Are you not a pro in Photoshop? Don’t worry! In this Monday’s Pinterest-related Small Biz Social Friday post we’ll share six fantastic free tools that will allow you to design eye-catching images to post on Pinterest.
PicMonkey is among the most viewed free web-based photo editors. We’ve used it a couple of times for our users.
The reason we like the tool is that it’s incredibly simple to use and can do the basics such as cropping, resizing, and adding pretty, beautiful borders and fun designs very effectively. Making collages is also an easy task using PicMonkey.
TIP: When saving your image to PicMonkey it is best to choose “Pierce” or “Sean” under the Quality tab to ensure that your image’s quality when you save it to Pinterest.
Free Tools for Creating Awesome Pinterest Images
1. iPiccy
If you’re sharing many pictures that feature persons, iPiccy is an amazing all-in-one tool for editing photos to make use of. Within the editors, select the “Retouch” tab at the top, which has a tiny human on the top.
Within this tab, you’ll find the ability to apply everything from giving yourself a tan to fixing any red eyes! Check out their other tabs and you’ll discover amazing image effects features including paint, and much more.
2. Recite
Recite is a big thumbs up for its ease of use and elegance. The tool lets you change any text into a Pinterest-worthy photo in just a few seconds! Simply input your quote, browse through the bottom to find the style you prefer and then upload the design you choose directly to Pinterest via Recite’s website. This is it! Super easy and super cool.
TIP: A similar tool to Recite is called Quote Cover. With Quote Cover, it is possible to transform text messages into beautiful images that you can share across your social media sites. you can even make an amazing Facebook cover image with the words of your CEO, or even a phrase that represents your company’s the culture of your company!
3. Pinwords
Pinwords lets you “instantly add beautiful text to your images.” If you are looking for an easy-to-use tool for adding article titles to photos that you already have, This is the software to use.
TIP: Take a look at the Pinwords bookmarklet! The tool can be added to the toolbar of your browser so that when you get inspired you can change your photo quickly!
To download your favourite Pinterest images, use a Pinterest image downloader for quick and easy access.
4. Someecards
Most likely, you’ve been exposed to Someecards before. Perhaps you’ve even posted one (I believe we’ve done that!). Images like these are very popular on social media and especially on Pinterest! The best thing? Your company can design your unique business card to show off.
TIP: If you make an extremely timely and humorous card and you are sure it will be popular on the internet it is a good idea to consider branding the image with your company’s logo.
5. Studio Design
Studio Design is one of our most popular free mobile photo editing apps for editing photos. It includes over 500 different types of fonts, shapes, and crops as well as a myriad of fantastic filters for photos.
Through this app, you can create beautiful Pinterest photos and upload them travelling! It’s hard to define the awesomeness of Studio Design is, therefore you’ll need to download it and test it yourself. However, I think Mashable put it in a pretty clear way: “What Instagram did for photography, this app will do for design.”
Bonus Tool!
We’d like to add another tool we’ve been using frequently lately, and one we believe our readers will appreciate. Have you ever wanted to capture a picture of a complete webpage but were unable to do so due to scrolling? This Chrome extension “Awesome Screenshot” solves this problem.
We hope you enjoyed this list of tools! In keeping with the theme of this blog post on Pinterest make sure to save the image of your blog post above to ensure you’ll be able to find this post next time when you are ready to make that next pin! P.S. Do you follow ShortStack on Pinterest at all? If not, look at our fantastic boards!
