After creating the “How to make professional Instagram stories for your business” tutorial and seeing how much people liked it, I decided I would continue with a series of a few more tutorials that will benefit business owners in showing how to easily create their own content in a professional and presentable way on Instagram. In this post, I will show you how to create beautiful and customized Instagram highlight covers that will make your customers click.
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In this tutorial, I use Easil as the design platform. Easil is the only platform I use to design my pins, graphics, and anything social media related.
Let’s start
1. Log on to Easil and press the top left corner to start a New Design. Once you do, choose the social media category ➔ Instagram stories. It doesn’t matter which one you chose cause we won’t be using the template anyway.
2. Once you’ve chosen the template, press on Add New Page and delete the previous template.
*Scroll to the original template and delete it.
3. Choose the background colour you would like to have in your highlights.
4. Once you settle on a colour, go to the shape symbol and chose the shape you would like your highlight to have.
5. Once you pick the shape, play around with the size and colour you would like. You can also add more shapes to the background to create different effects.
6. After deciding on your shape, go to the icons tab and choose the icon you would like to represent the highlight.
7. After you’re done choosing the icon and fit it the way you want, continue making more or save it and come back for more highlights later. When you download, save in whichever format you would like.
Pro Tip: If you want to have original icons that cannot be found anywhere, my favourite spot for icons and illustrations is Creative Market . They have over 66,000 icons and illustrations that will help you be more original.
Time to post!
Once you download the image and send it to yourself you:1. Upload the picture to your stories.2. Go to your Instagram profile ➔ press on”New” highlight ➔ edit cover ➔ chose the story you just uploaded and adjust it to fit the way you want ➔ press save & you now have your beautiful highlight.
There you have it: a super simple way to create your own cover highlights. The next tutorial is going to be another professional Instagram video edit for your stories, it will also be linked here once it’s live.