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Crop and prepare an image for Instagram

Crop and prepare an image for Instagram

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Crop and prepare an image for Instagram

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- [Chris] Hello friends, this is Chris Orwig, and welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we will be working on three different images, and here, I want to share a few tips for using Lightroom in order to prepare your images for sharing on Instagram. Because sometimes, I find I'm in Lightroom and I realize, "Hey, I actually want to share this image on Instagram," so I want to do a little bit of work here before I go over to my device or my phone, or whatever. So, how do we do that? We'll start off with some simple examples, and then get a little bit more complex. With this first image, I tap the R key to go to the crop tool. Now, the key is to know the aspect ratio for Instagram, which is four-by-five, right here. So, if you have an image which is vertical like this, it can't be any taller than what we're seeing here in this four-by-five aspect ratio. So, you can go ahead and choose that, and then modify how you want that to appear, double-click, and apply the crop. And…

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