How to Design Instagram Carousel Ads - Silly Social

 

Instagram Carousel Ads

CANVA¹ the easy and best fishing tool used to attract a large audience that allows even fresh graphic designers and content creators to rank higher in social media marketing.

Instagram carousel plays every important role in its growth and is now a trending subject on Instagram for many businesses.

This increases user interaction in the form of likes and comments that make any post to explore through a large audience.

 

There should be valuable information offered through each of such posts that inspire the audience for their business.

 

In this article learn in simple steps to get started and design a fancy carousel for Instagram.

Signup with CANVA² a graphic designing easy to create a tool for all types of social media platforms.

On the interface select dimension and a custom dimension “5000 x 1080”.

Instagram post size dimension is 1080 x 1080 so here one is able to make 5 slides for the carousel 1000 wide and 1080 height each.

Select one of the free templates that offer in that size out of Various variety available.

Now under “elements” select 5 vertical grids to place them on the design interface and make them as short as possible and place at the bottom.

This is to place the objects in the center to explain well the topic and those who add glamour to the subject.

For the selected background template add a “filter - Dare”, and intensity to 100 to make it darker and colorful.

This one can select as per the design requirement, idea, and imagination.

Select the photos that one wants to add in the center to represent their topic, remove the background using remove.bg³.

Start placing each photo in between the center of each grid and adjust their filter and effects from the top of the interface.

Upload the background removed images to the upload again by drawing them to upload.

All the images placed at center filter - summer and intensity 70 to make them appear more shiner and brighter.

One can also flip the image horizontally to repeat and use the same image in the other direction on the same design.

Remove the grid once placing objects at the center is done as it was only for that purpose and drag the middle objects till the end.

Add the text to choose the effects, shadow color like white that appears bright for the screen.

The same text on the first slide has to copy on the remaining 4 slides to save time.

Select all the text from the first slide by pressing shift + text one by one, press the alt key and drag the text to the other side, and repeat the procedure up to the 5th slide.

One can also copy and paste the selected text.

Add a gradient effect on the entire slide to make it attractive.

Search for the gradient in elements and select the blue square with a transparent effect.

While adding the gradient effect selects the zoom size to as less as possible to spread the gradient effect on a larger scale.

Download the file and cut it into 5 pieces on pinetools.com⁴.

Select “split images” “horizontal” and the number of pieces to 5.

Download the image one by one.

Open the Instagram and select the option to add images carousel, nowhere one is also able to give the default effects offered from Instagram.

Provide relevant hashtags to the topic and add the description of the carousel.

 

So the Conclusion for the article is:

1. CANVA offers the largest dimension of 5000 which one can take as a width here and make 5 designs out of it.
2. The use of 5 vertical grids is only to place the objects in the middle that makes the carousel appears better.
3. The objects one wants to place in the middle has to remove the background of the image so only the individual appears in the center.
4. Select "effects" or "filter" to every image that is placed in the design interface to make the carousel appear outstanding.