How do i upload a story on instagram

How to use Instagram Stories like a pro

Let’s face it, Snapchat is facing some serious, constant competition from Instagram. While the company is nowhere near down and out, brands and individuals are increasingly shifting over to Instagram Stories for a variety of reasons. Instagram has been relentless about bringing over some of Snapchat’s best features and tools — and often making its own refinements and improvements along the way.

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In April, Instagram Stories usage surpassed all Snapchat activity, with Instagram Stories users surpassing 200 million, and Snapchat stories rounding up to 160 million (both numbers are likely higher now). Even if you’re not ready to fully move away from Snapchat, I’m here to teach you the ins and outs of Instagram Stories, and how to become a true pro on the stories platform that people are increasingly starting to explore.

WHY EVEN USE INSTAGRAM STORIES

Instagram Stories generally provide a better, less perplexing user experience. Now if you’re a brand, the list of reasons why you should use Instagram Stories are endless. Most importantly, the amount of people you are likely to reach on Instagram is usually far greater than on Snapchat. Additionally, it provides another platform to make creative content, and ultimately drive to your goal, whether that’s to have someone buy clothes, read a blog post, or download a song. You also don’t get that ugly white square around your media like you do in Snapchat when you upload content from your camera roll, either. The ways to get creative on the platform are truly endless. It’s almost like a small TV channel for your brand where you can go to town with out-of-the-box concepts.

THE BASICS

How to add to your story: There are two ways to add to your story: the first is by going to your profile page and clicking on your icon. The second is going to your main feed and clicking on the camera icon on the top left corner. Once you are done adding text, drawings, and stickers on your masterpiece you tap the “+ your story” icon at the bottom right corner and it has officially been added to your story.

How to add to your story: option 1

How to add to your story: option 2

How to select a media format: Once you’ve made it to the “add to your story” screen, the bottom of your screen will allow you to swipe right and left to choose between Normal (a regular photo or video), Boomerang (a GIF), Rewind (your video in reverse), and Hands Free (which automatically takes a 15 second video without you having to hold down the record button).

How to add filters: Just like Snapchat, you swipe left to advance through a series of filters that can be applied to your photo or video clip. Easy.

How to add filters

How to add an image or video from your camera roll to your story: There are two ways to do this. You will notice a small icon on the bottom left of the screen next to the flash icon. This will have a thumbnail of the latest media in your camera roll. You can click this to unveil your photos and videos from the last 24 hours. The other way to do this is to swipe your screen down. You can’t post anything that has been taken more than a day ago, but I’ve got a hack for that later in this article. If you are uploading a custom image (like a flyer in my case for when I’m DJ’ing), the dimensions are 1080 x 1920 pixels. The video aspect ratio is 9:16, and the length can very from anywhere between one second and 15 seconds.

STICKERS

How to add geotags: You get to stickers by clicking on the square happy face icon on the top right corner of your screen. You’ll see a “location” sticker. Once you tap this, a series of options will come up. If you don’t see your location you can also search for it. I don’t really need to explain how to use other stickers as its just a matter of scrolling and finding whichever one you want to use.

How to add a selfie sticker: Once you hit stickers icon, you’ll see a camera icon to the left of #hashtag. You can click on this and take a selfie, and then tap the image to add a white circle around it or leave it with glowing edges. You can only take a selfie with this sticker. This is great for many things: I’ve seen people take multiple pictures and add each of their friends faces to different bowls of ramen. Or you can be like me and add your face to a picture of the sky and pretend to be god or the sun. The possibilities are endless.

How to add geotags and selfie stickers

Look at god.

How to change the size of your sticker: With any sticker, you can increase and decrease their size by pinching or expanding it with two fingers.

How to pin a sticker or text to a moving part of your video: Place your text or sticker in the desired location and tap and hold the screen until you get a little bar at the bottom that says “pin”. Find the subject in the video you want to pin it to and then hit “pin” when you’re ready. If you are not happy with the result, you can tap and hold the image or text again and keep trying.

