It's probably time to add a little variety to your Instagram Story. Show
One way to do that is by changing the color of your background. Customizing your background color gives you more control over the way your Insta Story will be perceived by your followers. Whatever message you're trying to send with your Story, you can pick a background color that accentuates it. Here's how to do it.
How to change the background color on your Instagram Story1. Tap the "Create" button at the top of your Instagram home pageCredit: Andy Moser / Instagram 2. Tap "Story"3. If Instagram opens your camera roll, tap on the camera icon4. Tap the upper/lower-case A "Create" icon on the leftTap the in-Story "Create" button on the left Credit: Andy Moser / Instagram 5. Tap the colorful circle in the bottom right corner to change the background colorTap the colorful circle in the bottom right corner Credit: Andy Moser / Instagram 6. Tap the icon to display a different color. Every time you tap the icon the background color will change.From solid black and gray, to various gradients, to rainbow, give your Insta Story the pop of color it deserves. Orange background gradient Credit: Andy Moser / Instagram Rainbow background gradient Credit: Andy Moser / Instagram One of Instagram's most requested features is the ability to change the background color for your Story posts. While there is no official method for doing this in the app (via either a dedicated button or tool) Newsweek has found a workaround that should get you the desired results. With the current Instagram functionality, you are unable to adjust the
background of your Stories unless you are willing to jump through a few hoops. If you take a photo in the app and then shrink it down, you will notice that a color swatch is automatically generated for you, using the dominant hue from your image. For instance, if you take a picture of the sky using Instagram and then tried to minimize it in the disappearing Stories
section, you will get a blue background by default. There's no real way of changing this, as it's a fixed setting. Social media experts have resorted to an inelegant solution in the past, whereby they would use the marker tool to create a solid block of color and then paste that over the Story photo. They would then get out the eraser to manually reveal the original image that is hidden beneath this additional layer. In that sense, it wasn't really a background and had more in
common with a mask that you would use in Photoshop. Plus, it often looked messy given that it's very difficult to get straight lines using the eraser tool in Instagram. An example of a botched attempt at this can be seen below. How to Change the Background Color in Instagram StoriesThere is a better method that will get you a much nicer looking Story, while still granting you control over the color of your background. The steps for doing this on a smartphone are as follows:
For a more visual guide, Newsweek has depicted each of the steps in the below slideshow. Meanwhile, we have also prepared guides on how to do Joint Posts in the app and what happens if you screenshot somebody else's Story. 1 of 5
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