Hey guys, I'm Will Paterson and in this video I'm going to be
showing you how you can create your own Instagram carousels
directly in Vectornator.
Let's get straight into it.
So the first thing we want to do when we get into Vectornator
is to choose a 1920 by 1920 artboard, a standard grid post.
I've just used Vectornator's Instagram version of the template.
The first thing we're going to do is bring some text in on this.
I'm going to go to the text tool here.
I'm going to go to the top part here and just scroll down.
Just bring it all in.
It'll be really small at first.
All we need to do is just change the sizing. In full caps
I'm going to write daily reminders for creatives.
Okay.
Then we're going to go to stylized options in the top right
and we're going to choose black.
And then we're going to adjust the scale again using the
slider at the bottom.
The trick here is to have it big enough so it takes up a lot
of room on the carousel image, but not too massive that it
kind of distorts the way it looks.
Want it to be nicely gridded and have a good size on the grid.
Using the grid in the background.
We want to try and line this up so it's about two squares down.
Once you've got the title nicely done,
we're going to go ahead and write some subtext underneath it.
We're going to write in the subtext.
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Before you do that though, make sure that the text is slightly
smaller and also skip a weight.
It will take it from bold it down to the other weights that
we're using.
This gives it nice hierarchy.
Also make sure it's kept within the grid.
So make sure it's to the left exactly align with the left
hand side of the main title.
The trick with this is to use the weight and the size of the
typography to showcase the main thing that you want people to see.
When people are scrolling on Instagram, they're going to
read the big words first.
That's just normal design.
Small words is kind of the flavor to this to give more
information for those that might want to read and then
eventually scroll through.
The next thing we're going to do is copy and paste the whole art box.
This saves us time and also allows us to not ruin anything.
We want to be able to use the same system over and over again
to create a really nice cohesive feel to the grid.
Then I'm going to go back to the main post and change the
colour to this nice gold colour, something that complements the background.
Now we're going to go to style and we're going to go and
create some outlines.
The reason why I do this is that it's easy for me to select
certain words or letters to change the colour.
So I'm going to swipe and highlight daily and for.
And these are just going to have a more highlighting effect
for the reader and it makes it more visually interesting.
So changing the colour back to the original white and having
some colours of the yellow, the sort of beige there will help
readers see the most important words of the headline.
The next thing we're going to do is duplicate the subtext.
So press this button to the left, and that will mean that
whenever we move that it's going to duplicate it and then
spring it down.
Then we're going to scale that down quite small again.
So we're creating this sort of hierarchy effect.
This is going to be our signature.
And this is designed for if anyone shares this.
And it's a really easy way of essentially watermarking your
grid posts easily.
Here's a little tricky if you have all this huge text box
with just like a word or maybe a sentence, and the text box is
just massive go up to style, scroll down a bit and go and
press fit bounds to text.
This will essentially take the bounding box, the text box, and
make it the same size as the text that's currently seen.
Next we're going to create some guides around it and we're
going to make sure the text all fit together.
We're going to justify it to the left.
That means that all the text starts from the left and reads
to the right.
Okay, time for a bit of more humanism in this.
We're going to go ahead and just draw with the brush tool.
Simple arrow to let people know to scroll to the left.
It lets people know graphically that there's more information
if they swipe.
And it's just a really nice touch to have something a bit
more loosey goosey than just this rigid design.
You can even use this to highlight certain words in your
text if you want.
So that is the groundwork of the main post.
Now we're going to go to the other artboard that we made and
we're going to delete the bottom text.
We don't need that anymore.
I'm going to steal my name back from the original one and bring
it into this new one.
Okay, the second part of this, we're going to need the same
system all the way throughout our carousel.
So using the next artboard, we're going to take our type
and we're going to center justify it by pressing this button.
We're going to scale it down a tiny bit because it's centered.
We don't want it to take too much of the artboard up.
Then we're going to go ahead and center it to the middle.
After it's centered, we're going to double tap, select all,
and then we're going to write in our quote, then go to align,
which is in the style options, scroll down and we're going to
align it center and horizontally.
We're going to then duplicate the whole board again because
we're going to actually outline this text so we can change the colour easily.
So we're going to outline it.
Then we're going to select the text that we want and highlight
the certain words in white that we want.
I'm going to create a couple more squiggles and then make
another arrow to show that there's another slide for
people to go to and repeat the same process.
But this time I'm going to write, it's okay to not be okay,
which is very true.
I don't like the way that it's placed.
So we're just going to move the bounding boxes, which will
change the way that the text is positioned.
We're going to align it to the middle, steal my name again and
put it into the new artboard.
And we're going to follow the same system overall.
We're going to duplicate this again, outline the text and
highlight the words that need to be highlighted.
Something else we can do is we can use the pencil tool to
create this abstract wiggle and then just change the blend mode
and the opacity, and it will give it a bit more graphic
definition in the background.
It just makes it a bit more interesting, but you don't have to do that.
Now once you've done all your quotes or your whole grid post,
then go to the top left and we're going to export as JPEGs
and save it to your camera roll.
Once you've done that, you've got your grid post ready to go up on Instagram.
I hope you learned something new about Vectornator in this video.
If you did, make sure to press that like button and subscribe,
and I'll catch you guys in the next one.
See you soon.
Goodbye.