I recently did training live on Instagram
and the number one question I got
from that training was nothing to do with the content I was teaching.
But it was all about how on earth did I get those slides to come up on Instagram?
Hey, guys, Jodine
here from Social Smarty. Today I'm going to show you how to create your
own slides for your Instagram Lives and then how to use them.
So the first thing we need to do is head
to Canva, and we want to create an Instagram Story size.
Now I'm going to flip over to this one here.
So what I've done here is I have the Instagram story template,
but I've actually taken a screenshot during Alive so you can see the blue
in the background is the slide that I'm using.
And the other bits are the bits that Instagram ads.
So my face here, obviously my name and the number
of viewers and any questions or comments that are coming up at the bottom there.
So what we need to do is create a slide so
that they make sense with all of these bits covered.
So to do that, I want you to head over
to the left to file and then show rulers, and then again, file and show guides.
And what we're going to do is create some
guidelines so that we can create our slides so that they don't cover up those
areas or they're not covered by those areas.
So first thing I want you to do is click on the ruler at the top and drag down.
And we're going to have a guide at about 108.
So 108 pixels from the top.
Now we're going to do the same thing.
We're going to grab another guide,
this one, we want to stop at the bottom of the video.
So that's going to be about 655.
Now I'll put these numbers
into the description and we're going to grab one more horizontal guide.
So we're going to drag from the top again,
and we're going to go all the way down to about what's that 1340.
So we'll drop that one there.
Now we're going to grab a vertical guide
from the left hand side, and we're going to pull that out.
We're going to pop that one at seven about 720.
721.
Cool.
So now I can remove that section there,
and we want to aim to keep all of our content within these three squares.
So one, two, three.
So what I'm gonna do is add a background.
Now I would keep this really cohesive with your brand.
So make it, you know, work with your brand colors, make it really
recognizable as your brand.
You can pop some elements in there.
We might pop some spots down there, maybe change the color to like a bright color.
So maybe that one.
And then we can pop some text on the grab way text box,
some text in there. Now obviously,
we're going to need to reposition this, maybe make that a little bit smaller
so that we can read it and we'll move that up.
Remember, we're just aiming for those three squares.
Cool.
So once we're happy with that, what we then want to do is duplicate it.
So think about your life and the same way you would sort of any presentation.
What are you going to be talking about?
So you might have five or six different talking points.
If you're a product based business,
you might have slides with different products showing on them.
So you just want to duplicate them and then just change out the details
until you have sort of enough slides that you're happy with them.
And then the very last thing we need to do
is get those onto your phone ready for the live.
So there's a few different ways we can do it.
We can either hit download,
download them to our computer and then send them to our phone.
So I'm a Mac user, and I use AirDrop, or you could email them to yourself.
Or if that sounds a bit tricky,
you can download the Canva app for your phone and just download the images.
So just open up the Canva app and just download the images directly there.
If the source seems really tricky
with the designing your template cloud, a fantastic set of slides.
I'm an affiliate,
so I'll pop the affiliate link in the description as well.
So go and check those out.
But the next thing we need to do is show
you how to use those slides when you go live on Instagram.
So we're going to open up our Instagram account.
We're going to click on the plus button at the top and Select Live.
And then we're going to choose a filter if we want.
So we can choose any of these fun filters down the bottom before we start our live.
Oh, goodness me.
Okay.
Let's go with this one.
Here a good classic. Right.
So now what we need to do is obviously go live.
And then once they're live, we can add those slides.
So I'm going to click the Live button here.
It's just going live.
Cool.
So now we're live, and what we can do is introduce ourselves, start Live,
and then at the top, see the little image that looks like a photo.
We're going to click on that.
That's going to open our camera roll.
And then we want to pack the slide that we want.
So if we start with this one and we can see that it's working perfectly.
You know, we've got our text to the side there.
If we had anyone who was joining us
on the lives, they would be popping up down the bottom there.
And then when we want to switch to the next slide, we just do the same thing.
So choose a different asset.
I'm going to switch to this slide.
And so you can work your way through each
of your slides that you've designed really easily and then at the end of your life.
So when we end it,
so I'm just going to end it and now see how we can share that to IGTV.
So not only have you impressed your
followers with a really slick looking Instagram Live, but you've actually got
an IGTV video that you can share that other people, new followers,
people who missed out on the live can watch as well.
Let me know if you have any questions.