Instagram Tests New ‘Expand Your Image’ Feature That Uses AI To Adjust Pictures on Stories

Have you ever noticed how uploading images from a smartphone to Instagram can be a struggle? We’re talking about making sure the picture fits into the desired aspects and outline of the app.

Since you’re mostly clicking using your smartphone’s camera, the dimensions are different from the platform's classic 4:5 aspect ratio. Instagram needs you to fulfill this requirement before publishing. Hence, it’s not always easy to make sure the picture looks good and no visible borders are seen.

In case you don’t do it yourself, the app crops or includes white borders to ensure everything is good to go in the FIT option. To be honest, many users were complaining and it looks like Meta has listened to feedback.

Now, users will soon be able to benefit from AI-based photo expansion, thanks to this new feature. The popular platform is testing Expand Your Image which uses generative AI for expanding photo edges to fill up Stories. Pictures get analyzed before uploading and undergo expansion using the right content.

But the question on many people’s minds is whether it will work seamlessly in all scenarios or not? As per experts, the answer is sadly no. Who knows, it just might thanks to rapid developments in the world of AI.

The feature is definitely worth a watch but in other news, the app is already using AI for editing pictures. For instance, there is a Restyle feature where users get to reimagine pictures by adding visual styles described. You can transform clicks through prompts such as watercolor. Similarly, you can use effects like collage styles from magazines or a newspaper with added torn-edge effects.

There will be another Backdrop feature that alters how a scene or background is witnessed through a prompt like ‘put me in front of a rainbow’ or ‘surround me with rose petals’. It’s amazing how much creativity is included thanks to AI. However, if and when you do plan on using assistance from AI, the image will feature watermarks towards the bottom left-hand side. This makes users differentiate AI from content designed by humans.

For now, this expand your image feature is in testing but we’ll let you know once it goes live so stay tuned.

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by Dr. Hura Anwar via Digital Information World