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Stencil | The fastest way to double your social engagement.

Stencil | The fastest way to double your social engagement. | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

More engagement with every image you create.

Perfect for creating social media posts, ad graphics, content marketing visuals, email images & more!

 

89% More Favorites (Source: Buffer)

150% More Retweets (Source: Buffer)

84% More Clicks (Source: Kiss Metrics)

 

Create images faster & easier than ever before. Pick a background. Add some text. No biggie....

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Ridiculously simple image creation for social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses.

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Design School's Ultimate Guide to Designing With Backgrounds [With Ready-to-Use Templates]

Design School's Ultimate Guide to Designing With Backgrounds [With Ready-to-Use Templates] | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In order to arrange your design, you need a place to start. Backgrounds are the foundation of your graphics — it helps pave the path to forming a successful composition.


Textures and colors help create depth and contrast, allowing your graphics to stand out and get noticed. Well composed images can help create space for you to overlay text, while visually communicating your message at the same time.


Using a background can help give your designs more context and provide a visual element to help support your content.


Bonus: We’ve designed most of the images in this article as templates for you to personalize! To use them for your own stuff, just click them and they’ll be ready to edit in your Canva account (No Canva? It’s free!). 

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Blogging or designing visuals? Learn these background design tips to make your message pop.

rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, April 25, 2016 11:10 PM
The post contains some interesting design tips on working with backgrounds with some ready-to-use templates thrown in!
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9 Designer Tools Everyone Should Know About

9 Designer Tools Everyone Should Know About | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

9 Designer Tools Everyone Should Know About

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There are 9 tools highlighted in this list and every one of them is worth checking out. Highly recommended for bloggers, marketers and PR pros. 9 / 10

Kate Marsh's curator insight, June 4, 2015 4:54 PM

Mmmm, free design tools

Luis Cano's curator insight, June 5, 2015 10:05 AM

Check this out 9 very easy tool to help you make great designs ... 

Luis Cano's curator insight, June 5, 2015 10:06 AM

Great new tools you should know about ...

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100 Brilliant Color Combinations: How to Apply Them to Your Designs

100 Brilliant Color Combinations: How to Apply Them to Your Designs | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Color makes a design come alive.It can attract attention, set a mood, and even influence our emotions and perceptions.

 

But sometimes it can be hard to know where to start when choosing a color palette for your design project.

 

So we’ve done the hard work for you— giving you 100 color combinations inspired by nature, food & drink, travel, and everyday items.

 

Want to use these color combinations in Canva? Click here to sign up for free if you haven’t already (if you haven’t — are you kidding me?!).

 

Canva lets you change the colors of your design by entering the hex code in the color menu. Check out the video below for a quick tutorial on how...

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A stunning collection of color palettes inspired by food, nature, travel and everyday items. Free to download in Canva! Recommended reading!  9/10

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Creating Images for your Social Media Posts | Social Beeni

Creating Images for your Social Media Posts | Social Beeni | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

When you are browsing different social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, you are likely to see images with text on them – these can be inspirational, informative, or just plain fun. Having your message on a colourful image will catch your customer’s eye more effectively than just using text alone.


However, if you are a small business owner, you probably don’t have the budget to hire a a graphic designer. Luckily, there are plenty of options on the market today to help you create the graphic yourself for minimal time and effort....

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Choosing software to create graphics for your social media accounts is easy with these free graphics tools.

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