How To Create an Instagram Puzzle Feed in Canva

1. Introduction: Welcome to this class. I'm so happy that you are here. In this class. I'm going to show you step-by-step how to create an Instagram puzzle feed in Canva. Before I tell you what you can expect from this class, I would like to briefly explain what a puzzle feed is. The puzzle feed lets you place every image so that it interacts with the images posted around it. The magic of the puzzle feed doesn't just lie in the way that it's put together, but also in the intrigue of what's next. Your followers will start to follow your feed, not just for the stunning images themselves, but for the way it fits together like a puzzle. After this brief explanation, I can go ahead and tell you what to expect from the class. First, I am going to emphasize the main benefits of using an Instagram puzzle feed. Second, I am going to show you how to size and grid a puzzle feed in Canva. Third, I'm going to teach you how to use Canva templates to create your design. Then you are going to learn how to split the individual pieces of the puzzle design. Last but not least, you're going to see how to upload all pieces of the puzzle to Instagram. By following these simple steps, you will be able to create an Instagram puzzle feed in Canva within minutes. This will help you boost the impression of your followers and you'll make your Instagram profile more visible. 2. Puzzle Feed - Benefits: In this video, I would like to pay attention to how beneficial the puzzle feed could be for your Instagram account. I would define the Instagram puzzle as a series of photos that you post one by one on your Instagram account to become one large, interesting and attention grabbing creative collage. Here you may ask, why is the puzzle feed more interesting or attention-grabbing than the other images posted on Instagram? The answer is simple. The puzzle feed builds curiosity. Let me explain to you what I'm talking about. You post one image and your audience can see that this post is connected to the next post. And they are waiting impatiently to see what is the next piece. Or maybe they see two or three images in a row and get curious about what it's all about. So they will go and check your entire feed. Seeing one or a few pieces of the whole Instagram puzzle feed brings people the feeling they want to know what's next, which will drive them to follow your account and all post on it. We all live dynamically having a lot of tasks. Therefore, all of us want to save time and make our lives easier. When you are using an Instagram puzzle feed template, you save a lot of time. You spend 10-15 min creating a bunch of images inside one big image. Then you split the big image into lots of pieces and you have a big variety of posts to publish on Instagram. The Instagram puzzle allows you to be active on Instagram without spending a lot of time designing this stuff. You don't need to be a designer or to have some special skills to create a stunning and branded Instagram puzzle feed. You can use pre-made puzzle templates in which you can integrate your colors and fonts with no effort. A good first impression is everything in a virtual world where attention spans are low. The best way to appeal to your ideal followers visually and to create a powerful first impression is through a puzzle feed. It catches your follower is It's gorgeous. Look. If I've convinced you of the advantages of posting a puzzle feed on your Instagram account. Just keep watching to learn how to create such a feed within 10 min. 3. How to size and grid an Instagram puzzle feed: In this video, we're going to take four simple steps that will create the foundation of our Instagram puzzle. Without these steps, it wouldn't be possible to move forward and create a precise design that is stunning and eye-catching. Therefore, please don't miss any of these four initial steps of the process. First, we're going to calculate the size of our Instagram puzzle. Second, we're going to apply the size to our design in Canva. Third, we're going to prepare the environment in Canvas editor forth. We're going to create the grid of our design. Before we go to canva and start creating our Instagram puzzle, we need to calculate the size of our design. We're going to create a three-by-three grid. This means our Instagram puzzle will consist of three columns and three rows. Each column and each row will include three Instagram posts. I guess you already know that the Instagram post is a square with a width and height of 180 pixels. To calculate the size of our Instagram puzzle, we multiply 1080 pixels by three and get a result of 3,240 pixels. Our Instagram puzzle is going to be a square with a size of 3,240 pixels on each side. Now we can go to canva. On the top right corner under the gear icon, there is a button called Custom Size. When selecting this button, canva allows us to enter the width and the height of our design. Here, we just type 30 to 40 in both fields and then select the button, create a new design. Canva takes us to Canva editor and we can turn on the rules and guidelines. To do that, we go to File on the top left corner. By clicking the File button, we see a dropdown menu and select Show rulers and guides from the available