Gone are those days when only professional photoshop editors can design good graphics. Those days when you have to pay someone else to design graphics for you if you have no skills to do it yourself.
Those days when you’re unable to get good graphics for your business if you don’t have money to pay a professional to do it.
Today, there’re so many tools available right now, you can use to design any type of graphics you want, even if you have no design skills, even if you’re a non-designer, but you still want to create pro looking graphics by yourself.
If you’re building a simple online business by yourself, or what I like to call the You-Business, you need a lot of media to get things up and running.
You need graphics if you’re running a blog, for blog images, you need graphics to share your content on social media, and in general, you need original graphics that will differentiate your brand from any other brand.
You need your own logo, branding elements and stuffs like that. And all that requires the use of media and graphics.
If you have money, you don’t need to worry. There are lots of graphics designers online you can hire that can help you design professional graphics and media for your business.
On the other hand, if you’re starting your business on a tight budget and you don’t want to spend money you don’t have on an expensive graphics designer, then designing your own graphics is the best option.
To be sincere with you, I’ve designed every graphics I’ve used on this blog so far, from the logo to the images you find on the site, to the social media graphics you find on Pinterest and so on.
I design them by myself.
And the reason why I’m able to do this is that, I use some simple graphics design tools that makes this job easy.
You don’t have to master any photoshop skills anymore to design good media for your online business anymore.
All you need is the ability to drag and drop. And maybe even now, with the age of AI, all you really need is the ability to describe the image you want to AI, and it will be made available to you within seconds.
So, here are the best graphics design tools you can use if you have no design skills, no photoshop skills, but you still want to create your own media for your online business.
Canva
I personally cannot do without Canva. I use it every day for designing 90 percent of the graphics I use online.
All my Pinterest pins are designed with Canva. My Instagram graphics are designed on Canva. My blog images are all put together on Canva.
The truth is, if you know what you’re doing, and you know your way around it, you can just design whatever type of graphics you want using Canva.
It’s awesome. I can attest to it.
It has a free version which anyone can use, and it also has a paid or Pro version.
As someone who’s been using Canva Pro for more than 5 years now, here’s what I’ll tell you. If you really want to get the best out of Canva, you have to go Pro.
The Pro version offers you 100 million+ stock photos, videos, graphics and even audio. Like, it’s almost impossible for me to search for any type of image I want on Canva without finding it.
Whatever you want, you get it. Canva Pro offers you any type of Graphics you want. All my Pinterest Graphics are from Canva Pro, and I have never ever wanted for anything more.
Another beautiful thing about Canva is that everything is drag and drop. Drag the graphics, audio, video, text, or whatever you want onto the canvas, and just resize it to whatever size or look you want.
Change colors or whatever you want to change, and you’ll have your design ready within minutes.
Canva also comes with an assortment of AI tools you can use to bring the best out of your design. You don’t have to use another tool to remove background out of your images. You can do all that and more inside Canva Pro.
That’s why I’ve been using it for over 5 years.
Adobe Express
Adobe Express is another tool you can use online to create any type of graphics you want to use for your online business.
Whether you’re creating graphics for your social media, like Pinterest pins, Instagram, Facebook and so on, all that can be done in Adobe Express.
I don’t use it as much as I use Canva, but I’ve used it several times and it works just fine.
Canva is my go-to design tool, but if I’m not using it, I’d go with Adobe Express.
Evoto
Evoto is a different type of graphics design tool. Evoto is an AI photo editor. But it’s not just any AI photo editor. It’s practically the best I’ve used.
This thing will give you professional photoshop grade edited photos with a few clicks of the button.
It will make your ugly pictures look beautiful, smoothen your face, make your skin look uniform and smooth without any blemishes that may have been there.
Evoto AI is by far the best photo editor I’ve used.
The only thing is that it’s not free. You have to pay for credits. You buy credits and each photo you edit with the software takes one credit. And you get 1200 credits for around $83.99.
The only issue I have with them is that that credit only lasts for a year. And that means even though you don’t use any of the credits, after one year you lose all of them. You won’t be able to use your credits anymore even if you did not edit any pictures.
So, I kind of wonder why they make people buy credits, instead of just offer a subscription base plan, since the credits still expire after 1 year.
Apart from that though, Evoto AI is by far the best photo editor app I’ve used. I use it to edit all my personal social media pictures, my gravatas, my page avatars and so on.