I have not seen this added yet , but like a frame the color of a border can change the contrast of an image.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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This comes from the printing days when photographers would frame their work with a matte. It's a white border between the frame and the art that leads the eye and enhances the visual experience through the isolation of the art.
Personally, I think it looks stupid on social media. The idea of a matte online is pointless and doesn't have the same effect as when it's framed with a matte. I feel like people just do it for feed aesthetics. I used to do it back in the day when you could only post square images to IG, but now that you can post in any aspect ratio, I see no point.
Don't do it. It looks terrible on instagram. No professional photographers I follow do this, it's stupid.
Those IG crops are not standard real camera crops. Sometimes an image is great and doesn’t work well in the IG crops.
Sometimes photos look better in the frame, sometimes I don't want to crop in ig aspect ratio. I even created an ios app for it )