All our seamless carousels are designed in intervals of 1080 x 1350 px and typically include 3 to 5 perfectly stacked slides. (For example, a 5-slide carousel would be 5400 x 1350 px.) Here’s how to make your own if you’re feeling bold—or just curious about the magic behind the scenes:
The Quick + Dirty Breakdown:
1. Open a blank doc in Canva
Set the size to 5400 (1080 x 5 for 5 slides but you can always go lower or higher!) x 1350 px
2. Add in your grid lines
Go to File > Settings > Add Guides > Custom
Then add in however many columns/slides you'll have and everything else at 0 and click "Add guides"
2. Design it like one long visual
No individual slides yet. Just treat it like a single flowing piece. Let your background, text, and graphics stretch across panels. Think of it like building one long horizontal moodboard!
4. When you’re done, download the full thing
PNG or JPG is fine. Whatever you prefer.
5. Slice it into 5 slides
Upload your design to one of these sites:
and set the columns to 5 (or however many you have), then hit Split.
It’ll chop your 5400 x 1350 image into 5 perfect slides. Then download all 5 individually!
6. Upload to IG in order
And boom, you’ve got a seamless carousel!