lot of red color?
@@RobertSilverPhotography My suspicion is the compression algorithms struggle with low frequency light.
Instagram still ruins my profile photo. I don’t know what to do. I tried everything. Please help me.
Im sorry I have never had in issue with the quality of IG profile photos being affected. Try checking out canva.com - they are a great creative site to make content specifically for the particular social media site you want to post on. Hope it helps.
@@RobertSilverPhotography Thank you so much for reply, I will check it out.
It doesn't matter as long you have android device it will look like a shit
Nice
What about videos??
Sorry, this only applies to still images. I have never had an issue when I upload my video content to IG.
so stupid that instagram does this
I feel the same. It's why I decided to share this tip.
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Thank you!
omg instagram makes me so mad
Lol unfortunately that feeling will never change. I understand your frustration.
Why do Americans pronounce mobile as mobul btw
I guess the same reason why we drive on the right side of the road... cause we can I guess. We like make shit up as we go along. Then commit 100% to it, lol. Thanks for the questions :)
Careful, we might do nook-ya-lur on you! ROFLMAO
Das is wi
No matter what i try millions of times,million of videos of people suggesting different things...i LOSE every TIME the warm colors slightly of my photos...(oranges,yellows),there is no CURE for this...i should delete my Insatgram,i am very disappointed !!!!!
Man, so sorry to hear. Everything I do is what I shared and never had issues with posting my photos. Definitely sorry to hear about your experience. Don’t give up 👊🏾
(JUST BUY AN I Phone)
Thanks me later.
Instagram still lowers the quality