hello!!How are you?? I'm doing pretty good. Today I want to talk to you about Instagram Stories. I love Instagram Stories! If you're unfamiliar with it, basically it just allows you to create a 24 hour story through pictures or video. It's a great way to show your process if you are a creator, show off merchandise, or just talk to people and share your thoughts. It also has some great options for adding text, emojis, or hand drawn accents to your photos. And although your followers will only see them for 24 hours, you can save them to your phone if you want to keep them; which means, in a way, you could use it as a quick photo editor and add them to your Project Life layouts :) If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it! So, like I said, you can add little embellishments, text, whatever to your photos. Today, I am going to show you how to make a quick journal card, do a text overlay, add embellishments to your photos and add filters. And, just to note, you can either edit the photo, and then save it to you phone and stop there, or you can keep going and publish it to your story...whatever you want to do. (There is a setting where Instagram will automatically save any of your stories for you after you've published them as well.) Ok, so first things first, you start a story by clicking on either the camera or your circle in the upper left hand corner. It will automatically open up to the camera function, so to edit an existing photo, you will select the square on the bottom left hand side of the screen. This will pull up your gallery. So from here you can add an element to your photo like the date, a cute phrase, etc. You'll see these options in the upper right hand corner. Basically this will give it an overlay look. And then when you want to save it, just hit "save" in the lower left hand corner. Done! If you slide the word "Type" over to the arrow on the bottom, you will get a colored background to just write or draw on. This is a good journal card option. You just tap to type and then change the color with the little circle on the lower left side of the arrow. I like this idea because I know not everyone wants to download a ton of apps on their phone to do photo editing. And this is fairly quick and easy to figure out once you start to play with it. Here are some examples that I recently did: And then to change the filter for a different look, just swipe left or right. A few examples: And here's how I incorporated them into my page! They went perfectly with the Dreamchaser Card Collection! So, if you haven't tried Instagram Stories, I highly recommend it! Have a good weekend and keep scrapping!
Peace, Anne
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I'm Anne! Follow me as I go through life as a new mom and soon-to-be wife. Always looking for a creative outlet, I want to share all my ideas with you here at Life by Design! Archives
February 2018
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