Tools

Image Tools:

• Adobe Spark – similar to Canva
• Canva – #1 online graphic design tool
  • Canva palette generator
  • Canva design size guide
  • Canva font combinations
  • Canva online photo editor – simple basic program
• Compressor – online image compression
• Crello – #2 online graphic design tool
• PickMonkey  – online image editor, my current favourite!
• PIXLR – I find this program very hard to view.  Must be designed for young eyes!
• Photopea
• Fotor – similar to PicMonkey
• Fotojet – useful and easy to use
• BeFunky – I originally used this program, but now others are more suitable for my purposes
• Remove image background
• Tinypng – great online image compression tool

Image Sources:

• Awesome Stock Resources – very large list
• unDraw – pen Source illustrations
• Freepik – a good starting place
• FreeJPG – a varied collection of stock photos
• Pexels – a new free stock photo site
• Pixabay – a good resource for web quality images
• Pngimg– a great selection of cutout images
• Subtle Patterns – great collection of subtle backgrounds
• StockSnap io – good collection of free stock photos
• Bossfight – another good display of stock photos
• Awesome- stock resources – huge Github list
• 20 Cool Sites For Free WordPress Header Images

Design Tools:

•  Google Maps Generator
• Google Material Design
• Secure Password Generator

Colour Tools:

• Adobe Color CC
• Coleure
• Material Design Color Tool
• Material Palette
• Paletton
• RGB palette
• Colour review tool for accessibility
• Theme Options

Typography:

•  Google Fonts  – see then in action
• Google Font Tester
• Typespiration – font pairings

Online Logos:

• Vectr – online logo creator + SVGs
• Logastor
• Logoshi
• Ucraft
• Make Logo Online
• Online Logo Maker