Internet related News · 2015-08-28

Instagram goes from square to full size (sharing of images, silly)

Recently, photo sharing service Instagram had started allowing users to click in ‘landscape mode’, yet one could only share one’s work as a square image. That’s about to change. Instagram has said it was updating its Android & iOS apps to enable native support for full-size landscape & portrait photos & video inside the app. The traditional square photos will remain the default for photos shared on Instagram.
Here’s how you can do it: When you access your photo gallery from within the updated app, you’ll now see a format button above the camera roll. Use that button to toggle between square & full-size images.

http://www.businessinsider.com Aug 27, 2015 

Instagram announced today that it is “thinking outside the square” and will now allow users to post in landscape and portrait formats. Instagram’s reasoning is that the visual story you are trying to tell should always come …

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Instagram Isn’t Only Square Photos Anymore – Gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com Aug 27, 2015 

I’ve often wondered how strange it will be for someone to look at all the photographs posted over these last few years and wonder, why are they all square? This was definitely what set Instagram apart at first—the square was …

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Instagram Finally Allows Landscape and Portrait Photos – LifeHacker

http://lifehacker.com Aug 27, 2015 

Android/iPhone: Instagram has rolled out an update to its app that allows you post landscape or portrait photos and videos, finally ditching the requirement to make photos square…

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Instagram photos no longer have to be square – The Next Web

http://thenextweb.com Aug 27, 2015 

Instagram is making a huge change to the way photos and videos are posted on the platform: they no longer have to be square. That means you can now share photos and videos in their full unadulterated glory, whether in …

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Instagram Just Made Its Biggest Change Ever – TIME

http://news.google.com  Aug 27, 2015 

Instagram’s defining square format has changed the way people take and share pictures. Panoramic city skylines become boxed vignettes, and that high-rise shot is pinched and squeezed into an abstract …

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Instagram Makes Biggest Ever Photo Changes – Forbes

http://news.google.com Aug 27, 2015

Instagram’s logo borrows many design cues from Polaroid’s SX-70 OneStep land camera – a favour later returned by Polaroid with the release of its square Socialmatic, a device which comes pretty …

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