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Whether you’re designing ads for your new product or designing banners for your online social media profile, a creative design tool is what you need to do quickly and easily. Although Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool, it may not work for everyone. But some design tools that are not costly and their basic features that are required for creativity are completely freely available can be used by everyone easily. You only have to select the template, take some design decisions and then drag-and-drop elements to complete it.
So, here are some useful, free tools to design creative banners and ads. Read on for more info on each tool and its features.
Canva
Canva is a popular design tool that has good features and attractive visuals. Its most interesting feature is its assistance in designing almost anything. You can use the given simple interface to work on banners, graphs, infographics, resumes, social media graphics, and much more.
The best part is the huge catalog of free design templates. You can choose a template, then change it to fulfill your imagination, or to fit your project needs. You can add or remove elements when editing it, drag and drop elements, edit photos or the entire design template using its photo editor, and you can do much more as per your creativity.
What free plan offers
Although somewhat limited features in the free version are still suitable for beginners. You get a 1 GB of storage for assets and photos, and access to 8,000 + templates. It also has a wide array of free fonts, clip arts, icons, pictures, and dozens of other elements such as tables, frames, graphs, grids and illustrations to include in your designs.
Bannersnack
If you’re a layman with little or no experience of graphic design, Bannersnack can be a life-saver. It is a go-to tool where you can create dynamic banner ads for your blogs or websites. You don’t need knowledge of coding or design skills with its best and simple to use the editor you can easily create the perfect banner for marketing your new product.
It comes with a neat interface that features a drag-and-drop mechanism to create a banner. What I liked the most is, you can use Bannersnack to create animated banner ads. It also offers a variety of professional-designed templates, vector clipart, fonts, and a massive free stock photo library. The banners can be saved in a range of file formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, Flash, HTML5, and MP4. It also allows a banner to be embedded on a website, and the embedded banner analytics and heatmap information are also provided.
What free plan offers
The free plan is a very basic plan, but still, it is good to test the platform. It offers limited features and resources, and a watermark is used in the designs. In this plan, you can’t download an animated banner, either. You can however, embed the banner and check the limited analytics.
Venngage
Venngage is a popular visual design platform for infographics, charts, banner ads, and other visual graphics, just like Canva. It helps you to customize templates with ease and can create good graphics. You simply have to choose a template, add graphics and customize the design.
The platform has well-designed templates that fulfill various criteria for banner ads or banners for social media. This offers an array of fonts, infinite infographics, icons, charts. Like Canva, Venngage allows its users to form teams and work on shared projects.
What free plan offers
The banners or graphics can be exported to a number of formats, including PNG, PDF, and interactive PDF. However, its free plan offers limited features, unlike the above tools. You can create just 5 templates, and the banners are created with its branding with no support for collaboration in teams. You can export your designed banners or graphics to a variety of formats, including PNG, PDF, and interactive PDF. Unlike the tools above, its free plan offers limited features. Only 5 templates can be created, and the banners are created with their branding.
Snappa
Snappa is a graphic design tool for creating stunning visual graphics. Unlike Bannersnack and like Canva you can create graphics for advertisements, blogs and websites, and social media platforms. The simple interface allows you to create, import and share graphics without having design skills.
You can pick and modify any existing design templates as per your needs. It has a functional graphics editor that allows images to be edited and can apply animations and effects on them. It comes packed with a font library, icons stock photos, and other graphics, and also allows groups to collaborate and share.
What free plan offers
What makes Snappa stand out is that it includes thousands of free graphics and images available as royalty-free. It also offers 5,000 + templates. It limits to three downloads a month, however, no Buffer integration, no team collaboration option, and no social media sharing options.
BeFunky
BeFunky is like Canva an all-in-one artistic tool that can edit images and create attractive graphics. It features a simple drag-and-drop support interface, like others. BeFunky is essentially an incredible photo editor that, unlike others, extends into a banner and a collage maker as well. It eases the whole process of designing banners and editing them by providing various templates. It also helps you to customize and change the fonts, icons, and other graphics.
What makes it unique is, unlike the other tools in this list, there is no requirement to make an account to build banners or any other graphics. The photo editor then lets you delete objects from pictures, edit hundreds of photos using batch processing, and perfectly retouch them.
What free plan offers
The free plan works well for most of your requirements. You can download any number of graphics on this list which is the basic limitation for the above all other tools. In the free Plan, you also get all the templates.
I hope you like this article, go and use the above tools and be creative.
