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

  • LinngoesRedditBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hey I do it.

    So I mainly do it because of the Format. I don’t want to limit myself to 1:1.

    Also because of copyright (people won’t just screenshot your stuff and upload it somewhere else)

    And somehow Astehtic. I just like the look of a framed picture.

  • altitudeartsBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I do this. I don’t like how IG (and Glass) put the edges of the picture right up to the edge of the phone and all the type.

    You can generate a very subtle one in Lightroom Mobile on export. Hit the export icon, look for “Add Border and Share” and select Save Image.

    My personal recipe is, use the 4x5 preset, add a #6 border. Looks nice.