I have stumbled upon two online designing websites that I would like to share with you all. The first one will generate a logo for you, and the second is an image editor that among other things can make backgrounds for you. The best part is, both of these services are free to use (for personal use, commercial users must pay) so now it is possible for you to make designs like the top designers on this forum without any design experience. Both of these sites can be used anonymously without logging in or creating an account.
The first site:
Flamingtext:
https://flamingtext.com/- It allows you to make logos from hundreds of fonts and templates
- You can customize the logo color and choose the background color, gradient, pattern, or make it transparent.
- Shadow, rotation, text slanting and letter spacing can also be customized but these are premium features, the free version will make a watermark on your logo.
We will start with the
Blue Jeans logo template:
https://www6.flamingtext.com/logo/Design-Blue-Jeans
You can change the logo text and also click on the tabs to change the different properties of the logo, and then click on
Next (which is
not premium exclusive, this is how you download the logo). You're then taken to a page which lets you download and share the logo you just created. That is how you get your logo.
The second site:
Pixlr:
https://pixlr.com/e/- This is a full-fledged image editor, like Photoshop and GIMP.
- All images are saved in your browser's cache, so you don't have to login to edit images. But you can if you want so they will be saved to your account.
- Allows you to fetch hundreds of free images from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
- Both Pixlr image editor and Unsplash stock images can be freely used for personal and commercial purposes. They can be used without attribution. https://unsplash.com/license
- Pixlr lets you download the images you create
From there, you can add custom text and also upload the logo you created at Flamingtext as a second layer. Treat this like an easier-to-use Photoshop.
To download your image, you go to File > Save and choose an image format to download as.
That's it! Here are some banners I made using these tools. And for the record, I have no design experience, but I'm sure a professional designer would be able to polish the banner, choose the right colors for contrast, and add some other finishing touches that are good for branding.
Conclusion
If you are not a designer, you will find these two sites helpful to make your own if you are not in a position to pay.
If you are someone looking to pay a designer, they are useful to make templates out of to show a designer roughly what kind of banner you want to make.
And if you
are a designer, maybe you can fit these tools in your workflow too. The paid versions at least, but they also come with more advanced features.
