Based on your profile, choose a hashtag that best fits your category. Click the sticker icon and choose the #HASHTAG icon. Here you can go the extra step and add a hashtag to your cover. Choose your Instagram Story Highlight image. Click the camera icon on the upper left hand side. Save the image by clicking the up arrow on the upper right hand side of the app. You can do this by tapping on the three bar icon next to the “A” icon.

Enlarge the font so that it fills up more of the circle. Keep the original size.ĭouble tap inside the template to edit the words. Open the app and the image you just created on Monogram. Afterwards, change the color to match your profile. Once that’s done, enlarge the circle to fill up more of the surface area. Play around with the shapes until you find one that you like. The circle shape can be customized (if you wish to do so). Delete the letters so that it’s blank inside the circle. Open up Monogram and choose a background. To create covers similar to the ones above, download Font Candy and Monogram – both are free apps. How to create custom Instagram Stories highlights coversĬreating custom covers for Instagram Stories highlights is easy! It just takes a bit of patience and pre-planning.įirst, you’ll need to decide which Instagram stories you want to group together. You can either put together these Instagram Stories highlights before you create the covers, or after. Click the “Archive” tab and you can add more to your highlights. All the posts in the Instagram Story highlights will be faded and have a blue checkmark. To do either of these, tap on the three-dot More button at the bottom. You’ll get “remove from Highlight” and “Edit Highlight” pop-up options. You can add and delete posts from a highlight album. Add or Delete Posts From a Highlight Album Keep reading to see how you can create custom Instagram Stories covers to make your profile stand out. Once you have the right cover image, move it to adjust inside the circle. Tap done and you’re good to go! Your new highlight album will show up on your profile. Click “edit cover” and choose which image you want as the cover – every Instagram story in the highlight will be on the bottom. You can adjust the image by going into the Instagram Story highlight, click the three-dot More button on the bottom right hand corner (where it says more) and then choose “edit highlight.” This will pop up the cover to the highlight. And more often than not, the images are not aligned. It can be as long as 16 characters long – and it doesn’t always have to be letters!!! Try mixing in some emojis if your cover has words (more on that below).Įach of your highlight albums will have a cover based on which image you first uploaded to the highlight. Once you select your images, you’ll need to name it.

Decide what the “theme” is going to be and select which Instagram stories you want to put together. A screen will pop-up with all your Instagram stories. To create a highlight album, click the + sign in the Story Highlights section under the profile bio.

The Story Highlights show up on your profile under the bio section. If you haven’t created an Instagram highlight, the circles will be gray. The Instagram Highlights feature is available to all Instagram users – whether or not you use Instagram stories. Step 1: Create an Instagram Highlights Album How to make your Instagram Story highlights standout by Pattie Cordova on Living Mi Vida Loca.

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