Okay, this is a long-standing question. A lot of you have been asking me this.
How do we post on Instagram from our computer? Well, I'm going to show you the
backstage pass on how this works right here today on the Six Figure Mastermind,
keep watching.
So, going to talk Instagram today. It's one of my favorite platforms to use for
building my six-figure business because it is so user friendly. It's so simple,
it's so clean and it embodies some of my favorite things which are technology and
photography. It's super fun. But the big question is, how do we post from our
computer to Instagram? You know and a lot of people want to do this because they
don't just want to use their pictures that they took with their phone on
Instagram. Let's say you have a beautiful image that you captured on an outside
camera and you want to put that on Instagram. But you can't exactly just use
your camera to take a photo of the back of the screen of your camera. I mean like
that would be an awful picture. Nobody wants to see that, right? It'll just won't
just do justice to the beautiful image you want to put out there. So, you've got
this image on your hard drive, on your computer and now you've got to get it on
Instagram. Well, here's the thing. You can't. Instagram is an online mobile only
program. And they've set it that way on purpose. I know, I've tried. I've tried to
just upload pictures from my desktop to Instagram and it doesn't work. You can't
do it. However, I do have a couple of shortcuts for you that will actually
allow you to take all of those beautiful images that are on your hard drive and
put them right on Instagram. Before I show you how to do that, first and
foremost, on your computer, you need one or two of the following tools. The first
thing that you're going to need is Google Photos. Google Photos is an online
platform that also has an app. Which means it's going to interface with your
desktop computer and your phone. Now, you don't need to download any software
comes to your computer. All you need to do is log in online and get Google
Photos just log into Google photos with your Gmail account. If you don't have a
gmail account, get one. Every six figure producer needs a gmail account. It's just
how we communicate nowadays. So Google Photos. What you can do on your desktop
is actually when you have the file, drag it and drop it right into Google Photos
and it'll automatically sync for you. Very cool. Another option is Dropbox
itself. Now, if you've showed videos how to
download Dropbox in your computer, you can go check that out. You also want the
drop box app on your phone so whether you
using Google photos or Dropbox or combination of both, you need to have
those apps on your phone so that you can use your phone to post Instagram because
remember, that's the only way to do it. You can't do it from your computer. So
once you have those downloaded on your phone, now you can start having your
desktop talk or your laptop talk to your phone. Whatever you're using. Once you've
got those pictures dragged and dropped into your Dropbox or dragged and dropped
into your Google photos, that is the bridge for getting him on Instagram. So
I'm actually going to walk you over to my phone right now. I have my Google Photos
app open right here on my phone and this is an old portfolio that I had when I
was applying for a job as a volunteer photographer and I had to submit a bunch
of my work and let them know I'm you know it was good enough. So I have a
bunch of these old photos saved here on my on my Google Photos hard drive and
you can see I've got you know some photos. You know, there's Kris Krohn from
the Limitless TV channel. I did his family's photography and i still do. And
there's a lot of beautiful images here. But now what do i do with them? I can't
get Google photos to talk directly to Instagram. I've actually got to download
it to my phone and then push it over to Instagram. Okay, let's pick a cute
little picture here. Let's say, okay this is what I want to do. This is of
my amazing friend Dana. She and I did a photoshoot. You know down in Provo. Fun
area. She wanted to blow some bubbles express some joy.
So I'm saying okay, I want to use this photo on my Instagram. So, if you look at
this, I have this full resolution photo and it's going to preserve the quality
of the photo as long as I have my settings correct on Google Photos. It's
going to preserve the quality and allow me to just bring the whole quality of
the photo compressed into Instagram. Okay, so there's a couple ways to do this.
They've actually created Google Photos. So, you can actually send it right over
to Instagram. So I'm going to take a photo here. My friend Dana had a really great
photo shoot with her. We're going to put this, push this little box right here
with the box of the arrow going out of it.
Anytime you see that box that says, "I want to put this photo somewhere else" So,
we click on that box and actually you can directly share it to Instagram using
this app on your phone. So if you click on Instagram right there,
boom! It's going to pull up this Instagram feed. You can write your captions, you can
do whatever you want and then once you click okay, it's going to post that to
Instagram. So that is one way to do that. Okay, here's another way. I'm
going to go over to Dropbox. Dropbox again will preserve the quality of your photos
and I've just taken some photos over here and I'm going to say, "okay, I need to
pull these from Dropbox. Put them on my phone and put them on Instagram." Okay? So
I'm going to click on that photo and then I'm going to click export okay? When I
click export, it's going to say this little photo right here at the box with the arrow
pointing down. It's going to click save image. Save to photo. So now, it's got that
full resolution copy on my photos and then I can go over here to Instagram
Let's just open up my photography Instagram right here and I'm
going to say, "okay, this looks great. It's time for a new post. Thank you for the
likes and the shares and the followings". I'm going to put this photo right in
here. I kind of like this crop the best, okay? I'm going to click next.
I'm not going to do any other filters on it and then I'm going to say, "loved this
gorgeous wedding"
and then I'm going to put a couple of hashtags in there. Like #utahphotographer
#utahweddingphotographer and then I do my own hashtags, right? Because you've
watched our video. You know all about hashtags and what to do. And do #medenophoto
and go ahead and post that, share and you are done.
So, remember Instagram it won't let you post directly from your computer because
they are strictly mobile and they've done that on purpose. I'm not quite sure
what the reasoning is. But it is definitely on purpose. Utilize Google
Photos. Save photos in their full resolution format to your phone. You can
also do that through Dropbox and then you can upload directly from your phone
and then delete the photos from your phone if you feel like you need to.
That's the only way to get photos from your computer to Instagram. I hope you're
not surprised. Now, Instagram has some pretty strict rules but they're doing us
a huge favor. It's actually really simple. So hit the subscribe button. I'll see you
tomorrow and we're going to just ask more about building your six-figure business.