Instagram now allows you to post photos with vertical and horizontal cropping

Those who like to share photos on Instagram will be pleased to know about the changes that the developers of this mobile application have made since the beginning of its existence.. Now we can share more than just square frames, but also vertical and horizontal. That is, the end with truncation on Instagram? Unfortunately, not completely and not always.

There remains a limitation, which prescribes, that vertical frames should have an aspect ratio of up to 4:5. Personnel 2:3, 4:6, will need to be trimmed. There will still be fewer problems, than forced proportions 1:1 – because of which many photographs have lost their charm through cropping, it would be better to show.

What matters most, when viewing such rectangular photographs, Instagram hasn't added any borders (cm. photo at the beginning of the news).

Former square frame requirement, what was related to the appearance of the Instagram interface and the main purpose of the application. Square image preview thumbnails show all photos, but because, that Instagram was supposed to serve mediocrely for uploading photos from a smartphone (which is largely still the case), the square frame requirement was not such a big problem.

Square is, but, a special type of frame and rarely used in the case of conventional digital cameras. Requires great skills, but it’s not always possible to justify it. It's hard to demand, so that the photographer thinks while shooting, only about that, how it will be presented after cropping into a square. Special, when Instagram isn't the most important place, where should the photo be presented?.

To post on Instagram another, not a square frame, various tricks were used. Added white stripes around the image like this, to get a square image, or applications were used, which filled the missing part of the frame in the square with another image, eg, blurred main motive.

Another way to solve the problem was to dump a few photos, So, so that in the list of thumbnails they form a large one, not necessarily square. But it's not an easy task.

Due to framing limitations, above methods, of course, will not go into oblivion. In spite of this, you can be sure, that many people would be happy to use another option, than the area of ​​a standard frame. Still about 20% the main photos uploaded are not actually square frames.

A way to show a rectangular photo on a square image

The only thing, what you need to remember, that's a fact, that the thumbnail preview will still show square frames.

Instagram version 7.5 already available for download from AppStore and Google Play. When you update an earlier installation, could happen, what's the icon, allowing you to change the frame proportions will not be displayed in the photo selection window. After this you need to wait some time. If this does not help, in the Android Application Manager you should delete all data, related to Instagram and run the program again.

Click on CLEAR DATA, and also CLEAR MEMORY. This operation does not delete photos, which are stored in the Instagram folder.