Internet Tools Content- Page 24
Pablo
August 4, 2018 by cryan.com
On Social media, graphic images tend to get more attention than just a text. Pablo, by Buffer, is a great way to make a quick image with any text. You can interact with Pablo through their website or using the Chrome Extension.
The Chrome extension is great because you can transform any image right into Pablo to use as a background image - obviously make sure to have permissions to use the image.
Description from the Website
Pablo is the simplest way to create beautiful images that fit every social network perfectly.
Create images with the perfect size and format for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even Pinterest. Typography, font sizes, and formatting options make everyone a designer! Pablo designers have created more than 500,000 images!
https://pablo.buffer.com/
Pablo has templates for Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. No Need to worry about the right size to use. You can post directly from Pablo or download the image for latest posting.
Sample Images
A couple of images that were scaled down for the purposes of including it in this blog.
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Clock Face Generator
July 28, 2018 by cryan.com
Sometimes having a visual clock face can help deliver a message. There's no need to create a clock face in Photoshop when you can use an online graphics generator.
Description from the site
Set the time you want to display on the clock face in the box below. You can also change the size of the face by using the slider.
https://www.helpingwithmath.com/printables/worksheets/time/3md1-clock-face-generator01.htm
Example Clock Use
Simple example of using the ClockFace:
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RedKid Generator
July 21, 2018 by cryan.com
RedKid Generator is the go-to place to find entertaining image generators. They have 55 creative image designs to pick from. Perfect when you're looking to add a bit of humor to the situation.
Site Description
RedKid.Net is dedicated to providing premium, entetaining, educational, and safe content for internet users of all ages.
http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php
Some Examples
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GeoGuessr
July 14, 2018 by cryan.com
The Internet is not all work and no play. There are lots of fun sites out there that can help make you think and still be fun.
This Week's Case in Point is: GeoGuessr.com a website that tests your geographic skills using pictures on Google Maps.
Website Description
Embark on a journey that takes you all over the world. From the most desolate roads in Australia to the busy, bustling streets of New York City.
GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
https://geoguessr.com/
Take the Hard map challenge against a co-worker or try it yourself and see how well you know geography and terrain.
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Avatar Cartoon Creator
July 7, 2018 by cryan.com
Having a cartoon image of yourself is a creative way to use as the profile photo on Facebook, Twitter or Slack. Cartoonify.de makes it easy to create a professional looking cartoon-like image of yourself.
Website Description
With our service you can quickly create a Cartoon of Yourself directly online without any software installs and for free! With Cartoonify you can Cartoonize Yourself. We have more than 300 graphics parts so your avatar will be as special as you are. This is one of the easiest and fastest way to convert your Photo to a Cartoon with our app. You only have to choose between its face, eyes, hair, clothes and even a background. Try our online avatar maker now!
As a result you can download your Cartoon Picture as SVG (vector) or as PNG file which is converted from vector graphic parts and also uploads to Gravatar. Additionally, you can create your avatar as gravatars. This is perfect for sharing with all social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more! Yes! I want to create my cartoon mini-me. Try our Anime Character Creator Website now and create your own self-portrait.
https://www.cartoonify.de/
Watch the video on the "How to Cartoon Yourself?" page to learn how to best use the Avatar generator.
Sample Avatar
A few sample Avatar using the 'random' button.
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Cool Text Generator
June 30, 2018 by cryan.com
If your looking for a quick text to graphic generator than Cool Text Generator is the place to go. You can create some neat styles around your text.
There are 31 different styles to use, 800 different fonts and 213 different color palettes. (Got to love some of the Disney references)
Once you pick the style, you can change the color and font. The site is very simple to use. One disadvantage is that you can't save a favorite design to use later.
Website Description
Sometimes we just need a decent stylish text in 10 minutes. We don't have Photoshop, we don't have good design in mind. What if there is a web service for us to browse-and-pick a nice effect, then we just customize x2192 download x2192 use it? And yes, maketext.io is born for this purpose.
