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



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ElaineSmith1 Premium
Thanks for the training Kaju. This helps a lot!!

Tried and True

Elaine
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Happy it helps Elaine!
Always tried and true.

Kaju
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Fabulous I really hope you can use this Elaine!
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Chezbrown Premium
Thanks for this Kaju, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be and look forward to the next part. xxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Sure C, I thought I included TOO many steps, but in reality I could have included even MORE steps but I didn't want to make it too long. Just trying to be thorough.
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Chezbrown Premium
What you had was enough for people to know what they need to do but also that they can play about on their own and find out more of what is available. I know what you mean about putting more because people want you to practically do it for them and the more you share the more they want.

Happy tonight friend, England just been knocked out World Cup by Croatia. Might need to have some of you clown juice tonight unless there are any happy hours about to start. Definitely celebrating tonight now. xxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Congrats Yayy!! England is out, I didn't think they'd win but I thought they'd get further along. Glad you're happy :)

I appreciate that about the training, there is rarely ever a happy medium, but I thought I did well with the simplicity of it without doing "everything" for the newbie with this training :)
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CarolMeador Premium
Very interesting and easy to follow, Kaju. However, I have a dumb phone. Not sure how to transpose your instructions to a desktop computer. Carol
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Lol Carrol! That is the most prevalent limitation for many here, the barrier of using a smartphone.

There is a program called Blue Stacks that you can download on your computer, and then use Instagram on your PC or Mac. I have never used the program, but I am sure its very useful.

I was taught that IG is meant to be used on a smartphone, for this is the "purist" way, no matter how much I resisted in the beginning!
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CarolMeador Premium
Thanks for the info, Kaju. I'll look into it.
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Yeah I've heard about others using this with good results :)
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CarolMeador Premium
Great! I'll check it out.
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Niccceee!!!
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SeasideFunk Premium
Thanks, very well explained and more steps than I imagined but also allows you to be very creative.
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Rick I agree, I gave many simple actions detailed steps, but I don't want to assume knowledge here. This is a tutorial for beginners just getting their feet wet with IG Stories, that's why I have included so many steps.

I actually left out some additional in-between steps as I explained. because I didn't want t make the tutorial even longer.

In reality, if you are intuitive just play around with it, and the program is quite easy. Kids do it.
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Oyz49 Premium
This will be exiting
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Thank You Oyz, I hope you can use this in the future!

Kaju
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jetrbby80316 Premium
Thanks so much again Oyz:) I have a new You Tube channel where I'm producing great content.
Check out our great Tokyo story as well as my Efren Reyes match win video play by play:)
Send me your YT link and I will Subscribe. You can Subscribe to my channel here:)

http://bit.ly/2T21P2N

If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
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