How to Export for Instagram in 2022 // Lightroom Classic

In this video, Forest talks about the best settings for exporting your photos out of Lightroom Classic and posting them on Instagram. Lightroom makes exporting easy, but Forest shows you some tweaks that you can make in the export settings dialog to make your photo perfectly sized for posting. Instagram has certain parameters for photos; knowing this before you go into the social media app can help you keep control of the overall look of your images. Part of this is because Lightroom’s resizing algorithm is way better than Instagram’s resizing algorithm, so doing all your photo changes in Lightroom before you go to Instagram helps you keep control of how your photo is being compressed. Also, exporting is basically just making a copy of your original photo with its edits attached to it, so once your photo is on Instagram you can delete the exported version of your photo with no fear. All of this really comes down to three important things: 1. Where you want your photo to go.