Instagram is primarily a social media network based on smartphone usage.  There is limited utilise outside of the mobile app.  You can view, like, comment on pictures on a estimator but annihilation else is express.  And there is no way to mail from their desktop site.  (There are tricks and hacks to practice that is outside the scope of this post)

Many people want to be able to accept pictures with their fancy DSLR or mirrorless photographic camera and post their edited images to Instagram but aren't sure how.  A common question I run into online a lot is, "how do I get my photos from my camera to my phone and so I can post them to Instagram?"  I see this question asked quite a bit in online forums and so I thought I would write a quick post about it.  In this mail I am going to outline my own workflow.  There are many ways to do this only I believe my workflow is pretty piece of cake and straightforward.

There are five steps in the process of taking the image with your camera and posting information technology to Instagram.  They are:

Take the picture> Send the moving-picture show to your figurer>Edit the moving-picture show> Transport the picture to your phone> Post to Instagram

I volition outline these steps individually and by the end of this post you lot should exist able to get photos from your DLSR or mirrorless photographic camera to Instagram.

Accept the Picture

Manifestly the first stride in the process is to take the flick.  I don't feel I demand to go any further.

Send the Motion-picture show to Your Computer

Once yous've taken the film you demand to copy the images to your computer.  At that place are two ways to do this.  The first is to use the USB cablevision that came with your camera and plug it in to your calculator.  The photographic camera should popular up on your computer like an external hard bulldoze or flash drive.  You tin then open up upward the files and re-create the images to a binder on your figurer.

The other mode is to use a card reader.  Some computers, especially laptops, accept these built in.  Otherwise they can be purchased from nigh big box electronic stores.  Plug in your memory card in to the reader and the menu will evidence up as an external hard bulldoze or flash drive.  Again, but copy the files to your reckoner.

Edit the Pictures

You may choose to edit your pictures.  If you shoot JPEG and do not edit your pictures you lot can move correct to the side by side step.  If yous shoot RAW you likely have to edit them.  There are many options of editing software out at that place (another topic for it's own future post), only I use Lightroom.

One time I am happy with my images I will consign the images from Lightroom as JPEG to a folder on my reckoner.

Send the Pictures to Your Phone

With your images in a folder on your computer, you are ready to send them to your phone.  There are a couple ways to practice this.  You can put the folder in your Dropbox or Google Drive and then use their respective app to become the images on your telephone.  That is probably the easiest way.

I utilise kind of an old fashioned way.  I utilise and iPhone and I nonetheless sync my telephone with iTunes.  I simply tell iTunes to sync the folder with my images to my phone and they are uploaded that fashion.

Postal service to Instagram

Now your photos are on your phone and you are gear up to post them to Instagram.  If y'all used Dropbox or Google Drive you lot will need to to to the images in the app and select "Open in…" and choose Instagram.  Then your image will consign to the Instagram app and you are skillful to become!