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How to Fit the Whole Picture on Instagram

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Julia Enthoven

4 min

This article shows you how to fit the whole picture on Instagram. If you have a full portrait (9:16) image or video or a landscape (16:9) image or video, you can fit the whole picture in your Instagram post by following this tutorial.

Instagram has a maximum aspect ratio of 4:5 on portrait posts (four pixels wide for every five pixels tall). Instagram’s restriction reduces the number of very tall images that take up a lot of vertical space in the feed. Although it’s nice that Instagram keeps users from publishing massive, obtrusive posts, the 4:5 limit makes it difficult to post a whole vertical picture or video that you shot on your phone.

Here's what your tall photos will look like on Instagram without added borders. 

If you want to fit your whole picture on Instagram but it is taller than the 4:5 aspect ratio, you need to modify your image before posting. Otherwise, Instagram will automatically crop your image to a maximum of 4:5. I recommend the Kapwing resizer as it allows you to add white space on either side to bring your image to the required aspect ratio. In this article, I’ll explain how to fit the whole picture on Instagram in three simple steps:

  1. Upload picture
  2. Resize to 4:5
  3. Download and Post to Instagram

Step 1: Upload Picture

Start by opening the Kapwing’s Resizer tool on your phone or computer. Upload your image file from camera roll or import it from a URL. Kapwing supports images, videos, and GIFs, so you can use it to resize for any kind of media.

The video resizer tool in Kapwing

Once your picture loads into the editor, you’ll be taken into the Kapwing Studio Editor where you'll see a preview of your image in the center of the screen.

Step 2: Resize to 4:5

In the Output Size section, select the 4:5 option. This allows your photo to take up maximum vertical space in the Instagram feed without getting sized down. There is a resizing option for Instagram, 1:1, but this shrinks your image to fit in the default square shape.

Resize the image to 4:5 using the button in the Output Size list

Once you have selected the size option, Kapwing adds white padding to either side of your image to make it fit the 4:5 aspect ratio. You can change this white background to any color you want so that it stands out in the Instagram feed.

Step 3: Download and Post

Click the red Export Image button at the top of the screen. After a few moments of processing, Kapwing makes your resized 4:5 picture or video available for download. Whether you're using a desktop computer, iPhone, Android, or tablet you'll be able to instantly download the image to your photo gallery once published.

If you're not signed into a Kapwing account, sign in or sign up using your Google or Facebook account – once you've signed into a Kapwing account, the watermark in the lower right corner will be removed from your final image.

Open the Instagram app and upload your picture. You’ll notice that Instagram crops the picture to square by default, but you can click the expand arrows or pinch the image in the lower left to fit the whole picture on Instagram. When you publish it, Instagram will resize to image width to fit the screen, the white image background will blend in with Instagram’s white background, and your whole picture will appear on Instagram with no cropping.

Note: You can also choose a black background, if you and your followers use Instagram in Dark Mode.

Conclusion

This tutorial shows you a workaround for posting full portrait pictures and videos on Instagram. You can use Kapwing’s Resizer to post multiple images with different sizes on Instagram, add a thin white border around your media, and publish TikTok and Snap videos. I hope that it helps speed up your social media workflow and enables you to post your beautiful and fun candid moments to Instagram.

This is how your tall photos will appear on Instagram slides – you can see the whole thing!

For more information on how to resize a video for Instagram, check out this video tutorial (we give you the best sizes for each type of video too!):

Check back in at the Kapwing Resources page or our YouTube channel for other content creation tips and tutorials! And remember to tag us @KapwingApp whenever you share your content on social media– we love to see what our creators are passionate about!

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How to Make Pictures Fit On Instagram without Cropping

Instagram is a great app for sharing the daily highlights of your life and experiences – and the platform being highly-visual makes that even more appealing. Everybody wants their photos to look good on Instagram and once you finally have that perfect photo it can be annoying to see it get cropped by Instagram.

Instagram uses different image aspect ratios, specifically 4:5 for portraits, 1:1 for squares, and 1.91:1 for landscape pictures. If your image does not align with image guidelines for Instagram your image would get cropped to fit.

