Canva is a very useful online graphic design platform which is great for creating various types of online visual content. You can create designs from scratch or use many of the pre-made templates. These templates are fully-customizable, so it's easy to create your own unique design with Canva.
Canva is free to use and you can create a free account. However, they also do have a pro or premium version which includes tons of more professionally-designed templates and other assets. You can check my brief video review below to learn more about Canva.
Anyway, right now, my main reason for this blog post is alert you about a cyber attack on Canva servers. According to Canva:
"...on Friday, May 24, 2019 we discovered an in-progress attack on our systems. As soon as we were notified we immediately took steps to identify and remedy the cause and have reported the situation to authorities (including the FBI)."
If you already have an account with Canva, you probably already received an email alerting you of this breach. In the email, they went on to say:
"We’re aware that a number of our community’s usernames and email addresses have been accessed. The hackers also obtained passwords in their encrypted form (for technical people: all passwords were salted and hashed with bcrypt). This means that our user passwords remain unreadable by external parties."
That being said, in the email, they also recommended that it's best to change your password. This is what they said: "However, in line with best practices we recommend that you change your Canva password athttps://www.canva.com/account."
This morning we’ve been alerted to a security incident that enabled access to a number of usernames and email addresses. As soon as this happened, we remedied the issue and alerted the authorities. To be overly cautious, we’d recommend changing your password.
Here is a video I created on Password Best Practices. You can check it to learn the importance of creating strong passwords. It's a good idea to always practice safe password:
And finally, if you're not yet a Canva user, you can check this brief video below on my Canva Review. You can create different types of visual content using Canva. Content like social media post images, social media covers and headers, online and offline banners and flyers, album covers, book covers, and presentations. You can even create brochures, business cards and resumes:
If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section. Thanks for stopping by!
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AutomationBundle went live on December 7, 2018 and will be available for a limited time until December 14, 2018. After this launch period is over, this special offer will be closed permanently.
Honestly-speaking, this is a no-brainer and I will explain more in a moment. AutomationBundle launched at a low one-time price of $37 and the price will keep increasing during the promotional period, so grab it while the price is still low.
So what is AutomationBundle? Well, it is a collection of 12 best-selling software that will help you in online and offline marketing. Specifically, apps included in this awesome bundle of joy will help you graphic design, video creation,lead generation, email marketing, social media marketing, content generation, webinars, and a whole lot more.
More information on the apps included in this AutomationBundle are available below, but I would encourage you to check this demo video below to see the power of each of these software.
As you can see (if you watched the above demo video), the value of this software bundle is just incredible. In fact, I've personally purchased, beta-tested and still use some of these apps myself in my own business and for my clients. Here is a list of the 12 apps included in the AutomationBundle package:
Video Builder 2.0: a cloud-based video creation app with which you can create 3D avatar videos using text-to-speech functionality.
DesignoPro2: is a vector graphics design app for creating professional-looking visual content and logos for websites, videos, social media.
Chit Chat Chimp: set up fully-configured chat bots on your sites and landing pages that will help boost your sales campaigns and results.
Canvas by Dropmock: helps you create professional-quality, engaging Facebook video covers with just a few clicks.
LiveReel: allows you to simultaneously broadcast, livestream, and syndicate your videos across 15+ video platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Periscope, twitch, and others.
VideoSpin Blaster: allows you to create stunning videos on the fly, spin images and video clips with unlimited variations, add amazing text-to-speech in all popular languages, and much more.
SyndLab: is a powerful social app that automatically syndicates posts, videos, memes, and any other content to 30+ different social media sites and channels.
HQWebinar: allows you easily run live and/or recorded webinars with a state-of-the-art, peer-to-peer webinar platform.
Sellin Messenger: allows you to sell products, services and add-ons easily via Facebook Messenger. Convert raw visitors into leads and subscribers automatically, and with no additional work once you set everything up.
MailPrimo: a complete cloud-based auto-responder platform. Send unlimited emails to your lists with NO monthly subscription fees and/or limitations.
Vizully: allows you to create professional and high-quality visual content helping you deliver the right messages to your social media audiences. This will help you attract, engage and convert visitors into customers and with no additional advertising costs.
EZ Spokesperson Creator: allows you to create stunning human spokesperson videos with a load of customizable options, backgrounds, lower-thirds, sound tracks and much more.
Based on my own personal experience using some of the apps included in AutomationBundle, I would highly recommend buying it. Essentially, you are getting 12 best-selling apps for the price of one. Also, worth mentioning is that this software bundle is backed with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you've got nothing to lose.
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In this Fotojet Review, I will share many of the useful features and functionality available in this free online graphic design platform.
I've been using Fotojet since September 2015 when it was just a Collage Maker. Since then, Fotojet has evolved a lot. Today, Fotojet is a robust and feature-packed graphic design software, collage maker, and photo editor.
