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Hi! I’ve been trying to get the right pixels for an art work I did on procreate (the original canvas was 1443 x 1003 and another of 1951 x 1298) Ive tried different sizes and also brought the dpi down to 72 as a jpeg but it still won’t look good on Instagram. I also tried with lower pixels such as 911 x 608 but no results. Any advice from the masters ?

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man choose the most shitty image possible for details wise...

I dont understand why you didnt use a png at 1080 on the second render. you just said that you didnt want instagram to have to process a complicated file format? please explain better why the jpg was a superior choice to the png @ 1080 if there is a technical explanation. I noticed you didnt compare the 1080 png to jpg but was that something you observed was better or worse during some other tests you didnt film?

My head crashes with all this information ❗ posting on Instagram made me cry!

Nice glasses.

This video was amazingly helpful. Your camera quality is actually mesmerising too haha!

baseline optimized removes ''unwanted'' colors, but I don't know if it counters with the sharpness of the image, I guess you don't want to remove colors.. but if you don't remove them, the image has more of a ''smudgy'' effect due to more color variations = making the compressed image look worse by less sharpness. I apologize if I confused anyone :)

It’s fine now but what if you give multiple images?

my pictures look clearer with png and high ress, and worse with jpeg?

This mans voice is like a massage for my brain.

I'm late to this video, but I've been struggling with canvas and compression on Instagram! The dummy account idea is such a great thing! Thank you.

When you experiment, you need to change only 1 variable at a time so you can tell what actually makes the difference. Changing to 1080p and JPEG at the same time, or double-size and medium quality, muddies the waters. (Still, the video helps narrow things down for people.)

The only video that actually covers this in a simple way thank you!!!!

Just what I needed as a beginner thanks a lot !!

Thanks dude! Done similar tests myself. Nice to get confirmation that we both ended up with similar results.

how do you do this for twitter?

Does anyone have recommended color profile for procreate for Instagram cuz all my colors look super desaturated on Instagram but they look fine on the iPad which is so frustrating

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THIS HELPED THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!

Taking notes because Instagram LOVES botching up my art quality 🤩

why my drawing is blurry when i post it yet it is 1080px to 1080px with 300 resolution and i save it as png it's weird isn't it?

Honestly I thought I'm the only one who has dummy art account & constantly label them with jpeg 50%, png 24 etc. Relieved that doing this is not sheer madness rather a recommendation from this artist. I spend days doing my bg arts so I get frustrated if it gets pixelated

i have a question, there is another way to upload my art to instragam on my lap top?

How is this even a problem for a multi-billion dollar company. Cmon instagram.

i made a dummy account some weeks ago, but i just noticed that on my dummy account the image quality is good, while on my main account it uploads with low quality, kind of pixelated.
Does anyone know why this happen?

Thanks bro!

Bro your voice just calmed me tf down

How do you actually upload a CSP file to Instagram? Like process of saving it on your computer and somehow posting it onto instagram?

I am in android, I watched this vid and got some ideas. I actually used Ibispaint and I followed/revised some steps and BOOM! I got results. But when I tried to do it again, i forgot what I did. So here I am watching again XD.

Your video is super helpful Sir!
Thank you very much!

Cool tips @ergojosh! ... I'm also finding that the image brightness, contrast, and saturation are LESS on the uploaded image, anyone else finding this, and overcooking the image prior to upload to compensate?

thanks mahn,, i was doing so bad till the date you helped me bruh

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Thanks for this video Josh! I just got an iPad and started working with Procreate and will be posting for my Instagram more, I definitely needed to know this stuff :)

thank u, this really helped :)

i was about to post my latest artwork on ig and im glad i found this lol

When the screen is 4k but your internet isn't

Does anyone have any tips for traditional art?? It's hard to upload it when it cuts it off

Many thanks man ^^

In short: Instagram is an idiot.

Thank you ergojosh

great haircut brother

Instagram is fucking trash, and I've was a lot of time over the years trying to improve image quality. You have to realise there's really not much more you can do than this.

so when I use procreate, do I use 1080x1080 for maximum quality?

I know I’m late but I have a hard question for you: I really want to upload good quality pieces of my art on Instagram but at the same time I want to lower the quality to prevent art theft? I don’t know what do to?

I’m drawing on iPad, on procreate. Anyone got tips how to make the image not crusty af on IG with what I have?

I've watched soooo many videos and read sooooo many blog posts on this and yours is the only one that clearly answered it. Thank you!

so i tried to upload a digital drawing of mine as a PFP (profile pic) on insta
and i SUFFERED until i figured it out so, here's everything that i did
:
i had a 3000 x 3500 px file.
i cropped it to be a square, so 3000 x 3000.
i resized it in photoshop so many times i had 10 different sizes at one point
instagram pfp size is 180 x 180 px
i cried
dis is what worked best
i clicked image size, wrote 180 x 180 px, then chose smooth gradients on options (the option ps automatically recommends for shrinking a pic looked so bad and pixely)
i tried saving it as an jpg first, but png looked better in the end
to make sure i place it right, from my pc i sent the 180 x 180 png to a friend(this is where a dummy account would come in handy)
then i took my phone, got into the convo with the friend i sent the pic to and saved it to my phone ( don't screenshot it or anything or you're going to cry)
then i went to change my pfp and i chose a good enough placement, i zoomed in a little and it didn't make a difference in the end so that's good
i raised up the contrast to 30 on instagram edit so it looked more clear
there u go

WORST CASE SCENARIO
make it monochromatic and it won't look as bad, but try not to use the instagram filters to make it black and white, try to do it in the program you're working with, zoom out of it abd optimize it to have a clean contrast, so that the image is relatively easy to understand

AAAAND it's not going to be perfect if your file is a big file like mine was
i recommend trying to work as small as possible and with relatively simple details
when you shrink the image you're going to lose details no matter what, even worse, some details that made sense to add on the big file, will just end up making your small picture muddy or have a weird contrast
if you wanna add noise or texture or rgb shift to your piece i recommend doing that after you shrink it, or the texture will make it muddy and hard to look at or understand whats going on


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