oh I love Instagram let's get pumped hey guys I see grin and welcome back to my
channel in today's video I'm going to talk about five ways to absolutely slay
your Instagram feed okay we're talking making it cohesive making it pop making
people find you and want to follow you which is so important in order to date
and following if you're new to my channel go ahead and subscribe and
obviously check out my Instagram if you want to see some of these tips and
tricks in action now I know you guys are probably thinking Adrienne why are you
the one giving us this advice when you only have 19 thousand followers and you
have like almost 300,000 on YouTube and you're totally right my Instagram is
smaller than my youtube channel my youtube channel blew up in a very short
amount of time for a totally different reason I treat my Instagram page totally
separate I don't have a million followers on Instagram but the truth is
that I work hard every single day to research and try out new technique to
data following to make my Instagram profile better into builds it and the
tips and tricks that I've been using have indeed been growing my page more so
these types of tips are for people with pages of any guide it'll help
so again no matter what size or type of Instagram page you have or plan to have
these tips and tricks will help you grow alright so tip step category number one
is all about your theme now I don't just mean your theme in terms of what filter
you use that is very very specific I'm talking your overall broad theme in
terms of your subject in your editing style my first piece of advice for
building a cohesive Instagram page that people are going to want to follow is
stick to one subject you may love to take pictures of many different things
in your life like food and yourself and clothes and nature when people go to
your page and follow you it is usually for a certain reason for example if you
love food and you post only pictures of food then they are going to like that
and follow that but if you randomly one day post a photo of you in a bikini it
might not get as many likes and you may leave followers because they can to your
page for food you gave them the impression that you are someone who only
posts food and that is your subject now that's not to say that pages with
multiple subjects won't work but I do highly recommend sticking to one kind of
vibe or feel or themes in order to gain the most
this is something that I probably struggle with the most because I'm a
youtuber so I do a lot of different things I travel but I also do things
about fashion and beauty and I've actually had a hard time figuring out
what my one subject is if it has a define it now I would probably say my
subject is travel photography when you look at my feed it's not perfect but
lately all the photos have had something to do with traveling or photography or
both now when you pick your subject don't worry you can always change this
up and you can always ship now I'm going to talk about the importance of your
feed I used to be someone who didn't love the fact that your feed needs to
look cohesive and that all your photos need to look good together I used to
like to focus on each individual photo making sure that photo is great and high
quality but then I realized that when people go to your photos they're not
going to follow you based on just one photo they're going to go to your
profile scroll down your feed and honestly make like a point to second
judgment based on your profile picture your first nine photos and your bio
that's how they're going to decide whether to follow you so when you are
choosing what photos to post make sure that they stick to your theme that
you're editing them very similarly and that the first nine photos you see on
your page look good together now let's talk about editing style for a second
the best way to keep your first nine photos very cohesive is to edit them
similarly in terms of the colors the filters and like whatever else you do to
the photo for example when I went to Greece this past month I decided to
start a new theme because I knew I would be around a ton of blue things like the
blue water the blue sky I knew that would be like the main theme of my feet
so I went ahead and picked a filter on vsco cam that really made those colors
pop and I stuck with that filter and I also stuck with the same editing
techniques for example I would make the contrast a little bit higher I would
sharpen the photo I would saturate them a little bit more I made sure to do it
pretty much the same so that when I went back to my feeds all the photos though
different and of different things they all fit together they were all blue they
all had water it was all travel and so speaking of vsco cam this is a very
helpful editing app for keeping your theme keeping your cohesiveness I'm sure
a lot of you guys have heard of it but they have like so many different presets
and if you're someone who likes to spend hours individually editing each photo on
like Lightroom or Photoshop that's awesome but if you're someone who likes
pre-set vsco cam is a great and easy way to keep that cohesive it even a word so
lately I've been using the c8 filter on visco it is one of the purchased packs
and I love it because it makes the Blues pop so I really think my Greece photos
were looking cohesive although a little tip that I learned actually from my
friend Morgan yay is that sometimes when you saturate a photo especially if
you're someone who's a little bit Tanner like me my skin will get really really
orange now a really quick easy life hack for getting rid of this but still being
able to saturate your photo is to go into face tune too and from there you
just take the black-and-white tool and go over all your skin and then fade it
down so it basically just takes away the saturation from only your skin also on
face you and you can do things like smooth and add details you can whiten
your teeth and actually speaking of whitening your teeth I have a really
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shoot as many photos as you possibly can what
to tell people is to make a habit of looking at things through a
photographer's lens through an Instagram wet if you happen to be taking a photo
for Instagram maybe your friend taking a picture of you try to also take photos
of things around you at that moment like a flower or like a picture of you and
your friend get as many variations of whatever setting you are in that way you
can have filler pictures never know when you're going to need a photo to post you
don't have a new one and this will already fit your theme because it'll be
very similar lighting similar colors usually my strategy is that when I know
I'm taking a photo for Instagram I'll take as many as I possibly can
I'll pick two or three of my favorites I'll edit those and then I'll see how
they look on my feet so I've talked about this in previous videos but I have
two main strategies for how you can look at what this photo will look like on
