Engaging Social Media Images

The three fastest growing social networks right now are Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest, all of which use images. You can create your own beautiful and engaging social media images that stand out easily with Stencil. On Instagram and Pinterest you can only post images and on Tumblr 78% of the updates posted are images this is because they drive the highest engagement.

Even on established networks like Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter images always get the highest engagement rate. Visuals help you get the most out of your posts as images get shared more on Facebook and Twitter. In addition images are also used when making ads. The possibilities of images are endless. The problem with using traditional design tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator is that there is a learning curve and these tools are also expensive. Luckily several image creation tools have popped up that are making it easy for small business owners and marketers to create social media images and other kind of visuals easily online. One of these tools is Stencil.

Stencil has some interesting features like access to over 800,000 images, 200,000 icons and graphics, and is easy to add quotes and so much more that can save you plenty of time with your social media marketing. Cyber Bytes uses Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create most of our images, but we do use online tools when needed. One of the tools we have recently experimented with is Stencil and are quite happy with the results.

If you want to give it a test drive or you only need to create very few images every month, you can sign up for a ‘Free’ account. If you would like to create more images and need more features, you can sign up for the ‘Pro’ or ‘Unlimited’ accounts. All the features are detailed on their website. We encourage you to give Stencil a try. You will be able to create beautiful social media images with ease even if you are not a designer.