How to pin

How to add a hashtag: There are two ways to do this. You can click on the stickers icon and hit “hashtag” and add it that way. You can also just type in a hashtag using the text icon. Either approach will result in a tappable, searchable hashtag in your story.

USING YOUR PEN

How to change colors: There are two key hacks here. The first is swiping left to reveal an array of preselected colors. The second is picking any color and holding your finger down, which reveals an entire palette of colors to chose from.

How to unlock more colors

How to change the pen size and style: On the top of the screen you’ll see four different options for pen styles, and one eraser. They each provide their own style and the eraser tool is a relatively new addition so you can easily erase any mistakes. On the left hand side, you’ll see a slider that allows you to adjust the size of your pen.

ADDING COLOR OVERLAYS

If you want to make your entire screen one solid color, just take your image or video, select any pen, pick a color, and then tap and hold the main part of the screen. When you lift your finger, the screen will become that color. From here, you can use the eraser tool to selectively reveal certain parts of your original image or video. Get creative!

ADDING TEXT

How to add text and change style: To get to the text, you click on the top right corner on the “Aa” icon and start writing. Once you write your text and tap out of the text box, you can also tap on it to change the style and alignment. There are three options: one with a slight faded color in the back, one solid color background, and with no background — just the colored text. Changing the color of your text works much the same as it does with drawing / pens.

How to add color overlays

How to add text and change style

How to have text with multiple colors and sizes: Highlight the individual word in the text to change the color of it. The other way to do this is once you write one word and make it the color and style you want, you simply hit the text button again and write another word or phrase and give it a different color. You can use this to layer the same word over itself in a different color to give it a layered effect, or just make fun typography stuff like this:

Fun!

How to tag people: You do this by clicking the text icon and typing @ followed by the handle. Instagram should generate a list of people who you’re trying to tag as you type, and then you click on their image to tag them. You have to make sure this happens otherwise you can type @soandso and it won’t actually tag them. The way you can tell it worked is by seeing an underline under the tagged name.

SAVING & DELETING

How to delete a sticker or text: This is drag and drop in all its glory. You take your undesired item and drag it to the bottom center of the screen into the garbage icon. Simple!

How to delete a sticker or text

How to save and delete individual shots and your entire story: You’ll see an arrow on the bottom left corner that points down once you snap a pic, boomerang or video. Click that to save your singular image. In order to save your entire story, click on your profile icon and click on the bottom right corner of the screen on the three dots. Click “Save” and it will give you two options: save image, or save story. Select save story to get the story from the last 24 hours saved into one single video file. That’s pretty convenient! This is also where you will find the option to delete.

EXTRA TIPS

How to add face filters: When in the camera view, you’ll find a face icon on the bottom right corner of your screen. You tap this to reveal a series of face filters. You can be the judge of whether they’re better or worse than Snapchat’s filters.

How to add face filters

How to add a link (only for verified accounts): If you have a verified account, you can abuse the hell out of this feature to drive people to your longer form content, a purchase page, etc. You do this by first adding a photo or video and then hitting the paperclip icon on the top right corner of your screen. Add your URL there, and when you add to your story, you’ll see it says “swipe up”. You can get creative with the content you’re uploading by creating an arrow that would point to the “swipe up” text, or any other moving imagery to direct peoples eyes to that part of the screen.

How to add links

How to add music to your video: This process is the same as what you might be used to with Snapchat. You can play music natively from your device from whichever streaming service you prefer (or your own library). You hit play, go back to stories, and simply hit record.

How to add GIFs to your story: The best way to do this is to convert or download your GIF into a video file, send it to yourself, and then add it to your story via the camera roll.

How to rotate a video before adding to your story: There is an app that is great for this called Video Rotate.

