I’ve seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?

If that is so why don’t they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops

  • txensen@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m always surprised how many people are unaware that Instagram has allowed custom aspect ratios for many years now.

    • cosine83@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      They do but within very narrow margins and they’ll crop and compress anyways usually. And forget about mixed aspect ratios in a single post.

    • qtx@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’s pretty useless if you want to post more than one photo. The AR of the first photo will be applied to all the other pics so if your photos are all different ARs it will not work.