See your photos together before posting

How to preview your Instagram feed before posting

1. Choose 3–30 photos from your phone or computer, starting with the ones you plan to publish next. Choosing again replaces the current plan.
2. If you want to see the new photos above your current profile, add some existing posts as well, newest first. The whole plan holds up to 30 images.
3. Drag a Move handle onto another tile, or select a photo and use Earlier tile, Later tile or Move to first. The top-left tile is the photo you will post last.
4. Select a tile to slide its crop left, right, up or down, or to zoom in. Check the palette and the neighbour hints again after each crop change.
5. Save the grid PNG as a reminder, then download the posting ZIP and publish file 01 first, following the numbers. Existing posts are left out of the ZIP.

Jasna looks different when the sides disappear

I tested this with three of my own photos: the Lake Jasna portrait and the Metelkova red bicycle and figure. Jasna is 960 × 1200, the two Metelkova frames are 1200 × 800 landscapes. In a 3:4 tile the portrait loses a thin strip and nothing I care about. The landscapes lose half their width. On the bicycle the centred crop slices through the front wheel and drops most of the painted question-mark blocks on the wall. I would rather find that out here than on my profile.

With the files in that order, the grid PNG came out at 1084 × 480: three 360 × 480 tiles with two narrow gaps between them. The ZIP numbered the figure 01, the bicycle 02 and Jasna 03, so posting them in that order leaves Jasna top-left. The screen reads left to right and the filenames run the other way. I keep the small PNG open while I post, so I do not mix the two up.

A portrait preview with room to move the crop

The tiles are 3:4 portrait, three to a row. I checked that shape on 29 October 2026 on Adam Mosseri’s official Instagram profile, in a browser 390 pixels wide: the first six grid tiles each measured 129 × 172 pixels, exactly 3:4. Your own profile may still differ, for example with pinned posts or a hand-picked order, which a plain newest-first plan cannot show.

A landscape is never squashed to fit. It fills the tile and whatever falls outside is cut. My 1200 × 800 bicycle keeps a centred 600 × 800 part of the frame. With Crop left / right pushed to the right edge and Zoom at 1.5, only a 400-pixel-wide slice of the original is left. The JPEG files in the ZIP use exactly the crop you see on screen.

Use the colours as a second look

Under each photo is a short strip of its main colours. Select a tile and you get the colour values, a brightness percentage and a warmth score. The wider feed strip shows one main colour per photo, in the current tile order, which is the fastest way I know to catch three similar frames in a row without opening them.

The numbers come from a small copy of the visible crop. Brightness is an average, and warmth compares red with blue; neither says anything about mood. The neighbour hints compare tiles side by side and directly above or below. Two close colours can be a deliberate echo. A bright frame next to a dark one can be a welcome pause. I read every hint as a reason to look again, not as an order.

Take the plan with you

The ZIP holds new 1080 × 1440 JPEG crops numbered in posting order; your originals stay as they were. The PNG is one clean picture of the whole planned grid, existing posts included. Neither file touches Instagram or your profile. If you want to post a landscape at its full width, keep the original for the post itself and use the crop only to judge the grid.

The plan lives in this browser tab, so save both downloads before you close it or pick a new batch. The tool takes still JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and HEIC images within the shared 50 MB and 64 megapixel limits. It opens photos one at a time and keeps only small previews in the live grid, so a phone does not have to hold every full-size file at once.

What I check in a small preview

• Look at the edges of every landscape after the crop. The subject usually survives; the detail that made me take the picture often does not.
• Add a few recent posts under the plan to see where the older set meets the new one.
• Before posting, match file 01 against the bottom-right new tile. Existing posts below it get no number.

Privacy

Your file never leaves your device. Photos, colour analysis, crop adjustments and exports stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded. No account or Instagram connection is needed.

Related tools and guides

• Arrange a posting sequence you can follow: Plan the next row or the next nine posts. Arrange your photographs first, then take a numbered ZIP to Instagram and publish from file 01 upwards.
• Image Resizer: Resize images by pixels, percentage or longest side.
• Image Cropper: Crop images to exact ratios or popular preset sizes.
• Put your photos together in one image: Join photos side by side, stacked or in a grid, with adjustable gaps and borders.
• Add text to your photo and keep it readable: Put captions on a photo with a gradient, tint or box behind them and a live contrast check.
• EXIF Viewer: Read the camera, settings, date and GPS location stored in a photo, or remove them.
• My Metelkova photographs: The landscape frames I used beside the Jasna portrait.