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Feed & grid

Split one photo across 3, 6 or 9 posts

Add ▾ → Templates → Profile → Grid trio · Grid six · Grid nine
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates → Profile and pick Grid trio, Grid six or Grid nine.
  2. Tap + and choose one photo — it spreads across all tiles.
  3. Tap the Profile grid pill to see it as it will sit in your feed: drag to move, pinch to resize, Fit shows the whole photo.
  4. Export all slides and post file 01 first — the export is already in posting order.

Seamless panorama across slides

Tap the photo → Crop → Split-Panorama → 2 slides · 3 slides
  1. Add a wide photo to a slide.
  2. Double-tap it (or tap it, then Crop).
  3. Under Split-Panorama choose 2 slides or 3 slides and tap Apply.
  4. Instagram stitches it back together when someone swipes — no visible seam.

Feed break — a subject breaking out of its post

Add ▾ → Templates → Profile → Feed break
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates → Profile → Feed break (dark or light).
  2. Fill the two slots — in the app the subject is cut out automatically and breaks out over the like row.

Templates

Strips — photos edge to edge

Add ▾ → Templates → Strips
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates → Strips.
  2. Pick 2–6 stacked, 2–5 side by side, a 2 × 2 grid or a title strip — or a complete issue.
  3. Tap each + to fill the strips with photos.

Flip strips between stacked and side by side

Tap a strip photo → Page → Stacked · Side by side
  1. Tap any photo on a Strips page.
  2. Open Page in the toolbar.
  3. Tap ☰ Stacked or ⫼ Side by side — your photos stay in place.

The frames look

Add ▾ → Frames
  1. Open Add ▾ → Frames and pick a layout.
  2. Fill the big photo — the small frame of the next band fills automatically.
  3. Pinch inside a frame to zoom. Mirror moves the paired photos symmetrically; turn it off to place each freely.

Film negative borders

Add ▾ → Templates → Simple 2
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates → Simple 2.
  2. Pick a film frame — 120, 35 mm or contact sheet.
  3. Fill it with your photo. The page stays white; only the frame and edge print change.

A complete issue in one tap

Add ▾ → Templates → Journal → 5 · 7 · 10 pages
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates → Journal.
  2. Choose 5 pages, 7 pages or the 10-page guide.
  3. Every page is already matched — drop in your photos and type over the headlines.

All template families

Add ▾ → Templates
  1. Open Add ▾ → Templates.
  2. Each family has its own voice: Magazine (covers), Journal (travel issue), Statement (bold type), Arthouse (black & white + red), Archive (retro), Minimal, Gallery, Frame 'n' Neon.
  3. Layouts marked PRO are free to build — only exporting them needs Pro.

Photos

Add photos

Tap the empty slide · Add ▾ → Photo
  1. Tap the empty slide, or open Add ▾ → Photo.
  2. Pick several photos at once — each lands on its own slide.
  3. In a template, tap + on an empty field and choose From device or Library.

Photo library — reuse photos

Add ▾ → Library · toolbar → Library
  1. Every photo you add is kept in your Library.
  2. Open Add ▾ → Library (or Library in the toolbar) and tap a photo to place it.
  3. Sort photos into folders; long-press to select several.

Replace a photo

Tap the photo → Replace
  1. Tap the photo.
  2. Tap Replace in the toolbar and pick a new one — size, crop frame and style stay.

Crop and straighten

Double-tap the photo · Tap the photo → Crop
  1. Double-tap the photo (or tap it, then Crop).
  2. Pick a format or Free and move the frame.
  3. Straighten fixes a tilted horizon in 1° steps — tap the number to type an angle, ↺ resets.
  4. Tap Apply.

Zoom a photo inside its frame

Pinch the photo · Tap the photo → Zoom
  1. Pinch the photo with two fingers,
  2. or tap it and use Zoom in the toolbar for exact values.

Resize and move

Tap to select → drag · red dot
  1. Tap once to select — only the selected element moves, so nothing shifts by accident.
  2. Drag to move. Drag the red dot to resize — it snaps to edges and other photos.
  3. Magnet in the toolbar switches snapping off. Tap ✓ when you're done.

Cut out the subject

Tap the photo → Cut out
  1. Tap the photo.
  2. Tap Cut out (iPhone and Android app) — the subject becomes its own layer on top of the photo.
  3. Move, scale or blur the background behind it.

Frame, colour & style

Black & white

Tap the photo → B/W · Palette → S/W
  1. Tap the photo and tap B/W in the toolbar — tap again for colour.
  2. For all photos of a template at once: Palette → S/W.

Border around a photo

Tap the photo → Border
  1. Tap the photo and open Border.
  2. Pick a width and colour — the eyedropper takes a colour straight from the photo.
  3. All photos applies the same border to every photo.

One grid, margin and gap for the whole carousel

Tap a photo → Page → Grid
  1. Tap a photo and open Page.
  2. Set the outer margin, the gap and the edge colour once — it applies to the whole carousel.
  3. Pick a layout per slide, or apply it to all slides at once.

Hide or remove a template, keep the photo

Tap a photo → Page → Layout
  1. Tap a photo and open Page.
  2. Switch Layout off to hide the template — your photo stays.
  3. Remove layout, keep photo deletes it for good (undo works).

Recolour a slide or the whole carousel

Tap a photo → Palette
  1. Tap a photo and open Palette.
  2. Pick a matched colour combination — or mix your own and take both colours from your photo with the eyedropper.
  3. Turn on All slides to recolour every page of the same style at once.

