In this tutorial, you will learn How to Create Animated Instagram Stories in Photoshop.

You might be looking for a way to have your Instagram stories stand out! We all can add some basic animated gifs on Instagram, but if you want your custom story with a professional look, here’s a tutorial on how to prepare animated stories in Photoshop!

We’ll be showing you the general ways to use the timeline feature in photoshop, however the most important ingredient in this case will be your creativity.

We’ll start off with creating an Instagram story image like per usual. For more info, take a look at our photoshop tutorial about Instagram stories.

Once we have everything layered up, we’ll go to Window and select timeline. Click Create Video timeline.

Make sure the playhead is all the way to the left. Now click on the dropdown icon any of the layers and click on the stopwatch next to position or transform. This will be where the layer is during the start of the video. Now move the playhead to the right and move the layer to where you want it to be at the end of the video.

You can click play to preview your animation. Let’s do the same with the other layers, Depending on the style of video that you’re going for, you may end up animating your layers with different motions than what we do.

Adjust the the length of the animation, by dragging the out-point to where you need it. Go to file - Export - Render Video. Keep in mind that maximum length of one video story is 15 seconds.

Here, you can name the file, select the folder for output and finally select a preset for the video render. We’ll be using H.264 video to render it out. In case you see other settings on your screen, try to get the settings as close as to what we have here in the video. Click Render.

Once you get a little more comfortable with the timeline, you can create quite stunning video stories.

Do you prefer standard or animated stories? Please let us know in comments.

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