Fotor provides Highlight cover templates in a range of styles, including monochrome, gradient, line-art, and watercolor designs.
No experience is needed. Just select a correctly sized template, then customize it to suit your needs and preferences. Anyone can create marvelous Instagram Highlight covers on Fotor with ease.
How to make a custom Instagram Highlight cover with Fotor?
- Visit
Fotor and click “Create” on the left toolbar, then select “AI Design” to access the tool.
- Search for “Highlight” in the top search bar, then choose your preferred Instagram Highlight cover template to customize.
- Add Instagram Highlight cover photos and Instagram cover icons, and change the background. You can rotate, flip, or resize graphics and icons.
- After finishing the Instagram Highlight cover design, click the "Download" button to save it locally. Open Instagram, and upload it.
How to Add Highlights Cover on Instagram?
You can create multiple Highlights to organize your saved Stories and make your profile easier to browse. It's quite easy as you follow the steps below.
- Go to your Instagram profile and tap "New" or the "+" button in the Highlights section.
- Scroll through your Instagram stories album and select the stories you want to add to your Highlight. Then tap “Next” on the top right corner of the screen.
- Enter a story name for your new Highlight and then tap “Edit Cover” to edit the default cover set by Instagram.
- Once done, tap “Add” on the top right corner of the screen.
- If you want to add more than one Highlight as well as one cover, just repeat the steps above.
How to Change Instagram Highlight Cover?
Once you add Highlights on Instagram, it will set default covers for your Highlights. If you do not want to use the default covers, follow these steps to replace it.
- Go to your profile page and click on the Highlight.
- Open the Highlight you want to edit, tap "More" (⋯), select "Edit Highlight," then choose "Edit Cover." Select the “Edit Cover” option on the top.
- Then all the images in your Highlight will appear on the screen. Scroll through the photos in your Highlight and choose a picture you want as the new cover.
- If you are not interested in the images in your Highlight, you can upload an Instagram Highlight cover from your camera roll. Just swipe all the way to the left until you reach the beginning of the image list. And click on the photo icon at the bottom of the screen. Then choose a photo from your camera roll.
- Once edited, tap Done.
Instagram Highlight Cover Ideas
Now you know everything about Instagram Highlights. Explore Fotor's template collection for visual inspiration and ideas you can adapt to your own cover set.
1. Simple Icons Highlight Covers
If you are a small business owner like a cafe owner, you can use the below beige and brown simple icons Highlight cover template. The simple, recognizable icons help customers identify your main products, services, or profile categories at a glance.
2. Illustration Highlight Covers
Look at this template. If you are a store selling travel supplies, you can use these illustrations on your Instagram Highlight covers. This can help others know what products they can buy in your store.
This monochrome illustration set has a minimalist look that suits art, design, photography, and creative portfolios.
3. Abstract Shapes Highlight Covers
If you have no idea about what content to display on your Instagram Highlight covers, you can use this template. Abstract shapes can give your profile a distinctive visual identity and encourage visitors to explore your Highlights.
4. Fashion Highlight Covers
Look at this template, it’s great for fashion bloggers to display on their Instagram Highlight covers. The black background color makes the colorful text clear and eye-catching. Viewers can easily know what the content is about before they click on each Highlight.
5. Colorful Gradient Highlight Covers
6. Texture and Line Art Highlight Covers
If you want to add a creative and artistic touch to your Highlight covers, try to use this template. The stylish font and colorful backgrounds exempt your design from monotony. They can catch the viewers’ eyes at first sight.
Different from regular Highlight cover designs, this template uses many lines to design icons. Each icon is easy to recognize, while the consistent line style keeps the set visually cohesive.
7. Minimal Social Media Highlight Covers
Simplicity works especially well at small thumbnail sizes. If you prefer minimal designs, you can use this template. It’s simply designed and the text on each cover is clear and readable. Viewers can quickly understand the content of your account.
8. Watercolor Highlight Covers
Look at this template. It uses different background colors, like yellow, purple, blue, and pink. Each cover is colorful and visually appealing. And you can personalize it by adding text on each cover.
9. Nature Highlight Covers
This floral set is a natural fit for gardening, botanical, wellness, and nature-focused accounts. Each cover contains one kind of flower, and they can be used for a series of Instagram Highlights to display the variety of flowers and related content.
10. Food Highlight Covers
If you are a store owner selling fruits, this template is perfect for you. It contains 9 types of fruits, like watermelon, mango, cherry, etc. You can use this group of covers to display the different types of fruits in your store.
If your profile is mainly sharing the content of daily dishes, especially what to eat for breakfast, you can use this template. Each icon represents a type of food, and they can be used for displaying different content.
Instagram Highlight Cover Best Practices
The templates above offer a useful starting point. To create your own covers from scratch, follow these design principles.
1. Be Simple and Clear
Highlight covers appear as small thumbnails, so avoid crowding them with long text or detailed graphics. Keep it clear and easy to read. Use simple icons and concise text so that others can easily understand your content.
2. Keep Consistency in Color
Your Instagram Highlight covers don’t need to use one color. But the colors you use for each cover must be consistent. For example, for a minimal design, the colors can be black, white, or brown. Instead, bright colors like pink, red, and yellow are perfect for aesthetic and artistic designs.
3. Highlight What Matters Most
Because only a limited number of Highlights are visible at first glance, place your most important categories first. So you can put the most important content on the far left, and put those less necessary on the right side. On the first page, the Highlights must be your high-quality content with a hot topic. Prioritize evergreen categories and the content that is most useful to new visitors.
4. Use Icons and Illustrations
For abstract content, text cannot convey what you want to express precisely. So you can use icons and illustrations. They are visually appealing and easy to read. For example, if you want to display plants, you can use illustrations of flowers.
Wrapping Up
Well-designed Highlight covers can strengthen your visual identity and make your saved Stories easier to navigate. A consistent, carefully designed cover set can make your profile feel more polished and organized. Use the dimensions and design principles in this guide as a starting point for your own covers.
