

You might have thought this stuff was only important for prints, but correctly sharing your images on the web requires a basic understanding of color spaces as well. You may not be familiar with color spaces, but they can make the difference between a perfect Instagram upload and a desaturated, green-tinted mess.Ĭolor space refers to the spectrum of colors that can be represented in an image. The science goes much, much deeper than that – SLRLounge has all the details. Simply click the drop down on the ' Aspect' control in Lightroom, select ' Enter Custom', and type in 1.91 and 1. Most of these aspect ratios are baked in to Lightroom's crop function, but the specific 1.91:1 ratio – catering to Facebook's recommended image preview size on Facebook ads – needs to be punched in manually. The 'Versatile' aspect ratio can be used in either portrait or landscape orientation. Versatile – 4:3/3:4 (max length 1200px if portrait, 1080px if landscape) Instagram now features 4 native aspect ratios:
#Lightroom classic export settings update#
On an historic day in August 2017, Instagram released an update the shook the world: no longer were users constrained to the square, 1:1 aspect ratio.

If your image is under 1200px/1080px on the longest side, this will prevent any upscaling issues that might decrease quality. In Lightroom, it's worth checking ' Don't Enlarge' on the export screen. Likewise, if your photo is a landscape image, the horizontal length shouldn't exceed 1080px.
