Use this Instagram HACK to Avoid Cropping Your Photos

Instagram’s native post size is 4:5, but most people shoot in a 2:3 ratio. Because of this, you’ll have to crop the edges of your photos to make them fit on Instagram.

While it certainly isn’t ideal, this quick workaround may help you to include the whole image without cropping. The content aware scale tool in Photoshop scales your image while maintaining the subject of the photo, without any distortion. Give it a try on your next Instagram post, rather than cropping! #lightroom #instagramtip #uberquickphototip #photoshop #photoshoptutorial #shorts

[moniqueb.]

You have no idea how many WRONG vids I had to view just to get to the ONLY ONE THAT ACTUALLY WORKED!!! Thank you bro!!! <3

[hatukaj]

Ngl I thought you were gonna expand and use content aware fill for the left and right parts, but you caught me off guard with the content aware scale tool, I never knew about it. Great video!!

[ninthsunn]

i’ve seemed to miss the point here. isn’t the final result is still ending up with 4x5 cropped image? what’s the gain of doing this method from cropping when the result ended the same? i’m confused.

[kenji]

Instagram has added a "mixed" orientation when posting. But for me it has been annoyingly buggy when i try and post it. It puts all of the pictures as whatever the original pictures aspect ratio was. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt

[BluYvng]

Can you showcase a video on how to do this in Lightroom

[majihead]

You can actually upload at 10:17 ratio which is the best for long vertical photos

[jobinjosepharackathazhath]

Can you make a video like you said from photoshop to lightroom and directly share to instagram. I m still trouble in high quality export from photoshop. Thank you

[lealuptakova]

It still does warp my pictures i dont know why

[karlycarter]

How do I force the crop to go only downwards? Is there a different set of keys to hold on Mac?

[firefeethok_tui]

Love your tips, they are teaching me. wish I knew photoshop like you. ❤

[meridiable]

awesome... anyone know if is there a way to do this without photoshop, i.e. without paying for that additional program?

[charruaporelmundo]

Some software do this very easily but I can’t recall it name…

[fpershoot]

When doing the Content Aware scale, ALT is pressed and it crops on all sides leaving pixels on either side.

[ADRANBUTTN]

When I follow these my content aware option is unavailable as it is greyed out!

[nabiha.shaikh]

Can u create a video on this new ai long post?

[fpershoot]

I tried the Content aware scale but expands both top and side too! Can you help?

[muhammadrizqanilmi]

Sadly I only have Ibis Paint and if even I had to open photoshop that means I need to open my laptop and I'm lazy to do that

[kelvintong]

is there a way to do this in bulk in LRC? or just in LRC

[joshuahughes]

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me even following each step repeatedly. Once the canvas is resized to 4 by 5, I have pixels either side and cannot select the content-aware scale, as it is greyed out! I really don't know what the issue is, as I have RGB colour, Photoshop 2024...

[einerhand]

It doesn't work the way you do it on my Photoshop. When i hit enter, the cut of image is no longer available to crop with conternt aware, i just get missing photo