Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Creating engaging visual content doesn’t have to require a financial investment. Sure, at one time graphic designers needed expensive software and even more costly images to craft a winning visual campaign. But thanks to a host of free online resources, anyone can design high-quality visual stories with ease.

Of course, navigating the sea of online images and editing tools is easier said than done. Some require membership, others charge royalty fees, some require advance permission and others charge for high-definition.

Fortunately, we’ve scoured the Web for the most complete, the easiest to use and the most innovative resources to aid even the most amateur designer in crafting stunning visual content.

Check out these 60 totally free design resources for non-designers...

In the past, creating those creative, captivating and dynamic images was something that the average person couldn’t do without the help of a designer or experienced photo editor. However, as time has gone on, the need for easy ways to create your own images is one that has grown and continues to do so.

Well, if you’re one of those people looking for a way to create something great without using programs like PS or AI, then get ready to jump for joy because now there are great (and free) ways to do just that....

Stop me if this seems familiar. You have just written the most epic blog post of your business career and you want to create amazing images to help you promote it. Knowing how things change in social media on a regular basis you fire up a Google search for “social media image sizes”. Maybe you even add in the current year to weed out old results. Perhaps you go one step further and search for “Facebook image sizes 2017”.

No matter what you search for you still seem to find three different answers. And even if you find what you think is current info, there are so many different options listed for each network, you’re not sure which dimensions to use.

Fear not! I have compiled a list of the most commonly used social media image sizes. The infographic below shows only the images and dimensions you can easily control with your design, not every single image size you’ll see on the networks. Some of the images you see on Facebook, for example, are pulled in from other places and therefore we don’t really “design” for those spaces.

And the best news is you can get away with using some of these social media image sizes on multiple networks....

We found some really beautiful, perfect color palettes with lovely colors. These can be used for any kind of design projects, from websites to logos and prints. All these perfect color palettes can be found on Design Seeds website, a website which celebrates colors found in nature.

Some of these perfect color palettes have pastel colors, light colors, while others have bolder tones and darker nuances. Which one do you like most?...

The brainchild of product designer Brent Jackson, ‘Colorable’ is a web color combination contrast tester.

Creatives can play with any two different colors and the results will indicate if the foreground-background combination passes or fails according to the standards of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)....