 Hi, this is George Kow and I want to show you how I make social media images. So these are images with a message on it so that it can convey a message on picture heavy platforms such as Instagram and it also is great for Twitter and you could even do this on LinkedIn or Facebook as well. So the first thing I do is go to an image website to download a nice image that would convey the kind of emotion that I want for a message. So let's say that I wanted to talk about the power of purpose or, you know, focusing on our purpose and our everyday work then I go to unsplash.com that's usually where I download images and you could either search for an idea right there in the center and by the way if you don't know what to search for they give you a couple of trending searches you can click on to send to see what's trending right now or you can simply go and scroll. This top part a lot of people don't know is scrollable so just make sure you scroll on the top and just kind of see well spirituality okay let's try that so we'll click on that and then we'll find something that and I just want to let you know the type of image is important is it is it a long image like more of a portrait style this is a portrait type or is it more of a landscape image depends on what you're creating for so if you're doing Instagram Instagram is really a square right so a portrait any of these could work for Instagram you know but if you're doing like a Facebook cover then you want to look for a more of a landscape longer rather sorry wider rather than than taller type of image okay so we're talking about purpose let's say I don't know we're just gonna scroll through and find something that could work for I'm gonna particularly look at Instagram here okay well this person looks like they're they're meditative and thinking so what we do is when we find an image you go and click on it and then you click download okay now it's nice to be able to give credit where it's due so you're posting on Instagram you'll want to just mention mention this in one of the comments if you know Facebook wherever you're putting it try to mention the person's name and unsplash in the comments okay so now the the images now they're on my desktop and let's now go to Canva so Canva is a free design tool and it's it's it's can do a lot but it can also be used very simply to create social media images so log into Canva click on create a design and you can see here that they've already given you a nice sort of you know you can just simply click on this one to start creating an Instagram post or click on this one to create a Facebook cover image I'm gonna create an Instagram post right now so I'm gonna go and do that okay and once that is loaded what I want to do is I want to upload my background image okay so what I do is on the left hand side I click on uploads that's where I go and then I click upload an image and I select the one that is that I've just brought over from unsplash and there you go so once that's one that once it's uploaded I click on it to fill it in to the canvas here all right and let me just move my thing over here oh I'll just keep it here for now make it a little smaller so you can see better okay so once it's on the canvas I want to fill the whole canvas so that the image doesn't have any white space on the and the nice thing is when you click and drag Canva is nice because it'll tell you if you're centered vertically or horizontally you see these purple lines right so I let me go and fill this whole thing up by by basically dragging the the sides and the tops I'm gonna drag the sides and you can see I'm dragging the sides it's an automatically cropping the image so that it fits where I want it to fit so there we go blah blah blah like that okay and I also want to fill up the top here okay so I just want to fill up it just give her the white space and then the next thing I do is I go to elements because if I put words on here it's going to clash right so let's just try try this I'm gonna click on text I click on add a heading that's I don't know why this is so small let me try this again add a heading it should be larger well anyway I can always adjust the font size up here so I'm just gonna say work daily on your purpose keep returning to your focus again and again I don't know just just making something up here and you could see that and I could you could see that the image the words are gonna clash on the image it's gonna be hard to hard to read so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this on this I'm just the way you click and drag an element is you have to move your mouse over the one of the edges one of the sides and then find the sides when it becomes a cross then when it becomes a cross you can you can click and drag it so I'm gonna click and drag this over to the side and what I'll do now is I'll click on elements here and I simply like using either a square or a circle but if you look at the shapes you can click on all and you can see all kinds of shapes that you could add but I'm just going to add a square with a nice round round edge and I'll just go and click on it's free like you can see here Campbell does have some paid elements but I'm using the free stuff for now click on that and they put the element in here now it's covering up the image so doesn't look very good so what I do is I click on this transparency tool up here I click on that and then I would drag the transparency so that I can still see part of the image but then I'll be able to see my words more easily okay so I'm gonna drag the words now and you know maybe maybe I don't want to cover up the person's face so much so well I don't know just for the sake of ease right now I'm just gonna go ahead and cover up the person's face okay I'm gonna drag I'm gonna find the the edge sometimes it's tricky to find the edge oh one thing that's helpful is if I click on this and I click on position I put the element backward a little bit here okay did I do that okay now if I now it's easier to select the the the word element now it's the word elements in front of the the this the square thing here whoops let me try that again move it okay here we go all right I'm gonna center it and I'm gonna make the words larger so 50 something like that and I'm gonna expand the where the size of the words and still hard to read right so what I might do is I might just select a whole thing and make the words maybe white instead a little bit easier to read okay now doesn't look great but you know what you can you can find a better image and you can change the font color and you can even change the element color the element color right now is gray so you know you could try a different different color it's a little bit lighter or blue or whatever whatever you want right purple whatever and then and then you can also make the words bolded you can change the font type there's like dozens and dozens of font types here whatever you want they probably have and and then what I like to do is I like to and this is again I'm not I have I'm doing this in real time so I don't have time right now to make it look pretty but let me just make it a little bit a little bit nicer looking well I don't know maybe a little bit heavier so it's easier to see anyway this is this is not the perfect image but you get you get the idea you can play around with it and then what I also like to do is put a put my website so add a add a subheading okay that's really small but but I will change I'll make sure it's centered right and then I can change the font size to 30 maybe make it wider a little bit again move it so that it's more centered there we go and you know I could change it to white so it's more clear and then here's I can do you know whatever George cowl calm right just as an example so after if I'm finished with that then I simply click download and keep on PNG click download and that's it so I literally in real time without really having a thought about this I designed a social media image for you you know right right on screen and this is what it looks like you know I don't know if you can see this let me let me open the scene here so yeah you could you can see this is what it looks like I can upload it now again I probably maybe maybe choosing a circle element would be prettier would look better but you can again play with different elements here to make it however you like so hopefully that helps hopefully that inspires you and again you could do a Facebook cover image like this too you know Facebook click create a design click Facebook cover image and kind of go to town with that making your own version of your Facebook covers so and they have kind of give you they give you some ideas to start with if you like alright any questions comment below and have fun