Frequently Asked Questions…

Now that you have your animation fresh off the press from our collaboration, here are some useful tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your digital products! Scroll down for…

  • How can I tag you?

  • How to use the GIPHY app for your GIF stickers without them going public in Instagram

  • How to get an animated email signature (using a GIF sticker)

  • How to Add Text to Video With Instagram (aka the easiest way)

  • Why Choosing a Cover For Your Instagram Video is Important (and how to do it!)

  • How to Set a Facebook Cover Video

  • Using the Vont App to Add Text to Video (aka my favourite way)

 

How Can I Tag You?

I look forward to sharing your content on my social media with a link back to you. If you’d like to do the same, my details are below xo

Tania

Petit Pixel Design

Instagram: @petitpixeldesign

Facebook: @petitpixeldesign

Website: www.petitpixeldesign.com

 
 

How to use the GIPHY app for your GIF stickers

Why do it this way? You might be waiting a few days before your channel goes public. Maybe you don’t want to have to search for your public stickers in Instagram stories every time. Also GIF stickers from the GIPHY app straight to Instagram are much better quality than when they’ve been squished down to go into public Instagram GIF stickers :)

  1. Download the GIPHY app on your phone and login. If I’ve set up your channel for you I’ll give you these details. Press on the little person icon on the bottom right corner to see your channel.

  2. Open Instagram Stories and get started on your Insta Story

  3. Open the GIPHY app and “long press” (aka hold your finger down) on the GIF sticker you want to use until the menu comes up where you can choose Copy

  4. Switch to your Instagram story. In the bottom left corner a pop-up of the GIF sticker will appear giving you the option to “add sticker”. Select paste, drag and resize.

P.S. I hope my way-too-many-unattended-notification-badges don’t give you hives! :P

 

How to get an animated email signature (using a GIF sticker)

Lots of email programs (GSuite etc) support animated email signatures now so if you’re looking for a way to make your emails stand out from the competition, adding a moving signature is fun and eye catching! Most of my clients book me for logo animations and GIF stickers so both of these “products” lead perfectly into animated email signatures. I’ve made a video that shows you how to insert one into Gmail / Gsuite below…

Just be aware that the occasional email app, like Outlook, doesn’t show animated email signatures yet. For that reason, I design animated signatures with the first frame as the full logo because Outlook will pick this to be what it uses as a signature. That’s why having one custom designed is always a good idea…and I would love to help you with that :)

 

How to Add Text to Video With Instagram

This is the quickest way if you want a portrait or a landscape video that’s 15 seconds or less in length. You’re going to use the Instagram Stories feature to load the video, add your text, and instead of posting it as a story, saving it instead. Then you have the video with text to post wherever you want! Remember Instagram will even auto crop it as a square when you go to load it as a post to your Instagram feed :)

 
 

Why choosing a “cover” for your video on Instagram is important…

It’s all about keeping your Instagram grid looking cute! Watch the video below for a how-to on choosing a cute “cover” aka “thumbnail” when preparing to post your animation or video…

 
 

How to Set a Facebook Cover Video…

Facebook cover videos, whilst cute and fun, can be a little finnicky. Facebook is in charge of how crisp they will appear on your Facebook Page. Even if the video in the Facebook video library is showing perfect quality, sometimes Facebook will squish the quality of your cover video down a little bit….no matter how much we follow the exact technical specs for creating your video. Aaah Facebook, so necessary but so frustrating! The below video shows you how to upload a Facebook Cover Video, and if your cover video has a nice white background, watch for the little trick on how to set the “still frame aka cover” for your FB towards the end. Facebook needs you to find and click on an invisible arrow to do this. How kind of them! :)


 

Using the Vont app to add text to video…

What if you want a few more options when adding text to video…like choosing fonts etc? Sooo many “text on video” apps out there use subscription pricing, but Vont is one of the simple easy ones that doesn’t yay! It’s less than $10, and it’s one of my favourite go-to apps…so I did a how-to on this one for you too :)


 
 

The range of apps to choose from when adding extras to your already cute videos and animations from me is always changing. It’s one of the fastest growth areas in the apps landscape, and for good reason…everyone wants to use video in their social media because it gets attention and clicks! Lucky for you, making how-to videos for my favourite finds is something I love to do so if you have one you want to know more about let me know…otherwise I’ll keep sharing what I find xo