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Instagram Stories: Tips for using Instagram's new photo story feature
Instagram Stories: Tips for using Instagram's new photo story feature
Instagram added a feature on August 2 called Stories. Instead of posting carefully chosen photos, Stories lets you post a bunch of photos throughout the day. And at the end of that day, those photos disappear.
Sound familiar?
That's because it's very, very much like Snapchat's My Story feature. Only, with fewer filters and lenses (at least for now). Here's how it works.
Making your stories is a lot like Snapchat
Stories are temporary videos or photos that are strung together to form a gallery that, well, tells a story.
Here's how to create one:
Tap on the plus button found on the top-left side of your homescreen or swipe left in your Feed. You can also quickly launch Stories by swiping right from the main screen.
Tap the circle button at the bottom of the screen to take photos or tap and hold to record a video.
Edit the photos or videos with text or add a drawing as you normally would. If you hit the pen icon, there are three types of pens. The third one makes your sketch look like a neon sign.
Tap Done to save your Story.
Tap the check-mark button to share to your Story.
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Click the check mark to add a photo to your Story.
Screenshot by Sharon Profis/CNET
Want to add more than one photo or video to your story so that it plays like a slideshow? Just keep repeating the steps. Each photo you add using the steps will be placed in your story.
While you're at it, why not use your saved snaps from Snapchat as Stories? After you take a snap, tap the Download button. It will save to your camera roll. Then, open Instagram, start a story and swipe down. A gallery with all of your recent photos will pop up. Tap on your snap and post as usual. You can only use photos that you've added to your camera roll in the last 24 hours, so be quick.
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You can upload recent snaps to your Stories.
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The photos and video you chose for your Story will now be a series that people can swipe through for 24 hours. A colorful circle will appear around your profile photo to let your followers know you have a Story for them to view and your profile picture will also pop up at the top of your followers' Feeds. All they need to do is tap on your face to see your Story.
If you have a habit of adding things to your social-media accounts that you later regret, good news! Stories can be removed. Tap on the three dots at the bottom right of the photo or video you'd like to delete, hit Delete and then confirm.
You can upload photos, Boomerangs and Hyperlapses, too
Any photo you've shot (or Boomerang you've made) in the last 24 hours can be uploaded to your Story. To upload, swipe down on the screen and choose your videos or photos. You can also choose Hyperlapse content for your Stories, as well.
And yes, there are filters!
Well, not like the puppy face you know from Snapchat. Or the rainbow barf. But there is a way to add filters. After shooting a photo or video, swipe across it add a filter. There are seven filters right now, but we expect Instagram to add more later on.
Add colorful text
Black text just doesn't convey your range of colorful emotions sometimes. To add color to your text simply tap on the text icon in the upper right side of the screen and tap on your color of choice. If the colors just aren't right, don't despair. Just swipe left the color palette to reveal more color options.
Fill in everything with color
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