Making a story
To go to publish stories, you need to swipe from the left to the right side of the screen on home page Instagram (where you read your feed). To take a photo or shoot a video, you need to click on the circle at the bottom of the screen, and by swiping down you can open a window for selecting media from your library. There is another way to create a story: select your account tab (where your photos are shown) and click on the + next to your profile photo.
Shooting modes
Instagram Stories Supports five shooting modes.
The choice of filters in Instagram Stories is small, but, as a rule, it is enough. Filters can be changed by swiping left or right.
Supported photo and video format
Photos and videos in Instagram Stories are vertical. Horizontal media files are cropped when imported. To select the desired area of the photo for publication in the story, you can use cropping the frame in a standard photo editor. The maximum video length is 15 seconds. Please note that a longer video will be shortened when imported. You can only upload pictures and videos that were taken in the last 24 hours to your history.
Masks
Another take on Instagram Stories from Snapchat. To go to masks, you need to tap on the icon to the right of the camera change icon.
Stickers
To attach a sticker to a story, you need to click on the corresponding icon after taking a photo or simply swipe up on the screen.
Stickers of geoposition, temperature and shooting time
In the first line of the sticker selection screen, you can choose to add geodata to the history, the current temperature in the place where you are, and the time of publication.
Adding a selfie to your story
On the next line of the sticker selection screen there is a camera icon. Choosing such a sticker will allow you to take a selfie and embed it in your story. Moreover, the borders of the photo can be either blurred or emphasized with a white frame. With this feature, you can create fun collages or express your opinion about what is depicted in the story using a happy or judgmental grimace.
Changing sticker size
To make the sticker larger or smaller, use two fingers. Once you've selected a sticker, pinch your fingers together to make it smaller or spread out to make it larger.
Attaching a sticker to a video element
Select any of the stickers, press on it and hold your finger for a couple of seconds. A time slider will appear in front of you. Select the second with the element to which you want to attach the sticker, set the desired location and size of the “sticker” and click “Attach”. Now the sticker will be attached to the selected video object.
Adding hashtags
To assign a hashtag to a story, you can use the creation of a tag in the text, but it is easier to select the corresponding sticker. Tapping on it will change the display style of the hashtag. When your friends see the tag, they can click through to posts tagged with the same tag.
Quick selection of stickers
To avoid scrolling the screen every time in search of your favorite sticker, swipe your finger to the right when selecting it. A list of recently used “stickers” will open in front of you. Eat separate group stickers that fit especially well on portraits. To access them, swipe left.
Removing stickers
To remove an accidentally added sticker, tap and hold your finger on it. A trash can icon will appear at the bottom of the screen, and you need to move the extra “sticker” there.
Drawing
To start drawing, click on the corresponding icon between the sticker and text icons in the story editing window.
Types of brushes
The user has four brushes at his disposal.
- Regular brush. The same basic brush from any graphic editor.
- Marker. It differs in the shape of the brush and the degree of transparency.
- Brush with a “neon” stroke. Similar to a regular brush, but with a choice of stroke color. The main color remains white.
- Rainbow brush. One brush - seven colors.
A choice of eraser is also available.
Brush size
The brush size is adjusted using a special slider, which opens by clicking the three-dot icon in the lower left part of the screen.
Color selection
When painting, you can also select brush colors: they are located at the bottom. You can move between three standard palettes by swiping left or right. To choose your color, hold your finger on one of the circles.
Fill
To fill the frame with one color, select a brush and press and hold your finger anywhere on the screen. After filling, you can open part of the photo or video using the eraser.
Text
To start typing, select the "Aa" icon to the right of the drawing icon.
Styles and Alignment
To adjust the color and size of the text, you need to follow the same steps as when drawing with a brush. The scale of what is written can also be changed using two fingers.
In the upper left corner, when typing, a button with indent adjustment appears. You can place the inscription on the left, right or in the middle. The second functional button when typing is the letter A in a square. By clicking on it, you can switch between three styles of displaying the inscription.
