8 means to get your photos from your camera to Instagram

You can't mail straight to Instagram from a desktop/laptop. I asked last year'southward AYWMC graduates, and these are the most pop solutions to the perennial question, "How practise I get my photos from my photographic camera to Instagram?"

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Update one Nov 2018: there is a 9th method. It uses the Chrome browser to preview your Instagram page every bit mobile on desktop. It works beautifully. Information technology looks complicated but it's non (although if yous don't see the "+" push to showtime with, refresh your page). Thanks to Anne Haile, AYWMCer from the September 2018 beginning for sharing. Click here for the walk-through

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1. Cloud

Install Dropbox on your desktop and your phone. Upload any photos y'all have destined for Instagram into a separate "Instagram" binder (ideally sized to about 1080px, but this isn't essential). From your telephone you can then admission the same folder, download to your camera, and then upload to Instagram.

Instead of Dropbox you can utilise whatsoever cloud based storage, including Lightroom to Lightroom mobile, Google Bulldoze, iCloud/OneDrive, and Facebook (see point six below for more details on using Facebook).

Photos from Dropbox to Instagram via the iPhone Camera Roll

Photos from Dropbox to Instagram via the iPhone Camera Ringlet

Verdict: lots of steps, but does permit you to edit and resize from your desktop before y'all move to your phone.

ii. Scheduling apps

Be very careful of any app that does everything for y'all. Instagram does not let third party uploading, and your account may exist banned if you utilize these apps. However, there are a number of perfectly legitimate apps that allow you to do all the hard work from the comfort of your desktop (uploading, editing, captioning, hashtagging). The app then sends a prompt to your phone whenever you scheduled the post (including the option to do it straight abroad). This is the magic part - the app copies the photo to your camera, and the caption to your notes app. Y'all just need to open Instagram and then follow the copy/paste instructions. It usually merely takes two clicks to post, with no extra typing needed. I apply Planoly, which has a free programme of up to 30 photos a calendar month at the fourth dimension of writing. There are lots of other schedulers, including Hootsuite, CoSchedule and Buffer.

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Verdict: good for people who don't like faffing on their phones.

three. Wifi

Maybe the near straightforward choice if your camera has wifi. You simply utilize the photographic camera'due south local wifi connection to transfer photos over to your phone, and upload from there.

Verdict: Can be a faff to get the connexion set upward, only if you get it working this is a very easy pick.

four. Wifi memory cards and local Wifi adaptors

You lot can purchase retentiveness cards that take built-in wifi. Canon and Nikon as well do wifi adaptors for some of their cameras.

Verdict: Yous all the same demand to configure the wifi connection, but once it'southward working information technology's a neat solution if your camera doesn't have wifi. Non cheap.

v. SD card to phone adaptor

Aye, you can buy menu readers that plug straight into your phone or iPad.

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Verdict: The near straightforward way to transfer straight to your phone any photos that you don't want to edit on desktop.

half dozen. Use Facebook

If yous accept your Instagram account linked to your Facebook profile, you can share a photo from inside Facebook to Instagram via the "share externally" option - available under the 3 dots to the tiptop right of your post.

Verdict: I haven't managed to ready this organization up to work, only many AYWMC students swear by information technology.

vii. Email photos to yourself

Similar to the first option, but a scrap less seamless - but email your photos to yourself and open them up on your phone.

Verdict: You have to open up and close your emails, merely if you don't mind the steps involved, this is an easy option.

8: Airdrop

Just for Apple users - switch your bluetooth on and use AirDrop to transfer desktop to phone.

Verdict: Can be wearisome, but no cables required.

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