 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. My name is Sinali and today I'm going to be doing something very different on my channel I'm going to be doing a tutorial on how to make those highlight covers for your Instagram stories They're super popular right now, especially in the blogger and influencer community I've literally had this on my to-do list for so many weeks now And I just figured out how to do it and it's so easy for this tutorial. I am going to be using Photoshop So if you don't have that it's really easy to download the free trial and just crank them out really quick Before your trial ends and positive that there are other ways to do this Through other applications like Canva. I think that's what it's called But since I am paying for Photoshop, I am gonna use it today. This whole time I thought bloggers hired graphic designers to make them these little icons that are so simple But I was just like how do they do it? But I'm really excited because I found this website called Flat Icon and Basically, you can download all these icons for free. So let's get started. I'm gonna start sharing my screen Okay, so this is the icon that I have made and I think it's really cute because it fits my blog's brand and What I mean by brand is it's kind of like with the same colors as what's on my blog So this background color is the header of my blog And if you don't know the exact color the easiest way to get the color is to take a screenshot of your blog So we can go all the way to Safari then Put your blog by the way check my blog out if you haven't already and then what you can do is screenshot Whatever a color you want. So how to screenshot on a Mac is command shift 4 Then you can just drag it and screenshot it Then take it into Photoshop open up finder and then you can just drag it on to your Your project and then what you want to do is go all the way down to colors And then you can just use the color picker to find out what color it is I will say it's more accurate when you go to the color picker instead of the color libraries For some reason it just is more accurate So definitely use the color picker and you will have the exact color Then you can just delete that right away and then fill your backgrounds, but don't worry We're gonna do it all from scratch. So let's go to file new And I already have like a saved template It's actually called snapchat filter because snapchat filters and Instagram stories are the same dimensions Definitely take a screenshot or whatever of the dimensions right here So it's 1080 by 1920 and you would just do it with pixels And if you wanted to you can do it transparent, but I mean it doesn't really matter So I'm just gonna keep it white. So since I already have that color picked out I'm just gonna take the paint bucket and paint that background layer and then we're gonna go to a new layer all the way down here Create a new layer and then the first thing you want to do is just kind of map out the area So you want to go to the shape tool down here right now. It's online, but you're gonna pick the ellipse tool and And to get the perfect circle you're gonna hold the shift button down first and then click and drag the circle So then this box pops up and then you can kind of Just play around with the width of the circle you want and this is just gonna be like the circle around your icon I personally like the look of this, but you don't need it because it's already gonna be a circle But if you don't need it still do this step because it's really helpful To see where your icon needs to go and if it will even fit in the circle. So I'm gonna make it a little bit Okay, so I'm gonna do five point seven one I feel like that looks like a good width and then I'm just gonna make it all white So before we want to move it around a little bit We're gonna make sure snap to grid is on so go to help type in grid And so you can see that everything's checked and we are all good And this really just helps like you see those pink lines appearing So we're gonna make sure that the middle of this way is aligned and the middle of this way is aligned and that's perfect so like I said if you don't want this white circle you can always go down to the layers and Press the eye tool and it can just disappear that easily or it can come back that easily So now we're actually gonna get into the icons part So the next one I want to do is food and I know exactly what I'm gonna do It's gonna be sushi So I'm just gonna type that in really quick Make sure you're on the selection and not all Because you know it's gonna be sad if you find an icon and it's premium and you can't get it So we're gonna just take a look in here And see if there's any cute ones that I like I do like this one So I'm gonna save it to my collection. You just click this button right here and Ban I think it just like saves it on your profile. So you can go back to it. Okay, this kind of looks cute So we're gonna press the eye tool and open it up so we can see it So as you can see up here, it has like all these different Looks to it. I'm actually gonna take the colored one and we're gonna go to edit icon And this is what I was talking about you could actually change the colors of this and this is where it gets a little tricky So just keep up with me So we're gonna go back to Photoshop and we're gonna go and click on the color down here The color box the color that it's on right now is the color of my brand So then we're gonna go to Color libraries and this is what I said like oh don't use this because it's not accurate But this is where you're gonna be able to see like what are the other colors that kind of go with that color um Let's see So you see all these browns and kind of like pages So anytime you find like a color that you think would be a good fit for let's say the sushi roll Maybe I can make the darker parts this darker brown or like the lighter parts this lighter brown So you're gonna click on that go back to picker and then copy and paste this number down here This bc 6 to 2 5 number then you're gonna go back to the flat icon website And you see this number box right here. You're just gonna paste that in and bam. That's the color That is like similar to your brand's color So I think it's really cool that you can customize that icon to whatever you want But I'm gonna like fast forward through this because since I have already explained it It's a lot of tweaking so I'm just gonna go ahead and do that So I'm done tweaking it so I'm gonna go over to download and I'm gonna download it as a PNG because that's really all I know Then I'm gonna download it as 512 pixels Which is gonna go straight to my downloads I'll go to Photoshop and Then click on finder and it'll be in your downloads folder so what I'm gonna do is hold shift and Drag the Down and just try to fit it in I'm ready to export it. So we're gonna do file save I'm gonna save it as a PNG to my desktop and name it Sushi Fun fact, I literally never name anything that I say in Photoshop. I'm just doing it for you guys So then what I do is just airdrop that to my phone So if you have the new update to turn on your airdrop You just have to press your Wi-Fi thing and hold it down and then your airdrops right over here and just make sure that's on And then sushi highlight So then you're just gonna pull over the PNG to the airdrops section in your find your folder And then that's me damn. It looks so good So now that you guys have that image on your phone and you've already airdropped it You can open up your Instagram stories and add it to your stories What's really cool about this is that it's gonna crop that circle So you can explain why you chose that icon. So I'm just gonna write something kind of funny really quick So I'm just gonna stick that in the corner up here And then when it crops it, it's not gonna see that text So go ahead and add it to your story and then go to that specific story And you'll see that there's a highlight button at the bottom So you're gonna press that and then we're gonna just name this category. So I'm just gonna name it foodie for now press add You on profile and then to add the highlights to that category you're gonna press foodie and Press more edit highlight Then go to archive and then you can see all the stories you have posted before so I'm gonna go ahead and add this sushi one. That's surprising. I took that like two days ago I'm gonna go ahead and add that whole Definitely my story about four nuggets that has to go on so then I'm gonna click done And now you can watch all my food journeys on my Instagram page, which is really cool I hope you guys enjoyed this video Let me know if I should do any other tutorials on literally anything I want to do more like final cut or like how to edit or how to edit my pictures Just like anything like that Just let me know in the comments down below what you guys are interested in learning about Don't forget to check out my Instagram story highlights and follow me on Instagram And if you guys use this tutorial to help make your icons for your highlights Then please DM me your profiles because I would love to see what y'all's pages look like. I will see you guys in my next video