How to post an Instagram photo across multiple posts? Example below

[Furbzeyyy]

How do I do this?

[jane-e]

Hi

Do you want to do it using Instagram or Photoshop?

In Photoshop:

• Make the canvas larger
• Create a new bottom layer with a white fill
• Select part of the image with the Rectangle selection tool
• Use the Move tool to move the selection to the right or left
• Save

Jane

[Barb Binder]

Hi Furbzeyy:

There are apps for that. These link to the App Store but are also available on Google Play.

‎Giant Square for Instagram on the App Store

How to Split Your Instagram Grid Beautifully - Planoly

‎Pic Splitter on the App Store

~Barb

[Furbzeyyy]

BarbBinder​

Hi, thankyou for your help, but I need an app that works on the laptop not mobile phone, If you could share some I would be very greatful.

[DaveJCummings]

Considering that Instagram is a mobile centric service (Though I can access my feed on my desktop,  I can't post from my desktop) I'm not entirely sure there's a desktop solution for what you need

[JJMack]

Photoshop works on a laptop running Windows or Mac OS. However, it  do not run on a phone.  So on your laptop Photshop can edit the image you want and share it on social media.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Furbzeyyy:

What the apps do essentially, is cut a large image into 9 squares, and then they are exported and posted in groups of three. For example: open an image, crop into a square. Use View > New Guide Layout to divide the square into a grid:

From there you can select each square, jump it to a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd J), and the export each layer as a jpg or png. Post in groups of three from the bottom, up.

~Barb

[JJMack]

There are Photoshop Scripts that can set guide line to devide an image into 9 parts they will only be square if the image is square.  There are also Photoshop scripts that will dice image to the guide sectios they will a create layers for each grid section.

[Furbzeyyy]

BarbBinder​

Hey BarbBinder,

Have successful done all of the above to the Top left segment (as in layers), but got this, when trying to do it on the others?

- Using the Rectangle Marquee tool to select via the guides

- Ctrl+J to new layer, but not responding, when I right click and select new layer, in export it says 'no image present' as below?

[Furbzeyyy]

This is the other error im getting when trying to highlight each grid with rectangle Marquee tool?

[JJMack]

You have the layer visibility off no pixels can be selected

[Furbzeyyy]

Please elaborate, not sure how to turn it on or off, or with anything related?

[Barb Binder]

Screen shots are great, thanks. You have hidden the eyeball for the "top left" layer—the eyeballs control layer visibility.

On the export question: after you make the various layers, select them and choose Quick Export as PNG from the Layers panel menu.

This will allow you to save them to a folder:

~Barb

[Furbzeyyy]

BarbBinder​, JJMack​

Thanks guys, i have made progress, more like I have found a workaround;

1) Select via marquee tool, 2) copy paste, into new document, export

The issue I have is, t

- How do I do what you did with all of the segments of the photo turned into layers within the one photoshop project document?

Could you please show me how you did it in a quick step by step with annotation please?

[Barb Binder]

Hi Furbzeyyy​:

Basic working knowledge of Photoshop is critical here, and that includes how to work with layers. For more information see,

Learning layer basics in Photoshop.

You don't need to copy, paste in a new file and export. Just marquee each square, and jump the content (Ctrl J or Layer > New > Layer via Copy) to a new layer. Remember to return to the original layer before each new jump.

Once you have created the 9 layers, select all of them (click, shift click on the names in the layers panel) and use the Quick Export to Png to generate the nine images as detailed above.

~Barb

[JJMack]

Or use copy merge and paste  Shift+Ctrl+C     Ctrl+V

[KShinabery212]

To be very honest.... you should just download an app to your mobile device that does this.

Only issue... when you do this and then post individual pictures after... the order sometimes can later become messed up.  So there are cons to doing this.

If you do this then I would do this every time.

But like I said... just download an app.  Doing it Photoshop is too time consuming.

Now if you are creating images that end up becoming one big image on Instagram, then I would use Photoshop.  There are two or three companies on Instagram that have an item from the previous multi post that bleed into the next multi post.  One is a sock company (forget the name).  Now this takes planning and skills.  But can be done.  So they have one element that is cropped out of each multicast so that it looks like one ever growing image.

If I can think of the sock company I will let you know.  But man oh man... do they plan ahead and who ever their social person/designer is... well they are top notch.

[Bob_Hallam]

There is a real issue for professional photographers to post from their phones or tablets. 

1.) All images may reside on external media or servers.

2.) All processing is done on their main computer of choice and image files may be quite large when they are supplied to clients.

3.) Files must be transferred to then deleted from phones or tablets. 

All in all, not a great workflow.    Sounds like a scripted solution is the best one for now until developers decide there's a market on the desktop computers.