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watch everyone is Adrian welcome back to my channel in today's video I'm gonna do
some Instagram story hacks that you didn't know that are unique cute fun a
lot of them you can just do straight from the Instagram app you don't need
other apps but I'm gonna talk about one or two that do have other apps involved
and it's honestly worth it they will really ramp up your Instagram stories
make them super cute super aesthetic make them pop and it's pretty easy to do
so without further ado let's get in to the hacks
so the first story hack is to be able to repost someone's post on your story and
in feed pose but using a custom background so normally when you click to
add an in feed post to your story it just shows up like this and the
background pretty much takes form of whatever colors are in the post which is
cool but if you've ever wanted to have a custom background you can't figure out
how I'm gonna show you how to do it so the first thing you can do is you can
actually click on the little draw tool pick a color and then tap and hold the
background of the image so this works really well for if you just want a plain
background you can also use the picker and like pick out a color from the
actual image and then just click and hold so that's super awesome but if you
want like an actual custom background I suggest you download the app called over
now on this app this is what you're gonna do you're gonna open a new little
background template just click on transparent you're gonna make it the
size of an Instagram story and then once you're there you're basically gonna
choose an image now whatever image you want is your background I tend to go on
Pinterest and basically search like aesthetic iPhone wallpapers or anything
of the sort we're just going to go to my Pinterest
board that is called aesthetic iPhone wallpaper you're gonna pick one that you
want as your background this star background so I'm gonna save
the image go back over to over back over to over gonna click on images and just
click on that image we're gonna stretch it out to fit the whole thing then on
the very bottom you're gonna go over to mask you're gonna click on the image
itself and just literally erase like a hole in the center okay that's all
you're gonna do gonna click the checkmark and then you're gonna save it
to your camera roll so we're gonna go back over to Instagram click on the
photo that you want to post onto your story and then you're gonna make it
super small and then if you go over to your camera roll and you click on the
one with the transparent hole click on the little arrow with the box and click
copy photo it's then gonna pop up as a sticker if you have missed the sticker
then you just click to type and then click paste basically you're going to
expand this all around the post then you're able to move the post around and
there you have it a custom background so that is how you would do that so you
could like make a bunch of these and save them into an album called like
Instagram story repost or something like that so I just thought that was a super
clever way to have a custom background when you re posting a photo from in feed
you can also obviously like expand it to be the whole thing and then go to your
gifts and type like tap here or a new post and then you know go like that
that's also really creative so anything that you want to do is there another way
that you could like make a cool custom background is again you can either use
an image or just go to your stories take a picture pick a color from the color
wheel and remember if you press and hold on any of the colors you can formulate
your own color tap and hold to basically paint go to tire back on that color then
you could type out like new post and then copy that paste this over and over
I'm just gonna keep on copying and pasting it and then you just save that
entire image and then you can basically do the same thing so you can pull it up
on over you would open up a transparent thing again then you would open up your
image do a little circle in the middle save the image go to your photo click
the arrow add post a story make it small go to your camera roll click copy photo
paste it make it big and that's pretty cool
then we're fine the next hack is to give your Instagram
story kind of this retro feel but without having to do anything on another
app with no filter you basically are just gonna click on a photo that you
would want to bone your story I haven't actually used a filter on this photo
that has that little timestamp in the corner but then you would click on the
stickers button click on gift and search retro then you can find a little
recording button and if you then search corners this one kind of makes it seem
like you are recording something so that's just like one little cute idea
that's also cute and you could put another one they also have just like a
white one so there are so many different cute things that you can do the next
hack does require another app so it requires snapchat but I'm sure a lot of
you have snapchat and basically what you're gonna do is click on the little
face and then you can actually browse if you click on either Explorer or browse
you can find so many more filters for snapchat and a lot of them are like very
very pretty I really like Bryant filters they're like very filmy and they just
look cool so oftentimes what I would do is maybe take a photo on snapchat and
then save it and I have it saved so that when I save it here it automatically
saves to my camera roll you would open up Instagram post that picture and I
really like the filters like a lot better and you can do videos and stuff
too I like these a lot better than Instagram so I think that's a pretty
