Awesome Instagram Stories Tricks

Viewing

The photo or video you shared on your IG story will appear on your profile at the top of the feed. 

A colorful red ring appears around your profile picture, and people can tap it to see your story. Your profile picture will show up in a row at the top of your followers' feeds can tap it to view your story.

Publicly shared IG stories may also appear in the explore page, hashtags, location, or location-based stickers.

Replying

Instagram users can reply to stories with a text, emojis, or GIFs or video by tapping the reply button. They can also reply with a photo or video by tapping the camera or GIF button.

From there, users can go crazy with all their creative ideas. They can move and resize the story image or apply filters or stickers.

The reply will be sent as a direct message with the thumbnail of the original story.

Other Things You Can Do On Instagram Stories

There's a lot more you can do with Instagram Stories.

You can also add effects on your Instagram Story like doodles, text, stickers, live face filters, and geostickers.

Want to add music to your stories, no problem! Facebook signed deals with major record labels so users can add songs to their stories.

Instagram also allows you to see who's watching your story. Swipe up on your own IG story to see who’s viewed your story.

Privacy is also not a problem with IG stories. You can make your stories private if you want to. If you have a private IG account, only your followers can see your story. You can also hide your story to a person or people.

Finally, Instagram allows users to post stories to their profile as a regular feed. Instagram Stories, by default, won't appear on a user's profile grid or in the feed. They can still choose to highlight a particular part of their story by posting it on their profile.

Optimize Images For The Recommended Size

The perfect size for Instagram Stories is 1080px by 1920px.

Take note that you will have more editing options in other apps or the app that's built into your smartphone if you take the photo in the camera app. If you import the edited image into the Stories editor, you need to zoom it in a bit to avoid a border on the outside.

Always use a high enough quality image, so when you upload it and zoom in, the quality is preserved.

Create A Drop-shadow Effect To Text

To add a drop shadow effect to the text of your Instagram story, tap the Aa icon on the top right of the screen, then write your text.

Next, tap the Aa icon again and write the same text for a second time but using a different font style and color.

Now, move one text layer over the other, but put it just slightly off-center so that the bottom layer still shows.

Add Colors To Your Story

The primary color choices on Instagram Stories may not be the perfect match for your personal or company branding.

To access virtually all the colors for your Instagram story, follow these steps:

• Step 1: Tap either the pen or the Aa icon on the top right corner of your screen.
• Step 2: Tap and hold a default color to bring up more color options in the slider.
• Step 3: Swipe to choose a unique color.

Play With The Different Text Fonts And Formats

Instagram Story has five fonts you can choose from: 

• Classic
• Modern
• Neon
• Typewriter
• Strong

To create text, tap anywhere on the screen. You can create as many text boxes as you like. Tap out of a text box and tap on the screen to create another.

Create A GIF

It is essential to continually be testing new media formats on Instagram if you want to keep your audience engaged and wanting more.

What to do? Create a GIF.

Instagram has a feature called Boomerang. It allows users to create a quick, looped video, which is similar to a GIF.

Your Story Must Have A Solid Background

To create a solid background for your story, follow these steps:

• Step 1: Hit the pen icon on the top right.
• Step 2: Choose the marker or neon brush.
• Step 3: Choose a color. 
• Step 4: Tap and hold the screen for a few seconds until your chosen color fills the screen. 
• Step 5: You can either use the eraser tool to reveal a little bit of the photo or video.

Make A Color Fog

It's easy to make a part of a photo foggy. Just insert an emoji that has the color you want for the fog, then expand it.

As the emoji expands, it will add a color haze over a part of your photo. Also, it can be useful to insert texture and design to dull picture.

Add Accessories To Your Story

When you are done creating an Instagram Story, swipe it up on the edit screen to show more fun options:

• hashtag
• countdown
• poll
• GIF
• clock
• questions
• countdown
• quiz and many more

Take Advantage Of Mentions

Tag other Instagram accounts in your Story to shout-out a brand, influencer, or customer.

GeoTag Your Story To Get More Views

To make your content appear in that location's Story feed, which helps rack up more views quickly, tag a location in your Stories.

Add Selfie Stickers

Selfie stickers let you create a small selfie that you can edit and use it later on as a story sticker.

To do this, follow these steps:

• Step 1: Tap the stickers icon (the square smiley face) at the top of the screen.
• Step 2: Choose the camera option, which is to the left of hashtag (#). 
• Step 3: Take a selfie.
• Step 4: Either tap the selfie again to add a white border or leave it to keep the glowing edge. 
• Step 5: Move the selfie sticker to any part of the screen.

Instagram releases selfie stickers pretty frequently, so be on the lookout.

Hide Stories From Specific Accounts

The more accounts you follow on Instagram, the more you'll be blasted by Stories.

If you want to hide Stories from certain users without unfollowing them, just press and hold on their display photo in the Stories feed. Then choose the Mute Story option from the menu that pops up.