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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 SELFIES “I love them. There’s something powerful about taking a pic of your face, putting it on the Internet, and saying, ‘I’m proud.’ ”

STEP 1

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.”

ON FILTERS “Stick to a theme and filter, so your feed has a similar look. I live in Venice, California, so a beachy, washed-out vibe makes sense.”

STEP 2

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.”

ON CROPPING “I only crop an image if it will make the photo look better—like if someone’s foot is in the shot.”

STEP 3

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.”

ON DELETING “Sometimes I’ll look back and say ‘I don’t like that pic,’ and delete it because it doesn’t look good on my feed.”

STEP 4

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! @mattcrump

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