Best Image Tools Social Media will help you take control of your social media accounts. The application gives you access to all the tools you need for your various popular forms of social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, You Tube). All you need is a username and password.Best Image Tools Social Media integrates with web services to give you automatic updates, an auto-refreshing dashboard that includes things like friends list, mentions, messages received, wall activity, pictures posted to your profile page, etc., easy uploading to multiple sites at once, monitoring tools for keywords and phrases used in comments on your site by real people.
Best Image Tools Social Media is a PowerPoint PPT presentation, delivered in a ZIP archive, with each theme embedded as an individual PowerPoint PPT presentation. The set of themes included in the collection represent one year’s worth of work on social media tools and services. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and many more are included. Best Image Tools offers PowerPoint PPT presentation themes for business presentations–from social media sites to SEO to job-hunting sites to career portfolios—that make your slides look great!
BeFunky
What is it
BeFunky helps you… be funky. It’s a one-stop-shop for creating graphics, and collages.
Why use it
It’s easy. It does a whole lot. So you don’t have to (or are unable to do).
Need to add effects to your images (like make it cartoon-y)? Or assemble them into a funky, yet professional, collage? Fix images with issues like over-or-under-saturation?
BeFunky will help. Then, pick a layout for your social media needs. Like headers, blog resources, or a small business template.
All done online, without downloading a thing. Except for your finished and polished images.
Get 125 digital effects for free. Or, pay a monthly fee to get high-res and other cool image effects and templates.
Adobe Stock
What is it
A collection of over 90 million high-quality assets to use in your social campaigns. For photos, illustrations, videos and templates.
Why use it
Because you’re a professional digital marketer.
Not a professional illustrator, photographer, or videographer.
Better you license what they’ve done to accomplish what you need for your social campaigns, right?
- Browse and find what inspires you and your audience
- Select a license
- Download the images
- Attach them to your posts
- Share across your social channels
Even better, use Hootsuite to do all of that in one easy-to-use dashboard.
What is it
A collection of over 90 million high-quality assets to use in your social campaigns. For photos, illustrations, videos and templates.
Why use it
Because you’re a professional digital marketer.
Not a professional illustrator, photographer, or videographer.
Better you license what they’ve done to accomplish what you need for your social campaigns, right?
Browse and find what inspires you and your audience
Select a license
Download the images
Attach them to your posts
Share across your social channels
Even better, use Hootsuite to do all of that in one easy-to-use dashboard.
Giphy
What is it
A giant and growing collection of free animated gifs.
Why use it
To spice up, excite and wake up your social audience.
Consider this a part of building your brand voice.
As with all content, images are meant to enhance the words. A little motion makes it more memorable. Though use sparingly, otherwise it distracts rather than enhances.
Do some Giphy searches. Enjoy the chuckles. Make it so your audience does, too (with a purpose).
Piktochart
What is it
Another way to create infographics, presentations, and printables.
Why use it
It’s easy. And you can…
- Start for free
- Browse and pick with a template (there’s hundreds)
- Plug in your data
- Select an awesome image or 10 or 20
- Drop some of your own in
- Preview it. Refine it. Play with it. Preview it again.
- Download it
- Post it
Once you get good, create your own template to keep a consistent look for your campaign(s).
With three packages, from $12.50 to $82.50 USD per month.
Canva – A start-to-finish design program perfect for non-designers
Probably our most-used image tool at Buffer, Canva makes image creation super easy (especially for non-designers) with their premade templates, custom image sizes for every social media channel, drag-and-drop interface, cool fonts, and more. Most every original image you see shared from our social accounts was made in Canva.
Tip: If you know the exact dimensions of the image you want, create a custom size before clicking into any of the premade templates.
CloudApp – Fast and easy screencast GIFs
We use this tool a ton for our internal image sharing at Buffer. CloudApp lets you store images online and link to them quickly and easily for fast sharing. Their new Mac app—a free download—comes with even more advanced features like screengrabs and GIF creation. With the app open, you can press Cmd+Shift+6 to make a GIF video of anything you do on your screen.
Tip: Once the image creation is finished, CloudApp can automatically put the image URL onto your clipboard. Ask CloudApp for the download URL, and you can quickly paste and download whenever the image is ready.
Placeit – Integrate your website or app inside cool stock photos
For creating beautiful images that feature your home page, blog, app, or service, Placeit provides some neat integrations with your web address and their photography and video. Choose a background from Placeit’s library, then upload a screenshot or give Placeit a URL to grab in order to insert your site into the image.
Placeit does the rest. You can download or embed your new creation anywhere.
Tip: The Interactive Video option at Placeit will embed your full website into the window, and users can scroll through the site just as if they were visiting the page in their browser.
Pablo by Buffer (Web)
Pablo is a minimalist tool for placing text over the top of images from the team behind the social media scheduling app Buffer. It couldn’t be simpler to use or in its design. To us, that’s a feature—but if you need something with more options, check out one of the other great apps on this list.
Seriously, Pablo is barebones. Open the website and you’re straight into the app. There’s no need to create an account—because there are no accounts. In the center of the screen, there’s a preview of your image. On the left, you can search for an image through Unsplash or click Upload Image to add your own. At the top of the screen, click Templates to choose from one of the six defaults. On the right, you can choose the size and shape of the canvas, add a filter, position the text, and insert your logo or another graphic. Click on the text to change its formatting, double-click on it to edit it directly. Oh, and click Reposition to change the position and crop of the background image. That’s literally it.
Once you’re happy with your post pic (and it won’t take long for you to be), click Share & Download to save your image or post it directly to Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram (or queue it up with Buffer). If you do queue it up with Buffer, you can also connect it to any of the other apps you use with Zapier.
For all the lack of options, Pablo is still on this list. It makes it beyond simple to create basic-but-good-looking social media images. Honestly, by stripping most features, it just makes it impossible to create ugly graphics.
Pablo Price: Free
Conclusion
Best Image Tools Social Media is a series of powerful unique tools that are easy to use. They give you the highest quality results with ease. These are not merely applications but are actually power tools for creating beautiful things with the least amount of effort.