10 Best Tools to Create Images for Your WordPress Site
As a website owner, you know the importance of having visually appealing images on your site. But what if you don’t have the time or money to become a trained Photoshop expert? Fortunately, there are alternative image design options available that don’t require any design experience. Here are the top 10 tools to create images for your WordPress site:
1. Canva
Canva is a user-friendly tool that makes everyone feel like a professional designer. It offers a huge number of incredible designs, many of which are free. Even if you can’t find something in their free section, the tool has thousands of additional components to throw in your images, and each of them are only $1.
2. GIMP
GIMP is a local, open source alternative to Photoshop. It’s completely free to use, but it’s not the easiest tool to use on this list. If you want to take some time out of your day learning how to use GIMP, they have plenty of videos and tutorials online to get you started.
3. PicMonkey
The free version of PicMonkey has a rather short process for combining multiple photos and making them more appealing for your website. This tool works best for creating collages, but you can also touch up the images and add some text if you want.
4. Pixelmator
Pixelmator only works for Mac, but it takes the complicated Photoshop format and breaks it down into a much simpler tool. You can use Pixelmator on your tablet or phone, and the tool comes with dozens of templates to get you started without much design knowledge.
5. Pixlr Editor
Pixlr Editor is my recommendation if you want a free online tool that works almost exactly like Photoshop. Pixlr also has two other products called Pixlr-o-matic and Pixlr Express. Choose from these nice depending on what you plan on doing.
6. BeFunky
BeFunky is a free photo editor, collage creator and general design tool. For free. You can upgrade if you want to use premium effects. Though the basic free version still gets the job done if you just want to make a few quick edits to your photos.
7. Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements is Adobe’s response to the overwhelming amount of support that people show for simpler photo editing tools. Instead of using the regular Photoshop and spending way too much money, go with Photoshop Elements. It an affordable and quick way to upload your photos, change some filters and make your them look extremely professional within just a few seconds.
8. PicCollage
PicCollage is an app that I would only use if I were trying to showcase a bunch of pictures in a collage. Try out PicCollage to includes stickers, frames, text, and more. It’s a little weird trying to edit your photos on a phone or tablet, but you get used to it.
9. Fotor
Fotor is an online photo editing tool with tons of easy options to create images for your blog or social media in no time. There are tons of options for light, colors, size, photo effects, retouching and more. Want to get a quick start? There are tons of free templates.
10. PowerPoint
For some reason people always forget about PowerPoint when it comes to editing and designing images for websites. You can draw on your images, change your borders, sizes, and more. They even have plenty of shapes and symbols to make your images more appealing. After you’re done editing your images in PowerPoint you can save them in an image format.
Bonus: SumoPaint
SumoPaint is a free online version of the good old paint app. While this isn’t really a photo editor, you can create your own images SumoPaint.
Conclusion
Most of these tools are extremely easy to use. But no matter which you choose you should be able to get the hang of things quickly just by playing around. Stick with the options discussed here and you will be just fine!
