How to Create a Continuous Instagram Post in Photoshop (Seamless Carousel)

Erick Zajac
4 min readDec 30, 2022
Photo by Eaters Collective on Unsplash

What’s an Instagram carousel?

If you aren’t familiar with them yet, Instagram carousels let you post more than one photo per post in a slideshow format. As creators began to use them more, the trend of spanning one photo across multiple slides became very popular. The Instagram seamless carousel is now a staple in every creator’s arsenal.

Now when users swipe left and right on an Instagram carousel, the screen seems to seamlessly scroll from one end of the picture to the other. Here’s an example:

Source: @erickzajac on Instagram

How to Make Seamless Multi-Posts on Instagram

Adobe Photoshop CC

To create a seamless post with multiple images for Instagram in Adobe Photoshop CC, we need to start with a blank canvas. Before we get into that, let's figure out the dimensions of our canvas by deciding how many slides we’d like to include.

1. Determine Canvas Dimensions

I always recommend creating your carousels in portrait mode as they both perform and look better.

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