Instagram has now confirmed the resolution increase across its
photo-sharing service, and says that the change will improve the quality
of photos while having minimal impact on file size and data usage.
Company co-founder Mike Krieger tweeted on Monday that the 1080×1080 images were being rolled out to Instagram’s iOS and Android apps:
With each photo going from 0.41 megapixels to 1.2 megapixels, some users
were understandably concerned that the change would cause their cell
phone data usage to skyrocket while using cellular networks.
Krieger responded by saying that improvements to “image optimization” means that the company managed to increase resolution by nearly 3x while keeping file sizes largely the same:
As you can see, although the new photo has a new size of 1080px, the
640px version is a bit less sharp than the previous version. But how
about in terms of file size?
The new file weighs about 110KB, while the old one was about 84KB. That’s a relatively insignificant increase given how many more pixels are now being stored and displayed with the larger photos.
Some photographers on Flickr recently complained after it was discovered that Flickr had increased compression and decreased quality in order to store more photos in the same amount of disk space. It seems Instagram has done a similar thing, but given that the goals of the service are different from Flickr (snapshots of life versus high quality photos), we’re guessing that Instagram users won’t mind nearly as much.
Company co-founder Mike Krieger tweeted on Monday that the 1080×1080 images were being rolled out to Instagram’s iOS and Android apps:
Krieger responded by saying that improvements to “image optimization” means that the company managed to increase resolution by nearly 3x while keeping file sizes largely the same:
The new file weighs about 110KB, while the old one was about 84KB. That’s a relatively insignificant increase given how many more pixels are now being stored and displayed with the larger photos.
Some photographers on Flickr recently complained after it was discovered that Flickr had increased compression and decreased quality in order to store more photos in the same amount of disk space. It seems Instagram has done a similar thing, but given that the goals of the service are different from Flickr (snapshots of life versus high quality photos), we’re guessing that Instagram users won’t mind nearly as much.
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