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How to Create Instagram Highlight Covers
Hey everyone in today's Instagram video, I want to show you how to create Instagram story highlight covers. Now I'll show you also how to add Instagram story highlights. If you don't know how to do that, but it's this section right here on top of your profile that a lot of people have, but the icons, basically the cover here could be changed to whatever you want.
You could make your own. So I'm going to show you how to do that and I want to show you how to do it completely on the phone because I've seen other tutorials where they use Photoshop on the computer and he makes the processes a little bit longer, but you can get better results because if you have Photoshop and know how to use it, you could customize it exactly how you want.
But let me show you a free option here. Then you could decide if you want to learn more about it, but I use an app and I'll put a link in the description to it called Canva and it's a mobile app. It's also a website. So you can use it on the computer and all we do here is we jump into the Instagram story just right here, where it says, create a new design, or you could search for the Instagram story on top select that and it's going to give you some templates to work with and typically you could just start using any of these templates to start or a blank canvas. I'll just press blank and we'll just start completely from scratch here and this is all you have to do press the plus sign on the bottom and it's going to give you some options that you could use.
Now you can use shapes and add a circle here to start, and then put in text in the middle of that. I won't show you that here. I want to show you another option that is under illustrations. You could select that and you could search for different elements. So I'll search for, for example, a camera here and I'll press search and you could see the different types of elements that you could use here and some say free, but some are paid. So if you see a little crown, you actually have to pay for that element, but I'll choose some of the free ones here. So I'll click it and there it is. It's in the center of my screen. Now I'll shrink it down a little bit cause I know Instagram story highlights are going to be a little bit smaller and that's it.
I'll press done here and now I could just press the download option right here and it's saving it to my phone. It's going to be my photo library. Let me do this with one more, just to show you I'll press the plus sign again and at the very end of this page, there are packs. So what's nice about PAX is all the icons.
So if I go to health and lifestyle, all the icons kind of look the same. So all your icons on your Instagram story highlight covers could look the same too, but packs are not free. This is something you'll have to buy from Canva. If you want to do that. That's why I wanted to show you the free option, which is under illustration.
The other option is making a shape and then putting text using text as your option there. But if I wanted to make another one here, I'll just select this option instead and I'll shrink this down a little bit. Actually, let me select the last one I deleted and I'll move this one to the center of the page and I have a full Canva tutorial. If you don't feel like you're learning how to use canvas fully, I have a different tutorial on this app. Now press done again and let's go ahead and download this one too. Now I'm going to jump into Instagram because I want to show you how to actually add these to your highlights.
So if you don't have any story highlights, the options you see, I have four of them here. You either see the plus sign that says new. You could add your story highlights from here or right on top of your profile page. There's a plus sign and you could add a story highlight from here. Now, if you've never posted a story to Instagram before you won't see anything, these are from your older Instagram story posts to create a highlight.
Let's just choose some of these videos on the stickers that I had, and I'll press next now to change your cover. Once you create an Instagram story, all you have to do is press edit, cover. I'll show you how to do this with pre-existing Instagram highlights do but if I press edit cover here, I have the option of choosing the cover of whatever posts that on posting here, but I could press the picture icon and it'll give access to my photo library here and I could just grab one of these that I've created as my cover and I could go ahead and just expand them. So they fill up the whole page here. I could do this with the camera to just kind of make it as big as I want. Like that and I could press down here and that's going to be my cover. Now, if you want the full circle here, that's why I recommended making a circle here like I did before.
So then you kind of get this result where he fills the page perfectly. So I put the shape inside of a circle, or you could use just images that are round like this. So they feel your image. So I'll press done, press down again, and then you could name your highlights and press add on top, and just like that you see it's added a new story highlight with that cover that we created in Canva now to change a preexisting one, like this one that says BTS I'll select it and press down and it's going to say, edit highlights, I'll choose edit, highlights and then it says, edit cover on top. So to a preexisting highlight, I could edit the cover again, press the picture icon, and then choose one of the ones that I've created here and expanded as this and press did and then press done again and pressed down one more time and there is my story cover highlight. Now that's why I recommended looking at the packs because then they will all look the same. You're not just picking and choosing from different places. You could also find other places like icon finders.com to find icons, but a lot of those are paid options or you could just design it in Canva completely from scratch, just using shapes. So watch the Canva tutorial. If you want to make your own completely from scratch using some of those shapes and other tools that Canva has, but that's how you create an Instagram story, highlight, cover, right on your phone.
Thanks so much for watching this video. Please give it a thumbs up and I'll see you next time.