How to make a recap post with Exposure
Exposure has four families of recap templates — yearly, monthly, weekly and travel — built for different timeframes. All four follow the same workflow: pick a template, drop in your photos, generate the recap text, export. Here's how, in four steps.
The 4-step process
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Pick a recap template
Choose based on the timeframe, not the season: yearly for a full year in twelve slides, monthly for a lighter recap of just one month, weekly for a day-by-day postcard sequence, or travel for a single trip. Each has its own visual style — you can preview all four under Use cases before picking one.
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Fill in your photos
Every template opens with labeled placeholder slots — press Edit on a slot to add a photo. You don't need to fill every slot: skip or delete the ones you don't have a photo for before exporting.
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Generate the recap text
Open the transform feature and select the preset that matches your template (for example, "yearly recap"). It writes recap copy from your notes, which you can then drop straight into the slide reserved for text — no separate writing app.
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Export and post
Export as a seamless Instagram carousel for a scrollable post, or as a print-ready PDF if you want a physical or shareable photo book version — both come from the same layout.
Four templates, one underlying workflow
The four recap families look different — an analog film strip for yearly, a lace-framed postcard for weekly, a bold month label for monthly, a stamped travel journal for a trip — but they’re built the same way underneath: labeled photo slots, an optional reserved slide for text, and the same export options at the end. Once you’ve made one recap, the other three aren’t a new skill, just a different look.
Choosing between yearly, monthly, weekly and travel
The four templates aren’t strictly hierarchical — a year isn’t just twelve months stacked, and a trip isn’t just a themed week. Pick yearly when you want one big end-of-year post; monthly when a single month has enough photos to be worth its own post without waiting for December; weekly for the ordinary stretch that doesn’t have one big event, just several days worth of moments; and travel when the recap is about a specific place rather than a fixed span of time. See the Yearly, Monthly, Weekly and Travel use cases for what each template looks like before picking one.
Recap text without switching apps
Every recap template reserves at least one slide for written copy — a caption, a line about the month, a note on the postcard back. Rather than writing that separately and pasting it in, Exposure’s transform feature has presets matched to each template (the “yearly recap” preset, for example). Generate the text there, then drop it directly into the reserved slide in the same app.