Instagram Reels are a great way of

getting your content out in front of

people. And so today, I'm going to be

walking you through step-by-step how to

post your first Reel. Let's jump in. All

right, so when you open up Instagram,

there's a couple of different ways to

get to this. I find the easiest one is

the plus sign up in the top left-hand

corner. Click on that. And it's going to

ask you down at the bottom if this is a

post, a story, or a Reel. We want to go

to Reel.

And then click on the video that you

want the Reel to be, or you can click on

the camera icon and post directly that

way. But we already recorded a video, so

I'm going to select that. And we're

going to click next. It's going to start

playing a little preview there, and I'm

going to pause that. And you see there's

a little arrow down in the bottom

middle. And if you slide that up, it

gives you the option to edit that. So if

you have multiple clips, you can add

those in. You see a plus sign, you can

just add in as many clips that you want

in there. In our case, we just have this

video, but I do want to edit this a

little bit and get rid of some of the

beginning. So if you tap on that

clip, then you'll see you get a little

yellow bar on the left-hand side. We're

just going to slide that over

to right before I start talking, about

right there. And then at the end, we can

do the same thing. Grab that, slide it

over until I am done talking

there. Okay? And you could always slice

it in the middle and edit it that way as

well. Next, we're going to add some

audio. So you see right below the video

is an audio. Tap to add audio. So we're

going to do that. And you can either

import your own media. You see up there

next to the search bar. Or you can

scroll through here and find some

trending audio or ones that are just for

you or original audio, whatever you

want. We're going to go to trending, and

I'm going to select one here. I'm just

going to select the top one here. Click

the arrow to add that, and then you can

also pick which section we want. So,

let's say I just want

this middle section here, and then we're

going to hit done. And now you have the

audio in there as well. And so now we

have some music added to the Reels. And

this is a really important feature

because this will help when people are

searching for or being suggested certain

trending audio, it's a great way to get

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the description and it's yours. Let's

jump back in. And then next, right below

the audio, you can see you can add text.

So, we're going to click on that, and

you can type in whatever you want. And

then we're going to change the color of

that.

Let's make it yellow. I'm going to

change the font to bubble, add some

effects here. Let's make it kind of a

neon pulsing.

And you can do all sorts of things just

to customize it however you want. Once

you get it the way that you want, you

just hit done, and now you can slide

that around down at the bottom where you

want that to appear. So, maybe I want

that to be kind of in the middle where

it pops up. I don't want it to be on my

forehead, so I'm just going to tap up in

the preview screen and slide it down

where I want it. And now you can see

that'll pop up

at that key spot there. And now we have

some text. You can add more text if you

want or different elements that way as

well. And once you get it the way that

you want it, you just go up to the top

right-hand corner, you'll see a a little

blue arrow, we'll click on that,

continue.

And now what we want to do, and this is

very important, we want to change the

cover photo.

Right now it's just defaulting to a

random

screen grab in the middle of that, but

we want to click edit cover photo, and

we just want to find the right image. So

maybe it's there, my face is kind of

excited, and we click on the plus sign,

and now that's going to be the one image

that pops up when people come across

this. Then you want to add a caption

like that, hashtags,

you can tag people in there, add

locations, whatever you need to do that

way, who sees it, and then when all that

information is correct, you click next.

It's going to tell you a little bit more

about how the Reels work, and click

share. You can see the progress bar

there of it being posted.

And once that's finished, you can see it

pops up there, and now people that

follow you and run across your content

will see it that way. And that's all you

need to do to post your first Reel to

Instagram. I hope you found this video

helpful, and I'll see you in the next

one.