You may
already have your own database images. But they may be full of
product photos or photos from marketing campaigns, which may not be
always helpful to you. To grab attention, you need to edit images
or create one. Now most of you must agree that Photoshop is
the answer to visual content, but it isn’t very handy (at least not
for me!). So if you think the same, then here are some useful
and free tools which will help you to create amazing visual content
without Photoshop.
Powerpoint
: I am sure you have been using these for ages. You can
easily create a reusable PowerPoint template with several simple
backgrounds that you can easily layer text on top of, or u can draw
interesting and colorful 2D graphs or make simple images using
varies shapes available in and then save as a JPEG.
Google+
photo editor : Google+ makes it easy to edit your photos.
In order to edit a photo, click on the photo so you're viewing it
in full screen. Its Auto Enhance feature makes instant adjustments
to brightness, saturation and more.
Colourlovers
:You can create and share colors, palettes and
patterns, on ColourLovers. It provides various tools like
Colourschemer, PHOTOCOPA with which you can edit and generate
colour palettes.
Pixlr
: Pixlr is a fun and free photo editor that lets you
quickly crop, re-size, and fix any picture, remove red-eye, and
whiten teeth. Its real handy and lets your personalize your image
in more than 600 effects, overlays, and borders and of course it’s
free!
IcoMoon
app : Sometimes a simple icon can do the trick and it
could be perfect for your project. IcoMoon app provides both free
and premium icon packages. IcoMoon lets you use and customize the
icons with ease. Icon packs are also available through IcoMoon
App's library.
Wordle.net
: One simple way to create image for your article is to
use wordle. This is pretty simple, all you have to do is stuff in
all your Keywords and wordle gives u a stunning word cloud. It’s
simple and effective with variety of colors and fonts, which grabs
immediate attention.
Easelly:
Infographics are the latest trend. You can create
infographics and interactive charts easily using Easelly. Its drag
and drop features makes it pretty easy and effective.
Photovisi
: Photovisi is a free and easy to use photo collage maker.
Select one of the many designs, add your photos and then customize
by dragging them around and your collage is ready in
minutes.
Apart from all
the above tools, you can always pinch in free images from the
following places:
Let’s be honest,
how many times had this happen to you. You work really hard to
compose an amazing and useful article. But as it happens, you don’t
get the kind of respond you were expecting. Well, I know content is
the King and that only matters but it’s equally important to
attract attention. For which, you need to have a really nice
picture to go along with it. With reduce attention span of
audience; it’s become even more important to take care of your
visual content.
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