It’s a holiday weekend in more ways than one…
In the US, it’s Independence Day weekend and in the UK the pubs reopened after three months of lockdown.
If you would like to keep your focus on your own independence as an entrepreneur or freelancer then I’m here to help with this week’s smorgasbord of goodies…
All of them here to help you begin or build your own, independence and freedom from worry.
Let’s start with some design resources that will help you brand and create all kinds of things from sites to products to social media promotions and so much more.
Here are some stock photos and images with a difference to help you stand out:
Landing Stock is a niche stock site that provides perfect images for your landing pages:
Nappy is a fairly new stock site that provides racially diverse photos:
While Photo Creator lets you combine different stock images to create your own unique ones:
https://photos.icons8.com/creator
And Gratisography contains the kind of whimsical photos you won’t see anywhere else:
Next up some illustrations for your next project or publication…
Drawkit is a beautiful collection of customisable SVG illustrations – they also have icons:
While Humaans is a wonderful mix and match design library of illustrations of people you can use to create your own unique illustrations for your projects:
Undraw is another great open source illustration project:
Good stock videos for nada can be a little harder to source but there are some excellent ones at Coverr:
And at Mixkit where there fabulous video assets including animations and music:
At Life of Vids there are more great videos, clips and loops:
And if you want some brilliant tools to help you design and create all kinds of things for your sites and projects, read on…
Because Crello is not only superb, it’s superbly easy to use so you can create your own graphics and animations without having to fork out for anything:
While Inkscape is a handy tool to help you create your own vector graphics:
If you want to edit graphics and images rather than create them, Remove is a handy tool that will remove backgrounds:
Social Sizes gives you all the correct sizes and templates you need to resize your images for any social media site you can think of:
And Fotor is a simple but effective photo and design editor you can use in your browser:
How about a great screenshot and sharing tool:
Sniply is something every marketer needs – an ingenious tool that allows you to add your CTA or call to action to every link that you share so you increase conversions:
Your TED talk this week is a wonderful mind and heart opener that could lead to all kinds of possibilities…so long as you say yes to opportunity:
