Instagram is a popular social network that allows you to connect and share pictures with your friends. If you want to know how to beautify your Instagram profile and get more likes and followers, learn how to take better photos and send the right photos, to make your Instagram experience more successful.
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Method 1 of 3: Taking Better Photos
Step 1. Determine the theme of your Instagram profile
Before you upload your first photo, think about what you want to achieve from the profile. Famous Instagram profiles usually have themes that attract followers. If you want to have a great Instagram profile, think about what you want before you start filling it with photos. What object attracted you to snap it? What do you, and others, like?
- Popular Instagram profile themes include yoga, cuisine, inspirational quotes, restaurants or bars, humor, fashion, and pets.
- Self-portraits will not make your Instagram profile famous, unless you are already as famous as Syahrini.
- Consider creating a presentation profile. If you like comics, professional wrestling, or certain fictional characters or athletes, you can create a tribute profile for them. Send photos of them from all over the internet, instead of photos of yourself.
Step 2. Choose a good username and profile photo
The first and easiest way to start designing your Instagram profile is to choose a catchy username and profile photo. Your choice of name and profile photo will depend on your profile theme, so make sure you choose a name and profile photo that represents that theme.
Fill in your bio in a short and friendly manner. For example, if your Instagram account is about food and a cat called Tubbs, create a username "tubbslagimakan", use a photo of the cat touching food, and use the bio "Pus' favorite food"
Step 3. Edit photos before uploading
Instagram allows you to use various editing options, depending on the version of the program and the type of camera. It's a good idea to make some short edits to your photo, to make it look more interesting and make a good representation of your profile.
- Crop the image to highlight the symmetry and the most important part of the image. Remove borders and other unnecessary things.
- Try different presets to find one that fits your photo. If your photo is good as it is, don't edit the photo.
- Edit brightness, color, and other image characteristics. If you don't like your edit, you can still undo it.
Step 4. Use another photo editor outside of Instagram
Snapped, Camera+, VSCO Cam, Photoshop Touch, and other filter apps can be used to crop, filter, and finish photos before uploading them to Instagram.
Step 5. Make a simple photo
The photos you upload should be clean and simple, rather than crowded, weird, and out of focus. For example, if you want to take a photo of a food, take a photo of the food, rather than a photo of yourself munching on something weird.
Step 6. Take different types of pictures
Even if you take theme based pictures, sometimes your followers get bored. Think of ways to vary the theme, so you don't have to snap the same object over and over again.
- If your account is food-themed, you don't always have to take photos of the finished food. Consider taking photos of the ingredients before you start, the person's face when you see the results of your experiment, or the empty plate after the food is finished.
- Looking for ideas on Instagram by looking at photos on popular accounts when you feel stuck is also a good idea
Step 7. Upload photos at a certain time interval, so that your photos don't fill your followers feed
If you upload photos all at once, followers may find it annoying, or ignore a lot of your content, costing you money.
- When you're on vacation, don't wait until the holidays are over to upload photos. Send photos while you're on vacation, so your followers know what you're doing.
- If you snap a cat seven times, don't upload all of them right away, unless the series has meaning. Wait until you run out of images to upload, if you have too many stock images.
Step 8. Update your camera
Newer phones generally have better cameras. If your photos aren't as good as other people's photos in your feed, it might be time to switch phones so you can take HD pictures. If your wallet supports it, switching phones for a better Instagram profile is a good idea.
You don't have to take a photo with your phone's camera to upload it to Instagram. You can access Instagram from a computer and upload photos from a professional digital camera, if you have one
Method 2 of 3: Get More Likes
Step 1. Submit photos at the right time
Several studies show that people access Instagram between the hours of 6:00 - 8:00, and 17:00 - 21:00. If you want to get more Likes, post photos when people are accessing Instagram. Submit your good stock photos during those hours.
