The document lists various tools for creating attractive images for social media, emphasizing options like Canva for easy design, Skitch for screen capture, and CloudApp for fast sharing. It offers tips on how to optimize images for different platforms and suggests using tools like Easel.ly for infographics, Recite for quote images, and Infogr.am for data visualization. Overall, it serves as a resource for enhancing social media content through visual tools.

1. Tools to Create Attractive Images for Social Media
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3. Canva
Skitch
CloudApp
PowerPoint
Easel.ly
Social Image Resizer Tool
Recite
Photovisi
Over
Infogr.am
 List There are several tools and resources to help the user to build images and social media , here 10 of these are tools :

4. •Probably our most-used image tool at Buffer, Canva makes image creation super easy (especially for non-designers) with their premade templates, custom image sizes for every social media channel, drag-and-drop interface, cool fonts, and more. Most every original image you see shared from our social accounts was made in Canva .
•Tip: If you know the exact dimensions of the image you want, create a custom size before clicking into any of the premade templates.
 Canva – A start-to-finish design program perfect for non-designers

5. •Our go-to screenshot tool, Skitch pops up with a quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Shift+5 on Macs), then you can click and drag over the area you want to snip. We keep coming back to this tool because of the awesome and easy annotation features. You can circle things , point to things, blur things, and add text with just a couple quick clicks. A product of Evernote, Skitch lets you save and store all screengrabs into an Evernote folder of your choosing.
•Tip: Use the blur feature anytime you’re sharing an image with your email address or personal details.
 Skitch – Screen capture and annotation

6. •We use this tool a ton for our internal image sharing at Buffer. CloudApp lets you store images online and link to them quickly and easily for fast sharing. Their new Mac app—a free download—comes with even more advanced features like screengrabs and GIF creation. With the app open, you can press Cmd+Shift+6 to make a GIF video of anything you do on your screen.
•Tip: Once the image creation is finished, CloudApp can automatically put the image URL onto your clipboard. Ask CloudApp for the download URL, and you can quickly paste and download whenever the image is ready.
 CloudApp – Fast and easy screencast GIFs

7. •Presentation software might not be the first thing that comes to mind for image creation, yet there are a large number of amateur designers who get great use out of creating images via the templates and tools baked right into PowerPoint.
•Think of slides as images. And then consider how easy it is to edit slides in PowerPoint. You can set photos as slide backgrounds, add text and colors, and place icons and graphics. When you save the slide in PowerPoint, choose to save as an image, and you’ll be set.
•Tip: HubSpot offers some excellent starting templates for building infographics with PowerPoint. Here’s an example of what’s possible:
 PowerPoint - Easy image software (meant for something else)

8. •Easel.ly’s interactive layouts allow you to embed charts, photos, and more. You can get started with a prebuilt template (and then customize yourself) or you can go truly bare bones and build the entire infographic however you see fit. Easel.ly comes with a huge number of icons, shapes, and objects that you can drag-and-drop into your editor.
 Easel.ly - Drag-and-drop infographic creation

9. •There are a huge number of different sizes and aspect ratios that work best on different social networks. Twitter photos are best at a 2:1 ratio. Facebook prefers images to be more square. Pinterest and Google+ love vertical images.
•You can keep this all sorted with a tool like Social Image Resizer. Upload your desired image, then choose from a huge drop-down list of options and places where you might like to use the image. You can move and scale the selected area to grab the optimal look for your image.
•Tip: You can click and drag to create a custom image size as well. Image Resizer informs you of the new dimensions as you move and resize the borders.
 Social Image Resizer Tool - Ideal image sizes for every social channel

10. •Some of our most shared content suggestions and most popular social updates are quotes. You can take quotes to the next level by creating images from them. At Recite, simply enter your quote into the editor on the homepage, and choose a layout from the long list of templates.
•The end result can be something like this:
Recite - Create images from quotes

11. •Image collages are big business for Instagram, and they’ve found their way to Twitter and Facebook, too.
•The latter two social networks have collage tools built in. If you’d like a little more control over the way your collages are handled, a tool like Photovisi would work wonders.
•There’re many different templates to choose from, and you can customize not only the photos you use, but also any text, backgrounds, or graphics you wish to add to the collage.
Photovisi - Collage maker

12. •We’ve touched on how to turn text into images. How about sprucing up an image with text over the top?
•The Over app for iOS and Android lets you choose any image on your device and customize with text, fonts, colors, and type sizes of your choosing. Here’s an example from the Over Instagram feed
Over - Text onto photos

13. •When you write data-dense blogposts or research-backed articles, you might find yourself wishing to share data as an image. One of the best tools I’ve found for this is Infogr.am, which helps create infographics along with boasting a pretty robust charts and graphs editor.
•You can choose the type of graph you wish to use and then edit the table cells and values directly from within Infogr.am.
 Infogr.am – Charts and graphs

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