Want the best image sizes for Instagram? In this video I'm going to show you
three possible image sizes for the Instagram feed as well as tell you which
one I've seen get the most engagement for my agency clients, and we'll cover
the best image sizes for Instagram Stories as well, alright? Let's get into
it
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comes out. My name is Jerry Potter and today we're talking about Instagram
image sizes. I'm going to show you the three most popular image sizes for
posting to your Instagram feed as well as the one of them that I've seen get
the most engagement and reach for my agency clients. Plus I'll show you an
easy way to make them that size, and we'll cover Instagram stories and the
right size images for that as well. You may remember when Instagram launched it
was all about the square images. That was what the entire platform was built on. A
lot of people were shocked when they started allowing other sized images! But
now you can kind of go three different ways. So the traditional square image on
Instagram, which still looks great, is going to be 1080 by 1080, and that's
pixels that we're talking about. I like to use Canva for making my images. It's
super easy - I can just come right here, type in Instagram, and it'll show me
right there, "Instagram post 1080 x 1080." Click it and now I can drag my photo in
and it is preset for the size that I need for the traditional Instagram post
Now I'm going to show you a couple of less traditional sizes as well and if
you wanted to do either of those in Canva, and this is the free version of
Canva I'm showing you by the way, you could come up here in the corner, click
custom dimensions and then just type in your sizes and whatever size you put in
it will create it for you. So that's why I like to use Canva for sizing my images
for Instagram. It's just super super easy. Now if you want to go wide with your
image or you're showing a video in a traditional widescreen format that's
gonna be 1080 by 1920, but keep in mind when you post things at this size you
are not getting very much space in the newsfeed and I'll show you an example of
that here in just a second. And the third image type, and this is my favorite and
this is what I try and post whenever the image makes sense, is a tall image, a
portrait image, a vertical image, call it whatever you want but Instagram will
show 1080 by 1350, and what this does is it gives you a bunch of room in the
newsfeed, which I believe means somebody's more likely to stop scrolling
and notice your image. So here are three different posts all on an Instagram feed
The first one is a widescreen or landscape one, the second one is a square
one, the traditional Instagram size, and the third one is the portrait one. So if
you can imagine somebody scrolling through their feed how much more room
you have to catch their eye - you're taking more real estate by doing that
vertical portrait one - really important thing to keep in mind though - when
someone looks at your Instagram profile, all of the images are still squares. So
if you do a widescreen image, anything on the edge is gonna get chopped off. So if
you have words across your entire image, you may want to make sure they're not on
the edges. Or if you do a tall or a portrait or vertical image, same thing
with the top and bottom. Only that square section in the middle of your image is
going to show on your Instagram profile. Instagram Stories? This part's easy
They're all 1920 by 1080. Sometimes you have a photo that you want to share
that's not that size. I like to use the InShot app to do that. You take it and
it will automatically add a top and a bottom to your picture so that it'll
show up very nicely at 1920 by 1080 in your Instagram story. Hey if you want to
connect on Instagram I'm @mrjerrypotter. Would love to chat with you on
there - send me a DM and let me know that you saw this video. Now that you know
what sizes to use on Instagram, I want to show you a trick that has
doubled the engagement I get using a free app, alright? Click the video right
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