Field guide
Carousel splits and the swipe seam
The Social mode on the front page cuts a carousel: two to twenty slides at 1:1, 4:5 or 3:4, framed from one wide picture, numbered in the order they are added. What follows is how to plan the strip so the seams work. A carousel seam is both a cut and a transition, and the composition should reward a swipe without slicing critical text or a face unpredictably.
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Lay out the full strip at the exact combined pixel width, then place guides at each panel boundary. Designing slides separately makes continuous lines hard to align.
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Keep essential copy inside each panel's safe area. Interfaces crop thumbnails and overlay controls differently from the full-screen carousel view.
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Let backgrounds and broad shapes cross a seam, but move eyes, small type and narrow product edges away from it. Those features expose even a one-pixel mismatch.
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Export every panel with identical height, format and colour treatment. A platform may rescale one inconsistent slide and break the continuous swipe illusion.
