How to create Animated Instagram Stories with Hype Type!

If you’re on Instagram, you’ve most likely viewed an animated Instagram Story. Perhaps you’ve shared one or maybe you’re curious and eager to do so. Great news, my friends! We can easily create a beautifully designed animated story in minutes … and it’s free!

If you’re not using Instagram Stories, I encourage you to give them a try. You’ll see that they are a valued means to engage and build meaningful connections.

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In this tutorial, I’m sharing how to use the Hype Type App to create Animated Instagram Stories. Its ease of use makes it a fabulous tool to use on Instagram and other social media platforms.

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Hype-Type: Moving Text Photos

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Hype-Type: Moving Text Photos

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Below is a 10-second Instagram Story I created for this tutorial.

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When we open the Hype Type App, we’ll see that we can use our camera or swipe up to access our photo library.

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This is the photo I’m using from my library.

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Once we take or choose a photo, this is how it will look.

The settings on the bottom enable users to edit text, crop, and customize the animations and transitions.

Let’s double-tap to edit text.

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In the image below, you can see how we add our text. Easy peasy. We can use 100 characters.

When we’re done, we tap the blue checkmark.

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Let’s tap T for text style.

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From here, we have many options to choose from:

• We can view and select our preferred text animation.

• We can select our colour palette. Each palette offers three colours. We just tap the colour palette to view the alternate colours.

• We can add a background colour to text by tapping the dropper icon.

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To edit the transition options, let’s tap the icon with three parallel lines.

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From here we can:

• Select the text display speed

• Add music

• Select the animation speed

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Let’s tap the T yellow block to select the text speed.

We can tap and view each speed. Once we make a selection, we tap the blue arrow to save. We can always return to change afterwards.

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We can add music to our video by taping the purple + ADD MUSIC.

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From here we can search for music to use.

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When we find the music we’d like to use, we just tap USE IT and it will add the music to our video.

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Next, let’s tap the green block to set the animation speed.

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From here, we can view and select the animation speed.

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We can edit any of the settings. For example, to remove music, we just tap the X.

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To collapse the menu, we tap the blue arrow.

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To complete the design, we tap the blue checkmark.

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When we’re done, we have a few options.

We can:

• Download

• Upload to Instagram

• Upload to Facebook

• Upload to Twitter

• Start Over

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And that’s it!

TIP: I often download my animated design to my phone and post it to Instagram using the Instagram Story App to increase engagement. Feel free to pop by my blog post to see how you can do the same.

How to use Instagram Stories to create engaging content, extend your reach, and build lasting connections!

In the image below, you can see a few features available via the Instagram Story App. These are covered in the above tutorial/blog post. 🙂

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Have a tip you’d like to share? Please feel free to share in the comments below.

Until next time … happy creating, my friends!

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