Create a carousel

The Carousel Maker is where you put the deck together — slide layouts, text, images, brand styling. You can build slide by slide on a blank canvas, or start from a template and edit. Once a base design exists, Smart Carousel can rewrite or expand the copy across all slides for you using AI.

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Open the editor

In the left sidebar, click Carousels › Create New. Carousify opens a fresh deck with one blank slide. The top bar has the three things you’ll touch most:

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Sizes

Click Size in the top bar to switch the canvas. Decks open in Portrait by default.

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Generate with Smart Carousel

Smart Carousel is a copywriting tool, not a design tool. It only writes, rewrites, or expands the text on your slides — it does not generate slide layouts, choose colors, or place graphics. You bring the design (a template, your saved layouts, or slides you’ve laid out yourself) and Smart Carousel fills in the words. Once you have a base, click Smart Carousel to open the generator. It has four modes — pick the one that matches your source material.

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Build from a blank canvas

If you’d rather design slide by slide, ignore Smart Carousel and work directly in the Content tab.

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Add text

Three text styles are pre-set — heading, subheading, and body — so they pick up your Brand Kit’s typography automatically. Click any text element to edit it inline. Highlight a section to change its color or weight without affecting the rest of the slide.

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Add an image

The upload zone in the Content tab accepts:

• Drag and drop files from Finder/Explorer.
• Paste images directly from the clipboard (⌘ V).
• Browse — click the zone to pick from your computer.

PNG, JPG, and GIF up to 10 MB per file. Don’t have an image to upload? The same picker has an AI tab — describe what you want and generate one. See AI Image Generator.

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Add shapes, icons, and elements

Click Add Elements to open the elements library — shapes, icons, decorative graphics, and accent pieces. Drop one onto the canvas and resize/recolor it like any other layer.

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Edit a selected element

Click any element on a slide — text, image, or shape — and the Content panel switches to its settings. This is where you fine-tune everything about that one layer. The panel groups the controls into a few sections: Use Esc to deselect and return to the default Content tab.

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Manage slides

The slide tray below the canvas shows every slide in the deck.

• Reorder — drag and drop to change slide order.
• Add a new slide — duplicate an existing one (⌘ C / ⌘ V on a slide) or scroll to the end of the tray for the + button.
• Reset Slide — undoes changes on the current slide and reverts it to its starting state.
• Slide N / M — current slide indicator with Previous / Next buttons.

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Set deck-wide styles (Global tab)

The Global tab is for changes that should apply to every slide at once — no need to update each slide individually. What you can change here:

• Themes — pick from a grid of pre-built theme presets. One click swaps colors and typography across the whole deck.
• Show Slide Numbers — toggle slide numbers on/off across the deck.
• Use Image Backgrounds — turn image backgrounds on, then upload an image and adjust Background Opacity to set how strongly it shows behind text.
• Heading / Sub-heading / Text Color / Background — color pickers that apply to every slide at once. Use the Pre Defined Color Pallate below if you want a curated combination.

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Apply your Brand Kit

Open the Brand Kit tab to apply your saved logo, name, fonts, and colors to the whole deck in one click. Toggle Override Template With Brandkit Data if you want the kit’s typography and background to replace whatever the slides started with.

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Preview before you ship

Click the Preview tab to see exactly how the deck will render on LinkedIn — same aspect ratio, same swipe behavior — before you export.

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When you’re done

You have four options for getting the deck out of the editor:

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What’s next