How to Make Your Own Instagram Highlight Cover Online for Free

"- How do you make a custom highlight cover on Instagram?"

You may think that highlight covers aren't essential, but they always make a great first impression for people who visit your Instagram page for the first time. Using a custom and personalized Instagram highlight cover is a great opportunity to show off your branding, and it encourage profile visitors to click and view the Stories.

Want to know how to make and use your own Instagram Story highlight cover? Keep reading to learn how!

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How to Make Your Own Instagram Highlight Cover?

To create an Instagram highlight cover, first you need to have an Instagram highlight. Here, you can check our old post to learn HHow to Create Instagram Highlights.

Once you create an Instagram highlight, the cover will generate automatically. Instagram also allows you to select any image as your Highlight cover. But, personalizing your Instagram highlight covers to fit your own personal style and aesthetic can be more fun. And it’s also can help you showcase your branding and add an individual touch to your profile.

When it comes to make a custom Instagram highlight cover, a great online tool to use is FlexClip. It offers a ton of FREE templates & icons to use on your highlight covers. You can also upload your own photos to turn into Highlight covers. Whether it’s a simple black cover colorful gradient cover, and line art covers or watercolor cover, FlexClip has covered all! The possibilities are endless!

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Now, let’s check the steps on how to make Instagram highlight cover with FlexClip.

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Step 1

When you access FlexClip editor, pick the ratio as 9:16 for your Instagram Highlight cover first, then you can edit the blank scene freely to make it a desired background for you cover image - change the color directly, upload any wanted image, pick a background image from FlexClip images library.

How to Make Instagram Highlight Covers - Background

Step 2

Got the background ready for your Instagram highlight cover? You can now go to Elements > Shape to add an circle shape for your Instagram Story highlight icon, you can drag and drop it on the canvas to adjust it size and location, and then edit the color, add border, etc.

How to Make Instagram Highlight Covers - Add Circle Shape

Step 3

Now you can add any graphic into the circle shape to make your own highlight cover. FlexClip has a numerous royalty-free icons and free stock photos you can choose from, and these icons can all be used for your Instagram Story covers. Once added, you can start customize the graphic freely - drag and drop to adjust its size and location, and also add any text information, icon, and stickers.

How to Make Instagram Highlight Covers - Add Graphic

Step 4

Once you’re done, you can go ahead and download your Instagram highlight cover for free. Just navigate to the timeline and right-click on the scene and select Export Frame to save your highlight cover, and then send it to your phone.

How to Make Instagram Highlight Covers - Download

How to Add Your Own Highlights Cover on Instagram

Editing and changing your Instagram highlight cover is fairly easy.

To change your Instagram highlight cover to a personalized image, you can follow these simple steps:

Step 1

Open the Instagram Story highlight that you wan to change the cover to your custom one, and click More in the bottom right corner.

Step 2

Then you’ll see a few options related to your Instagram Story highlights, select Edit highlight.

Step 3

Now, you will get the Edit Cover option, click it and the you can click the photo icon near the bottom of your screen to pick the Instagram highlight cover image that you’ve created from you camera roll.

How to Add Your Own Highlights Cover on Instagram

When you selected, tap Done to save your change. Well, that’s it! Your brand new highlight cover is live.

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