How to Print and Display Instagram Photos at Home

We write a lot about Instagram because it's pretty amazing. It's a fast and easy way to share great looking photos from our iPhones. We've written about how to order prints and a number of other things using your Instagram photos, but they aren't always cheap. And, worst of all, they aren't very instant. There's nothing worse than having to wait for all those photos to show up at your door. So, here's the easiest way to put the "insta" back into your Instagrams and print your own photos at home.

We're choosing to make 4" x 4" prints in this guide because they're easy to frame and because you can fit four prints to a regular sized page, getting you the most bang for your buck.

What You'll Need

>> Glossy photo paper
>> Scissors
>> A printer with a fresh cartridge of color ink
>> Adobe Photoshop, or any other image editor that lets you resize images
>> Instagram, of course!

Choose Your Photos

Instagram, by default, holds images in the app itself, saves photos to camera roll, and lets you export photos to services like Flickr and Facebook. The only place you can get high resolution photos though is through your Camera Roll. So, you'll get the highest quality prints if you email your photos directly to yourself.

Unfortunately, Camera Roll limits the number of photos you can send to yourself via email. And, it might be hard to find the Instagrams you want while looking through all the pictures you've ever taken. If that's the case, the easiest source to save your pictures for printing is through an online Instagram viewer like Instagrid. It's easy to make an account, and you can quickly peruse your photos and save them to your hard drive for printing.

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It's a shame that more app developers don't code with the iPad's big screen in mind, especially when the app in question revolves around photographs. Instagram has been around for nearly two years now and there's still no native iPad or universal form of the app. With all that screen real estate, it's a shame to have to run the iPhone version embiggened, trapped in portrait mode, just to see pictures of our friends' adorable offspring or recent meals.

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Life love Instagram. These days, it's pretty much exclusively how we take pictures--even when we're posting to Facebook and Flickr. But, despite how beautiful our photos look on our screens, we sometimes yearn for something a little more tangible. So, we print them. Luckily there are more than a just few services to print our Instagram photos. Here's how you too can print your Instagrams and turn them into beautiful works of art.

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Despite Facebook's massive buyout and its rollout onto Android, we love Instagram. It's a fun blend of simple photography and social networking. But that doesn't mean there aren't some worthy alternatives to our favorite photo sharing service. While we can't see ourselves leaving Instagram anytime soon (none of these apps feature editing tools or filters, for instance), there are four social photo-sharing services worth checking out in the App Store.

Do you see yourself replacing Instagram with any of these apps? Or are developers just trying to cash in on Instagram's wild success? Let us know what you think in the comments!

1. Path

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AOL Sells Patents to Microsoft and Facebook buys Instagram -a Look at Value

, that Facebook has had the wind in its face (pardon the pun) rather than at its back. Given the accelerating rate at which the “next big thing” pops up on the Internet (Pinterest and Instagram being prime examples), it is hard to imagine that changed circumstances won’t lead to similar moves.  Zuckerberg and his team are learning that with dominance comes envy, scrutiny and a lot more entities looking to knock you off your perch. They are used to an environment former New York Mayor Ed Koch used to describe as, “I don’t get ulcers, I give them!”

With everyone in the tech space seemingly in court with everyone else over intellectual property issues, hidden or not, there can be no question that IP is valuable. Just how much, to whom, for what reasons and at what time as the saying goes, “Is why they play the games.” 

This leads to a final thought about value. As those who follow my musings on things related to the IP wars know, the 800 pound gorilla in all of this tends to be haggling over what constitutes FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory) use of the IP of someone else. This is what regulation and litigation are mostly about setting aside emotion. It leads to a final question, who does one put a value on the moving target that is litigation? 

Thanks, Rich, for getting the ball rolling.

Edited by Juliana Kenny




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