You can make a fabulous Instagram reel in less than one minute with Stylaquin
BIG shoutout to John Collins for coming up with this idea! In a recent demo for Stylaquin, John pointed out that Stylaquin would make it super easy to create beautiful instagram and Facebook reels and posts. I was gobsmacked. Of course it would! He said that in order to get any traction with social media these days he had to post at least three times a day and it was taking a LOT of his time. With Stylaquin he could just use the Idea Board pages, which are generated automatically and make screen grabs and recordings.
I wanted to see how long it took me to make an Instagram reel and, once I got the screen sized properly, it was less than a minute. I could have done a week’s worth of reels (21) in under half an hour. Talk about a time saver.
So here’s how to make your reel. (You do need a Stylaquin enabled Shopify website to do this.) Set your screen size to about 1708 x 1174 pixels. You want the recording area to be 1080 x 1080 pixels for Instagram, and you need a little extra room to crop out the browser top and edges. I added an image of the screen area being recorded and a recording of what I did to create the recording above.
Once you have the area you want to record selected, all you have to do is drag or flick the products you want to showcase onto the Stylaquin bar. Stylaquin’s algorithm automatically makes layouts using the images in the Shopify products carousel.
Practice dragging the products before you record, so that you’re sure you like the layouts. If the internet is slow, dragging each product will also cache the images in your computers memory so there’s no loading time. If you don’t like the layout in the Idea Board, you can easily change it by changing the order of the images in the Shopify image carousel. Because the layouts are fully responsive, they will also change when the size of the browser window changes. This means that the layout for your Instagram reels won’t look exactly like your Facebook shorts. How cool is that?
Making the reel was quick and easy. The hardest part was remembering not to let the mouse curser go into the area being recorded.
Pro tip: You can also adjust the Stylaquin bar position by sliding it side to side. This makes it easy to get the side to side size dialed in.
So to recap, Stylaquin makes it easy to create Instagram reels in under one minute. You can create layouts for all of your products as images even faster. If you’re on the Shopify basic plan this would only cost $29/month. But honestly, you should add Stylaquin to your Shopify site because it makes shopping more fun, so shoppers stay longer, often over three minutes longer. Stylaquin also delights and engages shoppers who use it so much that they come back to the site over three times as often, and they buy more when they do. Stylaquin is awesome on a lot of levels. Book a demo to learn more or head over to the Shopify Marketplace!
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