Volumetric text effect
To give the text a volume effect, create two identical inscriptions, but in different colors. Place them almost on top of each other, with a slight shift: you get 3D text.
User mark
To tag someone in your story, type the @ symbol when creating a caption. Start typing a nickname and Instagram will suggest suggestions from your friends. You can attach hashtags in much the same way: use the # symbol.
Other
Saving stories
Click on the three dots in the upper right corner when you are in your Instagram profile. To have your stories saved automatically, go to your stories settings and move the “Save published photos” slider to the active position.
Adding Music to Instagram Stories
There is no option to add musical accompaniment to videos in Instagram Stories. But there is still a way to add audio to a story. Many may have noticed that the music playing on your smartphone is not interrupted when viewing other people's stories. The same thing works when creating a video: just turn on the song on a streaming service or, for example, on the VKontakte social network and start filming the story.
Rotate video
You can avoid cutting off the edges of a video when publishing it to your story by using special applications that rotate the video by 90 degrees.
Publishing old photos and videos in history
If you are late with the publication and 24 hours have already passed since the shooting, a little trick will help you upload a photo or video. Just send the desired pictures or videos to yourself on WhatsApp and save. There is an easier way - using special applications.
Publishing long videos
To post a video longer than 15 seconds in your history, use any video editor. You can delete some sections, split the video into several parts, or increase its speed. For iOS device users App Store offers an application that automatically divides a long video into several 15-second segments.
Instagram Stories – special section social network for temporary publications. Users post memorable moments from their lives in a couple of clicks, while the main profile is not clogged with passing posts. After 24 hours, stories are deleted automatically, but their number is not limited. Today we will talk about how to add multiple photos to your Instagram story in different ways.
To remember all the tips and actions from the instructions, we suggest that you carefully read the presented video.
The duration of one story on Instagram can reach 15 seconds, but no more. At this time, a short video, a photo with effects, a boomerang, and so on fit. If you add several images in a row, they will be divided into separate stories. To combine several photos or images into one presentation and publish it in a 15-second segment, you need to use third-party software. One such application is Flipagram. You can use it to stitch together several photos:
- Download free editor via the app store Play Market or App Store.
- Launch the editor and select the images you want to see as part of one story.
- After tagging the photo, indicate the duration of display of each of them. The application automatically calculates the time for each image and the total duration. You can set the total time to 15 seconds.
- After editing you need to save finished video in the gallery on your phone. It is not possible to publish a story directly through Flipagram.
Now you can proceed to actions in the Instagram application. Open the program and follow the instructions:
- To publish new story from several photos, go to the Instagram Stories section using the button in the publication feed or by swiping to the right.
- Now go to the gallery and select the videos that were created using the Flipagram app.
- If necessary, add filters, captions, stickers, tag people and publish the post.
Now you have posted a 15-second story that combines several photos. They will quickly replace each other. There is also another option - a collage of images, which you will learn how to create next.
Collage via Pic Collage app
If the previous method involves a presentation of several sequential photographs, then in this situation all materials are displayed in one picture for 15 seconds or less. To create a collage of several photos directly on your phone, you can use the Pic Collage application:
- Download and install the free editor on your phone.
- Open the application and select several images to create a collage.
- Edit the finished project and save it to the gallery.
- After that, publish the collage in Stories, as in the first example from the instructions. Only in this case you need to choose a photo, not a video.
We looked at ways to add multiple photos within one story. However, no one bothers you to simply publish a series of pictures separately from each other. Users who watch your Stories will be able to independently switch between photos by clicking on the right and left of the screen.
So, now let's look at adding several photos to Instagram stories:
- Opening Instagram app and go to the Stories section.
- Instead of the camera, go to the gallery and click on the “Select multiple” button.
- Select a number of images and click on “Next”.
- The history editing window will appear. You can change each of the publications separately from each other. After editing, click Next again.
- Choose a place to publish your materials. You can send them to Stories or private messages to another user.
