Workshop Replay: Build Your Carousel Studio

Lindsay Hack

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Here is the full recording of our June 24 build, plus everything you need to use your tool and keep going.

We built personalized carousel makers, in our own brands, in under 60 minutes.

@Molly Dowdy

even posted hers to Facebook before we finished.

That is how fast this is.

Watch the replay, then use the quick reference below so you do not have to scrub back through the video to remember a step.

In this lesson

The full workshop recording.
Your tool file, attached. Download it, open it in your browser, never in an AI.
Your How To Use It guide, the SOP, attached.

The key things to remember

These are the moments people forget. Bookmark this lesson so you can come back to them.

+ Use Duplicate, not Add. This is the speed secret. Duplicate carries every setting forward, your colors, layout, and toggles, so you only change the words. Add gives you a blank slide and makes you start over. Duplicate almost every time.

+ Set your brand, then keep your tool the right way. Set up your brand once. The tool now remembers it when you reopen the same file. For a permanent copy that opens in your brand on any browser, click Download my tool, open that downloaded file, and bookmark that one. That is your real studio.

+ Download the moment you love a design. Your slides are not saved until you export. If you refresh or close before exporting, unsaved edits are gone. When a slide looks right, Export PNGs and save it.

Aim for 5 to 7 slides. That is the sweet spot for Instagram carousels. Long enough to teach, short enough to hold attention.

+ Logo tip. A transparent PNG looks cleanest. But if your transparent logo looks odd, upload the regular version and let the tool place it in a box. Sometimes the box looks better. Use whichever fits your logo.

Fewer than 4 brand colors? Fill the empty slots with black or white. They go with everything and keep your slides clean.

Repurpose every carousel across platforms

One build, many posts. Use your exported PNGs for:

Instagram: post as a standard carousel.
Reels and Stories: drop the images into the editor and add music.
Facebook: use them in stories or as a carousel.
LinkedIn: combine your PNGs into one PDF in Canva, then upload the PDF as a document post.

Your one job this week

Open your tool and make one carousel.

Post it. Do not let the tool sit. You already did the hard part, you built it.

Now use it, and drop your first post in the community so we can cheer you on.

What is next

This was this month's build. Every month inside the Lab we build another tool together, live. Last month was Content Machine, this month was Carousel Studio, and next month is a new one. Keep building with us.

SOP from the session>>> https://theidentityhacker.com/carousel_studio_sop

DOWNLOAD from the session>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RSUHFCd_MOMSBFGjyiXHG22Y_wPMjOWC/view?usp=sharing

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Workshop Replay: Build Your Carousel Studio