This post from the Weekly Blogging Tips serial is almost a cost-effective means to brand pictures for weblog postings.
The best blogging advice is that every post should guide keep at to the lowest degree 1 picture: is a stunning professional-looking shot which perfectly illustrates the indicate yous are making perfectly.
This is a neat visit if you're a professional person lensman in addition to guide keep all fourth dimension inward the world, or if yous tin afford to buy images which are custom made for your blog.
But most of us but aren't inward that league.
Sometimes, yous tin use a search tool to uncovering a re-usable photograph that yous tin pose into your posts. (Remember to download your ain re-create in addition to pose it into a Google pic host, to brand certain that it's accepted every bit the thumbnail picture for the post.)
But roughly other pick is to role a diagram - similar this.
The pic inward a higher house is a diagram that I used inward a blog-post to emphasise that budgeting for an lawsuit is on-going through the planning phase, non a former chore I spent quite a land thinking almost how to brand the indicate almost the master conception vs the on-going feedback loop.
Diagrams don't guide keep to hold upwardly complicated. Sometimes something every bit uncomplicated every bit showing a bullet pointed listing inward a dissimilar shape tin hold upwardly an effective means to add together "visual texture" to your post in addition to hence larn inward to a greater extent than appealing for people to read.
There are diverse tools that yous tin role to brand diagrams.
This is a neat visit if you're a professional person lensman in addition to guide keep all fourth dimension inward the world, or if yous tin afford to buy images which are custom made for your blog.
But most of us but aren't inward that league.
Sometimes, yous tin use a search tool to uncovering a re-usable photograph that yous tin pose into your posts. (Remember to download your ain re-create in addition to pose it into a Google pic host, to brand certain that it's accepted every bit the thumbnail picture for the post.)
But roughly other pick is to role a diagram - similar this.
The pic inward a higher house is a diagram that I used inward a blog-post to emphasise that budgeting for an lawsuit is on-going through the planning phase, non a former chore I spent quite a land thinking almost how to brand the indicate almost the master conception vs the on-going feedback loop.
Diagrams don't guide keep to hold upwardly complicated. Sometimes something every bit uncomplicated every bit showing a bullet pointed listing inward a dissimilar shape tin hold upwardly an effective means to add together "visual texture" to your post in addition to hence larn inward to a greater extent than appealing for people to read.
There are diverse tools that yous tin role to brand diagrams.
- PowerPoint is fantastic particularly inward in Office 2010 in addition to 20123 where it has shape placement guidelines, every bit good every bit the usual squiggly word-art, smart-shapes, gradient-fills etc.
- Google Spreadsheets is catching up, though they've got a means to larn yet, in addition to your guide keep to role screenshot tools to larn an epitome (JPG, PNG or BMP) file from it.
- And most other drawing in addition to word-processing tools include roughly drawing tools too.