Cropping photos is an essential step to increase the visual impact of your photos on Instagram. It allows you to focus on a particular part of it that you want your followers to view. This comprehensive guide will teach you how to crop on Instagram and maintain the crop ratio to give your post the perfect look.
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How to Crop on Instagram
Unfortunately, you cannot crop a photo on Instagram story. While uploading a photo, you can only change the size of the photo by pinching on the screen. To trim a photo, you need to use third-party photo editing apps or the inbuilt gallery app on your Android device. Hence, you need to edit the photo first and then head to Instagram for posting it on your story.
Note: The process of cropping a photo from Gallery might vary on your phone. The following steps are performed on the default Gallery app of Redmi 8A Dual.
1. Open the Gallery app on your Android smartphone and go to the photo you want to crop.
2. Tap on the Edit photo icon.
3. Tap on Crop.
4. Use the gridlines to select the part of the photo you want to crop.
5. Save the new cropped photo on your device.
Can I Crop Instagram Photos After Posting?
No. Unfortunately, Instagram does not allow you to crop your photos after posting them. You can only edit the location, caption, and tag more people once you upload a photo on Instagram. Hence, you can only crop a photo before posting it. The only way to crop an Instagram photo after posting is by deleting it and posting it again.
How Do You Fit a Whole Picture on Instagram
You can fit a whole picture on Instagram by pinching on the photo and fitting it to the grid provided by Instagram. However, this method may not work if the size of your photo is too large.
In this case, you must crop and resize it manually. Otherwise, Instagram crops the photo automatically and you may not be able to fit the whole picture. You can use third-party photo editing apps to resize your photos, or the in-built photo editor in your Gallery.
Note: The aspect ratio of your photo must lie between 1.91:1 to 4:5 for the best view. You can use the Frame feature in the in-built Gallery photo editor to achieve the same.
1. Open the photo in edit mode in your Gallery.
2. Tap on Frame.
3. Choose 1:1 or 4:5 ratio, as they are the optimum aspect ratio on Instagram.
4. Tap on the tick icon and then Save to save your photo.
Note: Now, the entire picture will fit on Instagram. You can also achieve this by using any photo editing app. The background of the frame can also be edited, you can keep a fixed color or blur the background.
How Do You Trim a Story on Instagram?
You cannot crop an Instagram story from any device. Pinching in or out will only cause the photo to shrink or grow respectively, maintaining its aspect ratio. Thus, you must use a photo editing app or the default editor of your Gallery to crop a photo before posting it on Instagram. The steps of doing so are exactly the same as mentioned above.
What is the Instagram Crop Ratio?
The most suitable aspect ratio of your photo for Instagram is 1:1 and 4:5. Instagram crops your photo automatically while posting, which may remove some essential parts of it. Thus, you can crop it by yourself and frame it to the correct ratio before posting it.
Instagram does not allow you to crop your photos on story. It does allow cropping before posting, but only by a limited amount. Hence, it is advisable to crop the photo using a photo editor before posting it on Instagram. We hope that you were able to successfully learn about how to crop on Instagram. Keep visiting our page for more cool tips, tricks, and information.
