Instagram for Beginners

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for Beginners!

You need to know how to create and share awesome photos

with your friends and followers using Instagram.

Instagram is hotter than a volcano in the middle of the sun.

Scroll through this delicious presentation to find out how!

200 million people use Instagram to upload 60 million

photos every day.

That’s a whole lotta burrito pictures!

…then choose a username and profile picture.

You can make your profile private if you only want to share photos with people you know.

Just click Edit Profile when viewing your Instagram profile.

Do you want your pocket to light up every time someone likes

your photos?

Of course you do!

Post a photo of a baby sleeping next to a dog and watch your battery drain as the likes and follows start pouring in.

Connect to Facebook, Twitter, and more to expand the reach of your #selfies and gain more likes.

Choose your photo and make it beautiful with built-in tools.

Make it Instagram worthy!

filters lux tools

Before and after.

You can also record videos directly on the app or upload previously recorded ones from your phone.

Add a sweet captionabout your picture.Don’t forget to include relevant hashtags to gain more likes from strangers.

#nofilter #slideshare #pizza #bestnightever #bikes

You can include the location where you took the picture.

Your friends will be able to click on it and see what other Instagramers have posted at the same place.

Tag friends that are in the picture.This will send them a notification that they have been tagged and others will be able to find them.

You can send direct photos and videos to your friends.You can see when they have viewed it. They can like and comment as well. Basically like Snapchat but it doesn’t disappear forever.

There are plenty of other apps you can use to edit your pictures if Instagram's photo editing

capabilities don't tickle your fancy.

Create extraordinary photographs with Afterlight.Afterlight has a ton of photo editing capabilities, including brightness, filters, cropping, film marks, and more. Definitely worth the $0.99!

effectsfilterstools

VSCO has incredible professional filters.

VSCO is a free photo editing app that gives you tons of powerful tools. You

can purchase additional premium filters within the app.

filters

tools

Squaready. It turns rectangles into squares.Sometimes you want to show your cool horizontal or vertical picture in full. You can use Squaready to square it up! Because Instagram is the only place where being a square is a good thing.

Before and after.

You can view your Instagram feed right in your web browser.

There are other websites that allow you to view your Instagram feed as well, like Ink361, Gramfeed, Websta, and more.

Curious to see how many likes you got in a year?

Iconosquare gathers a bunch of data from your Instagram account, including your most well liked photo, total number of likes received, and more.

Find interesting people to follow because you've seen your friend's dog too many times.

Check out the Popular feed or follow famous people because their lives are way more interesting than ours. You could also follow people who post a lot of pictures of food or far-off destinations, if you want to always be hungry and feel wanderlust.

People can be really annoying.

Tired of seeing your grandma's #selfies? Simply go to her Instagram profile and click the Following button. Wa-la! No more grandma selfies on your feed. But really, don't unfollow your grandma if she's on Instagram. That's awesome.

Don't forget to follow @jimdousa!

Trust me. We post the good stuff. We love showing our close-knit office and startup culture to the world. From weekly Friday lunches to inspirational quotes and random shots of our office and coworkers, our feed has it all. And we happen to be located in the best city in the world—San Francisco!