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Visual Content
CreationTools

the Pros Can't Live Without

In the past 2 years alone, the

choice of tools, apps & programs...

for creating visual content

has increased dramatically.

So how do you know

which tools are the

best to use?

You ask the Pros! We asked

19 Visual Social Media
Experts which tools

they use.

These are the 36 tools the Pros love

and can't live without ...

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Click for MORE info on the tools to

get links & find out why they love them!

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"When I'm on the go or specially
at conferences, I use
InstaQuote to easily create
quotes to share to my
Instagram and Twitter
followers"
Syed Balkhi
Founder WP Beginner
& Optin Monster

Instagram - PhotoGrid - Powerpoint

"I love the Instagram app for its ability to turn an
average photo into something beautiful"

Jenn Herman
Jenn's Trends

"Eye Dropper is a fantastic free plug-in for Google

Chrome that allows you to get the HEX color code
for any color from a webpage. Very handy when
you see a color you like and want to use it in your
designs."
Zach Kitschke, Canva

Canva-ChromeEyeDropper-Designspiration

"We use Canva for our main images in our blog and
also for sharing content on social media channels.
Simple to use and we
use it every day."

Ian Cleary,
Razor Social

Canva

WordSwag
Pixlr

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"QuotesCover is a busy marketers

dream! This online tool takes the
ease of Canva and marries it
with the built-in templates
& fonts of Over & Wordswag.
There are no design skills
needed with QuotesCover.
Simply add your text,
choose your background
and font and voila, youre done!"
Rebekah Radice, Digital Strategist

Canva-Over-QuotesCover

Palettab

ABeautifulMess
Afterlight

"I use the Palettab Chrome Extension for

inspiration. Every time you open a new tab,
youre provided with a new color palette and
a new set of font combinationsits brilliant."
Nik Parks, Launching Creative

CLICK HERE to grab the complete list of tools

and reviews by the Pros (+ a handy cheat
sheet of the Top 5 Most Popular Tools)

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"This is my go-to app for my phone, I love the

typography selections in Over. I use this to add
oomph to my photos taken from my phone."

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Aaron Lee, Post Planner

Canva
Over

Photoshop

"I love PicMonkey because it takes its tools from the best
parts of a graphic designers and photographers brains.
You have all the basics you need, but also a lot of instant,
extra options like collages, overlays, fonts, and themes to
bring ideas and creativity to your images."
Azure Collier,
Constant Contact

Canva
Picmonkey
Photoshop

"VSCO and other image

editing tools allow us to
take on new and
transformative roles
as artists, as journalists,
as explorers. Its
amazing how
something thats free
and so easily obtainable
can have that effect on
so many people."

Apu Gupta, Curalate

OlloClip

VSCOCam SelfieStick

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AdobeLigh
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"When I have the time,

I love using Lightroom to
add another dimension to my
Photography. It's like
Photoshop but in a
much more
streamlined
package."

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"When I want to add text to an

image (on mobile) the fastest and
easiest way to do that for me is
Quick. Its from the same people
who created Over (formerly
Overgram) and for iOS users
integrates into the native editing
function so you can access it right
from the edit screen in your
photos app."

Dustin Stout, Dustn.tv

VSCOCam

Quick PhotoshopCC

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Canva

"Snapseed - for when

Instagram just isnt enough to
brighten a poorly lit shot, or I
feel that a more nuanced
approach to filters is needed,
Snapseed is a perfect fit."

Rich Brooks
Flyte New Media

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Instasize for Android and

iphone offers something very
simple but critical to better
posts on Instagram. Use it to
post entire images. Meaning,
you do not need to cut off
pieces of your image anymore
to crop the photo to the right
size for a platform. Post full
size images, simply amazing."

Sue B Zimmerman
The Instagram Expert

CameraPlus WordSwag

Instasize

"I'm not always interested in

firing up Photoshop if I need to do
something simple like remove a
background from an image. For
these tasks, I use Acorn for OSX
because its quick, easy and gets
the job done.".

Angelo
Dodaro
Top Dog
Social Media

Canva

Acorn

AdobeCreativeCloud

"Viral content, anyone? An

infographic done well can go viral
very quickly. Piktochart
is a go-to app
when wanting to
create infographics
to tell a story or share
information. They have
an easy editor
that makes it a
breeze to use."

Amy Porterfield
Facebook Marketing
Strategist

WordSwag
Piktochart
Canva

"Pictaculous is a color
palette generator and
allows you to upload
any image and get a
matching color palette
within seconds. If you
have ever wondered
what colors to use
with a specific image,
this will solve that
problem!"

Kim Garst,
Boom Social

Canva Pictaculous

WordSwag

Moldiv is my favorite iphone

photo collage editor app!
You can adjust the frame, the
background, add text and
inject some cute stamps
on your photo.!
Pauline Carbrera
Digital Strategist

WordSwag

Skitch

Moldiv

CLICK HERE to grab the complete list of tools

and reviews by the Pros (+ a handy cheat
sheet of the Top 5 Most Popular Tools)

Th
ank
you

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