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Images For Blogs Tips and Tricks

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Looking For A Quick Way To Get Images For Blogs?

Here’s an internet business tech tip that might be helpful for any of you that have a hard time looking for pictures to use on your internet business sites. Some of you may know how to use Photoshop, but even if you do, you may not want to spend your day editing pictures or adding layers to create new images just for our blog post. To do them daily would be a ton of wasted hours when there are a lot faster free tools at your disposal. Here are some tips on programs you can use on both MAC and PC:

Quick “Images for Blogs” Program Creators for Both MAC and PC

  1. blog images for free
    This was made with Microsoft Powerpoint in less than 1 minute

    Microsoft Powerpoint – If you have Microsoft Powerpoint on either you Mac or PC, you can use it to easily create blog images by either combining or mixing images, or adding text to images that you already have. You’ll have to use a little creativity, but the “power” of Powerpoint’s editing capabilities is very good. After making your edited image, you can new either save it as an image by selecting it all and doing a “Save As” an image, or screen capturing it.

  2. Microsoft Publisher – If you know how to use Microsoft Publisher, that program is equally as powerful as Powerpoint in playing with pictures. Both Powerpoint and Publisher can do layers, this is helpful in creating quick images without fighting with too many complicated tools that Photoshop has in it.
  3. OpenOffice – This free “Microsoft Office” alternative has the same capabilities as Powerpoint for you to do you magic.
  4. Google Docs or “Drive” – By signing up for a free gmail account, you have access to Google Docs (now called Drive) which has an online Powerpoint type program.
  5. Picasa for MAC or PC – Picasa does not use layers, but you can change the image and add text to it to make some fun comments for blog posting.
  6. Windows (for PC only) Paint – I’ve seen some people have impressive results with Microsoft Paint, using it to edit pictures with enough  manipulation that it made old images look completely different in a matter of a few minutes. Today’s Paint program works a lot better that it did in the past.

Do you have a favorite picture editor that you used to change old pics into something new? Please share with us what programs you use for you editing purposes.

Thanks!