Background colour of a slide

Colour swatch ▾ in the toolbar
  1. Tap the colour swatch ▾ in the toolbar.
  2. Pick a colour or use the eyedropper to take one from your photo.

Blur a photo

Tap the photo → Blur
  1. Tap the photo and open Blur.
  2. Tip: a blurred copy behind a sharp, smaller one makes a soft frosted-glass frame.

Blend and gradient fade

Tap the photo → Blend
  1. Tap the photo and open Blend.
  2. Set the opacity, or switch on the gradient mask and turn the knobs for direction, position and softness.

Text

Add text

Add ▾ → Text → Add text
  1. Open Add ▾ → Text.
  2. Add text drops in a free text box — or pick a ready-made style like Editorial or Magazine.
  3. Type, then resize the box: the lines rewrap like in a word processor.

Change the font and edit text

Tap the text → Font
  1. Tap the text — Font opens with the text field.
  2. Type over it, or pick another typeface. Shuffle tries matching pairs.

Colour bar behind text

Tap the text → Font → Background behind text
  1. Tap the text and open Font.
  2. Switch on Background behind text and pick a colour.
  3. The bar grows and shrinks with every letter.

Edit repeated words one by one

Tap the text → Font → Same text in all fields
  1. In layouts that repeat a word, tap the text and open Font.
  2. Switch off Same text in all fields — now every field can say something different.

Move all text lines together

Tap a text → All
  1. Tap any text of the layout.
  2. Tap All in the row of text chips — drag one line and they all move together.

Align text boxes to each other

Drag one text box near another
  1. Drag a text box close to another one on the same slide.
  2. It snaps gently to the other box's midline, top or bottom edge, and to its left edge, right edge or centre — a thin guide line shows the match.
  3. Great for mixing two typefaces in one sentence: the bold word sits on the same midline as the rest.
  4. Magnet in the toolbar switches snapping off.

Let text run across two slides

Drag the text over the slide edge
  1. Tap the text and drag it over the edge to the next slide.
  2. Choose to let it run seamlessly across both slides — Instagram shows it as one line when swiping.

Text colour, outline and spacing

Tap the text → Style · Outline · Spacing
  1. Tap the text.
  2. Style sets colour and weight, Outline draws a contour, Spacing sets letter and line spacing.

Format & slides

Post 4:5, Post 3:4 or Story 9:16

Format chip at the top (Post 4:5 ▾)
  1. Tap the format chip at the top.
  2. Choose Post 4:5, Post 3:4 or Story 9:16 — the layout adapts, you don't rebuild it.
  3. Post 3:4 fills a profile tile without cropping.

What Instagram crops

“i” next to the format chip
  1. Tap the small “i” next to the format chip.
  2. It shows what stays visible in the feed, the profile grid and stories.

Show the profile grid safe zone

Tap any element → Profile grid
  1. Tap any element on a slide.
  2. Tap Profile grid in the toolbar — every slide shows the 3:4 area that stays visible in your profile grid.

Add, reorder, duplicate or delete slides

＋ next to the slides · long-press a tile · toolbar → Duplicate
  1. ＋ next to the last slide (or in the filmstrip) adds a slide.
  2. Long-press a tile in the filmstrip to reorder.
  3. Duplicate in the toolbar copies a slide with all its style — then just replace the photo. Delete removes it.

Move a photo to another slide

Tap the photo → Slide
  1. Tap the photo and open Slide.
  2. ← Prev slide / Next slide → moves it; Split across 2 slides lays it seamlessly over two.

Layer order and lock

Tap an element → Layer
  1. Tap an element and open Layer.
  2. ⇈ / ↑ / ↓ / ⇊ change the order; Lock stops it from moving.

Rotate an element

Tap an element → Rotate
  1. Tap the element and open Rotate.
  2. Use the slider, −90° / +90°, or type an exact angle. To straighten a horizon, use Crop → Straighten.

Export

Export for Instagram

Export button (top right)
  1. Tap Export at the top right.
  2. All slides gives numbered images in posting order; This slide exports just the current one.
  3. Sizes are exactly what Instagram wants: 1080 × 1350, 1080 × 1440 or 1080 × 1920.

Basics & Pro

Undo and redo

↶ at the top · ••• → ↶ ↷
  1. Tap ↶ at the top to undo.
  2. Redo sits in the ••• menu next to Undo.

Save, new project and your projects

••• → Save · New · Postfolio logo → start screen
  1. Your work saves automatically on this device.
  2. ••• → Save or New. Tap the Postfolio logo to go back to your projects.
  3. Long-press a project on the start screen to move, duplicate or delete it.

Free & Pro, restore purchases

••• → Restore purchases
  1. Building and previewing is free — no watermark, no time limit. Layouts marked PRO need the one-time unlock to export.
  2. Pro is a single purchase, never a subscription.
  3. New phone or reinstalled? ••• → Restore purchases.

Dark mode and rounded corners

••• → Dark mode · Rounded corners
  1. Open the ••• menu at the top.
  2. Switch Dark mode or Rounded corners (with Roundness) on or off.

Try it on your own photos.

The web app is free — no login, no watermark, no time limit. Your photos never leave your device.

Open the free web app App Store Google Play

iOS and Android: free download, full editor. Pro is a one-time purchase — never a subscription.