What is the shortest path to a swipe pack?

Two JPEGs, Carousel on, 1:1, two slides, pan, Save All, unzip, upload. Under a minute on a laptop.

How do I make an Instagram swipe?

1:1 or 4:5, ≤10 frames, ZIP, attach as a multi-image post. See that spoke for the ten-frame cap.

How do I make a LinkedIn document carousel?

Export squares, impose a PDF locally, upload as a document. This studio will not skip the PDF step.

How do I keep faces in frame?

Drag inside the pane. Cover-fit crops; pan chooses what is lost.

How many slides should I use?

As many beats as you have, under destination rules. Five honest frames beat sixteen leftovers.

Can I add music or animation?

Not here. Stills only. Video and GIF are other tools.

Carousel Maker Guide

How to Make a Carousel — from folder to ZIP

This is the sequence for this studio, not a pile of “how to make a swipe post” synonyms. If you can order photographs, you can finish a pack.

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Written by Safaat Rahman Siham, Founder & Developer at Convertify4u. Contact us.

A complete pass with the decisions that matter

1. Decide the destination, then the stills

Instagram feed: 1:1 or 4:5, ten frames or fewer. LinkedIn document: 1:1 stills plus a PDF hop. Facebook organic or ads: usually 1:1. Product walk: hero → detail → lifestyle. Lesson: one beat per frame. Gather those files. Convert HEIC. Do not start with a 40-photo dump and hope the strip edits itself — it will not. Two photos is the studio minimum; more than sixteen will not load.

2. Filmstrip controls

Open the hub, switch Single → Carousel. Set ratio. Set slide count to the number of full-frame beats (not “a few extra empty ones”). Add files. Dashed guides (export-hidden) show cuts. Drag inside each pane so the subject survives object-fit cover. Background hex only matters if gap/padding shows. Corner radius is optional cosmetics. There is no grid catalog in this mode — if you wanted cells, you wanted collage.

3. ZIP, order, extra hops

Save All. Unzip. Sort by name (slide-01…). Upload in that order. Instagram: attach as a multi-image post. Facebook: same, or import into Ads Manager. LinkedIn document: impose PDF (Preview / Drive / Acrobat), then upload. Add type in the destination or in a kit before you drop PNGs in. If a frame is soft, the source was small or the pan left the subject on a seam. If Safari vanished, you hit RAM — see the mobile spoke.

How it works

1
Write the beats
One line per frame. If you cannot, you do not have a carousel yet; you have a folder.
2
Prepare files
Convert HEIC, discard near-duplicates, stay inside sixteen and inside the destination cap.
3
Ratio → count → pan → ZIP
That is the UI. Chrome is optional.
4
Publish in the real app
Including the PDF hop when LinkedIn documents are the surface.

Use cases

First swipe post

Five vacation JPEGs, 1:1, default count, ZIP, Instagram.

A product walk

Four matched pack-shots. See the product spoke for shot lists.

A lesson

Six steps. Captions in the post, not in 8-pt JPEG type.

A LinkedIn document

Squares here, PDF on your machine, document composer there.

Problems we solve

Starting in collage by accident

If you see a grid strip, you are in Single. Toggle Carousel.

Empty extra slides

Count should match beats. Unused slices still get cut and look like gaps.

Uploading in date order

The OS may ignore slide-01 names. Sort by name or you scramble the story.

Related guides

Related image tools

Pair the Carousel Maker with crop, compress, resize, or format converters before you create your carousel.

Trust & technology

Short UI sequence

Mode, box, count, files, pan, ZIP. Teachable in five minutes.

Platform extras are documented

We will not hide the LinkedIn PDF step inside a fake export button.

Nothing to install

If the hub loads, this walkthrough’s tool is the same tab.

Frequently asked questions

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