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| Downloaded free camera cliplart. Created in Phonto. |
LOTS of you have asked about apps I use to create my images. Of course I will share!
Phonto and Photofy are my favorites! They are the first two apps I go to when creating most of my images. I take that back a little bit. If I can just take a picture and use a filter I just do Instagram. The easiest image is something that just speaks for itself in Instagram.
Phonto is an app that allows me to upload all the fonts I have purchased for my computer. You can purchase fonts directly from Phonto but I really like PBFonts, HelloFonts, and AGFonts from Teachers Pay Teachers.
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| Used Phonto for fonts and Photofy for the stickers |
Workflow:
- Take picture. Leaving room somewhere in the photo for text or stickers. Take the picture off-centered or leave room at the top or bottom of the picture.
- Upload the picture to Phonto and add my text. Then save image.
- Upload image with the new font on it to Photofy if I want to add a certain sticker I know I can find in Photofy.
- Share to Instagram through Photofy. (I think it automatically saves it to my camera roll anyway.
- From Instagram the picture is shared with all my Facebook accounts, Twitter, and/or any other social media I’d like to share it.
Ripl and Legend are my two favorite animated photo apps!
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| Ripl but you have to pay to download. Sync’s to Instagram as a movie. |
Ripl allows me to add animated text to a photo I upload. But it’s also a paid app to be able to download the actual photo or video. I learned that the hard way and paid the “trial” and immediately “unsubscribed” on iTunes so I didn’t get billed.
If I want flashing words in certain colors, without pictures, I use the app Legend. It’s good to change it up every now and then to get attention. When I post a Legend image to social media once in a while I think people stop for a second to look.
Skitch is my all time favorite app to make arrows and/or annotations! I think it’s how when the neon colors and words outlined in white show up so well on photos.
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| Made with Skitch |
One goal I have is to get better at SnapChat filter pictures. Not necessarily to use Snapchat but to use the pictures and upload to another social media channel.
Next up: How do I sync all my accounts so I don’t have to post individually each place?
