hey guys my name is Francisco Hernandez and today I'm going to show you how to
make an Instagram carousel if you don't know what that is it's basically when
you're scrolling down Instagram you see somebody uploaded multiple images in a
single post you go to swipe away from that first shot to see the next shot but
then you end up seeing that it's not another shot but it's still that same
first shot just a little bit more of it this is something that you could have
done for a while now ever since Instagram made it so that you can upload
multiple photos in a single post but personally I've only started to
experiment with Instagram carousels for maybe a month or two now and when I
started to share my own Instagram carousels you guys were asking me how I
made them so I wanted to make this tutorial for everyone unfortunately it
is gonna require Photoshop so if you don't have Photoshop I would recommend
you download a trial or at least borrow a computer from somebody that has
Photoshop on that computer so although this isn't gonna be a Photoshop tutorial
it is gonna require a little knowledge of it and although I'm not gonna explain
a lot about the different tools that I'll be using I can't recommend a
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description area below get a free two month trial all right so we're pretty
much ready to start the tutorial but one thing that I want you guys to consider
is what image you're gonna be using for the carousel one that's going to be
really eye-catching and that's gonna want to lead people from that first half
of the image to the second half of the image because if that first half is
boring nobody's gonna want to swipe into that next shot and there's gonna be no
point in making an Instagram yourself okay so this is the photo that I chose
to make for this Instagram tutorial because it's one of my favorite images
and I thought it'd be really nice to highlight all the features on Barbies
face with a really close to in crop so the first thing that you have to
consider is the crop for a regular portrait orientation photo the Instagram
crop is going to be four by five so I'm going to go ahead and just bring up the
crop tool and you guys can see right there by default I have it selected by
four by five since I always crop for Instagram but since we're gonna be
dividing this image in half the ratio is gonna change depending on how many
images you're going to split the image into since I want this image to be
divided in half what I'm going to do is change the length of the image from four
to eight since four times two is eight and I want this image to be divided in
half right now what I'm gonna do is just go ahead and just get a crop that I'm
really happy with and as I said before you really want that first half to be
interesting to lead people into that second part of the image while I'm
choosing the crop I try to imagine that there's a line right here in the middle
and if I were to go ahead and just choose this crop right here you see if
nothing but sky on the left half and I don't think that's really interesting
enough to lead into the second image so the crop that I'm choosing right now is
gonna have half of Barbie's face a little bit peeking on to the left side of the
image with the rest of it being in the second shot and I think that's going to
be more interesting than just clouds on the Left shot I'm gonna hit enter and
this is gonna be the crop for the photo I'm gonna hit ctrl + to just zoom in a
little bit more and right now you can see all the detail on the screen but I
want this to be visible on Instagram so that's why I'm making it into an
Instagram carousel the very next step is that a little bit of math I mentioned
that you're gonna have to do earlier I really wanted to make sure that I had
the correct dimensions so I went online and saw that for portrait orientation
you want to have 1080 by 350 pixels but since the width is going to be x - the
width is gonna be 20 160 at this point the photo is exactly how I want it to be
to show up very nicely in Instagram and the last step that we have to do is
divide it in half the easiest way that I found to do that is to go to view new
guide layout and change the numbers to two if it's something else
leave the width and the gutter to zero and click OK after that you're gonna go
to where the crop tool is located hold down on that click on slice tool and up
here on top where it says sliced from guides you're gonna click on that and
it's gonna divide the image in half now although the photo is divided in half
now you still need to save it so we're gonna do now is go to file export save
for web make sure that the photo is in JPEG format with the quality of 100
and click Save I'm gonna save it on my desktop and when you go to check on the
images it's perfectly split in half ready to be shared on Instagram if you
guys are wondering how you would divide the image into three and not two then
what I would suggest is to find a nice wide image like I did right here with
this image from Erika back in 2016 and the only difference now is going to go
ahead and change the crop from not four by five or eight by five what we're
going to do now is change it to whatever four times the amount of images you want
to divide the image into which is gonna be three for me so three times four is
twelve dozen to be 12 by five so what I'm gonna go ahead and do is try to find
an interesting crop for this photo and although this is an image with her on
the far right I guess you guys can learn from this mistake and try to find an
image with a person on the far left so I'm going to choose this crop right here
click OK and as I said before you want to multiply 1080 times the amount of
images that are gonna be dividing it into so 1080 times three is gonna be
what's 1080 times three is three to four which isn't meat 3,240 so I'm gonna go
ahead and change the image size to 3248 on the width click OK go to view new
guide layout the number of columns is gonna be three instead of two now click
OK and go to the crop area click on it hold it and get the slice tool out slice
um guides and then finally go to file export save for web make sure that it's
saved as a JPEG at 100% quality and just click Save and now I'm ready to make two
different posts on Instagram so to recap you want to make sure that
you find an image that's gonna be a little bit interesting on the left side
of the image doesn't lead people into the right side and you also want to make
sure that this image is at least 2160 pixels wide so you can divide it in half
at least and that's pretty much it I hope you guys enjoyed this video I hope
it wasn't too difficult and you guys decided to make Instagram castles
yourself I would love for you guys to tag me in those carousels so I can check
them out all right take care guys and I'll see you in the next video
you