Hey guys, it's Alex Beadon here
Today I want to show you exactly how I use Instagram stories
This is the question I get asked all the time
and today, I'm going to show you all of my tips and tricks
So what I'm going to do is actually plug in my iPhone
straight into my computer
so that you can see exactly what it is that I'm doing on my iPhone
Let's dive in.
So obviously if you want to create a story
what you are going to do I swipe to the right
which is going to open up your camera
Now you can see what filming really looks like
So I'm just going to take a picture and show you what I would do
to edit it.
So let's just say that I want to take a picture of my laptop
and maybe we can put my tea there
create some kind of nice fancy thing
Oh yea, by the way, I'm in pajama pants
the truth is out
fancy on top, party on the bottom
So we are going to take this picture
Maybe like that
Cool
And as you can see the first thing I did was swipe to the left
So that I could edit it
And obviously there are many different options here
I quite like that one so i'll stick with that one
Then I'm going to add text
and I really like to mix both
written word text and then also drawn on text
So I'm going to write
Today is a Sunday
So I'm going to put Sunday
I press done
And as you can see I'm just resizing this here
You just resize it by doing *this* on the screen
Sunday, and then I will take my little pen tool up here
I'm going to press this
This little icon down here, and this basically shows you how
big is your brush
So if you go all the way down, this is as big as it is
If you go all the way up, this is as big as it is
So it's really cool because it allows you to
experiment with different sizes of brush
which a lot of people don't know about
A lot of people are like, how do you hand write your captions
And I'm like, I just use the brush tool and make it super small
So it looks like a pen
Anyway, so I'm going to write "Sunday filming"
Done
Sunday filming - Complete
Now, let's go a little bit further with this shall we
So if I take my brush tool again
as you can see there are multiple brush options at the top
We have the pen, we have what I like to call the highlighter
We have what I like to call the glowy pen
and then we have the eraser
I'm going to go with the highlighting option
Im going to choose my pink and I'm going to make the brush really really big
and I'm just going to draw straight through this 'Sunday' here
so we have Sunday in a nice bright pink colour
And then I'm going to look at it and think, okay this looks good
what else can I do to kind of make this better?
I'm going to pick my pen brush again
and I'm going to go over that initial 'filming'
with pink
I think that looks messy
I don't think that looks good
so if you want to undo something
all you have to do is press at the top left hand side of the screen
Undo, undo, undo, undo
until it's all gone
So I think this is good for now
Maybe what we can do is add a little
drawing at the bottom, maybe something like that
I'd prefer it in white, so I'm going to choose the color white and go like that
Sunday filming- cool
Next thing I'm going to do is add some emojis
I LOVE using emojis
If you follow me on Instagram you will know this
It's just like the best thing ever
So instead of using the emoji sticker option up here
I don't like using this because it takes forever to find what you are looking for
I just tap as though I'm going to add text
I try to search for the emoji that I want
Actually, you know what I'm going to go for
I'm going to go for this filming emoji here
Sunday Filming
Move that down there
It's cool because you can make it really really big
You can make it really small
Yo can put it where you want
I'm going to put it down there
Another thing people always ask me about is
putting multiple text items
So just to show you, I'm going to write down
'This is my'
I'm going to make that really small and put it up here
Then I'm going to put microphone underneath
A really cool tip is
putting spaces between each letter of a word
Jus to make it look a little bit different
So M space I space C space R O P H O N E
Microphone
This is my Microphone
*dun dun dunnnn*
Now another thing to keep in mind guys
I never like to bring things all the way to the top up here
because Instagram actually put your name up there
So I try to avoid the top and the bottom section because I know Instagram put stuff there
So I'm just going to put ' This is my microphone '
*dun dun dun*
Another thing that I like to do to highlight special words
Is I will go to microphone
I will select all
copy it
done
I will create a new text
paste
turn it into pink
and make it small so it goes directly on top
So 'microphone'
So as you can see this doesn't look really good because the pink on brown isn't a good mix
So what I'm going to do is move the white one
move the pink one back in
and put the white one on top so the pink is just the background
there ya go, microphone has a little bit of a shadow now
which looks cool
another thing you can do is
'This is my'
and bring it over here
'This is my'
and then ' Tea'
Now what we are going to do here is select the pink
and then at the very top where it says 'A'
I'm gonna click on that
That gives you a nice solid pink background
Which I think is really really pretty
If you click the 'A' again
You get a transparent pink
which is also really nice
So I will stick with that
So we've got, this is my microphone, this is my tea
I think 'This is my microphone' is missing a little bit of pink
So I'm going to take the highlights color and bring it up about 50%
and just go like this
So there is a little bit of something going on
maybe I can do that over here again
so there is some kind of consistency
looks good
next thing i'm going to do is take the white pencil
and just pint ' This is my microphone'
this is my tea
Sunday filming
There you go, there you have it
We didn't actually add any emojis which is hilarious
Oh no, we did add an emoji
I'm going to add more emojis
I know that there is a microphone emoji
That's actually not the microphone I'm looking for
So let's try and find it
I'm gonna go to the emojis
Gonna go all the way over here
Where are you little microphone, oh there you are
It's like a podcasting microphone, it's super cute
So, this is my microphone
again, we don't want to put it too high because we know Instagram likes to cover it up
This is my microphone, this is my tea
We are going to take out little.....
We are going to take our little cup of tea
and put it over here
this is my tea
and Sunday filming
and what i'll do as well
Something that I like to do
is take sparkles
because you know, I have <b>The Spark Loung</b>e
Clearly
Clearly <b>The Spark Lounge</b> is my thing
So I kind of like to add little emoji reminders
that are on brand
so for me, the sparkles do that very well
I also have a pink heart and a
yellow heart that I use all the time
So I like to try and use emojis that represent my brand
that might be something that you want to do as well
So I will just resize these, put them all over the place
So it feels nice and magical
So the more effort that you put into things
Like I made this post the other day
and I basically said that your content should stand out as much as possible
by basically creating stuff that's hard to replicate
Most people are not going to take the time, effort and energy
to put emojis all over their Instagram stories
so by doing that, it sets you apart from the rest
One more thing I'm going to add
is my little heart
my little yellow heart
one after the next
Sunday Filming
and then I'm just going to tag myself
@alexbeadon
by the way guys, if you are watching this and you have never heard of my before
go and follow me on Instagram
I'm @alexbeadon
Easy to find
So, I'm just going to put that down here
So that if it does get featured on someone's explore page
They know exactly where to find me
whoops
So, there we have it
We have Sunday Filming, ready to go
So let's just go ahead and just add this to story
You can see down at the bottom left hand side it says add to story
Voila my friends
You have just added a picture of video
that has been decorated to your story
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*Kiss*
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