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Make standout highlight covers for your Instagram stories with Adobe Express.
Customize your Instagram profile with highlight covers to match your aesthetic using Adobe Express. Explore our selection of premade cover templates or create your own design. Upload your own images and logo right to your highlight cover. Or use our collections of stock photos, icons, graphics, backgrounds, and text styles to build your cover. Create quickly and easily so you can personalize each highlight with its own cover image.
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How to make a highlight cover for Instagram stories.
Launch the app.
Open Adobe Express to start creating for free on web or mobile.Explore inspiration.
Kickstart your project with a stunning template. Search by aesthetic or keyword to explore thousands of professional designs and choose one to make your own.Showcase handpicked images.
Add images from your device or image libraries. Explore free assets including photos, icons, and backgrounds in our collections to top off your design.Add typography.
Enter in any text you want to feature in your highlight cover, including titles, captions, or quotes. Personalize with dozens of text effects and adjustments.Download your highlight cover.
Save your completed highlight cover right to your device. Revisit your project anytime in the future to update it or remix the design.
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Creative highlight covers await with Adobe Express.
Instagram story highlight covers are an opportunity to let your personality shine to your followers. Whether you’re using Instagram for personal or business purposes, anyone can add custom highlight covers and do so quickly with the help of Adobe Express. Craft your own highlight covers to show off your archive of stories with your followers. Adobe Express makes it easy, free, and fun to create and share your designs so you can get right back to making more unforgettable memories.
Make standout covers for all your highlights.
Our free online highlight cover maker allows you to customize designs the way you want, when you want. Social media moves fast, so when you need a highlight cover in a pinch, Adobe Express has your back. Start from a blank canvas or a premade template, or create from an existing project. Adobe Express is exceptionally easy to use — and it also happens to be lots of fun.
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Frequently asked questions.
What is the ideal size for an Instagram story highlight cover?
You have some flexibility with the size of the image you use for your highlight cover. You can use a story from your highlight to make a cover, or you can upload an image right from your device. Your cover will crop your image into a circle, so make sure you include everything you want in that circle space. The Adobe Express Instagram highlight cover templates come in the standard story size (1080px by 1920px) in case you plan to share your highlight cover on your story.
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