However, there are multiple ways you can add your pictures on Instagram without them getting cropped which involve resizing, adding borders, and using third-party apps to make your image fit within Instagram’s given frame. Read on to find out how to fit your images for a cleaner and more consistent look.

1. Resize Your Images with Instagram’s Crop Feature

When Instagram first started out it only had the option to upload square images with a ratio of 1:1 however an update back in 2015 changed this as Instagram started to allow uploading portraits and landscape images as well.

It’s very easy to resize your images using Instagram’s crop feature. When adding a new post you will see a light grey icon with a white frame inside on the bottom left of your post screen. Click on it and it will automatically resize your images to fit the frame. You can also pinch your fingers together to shrink your image so it fits in the post.

The main downside to this method is that it is limited and might not fully cover the excess or might awkwardly resize them. You want your images to look good, natural, and neat but the zoom feature can only do so much.

If this method does not work on your image then a much better way to resize your images is to do it manually using a photo editing tool or third-party apps.

2. Manually Resize Your Image

The best way to make your images fit on Instagram without cropping them is to manually resize them. Resizing your pictures this way would allow you to have full control over the image.

It’s important to know that when you do resize your image you will have some empty space around your image. The thing cool thing is that if you are manually resizing your images you can have a custom background for your images.

A great tool you can use is BunnyPic – a free online photoshop editor. You don’t have to sign up, install it or be worried to have a watermark on your images. It is totally free to use and beginner-friendly.

To resize your images using BunnyPic follow the below steps:

  1. Go to the BunnyPic Editor.
  2. Click on Open from Computer and select the image you want to resize.
  1. Go to Image > Canvas Size and scale the canvas to 1080 x 1080 pixels or a 1:1 aspect ratio.
  1. Create a New Layer and place it below the picture layer.
  1. Fill the new layer with a white color or black if you and your followers use dark mode.
  1. Once you’re happy with the results go to File > Export As and export it as a PNG or JPG.

You can see how the image now fits perfectly inside the frame compared to the cropped image from before without losing any of its original value.

3. Using Third-Party Apps

The above method should work for all your photos but if you want to keep the whole process on your phone without having to switch around your photos from your computer you can try third-party apps.

There are numerous third-party apps on Google Play Store and Apple App Store that you can download which would automatically resize your photos to fit into your canvas.

The best free apps to make pictures fit on Instagram without cropping are No Crop & Square, Whitagram, and PicsArt.

No Crop & Square

No Crop & Square for Instagram is an app that gives you different options to edit your photos for Instagram. It has a number of resizing options such as rotation, shrink, and enlarge. You can also add text and stickers to your images; making it a great app to meet all your needs.

No Crop & Square is only available on Android and can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store here.

Whitagram

Whitagram is an IOS app that allows you to add white borders and resize your images for Instagram. It is quite similar to the above app and will get the job done to make your images look cleaner without going through a complicated editing process.

Download Whitagram from the Apple Store here.

PicsArt

PicsArt is a popular editing app that is available for both IOS and Android and has a better and unique way of resizing your photos for Instagram. It has a blur effect which can be added to the image borders which is far more attractive than the white or black borders from the previous apps.

To edit your Instagram pictures without cropping using PicsArt follow the below steps:

  1. Open your photo from your camera roll/gallery.
  2. Click on the share icon.
  3. Select PicsArt. This will open your image on PicsArt.
  4. On the bottom of the screen, select Effects.
  5. Select Square fit and add a 50% blur with the slider.

The effect works best for landscape photos. This is the kind of result you would get.

Download PicsArt on the Play Store or App Store.

Conclusion

Instagram is a great app for sharing your pictures online but it can be annoying when Instagram crops your image to make it fit in the post. This cropping is poorly done, making it look awkward and not as you intended.

To make your images fit better on Instagram you can use their crop feature, our BunnyPic editor, or third-party apps on your phone to resize your images and make them fit the way you want them to.

Long pictures appeared on Instagram. What happened and how to do the same?

