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For almost every Instagram user, the tool of the stories It's a genius that we use very frequently, more than publications. Whether you are or not influencersNo matter how many followers you have, the platform's stories are undoubtedly the most popular feature, with the option to highlight them or make them disappear after 24 hours.
Facebook's sister app, owned by Meta, offers numerous options when it comes to posting and designing a story, thanks to features it has added over time. stories They have been available on Instagram since 2017 and were a revolution, previously inspired by the Snapchat application.
Setting up Instagram Stories allows us to make them more engaging for our followers, using tools that influencers and content creators have mastered. Below, we've developed a guide to the different Instagram Story design options.
Stickers are the tool chosen to carry out this function.
We can add both images and videos to our Stories on the platform, and we can adjust them to fit the screen as we like, rotating them, or making them larger or smaller. Instagram also allows us to post multiple photos at once, collage-style, by following these steps:

The Layout tool will also help us post more than one image with different shapes and designs. This is an independent Instagram app that was recently incorporated as a tool within the app. storiesWe will access it in the following way:

On the left side of the Instagram stories screen, there is a vertical list with all the tools available when publishing a story.
As we just mentioned, on the left side of the screen stories On Instagram, there's a vertical list of all the tools available when posting a story. These are the features the platform offers:

A woman manages her Instagram account on an iPhone.
Once we have the content we want to publish, whether photos or video, at the top of the screen we have some tools to do the stories as attractive as possible.

We can use third-party tools to make our publications even more attractive. stories Instagram. It's not that the platform offers a lack of design options, but it never hurts to check out the different options available in our app store. These are some of the most commonly used ones for designing Instagram Stories:
With over 60,000 templates, Canva is positioned as one of the star image editing apps of the moment. Available on Android and iOS, it offers specific templates for Instagram, both for stories as well as for regular posts. It also houses over a million images available for designing our stories, as well as tools like a grid, bullet points, and a blur effect.
Also available for Android and iOS, this app offers a long list of features that make it very comprehensive. Upon accessing it, you'll have the option to design a post from scratch, combining different images with original designs. Once you've achieved the desired result, simply export the post and upload it as a Story from the platform.

This app, available for Android and Apple devices (called Artory on iOS), will help us creatively design our posts before uploading them to Instagram. Stories will be spectacular thanks to all the design options it offers. There are also pre-designed templates you can use to customize and adapt to your posts.