How To Create INSTAGRAM CAROUSELS with Photoshop *2026*

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in this video i will be teaching you how to create step-by-step banger carousels like the one you are seeing on screen right now let's go for my carousel creation i usually utilize photoshop but you can use platforms such as canva illustrator figma and many many more it doesn't really matter the process is the same so without further ado let's dive straight into the video and if you enjoy it and you would like to see more content such as this one like this video okay so let's get started on the cursor pricing process step number one is creating your document and utilizing the right settings so let's dive straight on to my computer and do that for clarosaurus we obviously need more space so in this case i put the width at ten thousand and eight hundred and the height needs to be thirteen fifty that way we are making use of the most real estate we are given on the instagram feed so once we have done that we can actually create our document it doesn't matter what your resolution is as instagram is compressing those files either way so this is all the settings that you need to be making in this menu click create until you have your document then the next step is to actually go into the slice to right click promote to user slice then again right click device slides divide vertically into and then type 10. this way you basically have 10 pieces which you can utilize for your carson when you divide your cursors in this way later on when we go to the saving options this will save our core so into 10 different posts which you can combine in a single document for platforms such as let's say linkedin and you can post on instagram utilizing scheduling tools such as creator studio or even manually by selecting the 10 different posts now after we have sliced our document we also want to make sure we are following the right margins for cursors specifically with our size which is 13 15 in height we want to make sure we leave 135 pixels from the top and 135 pixels from the bottom that way any elements which are in these 135 top pixels and these 135 bottom pixels won't be seen on the actual home page they will still be seen in the feed so you can still place elements such as let's say your logo progress bar go to actions and whatnot but on your own profile they won't be seen so these are the horizontal margins that we have to put now in terms of vertical margins i usually 50 pixels from the side in order to make sure that there is enough white space in my designs and again this is something which we have to do for every single slightly 50 pixels from each side of the slice and again we can replicate this and we can do this manually for the resting as well now after we have created our guides as well as our slices it's super important to move forward into the actual cursor creation process what i usually do with my cursors is i break them down into two main segments i break them down into the visuals which i'm going to be utilizing as well as in the copy that i'm going to be utilizing and the easiest thing for me to do is actually first put all of my text into my carousel and then create the visuals around that so the next step that we have to do is create a new layer click on the g icon and then start typing your text the phones that i'm utilizing myself are bw straight from my headlines i utilize the black version all caps this is my headline and for my budget copy i utilize helvetica again my my phone choices are pretty safe i don't do anything fancy but this is what works for me this is what has helped me keep everything super legible on my feet at the same time my covers drop attention and translate that attention into engagement so again bw stretch this is the font which i am utilizing for my headlines let's create a headline right now i left align everything i break it down into a couple of lines and that's my headline another thing which you can play around with is the amount of space between the lines i usually go for tighter copy because usually my horses are packed with a lot of value so i cannot afford to have that much space usually the sizes which are mutualizing for the majority of logitech switches outside of the main value pack slide is 85 x 90 for the line spacing and in terms of the headlines it differs a lot but at least 150 pixels in size and then for the line spaces with the font which i'm utilizing the will stretch usually the size of the line spacing is the same as the size of the actual font so in my case 150 is the size of the font and the size of the line spacing is 150 as well let us just fill our whole colors over text and go back to the visuals afterwards so after we have placed all of our text the next step that we need to take is actually to visually design the whole carousel now this really depends on what is your run guide i personally prefer going for darker colors my chorus game is red and dark gray so i am going to be importing my chorus game into the background with some textures as well as inputting the colors of my phones in order to match my core scheme as well and again this is the next step as we've discussed cursors come down to visuals and copy so we have created we have finished our copy now let's dive into our visuals in this case i will be utilizing simple visuals but usually i get my images either from free pick or from adobe stock now as mentioned right now i'm going to go simple another thing that i do for my carousels in order to just make them pop it up a bit more especially in the phone section is that they actually add another texture on top of my phones so let's quickly do that let me go get that texture these textures are really easy to find by if you go on freepik and you type concrete textures you can definitely find a lot of them this is my font headline without texture and this is my font headline with texture and of course you can increase the opacity and make this even more relevant i like to keep it anywhere between 30 and 50 in this case let's keep it at 45 and this is our finished headline now after we have the background and we have the phones it is already starting to look a lot better the next step is of course finding some relevant images for our carousels so for this video in which we are covering all about how to create cursors i deem that the most appropriate visuals would be cursor related visuals so i just downloaded that one carousel from free pick again that's a great three source let's see how we can size it up so it is still visible it is too impactful but at the same time the headline is legible now i can change it to overlay i can create multiple versions of that overlay effect i can also place a black and white that way our headline has even more priority i can resize the image rotate it and make sure that it fits my headline perfectly on top of that in order to make it merge with the rest of my carousel i can utilize a gradient effect and just soften up the edges to the point in which it is completely merged with my torso and then if i have any other effects and then if there are any other spots which are left unmerged i can actually take a soft brush with a black color and i can completely remove them the only thing which i would add is some gradient effect on top of the image in order to make sure that the headline is even more visible so i can add like a black gradient below my headline that way i still have the image which is contextual to my torso and they still have a readable headline which is the most important thing and for the body text i can do the same thing but with a new layer with the sauce brush with dark colors i can actually stop painting before the text in order to make sure that it is readable until this legible so now after we have added our text as well as our visuals we are pretty much done with our tower so of course the rest is up to you you can customize it as much as you want so let's get to the fun part which is saving our carousels and scheduling them now a quick tip before you save your carousels is that you can go into edit and you can click the button check spelling and this will actually automatically check the spelling of your whole cover so this has saved me so many times from accidentally misspelling words when i'm typing them in or from copy pasting with bad grammar and again this is something which takes a few seconds as you saw on screen but it can be a complete lifesaver when it comes down to creating content and posting content which is error free so again edit expanding it can save you a lot of time now after we have checked our spelling we have made sure that our text is awesome our visuals are awesome usually if you have sliced your torsos appropriately the only thing that you need to do after it finishes loading is click the save button and then choose the directory in which you want to save your carousels the next step is pretty straightforward as well you can go into your favorite scheduling app or you can send these files to your smartphone and you can upload them directly to instagram what i personally utilize and recommend to my clients is utilizing creator studio this is an application created by facebook for facebook and instagram what we have to do is click the create post button select instagram feed after we have opened our cursor we can select it we can click open and it will automatically upload the creator studio in order this is another phenomenal feature of photoshop that when you're saving utilizing save for ripe and it has been cut in slices previously it actually saves you the first slice as the first file and then the 10th slice as the last file which makes it super easy to then schedule in the right order on creator studio or on your phone and in case that for one reason or another it has issues you can always rearrange that in creator studio by going at this bottom left corner and typing in the correct order of the slide and it will actually flip it for you now if you want to tag somebody in your cursor you can also do that by clicking the the media button this will open a new page for the specific slide you've clicked that you can click it once you can click once again type in your handle select and save after you have done that you can either publish your cursor or click on the on the bottom right corner this will showcase save as draft options as well as scheduling and you can schedule your core source indefinitely in the future so this is how i create my carousels in photoshop if you have enjoyed this video make sure you smash the like button subscribe to my channel and stay brave