How to hack the 24 hour rule: Instagram Stories are meant for sharing of recent content, but there are several ways to post something older. There are two key apps that adjust the timestamp of an image or video automatically. If you are sending the file to yourself: Slack and WhatsApp do the job. I frequently bombard my sister with WhatsApp messages of random creations in order to renew the timestamp. If you don’t have either of those, other apps can also get around the 24-hour rule. Story Uploader is the best option.

How to chop and upload a video longer than 15 seconds:

If you produced some high quality video that is longer than 1 minute and want to chop it into 15 second intervals so that it flows as one seamless story, there’s an app for that too! It’s called CutStory.

How to reply and report someone’s story:

If someone is posting stuff that’s clearly inappropriate to their story, you can easily report it to Instagram. You do this by clicking the three buttons on the bottom right corner of the story you are watching and hit “report.” Or, instead of flagging it to Instagram, you can just message someone to tell them to ease up on all the selfies and food photos. To reply to someone’s story with a message, just swipe up while viewing it and the keyboard will pop up.

GO FORTH AND STORY

I think I’ve covered all my bases. Do you feel like pro? A content creating expert? Do the features in Instagram Stories appeal to you more than Snapchat? Now it’s up to you to harness these tips and tricks and get creative with how you share your everyday life with your followers. What a great way to present your best self and make stories that people might actually want to watch instead of tapping to skip through.

How to Repost and Share to Your Instagram Story

You can share a post to your Instagram Story using the paper airplane icon.
The menu that appears will give you the option to share a post from any profile that allows sharing in the setting — private posts won't show this option.
Brands can also leverage this feature to create more engagement with their followers.

Instagram not only grants the ability to share your posts to an Instagram story, but allows you to add pictures posted by your friends, favorite influencers, and other accounts you follow.

This feature can also be useful for brands who want to create more engagement and keep their Instagram account active.

For privacy reasons, this option is only available for accounts that have allowed sharing of their posts. If you try to share a post to your Instagram story from someone else's private account, the feature will not be available.

If you want to share a post to your Instagram story, here's how to do it.

How to share an Instagram post to your story

1. Open the Instagram app on your phone.

2. Locate the post you want to share in your Instagram story on your feed.

3. Tap the paper airplane icon.

Tap the paper airplane icon. Devon Delfino/Insider

4. The Share menu will appear.

5. Tap the first option, Add post to your story.

Tap Add post to your story. Devon Delfino/Insider

6. The photo or video post will automatically upload as a story draft.

7. Tap the icons at the top of the window to add stickers or gifs, draw, or type text.

Make the changes or additions you want to make. Devon Delfino/Insider

8. Tap Your Story in the bottom left-hand corner to post, or select Close Friends if you want to share it less widely.

Quick tip: You can do this whether you're finding a post on someone's profile using the Explore page, or when it pops up directly on your feed.

How brands can use the Instagram story feature

Like any Instagram user, brands can use stories to keep their account active. But it can also be a valuable way to share behind-the-scenes content and build a deeper relationship with your audience.

If you create a brand-specific hashtag, you can find posts from people who already love and use your product or service. You can then share those posts to your stories to keep your audience engaged and notified about the brands movements.

This accomplishes two things: it allows you to showcase your brand or product to a wider pool of Instagram users. Second, it lets the brand showcase authentic user-generated content that shows how the products can be incorporated into the everyday life of a customer.

Quick tip: If desired, you can also add a link to a specific product, or your site, to make it easier for people to find the product that's being displayed.

Marissa Perino

Marissa Perino is a former editorial intern covering executive lifestyle. She previously worked at Cold Lips in London and Creative Nonfiction in Pittsburgh. She studied journalism and communications at the University of Pittsburgh, along with creative writing. Find her on Twitter: @mlperino.

