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Canva cannot make a flipbook. Here is what does
Canva exports a static PDF, not a page-turn flipbook. The export setting that keeps your colours, and the upload that gives you a URL that flips.
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Create an Instant Camera project, upload photos in order, add captions, set print and develop time, loop and autoplay, then share the link or embed it. The real editor, step by step.
You have a folder of photos and a person to send them to. What you want is not a folder link. It is those photos, in your order, one at a time, at a link that opens on their phone.
That is an Instant Camera project in i3Dify: a 3D instant camera that prints your photos one by one, each one developing as it slides out. The whole build is one editor session and a share dialog, and what follows matches what the editor actually shows.
Open create an Instant Camera, or pick Instant Camera from the project types in your workspace. Give it a name you would say out loud, the trip or the couple. The editor opens with a blank print in the camera and a placeholder on it, which is what the scene shows until the first photo lands.
Drop in JPG, PNG or WebP files. The order in the list is the order the camera prints in, and you drag to reorder, so the first photo in the list is the first print out of the slot. Any aspect ratio works: each photo is cropped to fill the square picture area of the print, so keep the subject near the centre and use at least 1000 px on the short side. Ten to fifteen photos is a reel. Sixty is a folder, and it should stay one.
Each photo has an optional Caption field. Whatever you type shows in the pill above the scene next to the position, as the caption and then 3 of 12. Photos with no caption still count, and the pill just shows the numbers. Use it for a name, a place or a date. Show counter, in the settings, turns the pill off entirely for a clean scene.
Printing holds Print time and Develop time, both in seconds: how long the print takes to slide out and stop at the slot, and how long the picture takes to appear on the blank paper. Frame colour sets the paper border around every picture. Sequence has Loop, which prints the first photo again after the last one and otherwise leaves the last print held in the slot, and Autoplay with an Interval in seconds for a screen that should keep printing on its own.
Camera angle has Tilt, Turn, Zoom and two Move sliders that shift the whole view, and the angle you leave there is the starting view for every visitor. Background and the links dock are the same panels every project type has: a colour, gradient, pattern or image behind the camera, and buttons to your website or socials next to the scene.
Save the project, then open Share. Set visibility to Unlisted for a link only the people you send it to can open, or Public. A password can be required on top. The share dialog gives you the link, a QR code and an embed code for an iframe in your own page. The visitor opens the link in any browser, taps or swipes to print the next photo, uses the arrow keys or the wheel on a desktop, and drags the scene to turn the camera a little before it settles back.
The free plan carries the i3Dify watermark in the corner of the viewer. Replace a photo or change the order later and the link stays the same.
A folder is where photos wait. A reel is the twelve you chose, in your order, printed one at a time for the person you sent them to. The rest of the format is in the instant camera photo album and the Instant Camera docs.
Make your first instant camera photo reel.
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