Lesson 5: Final Touches to Your Story
17. Once again, tap on the "Sticker Icon" on the top of your screen.
This will bring you back to the various ELEMENTS screen.
When you are here, "swipe" the screen with your finger from Right to Left, and this NEXT Screen will appear with even MORE OPTIONS.
These Options as shown below will be ICONS.
18. Tap the ICON of choice you would like to add to your Story.
Here we have chosen Super Mario to be our Icon of Choice (not shown).
19. Now that we have added "Super Mario", our Story is getting rather busy. But we can remedy this by moving our various Elements to different locations of our Story.
As shown below, MOVE all your Elements by "swiping" each Element with your fingertip in various directions until you are HAPPY with EVERY ELEMENT'S PLACEMENT and no one element is overpowering any other. (well, except maybe Mario!)
Feel free to change the various sizes of each Element until you have the Perfect Mix. As you will see, we had to change several of our element sizes to get that "perfect mix" and to communicate the right message.
Above all, MAKE SURE the totality of your Element Mix is TELLING the STORY you want to COMMUNICATE TO YOUR AUDIENCES!
Here you can see we have clearly indicated by the "Move" and arrows the PATHWAY each of our Elements will be relocated to arrive at OUR "Perfect Mix."
20. Finally, we have arrived to an END STORY mix we are satisfied with.
To add EMPHASIS to our hashtag, we have added a POINTING HAND FINGER icon to our Story pointing at #BOTTLEDWATER.
NOW that we are completely satisfied (or as close as possible for this exercise!), we tap on Your Story on the Bottom of the screen, and OUR STORY is immediately published and LIVE.
Now when we go to our profile, we will see our Story as a Circle with a reddish-pink ring encircling its outer perimeter.
From the very second you tap "Your Story" to publish, Our Story will be posted live for 24 hours and will be seen on our profile page and also scrolling inside the IG feed by all on Instagram.
I hope you really enjoyed and LEARNED SOMETHING from this Instagram Stories basic training for still photos, Part 1. Part 2 and 3 as explained during the Introduction will be coming soon.
Thank You so much for participating in my Instagram Stories training, Part 1.
Please feel free to leave any of your comments below, and "Like" this training if you feel it was helpful to you.
Cheers,
Kaju