How To Achieve Instant Instagram Glory

You know your pet is the sweetest/fluffiest/cutest in the whole wide Internet. Now you need the right Instagram snap to prove it. Follow these steps to lock down likes and turn your pet into an Insta-star.

(Photo: Instagram, Chantal Levesque)

1. Capture

Capture your pet doing what your pet does best: catching a Frisbee, snoozing in a shoe, sitting stone-still in a terrarium.

(Photo: Instagram, Dominique Ritter)

2. Crop

Crop image to dramatic advantage. That face is so adorbs! Make it the focus. Better yet: enhance focus by blurring background.

(Photo: Instagram, Julie Menard)

3. Choose

Choose the right filter for your shot: for more drama, saturate colours using Mayfair or Lo-Fi; keep to Rise or Valencia for a light and playful tone. For gravitas, try the contrast option.

(Photo: Instagram, Chantal Levesque)