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Are you Looking for a Simple Instagram Carousel Maker?

As photographers, we pour our energy into creating beautiful images, not wrestling with complicated software. Yet, when it comes to sharing our work on Instagram, many of us end up spending far too much time trying to format carousels. That’s exactly why a straightforward Instagram carousel maker—like the SICC app—makes all the difference.

The Problem with Existing Tools

If you’ve ever tried to create a carousel in Photoshop or Canva, you’ll know the frustration. Photoshop offers endless possibilities but feels heavy-handed for something as simple as splitting an image into a few swipeable frames. Canva is more user-friendly, but it’s built with general design in mind, not specifically for photographers. Both options can feel clunky when you just want to drop in a collage of images and get a clean, seamless carousel out the other side.

Most of us don’t want layers upon layers of templates or design menus. We want speed and precision. When inspiration strikes or when a client is waiting to see their sneak peeks, time spent fiddling with layout tools is time wasted.

Photographer navigates design challenges, creating a seaside carousel on her computer in a cozy home office.

Why a Simple Instagram Carousel Was Needed

A good Instagram carousel maker should be as simple as:

  1. Choose your images.

  2. Arrange them into a collage or flow.

  3. Split them automatically into cohesive carousel posts.

That’s it. No overthinking, no complicated exporting, no mismatched edges that ruin the swipe effect. For photographers, this simplicity means you can showcase your work in a way that feels natural and polished without needing to be a designer as well.

The swipe-through format is powerful for storytelling. A wedding album becomes a flowing journey across frames. A portrait session feels immersive as viewers swipe from one detail to the next. A landscape spread looks breathtaking when stretched seamlessly across multiple posts. All of this can be achieved with a tool designed to do one thing—and do it well.

Try SICC Carousel Maker

This was why I made the SICC App

That’s the thinking behind the SICC app we developed. Thats the ‘SvenStudoos Instagram Carousel Composer’ for shot :). It’s not about replacing Photoshop or competing with Canva or apps like SCRL—it’s about filling the gap between overly complex design software and the needs of working photographers.

SICC was created first and foremost as a tool to help photographers—completely free. It’s not perfect, and it’s not packed with every feature under the sun, but what it does, it does well. The whole point is to keep things simple and fuss-free. You drop in your shots, compose your collage, and let the app handle the splitting with pixel-perfect precision.

There’s no need to second-guess whether the edges will align or whether Instagram’s compression will mess things up. It just works. And because it’s free, it’s accessible to anyone who wants to share their work in a seamless way without adding extra costs or learning curves.

This means you can spend more time shooting, editing, and connecting with your audience rather than tinkering with clumsy tools. It’s a photographer-first approach to carousel creation, and that’s why it resonates so strongly with anyone who has struggled to make their work shine on Instagram without wasting hours in the process.

With the SICC Instagram Carousel Maker you can look as happy as the AI Slop Photographer you see below.

Joyful photographer captures moments in a lush, ivy-filled park, showcasing his passion with a professional DSLR.

Why Photographers Should Care

Photographers don’t just post for fun—we post for visibility, for client attraction, and for building our brand. An effective carousel is one of the best ways to stand out on Instagram’s grid. It stops the scroll. It makes people swipe. It tells a visual story.

And when creating those carousels is frictionless, it’s easier to share consistently. More posts mean more engagement, more visibility, and more opportunities to attract the next booking.

For photographers who want to focus on their craft, a tool like SICC isn’t just convenient—it’s essential. A simple, reliable Instagram carousel maker is the missing piece that helps turn your best images into content that feels professional and effortless.

Building on the success of our SICC Instagram Carousel Composer, we’ve now expanded the toolkit with a brand-new Reel Creator app — designed for photographers who want to turn their stills or short clips into polished vertical videos without ever leaving their desktop. Think of it as a free CapCut alternative, purpose-built for simplicity and speed. No watermarks, no subscriptions, no exporting headaches — just drag in your images, set your timings, and create an engaging reel in moments. It’s all handled locally in your browser, keeping your files private and your workflow smooth. We’re continuing our mission to empower creators with PC-based, cost-free tools that let your art shine without relying on mobile apps or paywalls.

Facebook disabled accounts, including business and Instagram

Unfortunately one of the worst things that can happen to a creative sole trading business like SvenStudios happened last week, where all of our accounts related and linked to Facebook came under attack by a malicious third party.

I woke up to my mother in law frantically texting about inappropriate images appearing on my personal Facebook wall which in turn caused my accounts to all become disabled due to facebook policy. Looking at my emails it seems as though someone gained access to my business page and 6 minutes later all my accounts were disabled.

On the surface this seems like a reasonable thing for Facebook to do in order to protect users from horrible images that should not exist, and it’s pretty amazing it only took 6 minutes of them being posted to take them down. So well done to them.

However this takedown has also caused an automatic ban of all accounts linked to my personal account. This means my business Facebook page – which had 2.5k followers. My SvenStudios Instagram, which had 14k followers and also my other project pages and instagrams relating to StevenDuncanART.

Facebook disabled

Impossible to reactivate Facebook disabled accounts due to Policy

You’d think surely an organisation like Facebook would be caught up in this sort of thing rather often right? Should be an easy fix – their automated takedown of illicit material was needed, so all they need to do is reverse it while removing the material yeah? Wrong.

It turns out that Facebook, and Meta do not believe in customer service and would rather outsource all customer relations to Artificial Intelligence – ‘AI’. Any thing and everything you interact with when you seek out help direct from Facebook is AI.

There is a review process in place in order to keep the AI in check for any inevitible blunders which is – or used to be staffed by real people. However when trying to make use of the review service one is merely greeted with ‘We can’t Rewview the Decision to disable your account’

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unable to review

New SvenStudios Social Media Accounts

Doing research around the web, and Reddit, the chances of having my accounts restored seems pretty bleak and pretty impossible to achieve. The only success stories for people in my situation have been people who know someone who works directly for Facebook. One example is handxmade who kind of got thier acocunts back, but not eithout firends help.

I have reported the hack and use of my accounts and posting of illigal images to the Police which I hope maybe in their contacts can achieve something positive, but Facebook has already done everything in their power to protect the innocent from their view, the disabling of my acocunts is simply collateral damage which is none of their concern.

if Facebook and INstagram werent as important for a photography business to operate, I would not have bothered with recreating my acocunts – however they most certainly are important, so you will find my new SvenStudios facebook page at https://facebook.com/svenstudiosphotography/ and my new instagram page at https://instagram.com/svenstudiosweddings/ Eventually once the original pages are taken down (as my onl Facebook page is still visible) I should be able to reclaim the original URLs.

There may be a slim chance for my Facebook Disabled accounts to be returned to me – but at the moment by the looks of the finality of any correspondance I have with Facebook – chances are slim. I’ll of course update this if anything changes.