Claude Design Carousel Exports as One Long Image (or Slides Cut Off): Why, and How to Get One File per Slide

A Claude Design carousel exports as one long image when the capture grabs the whole page instead of each slide on its own. The usual cause is a full-page screenshot, or saving the HTML export from the browser, which shows every slide on a single page. The fix: export each artboard separately from its own menu in Claude Design (choose PNG 2x), so every slide becomes its own file. If the carousel is one tall artboard rather than one artboard per slide, first ask Claude Design to rebuild it as separate artboards at the exact size you need, such as 1080x1350.

Why does the whole carousel come out as one image?

The standalone HTML export is a web page, and a web page has to put all your slides somewhere. Depending on the design, it stacks them down the page, lines them up side by side, or shows one at a time with arrows. Any tool that captures the page rather than a single slide inherits that layout.

The third row catches people out, because a single tall artboard with dividing lines can look like separate slides on the canvas. Check that each slide is its own artboard with its own download menu; if one menu exports the whole carousel, it is one artboard. Arrows and page dots baked into the image are a related problem, covered in the export troubleshooting guide.

Why are slides cut off at the edges?

Cut-off slides have four common causes, and only the first two are about how the slide was captured.

• Scaling. Claude Design exports often shrink each slide to fit your window. A capture of that shrunken view comes out smaller than the real slide, and if the window is narrower than the layout expects, the edges fall outside the capture.
• Side-by-side layouts. When slides sit in a row wider than the window, a screenshot stops at the window's right edge, and a full-page screenshot only extends downwards.
• Content outside the artboard. The artboard is the frame. Text or images that overflow its edge are clipped on export, even if they looked fine on the canvas. Keep anything important at least 60 pixels inside every edge.
• Instagram's crop. By default Instagram crops every slide in a carousel to the first slide's ratio, so a 4:5 slide after a square first slide loses its top and bottom. A "Mixed" option keeps each slide's ratio, but you have to choose it. Design every slide at the same size.

How do you export one slide at a time from Claude Design?

Claude Design now has PNG export built in, per artboard: each artboard's menu offers PNG 1x and PNG 2x. It is free, and for a short carousel it is the simplest fix.

1. Make sure each slide is its own artboard. If it is not, use the prompt below first.
2. Open the first artboard's menu and choose PNG 2x.
3. Repeat for every slide, and name the files 01, 02, 03 and so on, so they sort in order when you upload.
4. Check one file's size: a 1080x1350 artboard at 2x should come out at 2160x2700.

Rebuild this carousel as 7 separate artboards, one slide per artboard, each exactly 1080x1350. Keep the content, order and styling the same. Keep all text and key elements at least 60px inside each artboard's edges. No navigation arrows, page counters or dots on the slides.

The limits: one artboard per click, no platform size presets, and no option to download every slide as PNGs at once, so a ten-slide carousel means ten downloads. The same menu also offers PDF, and recent versions also list all artboards as one PDF, which is the format LinkedIn wants.

How do you get one correctly sized file per slide in one go?

Doing every slide in one pass takes something that can find the slide boundaries in the HTML. Renda reads the Claude Design HTML export or project zip, detects each carousel, isolates every slide, undoes the fit-to-window scaling and renders each slide at its own size at 2x, so a 1080x1350 slide comes out at 2160x2700. Choose Social pack to get every slide as its own PNG, named in order, plus a multi-page PDF for LinkedIn, all in one zip; choose LinkedIn carousels for the PDF alone. One request takes up to 30 slides, comfortably above Instagram's 20. Each slide counts as one of the five free PNGs a month, so a seven-slide carousel uses seven.

There are other routes. A Chrome extension, Claude Design PNG Exporter, batch exports every page as PNGs at up to 4x from the browser (10 PNGs a day free after a trial), and if you are comfortable in a terminal you can hand the design off to Claude Code and ask it to render each artboard.

What size should each carousel slide be?

Every slide in a carousel should be the same size. These are the sizes and limits that matter in October 2026; the Instagram carousel guide covers the format in depth.

If you schedule Instagram posts through a tool such as Buffer, stick to 1080x1350: Buffer says Instagram's publishing API does not accept 3:4, even though the app does.

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