Hello and welcome everyone. In this video, I'm going to talk about the tools I use to create nice photos on Instagram on an iOS device. So let's get into it. So let me open up my Instagram folder here you see I have more applications that I use for Instagram. I'm going to talk about this later. What I want to talk about is easel.

So the second app in the first row and the last one, which is font. So let me open up easel. So this is how it looks like. You have three options. You can take a photo, you can take a photo from your camera roll, or you can find images. And this is really great because you can find images from pixabay so that is one of the sites I recommend.

The first place to use. So this means if you want to find some pictures for your post to be in the background, you don't have to go on your desktop, download the file, transfer it to your phone, and then use it in an application to put the text over it. You just have to go here and you can select picture from here or search for example, I don't know food and it's going to show up all the food images you select one you select if you want to crop it to a square, which I suggest you do because Instagram as you know, it's based around square images. So it will show up this one here you have in the bottom I think 12345678 type of texts you can use. You select the type You can select the color. So let's go with pink.

You can select image, you can work on the filters here, the blur can blur out the background or brightness. And if you want to change the text, you just click on the text oops. Okay, double tap the text and this screen will come up. You can put in your custom text here, whatever, or you already have some sort of a coat here, funny coats or some sayings in different topics, so travel, I rather have a passport full of stance than a house full of stuff. whimsical Zico was and you just keep clicking on whimsy. And it will come other text, which you can use.

So let's go with this one is forever young so you hit save and close it will show up on the picture. And you can with two fingers, you can make it bigger, smaller, turn it left, right, move it can move it with one finger also. So let's just put this in the middle. Make it maybe bigger. Put it like this on Yeah, yep. like this and play around with the filters a little bit.

Maybe this one or this. So this is how you create it You hit Done. And then you have these options. You can instantly publish it to Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook. We love it we hearted, you can send it via text message or email or you can save it. So we're going to hit save.

And it says big successfully save to camera roll. So now you have the picture in there. So that's about it. If you want to create a new you just hit on the top, right corner new. Yes, I want to start over. And you can take a photo as I said, boom, is the photo.

It will show up. Square crop. Double tap of this song, make it smaller. Change the colors around. Change the style, maybe, boom, hit done, and you're like this. It's really easy.

It's really cool. I love this app. And the good thing about this you don't have watermarks. So I'm going to show you phonto which is really limited I already put here something which is really bad. So I'm not too close, I can close it up and reopen it. So this is how it looks like.

It has ads inside, it's free but it has ads inside on the top. So he can to take a photo SELECT FROM photo album, or you can just go with the plain image. And you can select, for example this one. And if you go with the frame here you have more options. As you can see, it will tell you to go and buy the image pack. So it's not hundred percent free.

And this is why I don't like this one. But you can try it out. You see all these are locked only 123 the first three are free, the other ones are locked. So you have to go out and buy these. That's why I don't like it. So what You can do is import from pixels or pixabay.

Save it to your camera roll and you can grab it from there. Or you have to work with what just what you have. So I'm going to go with a plain image a black one. I just hit the top right corner with the arrow and say use and then I'm going to click wherever on the image, put in some text. I can align it right center left. I can choose the font like that symbols you can add symbols or you can presets you want to put in the date and when you're done, you hit the done You can move it around the picture.

And you can select the style, the tilt the size, you can tilt it, turn it around. It's it's more complicated, the easy one, it's much the interface and the usability is greater. So once you are done with the image, just hit the bottom right corner, and you can save it. You can put it directly on Instagram or save it as an image, and so on. So these are the two I really recommend. These are the best ones but I really prefer easel.

And I want to show you in the list below this video, I have other ones. So I have Word Swag, which was when I started out, posting on Instagram. So let me search for Word Swag. If it was a free application, now you have to pay five euros or $5, depending where you are in the world. And you can create awesome images you will have like more types of style, you will have pictures. So if you're willing to pay five euros to use this app, you can make even cooler images, you will have more options.

It's payable, so I don't use it. Because I don't do photos on phone anymore. There's also type around which I recommend which is free. But it's like the other app I showed you phonto you have limited access to styles, you have limited access to photos, you have limited access to anything. So you can make cool images right there. But most of the time you have to pay for it.

And if you want to create an image on type parama on this one, then they will add their watermarks. So there will be a watermark with type Rama on it. And if you want to take it off, you have to pay. At least that was the last time. That's why I don't use this, I only use easel if I'm going to create something on the phone. I'm going to use easel because it's free, no watermark.

I have plenty of pictures in the pixabay stock. So that's what I would use on iOS. Now Word Swag and type parameters are available on Android too. But we will talk about that in the next lesson. So thank you and see you in the next one.