I’ve seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?
If that is so why don’t they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops
Traditionally, a white border made sense in a darkroom, making it easier to handle wet prints without leaving tong and fingerprint marks on an image.
Not to mention it’s where the paper gets held down in the cropping easel.