


You can also edit and crop your photos within the tools, though tread lightly, because cropping can sometimes warp your photos, putting weird vertical lines across it giving a striped effect that you don’t want. This makes it way easier when you’re curating your feed. So instead of looking through the 8,000+ photos on my phone I just go into my app and choose from the 20-30 already edited, Insta worthy photos I have cued up in the app. Many have unlimited squares to load photos into so you’ll never lose one in the depths of your phone again. I also love how some of the upgraded versions of the apps allow you to save captions to the photos so when it’s time to actually post your picture, the majority of the legwork is done simply copy and paste, et voila. This is #1 on my list because it is the first thing you need to implement in order to create a stellar Insta feed. They let you move photos around a mock grid, allowing you to plan your feed with photos you haven’t Instagrammed yet. Plann, Planoly, UNUM, Snug, & Preview are all “feed organizers” that help you plan out your IG feed in advance. I’m about to spill some tips to help you plan out your food Instagram feed so it’s pretty AF. So put that pot of coffee on and get ready to learn, people. We talk a lot about how to market your work in Foodtography School, my virtual food photography school (with over 1,000 alumni to date!), but today I wanted to bring some of that knowledge to the blog. You need both pieces that stand on their own, but that also can coexist as a unified body of work. If I may, curating the perfect Instagram feed is like curating a gallery. You have to take beautiful photos, post them consistently (like everyday), organize them in a feed, and make that feed not only aesthetically pleasing, but cohesive. If you want to stand out in today’s Instagram world, it’s no longer enough to simply take beautiful photos.
