Instagram & LinkedIn Carousel Maker

How to use the Instagram & LinkedIn Carousel Maker

1. Open the editor and choose how to start: one of 24 templates, an empty carousel, or “Turn text into slides” with a post you've already drafted.
2. Pick the shape — Instagram portrait (1080 × 1350) or square, a LinkedIn document page, a vertical story or a 16:9 presentation slide.
3. Edit on the canvas: double-click any text to rewrite it, drag things into place, and try the Layouts panel to rearrange a slide without retyping it.
4. Set your brand once — palette, fonts, logo and handle — and switch on slide numbers or a progress bar.
5. Open Checks and work through anything flagged, from text that overflows its box to colours that are hard to read.
6. Preview it slide by slide, then download numbered PNGs in a ZIP for Instagram or a single PDF for a LinkedIn document post.

What does this tool do?

A carousel is a post people swipe through: a cover that makes a promise, a few slides that keep it, and a last slide that tells the reader what to do next. This editor is built for exactly that format. Slides sit in a strip down the side, the selected slide fills the canvas, and every setting for the selected text, shape or image is on the right — the same layout as the other M2Toolkit studios.

Consistency is handled for you. Colours and fonts come from one shared palette, so changing your brand colour updates every slide that uses it. Slide numbers and progress bars renumber themselves when you add, delete or reorder slides, and every slide keeps the same size, which Instagram requires within a single carousel.

The text-to-slides converter is rule-based, not AI. It reads the structure of what you paste — headings, numbered and bulleted lists, quotes, a closing summary or call to action — and lays it out using one of twelve structures, such as a step-by-step tutorial, myth vs fact, before and after, or a case study. It only splits paragraphs between sentences and never writes claims for you; if your text doesn't fit the structure you chose, it says what's missing. You check and edit the outline before any slides are made.

Your projects, images and brand kit are saved in this browser's own storage (IndexedDB). Nothing is uploaded, and there's no account, watermark or export limit.

Why use it?

• 24 ready-made templates across business, education and marketing, in 10 design styles from minimal editorial to dark cinematic.
• Turn a drafted post into an editable carousel in seconds — rule-based, predictable and private.
• A brand kit (colours, fonts, logo, handle) applied across every slide at once.
• Built-in quality checks for overflowing text, low contrast, crowded slides, a weak cover or a missing ending.
• Instagram, LinkedIn, story and presentation sizes — or any custom size from 320 to 4000 pixels.
• PNG, ZIP of numbered PNGs, PDF and a re-importable project file. Free, with no sign-up.

Use cases

• LinkedIn document posts: industry insights, lessons learned, “how we did it” case studies.
• Instagram save-worthy tip carousels and step-by-step tutorials.
• Product launches and feature announcements with a consistent brand look.
• Teachers and trainers turning a lesson outline into revision slides.
• Recycling a blog post or newsletter into a swipeable summary.

Example: which size and export to use

Every slide in a carousel shares one size, so choose it before you design. Change it later and elements are scaled to the new shape, but a quick check of each slide is still worth it.

Common mistakes

• A cover that teases instead of promising. Say what the reader will get — “5 ways to cut your onboarding time” beats “You won't believe this”.
• Too much text per slide. If a slide needs more than about 40 words, split it; Checks flags crowded slides.
• Moving the headline around from slide to slide. Keep its size and position steady so the carousel reads as one piece.
• Body text that's too small for a phone. On a 1080-pixel slide, anything under roughly 24 px is hard to read in a feed.
• Ending on “Thanks!”. Finish with a summary or a clear next step: save it, comment, or visit a link.
• Uploading Instagram PNGs out of order. The files in the ZIP are numbered (-slide-01, -slide-02 …) so they sort correctly.

Accuracy and limits

• PDF pages are high-resolution images of each slide, so the text in the PDF isn't selectable or searchable.
• Fonts are the ones installed on your device plus Figtree; no web font service is used. If a font in a template isn't installed, Checks tells you and the closest available font is used in both the editor and the download.
• The converter follows fixed rules. It won't summarise, invent statistics or add claims, so a vague draft gives a vague carousel — edit the outline before building the slides.
• Work is saved in this browser only. Clearing site data or using a private window can remove it, so download a project file (JSON) of anything important.

Privacy

Everything you type is processed in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to our servers or stored by us. There's no account to create and nothing to install.

Frequently asked questions

Last reviewed October 13, 2026 by the M2Toolkit team.