Instagram will still do some processing of the image, but you’ll lose much less in this process than you will if they’re resizing your image for you. Make any adjustments, edits, or color corrections you want at this point, then re-upload the photo to your mobile device (or use a third-party app) to post it to Instagram from there.
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Then, using a PC with a decent photo editing app (be it Photoshop,, or anything in between), scale down the image with as minimal a loss of quality as possible. My recommendation is to take your photos with a high quality camera, which will likely create very large images that are 3+ times larger than Instagram’s display size. A few kilobytes might not make a difference to you, but when you multiply that by billions of images every week, it’s a very different problem. They don’t really care about the detail in your images they care about space on their servers. If you think about it from Instagram’s perspective, it makes sense. It’s a generalized algorithm that adjusts the size of an image in a middling level of compression it sacrifices some detail in favor of the appropriate size. The problem is mostly just that the algorithm Instagram uses is not optimized for your images.
So why not just let the Instagram algorithm resize your image to fit their display? That’s what it’s there for, after all. Instagram image formats are generally square. Related posts: Why Not Just Let Instagram Decide?