I personally use it often for my graphic design needs, for creating social media banners and posts, for editing photos or just creating greeting cards. Fotojet is free to use, but it does have a premium features as part of their Fotojet Plus membership.
I've used both, the free and premium versions. So in this honest review, I will try and cover as much as I can, in terms of my firsthand experience using this online graphic design software. Apart from this written review, I've also created a Fotojet Video Review, which you will find further down below. In the video review, you will be able to see the Fotojet user-interface in action.
Fotojet: Graphic Design
In today's world of social media platforms, it's key to be able to stand out with your unique designs. Fotojet makes it possible to create unique and original social media covers and images for social media posts. If you're creative, you can create your own unique designs, from scratch, by starting on a blank canvas and using the many built-in tools that Fotojet offers.
On the other hand, if you're not too creative, you can use the many professionally-designed pre-made templates. Though these are pre-made templates, they can be fully customized so as to give them your own personal touch. They can be personalized with your own images and text very easily.
You can create Social Media Cover Photos, Headers, and Posts for popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr as well as Email Headers. See some example below.
You can also create posters, flyers, invitations, greeting cards, banner ads and so much more with Fotojet. You can even create your own custom sized design if you wish.
Fotojet Facebook Covers
Fotojet: Collage Maker
With the Fotojet Collage Maker, you can create cool-looking collages from scratch or use pre-made templates. You can even create collage greeting cards for any occasion like birthdays, anniversaries, and special holidays.
With the collage maker, you can not only make cool-looking 2D collages, but stunning 3D collages. They have several amazing-looking 3D collage templates that will help transform your pictures into a work of art. You can take a look at some of the examples of 3D collages that I made on this web page.
Apart from creating amazing 2D and 3D collages, you can also make Magazine Covers. Using the Fotojet Magazine Cover templates, you can put yourself on popular magazine covers like Time, Bazaar, Newsweek, Bride, Vanity Fair, Elle, Forbes, and many others.
With the Fotojet Collage Maker, you can also have a lot of fun. For example, you can create your own Mona Lisa photo, make yourself Superman, create a Wanted poster, and so much more.
Fotojet Photo 3D Collages
Fotojet: Photo Editor
One of the Fotojet tools that I use often is the Fotojet Photo Editor. Apart from the basic photo editing features like resizing, cropping, rotating and flipping, you can also apply premium effects and filters to enhance your images.
For example, look at this before and after image of the sunset picture that I took. I only applied the Shadow effect (under Selective Filters) to this picture and it made the original picture much more vibrant. You can also use the Auto-Enhance feature which is basically a one-click button that fixes your image.
There are several Advanced photo editing features that are part of the premium Fotojet Plus membership. You can apply sharpen, de-haze apply noise or a vignette effects to your pictures. But my favourite features in the Fotojet Photo Editor are the Focus, Color Splash and Selective Filters.
Fotojet Selective Filters (Before and After)
With the Focus feature, you can apply a radial blur or a tilt-shift to an image so as to to focus on a particular area of the image and blur the rest.
With the Color Splash feature, you can turn a color photo into black and white, and then apply a color splash only to a particular portion of the image giving it a really unique look.
With the Selective Filter feature, you can apply a variety of radial and gradient effects to your images like Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Temperature, Tint, and others.
You can also apply a variety of other effects like Black & White, Sepia, Vintage, Chromatic, and others. Additionally, you can apply overlays to your photos to give it a cool-effect like bokeh, light trails, hearts, light burst, paper, fabric, paint, grunge, and others.
All these photo editing features are easy to use and more importantly can help turn your images into a work of art. I'm still in the process of fully tapping into the features and functionality this graphic design software has to offer.
Fotojet Premium (Fotojet Plus)
Fotojet Magazine Cover
Fotojet is available for free, but they also have a Premium offering that includes access to premium templates, features and additional functionality. Fotojet Plus is their premium service which is available for US$2.91 per month (billed annually) or US$4.99 per month (billed monthly). You can upgrade to Fotojet Plus at anytime or cancel it anytime as well.
In the premium version of Fotojet, you will get access to an ever-growing and over 600 premium templates, over 300 premium clipart images, frames, overlays, photo effects, and so much more. Also, the Fotojet premium is ad-free and you will receive priority customer service.
One thing I like about the developers, PearlMountain Limited, is that they are constantly listening to customer feedback and improving their platform. I've personally provided my own feedback and seen it implemented. Having said so, there are still things that can be improved, for example, I would like to have the ability to save my projects in order to edit them later, if and when needed. But I would definitely recommend Fotojet as a regular user myself.
Another good thing about the Fotojet, the company, is their customer servive. I've personally dealt with a few of their staff and have always received timely responses and have had pleasant dealings with them. Hope you found this Fotojet Review useful. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. And if you've used Fotojet, please feel free to share your feedback.
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