Saturday, July 12, 2025

How to use + creativity

The Instagram Story background feature is awesome!

Let’s see how it works and some interesting ideas for your account.

What is the Instagram Story Background feature?

Basically, all you have to do is take a photo of something, someone, or a product.

The background function will eliminate background.

Then you can create any The background you want.

Instagram story background

How to use Instagram story background feature

Add to a photo In your story.

have 2 ways Added background:

  1. Click the Background button at the top of the screen, or
  2. Click the “Stickers” button and select “Background Stickers”

Instagram story background

Instagram story background

Instagram will automatically choose object or person In your photo (you can change it if you want, you’ll see):

Instagram story background

If you’re not satisfied with your selection, just click “Edit topic”. You can manually select the theme you want:

Instagram story background

Then, randomly select a background At the bottom of the screen, or…

Instagram story background

or, Type exactly in the search bar What is the background you want. You can write something very brief, or very, very descriptive:

Instagram story background

this image will appear on your screen:

Instagram story background

if you even want more choicesclick arrow (lower left corner of the screen). It will generate more options for you:

Instagram story background

Once you are satisfied with the design, pressNext“:

Instagram story background

you will see a “Try it” sticker will automatically appear in your design. Instagram does this so that after you post, others can add to your design and generate their own images based on your prompts:

Instagram story background

if you Don’t want stickers To appear, just hold it with your finger and pull down in the trash can:

Instagram story background

The first obvious idea: place your subject in a new world.

For example, you can imagine an underwater world with elements of the land world: “Pink tulips and yellow butterflies are flying under the water.”

Instagram story background

Idea #2. where you want to go

Take a picture of yourself and type in exactly where you want to go.

Like “On the Beach in the Maldives”:

Instagram story background

I usually write like this: “_Repeat_pattern on background”.

For example: “Repeating pale pink heart pattern on a yellow background.”

Instagram story background

Write”picture frame” in the search bar.

You can write specifically what you want inside the frame, around your theme, or how you want the frame to look (“Minimalist Photo Frame”, “Clever Photo Frame”, “Flowers Photo Frame”, “Wooden Photo Frame” ) photo frame, etc.)

Instagram story background

Idea #5. Relating to taste or smell

If you want to post about food, drink, or smells, that’s great.

Make the key ingredient or smell the star in the background (like caramel, vanilla, strawberry, flowers, etc…).

For example, I wrote “caramel” and got this background:

Instagram story background

Idea #6. related to color

If you like a specific color, or launch a product with a color theme: use that color as the background. For example “yellow petals background”:

Instagram story background

Create a colorful background for your images.

it can be a solid coloror a slope (Pink gradient, rainbow gradient, earth color gradient, etc…)

Instagram story background

Surround your theme with new creatures. Like a “white bear with wings”:

Instagram story background

Idea #9. Relive the dream you had last night

Have you ever had a dream that you wanted to show people? Sometimes words don’t do justice to a dream, do you wish you could draw it and show it to a friend?

Just write out exactly what your dream is like. Artificial intelligence can be very, very close to what you describe.

Instagram story background

Idea #10. Create a movie or cartoon featuring yourself, a friend, a dog or a cat

You can create an entire story in any country in the world (or imaginary world), any house or time period you can think of.

For example, I can make up a story:

  • “Dancers on the Streets of Paris”, or
  • In Jurassic Park
  • Live in the world of Avatar with the Na’vi tribe
  • Board the Titanic and tell a love story

I can then take more photos of myself or others in different poses and add more Parisian backgrounds to my photos.

In just a few minutes, you’ll know the full story of the Parisian dancers.

Instagram story background

Instagram story background

Artificial intelligence characteristics Allowing us to be as creative as we want. You can dream.

There are some fantastic keywords you can use to create a fantastic background:

  • bubbles everywhere
  • on cloud nine
  • A match made in heaven
  • Star
  • billions of butterflies
  • dream life
  • fairy magic

Instagram story background

Bonus: Unlimited posts with preview plan

You can save stories to your camera roll and then upload them to Preview application.

From there you can:

  • Plan your posts and stories
  • Schedule and automate publishing
  • Find hashtags and SEO keywords
  • Looking for subtitle ideas
  • Check your insights
  • View other people’s Instagram analytics
  • and more

Instagram story background

Enjoy this new feature.

tag us @preview.app If you give it a try, do it on Instagram! We’d love to see what you create!

If you want to learn more Instagram tips and tricks: click here.


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