Instagram is taking a new step in promoting business, creators, and ideas after Facebook so it’s really important for anyone to improve Instagram feed if they want to improve their Instagram personality.
Have you ever been in a situation where you randomly go through someones’ Instagram feed and say “Whoa, this is amazing” and asked if you could make your feed as stunning as theirs? Well, we all feel that, seriously. I mean who doesn’t want to make things look good on Insta?
So let’s forget how your Instagram feed looks like for now. And know something about styling images, borders, adopting themes, and presenting your content on Instagram in a new way. Of course, you can do it in your current account without removing your pictures. But if you are a person who’s starting a new Instagram account for their business, or their blogs this blog is a gem mine for you.
Things you will learn about how to style your Instagram feed in this blog
- Choosing a Theme
- Selecting a Layout
- Editing your pictures with a filter
- Showing yourself
- And Enjoy sharing your contents
1. Choosing a Theme
The first step towards making a great attractive Instagram feed is choosing a theme for it. Don’t worry if you didn’t find a theme, using the same filter on your contents of Instagram will automatically makes it a theme.
There are plenty of themes that you can get idea from. A lot of Instagram Influencers use themes like
- Black and White
- Minimalist
- Mono Theme
- Dark Theme
- White Borders
- Black Borders
Black and White Instagram Feed Theme
Black and White’s theme is one of the favorite themes to use on Instagram. With proper color contrast and filter, you can design your Instagram feed in both classy and classic way.
With a Black and white theme, you can present your portfolio shoots if you are a model, or if you are a street photographer this theme looks best in your feed.
If you have no idea how can you organize and edit your pictures, I will suggest two apps, ThePreviewApp and Plann for editing and organizing your pictures.
Minimalist Instagram Feed Theme
By name, if you like to keep things minimum, a Minimal Instagram feed theme is a great choice. Don’t show too much and don’t hide too much with a simple theme you can still catch the interests of people who have liked interests of yours.
If you have no idea how can you organize and edit your pictures, I will suggest two apps, ThePreviewApp and Plann for editing and organizing your pictures.
Similarly, there are tons of themes that you can adopt to get your Instagram style. Choose an image, select a proper filter, and apply it regularly and boom your own perfect Instagram Feed theme is ready to slay on point.
2. Selecting a Layout
Once you have selected your theme based on your personality and contents now it’s time to choose a layout. Remember, an attractive layout of your Instagram feed attracts followers and even impresses them. The layout of Instagram not only depends upon a single image or content you share but also with your whole content and how you link your content with each other.
2.1 Instagram Grid Layout – @Row by Row
This is my Instagram account (@sumir_rimus) and if you noticed, I have used similar pictures in a row aka Row By Row Grid Layout. This layout is used by most Instagrammers today and is my personal favorite as well. Once you encounter such accounts, you will get your eyes from left to right and so on.
Similarly, there are different layouts that you can adapt to style your Instagram feed. I will list some of the popular layouts. And it’s very important to manage your images and post if you want to do best in the layouts. So be ready with such apps if you haven’t already.
If you have no idea how can you organize and edit your pictures, I will suggest two apps, ThePreviewApp and Plann for editing and organizing your pictures.
2.2 Instagram Grid Layout – @Tiles
This is the most used and popular layout for pages like Quotes, Confessions, and also if you are a blogger. Along with that, it is very, very easy to make.
Picture, Words, Pictures. Keep continuing this and your post will be in the format of tiles. It looks super attractive and clean. Additionally, your users or followers can guess what you will be posting next. Suppose, if you have uploaded a favorite quote then your viewers will know that you will upload your stunning pictures next.
Did you like this one? Well, look whats next?
2.3 Instagram Grid Layout – @Line in the Middle
This Instagram feed layout is one of the interesting and interactive layouts I have seen so far. You don’t need so many plans, you can just put your pictures side by side and something interesting in between them. If you want followers to stay in your profile for a longer time, it does that pretty job.
People can check out the interesting things you post in the middle, so they may scroll down to see what’s it. Thus resulting in a long stay in your profile. Also, it can help others to know your inside out pretty well as well. Despite snapping just a picture of yourself and sharing it, Instagram has grown much bigger to be a place where one can sell their skills, talents, and their voice.
Besides that, there are many patterns that you can cover your Instagram feed with like Puzzle Layout, Rainbow Feed, Diagonal, and the most common one’s Square. I will cover them in the next topic. Also, did you know that you could change your Instagram Icon, if you don’t know, check out my How to Change Instagram Icon on Android, hopefully, that works for IOS as well?
3.Editing your pictures with a filter
Who doesn’t wants to take their pictures and make it look good and attractive? Editing pictures with the same filter not only improve your look of Instagram Feed but also your whole personality in front of your followers.
So how should we edit our pictures right? If you take similar kinds of pictures with a clean background, you can use the same filters for 3 X 6 X 9 photos in your feed. Use bright and colorful filters or dark and shadowed filters and make it consistent. anyways try editing your pictures with filters unless you find a filter that perfectly matches your pictures and makes them look good.
Use higher quality images and beautiful captions to drop the jaw of your followers.
4. Show yourself through the Instagram feed
Showing yourself through the Instagram feed doesn’t only means uploading your pictures but also your thoughts, your imaginations, your likes, and your interests. Have you ever noticed, that any public figures you follow are because of their interest? They share content about their interests and you like them. You follow them and you keep watching about them.
This is what you have to do to catch the attention of your followers. Once again, remember that showing yourself doesn’t only mean showing your pictures but also your likes and views. If you love blue skies post about them, if you like dogs, post about them, if you like the stock market posts about them. Just post things that will help others to know about you.
5. Enjoy sharing your contents
You have learned how-to posts and what to posts. Now after you have pre-planned everything now just share your contents and Keep Growing.
I will soon post about how you can be make your Instagram feed intresting with their tutorials. So keep updated.
Blog: Sumir Acharya