Toine, the lack of Real Computer posting was an intentional design decision the Instagram designers made ages ago. At the time Twitter was the big up and coming deal and the Instagram guys decided to create something similar for images that would promote spontaneity and casualness. They really wanted folks to share snaps from their mobile devices pretty much live, like shots of your lunch or the concert you're attending. The concept of enabling professional photographers to join in was not on their radar.
So you'll find that the only legal way to post shots is via a mobile device, and what's worse, if the EXIF contains a date older than a few days it won't even show you the image to post it. They initially enforced a square crop on all shots to fit in with some tight-assed UI design aesthetic but eventually relented and relaxed that to include up to 8x10 (4:5 ratio) in portrait, and even wider in landscape. What I do is to export images from Lightroom on my iMac stripping the EXIF (specifically: no date), and adding white bars to the image to letterbox it if it's a narrower portrait than 8x10 format. IG will happily accept reasonably wide landscape formats. Then I send the images to my iPad through AirDrop, and post from the IG app on the iPad. 1600px in the longest dimension seems to work okay for resolution. My IG profile is @bruce.walker BTW, there are applications around that claim to allow posting directly from a desktop but Instagram always thwarts these eventually by changing their protocol. I used to use a Lightroom plugin called Lr/Instagram but it broke completely last year and the developer hasn't managed to fix it since. Some folks run the native Instagram app in a browser developer window; I can't be bothered to go to those lengths. Cheers! On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 5:14 PM Toine <to...@repiuk.nl> wrote: > > Anybody using instagram? It's very popular so I heard. I remember Instagram > as a lomography retro vintage style app with a very silly and ugly icon > (they changed that). Since it is focused on photography I started using it. > To my surprise and an hour or so wasted: you can't upload from a desktop pc > or mac! > Thats nuts! Or they think a real camera is something of the past > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
