Are you a social media expert but you lack graphic design skills? Would you like to create fast designs for social media without breaking the budget? Here are 3 online popular graphic design tools you can use to take your social media management to the next level.
Canva
Canva is used and loved by millions of people around the globe. It is a free graphic design platform that’s great for making social media posts, invitations, business cards, brochures, presentations, and more. Canva is so amazing that you can even upload your own photos and add them to the software’s templates and to use them, all you need to do is drag and drop. Simple! Canva has more than 50,000 professionally designed templates to choose from, and they are easily customized. With extensive and beautiful features, from cropping and straightening to adding textures and texts, editing photos has never been this simple. You can also update to Premium for 12$/month, in order to enjoy more exciting features like resizing templates and getting access to more photos and illustrations.
Stencil
If you want to create catchy social media posts that will stop the scroll, then Stencil is for you. Stencil’s got more than 4,000,000+ background photos with hundreds added on a weekly basis. You can even upload your own, just like Canva. Stencil is also home to thousands of design templates ready to be customized.
Stencil allows you to upload your logos so you can brand your posts. You can even upload your own font or use the Google web fonts available. It even lets you add more than 100,000+ quotes to make inspirational quote images in no time.
More wonderful features are included, as:
Free vector icons; More than 50 pre-loaded sizes for social networks, blog posts, ads, and more. You can even create your own and the ability to resize designs to adjust for different platforms; Undo/redo button, Upgrade to Pro for $9 per month and enjoy more photos, icons, graphics, and fonts.
Snappa
Just like Canva and Stencil, Snappa lets you create highly attractive images within minutes with the drag-and-drop option. You can choose from the 4,000,000+ photos and graphics available for free or upload your own. What’s more amazing is that the pictures are licensed for commercial use.
Not too creative? You can select from the hundreds of pre-made templates, available in multiple sizes and customize them according to your needs.
Image dimensions for social media, blogs, emails, and infographics, etc.… are available and you can wonderfully resize your graphics into any other size. For example, you can turn an already made Twitter post into a Facebook cover, or your Instagram post into an Instagram story.
What also differentiates Snappa from the other tools is its ability to remove image backgrounds with a click! How cool is that?! And if you need more templates, you can always upgrade to Pro for $15/month.