your feed without actually uploading so strategy number one is to create a
private Instagram page and the only reason for this is that this is a place
that only you see no one follows it and you can upload each Instagram pic that
you upload on your main page that way when you're going to consider which
posts to upload next you can just upload that on your private page see if you
like how it looks with your first nine photos with your feed and if you like it
then you can go ahead and upload it on to your regular page an intra makes this
so easy now because there's just that arrow at the top and you can switch from
account to account super easily I highly recommend this I think this is
definitely the best way to go however I do have option number two which is huge
this app called snug I've been using it to test out what my photos are going to
look like with the rest of my photos however it's a little bit glitchy a lot
of times I like can't load all my photos or it just kind of bugs out but at the
end of the day it does the jobs just kind of annoying either of those
strategies work really well and I highly recommend doing that if you want to
stick to the cohesive theme of your Instagram feed you'll be able to see
very easily if your photos fit in with your previous book another strategy I
used to not like lose my mind is I actually create a separate folder in my
photos for my Instagram post so for example in Greece
I made a brief folder that has all my Greece from those just with it later on
I can just easily pull up that folder and then I had a folder called Greece
edited that was one bunch of those photos and I picked my two to three
favorites I would edit them I put them on vsco cam and facetune and once they
were ready to post I would put them in my greece edited
it's just such an organized way to keep your photos because then when you go to
post a pic or you need a pic to post you can just go to that folder and you can
know that those are all edited the way you like for example I'm someone who
likes to edit photos like three different times I'll do it on visco and
then I'll save it and I'll do it on face tune and then I'll save it and then I'll
do something else and I'll save it and eventually I forget which version was
the one I like the most so by doing this it eliminates that problem it's right
there just easy to see and you can also get a feel for kind of how your feed
would look at least they're all with each other
the third most important thing in my opinion when it comes to photography for
Instagram is your lighting in order to have a good Instagram feed you do not
need to be a photographer you do not need to have expensive equipment you
really don't so having good lighting in your photos it's something that is so so
so easy to think about and do and it'll take your quality up to the next level
no matter what equipment you have my rules of thumb are these try to use
natural light if you possibly can that can be as simple as if you're taking a
selfie face towards a window don't face away from a window or you will have a
shadow all on your face and it'll be completely blown out in the background
try not to take photos in harsh sun the best time to take photos are actually as
the Sun is rising or as the Sun is setting or in shade basically when Sun
is directly on your face in a harsh way it creates very harsh shadows on your
nose and your body parts and it just in the flattering so just try not to shoot
in harsh Sun unless the subject you're shooting isn't a person another tips for
lighting is I try not to have a harsh contrast between the lighting in
different photos for example I don't normally post night photos even though I
might get an amazing night shot that looks beautiful I don't post night jobs
so that is going to look so much darker and harsher on my feed than my daytime
so I suggest if you're going to do night photography stick to nice tomography if
you're going to use a photography stick today photography tip number four is to
plan ahead I already kind of talked about this with using snug or using a
pre Instagram account as I like to call it but planning ahead just makes it nice
and easy so instead of scrambling to post something and having that photo be
a little less good than you normally would if you just plan ahead and have a
bunch of photos you can use and just pull out when you don't have time to
take a new one is really really helpful and speaking of the frequency of posting
I've heard from so many people I've watched so apartment video I watched
Peter MacKinnon's video about so many videos
about how to grow your Instagram following and what everyone tends to say
like as a rule of thumb is that posting one time a day is pretty cross however
Sawyer in his video did mention that some accounts are the type of accounts
that post once a day and it's like pretty good photos but not always like
the most amazing perfect photos but like very high quality and then there are
some accounts that post once a week and that once a week photo though is
incredible top notch high quality both types of profiles can work however for
my purposes and probably for a lot of your purposes I think posting one photo
of a day is the right tip number five and my final tip is to utilize Instagram
stories posting on your Instagram stories a lot but also maybe making
Instagram stories specific content could be really helpful in gaming your
following now I mostly say this because when you post an Instagram story your
little bubble will pull to the very front of people's pages so right when
they open Instagram there you will be and more people will see you and more
people will click and follow your current followers who already have you
on there will also just be more engaged because they'll see you posting and they
may get curious click your profile and just show more engagement and and become
more dedicated to you again Instagram stories are also just a really
good way to express yourself not a lot of people post like specific interim
content like funny videos just for Instagram
stories but it's really fun you can kind of vlog on it you can do fashion stuff
you can say what's up it's just like snapchat but connect it to your bigger
more as in my opinion like sacred profile and on the topic of entry of
stories and kind of the front of your page make sure that your profile picture
is good because people will also judge you on your profile picture which is
kind of bad but it is one of the first things people see so make sure your bio
and your profile picture and your top 9 photos are in perfect shape are you guys
that is it for five ways to slate Instagram from me I know that I am NOT a
photography expert I am NOT super interim famous but these are tips and
tricks that I have seen other people utilize that I have tried utilizing that
really work for me and I hope that they can work for you too I love making
videos like this so if you guys like this be sure to give it a thumbs up so
that I know and I will see you guys in my next video bye