options. By turning on the rulers, we can view the horizontal and vertical rulers on the top and side of the screen. You can see the gray highlight on our rulers while selecting or moving the element. This shows the dimensions of the element that we've selected. We can align it by viewing measurements on the rulers. You can place the guidelines anywhere on your design page to position the elements correctly and perfectly. Guides are very helpful when we want to work in a specific border and alignment on a design page using the rules and diodes in Canva editor, we can align the elements in our Instagram puzzle and easily create three columns and three rows with the same width and height. Let's go closer to our design. Now. I'm going to create two vertical and two horizontal guidelines. The top ruler is going to help me create the vertical ones. And the left side ruler is going to navigate me create the horizontal ones using drag and drop. I'm going to drag the first vertical guideline to 1080 pixels. In the same way, I'm going to drag the second vertical guideline to 2160 pixels. We currently have three columns of the same size and our grid structure is 50% ready. To complete it, I'm going to create the other two guidelines using the drag drop technique. Again, I'm going to drag the first horizontal guideline to 1080 pixels. In the same way, I'm going to drag the second one to 2,160 pixels. We already have our grid design completed, which will guide us when creating our Instagram puzzle. As you can see, this grid shows us clearly where each piece of our Instagram puzzle is going to be located. We can perfectly see where one element ends and where the other begins. Now we're ready to move forward and start creating our design using a template. 4. How to use Canva template: To speed up the process of creating an Instagram puzzle, we can use some of the templates that Canva offers. We can reach the templates by clicking the button templates on the upper left corner. Then we need to search for keywords that describe our business or our topic. Let's assume we're selling healthy food and we type these two keywords. It's very important to type the keywords together without space between them. The reason is that the templates that canvas shows us when typing the keyword separately are completely different from each other and it would be difficult to include them in our puzzle. Let me show you what I am talking about. First, I'm going to type healthy foods separately. The designs we see differ from each other. Of course, we could use them, but I recommend using templates with similar color schemes and fonts because this will save us a lot of effort and time. Let's see what happens when I type the keywords, healthy food together. We see that there are enough templates with similar designs that can be easily used when creating our Instagram puzzle. Before I choose the first template for our Instagram puzzle, I'm going to create a second page that will help me to select and group all elements of the selected template and apply them to our puzzle design. Using this second Help page makes the whole process smooth by providing us with a space where we can adjust and edit each separate template that we include in our design. After we already have the second page, I can just bring the first template to this second page and select all elements of the template. To cut them. I use the command Control X. Then I use the command Control V to paste all of them on the grid page. The first template is already on the grid page, and I'm going to resize it to fit inside one of the small squares. Of course, we can move only a particular element of the template and change a little bit the design we use. We can also put a particular design inside two or more squares. It's up to us how we will edit the templates. All the steps that I've just done to put a template inside a square of our grid design should be repeated until we have filled all nine squares on our puzzle. Let me summarize the five steps. First, choose the template. Second, bring the selected template to the second Help page. Third, select all elements of the template and cut them forth, paste the element of the template on the grid page. Fifth, resize the elements of the template to fill one or more squares on the Instagram puzzle design. I'm not going to repeat the five steps over and over again while I'm creating all nine designs for our Instagram puzzle, the steps are easy to remember and apply to the workflow in Canva. I only want to emphasize that you can also use the right button of the mouse when you cut and paste a design. I personally prefer to use the command on the keyboard, but it's okay if you want to use the mouse when cutting and pasting the elements. Once we have our design ready and look at it, we can make some more changes depending on how clear the design is. We can adjust or remove some elements. It's up to us to make the design look stunning. When adjusting the elements, It's key to make some of the elements touch more than one single square of our design way, our design looks really like a puzzle and all squares from the design look like pieces of it. We could also play with the colors and send some elements behind others. After we are sure that our design is completed, we can take the next step and cut our design into equal pieces. 