I recently began uploading photos to Instagram and notice that the quality is reduced upon uploading. I use my MacBook Pro and I upload my images on Safari after going to Develop --> User Agent --> Safari iOS 12.1.3. iPhone. I need to set my user agent to the iPhone because otherwise I cannot upload directly from my Mac.
In any case, the image quality reduction after uploading to Instagram seems to be common across platforms and phones/computers and browsers. Some resources (https://www.picmonkey.com/blog/size-matters-instagram-photo-sizes-made-easy) suggest that to prevent Instagram from lowering the image quality, users should prepare their images before uploading online to have horizontal pixel dimensions = 1080 and obtain a certain aspect ratio (for example, as shown in the table in the link I provided, portrait photos should have 4:5 ratios).
Using the "Preview" application on Mac, I resized a photo to have horizontal pixel dimension of 1080 and aspect ratio of 4:5. But still, when I uploaded to Instagram, there was a deduction in image quality. As a result, I wanted to ask if anyone has advice on how to upload to Instagram from Mac computer without reducing image quality? I do not have a phone to use. Thank you.
In any case, the image quality reduction after uploading to Instagram seems to be common across platforms and phones/computers and browsers. Some resources (https://www.picmonkey.com/blog/size-matters-instagram-photo-sizes-made-easy) suggest that to prevent Instagram from lowering the image quality, users should prepare their images before uploading online to have horizontal pixel dimensions = 1080 and obtain a certain aspect ratio (for example, as shown in the table in the link I provided, portrait photos should have 4:5 ratios).
Using the "Preview" application on Mac, I resized a photo to have horizontal pixel dimension of 1080 and aspect ratio of 4:5. But still, when I uploaded to Instagram, there was a deduction in image quality. As a result, I wanted to ask if anyone has advice on how to upload to Instagram from Mac computer without reducing image quality? I do not have a phone to use. Thank you.
