 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is going to be a quick little tutorial on how to crop your photos for Instagram for the portrait size 4 by 5 ratio without having to cut off most of your photo. This doesn't work on every photo, but it works on simple backgrounds or patterned backgrounds and that's what I'm going to show you guys today. If you find this video helpful, please consider subscribing and turn on my post notifications for more tutorials and if you guys have any other questions, leave them in the comments down below and follow me on Instagram. So the first thing I'm going to do is open up this photo and it is just going to open up in Photoshop here and I'm going to unlock the layer so it's not a background and then I'm going to go up to the crop tool. This will automatically crop your photo to the 4 by 5 ratio if you have a preset. You can put in the pixel amount if you want. There's tons of presets you can use or here you can just put in what you want for pixels. I've made a preset for Instagram so I just already have the 4 by 5 ratio already set up. So what you're going to want to do is stretch out the sides just like I did and then you're going to click the check mark. So you're going to have a checkered background. I was just letting you know the background is transparent. Now making sure the layer is selected I'm going to go up here to the marquee tool and this is kind of like a selection tool that's like a rectangle. I'm going to drag a little box so as you can see my box has some of the photo and some of the transparent background and then I'm going to go to file and content aware and that's pretty much it. It like literally has a brain of its own and it's awesome. How to get rid of the lines is like you can just click on it when you see the little box there or you can move it around. There's tons of different ways to do this but I'm just going to show you guys the easiest way. So making sure your main background is selected meaning layer zero in this case. You want to do that same thing to the other side. So grab your marquee tool and then go up to edits and content aware but see my layer is not selected so making sure that selected edit and content aware fill and that is how you get your photo to be four by five ratio and not have to crop the photo. So all I'm going to do here is I'm going to save it as a quick PNG and I'm just going to call it final one or like final PNG. So we know that this photo is actually ready for Instagram. So now I'm going to delete everything pretty much. Oh this is me just showing you how it would have looked if I just crop the image. It would look like that. I would have no headroom it would literally just be my body with the background. I wouldn't have any headroom and I really don't like that. So this is just so much better and I highly recommend it if you don't want to have to crop your image and your image is like 16 by 9 ratio. So now I'm going to drag and drop my new photo that I want to show you guys into Photoshop. There's probably a better way like file import but I just like to drag and drop. I find it to be the easiest and it works. So I'm going to press enter and right here this is I'm going to delete the other layer because I don't need that anymore. But as you guys can see this is a smart object and actually I'm just cropping the image right now. So you guys can see what it will look like. That's what it would look like. It would cut off enjoy the cup part of the cup and I don't want that cropped and cut off. So I'm going to extend it now like I was saying earlier the layer is imported as a smart layer. You don't want that because you can't use the content aware tool. So what I'm going to do is go to layer rasterize and then you're going to click smart object. So if you want to rewind that watch that I know it's kind of weird but we want to rasterize this because we want the pixels to be like set in stone. Now I'm going to use the marquee tool and now I'm going to use the content aware tool just like I did in the last little picture there. And as you can see beautiful seamless looks like it's just an extension of the photo making sure that that layer is selected. I'm going to show you what's going to happen if I have the other layer selected that I just created. I wanted to show you guys this because I made this mistake. And as you can see it totally looks ridiculous and awful like that's the way my photo would look. So I'm going to undo all that because we don't want the photo to look like that. So selecting the correct layer which is the original photo we're going to do the exact same thing and we're going to select the area and then use the content aware tool. Now this one kind of works kind of doesn't it's kind of funky right there on the left side but overall it doesn't cut out anything and I think it looks pretty good. So I'm going to export this one and actually use it. The next photo that we're going to edit is totally not going to work at least in my opinion it looks ridiculous and I don't like it. So I'm going to delete all the layers it won't let me delete this one so I'm just going to drag and drop the new photo in and press enter to import it delete the old one and going to come up and rasterize the layer so layer rasterize and smart object. Now I'm going to take my marquee tool again and select the area partially the photo partially the transparent background and now you're going to see look at that that you can see part of my arm the tree is just copied over it really looks like a bad Photoshop job. So I'm going to try it again you can select a little bit less of the original photo and I'm going to see how that's going to look. That looks a little bit better it's just actually loading right now see that one looks a little bit better but you can see the repetition in the photo so I'm just going to select okay so you guys can see what the actual photo looks like selecting the correct layer again the original layer I'm going to do the exact same thing on the other side and using the content aware and marquee tool and it's loading right now and that is what you get you can see the repetitiveness it just does not look very good in my mind but if you like this or if you have a better way of doing this please leave that in the comments down below I would love to hear your feedback on this I'm sure that there's another way to make this look better probably using the clone stamp tool which again I'm not a big fan of it takes forever and this is very efficient and everything so here are all the photos I'm going to blow them up so you guys can have a better idea of what they all look like before and after I did not do anything or save the bad looking photo so you can kind of see what they all look like so the peach wall photo looks good and the every cup is an adventure looks really good so that is going to be it for this tutorial I really hope you guys enjoyed it and took something away from it I'm sure that there's other apps that do the similar thing if you know of any please leave them in the comments down below for other people I know not everyone has Photoshop but this is something that I kind of learned on my own kind of learned through YouTube but no one made a dedicated video for Instagram and I hope this helped you so anyway that is going to be it and I'll see you guys in my next video bye