Maketext.io is the modern cool text generator that empowers SVG filters and 800+ open-font-licensed web fonts. While there are already numerous similar websites around, we handcrafted maketext.io with the following guideline in mind:
- Make It Quick, Make It Simple
- On the Web, on the Fly
- Easily Customizable
- Vector Based with Raster Support
https://maketext.io
Some Text Design Samples
Here are some basic designs that were created using Cool Text Generator. Keep in mind there's a lot of ways to be creative around your text.
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Text Effect at Oxy
June 23, 2018 by cryan.com
The text effects over at PhotoOxy.com are pretty cool. There are 55 different text effect to select from. They are all unique ways to display a text message against a background. For example, you can have your text appear on a coffee cup, as a scary cemetery gate or as embroidery text.
Website Description
PhotoOxy is an application to bring you a library of hundreds of creative and awesome effects.
Easy creates the brightest picture in seconds without having to use a professional. You can set it up as a contact icon, wallpaper, send a friend, friend or share it with any social network.
https://photooxy.com/logo-and-text-effects-c17
Sample Text Effect Images
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Frame Tools at imgonline.com.ua
June 16, 2018 by cryan.com
Imgonline.com.ua is a site that offers lots of tools to help process pictures. You can transform pictures into unique colors and designs.
Website Description
This site is designed for high quality processing of JPEG photos and pictures online.
The trick of this site is that you can, for example, without recompression of image edit EXIF, IPTC, XMP data, view EXIF details online or completely remove EXIF and other information embedded in the JPEG photo, rotate to any angle that is a multiple of 90*, make progressive JPEG. All the above is done without loss of quality. If necessary, you can compress the JPG image to the specified size in kilobytes or megabytes or with standard method.
https://www.imgonline.com.ua/eng/add-frame.php
Add Photo Frame Online
One of the photo effects they have is Photo Frames, which gives you the ability to pick from 29 different frame styles.
The frame effect at tuxpi.com is slightly better since you can add a matt. Imgonline.com is nice because it's fast and has a few more museum-type frames.
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Preview Google Fonts
June 9, 2018 by cryan.com
Google Fonts is a great resource for publicly available fonts. They have a large collection of fonts perfect for most designs.
The only problem is what font is right for your tagline, headline? Thankfully, Ultra Zone has it figured out and created a site where you can preview any text in all the fonts in Google's catalog. Simply type in your text, select the font family, and instantly see your font.
https://ultra.zone/web_fonts
Getting the Font
Once you found the perfect font, simply mouse over the name and you click to see additional fonts in the family, or go directly to the Google site and download the font.
This process saves a lot of second-guessing and downloading multiple fonts to find the one that works best for you.
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3D Blocks Text Effect Maker
June 2, 2018 by cryan.com
Picture to People is a site that offers Photo Editing tools, generated Text Logo Makers and so much more. There's a lot of creative ideas that can help find that perfect style for your photo or text.
Hidden Feature
While not totally hidden, but could be easily overlooked, is the Text Logos style. You can have the ability to create different styles and colors, in fact, there are more than 1,350 text logo makers using 35 different themes. There are lots of previews to help figure out which style is perfect for you.
Best part, its all free to create and use!
Description from their Website
Picture to People (P2P) is a huge development project that offers the world's biggest collection of free online photo effect editors, free online text generators and much more. Here everything is developed from scratch, so there always are new fresh creative, innovative and exclusive graphic design software being published online. If you are a new user, please visit the How To Use section to get started.
Despite we think initiatives like Creative Commons are a good idea, here you are not limited to that kind of license. Any text effect, banner, header, logo, word art, photo effect, image manipulation or graphic design drawn by using our online graphics generator applications is totally free.
http://www.picturetopeople.org/text_generator/others/3d/realistic/professional_text_effects.html
Sample Designs
Here are some sample designs that I created in just a few minutes. The whole process was quick and easy. The hardest part was finding a style to match the text. It's very helpful that image designs are broken down into categories.
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