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

  • Thomisawesome@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It can look nice. It sets the photo apart from everything else around it, just like putting a photo in a nice picture frame.

    Also, it sometimes alleviates the problem of posting multiple images of different sizes. Instagram likes to make all images conform to the ration of the first image chosen. If you put a border around images, you can adjust the size of the photo with the border to keep images consistent.