Carousels

Open the studio from the composer. Press Add image or video and pick Make a carousel; with 2 or more pictures in the post, the row offers to turn those pictures into a carousel. On LinkedIn you can also open the … menu, then Post type, and pick Carousel (PDF). A carousel take from Ideas opens in the studio with its pages built when you press Write it.

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   1. Pick a Look: Statement, Editorial, Split or Photo.

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   2. Pick how many Pages: a cover, the pages in between and an outro.

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   3. Pick the Page size.

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   4. Say What it's about and press Write the pages, or press Start with blank pages. With pictures in the post, you can also put one on each page.

The studio starts at 9:16 when TikTok is the first carousel platform ticked, and at 4:5 otherwise. To change it, open Whole carousel in the page panel and press Switch to 9:16 or Switch to 4:5. Every page is laid out again at the new size, and your words and pictures stay. If you moved, restyled or added a box by hand, the button reads Switch and re-lay and asks for a second press, because those boxes go back to the look. Undo switches back.

A carousel goes only to LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. With any other platform ticked, the send stops and says so. Instagram needs at least 2 slides, and a story can't be a carousel.

The pages run down the left, the page you're on sits in the middle, and the panel on the right changes whatever you picked. Double-click a text to type in it. Drag a box to move it or pull an edge to resize it; it lands on a grid and snaps to the page's middle lines. Put *stars* round a word to colour it. With Shrink to fit on, long words get smaller instead of spilling out of their box.

Arrow keys nudge the box you picked, ⌘D duplicates it, Delete removes it, and ⌘Z undoes. Add a page with Add a page, and drag pages, or press Alt and an arrow key, to reorder them.

Colours and fonts sets this carousel's colours, fonts and logo. They start from the Buzz's Hive profile, and Back to the Hive profile resets them. Pictures come from your Hive and Library, or you upload a JPG, PNG or WebP up to 8 MB.

On a 9:16 carousel, TikTok's safe zones shades where TikTok puts its tabs, caption and buttons. The shading shows only in the studio, never on the pages. Download PDF makes the LinkedIn PDF for you to keep, and Done takes you back to the post.

Write the pages on the start screen, or Write with Buzz in the studio, writes every page in your Hive voice. In the studio the look and anything you moved stay put, and Undo puts the old words back. When the post is empty, Buzz writes the post text too.

Each carousel Buzz writes counts as 1 Buzz written for you and is kept in the Library.

Back in the composer, the carousel stands where the post's pictures would be, with Edit carousel and a bin to remove it. While it's there, nothing else can join the post. Remove it and the post's own pictures come back.

When you schedule or post, Buzzmark first makes the PDF and slides the ticked platforms need, and the button reads Making the PDF… or Making the slides… meanwhile. The preview shows each platform's version: LinkedIn's document, Instagram's slides and TikTok's slideshow. Carousels need a plan, with no monthly cap on them.