We all want our site to look as beautiful and attractive as possible, and the credit for that goes partly to the images we use on our site. In this text, you will see how to create good images for your blog or website, as well as graphics for social networks.
Before we start, in order for your site to work fast and well, you need to keep your images from being too large, and for this reason, some image compression tool is often used. One of those tools is ShortPixel a plugin that is often used to optimize images for websites. It has both a free and a paid version, depending on how many images you need to optimize per month. In the free version, you have the option to optimize 100 images per month.
The basic way to create images is with PowerPoint, by selecting specific images, either ones you've taken yourself or downloaded from some of the free sites like Unsplash or Pexels. Then, in PowerPoint, you add text and create the graphics you want.
If you want to get a little more serious about creating images, there is an online graphic image editor Canva. Within Canva, you can design the images you want for free, as well as download available images. However, for a large number of images it is necessary to pay about one dollar so that you do not have some lines on the background of the images and thus the free program is not free after all. That's why you need to plan well what your budget is and what is the best option for you, so sometimes it's better to use paid versions of the program.
One of the programs that you can use to create beautiful images is Stencil. There is a paid and free version of the program. In the free version, you are limited with options, you don't have many free images to download, and you are also limited with the number of images you can create and save per month. Within Stencil, you can add text to images, change its color, font, size, position, and other styling to get great images. There is a Stencil plugin in WordPress, so you can insert images from Stencil directly in WordPress, without having to log in to your account on the Stencil site.
The next program you can use is Design Pickle. Within it, you pay a higher monthly price, but the pictures and graphics are not made by you, but by a designer assigned to you. Ask the designer what you want made for you and he will do it. They can create images for your blog, various graphics for social media, design for t-shirts and more. They won't design you a logo or something that requires a lot of thought and work, they are mostly based on creating graphics for print. You always have the same assigned designer and you will generally be able to request 2 things per day to be done for you.
And lastly, you can hire your own designer, either from your neighborhood, someone you know, or through some freelance sites like UpWork, Freelancer, or OnlineJobs.ph. In this way, you know exactly who you are cooperating with and personally agree on all terms of cooperation.
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