James Walker Popular content on the Instagram app includes the Stories feature. With so many animated GIFs, facial filters, and vibrant stickers to choose from, the sky’s the limit for individual expression.
Photographers and videographers all around the world use Stories to showcase their work and let their fans and followers inside their private lives. Instagram Stories are the way to go if you want to attract more people to your account and get them actively involved.
Read on to learn more about Instagram Stories and how to make them work for your photography or filmmaking.
Creating an Instagram story
The very first step in becoming an expert Instagram user is mastering the art of creating and sharing a Story. While only being shown for a day, your Stories may be a fun and engaging way to connect with your audience.
Dimensions and quality for Instagram stories
It’s important to submit content in the acceptable Instagram Story sizes and resolutions to ensure that it displays clearly and without any blur. To wit:
a 9:16 aspect ratio with a resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels
Step by step instructions for Creating an Instagram Story
It’s just as easy to share a story on Instagram as it is to update your feed. Here is the procedure:
- Launch Instagram on your device.
- To add something, tap the plus sign in the lower-center of the screen.
- You may pick Stories by sliding to the right.
- You may use the Story Camera to snap a photo or record a clip, or you can swipe up to access your Camera Roll and choose an item from there to share.
- Embed your own GIFs, text, and filters.
- To begin, select the Your Story button (found in the screen’s lower-left corner).
Instructions for adding numerous photographs to your Instagram story
Instagram Stories allows users to share many photos in a single post. Once upon a time, putting up a multi-photo Story necessitated the use of a separate layout programme. You may now do this right inside the app! Specifically, here’s what you do:
- Activate the Instagram programme.
- To add something, tap the plus sign in the screen’s bottom-center.
- Move the slider to the right to pick Story.
- To proceed, use the left-hand down arrow.
- Choose your format.
- To change the layout, click the grid button (there are six to choose from).
- For each photo segment, you can either snap a new shot with the Story Camera or swipe up to access previously taken photos and videos from your Camera Roll.
- After you’re satisfied with your design, click the Your Story button in the lower left corner of the screen.
- An example of a multi-photo Instagram Stories post
Up to six pictures can be added to a single slide of a Story if you select this option.
Using Instagram’s Stories feature to interact with your audience
In order to increase your interaction with your followers, Instagram Stories come equipped with a number of fun and useful interactive tools. Below we’ll demonstrate a few options for accomplishing that goal.
Reposting an Instagram Story or post from another user’s account
You can help someone else’s account develop in the same way that it would benefit yours if they shared your Stories. Someone’s public profile is required for you to be able to share their post or their Story in your Stories feed. The steps for sharing a post are as follows:
- Access Instagram on your mobile device.
- Find the message you want to forward and click on it.
- To share this article with your friends, click the paper aeroplane icon that appears just below the post on the lower left side of your screen.
- Find the option to “Add post to your narrative.”
- To start writing your story, select the option labelled “Your Tale” from the menu.
- Picture of a screen explaining how to publish to Instagram’s Stories
- Second screenshot demonstrating how to publish content to Stories.
- Inside Instagram, you may only repost a story that has been tagged to you. When this occurs, the person who “mentioned you in their tale” will send you a private message. You’ll be given the opportunity to share the Story on your Stories feed within the following 24 hours in that notification.
Find out how many people have seen your Instagram Story
When you start to post more frequently on Instagram Stories, you should monitor your followers’ reactions. And one method is to look at how many times your stories have been seen.
Using Story Views, you can see how many people have viewed a particular Story post and who those individuals are. You can see how many people forwarded it, went backwards, or made some other action, like clicking on a tag or going to your profile. Everyone can see your Stories if you want to make your account public. Only people who choose to follow you can see your posts if your account is set to private.
You may see how many people have viewed your Instagram Story by following these steps:
- Launch Instagram.
- Choose Stories from the menu bar’s leftmost tab.
- Choose the Story you’re interested in reviewing.
- Drag up.
Managing a poll or quiz in Stories
Using polls or quizzes as part of your Story is another another approach to foster participation from your audience.
In a poll, viewers can choose one option from two options and then see the results of the vote broken down visually. It’s like a quiz, except the audience gets to pick one of several possible answers. The right answer is revealed once they make their choice.
To make a poll or quiz on Instagram Stories, follow these steps:
- Activate the Instagram programme.
- To add something, tap the plus sign in the screen’s bottom-center.
- Move the slider to the right to pick Story.
- You may use the Story Camera to snap a photo or record a clip, or you can swipe up to access your Camera Roll and choose an item from there to share. If you want to create a poll or quiz with a solid colour backdrop, click the create button (it looks like an Aa symbol).
- To add a sticker, tap the icon depicting a square happy face.
- To create a poll or quiz, click on the corresponding sticker.
- Put in your own questions and answers to complete the text.
- To finish, select the checkmark in the upper right corner.
- To start writing your story, select the option labelled “Your Tale” from the menu.