in this new Instagram tutorial I'm gonna
walk you through an overview of what
Instagram is all about and show you what
you need to get started alright let's
get into it
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video my name is Jerry Potter yes it
rhymes with a boy wizard and in this
video we're talking about Instagram in
this Instagram tutorial I'm gonna give
you a high-level overview of Instagram
and by the end of this video you're
going to know how to post to the
Instagram feed now if you're looking for
a tutorial about how to post to
Instagram stories and all about that
I've linked to a very popular one in the
description of this video so I'm in the
Instagram app and I'm assuming you've
already downloaded the app and created
an account if not pause the video do
that first and then come back so I'm
gonna give you a quick tour of how the
app is laid out show you how to post on
the Instagram feed and make sure you
stay till the end because I'm gonna show
you how you can pre-schedule your posts
on Instagram both on a phone or on a
computer so this is on my iPhone but
Android is pretty similar and first I'm
in the Home tab which is the leftmost
button on the bottom so I'm seeing the
feed here across the top those are
Instagram stories from people that I
follow then on the upper left is the
camera if I'm going to post an Instagram
story and as I mentioned there is a
whole tutorial about Instagram stories
which you can find in the description of
this video and then on the upper right
the little paper airplane with the red
one on it that is the direct messages so
I have an unread direct message but
that's where I would show up if somebody
sent you a direct message next tab along
the bottom there is the explore tab or
Search tab is probably how you would
kind of describe it but the explore tab
is basically based on things that you
engage with on Instagram these are all
the things that Instagram assumes that
you will like this where you can
discover new things now the dream as an
Instagram account owner is to get
something popular enough that it shows
up on Explorer tab
cuz then you're gonna be discovered by a
whole bunch more people the plus sign in
the middle is to post to your feed we'll
come back to that in just a second the
heart on the right this is where your
notifications are gonna pop up if
somebody follows you like supposed
comments anything like that this is
where you will find all of those and
finally the little person icon all the
way on the right this is your profile so
this is where you can kind of see what
other people see if they come to visit
your profile obviously they don't see
this exact thing because you can see it
says edit profile there and strangers
can't come and edit your profile
obviously so let's go through how to
post on the Instagram feed and again if
you're very new to Instagram Instagram
has four main parts they have the feed
which is what we're gonna do today
stories which again are these little
circles at the top direct messages or
DMS which is paper airplane up here and
then also IG TV which is also its own
separate app that's instagrams vertical
video network IG TV so he wanted to post
to the feed I would press that plus sign
there on the bottom middle your camera
roll will pop up you want to choose the
image that you want if your image is
already a square or if it looks fine you
can just leave it like that but if it's
not quite how you want it to look you
can pinch to zoom to change the crop
also if it comes up square you can tap
this little double arrow we'll call it
on the lower left here if I tap that it
zooms out all the way so now I can see
exactly how big the image is if I wanted
to show the whole thing now I recommend
posting at least square images but if
you can post taller images as well you
can actually have images if you're
cropping them somewhere else that are
1080 by 1350 that's 1080 pixels wide by
1350 pixels tall that will show up in
the feed and that way when somebody's
browsing you're more likely to catch
their attention because of the size of
the image so I want to go ahead and have
that one zoomed out when it goes up it
won't have these white bars on the side
once I've got it all set I'm gonna hit
next here on the upper right corner from
this screen I can go through and I can
use the different filters so I can tap
these and see how they turn out you can
double tap on a filter and adjust the
intensity of that filter so this is just
kind of personal preference here or if
you want a little more fine-tuning when
you're editing your images you can hit
edit on the lower right there and it
brings up all kinds of different editing
controls that you
play with and see what happens one more
button here on the top middle is sort of
just an auto magic edit so you can tap
that and it'll just kind of brighten
your photo or adjust it in the best way
that it knows how as a computer
algorithm or whatever it does on the
back end so I like the way that looks
I'm gonna go ahead and keep that I'm
gonna add that filter then I'm gonna hit
next again on the upper right this is
where you want to add your caption if
