Photo Editing Tips for Instagram

Make your photos stand out with these photo editing tips for Instagram. If you are an artist and you like showing your art on Instagram, you will want to check out these photo editing tips to excel on the Instagram app. Keep reading to learn about my photo editing tips for Instagram!

Photo Editing Tips for Instagram

Even if you know nothing about photo editing, I will share a very easy app that you can use to edit your photos professionally on Instagram!

Photo Editing Tips for Instagram - Adobe Lightroom

I love this app because it is free and that is the Adobe Lightroom app that you can get for your iPhone or smartphone. Adobe Lightroom is a paid program to use on your laptop or your desktop computer, but it is a free app that you can use on your phone which is totally awesome!

With lightroom, you can purchase a variety of different presets. There's also free presets that already come on the app itself. This makes editing your photos on Instagram very easy and it will give a consistent look to your Instagram feed. 

You can easily edit photos in black-and-white and they can have the same consistent look with all the photos that you edit.

There are lots of different photo editing tutorials available on YouTube so do your research and check them out!

Emily Jeffords and Jenna Kutcher sell great presets that you can use if you are a photographer or you are an artist. 

With Adobe Lightroom, you can easily edit Photos and adjust the brightness and contrast the exposure. The saturation, the hue, you can also crop photos and sharpen them as well.

If you are an artist or a photographer, I highly recommend purchasing a Adobe Lightroom for your laptop or desktop because you will be able to edit your photos a lot faster and quicker using AI. You can edit them even faster, you can remove different blemishes, or dust particles in the background, unwanted stray hairs that come across your artwork and you can just make your artwork look super professional.

When I take photos of my artwork, I like to set up my lighting and place my artwork on a white background to make sure that when I'm editing the photo, I can adjust the brightness to make sure that the white is fully white, and that all of the colours in my artwork are looking as natural and as realistic as possible. 

Photo Editing Tips for Instagram - Good Lighting

Having great lighting is an amazing photo editing tip for Instagram so it's good to try to capture natural light whenever possible. You can take photos of your artwork outside or you can try to use multiple lights, so that you don't have any shadows cast on your artwork when you take a photo. 

If you are an artist who is putting together an art portfolio application for college or university you can click the button below to check out my 10 tips. 

This is a free guide to make your art portfolio application stand out from the crowd and get you accepted into the art program or art related program of your choice.

If you are an artist, but you're not sure which art school or art program if you want to apply to you can click the button below to get my free video training where I help you answer different questions and think about what you need to consider, so that you can choose the perfect art school or art program for you.

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The good thing about Instagram is that you don't need to have a perfect beautiful curated feed to be successful on Instagram. A lot of social media wants you to show your authentic self. Not only can you show finished pieces of art but you can show work in progress, you can show the materials, and the techniques that you use. You can show research and inspiration as well.

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Conceal - Art Installation by Jackie Partridge

Conceal is a project that was inspired my a previous work Trapped this work is from 2017 by artist Jackie Partridge.  In the installation below I use the same hand dyed and hand embroidered dishcloth quilt from Trapped. The dishcloth quilt is made to resemble an aerial view of farmlands. Farming runs in my family as both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents owned farms. I grew up in Wellesley, Ontario, a small town surrounded by farmlands. I watched the land over time develop into subdivision after subdivision. This artwork became symbolic for concealing or covering, protecting and hiding the land. The dishcloths are dyed with inks and acrylic fluids with bright colours of greens, browns, yellows, oranges and pinks to represent the colours and beauty of farm fields. I really wanted to highlight the beauty and vibrancy of the landscape.

I am interested in quilts and fibre art because when I grew up I had 8 grandmothers including great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers. So the craft of embroidery and sewing are very important to my family heritage. 

With my art practice I often reuse elements and photograph different artwork outside to change and transform the context of the work itself. I see my art evolving and transforming through time similar to how the landscape is in a constant state of change.

This quilt inspired artwork is draped over rocks at my grandmother’s house in Kinmount, ON. Their property is a special place where I enjoy spending my summer. I find being in nature to be a very inspiring place for my work and me as an artist. Photographed by me in summer 2017.

I see the quilt as a symbol of protection, warmth and comfort. Like most quilts are. 

You can see my current art practice here!

Shop for handmade art -here

Follow me on social media @jackiepartridge_ to see current artwork and to hear about upcoming art exhibitions. 

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Printmaking Today -Article Feature for Patched

Patched is a project by Jackie Partridge that has been an ongoing photography series since 2018. My work Patched is ongoing and features nature photography and paper making. I have patched trees in a variety of places that I have lived and spent time in such as; Waterloo Region, Montreal, New York, Vermont, Kinmount, Bracebridge, Huntsville and more. Where I add map paper pulp onto trees where the bark has naturally peeled away. I see the act of patching trees as a form of mending the tree in a poetic way. The work is meditative and calming as I spent lots of time hiking and being in the forests. Forest Bathing is an act of surrounding yourself with nature and being present with the moment. 

Recently my work Patched was featured in Printmaking Today. Chrystal Cherniwchan wrote a beautiful write up about my work Patched. Check it out below!

Let’s Connect

You can see more of my work from the series Patched here! Patched is an ongoing series of photography which I update on my instagram @jackiepartridge_  

you can search the hashtag #patchedproject to see more from this series on Instagram.

Patched Books

You can purchase a hardcover copy of the book Patched that was published in 2018 in my shop. The books are supported by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund grant I was awarded in 2018. The books are 38 pages and contain a mixture of poems inspired by nature and trees as well as coloured photos of Patched and the process. There is also a PDF Ebook version of Patched available in my shop.

Patched Exhibitions

Connect with me on social media to learn about upcoming exhibitions for Patched - and search the #patchedproject hashtag on Instagram to see more of the project!  Click one of the icons below to follow me on social media!

Patched - Collection of Poems and Photographs (Hardcover Book)

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