Instagram Story Tricks

When it comes to making Instagram Stories stand out, some of the most useful features, editing tools and techniques are hidden to the naked eye. Instagram Stories are getting a lot more creative and interactive — from AR filters and animations, to templates and Instagram Stories stickers, there’s a lot of new features to experiment with. To make Instagram stories creative and to make the use of new features, you can use templates from the best Instagram story apps.

In this blog post we've collected some tricks for your Instagram stories:

1. Use Any Colour You Want

You can change the colour of your text, text background or Instagram Story background to any colour you want. All you have to do is to activate the colour palette.

If you want to change the font colour of the text:

Write something

Bottom of the screen are the colors
Hold your finger pressed on one colour

The colour palette will appear
Slide your finger on the palette to use any colour you want

2. Rainbow Text / Ombre Text Effect

Write Text
Select All text

Hold your right thumb on the purple colour to activate the colour palette
Hold your left thumb on the text cursor
Slide both fingers at the same time to the left

Your letters will change colours

3. Create a Background Colour

How to fill the Instagram Story screen with one colour? You can colour Instagram Story screen really fast:

Choose a random photo
Select the pen tool

Choose a color at the bottom of your screen
Hold your finger pressed on the screen to fill it with that colour

4. Create a Transparent Background

You can do the same thing as in point 3 of our blog post, but this time with the transparent pen. It is the third pen tool on top of your screen. The trick is to take a photo you like and add a transparent background on top.