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Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2014

The FASTEST Way to Create Images Without Using Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator

Many people often ask me how the heck I can get content spit out so quickly for all my sites by creating images without using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

After all, I suck at graphic design and I am able to quickly get images done for my WordPress sites in order to get my sites up at a rapid pace.

For those of you web designers and bloggers, who hate waiting for gigs done of Fiverr, but are constantly tweaking things on your blog or websites, having a quick method of generating images for your site is key.

The Secret to Making Images QUICKLY Without Adobe or Photoshop

So what's my secret? I use a web based program called My Ecover Creator (http://MyEcoverCreator.com). Whenever I need virtually ANY quick image put together, and I don't feel like waiting for my designer (in fact, I FIRED MY DESIGNER) and want to add a quick image with text to my blogs, I use this site.

Pros and Cons

The pros of this program is it is very inexpensive. It is only $14/month to make unlimited designs. You can make anything from:

  • Software boxes
  • video screen shots and 3d Players
  • 3D eBook Covers
  • DVD and CD Covers and Sleeves
  • Banners
  • Headers
  • Pictures with a transparent background
  • and more!
Pretty much any banner you see on my affiliate sites come from that site. I've made over 500 images using that site. If I were to hire someone on Fiverr, I would have paid, well, $2500 just for those designs, so the monthly fee is no big deal.

See some of my example headers and Logos here:

Cons are that you have to know what you're going to design, and have some guidelines as to how your design is going to look. Other than that, I've had no problems with MyEcoverCreator.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

How To Make A Banner In 5 Minutes Without a Designer or Programmer

(Make sure you watch the video below!)

Learning how to make a banner for your advertising campaign on your website is actually pretty easy. If you are just getting started out in marketing or you are trying to keep your budget low, many people recommend just creating your own banners.

The good news is that if you want to make a banner, you do not need to have special design skills, because there are a ton of programs out there including MyEcoverCreator.com which help with quick design options.

Literally, if you know how to cut and paste and choose colors and fonts, you can create a banner. You just need to figure out what you want your message to be and how you want to get people to click your banner.

Here are some quick steps to make a banner quickly without a designer or programmer:

1. Do a Google Search to see what are the common sizes of banners (or if you know which size you want to use, just jot that down.

2. Head over to MyEcoverCreator.com and you can either pay $4.95 per download or I chose the $14.95 per month because I make ebook covers, CD covers, banners, website headers, etc.

(Note - instead of using Fiverr and having to keep having the designer make edits, I choose to do this myself. So, even for $5 I can keep changing the design until it looks the way I want it to.)

3. Click "Banner Maker" on the Top of the Page and then choose your sizes

4. Add stock photos, images, or upload your own

5. Choose a background and Add Text and Fonts, colors, etc.

Click finalize to download!  The file will save to your computer and you can then upload to your Wordpress or other blog site! (for help using WordPress, visit WordPress Tutorials)

To see this process in action, watch this video:



Cheers -
Nate