All your Instagram Story design needs for free in one place.
Fill your Instagram Stories with stunning content with the help of Adobe Express. Explore templates, upload your photos, or choose from libraries of free images, icons, and graphics to build your story design. It’s as easy as choosing a template, customizing, and sharing.
Add your own photos or videos and start your creation from there. You can also import your PSD or Ai files and Adobe Express will recognize all of your layers.
Open Adobe Express for free on your desktop or mobile device to start creating your story.
Explore stunning templates.
Get inspired with thousands of professionally designed templates to choose from. Search by mood, aesthetic, theme, or color.
Personalize your story.
Upload your own photos, or browse through libraries of stock images and designs to add to your story. Choose a font, handpick your color palette, and even add your brand’s logo.
Animate your story.
Add animated stickers or apply animation for short-form graphic videos that will catch the attention of your followers.
Save and share your Instagram Story.
Instantly download your design to your device to post it to your story or schedule it for later. Revisit your project anytime to update it, resize it, or remix it for future stories.
See what people are saying about Adobe Express.
Abs Ahlijah
Marketing & Content Coordinator @ Soul Session
"As a marketer who is always on the move. Adobe Express helps me to create fast, high quality content. Absolute endless features to enhance my creativity!"
Liz Mosley
Owner, Liz Mosley Design
"I use Adobe Express to create and schedule a lot of my own content, and by creating templates for my own brand I have saved my self hours marketing my business!”
Penuel Stanley-Zebulon
Student @ Pennsylvania State University
"The remove background image tool in Adobe Express saved me hours of tedious editing, effortlessly removing backgrounds and refining my images with just a few clicks."
Attabeira German de Turowski
Owner, Attabeira Oneline
"I use Express Premium for my social media efforts and Content Scheduler has helped me grow my following through consistent posting."
Mike Nappi
Owner, NappiMusic
"I'm all in on Adobe Express. Premium makes it easy for me to maintain a cohesive look and feel for my brand."
Discover even more features for easy content creation.
Make multiple page Instagram Stories with ease.
Give your Instagram Stories a consistent look and feel by using the multiple page feature. Add or duplicate pages directly in the editor, apply bulk edits to multiple pages, and create your own multiple-page templates to use for future stories.
Tell an unforgettable story on Instagram with Adobe Express.
Take your Instagram Stories to the next level with the design capabilities of Adobe Express. Make customized stories, including edited images, photo collages, and stunning graphics. In one tap, you can even apply templates and animation styles to make your message stand out. Combine images, video, graphics, music, and more to tell your story. Instantly download high-quality files to share on your story for all your friends and followers to enjoy.
Let Adobe Express be your Instagram Story design expert.
Explore professionally designed templates to get your wheels spinning or create your photo from scratch. Establish a theme for your designs using pictures, icons, logos, personalized fonts, and other customizable elements to make them feel entirely authentic. Duplicate designs and resize them to create consistency across multiple types of assets. With Adobe Express, it’s free and easy to make, save, and share your designs within minutes.
Create visuals that reflect your brand, while still being candid and playful. Use prominent imagery and smaller amounts of text. If you have a lot to say, break it up across several slides. Make a design with Adobe Express, then sprinkle other features from Instagram on top, like stickers, polls, or Q&As on top for added customization.
What makes an engaging Instagram Story?
Invite users to participate in your story using interactivity. Add animation to your Adobe Express design so it stands out in the feed. Use Instagram stickers such as quizzes or rankings in innovative ways to motivate your viewers to engage.
What is the recommended size for an Instagram Story?
Instagram Stories are 1080px by 1920px, which is an aspect ratio of 9:16. Our Adobe Express story templates are automatically set to the correct size so you can save time and design more.
Can I get Adobe Express for free? If so, what’s included?
Yes, Adobe Express has a free plan that includes core features like photo editing tools and effects and thousands of free templates. Learn more about our plans and pricing.
Can I create my own Instagram Story template?
Any new or existing project can be turned into a shareable template. To turn your Instagram Story into a template, click on the three-dot menu at the left of the Download button and follow the steps to turn your design into a template.
What’s the best way to design an Instagram Story? opened
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