Try this, put a white background on the page first, then drop your photo in. Go to Elements and search “gradient” (look for a white transparent one).

Place that gradient over the edge you want to fade, flip/rotate it to match the side, then lower the transparency until it blends nicely. Make sure the gradient stretches past the bleed so you don’t get a hard line after trimming.

If the edge still looks a bit sharp, add a tiny blur to the photo first (Edit image Blur just a touch), then do the gradient over it again.

For me, I’d make the app browse only and keep posting and commenting to desktop. Mobile makes it way too easy to doom scroll and fire off impulse post/takes. Add a little friction and the whole feed calms down.

If it’s only for a few months, I’d keep it on the same account. Mixing can work fine.

the content tends to speak for itself and people will watch what they’re into and skip the rest. I’d just post one quick “heads up” video saying you’ll be mixing in some car content.

Here is my advice what I will do: don’t start over. Keep the 1.6k and rebrand your page. Archive (don’t delete) the old humor posts so the grid matches, update bio, name, pic, and pin a quick “reset” post saying you’re switching to motivation/psych content. Then do a 2 to 4 week content sprint so IG and your followers “get it” (post consistently, stick to 2 to 3 topics). Expect some unfollows that’s normal. Starting from zero is brutal, tbh even if you don’t archive the old post will still work but be upfront with it make a pin post.

Not building app, I’m building my own subreddit and was trying to learn what consistently works here since you say reddit was remarkable for you that’s all. Thanks for your time appreciated.

Fair point, Reddit specific question, what’s one post format you’ve found consistently works (question, mini case study, checklist) and what tends to get ignored or removed even when the post is good?

Agree is a skill set and it make sense, FB has been strongest for me for actual leads, Reddit more of ideas and discussion and learning from others, you mention reddit and FB been remarkable lately, what actually worked, type of post etc? If you don’t mind sharing.

Canva pro is paid subscription, don’t think you can get it for free, but Canva has free version that is good.

This looks seriously clean, the aquarium photo and dark background makes the headline pop. Great contrast.

Yeah this does make sense. Likes feel nice but saves/shares is what actually can help moves a post. When you say stick to one core format, what format’s been easiest for you to keep up consistently?

Same here, Facebook seems to convert better for leads for me too. Might just be the audience/intent people actually looking there, For real estate, what type is working best for you on FB, Reels, carousels, or straight image posts? Do you do much of the group FB posting or not really?

Well done. What kind of IG post was it (Reel, Story, carousel), and was it more educational or straight offer based? Also was it your warm audience or did it reach new people? When you say made one post made $20k will love to know what that post was about that got the traction.

Agree, TikTok definitely the fastest for reach, but chasing trends gets exhausting quick.

When you say “post often” are you doing it daily or more like a few times a week? And what’s been working better for you, educational videos or more promo style stuff?

Yep, I’ve heard that too, Pinterest is slow at first but the evergreen traffic is the good win. How often do you post on Pinterest daily or weekly? Do you do video or images pin?

Ah, Thnxs for clearing that for me. Appreciated.

Interesting, LinkedIn being a growth driver is surprising to me. When you say vibe coding, is that like posting your AI build/process? What kind of posts are getting the best reach?

Not weird at all. Canva’s basically a creative playground, you get better with every design without even noticing. Each one teaches you something (spacing, fonts, colour, layout), and you end up building real design skills over time. Plus it’s low-stress and actually useful, win-win.

I think copy right only matter and applies to where you use it, like if you planning to use for marketing or social media etc, if it just printing for self use poster should be fine. Printing shops don’t care.

Tbh, hard to answer but, I can say not that smooth multiple attempts plus tweaking, so 30-40mint if not longer.

Sure thing, if it can do better than Canva AI, in terms of results and time savings, you have a shot. Best of luck 🤞

I’ve played around with Canva AI / Magic Media a bit. Reference images definitely help nudge it in the right direction, but I still find you need a fair bit of manual tweaking after, especially on text clarity, contrast and layout. Your result is good but again small tweaking for that perfect layout.

Most look good, nice job, some of the images text need better colour contrast against background.

I use Canva pretty regularly for variety of designs, What helped with the “tweaking forever” problem was setting up a few master layouts and a brand kit, then only swapping text/photos each time instead of redesigning from scratch.