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Polaroid Frame Template
Browse polaroid frame templates for Instagram stories, then swap in your own photo, caption, and colors.
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Give your Instagram story that classic Polaroid look
A polaroid frame template adds a white border, rounded photo corners, and a caption strip under the photo, so a picture reads like an instant print instead of a plain snapshot. This polaroid frame template is built for Instagram stories, and you edit it right in your browser, with nothing to download and no second app to open.
VEED's story editor lets you swap in your own photo, rewrite the caption, and adjust the border color while the layout holds. If your photo needs a clean cutout first, try the background remover before dropping it into the frame.
How to make a polaroid frame template for Instagram stories:
Step 01
Browse templates and pick a story
Explore the gallery of Instagram story templates and choose one that fits your story. Select it to open it in the editor.
Step 02
Edit the template and swap in your elements
Replace the placeholders with your own. Rewrite the copy, drop in your photos, and adjust the colors to match your brand. Edit the prompt to change the artwork while the layout stays put.
Step 03
Resize and post to Instagram
Resize to Instagram story dimensions and export. Download your story, ready to share on Instagram.
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Watch how to make a polaroid frame template for Instagram stories
Frame a photo like an instant print, right in your browser
Drop your photo into the polaroid frame and the white border, rounded corners, and caption line snap into place around it. Rewrite the caption, swap the photo, or edit the prompt to change the backdrop and lighting while the frame holds its shape. Nothing to download, no second app to open.
The polaroid frame Instagram doesn't give you
Instagram's own story tools do not include a real polaroid frame, so most people fake it with a plain sticker border. This gallery has actual polaroid layouts already built, filterable and ready, and every one opens straight into the editor instead of a hunt through in-app stickers.
One frame or a full photo dump, on brand every time
Use one polaroid for a single throwback photo, or line up a few frames back to back for a full photo dump story that reads as one set. Start from a correctly sized blank story canvas and save your caption font and border color to a brand kit, so every polaroid you post afterward looks like the same series. Touch up a photo first with the AI image editor, or add a new backdrop with the AI image generator.
FAQ
A polaroid frame template is a white-bordered photo layout styled after an instant camera print, usually with a thick bottom edge for a handwritten caption. It works as a nostalgic, snapshot-style frame for a single photo or a set of photos. VEED's version is built for Instagram stories, so the border, corners, and caption line are already sized and ready to edit.
Polaroid frame templates show up across general design sites, stock asset libraries, and printable worksheet marketplaces, most of which hand over a file to finish somewhere else. VEED keeps a browsable gallery of polaroid-style story templates built specifically for Instagram stories. Filter the gallery, pick a layout, and it opens directly in the editor with no download step in between.
Open the template in the editor, then replace the sample photo with your own and rewrite the caption line. Adjust the border and background colors to match your brand, or edit the prompt to change the artwork behind the frame while the layout stays the same. Resize to story dimensions and download the finished image, ready to share to your Instagram story.
Start from a correctly sized blank story canvas instead of an existing layout, then build the frame yourself: a white border, rounded photo corners, and a caption strip at the bottom. Add your photo, set the colors and fonts, and save the layout to a brand kit. The same blank canvas and saved layout carry over to every polaroid story you make afterward.
Instagram's built-in story stickers include a basic frame shape, but there is no dedicated polaroid layout with a proper caption strip, and the sticker library is limited to what the app ships with. VEED's gallery has purpose-built polaroid frame templates you can filter and browse, and each one opens straight into a full editor instead of a single sticker you drag onto a photo.
An Instagram story is a vertical 9:16 frame at 1080 by 1920 pixels, and a polaroid frame template for stories is built to fill that full canvas, with the white border and caption strip sized inside it. VEED's story templates are already set to this size, so the polaroid layout lines up correctly the moment you open it, with no manual resizing needed first.
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With VEED I didn't need 15 tutorials - I jumped straight in and started editing.
Gwenne Wilcox
Founder,
Brand Brainery
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You can go beyond choppping things. VEED actually makes my videos look great.
Michael Glover
Demand Gen Manager,
ConvertFlow
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The first four videos i created with VEED got over 40,000 impressions on LinkedIn.
Travis Tyler
Senior Content Producer,
PandaDoc
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I found VEED at the right time: if you're making UGC ads and not using Eye Contact Correction and Noise Reduction on VEED you're missing out on ROI.
Sebastian Schurgers
Head of Growth Marketing,
Gronda
“
The first four videos i created with VEED got over 40,000 impressions on LinkedIn.
Travis Tyler
Senior Content Producer,
PandaDoc
“
I found VEED at the right time: if you're making UGC ads and not using Eye Contact Correction and Noise Reduction on VEED you're missing out on ROI.
Sebastian Schurgers
Head of Growth Marketing,
Gronda
“
With VEED I didn't need 15 tutorials - I jumped straight in and started editing.
Gwenne Wilcox
Founder,
Brand Brainery
“
You can go beyond choppping things. VEED actually makes my videos look great.
Michael Glover
Demand Gen Manager,
ConvertFlow
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More than a polaroid frame template
A single polaroid frame is rarely the whole story: start from this template or from a prompt, rewrite the caption, swap in a new photo, and adjust the border and background color while the layout holds, then save your caption font, border color, and logo to a brand kit so the look carries over. VEED is an AI image creation platform, and once one polaroid frame is working, the next step is usually a matching set: a second frame for tomorrow's photo, a three-up spread from the same trip, or a resized feed version of today's story.