Instagram Finally Steps Out Of The Box With Their New Landscape and Portrait Feature

No more having to experience the trauma of choosing between cropping out your new haircut or your new shoes.

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If you're an avid Instagrammer, you would have constantly found yourself contorting to try and fit the length of a picture into Instagram's iconic square frame. Right?

And it sometimes results in you challenging your flexibility to fit the picture into the square

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Thank the heavens cause that chapter is finally done as the minds behind Instagram just rolled out their new support for potrait and landscape pictures

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Now when you access your photo gallery from within the updated app, you'll see a format button above the camera roll. You can use this button to toggle between square and full-size images. From there, you can zoom in and out to choose the best crop for your photos.

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But what else will this new feature bring about? Well, here are a few ways you can take advantage of this new addition:

1. Use the extra space to create drama

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2. Get up close

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3. Play with composition and perspective

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In a pretty cool way to show off the new landscape format, Disney and Lucasfilm have debuted a new mini-trailer on the official Star Wars Instagram account for the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with new footage from the film that opens in theaters this December

There has been an awakening… #StarWars #TheForceAwakens

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