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Preparing a photo for Instagram with Lightroom for mobile

Preparing a photo for Instagram with Lightroom for mobile

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Preparing a photo for Instagram with Lightroom for mobile

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- [Chris] Hello friends, this is Chris Orwig, and welcome to another episode of "Photo Tools Weekly." In this week's episode we are talking about preparing a photo for social media using Lightroom. And here I am on my iPad, although this would work identically if we were on a smartphone as well. And what I want to do is prepare this photograph so that I can share it on Instagram. Now when I captured this image I captured at this really long aspect ratio, it's 16 by nine, or nine by 16. And I did that because I was thinking I would share this on Instagram Stories, but I want to change this to the aspect ratio that works best on Instagram itself. So what I'll do is tap on the icon for my crop tool. Then in our Aspect ratio pull down menu, tap on that, we want to choose 4 x 5, because that's what Instagram will require. It will change it to that for us. I want to change it before I even get there, so I'm going to go ahead and make those changes, and then of course we can modify this, I…

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