How to Make a LinkedIn Carousel from Claude Design

LinkedIn carousels tend to get strong reach, and B2B founders, marketers, and agencies have noticed. Claude Design can produce the slides for one in minutes. The part that trips everyone up is getting those slides out of Claude Design and into the exact format LinkedIn actually wants. This guide covers what that format really is, why the manual route is tedious, and the one-drop way to skip it.

A LinkedIn carousel is a document post

Here is the thing most people miss. LinkedIn has no "carousel" upload button. What everyone calls a LinkedIn carousel is a document post: you upload a multi-page PDF, and LinkedIn renders each page as a swipeable slide right in the feed. That is the entire mechanic.

Which means the real deliverable is not a folder of images. It is a single clean multi-page PDF, one page per slide, in the right order. Once you frame the job that way, everything else gets simpler. You are not exporting graphics, you are building a PDF where each page is a finished slide.

The dimensions and slide count that perform

Portrait wins on LinkedIn because it takes up more vertical space in the feed. The sweet spot is a 4:5 ratio, roughly 1080 x 1350 pixels per page. Square (1080 x 1080) also works and is a safe fallback, but portrait gives you more room for a headline and pulls the eye down the feed.

On slide count, six to twelve is the band that holds attention. Fewer than six and the post feels thin. Past twelve and people stop swiping before the payoff. Each slide needs a reason to earn the next swipe, so if a slide is filler, cut it.

The manual way, and why it is painful

You have polished slides in Claude Design. Now you need that LinkedIn-ready PDF. Done by hand, the job has four steps and each one has a snag:

• Export each slide. You want one clean image per slide at 4:5. Claude Design's direct image export hands you the whole design as one tall PNG, not separate pages, so you end up cropping or screenshotting slide by slide.
• Hide the carousel chrome. The on-screen arrows, page counters, and pip dots that help you navigate inside Claude Design are not part of the design. Screenshot the slides and that UI gets baked into your images, and the post looks like a screen recording instead of a finished asset.
• Assemble the PDF. Now you import every image into Canva, Acrobat, or a slide tool and stack them into a single multi-page PDF at the right page size. This is the step everyone actually hates.
• Fix the order. One slide out of sequence and the story breaks mid-swipe. So you double-check the page order before export, every time.

None of these steps is hard on its own. Stacked together, on a deadline, across a few client carousels a week, they are exactly the kind of tedious that eats an afternoon.

Where Claude Design's exports fall short for this job

Claude Design is excellent at making the slides. It just has no clean "export these as a LinkedIn-ready multi-page PDF" path, and the routes it does offer each miss for this specific job:

• Direct image export gives you one tall PNG of the full design, not portrait pages you can drop straight into a document post.
• The PowerPoint export mangles fonts and flattens gradients, so the deck that looked sharp in Claude Design arrives looking off.
• The PDF export is not built around carousel page dimensions or hiding the navigation chrome, so you are still doing cleanup before it is postable.

The gap is narrow but real: great slides in, no tidy multi-page carousel PDF out.

The one-drop workflow

This is the gap Renda closes. Drop your Claude Design export in and it detects every carousel in the file automatically, then packs each one into a multi-page LinkedIn carousel PDF, ready to upload as a document post. It hides the carousel chrome (the arrows, page counters, and pip dots) using an AI-generated render recipe, keeps the slides in their original order, and renders at 2x for crisp, retina-sharp pages.

The whole thing is one drop and one format pick. No per-slide cropping, no manual PDF assembly in Canva, no re-checking the order. The same drop can also give you per-slide PNGs, a social pack, a .pptx, or a plain PDF if you need the deck in another shape too.

The first ten renders a month are free with no account needed, which comfortably covers a couple of carousels. Pro is £4.99/month if you are shipping these every week.

Posting the carousel on LinkedIn

With the PDF ready, the post itself is quick. A short checklist:

• Use a document post. Start a post, choose the document option, and upload your multi-page PDF. LinkedIn turns the pages into swipeable slides.
• Lead with a hook on the cover. Slide one decides whether anyone swipes. One bold idea or stat, no clutter.
• Keep it to 6 to 12 slides. Long enough to deliver, short enough to finish.
• Close with a CTA. The last slide does real work. One clear ask, one action.
• Write a caption that sets up the swipe. Give people a reason to open the document, then let the slides carry the rest.

That is the whole loop. Build the slides in Claude Design, get a clean multi-page PDF out, post it as a document. The work is in the slides, not the export, so do not let the export be the part that costs you an afternoon.