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1 How to make an Instagram story
2 Add an Instagram story from gallery
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add multiple stories to Instagram

Stories feature has been working for a long time, but some users can't add Stories to Instagram. A couple of years ago, Instagram had a little difficulty: the rating began to fall, and subscribers began to spend more time on another American network, Snapchat. nine0003

Then the developers came up with a new feature, and this innovation of stories in Instagram helped to return to the leading positions.

How to make a story on Instagram

The new tool won users over with two advantages:

The life of Stories is limited. If you do not replenish the content every 24 hours, then it will be deleted. This feature is suitable for those who do not want to save information, but want to just look at it.
Stories have a dominant position in relation to regular publications. The feed is located at the very top of the screen, so it is viewed by a large part of the audience. nine0008

There are several ways to make stories on Instagram, which method is preferable, topics and add content.

When using the first method, the photo or video is downloaded directly from the application. To do this, go to the application, slide the screen to the right or tap the camera icon in the upper left corner.

The screen for adding a new story will appear there. Next, a picture is taken: by clicking on the white circle or by loading content from your own gallery. It is worth noting that in this method it is possible to use a flash, selfie mode or pick up a virtual mask. nine0003

When adding a video, remember that the duration of one story is only 15 seconds. If your video file is longer, the application will automatically split it into several parts, each of which is edited separately.

Add stories to Instagram from gallery

The second option to add stories from existing photos and videos. To use this method, go to the gallery, select the content of interest.

Once published, choose what to do with it: add to profile, save to gallery, download story or send to friends. nine0003

With this method, you can use additional functions, add stickers, images, widgets, texts and GIFs.

If you want to add a GIF or sticker, click on the icon with the smiley. You can also specify a friend's name or geodata, conduct a survey.

However, the addition functions do not end there. The developers came up with the opportunity not only to place and publish the story, but also to supplement it with sound.

To add music to your Instagram story, click on the screen where the function for adding stickers is. There is a music pictogram here, with hundreds of music tracks. nine0003

Having found a song of interest, you can pre-listen to it and select the passage of interest. It is important that the music can be selected even before shooting the video, and the shooting can already be done with sound accompaniment.

This feature is not yet available in Russia.

By publishing such material, users will see not just another Stories, but it will also be sounded with music and a sticker with the name of the track and the artist.

How to post stories for close friends on Instagram

You've probably seen green Instagram Stories, which are characterized by a round border in a different color. This "close friends" feature allows you to post content only to some users and create a list of friends to share hidden stories with.

Instagram Green Stories allow you to share the content you want by filtering out users who don't want to see some content.

Green Instagram stories are used to share personal photos and videos with small groups of followers. nine0003

Those who are included in the list of "close friends" can easily recognize them thanks to their distinctive features - a green circle and a special label.

But viewing a green story on Instagram does not give you access to the list of users who, like you, are included in the list of close friends.

To create and add subscribers to the list of close friends you need.

Open the IG Stories editor and create your own content.
When it's ready, you will see the corresponding button below, marked with a white star on a green background. nine0008
To add Instagram stories for close friends, create a special list with your followers. Clicking on it will see a popup that says "Add to List" to include subscribers who can view the content.
Once opened, the list will include a search for the desired contacts or a list of "suggestions" with various subscribers to be added manually.

How to add several stories to Instagram

It happens that one post for a story about fun is not enough. Then you can add another story to Instagram. nine0003

How to add multiple Stories on Instagram is easy to figure out. To do this, you just need to go to the previous story and click on the camera icon in the upper left corner. Further, everything is much simpler, the procedure for adding another story is the same as for the first publication.

It is worth noting that this feature is very useful, because you can not only publish an excerpt from your life, but even post a mini-series. You can also add the series to IGTV Instagram.

Instagram has quickly burst into people's lives. Thanks to him, you can learn a lot from the everyday life of friends, and share your joyful moments. nine0003

Don't forget that with the help of stories you can create a "Relevant" section and make your profile even more attractive.

