Quote image maker: turn a post or a tweet into an image

Instagram keeps a photo 1,080 pixels wide and keeps its shape between 1.91:1 and 3:4, so the square, the portrait and the landscape all post whole. LinkedIn asks for at least 1,200 × 627 at 1.91:1 for the image on a shared link, which is where the landscape size comes from.

Meta's size for an Instagram story is 1,440 × 2,560, and it asks you to keep about 14% at the top, 35% at the bottom and 6% on each side free of text, since the profile picture and the story's own buttons sit there. The story card keeps your words in the space that's left.

Sources: Instagram Help Center: Image resolution of photos you share (1,080 px wide, 1.91:1 to 3:4); LinkedIn Help: Make your website shareable on LinkedIn; Meta Ads Guide: Image ad specs on Instagram Stories (9:16, 1440 × 2560, keep 14% top, 35% bottom and 6% each side clear)

• Start from a preset. There are 8 to start from, from dark to pastel. Change any colour after, add a third, or turn the angle.
• Let Auto pick the text colour. It tries dark and light text against every colour in the background and keeps whichever reads better on the one it reads worst on. Set it yourself whenever you like.
• The tool tells you when it's hard to read. If the text falls under 3:1 contrast against any part of the background, the level WCAG asks for large text, you get a note under the card.
• Keep the ends close. A gradient that runs from very dark to very light leaves one end hard to read whatever the text colour. Two shades of one colour, or two neighbours like peach and pink, read well end to end.
• Want a plain look? Pick Solid for one colour, or Looks for the carousel maker's pairs, which come with their own text colours.

Source: W3C: Understanding WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 1.4.3, Contrast (Minimum) (3:1 for large text)

There are no logos, no like counts and no verified badges on the card, and no way to add them. A card can't be mistaken for a screenshot of a real post, so it can't put words in anyone's mouth.

To share one of your own posts, paste its text, add your name and handle, and pick the shape for where it's going. Then link to the original in your post if you want people to find it.

• One idea, a line or two. A card is read in a second. If it needs a paragraph, it's a post, or a carousel.
• Let it be big. The words grow to fill the card. The fewer there are, the bigger they get, and the further they carry in a feed.
• Sign it. Your name and handle under the words means the card still says who wrote it when it's shared on without you.
• Credit other people's words. Quoting someone? Put their name on the card, and link to where they said it in your post.
• Say the rest in the post. The card stops the scroll. The post's text is where the context, the link and the question go.

Square. Start a post, add the image, and write the post's text. It shows whole in the feed.

Portrait. The same as a square, for a card that takes more of a phone's screen.

Landscape. For a wide image in the feed, on LinkedIn or anywhere a wide card suits the post better than a tall one.

Story. Start a story and pick the image from your photos. The words are already clear of the buttons.

Add the card's words as its alt text when you post, so people who use a screen reader get them too.

If you'd rather start from a screenshot, Shaflex's image editor puts it on a backdrop and blurs what's private, right in the draft.

See how Shaflex schedules for Threads, X, Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn, how one draft goes to every network, and what the free plan includes.