Alright whether you're trying to figure out how to post to Instagram Stories in the first place
Or you want to just make sure you're doing it the best possible way, I'm gonna show you both right now
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By the end of this video you'll not only know how to post to Instagram stories
but you'll know all the best practices as well as all of the different options and
most importantly when you should post to Instagram Stories
There's a few tricks with it that will cover at the very end. Let's get started
So of course you open Instagram then instead of hitting the plus sign to add a photo or a video to your feed here at
the bottom you're going to want to click the camera icon in the upper left for the Instagram camera
Or you can actually just swipe right from the left edge of the screen to open it up so there
I am take a quick selfie. Hi!
Oh that's spectacular
Now that I've got the picture if I just want to throw it right onto my profile
I can just hit the plus sign where it says your story at the bottom of the screen
However, you have a lot of other things you can do with it for example. You can swipe through for different filters
Ah
My skin looks a little better there. The other thing you can do is just save this picture to your camera roll before you do
anything to it if you want
by clicking save down below. So other than swiping for filters your editing tools are at the top this first one here looks like a
little sticky note with a face on it. These are your stickers
Inside here, you'll find all kinds of different things that you can add to your picture including your traditional emojis
And if you swipe left you'll see your most used emojis or most recently used
Swipe right, you've got some things you can specifically dress yourself up in for example, why shouldn't I have a party hat on?
Drag it to the top make it the right size
Also at the very top are some different tools, you can add the temperature, the time, you can add a hashtag and
a poll if you want to ask people a
question one of the main ones you should use if you're trying to get people to see your profile is the location sticker. If you
add your location many people who don't follow you will see your story from that location. Same thing applies to
hashtags, people do watch certain hashtags on Instagram Stories. If I were to add the current temperature I
can then drag it around wherever I want, shows up a little better here down on my shirt
but I also wanted to show you I can also tap on it and
it changes what the icon is
So you've got lots of different options
with how you want this to show up just by tapping on it. Next to the stickers is the pen tool. I tap on that
This is where I can draw on my picture, so you swipe through the colors at the bottom
Choose the one that you want. Up top you have a few different types of pens you can play with
So I'll choose that one and then I can go ahead and draw on my picture
Now I've got glasses on [sarcastically] ha ha, so funny. If you don't like what it is
Tou can just undo it. Over here on the left you can change your brush size so if you want it to be really big,
you can raise it up or a really small by moving it back down, and maybe you the color you want is not down here
You can use this little eyedropper tool
Click on it, and then you can choose any color in your picture, so maybe I want the color of my shirt
Tap on that now, that's the color that has been chosen. I'll show you another little trick
Maybe you don't want your face there, and you just want to say something. If you go into the pen tool and
you choose a color down here, like I like this blue here, and I just hold it on the screen
turns the entire picture blue. That can be great for a background to add text to or up here
there's also this eraser tool
and you could go through and just reveal part of
the picture if you wanted. And then third tool at the top is of course the text tool
Maybe this is a birthday greeting so I tap on the text tool, then I can type whatever
I want. The little guide on the side here is how you can make it bigger and smaller
You can also resize it after you're done in here
You can change the color by choosing there, and then now that I have it
I'm going to go ahead and use my fingers to drag it down here and fit it in the corner. Weirdest birthday greeting ever.
Once your
masterpiece [sarcastically] is finished, as this obviously is, you got a few options at the bottom
The first one on the left save saves it to your camera roll as is if you want
The second one adds it to your story
And then the one on the right next if you click that then you could actually direct message it to somebody
More things you can do before you take your picture or your video down here if you want to take something from your camera roll
you just tap this little icon here on the left, you can choose from your camera roll
you have the flash option there, you have the flipping the camera around if you want to use the
back facing camera, and then the last one there, are
filters. If you want to add different filters there's different things that you can play with like this like hey man so cool
I don't know if this is like
stoner in the desert or highway patrol, so have some fun with those, especially if you're self-conscious about being on camera
Maybe adding a funny filter will make you more comfortable on your Instagram Stories. Down below that you'll see all the different camera options
So I am here on normal. That's what you'll use probably most of the time. You can swipe over to
live if you were gonna do a live video
Boomerang is basically what makes an animated GIF it takes a bunch of pictures over the course of a second or two, looks like this
Super Zoom is kind of dumb, but it'll basically zoom in dramatically like in a movie and add dramatic music to anything that you have
[dramatic sting]
Rewind will play back whatever you film in Reverse
Hands-free is if you just don't have time to hold your thumb on the button
You just hit record and it'll keep going until you stop it or for 15 seconds
which is the video limit. And then stop motion is if you want to do some sort of animation. It'll take a picture each time
you tap it and then you can adjust things to do claymation or whatever if you've got a lot of free time on your hands
And the last thing I want to show you and I'm gonna use a video from my camera roll here to show it to you
is the ability to pin a sticker. So you see in this video
I'm panning across a brick wall
What you can do is you can pin a sticker or a word to a certain part of the video
and then it will stay stuck to it for the whole video. So for example, let me do some text and we'll say
"Surprise"
That doesn't show up very well
so I'm gonna click this little a at the top and it'll put a background on the surprise there
So you hold down on it
You'll see these options at the bottom pop-up where it says cancel or pin this moves back and forth through the video
So I want it at the end of the video right there. I say pin. It'll process it. Pans across the wall and
Surprise! Be creative. You can come up with something better than that
but it's kind of a neat way to add surprises and secrets to your videos. One of the tips
I like to give people about how to do the best possible
Instagram Stories is post about certain things more than once. Like let's say you're a baker
and you want to show people how the proper way is to melt chocolate, or maybe you are a photographer and
you've got a cool camera trick that even amateurs can use with you know their camera phones
Well post that more than once because odds are most people won't see it the first time, or the second time, or the third time
You could probably post that kind of good content once a month
It'll be fresh because you'll be recording it again for Instagram Stories and even if people have seen it before
it might be a good reminder. So when to post - when you're looking at the Instagram home screen
You'll see the stories of course across the top of the app and whoever has posted most recently is going to get that first position
So by that logic the more often you post the more likely you will be
first or toward the top in somebody's stories feed. However,
don't just post a bunch of crap to be there at the top or people will just stop watching or stop following you all together
Now at the same time you don't want to spread your stories out just for the sake of always being first in the feed
Let's say for example you have a five-part story you plan to post on a Tuesday
Well if you post the first piece at 9:00 a.m., the second piece at noon, then at 4:00 p.m., then at 7:00 p.m.
and then at 9:00 p.m.
Well after 24 hours each one of those disappears
So somebody watching your story the next day will only see the last few chunks of it
So if something really relies on other clips to make sense, post them all at the same time
Then maybe you can post something different later on. Or you can always do the in case you missed it earlier
I posted this, now
I'm going to show you the results of the project whatever it might be. So that wraps up this edition of Five Minute Social Media
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