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Story-telling\u00a0imagery is a powerful marketing tool for wedding businesses. From your website to your business card, your social media\u00a0to your product photography<\/a>;\u00a0quality pictures can be a determining factor in whether a prospect picks up the phone to call\u00a0you, or your competitors. While some tasks require hiring\u00a0a professional graphic designer<\/a>,\u00a0there are easy to use photo editing apps for the less skilled (but no less imaginative) to create their own professional looking graphics. Here are five of our faves:<\/p>\n Canva<\/a>‘s easy to use drop-n-drag features and templates allow even the most modest designer to produce\u00a0impressive presentations, social media graphics, menus, album covers and posters that could\u00a0have you considering a creative career change.<\/p>\n There are 8,000+ templates and ample\u00a0features, stock images, filters, icons, shapes and fonts available on the free version, but an upgrade of\u00a0$12.95USD p\/mth\u00a0(including 30-days free, card details required) unleashes a series of pro features, including the ability to set colour palettes for your brand, upload custom fonts, save templates for your team, improve organisation and access\u00a0priority support.<\/p>\n Through their\u00a0Design Essentials tutorials course you can fast-track your way to creating quality\u00a0designs in no time – 23 seconds, to be exact – if their claims\u00a0hold\u00a0true.<\/p>\n\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G3Hvn1jrx8U<\/p>\n PicMonkey<\/a>‘s features are\u00a0divided into four categories;<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ICiQfqeRvtY<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BbZZ3wMmw14<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4MFtdmp5xxw<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iS2pQNR_VGI<\/p>\n All the image editing fundamentals can be accessed for free by simply creating a username and password. For the\u00a0pixel perfectionists who want it all and\u00a0don’t need the training wheels, you can access advanced Crowned Features by upgrading to the Royale version for $8USD p\/mth no contract with a free 7-day trial. For a full comparison of what’s included on the free and paid plans view the\u00a0PicMonkey Pricing<\/a>.<\/p>\n One for those who like to edit on the go!\u00a0Photoshop Express<\/a>\u00a0is a free app courtesy of its more advanced counterpart, Photoshop<\/a>,\u00a0which allows users to capture snaps from right in the app and view pics\u00a0at their sharpest and most vibrant thanks to support for iPad with Retina display.<\/p>\n After touching up your pics with tools to adjust hue, brightness & white balance, crop, straighten, rotate, flip and\u00a0fix\u00a0red eye (including “pet eye<\/a>“),\u00a0you can add boarders and frames before posting your creations to your favourite social media accounts. You can also SMS or email your pics to colleagues and customers.<\/p>\n If you’re looking for something more advanced, in-app purchases allow you to reduce grain and speckling in your night photos and even defog pics to reduce fog and haze.<\/p>\n Pixlr<\/a>\u00a0lets users quick fix and fine-tune pictures by\u00a0adding personal touches with over 100 effects, 340 overlays and 200 borders. Wannabe designers can experiment with\u00a0transparency, resize and rotate individual\u00a0elements and apply double exposure, while\u00a0selecting from 11 different blend modes. Choose your preferred Pixlr platform to get started…<\/p>\n Need further convincing? Check out this continuous feed of impressive Pixrl imagery.<\/a><\/p>\n This easy to use\u00a0template-based design app allows users to create professional looking infographics, reports, posters and presentations.<\/p>\n Piktochart<\/a> designers do all the heavy lifting for you by\u00a0maintaining a weekly updated library of over 500\u00a0professionally-created templates to choose form, a generous selection of which are available\u00a0on the free version.<\/p>\n Edit text, fonts and colours to suit your own brand palette. For inspiration, head to the Piktochart blog, which is packed full of tips and tutorials<\/a> to help you make the most of your\u00a0graphics.<\/p>\n Share your design\u00a0effortlessly\u00a0across your social media accounts,\u00a0use HTML code to add it\u00a0to your website or send via email using the URL provided. Images can be exported in\u00a0JPG, PNG or PDF (though you’ll need to\u00a0upgrade for PDF) and you can select the resolution to keep image size under control.<\/p>\n To remove the Piktochart watermark, enjoy greater\u00a0privacy options, improve image quality and increase storage limits, try an upgrade starting from $15USD p\/mth<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s one example of a\u00a0wedding planning<\/a> infographic produced using the Piktochart software that\u00a0just about any wedding business could use to subtly promote their own products or services.<\/p>\n Have you tried any of these amateur photo editing tools?\u00a0Share your experience (or frustrations) in the comments below and let us know your favourite design tool for creating beautiful DIY images for your wedding business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269293,"template":"","au_pro_edu_tags":[],"class_list":["post-276327","au-pro-education","type-au-pro-education","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_pro_edu_categories-marketing-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-pro-education\/276327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-pro-education"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-pro-education"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_pro_edu_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_pro_edu_tags?post=276327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. Canva<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n2. PicMonkey<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
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3. Photoshop Express<\/a><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n4. Pixlr<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
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5. Piktochart<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
Step 1:\u00a0Choose your template<\/h3>\n
Step 2: Customise<\/h3>\n
Step 3: Share your creation<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Rate your fave!<\/h2>\n