Speaking of tools, let’s first talk about the software you can use to keep and create your graphics. When you’re starting out, it may be over helping to try to evaluate thousands of design tools, so here are Four (4) that I recommend.
1: Sketch
It’s far from flawless, but it’s a very well thought-out app, perfect for designers with a DRY (don’t repeat yourself) approach. It’s great for style guides, designing a logo, creating blog post images, but it can’t do photo manipulation so I still have to supplement it with Photoshop.
Canva is a free online tool that works surprisingly well for social media images and such. While you won’t be able to create a logo with it, it’s definitely worth taking a look at. They also offer templates and photos you can buy within the app. I can see how it can be a great tool to create templates with and share them with your freelancers or team members.
3: PicMonkey
It’s a quite serious design app. It gives you a lot of freedom to create; from filters to brushes to fonts to stickers, it’s all there. It seems like this app is more geared towards more experienced designers.
4: Buffer's Pablo
If you don’t want to be too creative and just want something that would help you create clean graphics, look into Pablo. It gives you very few options, but at least you’ll be sure you won’t over-clutter the design. It’s perfect for quick Facebook and Instagram Quotes.
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