 Have you ever seen these images on social media where there's a quote usually or some idea laid on top of a nice image and then maybe the person's website in a subtle way? So here's one example and let me give you another example here, right? These are called social media memes and it's easy to create. And so in this short video I want to show you how to create these social media memes. You can basically share them on Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter or anywhere even on your website and then along with the image you can tell a story or give a tip and people usually love these things, right? Another way of using this kind of tool is to create a blog post image. So this is a blog post but this is the cover image of a blog post. So let me show you how to create these things. It's free and I use a tool called Pablo. So it's Pablo.buffer.com as the website and then once you go here you click on the button to get started and basically it's as simple as clicking in the middle here and writing whatever idea you want to write. You can do multiple lines if you want. You can then, again, you can click on where the words are, you can move the words around. What I typically like to do is I like to move it all the way to the left and then drag this corner or drag this the right little box all the way to the right so that I can write more basically if I wanted to. And then you can increase the font size by clicking where these AAAs are. Just click each time you click it gets bigger and then that's the biggest and then it goes back down. And then if you want to position it to the center you just click and drag until you see a very subtle, I don't know if you see that, you see that little blue line in the middle right there? You see that blue line? It's kind of snaps in the middle. If you move it away the blue line disappears, there it is. If you want it to have it be more narrow you can also center it by dragging it so that you'll see the blue line in the middle vertically as well. You see that blue line in the middle right there and now it's completely centered vertically and horizontally. You can also bold it by clicking like that or you can italicize it and you can change the font. There's all these cool fonts that you can use. They're all free and you know just however the style of the image you want is you can do it that way. You can also make it right justified, left justified or center and you can change the color of the font. Make sure it's so for example this would be very hard to read so make sure it's something that's easy to read. You can also change the filters of the image itself so this would be no filter at all. So the image is in full and it's full glory but then sometimes that makes the words hard to read. Light contrast would be to make the words a bit easier to read. Heavy contrast would make it even easier but then you can barely make out the image as a result. Let's see here. You can also do other things. Like blur, you know so we might want to do no cut, oh actually these are separate, these are individual settings. So you just kind of play around with these things and sometimes you might want to have fun and do a red tint or a blue tint or something like that. You can also change the size of the image so this sort of landscape size is typically good for a blog post header image but if you want to share it on Facebook I actually recommend you do something like this or like this. These actually share really well on Facebook. This shares okay as well. This is a landscape image but I don't have an example to show you but the box image shows up really big on Facebook and so just kind of try things, you know, try posting things and see how they look and you can always come back and make a different version of it. The reposition button is where you can reposition what part of the image you want to show okay. You can also zoom in a certain way so that's pretty cool. You know you want to show more of this part of the image, you can do that, click done and see you've just changed it. So you see how easy this do all this and if you don't have a quote yourself but you want to just add things to your Facebook or other social media you can add quotes so you just click on this button and it'll basically delete whatever you wrote and replace it with a quote and they have like so many quotes and so just pick one that you really like and again remember you can change the font and change the size and everything. The other thing you could do is insert a logo so if you have a logo for your business you can insert that by clicking here and choosing what file you want and things like that. Oh very importantly you can change what image of course is in the background just by simply clicking these and again you can click reposition to show what part of the image you want. Remember you can also choose these different formats to see how big of an image you want to show. So you can just kind of click through these images and they have as many they have as you can see your 600,000 plus images that are all free for you to use for commercial purposes everything is okay for you to use it's all licensed free for you. You can also upload your own image if you like taking photography or you can click shuffle and it'll give you a whole new set of images here so just keep shuffling through to find images. If you want to look for when you click shuffle again and again you'll start to see the same kinds of images again and again. So what I recommend is that you click on search if you're getting tired of these images right you can click where it says search 600,000 images and type in a word for a particular idea you want. So if you want to talk about freedom maybe you want to type in ocean you know ocean and then press enter okay and then wait and then that might give you a sense of you know feeling of freedom right ocean or calmness right or if you want to talk about being out in nature you might want to type in or if you want to talk about beauty you know type in flower press enter and then you know you can see many many so there's think about unique words that you could use you can even you know courage for example press enter and you know there's all kinds of images for that so be creative in what words usually writing just one word will give you more options and if you try multiple words you know courage creativity you know if you type in multiple words you might not find very many images I just typed it and press enter and interestingly I don't know what happened but yeah try try one word at a time and these are all again free to use they're they also have they also have templates you can maybe move your mouse over here and oh I didn't show you one more thing there's three types of text you can add you can add a header it's basically three different fonts you can have so this caption is usually used for you know your website you know something like that and you can change you can have a different font for your website versus the body versus the header it can be also a different font and of course the body can be a different size versus the header versus the the caption so just be creative and just click on these to to see what what type of thing you want to add there and then the templates is where you can click on it and kind of see what you know just to kind of give you some ideas for how you and of course you can edit the template to say whatever you want and you can you know you can again make all the edits you want so have fun with this really you know try this on social media because these kinds of images typically work well it brings people to the attention of your posting and use it to share something inspirational something helpful for your audience always remember to be sharing things not out of hey look at me you know I'm just wanting to get more attention but share something out of a sense of service but using images like this does make your messages more palatable more consumable for your audience it makes it easier for them to to look at makes it more pleasant for them so I hope this is helpful I'm always open to your questions and your comments and if you have any suggestions for how to make these images more interesting more effective or another tool that you like to use feel free to comment on below this video as well thanks and enjoy