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The video presents five practical tips to enhance Instagram Stories, including animated backgrounds, custom fonts, GIFs, layouts, and color backgrounds. The creator, Uche, demonstrates each technique step-by-step, aiming to help viewers create more engaging and visually appealing stories.
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The video introduces five ways to improve Instagram Stories, starting with an animated background technique using GIFs and the drawing tool.
To create an animated background, search for a GIF like 'diamonds', expand it to fill the screen, save as video, then use the drawing tool with black color and eraser to reveal text.
For custom fonts, download a third-party keyboard like 'Fonts' from the app store, add it to your keyboards, then press and hold the 'Aa' icon in the text tool to access new fonts.
GIFs can be added to stories by searching for relatable content in the GIF menu, making the story more engaging and fun.
The Layout feature allows combining multiple photos in a single story by swiping left in the camera, with options to add dotted lines for stylization.
To create custom color backgrounds, use the color dot and highlighter tool to fill the screen, then repeat with a second color and use the eraser for a split effect.
The new boomerang features include adjustable duration and modes like slo-mo, echo, and duo, with 'Flomoo' being a preferred unique option.
The video provides five practical, easy-to-follow tips for enhancing Instagram Stories, from animated backgrounds to custom fonts and layouts. While the delivery is casual and occasionally repetitive, the techniques are useful for anyone looking to make their stories more engaging.
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💡 Key Takeaways
Animated Background Creation
Provides a step-by-step method to turn a static photo into a dynamic story background, a key engagement booster.
01:18Custom Fonts via Third-Party Keyboard
Offers a workaround to Instagram's limited font options, enabling more creative expression.
02:24Layout Feature for Multi-Photo Stories
Shows how to combine multiple photos in a single story, useful for before/after or collages.
05:39Custom Color Backgrounds
Demonstrates how to create split-color backgrounds, adding visual interest and brand consistency.
08:03Boomerang Variations
Highlights lesser-known boomerang modes like 'Flomoo' that can make stories more unique.
10:38Full Transcript
[00:00] Hi there, my name is Tishe and today we will talk about 5 ways to up your Instagram to so we can be ready. So now you have to know how to show me your true colors.
[00:21] Haha, if you ask me who I would be, I would be Harley Quinn, you know, I like her. Anyways, if you are new to my channel, you are welcome.
[00:33] My name is Uche, like I said before. And yeah, I made an intro video, swipe like this and you will see what the channel is going to be about and all the goodness I'm going to be sending your way.
[00:47] Anyways, today we are going to be talking about 5 ways you can twist your Instagram story game and you know, get all those guys asking you how do you do it, how do you do yeah so number one animated background so all you have to do is open your Instagram and either take a random picture or open or use one of your most recent pictures and go to your gif or gif or gif I don't know I don't know
[01:18] then search for diamonds yeah and you select this diamonds then you expand it you drag
[01:31] and you expand it until like this then you save it as a video then you save it as a video and you go back and you open the video and you click on the drawing tool
[01:48] use the search drawing tool and you select black color you press and hold the screen when you press and hold the screen you then you use your eraser to
[02:01] you can write new posts yeah you can write my handwriting here yeah new posts number two the font so have you ever wanted to use different fonts and
[02:24] you're tired of the so have you ever wanted to use different fonts and you're tired of the basic fonts on Instagram, that's the classic, the modern, the neon and typewriter fonts
[02:40] that you had and you just really want to use new fonts for your Instagram. So all you can do is, your app is downloaded with a new keyboard and that keyboard can be found on your app store and also on your Facebook if you are using a Android phone.
[02:56] the keyboard is called phones phones I using an iPhone so it on my app store and all I just need to do is go to fonts the first type of font is the second the third type of font and it should be the third app you see I already uploaded
[03:17] it so when I open it it just tells me to add to it tells me to add to my to my existing font when you add it then you you can now do this click on your and text tool and press and hold that
[03:36] world of this sign here press and hold it and you'll see fonts right there and you can select any font you want to use right now this is my super icon very fun and all i just need to write is
[03:51] full size full size full size and voila the font is right so i don't need to i don't need
[04:15] to be restricted to only what Instagram gives me. I can just stream my content. If you don't know about this, you cannot start trying. It's out.
