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Instagram panorama splitter: split a wide photo into a seamless carousel
Framescrll splits a panorama into Instagram slides that line up across the swipe — 1080 × 1350 each, up to 20 of them — in your browser, for free, without uploading the photo anywhere.
Instagram won't show a wide photo at its full width; it crops it to a card. The workaround everyone uses is to cut the panorama into equal slices and post them as a carousel, so the picture reveals itself as people swipe. That's exactly what Framescrll does, and because it's a full editor rather than a one-trick splitter, you can put a title, stickers or a background on the same strip before it's cut.
How to split a panorama for Instagram
- Open the editor and pick the slide count Go to framescrll.com/app. In the Canvas strip, choose how many slides the panorama should span and set Frame size — Instagram Feed — 4:5 for the feed, Instagram Square — 1:1 for the classic look, or Story / Reels / TikTok — 9:16 for a vertical swipe on TikTok.
- Add the panorama In the Photos tab press Add photos and choose the wide image. Don't have a single panorama? Stitch photos into a panorama takes a few shots taken panning across a scene, finds the overlap between each pair, and joins them into one wide image — on your device, like a phone's panorama mode but from separate photos.
- Fit it across every slide Select the photo and press Fit across. It stretches over the whole strip; drag it to pick which part of the picture shows, and Un-crop resets it to its original shape. Turn on Seams to see where each cut will fall so a face doesn't land on one.
- Preview and export Preview shows the slices in a phone mockup you can swipe through. Export then gives you a ZIP of numbered slides, or shares them in order straight to Instagram. Post them as one carousel with slide 1 first.
How many slides should a panorama be split into?
Pick the slide count whose overall shape is closest to your photo's, or the top and bottom get cropped away. At 4:5 the strip is (4 × slides) : 5 wide-to-tall:
| Slides at 4:5 | Strip shape | Pixels exported | Suits a photo about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1.6 : 1 | 2160 × 1350 | a normal landscape photo (3:2, 16:9) |
| 3 | 2.4 : 1 | 3240 × 1350 | a wide crop or a short phone panorama |
| 4 | 3.2 : 1 | 4320 × 1350 | a typical phone panorama |
| 5 | 4 : 1 | 5400 × 1350 | a long sweep |
| 6 | 4.8 : 1 | 6480 × 1350 | a very long sweep — check it isn't going soft |
Square slides make a wider strip for the same count (three 1:1 slides is 3:1), and 9:16 a narrower one. The size guide has every dimension. Whatever you pick, each slide is exported at the full 1080-wide frame — nothing is upscaled, so a photo that's narrower than the strip will look it.
More than a splitter
- Title it. The Titled Panorama template puts a headline on the first slide and leaves the rest clear for the photo.
- Decorate it. Text, stickers, a coloured or patterned background and a paint brush all work on the same strip, and everything is sliced together.
- Make it move. Export as video → Pan across renders an MP4 that glides along the whole panorama as one continuous image — for Reels or TikTok — with a seamless loop option.
- Keep it private. Splitting, stitching and export all run on your device. The panorama is never uploaded; see the privacy policy.
Questions
Does the panorama line up perfectly across the swipe?
Yes — the slides are cut from one image at exact 1080-px boundaries, so there's nothing to misalign. What can break the illusion is Instagram re-cropping, which it only does if the slides are different shapes; every slide from Framescrll is the same shape.
Can I split a panorama for TikTok?
Yes. Set the frame to 9:16 and use at least 4 slides — TikTok photo mode needs a minimum of four. Details on the TikTok photo carousel page.
Is there a limit on photo size?
Very large files are downscaled on import to keep the editor responsive on a phone, but exports are rendered from that copy at the full frame size, so a normal phone panorama loses nothing you'd see on Instagram.