What is the best method for uploading graphic designs from illustrator to instagram?

[georgedc123]

I am able to export the file to my iPhone fine (through airdrop), and the quality is good. However the compression on Instagram causes pixellation in the image. I follow quite a few graphic designers on IG and all their posts look perfect, what are they doing to get this? I've tried scaling to 1080 x 1080, and setting to JPEG (from what I've read) but it's still bad quality. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Ray Yorkshire]

Don't be shy  - ask the graphic designers you follow

[bucksommerkamp]

George,

I was just reading a photographer's recommendation that the images be set to square and 640x640px at 72dpi. He maintained that by exporting it at those settings, it won't get re-compressed and look worse on their end. Might be worth a shot!

[Sebastian Bleak]

Hi,

Jpegs work great and I use png's at times. 640x640 or 1080x1080 for the detentions. Make sure you start with a larger image than you need, then scale down. IG does a great job at retaining the pixels. Facebook will give you some problems.

Hope this helps!

[Monika Gause]

Is there a lot of red in your images? Will usually look bad when saved as a JPEG or converted to JPEG.

Also: Try and save a PNG instead of a JPEG.

Can you show examples? Of yours and the other people's work (please post links to the others' works, don't embed them here)