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Use the Built-In Camera with Instagram

The Instagram app on Android has a camera button, where you can snap a square picture, apply filters, and send it to all your followers. The Instagram camera simply uses the built-in camera to take a full size picture and crop it down to a square. It saves the full size photograph in the DCIM directory.

By using the Instagram camera, you are kind of taking the full-size image at random. You don't really know what you are getting in the full-size image. Maybe you don't care, because you are just sending it off to your friends in Instagram. But if you are a photographer and you care about your fine art photographs, then you need a better solution.

The better solutions is to use Android's built-in camera to take the full size photograph. Load the full-size photograph in Instagram and crop it down to a square. Now you'll have a full-size photograph in your DCIM folder and a cropped square photograph in your Instagram folder.

Another solution is to configure Instagram to use the built-in Android camera, rather than the Instagram camera. You can do that through the settings in your profile. So go to your profile in the Instagram app and tap the menu icon (the three vertical squares).

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Select "Camera settings". (See screen shot above.)

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Deselect "Use Instagram's Advanced Camera" as shown in the screen shot above.

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