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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The craft of the carousel: hooks, structure, formats and the last slide.
Carousels get saved and shared more than single images because they carry an argument, not a caption. These guides cover the hook slide, how much text a slide can hold, the order that keeps people swiping, and what changes between Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.
Every example here can be rendered with Karou from inside Claude, but the advice holds whatever tool you use.
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.
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.
Free LinkedIn carousel makers compared: what each free plan allows, where the watermark sits, and one that renders the PDF inside Claude or ChatGPT.
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.
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.