Can you post photos from PC to Instagram ?

Dan Marchant wrote in post #18238109
This is what I used to do until I got the LR/Instagram plugin. So much easier to just publish straight from LR.

I wished I had did a search on this crapoloa here before blowing a day setting up an account..just to find out I cant upload from the computer

So I wonder how old a version of lightroom could use this plugin? I have bought 3 different versions on CD just to confirm I hate LR, but this might be a semi useful feature.
I don't have a cell phone, will never have a cell phone but now I see why a lot of the images I have seen on Insta-thumbs suck It is all based around the phone.
Wonderful
Gary

It took you a day to set up an Instagram account?

Gas Hog wrote in post #18252148
I wished I had did a search on this crapoloa here before blowing a day setting up an account..

DreDaze wrote in post #18252235
It took you a day to set up an Instagram account?

Andre,

Setting up accounts can often take a heck of a lot of time for those of us who are resistant to adopting all of the things society currently uses in their collective M.O.

For instance, many things that I want to do on my phone require that I download an "app". Why an app, and not just a "program"? I have no idea - I always thought that if you want to do something on a computer, then you use a program. So all this stuff about "apps" is very confusing.


So, when I get prompted to install an "app" on my phone, I can't just do it - I get prompted to go to "the app store" for the app. What??? I don't want to buy anything, I just want to download a program on my phone so I can do whatever it is I want to do. Yet they tell me that I have to go to "the app store". So I try to do that. Whoops! Seems that "the App Store" is something that I need to have an account at, even if the app I want is free. So I try to set up an account at the App Store......I type a bunch of required information into my phone using those confounding stupid little phone keys (I'm used to typing on a regular full-sized keyboard and using anything smaller is an enormously frustrating task.

So I finally get thru entering all of that info, and then they ask me for credit card info. WHAT? A credit card??? What the heck for - the app I want is free. But they say I need a credit card anyway, or I can't get an account. So now I have to go to my local bank and withdraw cash from my account, and then I have to drive to Walmart and wait in a ridiculously long line and buy one of those pre-paid credit cards. Then I have to call the number on the new credit card and spend 15 or 20 minutes submitting a bunch of information so that the card will be activated. So by this point I have a credit card, after hours of time spent driving to two separate locations and waiting in lines and entering all of that info into my phone using the stupid little phone keypad. Sheesh!!!

Now that I have a credit card, I can finally go back to the "App Store" and finish setting up the account that I started to set up earlier that day. Whoops! Somehow, I cannot just pick up where I left off, as my phone's internet thingy didn't 'save my place' in the application process. So I have to go back and start all over again trying to apply for an account at the App Store. So I go thru that stinking hassle again with the stupid small phone keypad typing, and finally succeed in procuring an account at the App Store. Whew!

So now that I have an account at The App Store I can go back to Instagram and "download the app". Again, having to start the account application process all over again and having to type on the stupid small keypad again.

When will this trip through hell ever end???

Eventually I get the account completed, but it will not 'work' until I log into my email and find a confirmation email from Instagram and click on some link. But having never logged into my email account from my phone, I can't figure out how to do it. So I have to wait until I am back at home where I can log in to my email on my desktop? I really just can't start using Instagram until I do that? Really? Unbelievable. At this point I almost want to cry. I finally decide that if they make me jump through all of these hoops just to get an account, then I don't want to be a part of their organization, after all. So I quit and never check that confirmation email and never end up activating my Instagram account because I am angry because I think that they have all conspired to make it harder than it really has to be.

So yeah, it can take the better part of a day just to try to set up an account somewhere, especially if that account requires a credit card and an "app". And sometimes even after all of that effort we don't end up with a working account. It does, at times, seem like these things are set up to favor those who already have credit cards, and who are not adverse to typing on small keypads, and who are used to using their phones to do things online. It's like they just don't care about the rest of us.