[04:30] All you have to do is take a random picture or use an existing picture and click on the text tool. And when you click on the text tool, press and hold that wall button and it will bring out that after you've downloaded
[04:44] and you will see gboard right there and there you go voila you can search for anything you can see different things that are on google so all you just need to do is so this is the
[04:57] whole so you can maybe do search for full more relatable and you see this and they're usually enabled so all you can do is add this right here and yeah see how cool that is today
[05:17] you can add more gifs to this image to make it look cool so all you have to do is search for relatable stuff that fits your picture or fits your
[05:39] design and it will work voila so number four is layout all you have to do is when you open your story you swipe to your left and you see right there so there are different things
[05:55] to do this, it will be quite a lot but this is my most preferred one and the cool thing is that you can take different pictures take like this take like this and yeah and you can post all of them and they all work on your instagram very good or you can take an
[06:20] existing picture right from this right from your instagram and you can use them to select different and you can use them to put in different spaces in the layer so just that bit that there and
[06:39] this here and the all fit and yeah you can also add this cool feature where you do this Let me show you that dotted line you can add dotted line to make it look more stylized
[07:00] I'll show you that change back to the YouTube so you can add dotted line to make it look
[07:15] more stylized and put the dotted line right on that line it almost looks like they are demarcating
[07:30] they almost look like they are demarcating the layers
[07:45] right there don't they look cool yeah that's it that's number four layer so number five you want to color background so if you always wanted to use different colors to fit out
[08:03] the like the story or to like demarcate it in like maybe white and black or red and white you can do is click on dots and leave five to six faces click on dots then click on it
[08:20] highlighting tool and drag it out then also click on the dot
[08:33] and click six five to six faces click on the dot again then use the highlighting tool and click unlock color click done and you enlarge it until it fills your screen and voila you've gotten your
[08:51] two different colors and you can also turn them and just you can use turn them in a different way to get your to get a different feel you can use more than one more than three more than
[09:09] more than four colors you just have to but you have to be careful not to select the colors you clicked before so let use red and done and increase this and yeah
[09:28] and there you go so you can save this and also use it later and maybe add a picture from your gallery
[09:40] and copy the picture and it will pop up on your page you can also make this transparent as well
[09:53] so select the picture you want to use and click on the edge dot and like mix quite a bit quickly and click on that dot then highlight it but click it twice then you will see the color and then click
[10:08] any color you want and enlarge it there you go then you can also do this for different
[10:24] you can also do this for different different colors or you just have to do enlarge it and there you go you have different colors you can save and use it for what you want
[10:38] I'm going to drop the first feature and that is the new boomerang feature. When you take a boomerang, you just click on the boomerang icon and you can adjust the boomerang to whatever desired duration you want or you can also change it to slo-mo,
[10:56] you can change it to echo or you can change it to duo. my preferred one right now is Flomoo because it looks quite unique and cool.
[11:10] I've used a couple of these for my Instagram stories and just right here I'll show you. So yeah, so that's basically what you can use to up your Instagram story game and you
[11:23] know get people talking and get people asking you oh how do you do that, how do you do that and will in turn increase your instagram story yeah be sure to like this video as it will help me share the video and make a lot more people watch it and you know enlighten you on ways to
[11:40] bridge that instagram story so if you are confused about any of the features you can also leave them in the comment section and i'll help you go through it as well so if you haven't subscribed please do subscribe like this video and share it with your friends my name is Uche and i'll see you on the
[11:57] next one hello my name is Uchvi and welcome to my youtube channel shizzle shizzle
[12:19] i hate to miss kittos we will record another time