Can you post photos from PC to Instagram ?

GlenMoore1 wrote in post #18968560
If you ask me, I can tell you all the information about Instagram, I am kind of tech specialist that tries to help people improve their skill, those people who use Instagram. For some reason's I still don't have very much follower's on Instagram so I cannot talk to a big amount of people to help them with their issue's. I've already used https://igautolike.com …/instagram-auto-comments/ But I am still in progress to achieve my popularity, hope this will happen as soon as it is possible. I want to teach people, I want to help them with their issue's.

Instagram is better with true interaction...using bots isn’t going to get you followers, it will have the opposite affect as you’ll come off fake

GlenMoore1 wrote in post #18968560
If you ask me, I can tell you all the information about Instagram, I am kind of tech specialist that tries to help people improve their skill, those people who use Instagram.

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Great! I'm glad I found you here.

Please tell me how to upload photos directly from my iMac computer, using "Photos" (Apple's photo management and editing program).

I need to learn how to do this directly, without using any third party program such as Lightroom. . And I want to upload to Instagram's website directly, without any "go-between" website aiding with the upload process.

So, how can this be done?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18968625
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Great! I'm glad I found you here.

Please tell me how to upload photos directly from my iMac computer, using "Photos" (Apple's photo management and editing program).

I need to learn how to do this directly, without using any third party program such as Lightroom. . And I want to upload to Instagram's website directly, without any "go-between" website aiding with the upload process.

So, how can this be done?

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I wouldn’t put too much weight in his post...does your iMac not have Instagram available as it’s own app?

DreDaze wrote in post #18968638
I wouldn’t put too much weight in his post...does your iMac not have Instagram available as it’s own app?

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I'm sorry, but I don't really even know what that means.

Aren't "apps" for mobile devices, and when you are using a regular desktop computer, you go to a website via a browser instead of using an app?

I had no idea that websites came in "app" versions for desktop computers. . Do you have any info on this that you can share via a link?

Thanks.

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18968667
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I'm sorry, but I don't really even know what that means.

Aren't "apps" for mobile devices, and when you are using a regular desktop computer, you go to a website via a browser instead of using an app?

I had no idea that websites came in "app" versions for desktop computers. . Do you have any info on this that you can share via a link?

Thanks.

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Microsoft, at least, has been confusing the term lately by describing stand-alone Windows 10 programs as "apps". A quick Google search under "mac apps" shows the same thing happening within the iOS side as well. To me, an "app" is simply a computer program. I've written a few "apps" for a phone, nothing more than a program.

Capn Jack wrote in post #18968672
Microsoft, at least, has been confusing the term lately by describing stand-alone Windows 10 programs as "apps". A quick Google search under "mac apps" shows the same thing happening within the iOS side as well. To me, an "app" is simply a computer program. I've written a few "apps" for a phone, nothing more than a program.

Okay.

I guess what I want to use is a website, not a program.

A website is typically something that you access via an internet browser, right? . Compared to an app, which you access directly without a browser being used a a go-between ..... right?

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Have you tried any of this Tom?
https://www.macworld.c​o.uk …nstagram-for-mac-3641569/

Tom Reichner wrote in post #18968676
Okay.

I guess what I want to use is a website, not a program.

A website is typically something that you access via an internet browser, right? . Compared to an app, which you access directly without a browser being used a a go-between ..... right?

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Yes, a website typically is accessed by a browser. But the lines have blurred, such that web browsers can run programs loaded by the pages (java script is one way to present such programs), and programs (or apps) can access data in web pages (or other internet data).

DreDaze wrote in post #18968684
Have you tried any of this Tom?
https://www.macworld.c​o.uk …nstagram-for-mac-3641569/

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Yes, tried that. . It doesn't work. . At all. . Complete failure. . Makes me very frustrated.

Why can't everything just work, as advertised?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18968716
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Yes, tried that. . It doesn't work. . At all. . Complete failure. . Makes me very frustrated.

Why can't everything just work, as advertised?

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i don't know...you tried all the different options in that link though? i don't have a mac, i have a pc and can post directly, although i never do. hopefully someone with a mac can better help you out.

DreDaze wrote in post #18968720
i don't know...you tried all the different options in that link though? i don't have a mac, i have a pc and can post directly, although i never do. hopefully someone with a mac can better help you out.

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I have known quite a few people with iMacs, and no one I know has been able to get Instagram to work natively on their iMac the same way it works on their phones, despite many frustrating hours spent trying to get it to do so.

So many people who are much better at tech stuff than I am have failed, and I have never heard of a single success. . So of course it doesn't surprise me when I try that stuff and nothing works.

If anyone has ever heard of someone getting Instagram to work on a Mac, the same way it works on a phone (with all functions working), without using a 3rd party site as a go-between, I would love to hear about it. . As far as I know, it has never worked for anyone, ever, in the history of the world.

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18968722
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I have known quite a few people with iMacs, and no one I know has been able to get Instagram to work natively on their iMac the same way it works on their phones, despite many frustrating hours spent trying to get it to do so.

So many people who are much better at tech stuff than I am have failed, and I have never heard of a single success. . So of course it doesn't surprise me when I try that stuff and nothing works.

If anyone has ever heard of someone getting Instagram to work on a Mac, the same way it works on a phone (with all functions working), without using a 3rd party site as a go-between, I would love to hear about it. . As far as I know, it has never worked for anyone, ever, in the history of the world.

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i mean, considering the multitude of videos online that show people doing it...i think some have made it happen in the history of the world...it looks so simple here:
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=4V8aCwS1Zeo

Dan Marchant wrote in post #18233596
get the LR/Instagram plugin which creates a publish service for Instagram. http://www.lrinstagram​.com/

Cool. Thanks for posting this.

Nethawked wrote in post #18282949
My one criticism, that square picture format. I refuse to crop or compose just to make things look pretty in Instagram. While not on topic I'm curious how many do pay attention to this.

I wasn't thrilled with it but I've come around. Imposing 1:1 aspect ratio encourages compositions that differ from 3:2 which can be a useful constraint.

I'm using Firefox plugin User-Agent Switcher and Manager to post to IG. Setting the user agent to Chrome 74.0.3729.136/Android 9 works fine. Some features missing, notably edit post.

Also using this caption linebreak tool to create nicely formatted captions.

One thing I noticed is IG wreaks havoc on high ISO images. I have to add much more luminance NR to offset the compression than I do with Flickr, POTN, etc. Might be just me.

they don't need to be square anymore.

DreDaze wrote in post #18968726
i mean, considering the multitude of videos online that show people doing it...i think some have made it happen in the history of the world...it looks so simple here:
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=4V8aCwS1Zeo

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That's really good, Andre!

In fact, it almost works with full functionality. . Almost

Problem is, it doesn't let you send messages from other people's stories, the way I can on my phone.

It seems that every single time I have tried any of these "Instagram on desktop" tricks, there is always some function that doesn't work. . And these are functions that are very important to me; ones that I use quite often.

It would be great if there were some way to use Instagram on my desktop the same way I use it on my phone, with no limitations and no missing functions.

But I will give you kudos, as this works better than any of the other tricks I have tried so far.

Thank you. . I really appreciate this, and from now on it will be the way I use Instagram on my desktop, despite the one missing function. . I'll only have to resort to my phone when I want to send a direct response to someone's story, which I only do a few times a week anyway.

EDIT: . Upon further use, I found that it does not allow me to edit the captions of my posts, the way I can when I use my phone. . So I guess it isn't quite as useful as I had thought. . But it's still better than what I was using on my desktop before, so I am still thankful to Andre for providing the how-to video link.

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