How to have an aesthetic Instagram profile

Instagram is your favorite social network and you’ve been using it for a long time now. However, you feel that you are not particularly happy with the content you post. In particular, you are looking for ideas to renew your graphic style and publish more captivating photos and videos. Well, if that’s the case, what would you say to focus on the aesthetic style that is so trendy lately?

How do you say? The idea teases you but you are not sure how to adopt this solution? Don’t worry – if you want to find out how to have an aesthetic Instagram profile, know that I’m here to help. In the next chapters of my guide, in fact, I will provide you with a series of general advice, as well as on a practical level, which you can implement to modify the graphic style of your profile and adapt it to the artistic currents of the aesthetic style.

So if you can’t wait to deepen the subject and find out what are the tips and suggestions I’m about to give you, I suggest you get comfortable and just take a few minutes of free time to follow my tutorial. You will see that, in the end, you will be able to find the right inspiration that will move your creativity. At this point, I just have to wish you a good read and a good time!

Index

• Preliminary information
• How to create an aesthetic Instagram profile
• Draw inspiration from the profiles of others
  • Identify the colors of your profile
  • Edit photos and videos
  • Organize the Instagram profile
  • Take care of all aspects of the Instagram profile

Preliminary information

Before explaining how to have an aesthetic Instagram profile, I must give you some preliminary useful information in this regard.

First of all, you must know that the term aesthetic indicates a visual style that is characterized by a reference to the past, through the use of effects and filters inspired by the 80s. The latter then evolved over time, merging into other styles, including art hoe and vintage.

Therefore, in the face of these premises, it must be specified that there is no single solution to create an Instagram profile that reflects the aesthetic style, as this visual art can be reshaped to adapt to one’s personal tastes.

In any case, as I will explain to you in the next chapters, it is possible to use different apps to edit the photos or videos to be published on Instagram and thus make them consistent with “your” aesthetic style, thus obtaining a harmonious and pleasant profile to consult.

How to create an aesthetic Instagram profile

As stated, to create an Instagram aesthetic profile it is necessary to implement a design strategy, which consists first of all in identifying the graphic style and colors to be used.

Once this is done, you need to create themed content with the chosen style and design your Feed, as well as other sections of the Instagram profile, maintaining homogeneity from a visual point of view. Read on to learn more.

Draw inspiration from the profiles of others

The first thing you need to do to create an Instagram aesthetic profile is to choose the graphic style you want to use on your profile.

As mentioned, in fact, the aesthetic style is, generically speaking, a style that has a strong reference to the 80s and to everything that is considered retro; however, this is not necessarily the exact style you should use for your Instagram profile, as there are other very popular aesthetic styles, such as art hoe and vintage.

In this regard, I suggest you start by looking at the profiles of other users – even on social networks other than Instagram, for example Pinterest and Tumblr – to search for images made in the main aesthetic styles, in order to get an idea of the most popular content of this type.

To carry out a search on Instagram, press the magnifying glass icon located at the bottom, if you are using the smartphone app, while if you are acting as a PC, refer to the text field located at the top.

Now, in both cases, type hashtags such as #aesthetic, #ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ, or else. These are some examples of the search terms you can use to find the right inspiration.#arthoe #arthoeaestetich #arthoefashion#vintage

You can also use the same hashtags on Pinterest, Tumblr, and other platforms that involve sharing photos and videos. By doing so, you will surely find inspiration for your next content.

Identify the colors of your profile

Another piece of advice I want to give you, to help you create an Instagram aesthetic profile, is that related to identifying the color palette on which to base your content.

The aesthetic style, in fact, is usually composed of a series of colors ranging from shades of light blue/blue to those of magenta/purple. In addition, colors that are inspired by the sunset are often used, such as shades ranging from yellow to red.

Therefore, to create a stylistic coherence, it is important to choose one or more color palettes to use as the predominant colors within your content published on Instagram.

To help you do this, you can do a search in Google images, typing terms like “vaporwave aesthetic color palette”, or you can use websites like Color-Hex : an online service that provides information on color codes, in hexadecimal format ( Hex ) or RGB.

To search for one or more aesthetic palettes on the website in question, connect to the Color Palettes section and, in the search engine located at the top, type terms such as aesthetic or vaporwave. Then, among the search results that are shown to you, click on the color palette of your choice, to see all the colors that are part of it and the related HEX and RGB codes.

There are also apps for smartphones/tablets that perform similar functions, such as Color Palette for Android or Pantone Studio for iOS / iPadOS.

Edit photos and videos

After choosing the style and colors to use for your photos and videos, the time has come to modify the content in question, through the use of special apps.

If you want to apply vintage effects to your photos, to make them reflect the aesthetic style as much as possible, I suggest you use specific apps such as Huji Cam ( Android / iOS / iPadOS ), Vintage Cam for Android or 1967 for iOS / iPadOS, which have several predefined filters that allow you to “age” the photos.

For editing videos using retro-style predefined presets, on the other hand, I suggest you use editing apps such as Rarevision VHS Camcorder Lite ( Android / iOS / iPadOS ) or VHS Camcorder ( Android and iOS / iPadOS ), which apply a effect with “image noise”, in the style of VHS.

Other more general apps you can employ are the InShot video editor for Android and iOS / iPadOS (a popular video editing tool) and Google’s Snapseed photo editor ( Android / iOS / iPadOS ). You can use them to apply vintage or retro filters to your content or to “manually” change parameters such as brightness, contrast, hue, hue, saturation, HSL or film grain effect.

For more video tips, I also suggest reading my guide on how to make Aesthetic videos, which, in reality, presents tips that can also be applied to photo editing.

Organize the Instagram profile

After creating aesthetic-style Instagram content, it’s time to publish it on the famous social network owned by Facebook.

You can choose to publish the photos and/or videos you have made normally, using the Instagram app, or implement a more careful publication strategy, by organizing the design of your Feed.

In the latter case, apps to organize Instagram can be useful, which are used to manage your profile by publishing content ordered in a certain way and/or programmed.

Among these, I would like to point out Preview: Planner for Android and iOS / iPadOS, Plann + for Android and iOS / iPadOS and Planoly for Android and iOS / iPadOS which offer the possibility of organizing the publication of contents on your Instagram profile in preview, by creating of a publication plan.

Therefore, use these apps by connecting your Instagram account and uploading a series of photos or videos that you would like to publish, in order to evaluate, overall, the best position in the Feed for each of these.

For more information regarding the use of these apps I suggest you read my guide on apps to organize Instagram.

Take care of all aspects of the Instagram profile

To have a 100% aesthetic Instagram profile you must take care, in addition to the Feed, also all the other sections of the photographic social network that can be customized: the name, the biography, the profile picture and possibly also the covers of the stories in evidence, in addition to the fonts.

Therefore, to edit everything related to your profile, use the Edit Profile button in the Instagram smartphone app, so you can customize sections such as name, username, profile picture and bio.

As for the texts and, therefore, to change fonts on Instagram, use apps or online tools, such as Fonts for Instagram for Android, iOS and iPadOS or the LingoJam website which more specifically has a text generation section called Waporwave Text Generator.

To change the cover images of the featured stories, instead, hold your finger down on them and press on the Edit the featured story item. Then tap on the wording Edit the cover and, after choosing the image to use from your device’s gallery, press the Finish button to confirm the changes. Easy, right?