Graphics for the Graphically Challenged

Load: http://www.picmonkey.com/http://www.imagechef.com/

Today’s agenda—No Photoshop!• The importance of graphics and photos on social

media sites• Intro to copyright law• Photos and stock photography• Editing tools• Collage templates

• Graphics (any image that isn’t a photo)• Combining photos and graphics• Throughout—sources and resources

Skills you can apply to..•Your social media sites•Your e-newsletter designs•Your website updates•Maybe your print materials • (print must be high-res; some of these tricks get you low-

res)

A picture really is worth a thousand words

http://www.designmantic.com/

Do you currently find and save photos from the Web?

How do you find them? How do you save them?

Use a PC?Use a MAC?

Probably it’s illegal1)Searched for “arrested” using Google Image Search

2)Right-clicked on it (would be different for Mac users)

3)Saved to my computer

4)Uploaded here.X

Copyright law applies to EVERYTHING on the Web!

• You are stealing from somebody else when you do that.• Solution? Stock photos or TAKE YOUR OWN

If you are A FOR PROFIT VENTURE, don’t chance it!

It doesn’t have to be perfect, just clear

• My photo• Site called PicMonkey

Stock photo sites• Handout!• If I email it to you, the sites will be

clickableAn ever-growing number of these sites are popping up

In action…

Attempt to get more attention in a crowded FB world and in a sea of BLUE

And now…My Top Tips

Master the art of screenshots combined with a simple photo editing tool

How to take a screenshot/PC• Click anywhere in the webpage• Do CONTROL/PRINTSCREEN simultaneously• It is now stored in computer’s memory

• Paste it wherever you want it to go• CONTROL/ V

On your iPhone or iPad• Press the LOCK

BUTTON and the HOME button simulataneously• The image is stored

with all your other photos

POWERPOINT in combination with PAINT--• PAINT is a Windows

product that is free and can come with any PC• Easiest for adding text

near or on a photo• Easiest for moving a

bunch of elements in place

PowerPoint is a free app

Paint comes free with PCs

PAINT

DEMONSTRATION• Screenshot (or downloaded photo) • to Paint for editing or additions• to JPG • to upload

• (ImageChef• To Paint)

ImageChef

• Customize templates• Grab screenshots to avoid the

registration sign-up problem• Drop into PAINT or other to

crop out their logo• Navigate to “POPULAR

TEMPLATES” for examples

Help me create somethinglike this…

Picmonkey templates that work with Facebook and Pinterest very well• DEMONSTRATE

Create a Nutrition Tips

for today

Collages, especially FB banners

• 6) Online photo editor• DEMONSTRATE

Do something like This when you have a lot of info/detail to convey

“INFOGRAPHIC”

• 8) Canva Us all the rage

Don’t forget the simple things…

Clip art within Word (and PowerPoint)

• Often cheesy but SOMETIMES appropriate

• You can manipulate and modify these to your heart’s content

My favorites: a portfolio

Permission to useFrom her website

Template from Hubspot—subscribe!

Decide on a style for a series and stick with it

My photo with picmonkey text

• Photos of photos or

• Photos of posters