Tools for Finding, Editing, & Sharing Images in Social Media

In the #ChSocM (Church Social Media) tweetchat on May 6, 2014, we talked about the power of using images in social media. 

The #ChSocM community shared some of their favorite resources for finding, editing, creating, and sharing images. Those resources are posted below.

If I missed one that you'd like to endorse, please add it in the comment section. And you can find the tweetchat conversation in its visually pleasing entirety on Storify here.

Happy imaging!

Free Stock Photos and Images

123rf - www.123rf.com Royalty-free stock photos from as low as .21 per image

Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/ - images with a variety of licenses

freedigitalphotos.net - Small versions of images are free, larger versions obtained for a fee

freeimages.com - “leading source of free stock photos”

freerangestock.com - “High quality, high resolution, free stock photos and free textures.”

Google Images - http://images.google.com/

New Old Stock - nos.twnsnd.co - “Vintage photos from the public archives, free of known copyright restrictions.”

stockvault.net - “Free stock photos, textures, and graphics.”

:unsplash.com  10 free high-resolution photos every 10 days. “Do whatever you want.”

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - “A database of over 21,000,000 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.”

From Buffer: 53+ Free Image Sources for Your Blog and Social Media Posts

Faith-based Images

CreationSwap - www.creationswap.com  “Free church media shared or sold by thousands of Christian artists. Search videos, photos, logos, church bulletins, sermon graphics and more”

Lightstock - www.lightstock.com “Say goodbye to clipart. Faith-focused, cheesy-free, stock photos and footage”

Live Intentionally Photos - https://www.facebook.com/LiveIntentionally/photos_stream A collection of inspirational quotes set on photos.

Sermon Quotes - https://www.facebook.com/SermonQuotes  Inspirational sayings, ideas, videos and scripture.

Typographic Verses - http://typographicverses.com/ Bible verses set graphically.

Create Designs, Edit Photos

 Aviary - https://www.aviary.com/ “Make photos magic.”

canva.com - Create designs with graphics, images, and text.

Flipagram - http://flipagram.com/ - “Create beautiful short video stories using your photos, set to music you love!”

Gimp - www.gimp.org - “a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.” 

Google Nik Collection http://www.google.com/nikcollection/-   “Advanced editing, simplified.”

IFTTT - https://ifttt.com/ “Put the internet to work for you.”

PickCrew - https://pickcrew.com/ - Hire high-quality, hand-picked, vetted design professionals to do creative work.

PicMonkey.com - “Photo editing made of win.” Edit, touch up, design, collage.

Pixlr - http://pixlr.com/  - “Welcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world.”

PrintStudio - http://printstud.io/  - “No hassle printing from your desktop or mobile.”

ribbet.com - “Online photo editing made fun and easy.”

shareasimage.com  - “Create micro content anywhere on the web. Turn images or text into viral, eye-catching micro-content that you can share in seconds.”

Studio - http://www.madewithstudio.com/ - “Create and share amazing designs with your friends.”

WordSwag - http://wordswag.co/ - “Add awesome text to your photos in seconds.”

www.bonanza.com/background_burner - Removes the background from photos, saves them with white or transparent background.

Make Memes

Quickmeme - http://www.quickmeme.com/ Create memes to share.

Meme Generator - http://memegenerator.net/ Create memes to share.

Apps

Instaquote - add text captions to photos and pictures for IG “Create beautiful text pictures for instagram.”

Over - http://madewithover.com/  “The app for adding text and artwork to photos.”

PicLab - http://piclabapp.com/ “Add beautiful typography, artwork & effects to your photos.”

PicStitch - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-stitch/id454768104?mt=8 - Make photo collages, add effects.

Popagraph - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popagraph/id587595362?mt=8 Popgraph: a photo editing app.

Snapseed - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapseed/id439438619?mt=8 Photo editing app.