Conclusion
Now you know how you can add multiple photos to one story. Choose the option that best suits your taste and goals. If you have any problems with the publication or the operation of the described applications, then write about it in the comments!
In 2016, the Stories feature became available to Instagram users for the first time. From now on, they can publish temporary posts that are automatically deleted after some time. Stories (story, story) is translated into Russian as stories, stories. Read on to find out what this function is and how to add a Story to Instagram.
What are Instagram stories?
With the help of stories, users show their audience short videos or photo collections that disappear after 24 hours. This feature has limitations. For example, you can only add photos and videos to your Instagram story that were taken in the last 24 hours, and the video should not exceed 15 seconds. The stories themselves are displayed as a circle with the author’s avatar at the top of the screen, and not in the feed itself.
To watch a story, you just tap on it and it will start playing. You can also do this through this person’s profile. If his avatar circle has a colored outline around it, it means he's added a story you haven't seen yet. When it is viewed, the outline will be gray.
How to add a story to Instagram through the application?
How to add a photo to a story?
The service allows you to add your photos to stories. Step-by-step instruction, how to do it:
- First of all, open the screen for creating stories, to do this, swipe to the right or tap on the create story button. At the bottom of the panel there are several buttons for switching shooting modes: “Normal”, “Boomerang” (a button for changing between the front and front cameras) and “Hands-free” (a button that allows you not to hold the shutter while shooting video). There you can also find buttons that activate the flash and night shooting mode.
- To take a photo of something, press the shutter button. After the photo is taken, click on the white arrow, which can be found in the lower right corner of the screen, and choose further actions, for example, upload a story to Instagram or send it personally to each subscriber. When you click on the “Add to Story” button, the photo will appear in your Stories at the top of the screen. If you decide to send it separately to subscribers, then it will come to each of them in a personal message in the form of a story.
How to add photos to Instagram Stories from the device gallery?
If you need to add a photo from your phone gallery to your story, you need to open the Stories creation panel again and swipe up on the screen. A panel with photos and videos from your device’s gallery will be displayed at the bottom. But note that Instagram allows you to publish only those photos and videos that were taken in the last 24 hours. To add them, click on the “Add to History” button or the one with the arrow.
Lifehack! If you really need to publish a photo or video older than 24 hours, change the date the material was taken in the metadata and the application will skip the content to history.
How to create several Stories at the same time?
Knowing the basic principles of adding stories, you can easily find out the answer. Instagram has added to its functionality this function so that users can have the most interesting moments that happen in their lives. This allows you to avoid spamming your audience’s feed with the same type of photos.
All Stories are active for one day, starting from the moment they are uploaded. After expiration, they are automatically deleted by the service. This allows you to reduce the load on Instagram servers and not clutter your feed.
Users of this social network believe that each publication of a story is a separate independent story. But in fact, stories can contain several publications. Videos and photos in them can go one after another, as it is more convenient for you. You cannot run more than one story at a time, but you can add new materials to an existing Stories throughout the day. This way, all your subsequent stories that you add during the first 24 hours will be glued together into one.
The benefits of stories on Instagram feed
Main features of the function of adding stories to Instagram:
- The convenience of this feature is that your subscribers can view photos and videos from your story in a convenient format. They will go in slides. Your audience will be able to comment and like them if they wish. When the service deletes this story, it will also delete likes and comments.
- New photos and videos can be taken using a standard smartphone camera or added from the device’s gallery. For some reason, Instagram doesn’t like it when users publish materials older than one day, so you will have to either take new photos and videos, or upload those taken in the last 24 hours. Despite this, we will tell you further how to deceive Instagram.
- After the first day has passed since the first slide was uploaded, Instagram deletes the “mini-report”. But the user can manage to save all the data before it disappears. After that, they can be added to the main one. To do this, there should be a special button on your screen.
- You can add not only standard Instagram filters to your stories, but also special objects, complementing reality - masks. Even at the creation stage, you can find a button such as an emoticon with stars, which allows you to decorate your Stories to make it more interesting for your subscribers.