cool trick sorry I'm just cutting back because my back literally hurts I also
want to emphasize that snapchat has like way more filters than you can see so
there are all these community lenses and sound like over super cute like freckles
I also want to point out that Instagram now has a lot more filters than normal
if you basically go to any of these filters and click on the little arrow
and then click browse effects you can see so many different filters
and there are all these different categories like I really like the ones
in color and light cuz again you get a lot of those retro film like grainy ones
which are cool and then there it is and there are all these different so I
actually like utilizing this as a way to even like take pictures as well just for
Instagram or for whatever now the next hack I already kind of
mentioned but I'm just gonna mention it again
you can copy and paste photos from your camera roll right on your Instagram
story so if you go to your camera roll let's say that I want to copy these
photos copy and then it pops up paste paste and then you can make just like
cute little stories with those like that now the next hack is to take the actual
highlight pen so that's that second one there and you can basically make a faded
overlay so remember at first I said if you pick a color and then you tap and
hold it'll make the whole background that color if you use the highlighter
pen it'll only do like a faded version like
that and then if you take the eraser you can also play around with like erasing
certain things or you know just outlining the trick-or-treat like you
can just like play around you know and do crazy things be
you can do that with any color basically and I think that's cool and you can just
play around with kind of having to do this
the next hack is to use kind of like lines and dots with the pen tool to just
make things a lot cuter so again this is not like you know some crazy
revolutionary piece of advice but let's say you have a photo there and then you
just take your pen you can make it small so you just want to like outline put
little streaks in the hair you know it can be kind of fun I also often times
let's say I have a photo and I make it small and then let's say I make the
background something from the photos maybe Haley's blue shirt whoopsie I
forgot when you're putting a photo you have to actually make the background a
certain color first and then copy and paste the photo
whoops I messed that up and you add the sticker and then I like to take the
finest point and I like to do my own little corners or again you can kind of
go like whee so the next hack is something else that you can do that's
really cool with lines which is you basically put a photo there as per usual
take a pen and then you're gonna draw like a kind of S shape around yourself
and then you take the eraser and you're gonna erase only the parts there on your
body but like every other line so like it'll go around and then this one is on
my body and then this one not on my body that one would be and then there's
wouldn't be and then it kind of gives off the illusion that this thing is
wrapping around you which i think is really really cool so you can do that
with pretty much anything I actually love doing it it's a total optical
illusion you could also like do another one and then you just erase every other
one let's do it the opposite this time lets you kind of have to practice it's a
little bit of trial and error but that looks like pretty freaking cool
you can still filter and stuff black and white looks cool so the next hack is
another cute thing you can do with lettering so let's say you want to say
like I don't know why I would ever want to say kiss me but let's just pretend if
you put the little box around it you can like to each little individual letter
which is super cute I actually did this on an Instagram post on my self-made CEO
account I wrote time batching with the little
boxes and like yes it's time-consuming but I think it's really cute so it's
worth it and then last but not least my last little trick also involves another
app it's called unfold you guys have probably heard of this by now but what I
want to emphasize is that something that'll really make your story stand out
especially for something like promoting content or you have a brand or you have
a service or a business or just for fun is I started actually making templates
so I used to just kind of throw things on here willy-nilly and be like man
whatever did I just say willy-nilly but now I decided to actually make like a
branded template so for example this is for whenever I'm gonna post or promote a
new vlog which by the way subscribe to my vlog channel what the Finch but now
every time I'll just like put the thumbnail right here I'll put the title
right here this is the same fallen colors as my blog Channel and so it's
right there ready to go in this category tall called video promo so I just click
on that and it's all ready to go every time I have a new video versus redoing
things over and over and over so same with myself my CEO podcast every time
there's a new episode I made this cute little template and on here they have
all sorts of fun little templates they have like film template and what's
really cool is you basically would just input photos so let's just say like 1 2
3 basically do whatever you want here and then if you click on this you can
add a text box and they have way more interesting phones they have like a cute
one and make it big darling I don't know why they also have
stickers that you can add which are really cool they're like tape and then
you just would save it to your camera roll and upload it to your story so
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