Other apps like Instagram’s parent Facebook already accept a wider range of formats. However, images will still show up as squares in user profiles.ĭitching the square format could make Instagrams more shareable outside the photo network. Now, users don’t have to open a different app and add letterboxing to get their non-square photos inside Instagram. That info will just properly couch the photo or video, whatever its size. One extra little tweak: filters on Instagram are now “universal.” That means you can use photo filters on videos and video filters on photos.Įach photo and video will still show the same name tag, description, feedback buttons, and comments. The feature’s product designer Christine Choi explains: “You can tell your visual story without having to worry about it fitting perfectly in the app.”įor example, here’s what a photo of Yuki and Choi would have looked like cropped for Instagram: By enabling this we can give you more creative freedom.” Why did Instagram’s founders originally choose the square? “The story we’ve heard is it looked beautiful, and it looked really nice in feed when they were mocking it up” says Ashley Yuki, the Instagram Product Manager that led today’s change.īut she tells me that users said “they have moments that they want to share that don’t fit into a square.
And for everyday users, the change means they won’t have to plan ahead to post to Instagram, or end up cropping out friends’ faces from group photos. Fashion photographers hated how squares forced them to crop out the shoes from portrait shots of people’s outfits. Traditionally shot landscape videos won’t lose their cinematic feel.
The change could open new forms of artistic expression in Instagram. Now when users upload photos, they can pinch or tap a format button on the left to post their landscape or portrait photos and videos.
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So today, Instagram for iOS and Android is dropping the requirement that all photos and videos be squares. One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s square cropping.
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