New To Edits: An Editor Or Your Carousels

Starting today, you can make carousels in Edits. Mix your photos and videos on a canvas and access the creative tools from Edits you already know, plus a few new ones built specifically for carousels.

I'm Dan Moreno, Design Engineer on the Edits team, helping build an editor that supports your entire creative journey. When we asked creators what they hoped Edits could do next, carousels came up again and again. Carousels are a powerful way to tell your stories, letting you string together photos and videos into something bigger. Creators are constantly finding new ways to push the carousel format, from seamless layouts to creative cutout effects and much more. We set out to build a canvas that could keep up with this creativity.

A new canvas for your ideas

Carousels have evolved beyond a linear sequence of photos and videos. Our editor lets you add photos, videos and text to your projects. Use a layout, create stickers with the cutout tool, and use filters or adjustments. A photo can bleed from one slide into the next, and a headline can carry across them, turning the swipe itself into part of the storytelling.

Creating the exact carousel you have in mind requires precision. The tools you already use in Edits, including color grading, scale and rotation make it easy to line up every element exactly as you intended.
Your brand carries over

We want Edits to feel like your own creative studio, where the fonts, styles and colors you’ve saved exist across projects and formats.

The carousel editor is a natural extension of Edits. You'll recognize a familiar interface, and your presets are already saved: adjustments, colors, audio, text styles. Your visual identity is how people know a post is yours, and now it extends to the carousels you make in Edits.

Get inspired: Raven from @Beautymavenraven used the new carousel feature to showcase the makeup staples she’s been hyperfixated on lately, from foundation to primer. She uses stickers, her signature yellow font, a mix of video and images, and cutouts to showcase each product clearly.
Post directly to Instagram

When you’re done editing, share your carousel straight from Edits to Instagram or download your carousel to post anywhere. No need to export, reupload or worry about quality loss along the way.

Getting Started and Tips

How to get started on iOS (Android coming soon):

Open Edits and go to the Projects tab

Press (+) and click Carousel

Choose one or more photos and videos you want to include

Lay out your media on our canvas

Edit your media with our suite of tools like audio, text, filters, adjustments and cutouts

Share your carousels directly from Edits to Instagram

Here’s a few tips as you start creating:

Add a new slide: Tap the “+” button in the editor to insert a blank slide, or pull from the right edge of the carousel for a shortcut

Reorder your slides: Tap on “...” on any slide to duplicate a slide, insert a new slide on the left and right of the current slide or reorder your slides

Pick a layout: Use the layout tool to quickly add multiple photos in preset layouts. You can change the padding and spacing for the items in the layout as well as edit adjustments and filters individually inside a layout

We’ll keep building this editor with you. As carousels evolve, your creativity will shape what we build next. Try Edits if you haven’t already and tag @creators to share what you’ve made. Keep the feedback coming on Instagram and Threads.