2 Minute Tip: Creating Killer Graphics

Did you know that 90% of all info transferred to the brain is visual? Therefore, creating killer graphics should be an important part of your blogging strategy. How do you get it done? Today’s two-minute tip will clue you in on one of our favorite apps.

More Reasons Why Creating Killer Graphics is Important

1. Eye-tracking studies show Internet readers pay close attention to information-carrying images. In fact, when the images are relevant, readers spend more time looking at the images than they do reading text on the page.
2. People following directions with text and illustrations do 323% better than people following directions without illustrations.
3. Tweets with images receive 150% more retweets than tweets without images.
4. Facebook posts with images see 2.3 times more engagement than those without images

Watch Creating Killer Graphics

Getting Started Creating Killer Graphics

At the end of March, we shared the 2 Minute Tip for Bloggers: Creating Visual Content. Today we’re keeping with the same theme on creating visual content. You’ve seen them – the photos with thought-provoking words across them in beautiful fonts. If you’ve been wowed and impressed by these, then you’ll love creating some of your own. You can include some of your favorite quotable content (think motivational and inspirational), promote your products or services, or do what we often do, use photos to drive home your message. Think of all the ways you’d like to use graphics with text!

Creating Killer Graphics for Social Media

Don’t stop at using your graphics for your blog and blog posts, consider using them for your social networks, too. Using WordSwag you can create attention-grabbing graphics for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more!

Truth is, visuals are processed 60,000 times faster by the brain than text. If you’re interested in creating killer graphics, in addition to checking out WordSwag, be sure to also check out Font Candy, Snapseed, Photofy, and InstaQuote!

Are you currently using these apps or others for creating killer graphics and visual content? If so, what are your favorite apps? Please let us know in the comments below so we can check them out as well!

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Your Turn

What are some of your favorite tools, platforms or apps for creating killer graphics? We’d love to know. Share your favorites in the comments below.