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Carousels
10 posts from the Kloti blog filed under Carousels.
Carousels
Why nobody swipes past your first slide
Carousels with almost no swipes have one thing in common, and it is not the design. What a first slide is for, and how to rewrite one that closed too early.
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What to write in a carousel caption
The caption is the half of the post most people leave until they are tired. What it is for, the four parts it needs, and why repeating your slides fails.
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What to post when you do not sell a product
Advice for social posts assumes you have something to photograph. If you fit kitchens, teach piano or treat backs, here is where the posts actually come from.
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How to make an Instagram carousel, start to finish
The four decisions a carousel is made of, in the order that saves the most work, and how to know you have finished writing before you open a design tool.
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What to post when you have nothing new to sell
Your last nine posts are the same product at a slightly different angle. That is not a photography problem, and one product holds far more posts than nine.
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What to put on a product carousel, slide by slide
A carousel is an argument, not a gallery. The shape that works, what belongs on each slide, and a test that tells you whether yours is saying anything.
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Why AI image generators get the text wrong
Letterforms that are nearly right and words that are not words, why no prompt fixes it, and why the words belong on a layer above the picture instead.
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Product image sizes for Instagram, Etsy and Shopify
What Instagram, Etsy, Shopify and TikTok publish about image size, checked against their own help pages in August 2026, and which rules change what you do.
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Which image goes where, and why one square loses on three surfaces
Square, portrait, vertical and landscape each serve a different place. What the app's own interface eats, the thumbnail test, safe areas, why the shot that wins in a feed loses on a listing page, and how much text survives at each size.
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Nobody can tell how big it is
Scale ambiguity is one of the most common conversion killers in small brand product imagery, and it is worst in the categories that most need a beautiful photo. Three fixes in order of how well they work, plus what it looks like per category.
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