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Instagram For Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Instagram For Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Eric Butow, Corey Walker
December 2024
Beginner
368 pages
10h 47m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Making Your Story More Fun

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Designing graphics for your stories

Bullet Typing text, adding user tags, and drawing on stories

Bullet Adding stickers, hashtags, links, and face filters

Bullet Using Boomerang, Layout, SuperZoom, Hands-Free video, and Reels

In Chapter 14, we showed you how to create and share a basic Instagram story. However, there is so much more you can add to your stories to make them come alive and get seen by more people!

Instagram Stories has rolled out a number of additions to enhance the stories you create. In this chapter, we discuss how to create your own graphics; add text, username tags, stickers, hashtags, geolocation tags, and website links; use face filters, Boomerang, Layout, and SuperZoom; and shoot a Hands-Free video.

In addition, you’ll find out how to use Reels, including how to prepare for, promote, save, and repurpose your broadcast.

Creating Graphics for Stories

If you enjoy posting graphics versus photos, you’ll be happy to hear that you can use graphics in Instagram Stories. Create your graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop, making sure ...

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