Create a carousel step by step
- Select the active company and check its details, colours, fonts and logo in Profile. Check the publishing readiness of the selected Facebook or Instagram connection on the Social media page.
- With your photos: attach 2–10 images to chat from your device or the Gunvald gallery. You can select several gallery images before attaching them. Explain the topic, audience and goal, and ask to use the attached photos.
- Without your photos: request, for example, a five-slide carousel and explicitly ask to generate its backgrounds. Describe their style and subject. Generating new backgrounds uses your image allowance.
- Open Carousel on the post card. The same editor is available through Library → Edit, Quick Publish and the Scheduler idea editor. Images selected in Gallery Studio can also form the basis of a new carousel draft.
- Describe or refine what the carousel should explain. Create text and outline prepares the slide content; check its sequence, headings, factual claims and fit with the images before finishing.
- Select Slide 1, Slide 2 and so on. Edit the visible Title and Text fields. Open Text settings or Logo settings only when you need those controls.
- Press Save once. Gunvald finishes the slide images, saves them to the same post, refreshes its card and closes the editor after success. Wait for the progress state to finish.
- Review the final images and the separate post caption, channel and intended time on the card. Approve, schedule or publish through the relevant publishing workflow. Creating a carousel or pressing Save does not itself publish the post.
Images, copy and design
- Change image: the menu below the preview contains From device, From Gunvald gallery, Take photo and Generate new background. Replacement affects the selected slide. Camera capture needs a compatible device and browser permission; you can always choose a file from your device.
- Crop: drag the image in the preview, or focus it and use the arrow keys. Only the part extending beyond the 4:5 frame can move. An image already at 4:5 has no overflow to move. Cropping moves the photo, not its text or logo.
- Slide copy: Title and Text become part of the slide image. The post card caption is separate. Keep slide text short; Rewrite this slide's text helps rewrite the selected slide.
- Text settings: place the text at the bottom, top or with a framed image. Adjust the text block's vertical position and text-background transparency. Check readability against light or busy backgrounds.
- Consistent design: background, text and accent colours, heading/body fonts, numbering and accent style are shared across the carousel. Choose a line, vertical line, dot, underline or heading background, or no accent. Place the slide number at the top or bottom, or hide it.
- Logos: open Logo settings and add up to six existing company logos to the selected slide. Choosing a logo already on the slide selects it for editing. Each logo has its own position, size and visibility, affecting only that slide. Add missing company logos in Profile or tag them as logos in the media library.
- Edit a logo: drag the selected logo in the preview and resize it with the corner handle within 50–450%. Arrow keys move the focused logo; arrow keys on the handle resize it. Hide logo keeps the logo and its settings; Remove selected logo removes it from the slide. Adjust logo opacity, background colour and background opacity independently. Logo background switches the editor's background plate on or off; it does not remove a background contained in the logo file itself.
- Order and count: Move earlier and Move later reposition the selected slide. Add slide and Remove slide respect the 2–10-slide limits. Recheck each image/copy association after changing the order.
- Working version versus card: the editor retains unfinished edits, but the finished images on the post card change only after a successful Save. Close does not replace final saving. Restore last saved carousel restores the version previously applied to the card; review it before continuing new edits.
- WhatsApp: request a carousel by topic, or send your photos with clear instructions to use them. Carousel status helps check progress. Open the finished draft through the message link in a browser to adjust slide design. Creating a draft does not require a separate Approve action.
- Published posts: Library's Create copy and schedule makes a separate draft for reuse, keeping the original intact. Check the copy's channel, caption and timing. Scheduled or otherwise locked carousels cannot be edited directly: manage the schedule in Scheduler and change or cancel it as appropriate.
Example chat requests
- Create a five-slide carousel about the benefits of ground-source heat pumps. Use all five attached photos; do not generate new backgrounds. Short copy and our company brand. Leave it as a draft.
- Create a four-slide carousel of social media tips for new business owners on Facebook. Generate all backgrounds, use a calm design and finish with a clear call to action. Do not publish yet.
- Make a step-by-step image series from these photos: starting point, work in progress and finished result. Keep each photo paired with the text describing it.
- Shorten the second slide of this carousel. Keep the topic and use the existing images.
Limits and troubleshooting
- You cannot delete an image or logo from the Gallery while a post or its working draft uses it. Remove or replace its use first. This also protects carousel source images and scheduled-post images. Hiding a slide logo does not delete its original file.
- The branded image editor supports 2–10-image carousels for Facebook and Instagram. It is not a video or mixed image/video carousel editor. Other channels have their own publishing and media limits.
- Using your source photos does not require generating new backgrounds. Generating missing or replacement backgrounds consumes your plan's image allowance; check the balance in Billing. Do not repeatedly start the same job while it is still running.
- Your brand font may not be in the library. Gunvald uses a supported substitute and reports the substitution; you can choose a font in Text settings. Review the final layout after a font change.
- Generating a background, creating slide copy and saving final slide images are separate stages. Save again after image or copy edits so the changes appear on the card and in publishable images.
- If Save fails or text is too long, read the message, shorten the copy or fix the stated issue, then retry in the same editor. Check the post card before creating another carousel; a successful background job alone does not prove the card was updated.
- If another view changed the post, copy important text somewhere safe and use Load latest version. Avoid editing the same carousel in several tabs or with several users at once.
- Always review images, factual claims, spelling, readability and usage rights. Do not include personal or confidential material without permission to process it.
- Saving is not publishing authority. Scheduling and publishing require channel readiness and the permissions for that workflow. Separately authorized Autopilot operation follows its own settings.