you're gonna add hashtags to your
caption you can add them right here on
your post you would just hit the pound
key and then start typing when you type
the hashtag it will bring up
recommendations of other similar
hashtags it'll also show you how many
people have used each hashtag you can
add up to 30 hashtags if you want or
another workaround if you want is you
can actually add the hashtags in the
first comment after your post goes up
and that will also count for search so
I'm gonna go ahead and leave my post
nice and clean for now so once I have
the caption the way I want it if I want
to tag somebody I can do that here you
can tag a business partner you can add a
location now unless you have a good
reason not to I always recommend adding
a location because people actually
browse locations so you're actually
increasing the chances of somebody
seeing your post just by putting a
location on it if you want to auto post
to Facebook Twitter or tumblr you can
turn on those switches there I'm not big
on that the Facebook one works okay the
Twitter one is a very terrible user
experience it'll have a link to the
Instagram photo it doesn't actually show
your photo on the tweet so I'm gonna go
ahead and share this now and then I want
to go back and show you how to do two
other types of posts on Instagram
including a video post and a carousel
post which is multiple images so let's
go ahead and hit share said done
sometimes it'll show up right there at
the top of the feed if it doesn't again
tap on the little person icon on the
lower right there it'll take you to your
profile there you can see it on your
profile make sure that it got up okay
you can also see how this taller picture
takes up most of the feed as opposed to
shorter pictures like there's one that I
did that obviously was very short it
doesn't take up as much of the feed so
anytime you can have something that's
square or higher and takes up a lot more
of the feed it actually looks a lot lot
better it's actually a lot more likely
to get somebody's attention
they are scrolling at 99 miles per hour
so let me show you how to do the other
types of posts so you type that plus
sign again on the middle there at the
bottom so I'm back here at my camera
roll again I will point out right now
down at the bottom you see library is in
bold next to that you have photo so if
you wanted to take a photo as opposed to
one that was already on your camera roll
you can tap that or if you wanted to
take a video up to 60 seconds you can
tap that over there let me just go ahead
and Rob a video from my camera roll
again if it's not square you can tap the
little diagonal arrows on the lower left
there and get the actual size of the
video but if it makes sense I suggest
making it at least square if not taller
because it will stand out better in the
feed so I've got my video cropped the
way I want you get the same filters if
you want here so you can choose filters
if you want it to look a certain way you
can also trim your video inside of
Instagram so for example if this 31
second clip was too long I can open it
up and I can drag the sides and only use
part of it if I want when I'm ready I
hit done if your videos not quite 60
seconds you can actually add another
clip from your camera roll it's almost
like a mini video editor here by hitting
that plus sign and then one more feature
that you have when you're uploading a
video is on the lower right here it says
cover so I can tap that and I can have
this scroll along and I can pick any
still from the video that I want and
that will be what will show before it
starts playing in the feed as well as
what will show when you're looking at
your profiles you can scroll through for
me it's always not about finding a good
face it's about finding the face that's
not terrible so once you've got that all
set hit next do your captions everything
else is exactly the same and you hit
share and then the other kind of post is
a carousel post and that's where you
have multiple images that people can
swipe through so in this case I'm going
to tap this icon on the lower right to
me it looks like it's a copy icon but
it's actually a select multiples icon so
I'm going to tap that and then I can go
through and I can choose all of the
photos that I want now if this isn't the
order I want I can unselect them and I
can say okay I want this one second then
this one third this one fourth so get
them in the order you want hit next
comes up again you can go through you
can add a different filter to each one
if you want edit them exactly like if
you were
image tap next do the captions
everything else just like you did before
hit share and you are all set
so Instagram has always primarily been a
mobile app it's not great on the desktop
although they have been adding new
features to Instagram when you do use it
from a browser recently but you can
schedule your post from a computer using
a full keyboard which I absolutely love
and you do it with a free tool called
Facebook creator studio where you can
actually schedule your posts I've got a
full tutorial on how to do this in the
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