Here is a nicely curated list of 10 Best Free Social Media Image Makers. These online applications help you create stunning social media images with hundreds of pre-defined templates. You can add text, images, overlays, stickers, frames, filters, background textures, and more to make your designs stand out in social media sites.
Let’s look at these online social media image makers below in detail.
Canva:
Canva is an amazing online application and probably one of the best designing tools available. It lets you create stunning designs for social media graphics, presentations, banners, posters, and much more. It offers hundreds of built-in templates which you can use for designing or you can upload your own to modify. The best part is that it lets you easily create social media images for Twitter Post, Pinterest Graphic, Facebook Post, Facebook App, Tumblr Graphic, Instagram Post, and more.
You can browse for millions of visually appealing background images, and use them for your design such that it can stand out. In addition to that, you can apply tons of photo filters, add text, choose dozens of fonts, add icons and shapes, control color tune, and much more. It makes creating social media images much easier with built-in templates. After you’re done, you can save designs to PC as JPG or PDF files.
Fotor:
Fotor is another powerful online application to create social media images with pre-defined templates. It offers five different designing aspects such as HDR, retouching, graphic design, photo collage, and photo editing. It lets you create astonishing photo cards, photo collage, and social media images. Using the pre-defined templates, you can create Facebook Cover & Post, Instagram Post, Twitter Cover, YouTube Cover, and Google+ Cover. It also lets you choose any custom size for your design.
You can browse and add dozens of stickers, icons, shape, text, color splash, frames, and more to make your design look beautiful. The editor lets you rotate, crop, enhance, straighten, resize, apply filters, and more to the designs. In addition to that, you can also create stunning photo collages with custom layouts, text, shapes, background, etc. Save your designs to your Dropbox account or PC.
FotoJet:
FotoJet comes with two different modes named, Creative and Classic. The Creative mode provides tons of built-in templates to create awesome photo cards, social media images, collage, magazine cover, comics, and much more. Whereas, the Classic mode lets you create your own template by customizing layouts, canvas ratio, text, background, etc. To make your designs more attractive, you can add clip arts, change text font, color, and size. It almost got all the features of Canva for designing social media images.
Similar to the above applications, “FotoJet’ also lets you design Facebook Cover & Post, Google+ Cover, Pinterest Graphic, Twitter Header, YouTube Cover, and Instagram Post. One of the unique features of this application is that it lets you select different parts of a layout to add individual images to those parts. So, use this amazing application to create great social media images and share or save as a JPG/PNG files.
Gravit:
Gravit is another simple but powerful social media image maker that lets you create greeting & business cards, logos, illustrations, infographics, etc. along with social media graphics. Unlike other designing tools, it lets you create designs for website, Kindle covers, smartphone wallpapers, etc. You can create designs for Tumblr Graphic, Facebook Ad, Facebook App, YouTube Cover, Twitter Header & Post, and Facebook Cover & Post.
To make your designs look extremely impressive, you can personalize the background, add shapes, 100+ icons, add images, text with 500+ fonts, and more. It also offers various editing tools such as the image resizer, merger, transform images, and more. You can draw or use Bezigon tools to add patterns to your designs, and add 20+ photo filters. Another unique feature is that you can invite others to your design for collaboration in real-time.
Pablo by Buffer:
Among all of these social media image makers, “Pablo” by Buffer is definitely the simplest application to create designs in a minute or two. You can create graphics for social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. The interface is pretty intuitive in order to help you easily create social media images. It lets you add a custom background, text, quotes and more to the images.
You can either use predefined background images or import one from your PC. In addition to that, it lets you use basic photo effects such as contrast, black & white, and blur, add a logo, secondary text to make great images. To add quotes, you can either write one by yourself or search & use tons of influential quotes.
Social Media Image Maker:
Using “Social Media Image Maker“, you can make ideal and beautiful social media images. If you wish to create stunning profile photos and covers for YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Flickr, Skype, LinkedIn, Google+, Vimeo, Gravatar, Tumblr, Xing, Facebook, etc., then my friend this application is for you. You can crop images manually to make them ideal for respective social networks.
It lets you apply 10+ photo filters such as Wild West, Leisa, Vintage, and more. Edit photos with tools like blur, desaturate, sharpen, black & white, focus line, noise, and focus. After creating beautiful images, share or save them to your PC as PNG or JPEG files.
Social Image Resizer Tool:
Social Image Resizer Tool is a pretty interesting tool to resize images and make them ideal for social networks. It is not like other photo editing or designing applications, and its focus is more on creating social media images by resizing them. You can resize images for the following social network layouts:
- Facebook Cover, Profile Photo, Tab, Link Image, and General Images
- Twitter Header, Profile Photo, and Image Display
- Google Profile Photo, Cover, and Shared Image
- LinkedIn Profile, and Cover Photo
- Pinterest Profile Photo, and Board Thumbnail
- Instagram Profile Photo, Lightbox Image, and Image Feed
- YouTue Profile Photo, Channel Art, and Custom Video Thumbnail
In addition to that, you can create custom size images, favicon, square pixels, etc. As we have seen that the above applications let you make only profile photos, posts, and timeline images, but this one is quite unique as it also lets you resize images for links, feeds, thumbnails, cover arts, and much more. When you’re done with optimizing your images, save them as GIF, ICO, JPG, and PNG files.
PicMonkey:
PicMonkey is an outstanding online tool to edit photos, create photo collage, simply touch up images, and make social media images with custom canvas size. It lets you import images from your PC, Facebook, Dropbox, OneDrive accounts and add them to your designs. It offers custom canvas ideal for the social network like Facebook, Instagram, etc., or you can crop, resize, and rotate to optimize them for social media sites.
To make your design visually appealing, you can apply various photo effects (Palaroid, Time Machine, Intrepid, Black & White, etc.), add text, add photo frames & overlays, and most importantly the background textures.
Photovisi:
Actually, it is a free online photo collage maker with great tools and intuitive interface. In addition to that, it lets you create cool Facebook Cover, Twitter Header, LinkedIn Cover, YouTube Channel Banner, and Google+ Cover. You can create nice and beautiful photo collages and designs by resizing, cropping, and applying filters to them. It offers hundreds of predefined designs for all the above social networks, which you can use or upload and customize your own design.
The working is pretty simple, as all you have to do is select a template, add photos, shapes, text, and customize background to make social media images. After making a design using “Photovisi“, share it or save it as a JPG file.
BeFunky:
It is a pretty useful designing tool with 3 main aspects named, Photo Editor, Collage Maker, and Designer. This tool helps you create mind-blowing designs, collage, and social media images. It offers tons of built-in templates for greeting cards, event graphics, business cards, letterhead, blogger resources, social media headers, and social media graphics.
To make your design more appealing, you can add a custom background, change the background color, add images, add text, adjust text color, font, etc. BeFunky also provides dozens of design elements such as lines, arrows, ribbons, shapes, ornaments, badges, frames, infographics, social media icons, and much more.
