Print size for social media

Scott Ramsey

Senior Member
I would like to offer my clients a social media digital download. I want the image to look good online but not good or big enough to print. I’ve read a lot about the right size for Facebook and Instagram but wanted to get some other ideas from this group. I’m using Lightroom and resizing to 1080x725 with the quality slider at 25. Will this set up print a 5x7, which I am trying to avoid? Do I need to change the resolution from 300 to something lower?
thank you
 

cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
To the best of my knowledge, a resolution of 72 is fine for online stuff and helps to prevent printing of the shot. I'm sure some experts on here will spell it out better with all of the explanations. Ha!
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
I use Lightroom
I crop social media to 1X1 aspect ratio
Export to JPG
I leave the resize box unchecked, and select 72 pixels per inch
That's it

Instagram tends to crop other aspect ratios other than 1X1 squares... and it's the only one that I find it doesn't screw with... Since FB owns Instagram, and I usually Share my Instagram posts on my Facebook feeds, Facebook also doesn't screw with the 1X1 aspect ratio
 

hrentoso

Banned
I am thinking about how to promote my Instagram accounts. It is said that there are special services through which you may launch autolike to instagram posts and many other things. Can you suggest something good and how they differ from each other except price? How does Instagram admins look at this? Is it worth it contacting this kind of service?
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
I use to use Lightroom to post to Instagram. I stopped... well, I should say, they stopped... LR disabled the feature because I believe Instagram doesn't like it...
 

nikonpup

Senior Member
print.PNG
graft from adorama: 1080x725= .783MB download some files with different sizes and take them to your local print shop and see how they look
 
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