1. Take a picture
Tap the camera icon at the bottom center. You can now opt for the gallery, photo or video. Choose the picture or take a picture immediately. Instagram now opens the camera of your smartphone. Tap the blue circle to take the picture.
2. Editing a picture
Choose a filter to apply over your photo. You can try different filters before you finally make your choice. If you want to compare a filter with the original, keep your finger on the photo. You then see the original image again. If you do not want a filter at all, choose normal.
Tap Edit to optimize your photo further. Here you can, for example, rotate (and straighten) your picture, and adjust the brightness and contrast. With Structure, the details in a photo are enhanced, with which you can achieve a high definition effect.
If your photo is entirely to your liking, tap Next at the top right.
3. Captions
You can now write a caption with your photo. Keep this preferably short and concise.
To make your photo more popular, you can work with hashtags. A hashtag is a feature with a hash sign (#) on which users can search for images. For example, popular hashtags are #picoftheday, #love, and #happy. Also used frequently: the place where the picture was taken or the season. To reach as many people as possible, you can buy Instagram comments on IIGERS. This will make your post more popular, and therefore Instagram will put your picture at the top of each hashtag search! Bonus: your post will also appear in your follower’s feed the moment they open Instagram.
With photos that succeeded so well that they do not need a filter, the hashtag #nofilter is often placed. A hashtag is often placed with photos of popular subjects with the addition of ‘-Instagram’. For example, #catstagram, #dogstagram, #foodstagram.
4. Location
If you have the GPS on your smartphone, you can add your location to the photo. This allows your photos to be found by users searching for pictures in this neighborhood.
You can tag Instagram users on your photo by tapping on your photo and adding the desired username.
When sharing, you can choose other social media wherever you want to post your photo.
Instagram automatically chooses to share your photo with all your followers. If you want to send your picture as a private message to another user, select private messages at the top right.
When you are ready to publish your photo, tap the check mark at the top right.
What about copyright on Instagram?
No idea whether or not you can use a photo on Instagram? And whether your images are still yours after you place them on the social medium? We tell you correctly how works with copyright on Instagram.
While in the offline world you cannot just walk out of a store without paying, that is more complicated in the digital world. Many things are free, where you pay by giving away personal data or some privacy. Google and Facebook have even based their business model on it. But there are also rules about copyright online, so also on Instagram. How do those rules work?
Can you use a photo from Instagram or not? And who’s precisely are they if you place them on the medium, from Instagram or from the user? Copyright is not an easy matter, so a little explanation is in order.
Your photos remain your property
Many people think that everything you put on Instagram becomes directly owned by the social medium. This is not true, the images simply remain yours and may not be used by others unless you give your consent.
The same applies to all the content that you place there. The conditions literally say “Instagram is not the owner of the content that you place on or through the service.” On the other hand, they do have a non-exclusive, unlimited, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the images. This mainly means that they can publish the photos you post and Instagram can use your photos. In doing so, they again take your privacy settings into account.
Instagram does not become the owner of your information
Every minute you spend on Instagram provides plenty of data, which the social medium collects. This information is about you, your content and how you use Instagram. This will then build profiles again so that advertisers can target their advertisements to the right target group. Yet your content is not immediately outlawed.
Anything you share with a private account is not shared with third parties by Instagram. In this way, you not only determine who can and cannot see your content but also where this ends up and with whom it is shared. However, if you do not want anyone to be able to see your content, do not share anything and certainly not via social media.
Portrait right and Instagram
Another interesting subject is portrait rights. This means that if you make a portrait photo of someone, you first have to get permission before you can place the photo on Instagram. With innocent portraits, there is often no problem, as long as you keep the caption honest. Falsities that can possibly be accepted as truth are not allowed.
If you give someone permission to place a portrait of you on the social medium, you cannot withdraw that permission. The photo will remain as long as the user wants it to.
This is allowed and not allowed on Instagram
Nice, those copyrights, but what is actually allowed and not. Reframing is a difficult subject. According to the rules of Instagram, you can re-share everything publicly placed on the platform (re-share). But according to copyright, this is a form of copying, and you need permission for it. What is allowed is to share links to photos, use all the features that Instagram offers within the app and embed images.
You may also publish photos that you create on Instagram. If you want to place something else, ask for permission. However, if you are going to cooperate with brands, then you and the brand must stick to the advertising code for social media. Are you coming across a copyright infringement on Instagram? Then you can report this via a particular form. If they recognize the offense, they take the picture offline.