Instagram developers take user safety seriously and provide the app with useful features. For example, such as setting up privacy. With standard settings, absolutely all users can see your stories. But you can set them up so that only your chosen subscribers see them. You can configure it so that for some people this content will not be available, but others will see everything. You can also add individual people to the blacklist in the settings. Getting into it means absolute deprivation of access to the page.
How to post a photo older than 24 hours to an Instagram story?
Despite the fact that the creators thought that it was impossible to add stories older than a day, sometimes it is necessary to add a current old photo to make your story organic. Therefore, it makes sense to learn how to cheat the system. To do this, you need to open the camera in the Instagram Stories screen. Then swipe down. A screen should open with photos taken in the last 24 hours in miniature.
The most logical thing that comes to mind first is to take a screenshot of an old photo. Or we record a new video or a new photo. To take a screenshot on iOS, you need to hold down the lock button and the Home button at the same time. Android owners need to hold down two buttons: lock and volume down. If nothing works, then it makes sense to find instructions on the Internet for specific model smartphone. After the screenshot is taken, it is added to the gallery as a recent photo, and you can add it to your story.
There is another option, to execute it you will have to download additional application. For example, such as “Stored For Instagram”. It's paid, but if you often have to deal with this problem, then it makes sense.
But Instaved loves and appreciates its readers, why spend money on paid application, if you can find a free analogue, and spend the money saved on... or even on getting likes and subscribers (by the way, you can read about this in our section). So free analogue for Android is the "Gallery Stories for Instagram" application, and for iOS - "Story Uploader".
Hey friend just don't tell anyone what it is free apps. Everyone around usually only recommends paid programs, DAMNED CAPITALISTS! Shhh...Remember, everything that happens on Instaved stays on Instaved.
You can also add various music to your Instagram Stories videos to make them look more lively and interesting. And, of course, don’t forget about the life hack that we shared at the beginning of the article.
How to edit stories on Instagram?
Once a story has been uploaded, it can still be updated and edited.
The service offers us the following opportunities:
- You can loop the order of photos. To do this, select the “Boomerang” item at the bottom of the screen. And so that you don’t have to constantly hold the shutter while shooting video, you can select the “Hands Free” function.
- When you record a video, you can shoot alternately with the front and main cameras.
- You can apply different filters to your photo; to do this, swipe right or left on the screen to select the desired option.
- You can add stickers, including those with a geolocation link.
- Add text. You can change its size, slope and other properties. You can also leave links to other users' accounts using the @ icon.
- Using a marker and a brush, you can draw something over the photo. Their size and color can also be varied.
More useful lifehacks
We have collected some life hacks for Instagram stories:
In skillful hands, stories turn into a successful tool for business promotion. If you have a well-developed Instagram account, then stories will help you advertise a new product, notify about a promotion or sale, or hold a contest with a prize draw among subscribers. If your audience is not that large, expand it using proven services, for example:
- offers to increase subscribers not only for money, but also for completing tasks, so you accumulate points that you can later spend on promoting your account.
- offers very cheap promotion and is characterized by a high percentage of unsubscribes, beware of a ban.
- and have more expensive tariffs, but they differ high quality attracted subscribers, among them you can ensure an influx of clients, and your account will be protected from blocking for cheating by bots. And you can read about natural methods of promotion.
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In the Instagram section, we considered an interesting question regarding stories on Insta, or, as they are also called, stories. Our next material will tell you about how to add photo to instagram story. In the previous article we already touched on this topic, but today we will consider it in more detail and carefully, trying to highlight the most important points and nuances. Read us - it will be interesting. Without a doubt, Instagram stories are a great innovation that is designed to interest absolutely all users of the social network. The stories will help you show off all your talents and directing skills. Obviously, interesting stories will attract even more followers to your account. If this does not happen, then you need to increase your army of admirers. Now let's, as they say, get closer to the point. So, you've decided to create an interesting story about one fun day in your life. To realize your idea, open the Instagram application on your mobile device.
