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Preparing a photo for Instagram stories

Preparing a photo for Instagram stories

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Preparing a photo for Instagram stories

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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, I want to talk about how we can prepare an image so that we can share it on Instagram Stories, which is a great way to engage your social media audience. And so in order to talk about that, we'll look at how we can crop the image, change the way that it looks, and we're working with two different photographs. All right, well here we have our first image, which I captured on my iPhone. I'm working in Lightroom Mobile. I'm on the iPad, although this method would be the same thing if I were working on the phone. And one of the first things that we need to do is crop the image and find the image within the image. And you'll see what I mean in a second. When I tap on the icon for the crop tool, we're going to go to the aspect ratio, and we need to choose 9x16, because that's the aspect ratio that you use when you're showing a full image from top to bottom on Instagram…

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