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Create the Face of Your Store: How to Add Photos to Your Carousel

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Front and center, the Carousel is the face of your store.

It’s the static image or a set of rotating photos or animated gifs on your store’s main page, and it’s often the first thing your shoppers see.

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You can use a carousel to:

Build your brand

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Answer your shoppers’ common questions

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Highlight events

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Run promotions

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Feature products

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This video will show you how to build it.

Learn more about adding images, text, and links to slides, reordering slides, and deleting slides here.

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