Start designing your customized Instagram stories

Expanding your reach? Launching a new product? Just sharing a day-in-the-life? Your Instagram stories share your exciting updates, fresh perspectives, and everyday moments with your audience online—so it’s time to make them as impactful as your story is with CorelDRAW Go.

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Glencore
Pfizer

How to create Instagram stories with CorelDRAW Go

With creative templates, comprehensive editing tools, and vector capabilities—all in your browser—CorelDRAW Go is the Instagram story game-changer for creators, influencers, and businesses alike. Here’s how it works:

Start your project

1. Start your project

Open CorelDRAW Go to create a design project using your own images.

Choose and customize your template

2. Choose and customize your template

Start from scratch or choose one of CorelDRAW Go’s fully editable Instagram story templates—then make it your own. Add photos, create frames or buttons, change the layout, adjust color palettes and effects, and more!

Save and share your story

3. Save and share your story

Happy with your design? Export the file and upload it to Instagram when you’re ready. Then, start engaging with your audience!

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“CorelDRAW Go shows just how far web apps have come. It’s essentially a full graphic design toolkit that runs in your web browser.”

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"Creating and editing vector objects online with CorelDRAW Go gives real creative freedom."

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Explore fully editable Instagram story templates

Explore fully editable Instagram story templates

Looking for a starting point for photo stories, boomerangs, dual cameras, or even Instagram reels? Choose from CorelDRAW Go’s wide array of templates—and make your design your own with tools for changing colors, images, design elements, and more.

Make your images Instagram-worthy

Make your images Instagram-worthy

CorelDRAW Go lets you upload your own photos and edit them for the ‘gram. Take your aesthetic to the next level with vector and image editing tools for adding text, shadows, gradients, brush strokes, and other effects to create images that improve engagement.

You can also edit photos to give your Instagram grid a more cohesive look—which may translate to higher engagement through comments, likes, and shares.

Export and share on Instagram

Export and share on Instagram

CorelDRAW Go lets you export your designs in the correct format for Instagram stories, ensuring they'll look exactly as you envision. You can also adjust file type, dimensions, DPI, and other features of your design.

Instagram story FAQs

Have questions about designing Instagram stories in CorelDRAW Go? Find answers here.

You can—and it’s easy! Start with a blank canvas, a template of your choice, or your own photos to create Instagram stories.

Does CorelDRAW Go have built-in Instagram story templates?

It does! CorelDRAW Go comes with a library of Instagram story templates that you can use to kickstart your design.

You can explore the templates catalog here and see how to edit templates in this guide.

Can I create my own Instagram story template in CorelDRAW Go?

Yes! CorelDRAW Go’s story template library includes a space for you to create custom templates—so you can set up your own branded designs and save them for future use.

What's a good size for an Instagram story?

Instagram stories use a 9:16 ratio, and Instagram recommends using dimensions of 1080 x 1920 px for better results. CorelDRAW Go’s Instagram story templates use these dimensions from the get-go.

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Photo effects

Remove backgrounds

Crop images

Captivate and entice your followers with engaging Instagram stories

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