Anita Nipāne - 100+ Free Tools to Create Visuals for Web & Social Media

100+ Free Tools to Create Visuals for Web & Social Media

Dont Spend Money on Tools You Can Use for Free

Anita Nipane

About author

A NITA NIPANE HAS MORE than 10 years of experience in marketing and has graduated MBA Marketing at Riga Business School. She is also Udemy instructor and has more than 8000 students from 129 countries. In her free time, she blogs at www.digginet.com where she shares useful and practical information about creating well-designed visuals for marketing. She is not a professional designer but has a long experience as a marketing manager and her everyday job involves evaluating the results of professional graphic designers and making sure that the designs they have created will work well for marketing purposes. And yes, a long time ago she graduated art school, too, where she learned most of the design principles that she teaches in this book. In short, she is the person that unifies marketing and graphic design.

Is this book for you?

D O YOU NEED TO CREATE IMAGES and simple banners for your webpage, blog, and social networks?

The good news is you dont need to hire a designer or buy expensive software to create visuals for web. You can do it YOURSELF and with FREE tools, thanks to the different resources that are available on the Internet. There are so many easy and quick solutions out there! Actually, even the most highly paid pros take help from the same resources you are going to learn in this book.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

• get royalty free images even for commercial purposes
• edit photos and create web banners with free online editors
• pick tasteful color combinations for your brand and web banners
• create simple animated gif banners
• take and edit screenshots as well as record tutorial videos from your screen
• remove background from any image (no Photoshop or designer skills needed)
• add beautiful and free fonts to your computer
• create slideshows, presentations, and infographics
• "steal" color codes from any website
• use other tools that will save your time and improve efficiency

In short, you'll be able to create visuals for your webpage, blog and social networks yourself and with no money spent. This book will be your toolset that you can use as a manual every time you need to find a free online tool to create a visual for web and social networks. Actually, Im using it like my manual, too and Im happy to share it with you.

If you want to learn about even more online tools for creating your visuals for web and social networks and see them in action, sign up for my online course 19 FREE Tools to Create Visuals for Web and Social Media. Usually it costs 30$ but you can get it for free.

60+ Free Stock Images Websites

A LMOST EVERY DESIGN starts with a picture. And as we all know, a single picture can be worth a thousand words. But, where to find free images for your website design, blog, social network post, or for a simple ad design without spending a lot of money for it? Of course, if you can afford, you can buy such images on websites like istock.com, shutterstock.com or any other similar sites. If you know how to, you can create images by yourself, too. However, quality pictures can also be found online for free without investing much work into creating them, and at the same time not infringing any copyrights.

There are many portals on the Internet that offer free quality photos. Some of the authors ask for attribution, some of them allow using their pictures only for personal use, but there are also plenty of those who allow using their photos and images for commercial use (look for CCO license). In some cases, restrictions may apply; therefore you should always check the license terms first, but in most cases, you can use these pictures for your blog posts, website and social networks, free of charge.

I have listed here more than 60 resources, where you can get free images and photos for your personal or commercial use either with attribution to the author or without it. Check them out and find your own favorite resource.

Searchable photo databases that offer photos for commercial use and no attribution required.

. Free Images More than 388 000 free photos and illustrations.

2. Pixabay More than 310 000 pictures photos, vectors and artistic illustrations. You can use every single one of them, both in digital and printed format, including commercial use.

3. Snapwire Snaps free photos from 200,177 of the worlds top photographers.

4. Tookapic high quality free and premium 13,846 stock photos.

5. Public Domain Photos 5 000 free photos and 8000 cliparts which can be used as you wish even for commercial purposes.

6. Free Photos Bank wide variety of different photos from cables to toys and office supplies.

7. Picjumbo simple navigation and a huge image library. Many beautiful pictures of food and drinks, which might be very useful for marketing a restaurant or a bar.

8. FancyCrave high-resolution food, nature, people, architecture and other photos from professional photographers.

9. FreeJPG great source of technology, people, texture, travel, religion and other images more than 10 000 images.

10. Good Free Photos a gallery of thousands of unique and free public domain stock photos. Categorized by location for travel photos, species for animal and plant photos, and types of objects for other photos.

11. Public Domain Pictures 117,700 free images. If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that some photos do require a model or property release.