#Instagram pictures stop being square, as app introduces long and wide images and videos The site has forced always users to crop their pictures into perfect squares, however they were taken originally. But now users can share photos in portrait or landscape, the site has said, giving people a ormaticon that lets them adjust what size they need. The pictures and videos then show up as normal in the feed, without any black bars around them and with the frame shrinking to whatever size the picture is. The company said that it was excited particularly to see what would happen with video now that people would be allowed to upload videos in widescreen. Instagram has been pushing its video offering hard, especially alongside the growth of Twitter competitor Vine which also forces its users to push their videos into square boxes. Instagram stressed in its announcement that quare format has been and always will be part of who we arehat said, the visual story youe trying to tell should always come first, and we want to make it simple and fun for you to share moments just the way you want to, the announcement said. t turns out that nearly one in five photos or videos people post aren in the square format, and we know that it hasn been easy to share this type of content on Instagram: friends get cut out of group shots, the subject of your video feels cramped and you can capture the Golden gate bridge from end to end. he update is available in the new version of Instagram on Android and ios, which are both available in their app stores a
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