10 Useful Instagram Stories Tips You May Not Know About

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Use background fill, add music, selfie stickers and your Instagram stories will become much more popular.

1. Expanded palette of colors

You can change colors for text and graphics in stories. The palette at the bottom of the screen contains 27 colors that you can swipe through. If your beloved is not among them, do not be discouraged.

To open an extended palette and choose absolutely any shade on the color scale, just hold your finger on a circle of one of the colors.

2. Fill the background

The feature that users who post inspirational quotes to stories are lacking is actually there. If desired, the background can be filled with color or made translucent.

To do this, you need to specify the desired color in edit mode, then select the "Pen" tool and hold your finger on the screen for about three seconds. If necessary, you can add a photo or picture to the story in advance. For a semi-transparent fill, select the Marker tool.

3. Adding background music

For anyone who doesn't want to bother with third-party video editors to add simple background music, we have good news. By default, there is no import function for audio files, but you can still add music. This is done simply. Play your favorite track in the player on your smartphone, and then shoot a video as usual. An important point: the sound is recorded using a microphone, which means that all the surrounding noises will also fall into your story.

4. Publication of old photos

Instagram only allows you to post new photos and content in the last 24 hours to Stories, but this limitation is easy to get around. The trick is to select the desired photo in the gallery and take a screenshot. The screenshot will then become a new photo and can be selected in the Instagram file browser.

5. One-handed zoom in video

If you are shooting video on the go and holding your smartphone with one hand, then you should appreciate this useful but little-known feature. To zoom in or out while shooting, simply hold your finger on the shutter button and then slide it up or down. This feature also works in the Free Hands mode.

6. Selfie Stickers

In addition to the standard ones, you can attach stickers with your selfies to stories. The corresponding function can be found in the stickers menu in the form of a camera icon.

Click on the icon and a blurred area with the image from the front camera will appear on the photo. Take a photo using the small button below, then move it to the desired location and zoom. Tapping a sticker will turn on a circular border around the selfie. Pressing it again will remove it.

7. Filters

Filters in stories do not have separate buttons or previews, but the filters themselves are still there. To change the style, after taking a photo, you need to swipe to the left and scroll until you find a suitable filter. To cancel, you have to flip through all the filters back.

8. Saving stories

The next function comes in handy in situations where you don't want to lose a particularly good shot that has made it into history. To save it to the gallery, you can use the corresponding button that appears before publishing. Unfortunately, this technique does not work for other people's stories. But here, too, there is a way out. Just take a screenshot while viewing the desired story and it will be saved in the gallery.

9. Pause while watching

Sometimes we do not have time to consider all the details of the photo or read the text. In order not to skip back and watch again, you just need to touch the screen with your finger. The story will stop, and when you release your finger, playback will resume.

10. Navigating stories

To move on to the next story of a person, it is not necessary to wait until the previous one ends. Stories can be skipped by quickly switching between them using tapes at the edges of the screen on the right and left. A very useful trick for everyone whose friends often dump a lot of stories on the go.