How to share photos on Instagram

Instagram is a famous app available for most smartphones on the market thanks to which everyone can become professional photographers and unleash their creativity. In fact, the app allows you to take pictures, apply captivating filters and share the images obtained with your friends and on the main social networks, all within a few taps.

By now well aware of the popularity of the famous app and after hearing about it with great enthusiasm from all your friends, you too, not exactly an expert in mobile phones and new technologies, have therefore decided to download Instagram to start sharing your shots with other users. You did really well, I can't tell you more! How do you say? You agree with me perfectly but you don't have the faintest idea how to go about it share photos on Instagram? Well, if things are actually this way and if you therefore need a little help to be able to understand how to live together photos on Instagram know that you can count on me.

In fact, in the following lines I will go to illustrate everything that needs to be done to be able to share photos on Instagram. Don't worry, it's not a complicated operation, quite the contrary. You just need to know where to "put your hands", you have to trust. But now let's stop the chatter and let's take action. Ready? Yes? Very well, then let's get started.

Please note: In order to share photos on Instagram it is essential that a fully functional Internet connection is active on the smartphone in use. Without Internet connection it is not possible to share photos. The Internet connection can be both Wi-Fi and 3G / 4G but clearly an intense use of the cellular data network could weigh heavily on the plan in use with your telephone provider. If it is your intention to share photos on Instagram in large quantities then I suggest you do this when you are connected to the Wi-Fi network.

Before explaining what to do in order to share photos on Instagram you must first make sure that the famous application is present on your smartphone. If you have already carried out the Instagram download and installation procedure you can go directly to reading the next paragraph otherwise grab your smartphone, press the app store icon of the operating system you use and type Instagram in the search field which is generally placed at the top. Then presses on the first result displayed and then tap the button to start the app download and installation procedure.

Then start Instagram by pressing on its icon on the home screen of your device and then if you have already created an account on Instagram also in this case you can move on to reading the next paragraph otherwise enter your e-mail address in the form that is proposed to you on the screen or log in using your Facebook account, then type the username and password you want to use, set a photo for the profile and complete the registration by tapping first on the check mark located at the top right and then on the button Si. Once you have completed the account creation procedure, remember to access the e-mail address associated with the email address with which you registered and confirm your subscription to the service by clicking on the link contained in the message that was sent to you. from the Instagram team.

Now that you've finally launched the app and logged into the service, you're ready to take action and start sharing photos on Instagram. If your intention is to take and share some photos immediately, press the blue button depicting a camera that you find in the lower center of the screen displayed and then choose whether to go to act on any photos already present in your library. phone pressing on library and selecting an image or whether to take new ones simply by tapping on Gallery and taking a picture as usual.

After selecting or taking the photo, choose the filter you want to apply by selecting one of the many available. Press twice on the name of the filter you prefer to apply a themed frame to your shot.

If you wish, before sharing photos on Instagram you can also automatically adjust all the main image parameters. To do this, presses the button depicting a sun in the center of the displayed screen and then presses the check mark located at the bottom right. If the result of the automatic adjustment is not to your liking, you can also act "manually" on brightness, contrast, structure, nuance, shadows and much more using the appropriate indicators accessible by first pressing the icon depicting a wrench and then on the names of the various parameters to adjust.

When you are satisfied with the result you can proceed by going to share photos on Instagram by pressing on the item NEXT which is located at the top right.

In the screen that opens, type the caption with which you want to accompany the image in the appropriate text field, select the social networking services on which to share the photo in addition to Instagram (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and Swarm are currently available) and eventually indicates the place of the shot by pressing on the item Add a place.

If in your shot there are friends or acquaintances who have an account on Instagram you can also tag other users in your photo in a similar way to what is possible on Facebook and other social networks. To tag people in your photos on Instagram press on the voice Tag people, then touch at the point of the shot where you want to tag (if there are the faces of the people you want to tag, I suggest you select these), type the name of the person you want to tag in the field Look for a person and then presses on the suggestion that is shown to you. Once this is done, the tag will appear on your shot and you can possibly place it in a different position from the current one by simply pressing on it and dragging it or, in case of second thoughts, you can remove it by pressing on it and then tapping on the x which will appear to the side. After adding the tag or tags and after making all the desired changes, presses on the item end which is located at the top right of the screen that is shown to you.

To conclude and then to share photos on Instagram press the blue button Share present at the bottom of the screen and wait a few moments for the upload of your shot to be performed and for the photo to be shared on the network.

Know that if you want, instead of sharing photos on Instagram with all other users, you can also take advantage of the function Direct accessible from the screen for sharing photos. The function in question allows you to share your shot with a single Instagram user privately. In short, a bit like what happens when you use WhatsApp or other instant messaging apps.

To take advantage of this function, all you have to do is press on the voice Direct located at the top of the screen used for sharing the shot, fill in the field Write a caption ... with the message to be delivered to the other user that you intend to add to your photo and fill in the field A: by entering the name of the person with whom you want to share the shot on Instagram privately. To conclude, tap on the item Send present at the bottom of the screen.

After sharing photos on Instagram you can then manage everything related to your shots by logging into your profile. To do this, press the icon depicting a little man that you find located in the lower right part of the main Instagram screen. Then you will be shown a small preview of all the photos you have shared so far. To view a "life size" shot, just click on it.

Once you have viewed the shot you shared on Instagram you can view all the comments made to it by you and by other users by scrolling the displayed screen, you can express your appreciation for the photo by pressing the heart-shaped icon located on the left, you can add further comments by tapping on the balloon icon, you can decide to send the shot using the Direct function by tapping on the icon in the shape of arrows and you can also delete, edit and share the image by pressing on the icon depicting three horizontal dots on the right.

Now that you have understood how to share photos on Instagram there are a couple of other things that I think it is good that you know before you can give yourself crazy joy with the famous app.

To begin with, keep in mind that in addition to photos on Instagram, you can also share short videos. If this function interests you and if you want to know more, I invite you to consult my guide on how to record videos with Instagram. Furthermore, if you like sharing photos on Instagram but would like to be able to do the same also from your computer and not just from your smartphone, I suggest you take a look at the instructions in my guide on how to upload photos to Instagram from a PC.

How to share photos on Instagram