On either side of the center image, Holly, the profile owner, faces her body in toward the center, causing the eye to look in the direction Holly’s body is facing The hands in the top center form an arrow, pointing down at the anchoring image In the above example where there’s a mug in the middle, the eye naturally keeps moving through the 3x3 grid and always comes back to the middle row, usually to the middle image where milk is dissolving into homemade chai tea.* Part of the anchoring nature of this image is that it’s the center image and it’s a great shot-but most of it is that all the other images “point” back to the center image: You might try the free versions of these, or give Plann a try! This can be difficult to do without an app or software that allows you to slide images around easily I’ve used both Planoly and the grid option in the A Color Story App. In this post I’m going to speak often about laying out your images. I don’t have room to share every method I can think of for styling an Instagram account, but here are 3 methods you can start testing tomorrow to pull all your individual images together for a bigger picture and polished look! A NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN The more consistent the story, the easier it is to “convince” newcomers to a profile to hit that “follow” button-and that goes double if the profile looks intentional and top-notch! Through this process (and through analyzing countless beautiful and highly successful profiles), I’ve uncovered many ways to style an account so that it looks cohesive instead of clunky, and tells a consistent story.

In fact, for every subscription client I have, I regularly play around with the images we create and try to determine how I would lay out the account for the next month if I was in the client’s shoes.

As someone who takes social media photos for a living, I’ve given Instagram styling a lot of thought.

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