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How to create and upload stories
How to add music to a story
Modes and techniques for creating stories
How stories differ from profile posts
How to view stories

You can upload photos and videos to Stories up to 15 seconds. A new publication is displayed in the top menu during the day. It can be viewed and commented on. Below we will take a closer look at how to add stories to Instagram .

How to create and upload stories?

1. Launch Instagram on your mobile device: smartphone or tablet. On the main page of the mobile application, we look for our avatar with the “+” sign and click on it, or, being on the main page of the application, we simply swipe to the right.

2. Create a post using the activated camera. To do this, click on the big white round button below. One click - photo, with a delay - video. From the same window, you can go to the gallery and select a picture or video from there for the story. The gallery is accessible through the icon in the lower left corner. Also, using the icon in the lower right corner, you can change the front camera to the main one and vice versa. nine0003

3. Edit: add masks and special effects using the top line tools.

4. It remains only to post on Instagram. To do this, we are looking for our avatar at the very bottom left, and under it the signature “Your story”. Click. Everybody! Published.

To add another story, swipe right again from the main page of the Instagram app.

Attention! You cannot add history from a computer - only viewing is available on its screen.

How do I add music to a story? nine0023

It's easy to upload a video with music to stories on any device. No additional programs need to be downloaded.

Before recording a post, turn on the built-in player and select a track.
Start a survey in the same way as described above.
The phone will record music from the built-in speaker.

Adjust the sound in advance. Too loud significantly reduces the quality of the frames.

Modes and techniques for creating stories

Normal. We just shoot as described above without adding masks and effects.
Creation. This includes text, gifs, the “on this day” tag (an instagram for the same date of the previous year), the “mention” tag, etc.
Live. Video broadcasting with connecting to the communication of the audience: guests, friends, subscribers. During the broadcast, comments, questions and answers are added online.
Boomerang. This and other modes are selected before it is launched in the line under the big white button. In the example, "normal" (aka standard) is selected. One line shift to the left and in front of us is a boomerang. It provides for quick photographing several times in a row and gluing a photo sequence that scrolls back and forth. nine0008

Collage. Up to 6 photos on one screen at the same time. It will be different frames or the same one, borrowed from the gallery or new ones - it's up to you.
Free hands. A very handy option! It is not necessary to keep the start button pressed. It is enough to click on it once and that's it - the recording has begun.
Focus. The option is for portraits.
Superzoom. The camera zooms in and out of the subject with music and additional effects applied.
Reverse. We are talking about the demonstration of the filmed series in reverse order. The effect is only rendered on preview. nine0008

What is the difference between stories and profile photos and videos?

Do not confuse files uploaded to instagram and his stories. In the first case, they remain there for the period you need (until they are deleted). The second store only 24 hours.

1. You can extend the "shelf life" by changing the settings. Do you see under the proposal to edit the “Actual” profile? In it, we mark interesting files with a “+”.

2. You can save someone else's post in two ways: record directly from the screen or by downloading a special application. Instagram itself does not provide such a function. nine0003

3. You can save photos and videos in your phone's gallery. To do this, open the story and in the lower right corner and activate the vertical three dots. In the drop-down menu, select "settings" and enable all relevant options in the window that opens.

Here you can also publish the footage as a traditional post. All you have to do is select "Share to Post".

4. Restrictions are set: only for close friends, comments allowed or not. All of them are launched according to the above instructions. nine0003

5. The number of created and published stories is not limited. 20 in a row? Why not add more?

How to view stories on Instagram?

Unlike creating and uploading, you can watch Instagram not only from your phone, but also from your computer. Let's consider both methods.

We watch Instagram stories from the phone

As soon as one of the friends starts the story, his avatar will immediately be highlighted in red. After viewing, the frame will disappear. Broadcasts for a limited circle of viewers are highlighted in green. nine0003

Viewing photos and videos is easy - one click on the highlighted icon, and you are in the story of this profile. To see all user uploads, scroll the page to the left.

If you don't want to see someone's story, you can temporarily block it.