Instagram Panorama Maker
Cut one wide photo into slides and post them as a single carousel, so the picture keeps moving as people swipe. Slides come out at 1080×1350 — the tallest shape Instagram allows — and the whole thing runs in your browser, so your photo is never uploaded.
- 100% free, forever
- No sign-up, no email
- Photos never uploaded
- No watermark, ever
- Unlimited photos
A Carousel Is Not a Grid — Post These Left to Right
If you have made a 3×3 profile grid before, unlearn the rule you used for it. A profile grid fills from the bottom right upwards, so its tiles have to be posted backwards. A carousel does not. Its slides appear in the order you add them to the post, so a panorama goes up the normal way round: slide 1, slide 2, slide 3.
The other half of it is that all three slides belong to one post. Adding them as three separate posts gives you three unrelated crops on your profile and no panorama at all. In the app: tap +, choose Post, tap the multi-select icon, then pick the files in order.
Every slide in a carousel is shown at the aspect ratio of the first one, which is why all three come out of here at exactly 1080×1350.
Upload order runs left to right. No reversing, unlike a profile grid.
How to Make an Instagram Panorama in 4 Steps
About a minute, start to finish. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and the cutting happens on your own machine.
Upload a wide photo
Drag in a landscape shot, click to browse, or paste from your clipboard. Wider is better — the tool keeps a 2.4:1 region for a three-slide panorama.
Check the crop
Keep the default centre crop, or switch to stretch if you would rather keep the full frame. The preview shows exactly which part survives.
Preview the swipe
The three slides appear side by side in the order you will post them. Toggle the seamless view to see the panorama without gaps.
Download and post as one carousel
Save the slides or grab the ZIP, then add all three to a single Instagram post in order, slide 1 first. Do not post them separately.
Which Photos Make a Good Panorama
A panorama asks people to swipe, so each slide has to be worth arriving at while still belonging to the whole.
Wide scenes with depth
Coastlines, skylines, mountain ranges, long interiors. The eye travels naturally from left to right, which is exactly the motion a swipe produces.
Group shots
A row of people works well as long as nobody's face lands on a cut line. Slide the crop until the divisions fall between them.
Before and after
Put the change across the swipe rather than side by side in one frame. The reveal is more satisfying when the viewer triggers it.
Avoid centred subjects
A single subject in the middle of a wide frame leaves slides 1 and 3 as empty filler, and people stop swiping when the first slide looks like nothing.
Avoid text across a seam
Words get sliced mid-letter and the gap between slides makes them unreadable. Keep any wording entirely inside a single slide.
Front-load the interest
Slide 1 is the thumbnail on your profile and the first thing in the feed. If it does not earn a swipe, the rest is never seen.
Panorama Specs: Sizes and Formats
Everything here is sized for an Instagram carousel, so the slides upload without further editing.
| Slides | 3, cut from one photo |
|---|---|
| Slide size | 1080 × 1350 px (4:5 portrait) |
| Why 4:5 | The tallest ratio a carousel permits, so the panorama fills the most screen |
| Region kept | A centred 2.4:1 crop of your photo |
| Recommended source | At least 3240 × 1350 px for full resolution on every slide |
| Upload order | Left to right — slide 1 first, not reversed |
| Input formats | JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP up to 20 MB |
| Output formats | PNG (default) or JPG at 92% quality |
| Watermark | None |
| Where processing happens | Entirely in your browser — no server, no storage, no account |
Instagram Panorama FAQ
What is an Instagram panorama?
It is one wide photo cut into several slides and posted as a single carousel. Swiping moves the picture sideways, so the image reads as one continuous scene instead of separate shots. People also call it a swipeable panorama or a seamless carousel.
What order do I upload the slides in?
Left to right — slide 1 first. A carousel displays its slides in the order you add them, so no reversing is needed. This is the opposite of a 3x3 profile grid, which has to be posted backwards, and mixing the two rules up is the most common way a panorama comes out scrambled.
What size are the slides?
Each slide is 1080 by 1350 pixels, the 4:5 portrait ratio. That is the tallest shape Instagram allows in a carousel, so the panorama fills as much of the screen as possible while you swipe. For three slides at full resolution your source photo should be at least 3240 by 1350 pixels.
How wide does my photo need to be?
The tool crops to a 2.4:1 region for a three-slide panorama, so a wide shot works best. Anything wider than that gets trimmed at the sides; anything narrower gets trimmed top and bottom. A standard 3:2 photo from a camera will lose a fair amount of height, so shoot or crop wide if you can.
Will the seams show?
Not in the swipe itself, because the slices are cut from one image at exact pixel boundaries. Instagram does add a small gap between slides while you swipe, so avoid putting a face or any fine detail directly on a cut line.
Does the panorama show up on my profile grid?
Only as one square. A carousel occupies a single slot on your profile and the thumbnail is the first slide, cropped to a square. The panorama effect lives in the feed and in the post itself, not on the grid. If you want the wide effect on your profile instead, use the 3x3 grid maker.
Is it free, and does it upload my photo?
It is completely free with no account, and your photo is never uploaded. The slicing runs in your browser using the Canvas API, so the image stays on your device and the page keeps working with the network switched off.
Want the Effect on Your Profile Instead?
A carousel lives in the feed and takes one square on your profile. If you want the wide image spread permanently across your profile page, you want the grid instead.
The 3×3 Instagram grid maker cuts your photo into nine 1080×1080 tiles that assemble into one picture on your profile. Different tool, different posting rule — that one is reversed, and the files are numbered so you do not have to think about it.
Open the 3×3 grid maker