Find out how to create your own Instagram Highlight covers to lớn showcase your đứng đầu Instagram content. Plus, tải về 40 free Highlight icons designed by pros
Instagram Highlight covers make a great first impression.
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Located right below the bio section of your Instagram profile, they provide a polished look for your Instagram Highlights and draw attention lớn your best Instagram Story content.
And you don’t have khổng lồ be a hip influencer to lớn use them. Orgs of all stripes from government institutions lớn Fortune 500 companies use them to great effect.
Covers are an easy win for any brand that banks on aesthetics. (And on Instagram, that’s everyone.)
The good news is that even if you don’t have access to lớn a graphic thiết kế team, they’re easy to make.
We’ll walk you through all the steps to create your own Instagram highlight covers. As a bonus, we have a không tính tiền pack of icons khổng lồ help you get started.
Table of Contents
How to create an Instagram highlight
How lớn create a new Instagram highlight from your profile
How to create your own Instagram Highlight covers
5 tips for using Instagram highlight covers và icons
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How khổng lồ create an Instagram highlight
Create highlights khổng lồ keep your best Story content at the đứng đầu of your Instagram profile permanently.
1. In your Story, tap Highlight in the bottom right corner.
2. Choose the Highlight you want to showroom your Story to.
3. Or, tap New to create a new Highlight, and type out a name for it. Then click Add.
And that’s it! You just created an Instagram highlight.
How to lớn create a new Instagram highlight from your profile
Have an idea for a new highlight? Or maybe you want to địa chỉ cửa hàng a few different Stories at once?
Follow these steps khổng lồ create a new Highlight from your Instagram profile:
1. Go lớn your profile and tap the +New button (the big plus sign).
2. Pick the Stories you want to địa chỉ cửa hàng to your new Highlight. Pro tip: Instagram gives you an archive of your stories going back years. So don’t be afraid to bởi vì a little digging for those Story gems.
3. Tap Next and name your new Highlight.
4. Choose your Highlight cover, & tap Done.
Don’t have a highlight cover yet? Read on.
How to create your own Instagram Highlight covers
Instagram will allow you lớn use any image you like for your highlight covers.
BUT your brand deserves better than just “any image.”
This space is prime real estate for converting lurkers khổng lồ followers. You want khổng lồ leave an impression.
If you’re crunched for time, Adobe Spark has pre-made covers that you can customize & use.
But if you want more control over your Instagram brand, these steps will show you how khổng lồ easily build a great Instagram highlight cover from scratch (or almost-scratch).
Step 1: Log in to lớn Visme
Log into your tài khoản on Visme or create a free account on visme.co.
Step 2: Create a new image that is sized for Stories.
From the main Visme dashboard, click Custom Size in the vị trí cao nhất right corner, then type in the Instagram Story image dimensions (1080 x 1920 pixels). Click Create!
Step 3: Get our không lấy phí icon set
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Once you’re done downloading, unzip the file and choose your favorites. (You can use them with or without our professionally designed backgrounds.)
Step 4: Upload your icons to Visme
Go lớn My files in the left-hand menu, click Upload, & select the icons you would lượt thích to add.
Once you upload the icon image, click on it. If you can’t see your icon on your canvas after you’ve uploaded it, don’t worry. It’s most likely because the icon is white lines on a transparent background. We’ll fix this in the next step.
Step 5: Create your background
Right-click anywhere on your image và click Background. A quick-access background bad will appear in the đứng top left corner of your workspace. Here, you can select a background color, or địa chỉ a brand color in the HEX code field.
When you change the background màu sắc (to anything other than white, your icon will appear).
Step 6: tải về your highlight covers from Visme
Name your project. Then click Download in the top right corner. Choose your tệp tin type (PNG or JPG are both fine). Then click the Download button.
Your cover will be downloaded to your hard drive.
Repeat this process with other cover designs.
Pro tip: Now is a great time to lớn make sure your Instagram trương mục has your Story archive enabled. This is important if you want to go back & see your old Stories without downloading them khổng lồ your phone.
Step 7: Edit your existing highlights to add your new covers
You no longer have to showroom an image to lớn your Story (where all your followers will have lớn swipe past it) in order to make it a highlight cover. Instead, you can just edit the highlight directly:
Go khổng lồ your Instagram profile.Tap the highlight whose cover you’d lượt thích to change.Tap More in the bottom right corner.Tap Edit Highlight.Tap Edit Cover.Choose the image icon to access your phone’s photo library.Choose your beautiful cover.Tap Done (actually, tap it three times.)Do this for each of the stories you want to địa chỉ cửa hàng covers to.
Voila! Your on-brand Instagram highlight covers are now gracing your profile and unifying your look. Magnifique.
5 tips for using Instagram highlight covers & icons
Now that you know how easy it is to lớn make your own chất lượng highlight covers, we’ve got some time-saving tips to make them as effective as possible.
Show off your brand’s aesthetic
Your brand has its favourite colours, font, capitalization—and possibly even some favorite emojis. Your highlight covers are definitely the place to lớn show these off.
That said, keep in mind that less is more. Those little portholes are pretty small, after all. Clarity is key.
Don’t be afraid to experiment
Your Instagram highlights don’t have to bởi it all. They can vị one thing very well.
For instance, Red Bull’s highlights used to lớn be fairly conventional (e.g., Events, Projects, Video, etc.) But now they give each of their athletes their own highlight. All we get is a face, a name, and an emoji. Intriguing.
Meanwhile, the new york Times takes Stories literally. They populate their highlights with exhaustive yet readable primers on complicated political subjects. They also create fun, snackable Stories about appealing subjects.
Either way, their cover style is perfectly consistent, which helps make the wide reach of their topics more manageable.
Be consistent in your organization
There are absolutely no rules when it comes khổng lồ organizing your Instagram highlights. (Brb, my inner librarian needs to go rail antacids.)
But, some brands organize their highlights lượt thích they would their trang web (e.g., About, Team, FAQ). Some brands organize by collection or hàng hóa (e.g., Winter ‘20, New Arrivals, Makeup Line).
I’m here to lớn tell you that however you choose to lớn organize, remember to approach it from your audience’s perspective.
In other words: if they know what they’re going lớn see, they’re more likely to lớn tap.
Highlight the Stories that matters most
Ask yourself what’s most important to your audience. What are they here lớn see? This season’s collection? Today’s schedule? Or something that is useful for the longer-term, like, for instance, how lớn pair your flagship earbuds?
The Met, for instance, prioritizes potential visitors. It keeps a helpful guide khổng lồ this week’s exhibitions at the đứng đầu of its highlight reel.
Convert your audience khổng lồ customers
With the right covers, you can introduce new eyes to lớn your best shoppable Stories và swipe-up nội dung (if you have an Instagram for business profile with more than 10,000 followers). Try using our shopping bag icon, for instance.
For more tips on selling products using your Instagram Stories, check out our complete guide khổng lồ Instagram shopping.
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