LinkedIn Carousel: 6 Examples and How to Make One
A LinkedIn carousel is a PDF posted as a document, one page per slide. Six example structures with slide-by-slide outlines, and how to make one fast.
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How to write slides people swipe through, which formats work where, and how to make them inside Claude without opening a design tool.
A LinkedIn carousel is a PDF posted as a document, one page per slide. Six example structures with slide-by-slide outlines, and how to make one fast.
An Instagram carousel template has two halves: a fixed layout and a slide structure. Six slide types, three fill-in copy templates, and how to reuse them.
How to make an Instagram carousel: write the slides, render them at 1080 by 1350, and post up to 20 in one swipe. Step by step, with or without an editor.
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A carousel post is 2 to 20 swipeable slides in one post. What goes on each slide, the sizes per platform, and how to make one from text in minutes.
Five carousel makers compared: Canva, Contentdrips, aiCarousels, PostNitro and Karou. What each one does, what the free plan allows, and who it suits.
Carousel design rules for Instagram and LinkedIn: type size, fonts, contrast, color, margins and slide rhythm. With font pairings and a pre-post checklist.
Carousel ads on Facebook and Instagram: how many cards, what size, what to put on each card, how to set one up in Ads Manager, and how to make the images fast.
How to use a Canva carousel template for Instagram and LinkedIn: pick one, lock it, fill it fast, export right. Plus when an AI chat renderer is quicker.
aiCarousels vs PostNitro compared: how each makes carousels, free plan limits, scheduling, and when an AI chat renderer like Karou is the better fit.
Free LinkedIn carousel makers compared: what each free plan allows, where the watermark sits, and one that renders the PDF inside Claude or ChatGPT.
A ChatGPT carousel prompt that writes slides that fit: hook, one idea per slide, a close. Plus how to get finished PNGs and a PDF back in the same chat.
A repeatable way to convert a thread or newsletter issue into a carousel: what to keep, what to cut, the slide map, and the prompt for Claude.
The last slide is where saves, shares and follows happen. What to ask for, how to phrase it, where the handle goes, and five closing slides you can copy.
What a LinkedIn document post is, how to upload a PDF carousel, what to write in the post body, and the mistakes that make a document post sink.
The PDF dimensions, page ratio, file size and slide count that make a LinkedIn carousel readable on the phone, and how to export one without a design tool.
The Instagram carousel sizes that hold up in 2026: 1080 x 1350 portrait, square, 9:16 for stories, plus safe zones and how mixed ratios get cropped.
The prompt, slide structure and formats that make a carousel work when Claude writes it: hook first, one idea per slide, a closing slide, 4:5 for Instagram.
Character counts and font sizes that stay readable on a 1080-pixel carousel slide: titles, bodies, lists, quotes and stats, with examples.
Instagram allows 20 slides; six to ten is where carousels get finished and saved. Why that range works, when to go shorter or longer, and how to cut a long one.
Step-by-step setup for Karou in Claude.ai, the Claude apps, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Code, plus the first prompt to try once it is connected.
How image carousels behave on Threads and TikTok photo posts: sizes, slide limits, music, text, and how to reuse an Instagram carousel on each.
When a carousel beats a single image or a Reel, and when it does not: a format-by-goal guide for saves, reach, followers and sales, with the effort each takes.
Thirty carousel post ideas sorted by what they do for the reader: teach, prove, compare, confess, and sell, each with the slide structure and an example hook.
Forty carousel hook ideas grouped by mechanism: the number, the mistake, the contrarian claim, the question, the confession and the promise.
Five ways to make carousels without a design editor: a locked template, slides from a doc, a presentation tool, a script, or an AI that renders in the chat.
How to make every carousel look like the same account made it: one template, two colors, two fonts, a fixed handle, and a rule for breaking it.
How an AI carousel generator works, the three kinds on the market, what the AI can and cannot write for you, and a checklist for judging one before you pay.
A one-hour weekly routine for publishing a carousel without a designer: idea bank, slide draft, fixed template, render, three exports, review.