Seeing is believing
do you agree?
Featured images in blog posts are the essential and best way to attract visitors and get them to open your article.
Of course, the headline is the first thing a visitor notices, and the featured image is next to the headline. There are four tools you can use to optimize your headings:
- blog post headline analyzer
- Thrive Headline Optimizer
- Portent’s Content Idea Generator
- Hubspot Blog Topic Generator
Create killer featured images for your blog posts. There are two things you need.
- get free photos
- Tools to add photos and text to create the perfect featured image
If you don’t know how to obtain photos, you can use the following websites to obtain royalty-free images.
pixabay
Pixabay has over 1 million high-quality free photos, vectors, and illustrations for your blog.

Downloads are available in small, medium, large and original sizes.

stock snap
StockSnap has thousands of beautiful free stock photos waiting to be downloaded and used in your next article.

Picjumbo
Picjumbo provides free photos for commercial and personal works. More than 3 million photos have been downloaded from Picjumbo since its launch in November 2013.
unsplash
Unsplash is full of free high-resolution photos that you can use to do whatever you want.
Getty Images
Getty Images has a huge collection of photos in almost every category. I like their embedding feature.

iStock
iStock by GettyImages is another great collection of images from all categories from around the world that you can use in your business.

flicker
I’m sure you’ve heard of it. Flickr can be a great source for free photos with a few tricks.
Trick to filter photos is available for commercial use and licensed. To do this, search for the photo you’re looking for, click on “Any license” and filter for “Commercial use” or whatever suits you best.

visual hunt
VisualHunt has over 354 million creative common photos and over 55,000 completely free high-quality photos.

A few more…
- pexel
- Startup Photos – A great collection of startup images
- shutter stock
- super famous
- i am free
- free jpegs
After downloading the images you need, don’t forget to compress them to reduce their file size. This will make your website load faster.
Now that you have the images you need, familiarize yourself with the editing tools to resize, add text, and more to perfect your featured image.
stencil
My new favorite is Stencil , which allows you to create your favorite images in seconds. You can choose image size based on predefined templates or custom.
- Facebook posts, ads, and covers
- Twitter posts, ads, lead cards, website cards, headers
- Google+ post, cover
- Pinterest post
- Instagram post
- And so on.

This means you’ll see almost every type of image you can design. The good thing about Stencil is that it integrates with Pixabay and Pexels, which provide over 2 million stock photos , and the Noun project, which provides over 200,00 graphics and icons .
This means you can get and customize any photo or icon you want within the design panel. I love it, and I think you will too. One more thing: you can add a logo or watermark.
Kamba
Canva allows you to design in a variety of versatile sizes, including custom sizes, such as social media banners. This is a free and easy drag-and-drop tool that can be downloaded in PDF, JPEG, or PNG format.

picmonkey
PicMonkey is an all-in-one editor for photography, design, and collage. You can start creating featured images at your own size within minutes.
photo jet
With Fotojet you can do anything with your photos. There are many ready-made templates that you can customize.

Snapper
Use Snappa to create social media posts, blogs, headers, ads, or custom-sized graphics.

photograph
Over 300 million people use Fotor to design graphics for their websites and businesses. You can create almost any type of image, including beautiful images for blog posts.

Fotor is available online or on Windows, macOS, and mobile.
Using the tools above, you can create amazing featured images for your blog posts. I hope you like it.




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