Free LinkedIn carousel maker: turn images into a carousel PDF
This free LinkedIn carousel maker turns your images into one PDF, the file LinkedIn shows as a carousel people swipe through. Add your slides, put them in order, pick a shape, and download. Every page comes out the same size, as LinkedIn asks. It runs in your browser, so your images are never uploaded.
Your images stay on this device. The PDF is made in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
No watermark, no signup
Your slides come out exactly as you made them, and there is nothing to join.
Nothing leaves your device
The PDF is made in your browser. Your images are never uploaded.
One size for every page
LinkedIn asks for it, so images of other shapes are fitted for you.
Write the post that goes with your carousel
A carousel post is two things: the slides, and the words above them. The words show first, over the cover slide, and they are what makes someone open it. Type what your carousel is about in two or three rough sentences, and innernote writes the post in your own voice.
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What is the LinkedIn carousel maker?
A LinkedIn carousel is a PDF. LinkedIn removed its own carousel tool for ordinary posts in June 2023, so the slides people swipe through in the feed are documents: a file posted with Add a document, where each page shows as one slide. Several photos in one post do something else. They show as a grid of up to 20, laid out around the first photo.
This tool makes that PDF from images you already have: slides exported from Canva or Figma, screenshots, or photos from your phone. Each image becomes one page, in the order you set, and every page gets the same size, which LinkedIn's help page asks for. It takes up to 300 images, LinkedIn's page limit, and it works on your device, so nothing you add is sent anywhere.
How to use it
- 1.Add your images. Drop them in, choose them, or paste a screenshot. PNG, JPG and WebP all work, up to 300 of them, and they never leave your device.
- 2.Put them in order. Drag the slides into the order you want. The first one is the cover, so make it the one that makes people swipe.
- 3.Pick the shape. Portrait 4:5 fills the most of a phone screen. An image of another shape is shown whole on a matching background, or cropped to fill the slide, whichever you choose.
- 4.Download and post. Download the PDF. On LinkedIn, start a post, choose More, then Add a document, and pick the file. Give it a title and write the post above it.
What size should LinkedIn carousel slides be?
Portrait, at 1080 by 1350 pixels. LinkedIn publishes no size for a document, only that every page has to be the same size. For photos it recommends a width of 1080 pixels, and that is the width this tool starts from. When your images have more detail than that, it keeps it, up to twice the size.
| Shape | Pixels | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Portrait 4:5 | 1080 x 1350 | The usual choice. It fills the most of a phone screen. |
| Square 1:1 | 1080 x 1080 | When the same slides also go to Instagram. |
| Landscape 16:9 | 1920 x 1080 | Slides from a talk or a deck. They show small on a phone. |
Slides that come out soft on LinkedIn are covered in why is my LinkedIn carousel blurry.
Carousel or several photos in one post?
They are two different formats, and LinkedIn treats them differently. A carousel is one PDF that people swipe through. Several photos are laid out as a grid in the feed. Turning your images into a PDF is how you get the swipe.
| A carousel (PDF) | Several photos | |
|---|---|---|
| How it shows | One slide at a time, swiped | A grid laid out around the first photo |
| How many | Up to 300 pages | Up to 20 photos |
| Size limit | 100 MB for the whole file | 5 MB a photo |
| Best for | Steps, lessons, a story in order | Event photos, a team, a before and after |
Limits from LinkedIn Help. The best for row is our advice. More in LinkedIn carousel vs multi-image post.
How do you post a PDF carousel on LinkedIn?
As a document. These are the steps LinkedIn's help page gives. Check the file before you post: once it is up you can edit the words above it, but you cannot change the document, so a typo on slide four means deleting the post.
On a computer
- 1.Select Start a post at the top of your feed.
- 2.Select More, then Add a document.
- 3.Choose the PDF, add a title, and select Done.
- 4.Write the post above it, then select Post.
In the LinkedIn app
- 1.Tap Post.
- 2.Tap More, then Document, and pick the PDF from your files.
- 3.Add a title and tap Next.
- 4.Write the post above it, then tap Post.
Anyone who can see the post can download your PDF, so leave out anything you would not want passed on. The whole walkthrough is in how to make a LinkedIn carousel from images, and what to put on each slide is in how to make a LinkedIn carousel post.
Quick answers
Put them in one PDF, one image to a page and every page the same size, then post it as a document. This tool makes the PDF: add your images, set the order and download. On LinkedIn, start a post, choose More, then Add a document, and pick the file.
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Write the post that goes with your carousel
The post above your slides is the first thing people read. innernote writes it in your own voice from a rough note, then publishes it with your PDF on the day you choose.
Write the post