On the main page of the application you will see a camera icon. Tap it as shown in the first screenshot above. As always, in such cases the camera on the phone turns on. Now you need to take the intended photo. To do this, tap the shooting button, as shown in the screenshot number 2 above. You also have the opportunity to make an interesting video by swiping the screen to the right. After you take a photo, the application will redirect you to the next screen (3 - in the picture above). As you can see, two icons have appeared at the bottom of the screen. You need to touch the icon that says: “To history.” We showed this schematically in the last screenshot of the top figure. That's it, now your photo has become an integral part of the plot.
With one photo everything is clear. Now the task is add several photos to Instagram story, because the more beautiful shots, the more interest your story will generate among subscribers and friends. More moments means more likes, respectively. You can get any number of likes with one click here: . It is not yet possible to somehow select many photos in order to upload them into a newly created story in one motion. But don’t despair, because you can add several frames one by one. This will take some time, but at least you will be able to think carefully about what to include in today’s story, and what may not be worth sharing with your followers. At the very beginning of the publication, we added one photo, thereby starting our story. Now on home page application, you can see your history (screen 1 in the bottom picture).
By touching history, we enter into it. Now, by analogy with adding the first photo, we add the following ones. We take a photo, touch the icon: “Add to history” (second picture above) - the photo is added. We take another frame - add it to the plot and so on. We can add a lot of photos to our story using the described method.
We sorted this out too. Now we need to understand whether it is possible add old photo to Instagram story and how to do it. Let us remind you that stories are designed so that they “live” only 24 hours. For this reason, it is possible to add only new photographs to the plot that were taken no more than a day ago. Sometimes you just need to decorate your story with an “old” photo, so the relevance of this issue is beyond doubt. To add a photo you took earlier, swipe from top to bottom in the active camera mode in Instagram history. A window will open with thumbnails of photographs taken over the last 24 hours (everything will become clear to you if you look at the bottom picture).
The first thing that comes to mind is to take a new photo or screenshot of an existing one. Find how to take a screenshot (snapshot) of the screen specifically for your smartphone model on the Internet. iPhone owners must press the lock and home buttons at the same time, as shown in the bottom picture. Owners of Android phones must hold down the lock button along with the volume button (in most cases). After that your screenshot old photograph will become a new photo you just took, and you can add it to the story.
Another option for adding an old photo is to change the date. The third option is third party application entitled: “Storied For Instagram”. It is worth mentioning that this application is paid, and will not suit everyone, but, as an option, it may come in handy. To make your stories more lively and creative, add music to your videos. How to do it, .
How to repost a user's Instagram story? Many of you have seen a cool innovation from Instagram, where any user can repost another’s story. And then this story appears in your feed in a blurry frame. How to do this?
Option 1
If you don't know how to repost a story on Instagram, then you don't even need to log out of your Instagram. Everything is in him. Just recently, Instagram made a huge gift for its users. Now anyone can repost any story to their feed. Here are simple instructions.
How to add someone else's story to yourself on Instagram:
Option 2
If you haven’t found a similar function, then you can only repost the story that in which you were mentioned. The principle of operation is quite simple.
How to repost a story on Instagram:
- Your friend/acquaintance/relative films a story and mentions you in it through @Nick.
- You immediately receive a message in DM that you were mentioned in stories.
- You press “Add this to the story.”
- And your friend’s reposted story appears in your feed.
What if she doesn't exist?
But what to do if there is no function on Instagram? “Add post to your story”?
- Update the application, perhaps this feature has already arrived to you.
- If the application is already updated, then all you have to do is wait until a similar function appears for you. Updates come gradually and not to everyone at once.
- How much to wait? Unclear. It all depends on the Instagram developers.
- Use third-party services that allow you to do similar things.
Third party services
How to repost an Instagram story with blurry frames from another user? The way this is done in the application itself - no way. But there are slightly different ways. Such services only save stories and do not repost them. After downloading the story, you will need to download the story from your account yourself. You can also tag the owner of the story using @Nick.
Useful applications:
- StoryReposter (reposts stories only to your main post feed, but not to history).
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