How to get an aesthetic Instagram

Taylor (seen above) has been a sister since the Fall of 2019, and now serves as Membership Vice President Assistant.

How to Edit

Ever wondered how Instagram models and bloggers get such an aesthetic feed? Keep reading to find out.

First Steps (PicsArt)

First you import the picture you want to edit in to PicsArt, and once the picture is uploaded, I like to adjust the exposure, depending on how light or dark the picture is. To access this feature, you click on tools, and adjust in there. Today, I want to make my picture lighter, as well as up the saturation. From there, I decided if I want to start with stickers or with brushes, and I look at stickers first to see if that's the vibe I'm feeling today. I check my stickers, and see that there is a rainbow already in the picture, so I want to enhance around that. I like to use the whitening tool on lighter things in the picture, in order to make it more of a stark white contrast.

Second Steps

Today, I want to make my picture lighter, as well as up the saturation.

After editing the picture by adjusting settings, comes the fun part, the sticker edits. I decided I'm going to make my backpack look glittery. By doing this, I click the stickers button, I search glitter background, a bunch pop up, and I scroll until I find one I like. In this case I found a cute blueish silver one. I clicked on it so it adds into the picture, and click the eraser tool at the top, and erase the entire glitter image so it looks like I never added it, then I go to the brush tool, adjust the size of my pen, and draw on the backpack. As I'm drawing, it looks like I'm drawing with glitter, but essentially I'm just re-adding the glitter. This part takes the longest, because the more precise you are, the longer it takes to get it right (that's a little tip from me). For this picture, I'm not being as accurate, as it is just for this blog post. After I add the stickers, I go to Lightroom, upload my photo, and paste my filter. Maybe I'll do a blog post in the future about Lightroom, as that is an entire beast on its own. Below is my finished product.

Before and After

Get Inspired

Overall, editing can be a great way to express yourself, and I think it's a great stress reliever. Whenever I want to take a break from studying or homework, I just like to play around with images, and get inspiration from Pinterest boards, and other Instagrammer's.