Create your first carousel

Click Carousel lab in the left sidebar. Type what the carousel is about in the box at the top, or press Surprise me for a topic from the niches you chose when you signed up.

Under Slides, use − and + to set the total, up to 10. Add a cover slide and Add a CTA slide each take one of those slides. With both off and the count at 1, the post is drawn as a single-page infographic.

Write from a topic is selected at the top. To build the carousel from links you paste instead, choose Curate links; Make a carousel from links, below, covers that route.

Brand kit is open under the topic and applies to every slide. On Custom, press + to add a colour and pick it, up to 6. The first colour is used as the background and the second as the text, and a warning appears if the two are below 4.5:1 contrast. Presets has ready-made palettes.

Design system takes a brand guidelines PDF or any image of your brand. It is read in your browser, not uploaded: ReelDrop lists the colours it found on the first four pages ("Tap the colours you want to keep") and, for a PDF, the fonts embedded in it.

Type up to 3 typefaces in Fonts, separated by commas. Press Save palette to keep the palette under Presets, Your palettes, for later carousels; Clear empties the kit, and the theme's own palette is used instead.

Open Writing style. Tone is Default, Witty, Bold, Storyteller or Expert. Under Text, choose Bullet points and set 1 to 6 per slide with − and +, or choose Paragraph. The box below takes your own rules, up to 500 characters, and they take priority over the length limits.

Press Write my slides.

The Content step shows every slide as a card under "Slide outlines (edit freely)". Click a title or bullet to rewrite it, use add point for another bullet, and drag a card to move it. Add slide puts a blank slide before the CTA; use its refresh button to have AI write it.

Regenerate this slide rewrites one slide's text. Regenerate with an instruction asks for a one-off instruction first, such as "make this one funnier". None of this uses an image.

To rewrite every slide in a different style, press Restyle all, change the style, tick Keep slide titles if the titles should stay as they are, and press Apply to all slides.

Above the slides, under Add your product logo, press upload for a PNG, JPG or WebP file, or press from website, type your site's address and press Find logo. Then choose where it goes under show on: all slides, cover only or off. The logo button on each slide card switches it for that slide alone. The logo is kept for the workspace.

On the HOOK card, press Add your photo, then Upload photo. Drag and zoom until your face fills the frame and press Save photo. It becomes the reference for every cover in this workspace until you replace it; Crop & zoom reframes it later. Add reference image on any other slide puts that image into the slide.

Press Choose Theme. Theme Library holds all 35 themes by category. Click one to see its sample and what it needs (some need your photo before they will generate), then press Confirm & Create Slides.

Write your own takes a description of the look you want. Upload reference takes up to four images: press Extract theme from reference to see the palette and style notes it found, and Use these colours for my slides to move that palette into your brand kit. On either tab, press Generate Slides.

The slides are drawn one at a time as soon as the step opens; Cancel stops the run. Each finished slide can be clicked while the rest are still being drawn.

In the slide window, Select Region lets you drag a box over the part to fix and describe it under "Describe what to fix in the selected region"; only that area is redrawn. Free Prompt changes the whole slide from "Describe the change for the whole slide". Retry draws the slide again. Undo and Redo move between its versions.

When every slide is ready, press Post/Schedule. Write a caption, or press Generate captions and pick one of the three; choose up to five hashtags. If the caption asks people to comment a keyword, pick the automation under Attach automation (comment automations on carousels need Influencer or Creator).

Open the timing menu and pick Next Available (your next posting slot), Now, or Set date & time, then press Schedule Post or Publish Now. To keep the files instead, press Download for a ZIP of the slides as JPEGs.