Step 2. Use popular hashtags
Hashtags are used on Twitter, Instagram, and other social media to make it easier to find posts with that hashtag. Anything you write in your caption that starts with "#" will be searchable on Instagram. You can use multiple hashtags, according to your photo, to get as many views of your photo as possible. Here are examples of trending hashtags that you can use in your photos:
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- love
- instagood
- follow
- tbt
- cute
- happy
- girl
- fun
- summer
- instadaily
- food
- picoftheday
Step 3. Use the right hashtags, lest you overuse hashtags or use certain hashtags just because of the popularity of hashtags
Make sure you write a description that matches your image.
Find the hashtags that best match your image. For example, the hashtags #dog and #dogs are definitely used more than #collie
Step 4. Use location tagging or geotags
Before you post a photo to Instagram, you'll be given the option to tag the photo with a specific location, which your phone can read via GPS. Often, this option is used to tag a restaurant or other favorite place to show your support, or tag photos with a specific city where the photo was taken, so people looking for photos about that city or place can find and like your photo. Geotags are a great feature for connecting on Instagram.
Step 5. Use custom hashtags to lure followers
Several hashtags make it easy for you to find users who will like your photos if you like their photos. If you just want to increase your photo stats, try using the hashtags #like4like or #l4l. Scroll through search results, quickly like images, and submit images with the same hashtag. Your photos will be liked quickly.
Step 6. Follow Instagram trends when posting photos
If you want your pictures to be liked, follow the trends on Instagram. If many of your friends post photos with the same hashtag, use that hashtag. Find out what hashtags are currently popular, then use them. Some of the popular hashtags include:
- Throwback Thursday (#tbt)
- Woman-crush Wednesday (#wcw)
- Pictures without filters (#nofilter)
- Selfies (#selfies)
- Old pictures (#latergram)
Method 3 of 3: Get More Followers (Followers)
Step 1. Follow lots of people if you want to have more followers
While having a number of followers greater than the number of people you follow sounds cool, doing so is extremely difficult, unless you're already famous or are working hard to popularize your profile. You can still unfollow other users you follow.
- Link your Instagram to other social media accounts, then follow your friends who also use Instagram. Then, search for your favorite hashtags and hashtags related to your favorite things. Follow the users you find from those search results.
- Follow popular accounts, such as One Direction, Justin Bieber, and Kim Kardashian. Generally, you will immediately get new followers.
Step 2. Use hashtags to hook followers
In addition to fishing for likes, hashtags can also be used to attract followers. Browse hashtags #follow4follow or #f4f, then follow multiple users from search results and post photos with the same hashtag. This method is an easy way to hook followers.
Always follow back people who follow you. Many people want to get followers, and will unfollow people who don't follow them back. If you want to maintain follower count, follow back people who follow you
Step 3. Comment on other people's photos diligently
Find a hashtag you like, then like a random photo and leave a comment like "nice", or "love it!". Don't forget to also follow accounts whose photos you commented on, so they're more likely to follow you back.
Keep a positive and friendly nature. Don't copy the same comment to comment on hundreds of images, but try to customize the message for each image, so you don't come across as a robot and increase your chances of getting new followers
Step 4. Interact with followers
If you want people to follow you, you have to interact with them to prove that your account is worth following. If someone comments on your photo, reply to their comment. If someone likes your photo, like one of their photos, then follow them. Be a good friend on Instagram.
- Don't litter. Many people search for images, then come across popular photos with requests to be followed. This move is very unpopular and can drive followers away.
- Mention other users in your photo comments if you like their photos. This trick is great for spreading goodwill.
Step 5. Post photos regularly to attract followers
Generally, you should post photos 1-3 times a day to maintain follower count. If you rarely post photos, some people will unfollow you, because you seem inactive. At the very least, try to post photos every day.
- Save some photos to send tomorrow, if any. If you have a lot of photos, save some to post today, and some to post tomorrow.
- However, don't send photos too often. If you bomb your followers with 50 vacation photos, for example, your followers are bound to run away.
