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Stories Background
Browse Instagram story background templates, start from one that fits, and swap in your own text, photos, and colors.
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A background that makes every Instagram story feel finished
A stories background is the image or graphic sitting behind your text, photos, or stickers on Instagram, and picking the right one turns a rushed story into something that looks planned. VEED's Instagram story background templates open straight in your browser, so you customize the artwork, text, and colors without downloading a file or opening design software.
Every template starts from real Instagram story dimensions, 1080 x 1920 px, so nothing gets cropped when you post. If none of the built-in scenes fit, generate a new one with the AI image generator and drop it straight into the layout.
How to create an Instagram story background template:
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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Swap the backdrop without rebuilding the layout
Change a plain color background into a gradient, pattern, or photo backdrop just by editing the prompt, while your text, stickers, and photo placement stay put. Lift a product or portrait out of its original photo with the background remover and place it on a new backdrop, all in your browser, with nothing to download.
Instagram's own backgrounds stop at a color swatch
Instagram's native story tool only lets you pick from a short list of flat colors behind text or a sticker, with no photos, patterns, or layouts on offer. VEED's story background templates are full designs you can filter by style and occasion, and every one opens straight into the editor instead of a limited in-camera menu.
One background, reused across a whole week of stories
Build one background and carry it across a full sequence of story frames so a week's worth of posts still reads as one set. Start from a correctly sized blank canvas, save your colors and fonts to a brand kit, and stretch a background to fill the frame with the AI image extender when a photo runs short. The same backdrop resizes cleanly for Instagram post templates too, so your feed and stories match.
FAQ
An Instagram story background template is a pre-built vertical image, sized 1080 x 1920 px, that gives a story a finished look before you add your own text or photos. VEED's templates open in a browser editor, where you can swap the artwork, colors, and copy without downloading a file or opening a separate design app.
Instagram's own story camera offers a short, hard-to-search list of background colors buried behind the sticker tray. VEED's asset library groups Instagram story background templates by style and occasion instead, so you can browse, filter, and preview options in one place. Every template opens straight into the editor, ready to customize in your browser.
Open a template from the gallery, then replace the placeholder text, photos, and colors with your own. If the artwork itself needs to change, edit the prompt rather than the layout, since prompt editing rewrites the image while your text and photo placement stay fixed. Resize to story dimensions and download it, ready to share on Instagram.
Yes. Start from a blank story canvas sized to 1080 x 1920 px, or generate a fresh background from a text prompt when none of the templates fit what you need. Adjust the colors, fonts, and layout in the same browser editor, then save the result as a reusable template for your own weekly posts.
Instagram's built-in tool sets a plain, single color behind text or a sticker directly in the story camera, with no imagery or layout options. VEED's story background templates are full designs, photos, graphics, and text placement included, that you customize in a browser editor instead of the Instagram app itself. It's a finished starting point, not a flat color fill.
An Instagram story background should be 1080 x 1920 px, a vertical 9:16 frame that fills the screen without cropping. VEED's story templates are already set to this size, so a background you choose or build stays correctly proportioned through editing, resizing for the feed, and download.
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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
“
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 stories background
A stories background is just the start: generate one from a template or a text prompt, refine it by swapping the artwork, colors, and copy while the layout holds, then brand it with your logo, colors, and fonts saved to a brand kit. VEED is an AI image creation platform, so the same backdrop you build for one story resizes for the next frame in the sequence, a matching post in your feed, or a fresh set the following week without starting from scratch.