When you design images or graphic elements for your digital products, it can be the hardest part to start. The tools for graphic design are not cheap either. So I would like to share some tools and resources for free or at a low cost to make your digital products look professional.
There are tons of graphic design resources and tools. That can help you be even more creative.
Creating digital products and marketing for social media can be time-consuming. Some of the tools and resources are useful and save a lot of time.
graphic design
Free images and video clips for graphic design
Images are important for graphic design, whether you are a social media influencer, blogger, or business owner. Nothing is more eye-catching and attention-grabbing than a great visual.
From stock images to icons, vector graphics, and texture images, these are crucial elements for creating digital planners and marketing campaigns. If you’re looking for gorgeous visuals, take a look at these resources.
When you create social media posts, it can be hard to take photos every time. Especially for non-photographers like me, these sites are really useful for creating eye-catching social media posts and video clips.
Pexels is to provide high-quality photos and videos for free to promote better designs for all. I often use this when I make marketing videos for my product listings. Join for free.
You can use Pexels for social media graphics, e-book covers, workbooks, and more.
I prefer Pexels but you can also try:
When you search images or video clips, you can filter images easily by:
Orientation (vertical for Pinterest or Instagram stories, horizontal for header images, or square for Instagram posts.
Size
Color
Free Graphic Design Tools
Canva is a tool that you can simply use in your browser, with no downloads required.
I love to use it. It has great tutorials to follow the steps to design as a beginner or with no graphic design experience.
It is not an InDesign tool, but it can do a lot of basic design tasks quite efficiently using drag and drop.
There are free versions and pro versions, but the free version has thousands of ready-to-use templates, so if you want to use them for social media posts, blog posts, images, freebie creation, or workbooks, that can be useful.
Graphic desing using Canva(created by A&A Simple Creation)
For more information about Canva, you can read the blog post “Graphic made easy: Canva Review”
If you want to create vector images but don’t want to buy expensive design tools, Inkscape is you can use. It was created by a non-profit organization.
Inkscape is a professional quality vector graphics software that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It’s open-source and free to download.
Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer, or digital sticker creator who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is a great tool for you.
Flexible drawing tools.
Broad file format compatibility
powerful text tool
Bezier and spiro curves
Another template-based platform is similar to Canva.
You can also create amazing social media graphics, logos, videos, and even mockups. They mainly promote their paid subscription but there are many free elements you can use.
Just go to Placeit and in the header menu, click on “designs”
Select the second option that says freebies
On the left column, filter by “Facebooks post”, “Instagram story”, or “Youtube intro”
You’ll see hundreds of templates to use for free!
They have more than 400 free Instagram templates. You’ll love their seasonal content that is ready at least a month before the actual season, so you can have your Christmas posts scheduled way in advance.
However, there is a paid subscription if you want to use it for commercial purposes. When you you do a your digital product packaging to sell, Placeit has tons of Mockup templates with commercial licence.
Placeit tool for Graphic design mockup template
Design Inspiration
Whether you are a graphic designer or someone who needs inspiration, there are many sites with contributions by professional designers.
Behance is part of the Adobe network. It is a popular online platform to showcase and discover creative work, including art, illustration, graphic design, UI design, and animation.
A beautifully designed website that shares some of the best creativity out there. It’s a veritable curated feast of branding projects, packaging designs, and editorial features, offering support to those they feature and inspiration to the rest of the creative community.
It is another popular and lively online community for showcasing creative work. While Behance mainly features completed work, Dribbble specializes in smaller snapshots of in-progress work.
Design resources for the digital planner business
Since I started a digital products business, creating products isn’t easy, especially when it comes to gathering ideas and product layout designs.
There are tons of design resources and tools to make your creations nowadays. You can find the most useful design resources and tools to make your business more productive. For example, your products are mainly digital planners, you might not need all of the resources and expensive design tools.
I started creating digital products using Keynote and Procreate at the first. Just a little investment to start. If you are a first-time digital product business, above the list of graphic design resources and tools will help you create your digital products to sell.
Comments