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Ok tom... i understand things can be more difficult...i've been meaning to set up a public instagram account...so i just went through to instagram on my webbrowser at instagram.com...no app store needed...no need to even download the app...i entered my email address, my full name, my user name, and my password...it took less than a minute

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Holey Moley! That's awesome! I will try this again. My horrible experience was about a year ago, on my old phone. Perhaps things will work for me if I give it another try. Of course, I don't know that there's any actual reason for me to have an Instagram account, but I may try just the same, to see if it will work. As long as I don't have to log in to my email address to confirm.......that is a freakin' nightmare to do on a phone!

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18252676
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Holey Moley! That's awesome! I will try this again. My horrible experience was about a year ago, on my old phone. Perhaps things will work for me if I give it another try. Of course, I don't know that there's any actual reason for me to have an Instagram account, but I may try just the same, to see if it will work. As long as I don't have to log in to my email address to confirm.......that is a freakin' nightmare to do on a phone!

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Yeah, i'm still not sure about posting to there without a tablet, or smart phone though

Edit: they did send me an email to confirm my account

Yea dreaming up the name and password takes a min. Its what are you going to do with it that takes time. I mean if you are going to blindly post nothing photos of nothing just to document..nothing.. then you can blast away.
But what is your marketing strategy going to be? Not all photos are going to look decent that small, which ones first, what are you saying about each one..ect. Who are you engaging with, without looking like you are engaging just to build up traffic. Its a lot of work not to look like a dumba***

So it looks like the newest version of LR I have is 3...could have swore I have a newer one. I wonder if this instathumb plugin would work on it? That will be the task for todayish.

Workflow would be install LR on a computer that is on the internet. Take finished crunched down pictures from PS on a computer that will never be on the internet..copy to SD drive>plug in to internet computer with LR>upload to Instathumbs

On a another note, in my search for a way to do this (before I searched here) I found there are dozens of programs designed to download ALL of a persons pictures from someone else account.. so you read that and you just want to throw your hands up
Gary

Tom an "App" is simply a synonym for a program, made to sound all sexy. Generally it is a term that is applied to programs with relatively limited functionality, used on devices with limited computing power. Also as far as I am aware you do not need to have a CC to have an account at any of the App stores, be it Apple's, Google's, or Amazon's, I have accounts with the last two, and my daughter also has an iPhone, so has that too. Although they do constantly try asking you for details, there is always in my experiance an option to skip this step. Generally I believe that you can get an account with any of the provideres from the age of 13, which would of course preclude having any sort of CC.

Alan

On the Mac side I airdrop from iMac to iPhone and upload that way.

On the PC side I email image to gmail, download to phone and post.

AngelofDepth wrote in post #18257791
On the Mac side I airdrop from iMac to iPhone and upload that way.

On the PC side I email image to gmail, download to phone and post.

I do the airdrop things at times. But I also have a plug-in for LR that works great as well.

Looks like I have found a different/ easier way to do this without a phone or lightroom.
I bought a unlocked phone from B&H no sim card.
Transfer pictures to phone from the desktop. Via the charging cord that comes with the phone (one end is a usb male.
Then upload to instacrap from phone.

So you still use a phone, but one you cannot make or receive phone calls from, no contract no nothing. So I have kind of kept my oath to never have a cell phone,
While definitely keeping my blood oath to never use lightroom again.

Its hard being me
Gary

Sounds like you could do the same thing with a android tablet, or ipad, still no cell phone. Thats basically what your got was a small tablet.

Yes see a tablet would be perfect for me because of the size..just holding this small piece of crap annoys me. But in my extensive reading, many have said there is no tablet support. But I haven't tried that yet myself...yet.
Gary

Gas Hog wrote in post #18282416
Yes see a tablet would be perfect for me because of the size..just holding this small piece of crap annoys me. But in my extensive reading, many have said there is no tablet support. But I haven't tried that yet myself...yet.
Gary

If it runs on Android it should run as well on the latest tablets, as it does phones, the only difference is the screen size, and the latest OS versions are supposed to take that into consideration for you. With things like the Samsung Note range of "Phablets" the line between phone and tablet has become pretty blurred..

Alan

Instagram certainly runs on Android tablets.