{Instagram editing // my style // embedding IG pictures into your post}

Yesterday I posted an Instagram Round-up post and was asked by several people how I get my photos to look the way they do. I've also gotten several emails and messages about this before so I thought I'd do a post on my Instagram editing style. My style is definitely clean, bright and crisp. Not that all of my photos reflect that by any means, but that is what I love. I rarely use filters unless it's a black and white filter.

My go to app for editing is Afterlight. I use this to brighten, adjust contrast & saturation and crop my Instagram photos. This is the process I use:

1.) open photo in Afterlight




2.) adjust the brightness. I usually take it all the way up to 100. And if that's not enough I save that and then select brightness again and adjust until the picture looks bright enough.




3.) then I choose the 'clarify' filter and adjust that as needed




4.) next I adjust the contrast and saturation if needed.




5.) after I have my photo looking the way I like I choose the square crop {if my photo isn't already in square form}.

6.) next I choose the shape cropping tool and from the 'original' section I choose the 2nd option for trimming the corners. I take that to 50. I like all of my photos to be the same size and uniform.

Add caption

7.) and that's it. I save and post on Insta.

Before/After




For all of my black & white photos I use Snapseed. Here is my process..

1.) open photo in Snapseed



2.) click on the little pencil in the bottom right hand corner to open the editing tools. under filters choose black and white.



3.) click on the little clipboard icon choose which type of b&w filter you want. I usually always go with contrast (unless the photos is already too contrast-y then I choose bright). then I adjust the contrast and brightness to my liking. save.

{okay - not sure why the photos above are muted...but see the before/after below}


4.) then i open the b&w photo in Afterlight and follow steps 5-7 {above} and that's it.

before /after

Embedding Instagram Pictures into your post:

Someone also asked how I got my Instagram pictures on my blog in the way I did in yesterday's post. Here's a quick little tutorial. 

1.) open up Instagram in your browser
2.) click on your profile
3.) click on a picture you want to embed into your blog 





4.) click on the three little dots in the right hand corner. and another button will pop up to embed.





5.) click embed & copy the code






6.) paste that code in the html of your blog post





And to center it on your blog:

<center> (put this before the html you copied from IG)
</center> (put this after the html you copied from IG)

voila!!!



What's your Instagram editing style? What are your go-to apps?