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64,000+ Likes Curious how to take your Instagram to the next level? Arden Rose (@arose1860) reveals exactly how she creates a picture-perfect feed. by ALEX ABEL
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ON FILTERS
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“I love th hing There’s sometout powerful ab of c pi taking a ng your face, puttiet, it on the Intern and saying, ‘I’m proud.’ ”
STEP 1
STEP 2
Arden takes between two and thirty pics on her phone to get the right one. Once she selects a fave, she imports it into the VSCO Cam app. “It has really great indie filters.”
She changes the filter to HB1—“it has a muted, overexposed look”—and knocks down the effect by half. “My color palette is a lot of light blue, white, and gray—like a cloudy sky.”
@mattcrump These super-saturated snaps will make you feel like you’re living in a candy-colored paradise.
@ihavethisthingwithfloors Get ready to spend hours staring at Birkenstocks on beautiful floors. Seriously, though.
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ON CROPPING
“I only crop an image if it wi make the phot ll look better—liko e if someone’s fo is in the shot.”ot
“So k and say ‘I c look ba ke that pic,’ don’t li delete n a d oesn’t use it d it beca k good on loo d.” my fee
@thepinkdiary STEP 3
STEP 4
After that, Arden switches to another group of settings, where you can tweak the brightness of the picture “to bump up the fade, so it has that old film–y look.”
If the image looks dull, she slightly ups the contrast level. Then she checks the pic against others in her VSCO Cam to make sure it goes with her overall theme. Finally: Insta upload!
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This dreamy lifestyle Insta will have you legit excited to see another what-I’meating-for-breakfast pic.
ROSE: COURTESY OF ARDEN ROSE. @MAT TCRUMP: COURTESY OF MAT T CRUMP. @IHAVETHISTHINGWITHFLOORS: COURTESY OF K AYL A OWENS OF @KNWNS. @THEPINKDIARY: COURTESY OF SHARON KIM.
“Stick to a theme and filte r, your feed has so a similar look. I liv e in Venice, Calif ornia, so a beachy, washed-out vib makes sense.” e
