Now, you need to figure out how to get the image and description to your phone. Save them and compose whatever information you want in the description, including hashtags and tags. Do whatever editing you want to do, making sure they’re excellent images for Instagram publication. Capture photos however you please, with a phone camera or a regular digital camera, and put them on your computer. The first option is truly a workaround, and doesn’t really get away with eliminating a phone from the process.
If you want to manage Instagram from a desktop, be it PC or Mac, I’ve got you covered. However, there are some workarounds to this lack of desktop functionality, and I’ve done my best to compile them for you. Even the API doesn’t allow posting calls only the official Instagram app does so. This holds true even if you’re using social management tools like HootSuite, tools that use the Instagram API in order to perform actions on the site. In any case, even today, Instagram doesn’t allow users to post via desktop. Of course, that would present all of the same problems as Instagram currently does for businesses, so it’s all moot. I figure that a mobile-only social network today would be more viable and wouldn’t even have to open up to desktop visibility. I imagine that if Instagram were to be created today, in the days of mobile saturation and dominance, it would look a lot more like SnapChat. This is fine for a casual user looking to get a little higher resolution views of images or engage while they’re stuck at work, but it’s not great for businesses.
All you can do is browse users, follow users, and engage with photos. These days, you can log in to Instagram via a desktop browser, but you can’t create an account – you need the mobile app for that – and you can’t upload images. The reason for this is that they eventually were forced to open themselves up to desktop users. In fact, I would argue that Instagram was somewhat ahead of the game. This was in the early days of mobile dominance, when smartphones were reaching close to the current levels of saturation but people were still figuring out what they could do with them. It was, in fact, touted as one of if not the first entirely mobile social network. Cropping the image to a square or adding a margin is a battle and for each image, you’d have to decide whether or not it adds or detract from it.When Instagram was created, long before Facebook thought about buying it, it was a mobile app. Although there are apps such as SquareIt ( iPhone) that will generally add a white margin, it comes with a price. The landscape/horizontal image will be pretty small on a cell phone screen. Instagram only allows us to upload a square crop. After doing this, browse the gallery on your phone to find the saved image. However, there is an issue with this method.
Emailing it to your phone, Bluetooth and Dropbox are all options. Once saved, there are a few options to get the file to a phone. The shortcut to resize is ALT + CTRL + I. Anything around 1900 pixels on the wider side will do.
Once a full resolution edited image is saved to its destination, the best thing to do is to resize the image in Photoshop for all social media platforms, especially Instagram.
When it comes to resizing a photo for social media, there are many articles that explain it. This leaves no choice other than getting the photo from a PC to a cell phone in the most efficient way. The last thing anyone wants is get their account taken away. Lately, Instagram has been very strict with third party apps and there are many reports of accounts getting shut down when these third party apps are used. On my Instagram, I commonly get asked about the biggest issue many people face when uploading images to this platform. Not being able to upload directly from a PC to Instagram is an annoying hassle. While there are services like Grambler, it is not recommended to use them. There aren’t many options to upload images, but here is the most efficient workflow from resizing to uploading. Instagram is a personal favorite, but the upload process is by far the most annoying. As photographers, it’s important to use all social media platforms as a marketing tool.