Instagram is one of the hottest social media networks around today with over 200 million people using it daily. There are over 60 million photos posted each day. You need to know how to create and share awesome photos with your friends and followers using this tool.

1. for Beginners!

2. You need to know how to create
and share awesome photos
with your friends and followers
using Instagram.
Instagram is hotter than avolcano
in the middle of the sun.

3. Scroll through this delicious
presentation to find out how!

4. 200 million people use
Instagram to upload 60 million
photos every day.
That’s a whole lotta
burrito pictures!

5. Download Instagram for iOS or Android...

6. …then choose a usernameand
profile picture.

7. You can makeyour
profile private ifyou
onlywant to share
photos with peopleyou
know.
Just click Edit Profile when
viewing your Instagram profile.

8. Do you want your pocket to light
up every time someone likes
your photos?

9. 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.

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

11. Choose your photo and make it
beautiful with built-in tools.
Make it Instagram worthy!
filters lux tools

12. Before and after.

13. You can also record
videos directlyon
the app or upload
previouslyrecorded
ones fromyour
phone.

14. Add a sweet caption
about your picture.
Don’t forget to include relevant
hashtags to gain more likes from
strangers.
#nofilter #slideshare #pizza
#bestnightever #bikes

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. You can send direct
photos andvideos 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.

18. There are plenty of other apps you can use to
edit your pictures if Instagram's photo editing
capabilities don't tickle your fancy.

19. Afterlight
$0.99

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

21. effectsfilterstools

22. VSCO
Free!

23. 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.

24. filters
tools

25. Squaready
Free!

26. 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.

27. Before and after.

28. You can viewyour 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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!