Instagram Now Allows Users to Post Landscape and Portrait Photos

Instagram, the popular photo sharing app owned by Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), has abandoned its requirement that all photos and videos be posted as squares. Now, it allows users to choose portrait and landscape dimensions as well.
According to Tech Crunch:

The change could open new forms of artistic expression in Instagram. Traditionally shot landscape videos won’t lose their cinematic feel. Fashion photographers hated how squares forced them to crop out the shoes from portrait shots of people’s outfits. And for everyday users, the change means they won’t have to plan ahead to post to Instagram, or end up cropping out friends’ faces from group photos.

Ashley Yuki, the Instagram Product Manager, stated:

The story we’ve heard is it looked beautiful, and it looked really nice in feed when they were mocking it up. . . . [Users] have moments that they want to share that don’t fit into a square. Important parts would get chopped out. By enabling this we can give you more creative freedom.

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