# Make an Instagram carousel with AI

URL: https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai
Level 2: Make your first post (https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-a-post)
Updated: 2026-11-03
Time: about 5 minutes
You'll end with: A 5–8 slide carousel in your brand’s look, with a caption, ready to check
Do it in Blackbox: https://blackbox.plus/app/brands

> Turn an idea into a branded Instagram carousel of 5 to 8 slides, written from your website’s facts, with a caption you can change before it goes out.

## Short answer

To make an Instagram carousel with AI in Blackbox (blackbox.plus), start from an idea: clicking Make this opens its brief. On the Brief tab, read the Social hook — the first line people see — and the Outcome, pick or type a better hook, and click Approve brief. On the Create tab, switch on Carousel under Formats (Post is on by default; keep it for a single-image post as well) and pick 5, 6, 7 or 8 slides. Choose a Shape, such as Problem and solution or Before and after, and what it Ends on: one of your brand's asks, or Just the website. Click Create carousel. Writing takes about 30 seconds, then the slides are drawn in your brand's colours and fonts, using only facts from its fact sheet. Click Review and edit to open it with its three steps: Caption, Check and Post. There is a daily limit on how many you can create.

## You'll need

- **A brand in Studio.** Its colours, fonts, logo and facts are what the carousel is made from. (Guide: https://blackbox.plus/guides/set-up-brand-kit)
- **An idea you clicked Make this on.** That opens the brief this guide starts from. (Guide: https://blackbox.plus/guides/instagram-post-ideas-from-your-website)

## How to make an Instagram carousel with AI in Blackbox

1. **Check the hook.** On the **Brief** tab, read the **Social hook** and the **Outcome**. Pick a better hook from the list under it, or type your own.
   You'll see: The hook you want in **Social hook**, saved when you click away.
   ![The Brief tab: the Social hook, three hooks to choose from with one ringed, and the Outcome below](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/01-hook.png)
2. **Approve the brief.** Click **Approve brief**.
   You'll see: The **Create** tab, with **Formats**, **Slides** and **Shape**.
   ![The same brief with the Approve brief button ringed at the bottom](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/02-approve.png)
3. **Choose Carousel and the slide count.** Under **Formats**, switch on **Carousel**, then pick 5, 6, 7 or 8 under **Slides**.
   You'll see: The button reads **Create carousel + post** while **Post** is still on.
   ![The Create tab: Formats with Carousel and Post switched on, and 6 picked under Slides, ringed](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/03-formats.png)
4. **Choose the shape and the ending.** Pick a **Shape**, like Problem and solution, and what it **Ends on** — one of your asks, or **Just the website**.
   You'll see: Your shape and ending picked, with the create button below.
   ![Shape with Problem and solution picked, how the six slides run, and Ends on with Order ahead picked — both choices ringed](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/04-shape.png)
5. **Create it.** Click **Create carousel** (it reads **Create carousel + post** while Post is also ticked).
   You'll see: The slides being written, then drawn in your colours — about 30 seconds.
   ![The bottom of the Create tab: the ending chosen and the Create carousel button ringed](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/05-create.png)
6. **Open it.** Under the preview, click **Review and edit** next to **Carousel**.
   You'll see: The post, with **Caption**, **Check** and **Post** beside the slides.
   ![The brief's preview of the first slide in the brand's colours, and below it Carousel, Ready, with Review and edit ringed](https://blackbox.plus/guides/make-instagram-carousel-with-ai/06-open-it.png)

## Good to know

- Post is on by default. Leave it on to get a single-image post as well, or switch it off.
- Approve brief needs a social hook and an outcome. You can still edit the brief afterwards.
- Studio writes 5 to 8 slides. A carousel in Blackbox holds 2 to 10 — Instagram allows 20, but 10 is the most a Meta ad can run — and you can add or remove slides in the editor within that.
- There is a daily limit on how many you can create; the count shows under the Create button.
- Rewrite brief replaces every field with a fresh draft, including anything you edited. It asks before it does.
- If the brand has pictures turned on, pick a picture style too. Without them, slides are words on your brand colours.

## Official docs

- [Instagram: post several photos and videos](https://help.instagram.com/269314186824048)

## Questions people ask

**I want to change the words on a slide**

Click Edit slide on the post. Every slide, the caption and the alt text can change — see [Edit slides, captions and alt text](https://blackbox.plus/guides/edit-slides-captions-alt-text).

**A slide says something about my business that is wrong**

Slides use only your brand’s fact sheet and the page or idea they came from. Fix the fact sheet on the brand page, then fix that slide in the editor.

**I only want a single-image post**

Under Formats, keep Post on and switch Carousel off, then click Create post.

**My slides are just words, with no pictures**

The brand has pictures turned off. Turn them on from the brand page under Pictures, or from the link on the Create tab, and each slide gets a picture behind the words.

**I want to use my own photos instead**

Upload them: up to 10 pictures become a carousel in the order you set. Pick Photos into a carousel, free, to put them in your brand’s fonts and colours. See [Upload your own photos or video and post them](https://blackbox.plus/guides/upload-your-own-photos-or-video).