Blurry photos in Instagram

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
March 18, 2025
2 replies
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Hello Everyone. I've been a lightroom user for at least 5 years. Way back I had export settings saved in my lightroom but recently I had to delete lightroom off my desktop and redownload it. None of the export settings saved unfortunately. Now, when I export photos, and try to upload to instagram, they are extremely blurry. I've used settings people have recomended on youtube but nothing has worked. The ONLY time my photos aren't blurry and look normal on instagram is if I upload more than one photo. If I upload a single photo, it's extremley blurry. I'm beyond confused. Thanks!

J

Jazz and Junipers

Participant

This is a little late, but I think this is an Instagram problem. I've noticed this recently. Every photo post (not just mine) is blurry unless there are multiple photos, then the first is blurry but the rest aren't. It seems like the posts the algorithm puts on my feed (brands, ads, etc) don't have this problem, but if I look up normal users (friends) it does. It is driving me crazy and I can't figure out how to fix it.

dj_paige

Legend

The photos I post to Instagram show up beautifully sharp on Instagram. I crop to a 4x5 or 4x6 or 6x4 or 5x4 aspect ratio, max pixels on the long side is 1080, image quality slider 75.

CMass

Community Manager

Hey! @cameronp84108591,

Can you share what version of Lightroom you're using right now? You can find this information by going to Help > System Info while in Lightroom.

^CM

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cameronp84108591Author

Participating Frequently

@CMass I'm hoping since you're adobe you can help!

CMass

Community Manager

Hey @cameronp84108591,

It looks like @Ian Lyons and @dj_paige have gone through most of the troubleshooting. The only thing I can think of is maybe setting the Quality to 80-85 (High, but not maximum to avoid unnecessary compression).

Thank you everyone for helping!

^CM

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