Updated October 2026
This tool lets you split one image into anywhere from 2 to 10 slides — Instagram's own maximum per carousel post. More slides isn't automatically better: slide count is a real design decision with tradeoffs, covered here.
Every slide is cut from the same scaled source image at equal width. More slides means each individual slide shows a narrower vertical strip of the original — more dramatic as an overall "swipe to reveal" effect, but less detail and composition visible in any single slide on its own (important if someone views just one slide out of order, which does happen on Instagram).
For a typical wide photo or illustration, 3 to 5 slides balances a genuine "swipe effect" with slides that still look reasonably complete individually. This is the range recommended on this tool's homepage and a reasonable starting point if you're unsure.
Two slides work well for a deliberate two-part composition — a clear left/right split, a before-and-after-style layout, or simply a wide image that doesn't need more than a gentle reveal to read well.
A very high slide count works best for genuinely panoramic source images (see the panorama guide) or a deliberate "swipe through the whole thing" format where the point is the cumulative wide reveal rather than any single slide standing alone. Each individual slide at 8-10 slides shows a narrow sliver of the original, which can look abstract or unclear in isolation — generally only worth it when your source image has enough width and detail to support it.
A very wide source image (a true panorama, a long illustration) supports a higher slide count comfortably, since each slice still captures a meaningful chunk of content. A source image that's only moderately wide (say, a standard 3:2 landscape photo) will look increasingly stretched or over-cropped per slide as you push the slide count higher, because the tool has to crop more aggressively to fill a very wide total canvas from a less-wide source.