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Nikolay Udintsev

May 7, 2020 21:46

Very long pictures began to be published on Instagram, which break the feed and confuse subscribers. In the comments they are surprised and ask: how to make the same? We briefly describe how this is possible and how to hack the feed yourself.

What other long Instagram posts?

Long posts posted on Instagram by Vetememes, a parody clothing brand that photoshops models in Vetements and Balenciaga and replaces logos on Vetememes and Boolenciaga . The brand has its own lookbook, however, you can’t buy anything from it, you can only pre-order it. On the project's Instagram, which is signed with the phrase "A parody of a parody", mostly memes are posted.

After Vetememes, other brands and users started posting long pictures (however, they deleted them almost immediately).

The posted posts are so long that they don't fit on the screen of even the tallest phone. If you send such a post to stories or paste it on the desktop version of the site, then it will remain incredibly long. The Instagram app, of course, officially does not allow you to upload such tall pictures. Portrait photos are limited to 4/5 aspect ratio and 1080/1350 pixels, so any taller photo, such as 2/3 aspect ratio, will need to be cropped. nine0003

How to break your Instagram feed yourself?

You need to create a very narrow and long picture. On a phone, this can be done in PicsArt (iOS, Android), Adobe Sketch (iOS, Android) and Photofox (iOS) applications: in the list of suggested aspect ratios, select "Manual" (or "Custom") and specify the aspect ratio, for example 16/6000 pixels.

The smaller the width, the longer you can make the picture, so the ideal option is a canvas with a width of one pixel. In this case, the height of the image will most likely be limited only by the capabilities of the photo editor. While writing the material on Instagram, I managed to upload an image with an aspect ratio of 1/10 thousand pixels. It will take a very long time to scroll such an image. In addition, it will most likely lose its color, for example, an image with an aspect ratio of 5/100 pixels loaded in black, and 1/10 thousand in white. nine0003

There is one more option - crop or shrink the photo. In this case, after uploading to Instagram, terrifying artifacts will appear on the picture. To make such a post, you need a desktop photo editor.

Is it possible to break other social networks in the same way?

You can upload a long picture to Facebook, but it will be displayed in the feed as a regular photo - with an aspect ratio of 2/3. You can also upload a long picture on VKontakte, but in the feed it will not be so long - somewhere around 700 pixels in height. It's the same on Twitter - you can upload an image, but in the feed it will be limited to the platform's standard aspect ratio of 16/9. If you send a very long picture to Telegram, the application will give an error or just crash.

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How to post panoramas on Instagram*

November 12, 2017 Web services

A little trick will allow you to bypass the Instagram* limitation on photo width.

Uploading a panoramic photo to Instagram* is easy. You can create an Instagram post* with multiple photos blending into one another. It will look something like this. nine0003

Panoramic photos on Instagram* are no different from regular posts with multiple shots. They can be made manually or using mobile applications. Here's how it's done.

Preparing a panorama manually

  1. Take a panoramic photo. Most modern smartphones and cameras can do this. Keep in mind that you may need a tripod to get really good panoramic photos.
  2. Open the photo in any photo editor. You can use professional solutions such as Photoshop, Lightroom and their alternatives, or Lightroom Mobile, or any other image editor of your choice. The editor only needs the ability to cut out image fragments. nine0062
  3. Use the photo cropping tool to crop your photo to the desired aspect ratio. If you want your panorama to be in three parts, the aspect ratio of the photo should be 3:1. For a six-part panorama, the aspect ratio should be 6:1, and so on. Please note that you cannot insert more than ten squares into one Instagram* panorama.
  4. Cut the resulting image into several squares of the same size. You can do this both in your graphics editor, and using one of these services:
  • Griddrawingtool.com;
  • Imgonline.com.
  1. You will get several images of the same aspect ratio. Now send them to your phone to upload them in the right order on Instagram*. Or you can upload photos directly from your computer through the mobile version of the site. To make a panorama, you need to place the photos from left to right so that the leftmost part of the photo is the first, and the rightmost is the last.

Load panorama automatically

Take a panoramic photo for Instagram* with apps like Swipeable for iOS and InSwipe for Android. They are free, and with them you do not have to bother fussing in graphic editors.

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