Instagram Grid Maker
Cut one picture into a profile grid or carousel slides — 1080 px tiles, numbered in posting order.
Drop an image here to cut it up
JPG, PNG or WebP. The file is read straight off your device and never uploaded, so there is no size limit and nothing to wait for. Bring the biggest version you have — a grid needs every pixel it can get.
How it works
How to make an Instagram grid?
Open your picture
Drag in a JPG, PNG or WebP. It is read straight off your device, so there is no upload and no size cap — bring the largest version you have.
Choose a grid or a carousel
A grid is separate posts that line up on your profile. A carousel is one post you swipe through. Same picture, same cut — only the number of rows changes.
Frame it
Drag the picture to move it inside the frame and zoom in to use less of it. Every cut is drawn live, so you see the seams before you commit to nine posts.
Download
The cut runs on its own as soon as you stop adjusting, so the pieces are already waiting at 1080 px each. Take them as one ZIP, or as separate files straight into your downloads — and any single square from the arrow in its corner. All of it named in posting order.
The one rule
Post a grid backwards, not forwards
A profile shows your newest post in the top-left square and pushes everything else along. So the tile that ends up top left has to be posted last, and the bottom-right one goes first. That is the whole trick, and it is the only way a grid goes wrong after you have already published four squares.
Posting order for a 3×3 grid: start with 1 in the bottom-right corner and work backwards along each row, finishing with 9 in the top left. The tool numbers every piece this way, and puts that number at the front of the filename — so whatever sorts your files sorts them into posting order too.
The sizes
What size does each piece need to be
Every piece comes out 1080 px wide, which is the largest Instagram serves — anything bigger is downsampled on upload. Which shape you pick matters far more than the pixels.
| Shape | Each piece | A 3×3 grid | Use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:5 | 1080 × 1350 | 3240 × 4050 | The profile grid and the feed as they are today — the tallest a post can be |
| 1:1 | 1080 × 1080 | 3240 × 3240 | Square grids, and anything that has to look the same on other platforms |
| 16:9 | 1080 × 608 | — | Widescreen carousel slides — the shape video and screenshots arrive in |
| 1.91:1 | 1080 × 566 | — | The widest landscape slide a carousel takes. Too wide for a profile grid |
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