A Glasgow restaurant is teaching customers how to take the best pictures of their food for social media. 

Zizzi's restaurant in Glasgow is offering diners tips in perfecting food pictures for Instagram. 

Staff at the Glasgow branch of the popular restaurant have undergone training in how to take foodie snaps and how to use lighting and filters.

The tutorials have been launched after research revealed that almost 1 in 5 young diners in Glasgow take up to six pictures of their food per meal (17 per cent) as part of their dining experience. 

Latest research show that one in ten Glasgow diners feel taking and sharing a picture of their meals made them taste better. 

Jo Fawcett from Zizzi said: “Zizzi is proud to serve food that looks as good as it tastes and now our staff are fully trained to help you snap and share with your friends.”

The team received training from Instagram celebrity Leanne Lim-Walker who has built up an Instagram empire of 177,000 followers. 

Leanne Lim-Walker said: "Social media is such a big part of our everyday lives, it's no surprise that most people even share their dining experiences. Zizzi's Instagram Gurus will be making sure no good food opportunity goes to waste."

Instagram Guru Leanne Lim Walker’s shares her top 10 tips for taking and sharing foodie pictures with Glasgow diners:

1. Clean your camera lens before taking a photo to reduce blurring and sharpen the clarity

2. Reduce camera shake by using the ‘+’ volume button to capture an image when shooting landscape

3. All iPhones have a grid that you can use, and it can be helpful for lining up your shot. To enable the grid, go to Settings > Photos and Camera > Grid. This works especially well when shooting multiple dishes

4. Don't use your flash! It will bleach the picture. Instead, use the torch light on someone else's phone to illuminate your food

5. Make use of natural light where possible – this will help you to avoid shadows across your pictures

6. Use apps such as Snapped, Facetune and Perfect365 to edit your photos before uploading

7. Make the colours pop – play with the temperature (‘warmth’ in Instagram’s editing tools) and slightly increase the photo’s saturation

8. Instagram offers “3D Plane” features, allowing you to fix perspective and distortion. Top-down shots are sometimes hard to take, so you can always adjust the photo to straighten the image vertically to adjust the depth and make it  look more realistic.

9. When taking top-down food shots, get high. Get on your feet, your tip-toes or even your chair to achieve the optimum angle 

10. Once uploaded, get your snap noticed. Use between four and ten relevant hashtags to help people find your photos.