How to Split a Photo into an Instagram Carousel
Turn one wide photo into three swipeable carousel slides. See the crop, check source dimensions, download in order and troubleshoot broken seams.
Read the guide →Practical guides to splitting one photo into a profile grid or a swipeable carousel: choose the crop, download the pieces, check the upload order and fix broken seams.
Turn one wide photo into three swipeable carousel slides. See the crop, check source dimensions, download in order and troubleshoot broken seams.
Read the guide →Use Instagram's Reorder grid option to move existing posts. Follow the steps, check what to do if the option is missing, and separate order from cropping.
Read the guide →A catalogue of Instagram grid layouts with the honest cost of each: how fragile it is, what content it needs, and how much posting freedom it takes away.
Read the guide →Instagram's profile grid is no longer square. Here is the new grid size and ratio, what it crops from your posts, and what it means if you split a photo into nine.
Read the guide →Instagram resizes and re-encodes every upload. Here is exactly what it does to your photo, why grids suffer more than single posts, and what actually helps.
Read the guide →Every Instagram image size in one table: feed posts, carousels, Stories, Reels, profile pictures and grid splits — with the aspect ratios that actually get used.
Read the guide →A puzzle feed spreads images across rows so your whole profile reads as one design. Here are the four patterns that work, and the planning that keeps them alive.
Read the guide →Diagnose a scrambled Instagram grid: wrong posting order, shifted tiles, unrelated posts or thumbnail cropping. Try reordering before deleting anything.
Read the guide →Step by step: which photos survive being cut, what resolution you need, how to crop to a square, and how to split into nine tiles on desktop or phone.
Read the guide →Post a 3×3 grid bottom-right first in the default newest-first layout. Follow the numbered sequence, check thumbnail crops, and fix misplaced tiles.
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