5. How to split an image: We already have our puzzle design completed. Now we need to download the file because we're going to use another program to cut our design into nine equal squares. To download the file, I go to the upper right corner and select Download. Then I check the file type, makes sure that the selected file type is PNG and clicked download. The program I'm going to use to cut our puzzle design into small pieces is pine tools. It is user-friendly and free. People use the program to split an image horizontally, vertically or both. It allows its users to choose the sizes and quantity of the images being generated. With its simplicity and high-quality end products. This program is widely spread all over the world. Therefore, I highly recommend it. To bring our puzzle design to the program. I go to the field called input image and click the button here. I choose the file from my computer and open it. The image appears on the dashboard. On the right side, we can see the ways the program can cut our image. In this case, I select to split the image both vertically and horizontally. Then I enter the number of vertical and horizontal blocks. Before I generate the new images, I can adjust the quality to 100%. Once everything is done, I click the green button split image. It takes a second to generate the new images. As you can see, you can download all files as a zip file or download every single piece individually. I prefer to download the zip file with all images inside. Now we have all the puzzle pieces on the computer, and we can take the next step and upload all the images to Instagram. But before we take the next step, let's look at the images that we've generated. The first three images are from the first row of our grid design. The first row is the top row. The fourth, fifth, and sixth images are from the second row of our puzzle image. This is the middle row. The last three images are from the third row of the grid image. This is the bottom row. When opening some of the images, we see that each small square of the puzzle is converted into an individual Instagram post. The quality of the images is high and promises a good conversion of our Instagram puzzle. After we've split the image into nine equal pieces, we should upload all nine designs very carefully in order to appear on Instagram in the right order. This will be our next task. 6. How to upload a puzzle feed on Instagram: In this video, I'm going to show you how to upload puzzle images to Instagram. The most important point is to upload all nine images in order of last to first. Let's get started following this logic above the bottom right corner image goes first. This image is named row three, column three. Then I upload the bottom middle image, which is named row three, column two. I will continue with the bottom middle corner image called row three, column one. The first row of our Instagram puzzle is already uploaded. Now I start uploading the images of the middle row of our puzzle feed. I'm going to do it again in order of right to left. First I upload the middle right image called row two, column three. Then, as you guess goes, the middle image in the second row, this image is named row two, column two. And now goes the middle left image called row two, column one. The second row of our puzzle feed is already completed. One more is left, and we will be ready. Let's do it. The upper right corner image goes first. This is the image called row one, column three. Then I upload the middle image in the first row called row one, column two. And now goes the last image of our puzzle feed. This is the upper-left corner image called row one. Column one. Look at how beautiful our puzzle feed looks. It makes Instagram posts eye-catching, stunning, and more convertible. 7. Conclusion: Congratulations. Now you are completely ready to create and post puzzle feeds on your Instagram account. You only need to follow the steps shown in the class to ease the process of applying the steps above, I summarize the steps in this conclusion video. Using your knowledge gained during the class and helping yourself with the shorts guide. In this video, you can do it open Canva and create a design with a size of 30 to 40 by 30 to 40 pixels. Use the guidelines to create three columns, each with a width of 1080 pixels. Use the guidelines to create three rows, each with a height of 1,000 to 80 pixels. Use the keywords that describe your topic or your business and find templates to use. Create a second page in Canvas to use as a middle station when bringing the design to your puzzle feed. Re-size the selected template and put it inside one of the three squares of your puzzle design. Repeat the last step nine times. Adjust the colors and the elements on your puzzle feed template. Download the file as PNG open pin atolls.com and split the image into nine pieces. Download the images and upload them to Instagram in order of last to first. When you complete the whole process and you have your puzzle feed published, you could share it with us here under the class. By the way, if you enjoyed this course, please leave a good review because it really helps.