Hey everyone, Jason here digital marketing consultant.
And in this Instagram quote post guide, you're going to learn how to use a free tool called
“Canva” to quickly make quote posts on the go with just your phone.
So links in the description to how to use Canva on their web-based application for your
laptop or desktop, as well as how to make posts for your Instagram stories.
Here we're gonna focus on making quote posts and we'll just jump right into my phone screen
here.
So the Canva app is free to use on both Android and iOS.
When you first open it up, it will give you the option to choose from a bunch of these
different templates.
So as you can see here, we have an Instagram story template and templates for a lot of
other things, but we want this last one Instagram post.
And you'll get a bunch of different options here.
I'm just going to go ahead and click on see all, and scroll through so you can see that
they actually have a lot of templates already pre-done for you.
And so what I recommend doing is find a couple of templates that you like.
Preferably ones that are very basic like one, two and three here escape and let's see and
Sundays would be good examples of ones to use, because you want it very basic, so it's
easy to drop in lots of different photos, and of course have a lot of flexibility when
it comes to what you're going to be using for your quote post.
So I think that's enough scrolling.
I saw one that I like in terms of the font.
Here is a quick list of the recommended fonts that I recommend using for your quote posts.
I'm just going to go ahead and start off with this template.
So the first thing I'm going to do is go to my gallery and actually use a picture that
I took earlier this week, of my desktop setup compared to my mobile setup.
So now, it's time to go ahead and actually change the text.
So when I select here, you'll actually notice that if I click and drag all of the text is
going to become larger and smaller at the same time.
And that's because there's this little icon up here that you can click to group and ungroup
them.
So now, I can click on the individual elements and then if I go back, it'll be all the same.
So I’ll keep it all the same for now and-- I'm just kidding; I'm gonna go ahead and remove
this top one here.
I'll go ahead and click delete and now, I'm going to entering-- if we select all entering
our quote.
So if you don't really know what quotes to use on your particular quote post, you can
just search google for popular quote posts or popular quotes or you can go find some
other Instagram accounts that are targeting your similar audience and then get inspiration.
So this is not an endorsement to just straight-up copy what other people are doing, but you
can get inspiration.
So here, I'm just going to come up with one on the fly, action transforms dreams into
reality.
A little cheesy, but I think that'll work.
So I'm going to go ahead and bring this text up here.
And you'll notice when I select on the bottom, I can make the whole thing bigger smaller
or I can select on the right-hand side here to move the text around, so that it is a little
wider action terms transforms dreams into reality and after cutting ahead to a couple
of minutes of frustrating moving around, we have our text and it's relatively easy to
read.
I'll click and drag it down a little bit here and then for this bottom text here, I'm just
going to put at my account.
Just in case someone winds up reposting this, I want to make sure that I do get credit for
it, because there is a lot of; let's just say borrowing of posts on Instagram.
And I’ve had a couple that were borrowed, but I didn't actually put my name on it.
So and if they didn't have the decency to say it was a repost.
So there we go action transforms dreams into reality.
And so now, I'm going to go out there's my one design and what's great is if you come
up with a kind of format that you like for your quote posts, we'll just go ahead and
duplicate it and now we can easily change out the image, so I'm going to click the image
here and we can also crop the image.
So if I wanted to zoom all the way in that's going to be really pixelated, but we're just
doing this for example purposes.
Now, you'll see we have one where it's zoomed out and one where it's zoomed in or we can
come down here snag a picture of my suitcase and then we'll double click on it to crop
it a little bit, that looks good enough and then in this particular instance, we would
probably ops-- nope don't want to select the picture, select the text and we can bring
the text down here this time put the add up top, because the this part of the picture
doesn't have much of anything.
And we would probably change the quote post to the quote to match whatever the picture
is.
And of course, we can go back out, duplicate again and then go through and create our next
design.
And really that's all there is to it to creating quote posts on the go with the Canva mobile
app.
So if we go back out here, to all of our designs, we can go to Instagram post again.
And when we select it, we can easily go through see all and find some other templates.so if
you want to come in here just every couple of days or you only want to make your post
kind of on the go, then you can try different styles each time, because there are no limits
on how many different ones of these you can make.
So thank you so much for watching.
I sincerely hope you got some value out of this video.
And just saw the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with canvas, you could do a lot
more with the web application and when you check out the video link in the description,
you'll actually see how you can actually create templates on the web application and then
use those templates to easily create even more things on the go, but here it was all
about just making the posts directly from the mobile app.
So thank you so much for watching.
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