Create Social Media Posts
You can create Facebook posts, Instagram posts, poster presentations, and social media in general. Now, if you want to choose something specific, you’ll have to see all of the formats. So what we will do right now is click on View All 47 Formats. And you can see that already the page has expanded and we can see that we have more formats here. And you can see also that we have a menu in the upper part of the dashboard where we can actually choose by category what type of graphic we want to design. And what we are interested in is creating social media posts so I will click on the social media pause button.
Social Platforms
Basically, these are all the types of social media posts that we can create. So for social media in general we have a resolution of 800 with 800 pixels of Facebook posts, Twitter posts, and Instagram posts, and also we have Pinterest graphics or Tumblr graphics so we have plenty of choices now. Now, most of you will probably use this tool to create Facebook or Instagram posts, and some of you also for Pinterest or Twitter, but let’s say that the top three dominant ones will be Facebook, Instagram, and also Pinterest. So let’s try an Instagram graphic that is 1080 pixels with 1080 pixels. So first things first, what we are going to do right now is click on the creator design Instagram posts you just go with the cursor of the mouse over the thumbnail, click on it and the editor will open for you.
As you can see, here is the canvas on the left side you have two main lists, so you have the main menu right here where you can choose from different options and icons. And I will walk you through those in more depth in a different lecture. And also you have this main menu here where you can choose the category of templates that you want to use for Instagram posts and from where you can choose the template, and afterward customize it and edit it for your own needs.
Choose a Category
So first things first, what we want to do is choose a category. Maybe you work in the beauty niche, the fashion and style niche, food and drinks, or real estate building—it doesn’t matter, we will choose one as an example. Let’s say that we want food and drinks and you will see that we will have now some templates where we can choose in the foods and drinks category. Now very important, because I’ve told you that Crello also makes money with their platform, is for you to choose one of the templates which have this small watermark free in the right lower corner. The ones which you have to pay for if you will choose to buy will have a premium or pro watermark right here.
So let’s just take the first one as an example. You can see that now the editor has loaded the template for us and every element on the template is actually editable. For example, we can select the text here, October, and we can rotate the text if we want to. So it’s pretty simple to edit. We can select the coffee day, you can select the whole text, and you’ll see that the options for the text will open in this area here. So we’ll have different options for that text. For example, for the main text options, we can choose a different font. We have different types of fonts here: Bangers for example or Armata. We can choose the size. Let’s say that we want a smaller size. We can choose if the font will be bold, italics, or underlined in the classic text options. We can choose the font color. Maybe we want something like this green here. And also we can play around with the font size from these sliders here, the line height, and the spacing we have. So there are plenty, plenty of options.
Now, if you have a look on the right side of the text options, you’ll see that you have a smaller menu. You can play also with the transparency of the text. You can see that it changes. Basically, this editor, Crello, like all major editors like Photoshop and all other major online editors works with layers, so your text will be a layer, the background will be a layer, and another shape on your image will be a layer. And you can play around with the layers. Basically, if you want the text to be over a square you just put the text as a layer in front of the layer which is square. So, you get the idea. That’s how it works. Or you can duplicate the text. Something like this. Let’s delete one of them because we don’t need all of them. And, delete.
So this is how you edit text. Any shape that you will choose from the template, any element, will be eligible. For example, if you choose the background image, you’ll see that for background images and images in general, photos, you’ll have different options. The option box will open and you have effects, for example, different types of effects from which you can choose. And you have even more advanced ones like intensity, brightness, and contrast. You can play around with them. Then you can crop the image if you want, but we don’t want to. Also, transparency and the other was that you know. This one is an extra one that basically rotates the image for you. And this is how you play around with the elements from your template. So you can change images, you can change the text, you can edit text, and you can add new things if you want to do the image. And let me show you how you can do that. For example, if you go to the left side menu over here, you can choose the text option. Let’s say that we want to add some text. You have some templates here as well. You just click on an element and it will appear on the screen, on that image as you can see here. Let’s delete this one.
After you are done with everything, with editing everything in your image, you just have to press the download button. You choose the type and the format. Okay, let’s say that we want PNG transparent, you just click on it and wait for a couple of seconds because they are preparing your design for download, they are rendering the image and they should not take very, very long. But we have to wait for a couple of seconds or even up to a minute. And after it’s done, it will be downloaded to your computer and saved as an image there so we can use it whenever you want. And that’s about it. Now, thank you very much for being attentive.
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