The Ultimate Image Adjustment Cheat Sheet For Social Media (Infographic)

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Nowadays, everyone is on social media. Whether it’s a continuous stream of posts or a selfie in every single location, we have arrived to a generation obsessed with social sharing.

Images and videos grab the most engagement from your audiences. They are fun, easy to view and stand out from others. This is the reason why picture and video apps like Instagram and Vine have become increasingly popular. When it comes to engagement, posts that include photos get around 39% more interaction that posts without. Facebook and Twitter are constantly updating their services to provide the best platforms for media sharing and there are now thousands of ways to stand out from the crowd using visual media.

Here are five tips for sparking engagement using photos and videos on social media:

  1. Have a caption contest.
  2. Use quoted pictures followers identify with quotes and then want to share them.
  3. Have a message (and a link) to go with you image.
  4. Create short video clips.
  5. Make sure your images fit with the suitable social media channel.

Regarding the fifth tip above, here is an infographic that covers almost every aspect to make sure you have the right size, format and dimension for various social media channels.

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