Screenshots: Don’t forget the lowly screenshot.It’s worth noting that you can also use Photoshop or Adobe if you are that talented and want to show off (she says with no irony or jealousy whatsoever.) Go check it out!īelow is an example of a header Melissa created for me for #BookMarketingChat using Canva: Their blog is terrific (even if you don’t use their program), and they offer a ton of great ideas for your platform.
To learn how to get the most out of Canva, I suggest going through their free tutorials here. My author assistant, Melissa Flickinger adores Canva, and she uses it to create all kinds of amazing graphics for me and her clients. For me, I find it overwhelming, but if you a design person, this is a dream site. Canva: Canva is a step-up from Pablo, in that it has millions of images, hundreds of fonts, many design filters, and so, so many options.It’s quite seamless.īelow is an example of a quickie visual I made on Pablo from my current book Broken Places:
Add a logo (e.g., your book cover), download it, or upload it to Buffer (they offer a free account) to schedule it in, or directly to your social media accounts.
Pablo will size it for you as well, for either Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest (basically landscape or vertical). Choose from a font style, size, placement, and boom, you’re done. They also offer templates for various types of graphics: blank, quote, announcement, promotion, love, or outreach, so use one of those if that makes you more comfortable. Completely free, once you open the site, you can type in a keyword to find a specific picture (e.g., woman, cat, book, flower), and it will search through over 600,000 royalty and attribution free images from sites like Unsplash, Pixabay, Women in Tech, OR upload your own image. If you are, too, head over to Pablo by Buffer.