How to use Instagram Stories: a comprehensive guide

foundation

Creating history

To go to the publication of stories, you need to swipe your finger from left to right of the screen on Instagram home page (where you read your tape). To take a picture or shoot a video, you need to click on the circle in the bottom of the screen, swipe down and you can open the selection window media from your library. There is another way to create a story, select the tab for your account (where your photos) and click on the + next to your profile photo.

shooting modes

Instagram Stories supports five different shooting modes.

• Live. By selecting this mode, you can maintain broadcast from the camera of your smartphone. Upon completion of the ether a video clip can be shared in Instagram.
• Normal. Quick tap makes photos, long press to take movies.
• Boomerang. "Boomerang" - a short looped animation. This mode is suitable for shooting dynamic video.
• Contact record. With this mode, you can shoot video in reverse.
• Free hands. In this mode, a quick tap will start the 15-second shooting, and you do not have to hold the record button.

filters

The choice of filters Instagram Stories is small, but as a rule, and it is enough. The filters can be changed swipe left or right.

Format supported photo and video

Photos and videos Instagram Stories - vertical. Horizontal media when importing trimmed. To select the desired area of ​​the photo for publication in history, you can use the cropping frame in a standard photo editor. The maximum length of a video - 15 seconds. Remember that a longer video with imports decline. Download history can be only the pictures and videos that have been removed in the past 24 hours.

masks

The next borrowing Instagram Stories in Snapchat. To go to the masks, you tapnut on the icon to the right of the camera icon changes.

Stickers

To attach the sticker to the story, you need to click on the corresponding icon after shooting or just to up the screen with your finger.

Stickers geopozitsii, temperature and time of shooting

In the first line of stickers selection screen, you can choose to add to the history of geodata, the current temperature in the place where you are and the time of publication.

Adding to the history of selfie

The next line of the screen selection icon stickers located with camera. The choice of this sticker will make selfie and embed it into the story. And the photo border can be as a blur and emphasize the white frame. With this feature, you can create funny collages or express their opinion on what is shown in the story, with the help of a joyful or condemning grimaces.

Change sticker size

To make the sticker larger or smaller, use two fingers. Selecting the "sticker", move your fingers closer to reduce it, or apart to zoom in.

Attaching the sticker to the video element

Choose any of the stickers, press it and hold for a couple of seconds. the time slider will appear. Select a second element to which you want to attach a sticker, set the desired location and size "stickers" and click "Attach". Now sticker is attached to the selected shooting a movie object.

Adding hashtags

To assign stories hashtag, you can take advantage of the creation of the label in the text, but it is easier to choose the appropriate sticker. Tap on it to change the display style hashtag. When your friends see the mark, they can by one click to move to the publications noted in the same tag.

Quick selection of stickers

Each time not to scroll the screen in search of a loved one sticker, selecting, slide your finger to the right. You'll get a list of recently used "labels." There is a separate group of stickers, which are particularly well fall on the portraits. To move them, swipe left.

Removing stickers

To remove accidentally added a sticker, touch it and hold. At the bottom of the screen icon trash can out there and you want to move the extra "sticker".

Drawing

To go to the drawing, click on the corresponding icon among icons stickers and text in the history of the editing window.

types of brushes

At the disposal of the four brush member.

• Conventional brush. The same basic brush of any graphics editor.
• Marker. Different shape of the hand and the degree of transparency.
• Brush with "neon" stroke. Like a regular brush, but with a choice of the stroke color. The main color is still white.
• Brush with rainbow. One brush - seven colors.

It is also available choice of the eraser.

brush size

Brush size regulated using a special slider, which is opened by clicking the icon with three dots in the lower left of the screen.

Color selection

Also available when drawing selection brush colors: they are located at the bottom. Movable between three standard palettes can swipe left or right. To select a color, hold your finger on one of the circles.

fill

To fill the space frame the same color, select a brush, click and hold your finger anywhere on the screen. After casting, you can open the part of the photo or video using the eraser.

Text

To start typing, select the icon «Aa» icon to the right of the drawing.

Styles and Alignment

To adjust the color and size of text you need to perform the same action as when the painter's brush. Scale is also written can be changed using two fingers.

In the top left corner while typing button appears with adjustable padding. You can position the legend on the left, right or middle. The second function key while typing - A letter in the box. Clicking on it, you can switch between the three display style lettering.

The effect of volume of text

To make the text of the volume effect, create two identical labels, but different colors. Place them near each other, with a slight shift: get 3D-text.

user mark

To mark the user in its history, type the @ symbol when creating labels. Start typing the nickname, and Instagram offer options from among your friends. Around the same way, you can attach hashtags: Use the # symbol.

other

Saving stories

Click on the three dots in the upper right corner when you are in his Instagram profile. To your history is saved automatically, go to the settings of stories and move the slider to the "Save a photo published" in the active position.

Adding music to Instagram Stories

The function of adding musical accompaniment to the video Instagram Stories absent. But the way to add audio to the story is still there. Many may have noticed that the music playing on your smartphone is not interrupted when watching other people's stories. The same thing works when creating a video: simply turn the song in strimingovom service or, for example, in the social network "VKontakte" and start shooting stories.

video Rotate

Avoid cutting edge video in publishing history, you can use special applications, rotate video 90 degrees.

Publication in the history of the old photos and video

If you are late with the publication of, and 24 hours from the moment of the shooting has already passed, upload a photo or video will help a little trick. Just send the desired pictures or videos yourself in WhatsApp and save. There's an easier way - the use of special applications.

Publication of long videos

To publish in the history of video longer than 15 seconds, use any video editor. You can remove some sections, split video into several parts or to increase its speed. For App Store iOS-devices offers users an application that automatically divides long video into multiple 15-second segments.