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If there is one thing that can be said about Instagram, it is that the social network offers so many opportunities to unleash your creativity.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to be a professional designer to create compelling stories.
On the contrary.
Instagram has a number of features that can help you take your stories to the next level with ease.
The four most common are:
- Sticker,
- Instagram live,
- Collage and
- Change the Instagram background.
Change your background
Did you know that changing the background is one of the most common stories on social media?
Many of Instagram’s features start with changing your background. It can be a simple monochrome change in a story. However, there is more you can do with your Instagram stories.
Changing the background of your Instagram story allows you to experiment with new creative ideas to increase your engagement. You don’t have to limit yourself to similar stories.
How to Change your background color on an Instagram story
There are many ways you can change your background depending on the type of background you wish to apply to your stories.
- Change the default color to another solid background
- Switch to a wallpaper you’ve already downloaded to your phone
- Change your background color and add an image
Changing to Different solid color in Instagram Story!
When you share a post, Instagram automatically chooses the default color for you.
But it is not necessary to stick to this color.
You can change your story by adding a different color option that will make your content even more visible.
Here are the instructions to follow.
- Open stories
- Take a photo or video
- Click the brush icon to highlight it
- Choose a color from the list of available options
- Touch your screen for a few seconds
- You see the new background of your story
TIP: Due to this change, the photo that you originally added to the story no longer exists. So with the new background, you will need to treat the story as a blank canvas to add text.
If you are approving a post from your feed and want to change the background color to match your post branding, you can simply use the color marker “to select the exact same color as your post.
Switching to a different wallpaper that you have already downloaded to your phone
What if you wish to be more creative and don’t want to limit yourself to a normal color change?
This is where this option comes in to use a photo that you downloaded to your phone.
How to use it:
Find the wallpaper on free websites like pexels.com, unsplash.com or Pinterest and download it to your phone.
This is what you will use as the background.
Proceed as follows:
- Open stories
- Swipe up to see your camera roll
- Find the background you want to use
- Add it to your story
Change the color of your background and add an image
Your third option is to change the background color, but also add an image over it.
(A quick note: this option works similar to creating an Instagram collage.)
Is that how it works:
- Open stories
- Click a photo
- Click on the brush to highlight it
- Choose a color
- Touch your screen for a few seconds
- The new color should be applied to your background.
- Access your photos
- Click on the “Photo” option you want to copy.
- Now go back to Instagram and to Stories and you should see a popup at the bottom left of your phone’s screen showing you the photo you copied.
- If you miss the popup on your screen, go to the text function and select Paste. The image is still displayed.