Lead with the first slide
It appears alone in the feed. Give it a headline or a detail that makes people want to swipe.
Free tool
Instagram Banner Splitter
Design one long banner, then split it into carousel slides that read as a single panorama when people swipe. Free, and your image never leaves your device.
Drop a wide photo or panorama here, or choose one from your device.
How to make an Instagram banner carousel.
Size the banner first
Decide how many slides you want and make the banner that wide: 3240 × 1350 px for three 4:5 slides, 5400 × 1350 px for five.
Keep words inside one slide
Headlines and faces should sit fully inside a slide. Let backgrounds, lines and shapes cross the seams.
Split it here
Drop the banner in, check the dashed seam lines and split. Every slide comes out at the same size.
Post in order
Save the slides and select them in Instagram as 1, 2, 3 and so on.
Banner design tips.
Draw the eye across
A road, a horizon, an arrow or a line of type that continues onto the next slide pulls people through the banner.
Keep one background
A continuous color, texture or photo hides the seams. Switching backgrounds on each slide breaks the panorama.
Glassy for iPhone
Design the banner and the seams together.
Glassy's canvas is a row of connected slides, so you build the banner directly: photos, text, cutouts and Liquid Glass can sit across the seams, and each slide exports at the right size, in order.
Get Glassy on the App StoreQuestions about banner carousels.
What is an Instagram banner or panorama post?
A carousel whose slides are cut from one wide image, so swiping moves across it like a panorama. Each slide is posted as its own image, in order.
What size should an Instagram banner be?
Multiply 1080 px by the number of slides, at 1350 px tall for 4:5: 2160 × 1350 px for two slides, 3240 × 1350 px for three, and so on up to twenty.
Is this an Instagram banner maker?
It is the half of a banner maker that cuts: bring a banner you designed at the sizes above, or a panorama photo, and it makes the slides. To design the banner and its seams together on your iPhone, use Glassy.
Is the banner splitter free?
Yes. It is free, adds no watermark and needs no account. It runs entirely in your browser.
Are my images uploaded?
No. Your image is processed on your own device by your browser, and nothing is sent to a server.
Can I design the banner itself in Glassy?
Yes. In Glassy you design on connected slides from the start, so there is nothing to split afterwards; the app exports each slide at the right size.