Guides for carousels and photo stories.

Post a carousel on Instagram step by step: select up to 20 photos or videos, keep the right order and shape, and design slides that connect as people swipe.

Design a carousel that connects across every swipe.

The best Instagram carousel size is 1080 × 1350 px (4:5). See every supported ratio, how many slides you can post, how the first slide sets the crop, and how to size a seamless panorama.

Turn a wide panorama into a seamless Instagram carousel: work out the slide count, split it into equal 4:5 slides for free in your browser, and post the slides in order.

Turn one photo into a picture that spans your Instagram profile grid: split it into 3, 6 or 9 tiles at 3:4, post them in the right order, and keep the grid aligned.

Turn a multi-slide collage into one moving video.

Glassy is a photo dump app for iPhone: pick a photo dump template, fill it with your photos in one go, let photos flow across slides, and export the carousel in order.

Three ways to make a photo collage on iPhone: with a template app like Glassy, with the free Shortcuts app, and with Instagram's Layout in Stories. Steps, sizes and tips.

Give your iPhone photos a Polaroid-style instant-print border: a free browser tool for single prints, and Glassy for scrapbook collages and carousels of framed photos.

Turn any photo into a sticker for your Instagram Story on iPhone: lift the subject in Photos, copy it and paste it into the Story editor. Plus how to design a whole Story with cutouts in Glassy.

Post a photo dump on Instagram that looks curated: choose a theme, pick and order 6 to 10 photos, make them one size, and share them as a carousel in the right order.

Three ways to put several photos on one Instagram Story: the Layout mode in the Stories camera, pasting photos as stickers, or designing the whole Story first in a collage app.

Make a song part of the picture.

Turn movement into a story worth sharing.

Keep the details that belong to the moment.

Let light and color pass through your layers.

Put Apple-style Liquid Glass on your own photos: glass shapes, symbols, glass text and glass cards that refract the picture behind them. Step by step in Glassy on iPhone.