Have you ever wanted to create a professional Instagram story for your business or personal page? Adobe Spark can do just that. The platform has an easy platform to use that helps teachers students create images, videos, and even web pages. Spark gives specific details on how to edit your stories when clicking on the Instagram story tab. You can choose from over 48,000 Spark templates to find one to accommodate

your current project.  When clicking on the Instagram story icon adobe gives you recommended templates, featured templates and you can also search for templates that fit your theme.

For example, I chose a template that goes with my football theme. After selecting it Adobe Spark gives me the option to edit the template to my customization by changing the text, photo, background, colors, etc.

From learning about Adobe Spark in my PRCM 4020 at Auburn University, I gained the confidence to explore the Instagram story tab on my own. I decide to make some edits to the template from above and create my own from it. The fun Instagram story I created was to send to my friends to convivence them to attend my flag football game. Adobe Spark has other options to add spice to your stories with the feature called animations. The animations tab can make can stories pop and gain people’s attention to your post by creating moving letters and pictures as an option.

On a more serious note knowing how to create a more professional Instagram story away from the Instagram app itself is important. If you plan on managing a social media account for a business or company being able to create a clean professional story can help market a company to make them look more certified.

According to Google Trends in the past 5 years, the rise of Instagram stories has skyrocketed due to the popularity of the app and the rise of social media.  From the graph below profiles, more than ever are posting on their stories, and knowing how to create better and cooler stories is a must to stay trending.