Let's create a gorgeous swipeable,
seamless carousel post for Instagram, just like this one using Canva.
So I want you to head to Canva.
If you don't have an account already, you're going to sign up for a free account
and then we're going to create design, but we're going to use custom size.
So our height is easy.
1080 or one thousand eighty pixels, but the width is going to be
the number of panels we want to be able to swipe across times 1080 or times one thousand and eighty.
So for this example, I'm going to pop in my height.
So it is 1080 and my width.
I want six swipeable panels,
so I will do six times 1080, which is 6480.
And now we're going to create a new design.
Now the next thing we need to do is we
need to switch on our rulers and our guides.
So we'll click on file at the top here
and we will 'Show rulers' and we will 'Show guides', like this.
Now, once we have it switched on, we can see our rulers across here.
Now, if we come down to the left hand side
here, see how the cursor changes to a little arrow.
So I'm going to hold down my mouse button here and I'm going to drag out from there.
And I want to put that first guide at the 1080 mark.
That is a little bit tricky to get it perfect.
So what I found is if I zoom right in that gives me a little bit more,
I can be a little bit more precise with my numbers, so I'll just go right onto 1080.
Oh, I have to zoom in a wee bit more.
1080
oh, well, that's good enough.
So now what I'm going to do is try drag
out my next my next guide and so there will be
1080 x 2 or another 1080 after this one here.
So if I come out here.
Cool and we're going to do
that the whole way through so that every time we have a join, or where it's going
to switch to a new panel, we're going to have these guides.
So I've put together a template for you
and I have that linked on my website and my blog post.
So if I just switch to that template now,
I'm going to flick over now just to save us some time.
So this is the template that I have given you access to, and when you open it up,
you can see the guides are already there for you, but you also need to go in here
and click on file and and turn on your guides.
So 'Show guides' there.
And then all we need to do is create our post so we can add text that runs across,
we can add elements so here,
what I've done is I've put these elements
right in the middle of that join and that way they will be swipeable.
So we'll see half on this panel.
And as we swipe, they will show, the rest will show onto this panel.
Once we're happy with our design,
we can just click on download and we want to download it as a PNG file.
Once it's downloaded, we're going to go to a website called Pine Tools.
So pinetools.com/split-image
and again, I've linked to that in my blog post.
And what we're going to do here is we're
going to upload that file that we just downloaded.
So we're going to choose file, cool and we're going to upload that file
that we just created, the one that we created in Canva
and then once that is uploaded, we just need to change some of the settings.
So we're actually going to change this to horizontally. In my head.
I think that we're cutting vertically,
but for some reason it needs to be horizontal.
I'm changing this to a PNG file and I'm going to change the number of blocks.
So we want six blocks.
And so basically what it is saying is
that it's going to split up this image into six equal blocks.
And then we just click on Split Image
and we can see that it has split our image up into these six pieces.
So if I was to click on, one of those,
it would download for me and I'll just open it up.
And you can see how we have an individual
Instagram sized post, so we're going to download all of these now.
So now we're just going to jump into our
Business Suite, we're going to create a post.
We're going to create an Instagram post.
We're going to add our photos and we're
going to select those photos that have downloaded so from there.
We're going to open those. And once they've loaded,
we will make sure that they are in the right order.
Uh.
And then we're going to add our captions, we can add our hashtags,
and then we're either going to click on Publish or we're going to schedule our
post to go out later or the next day or later in the week.
And so we can see in our preview, so how seamless that is.
Looks awesome, but let me know if you have any questions.