#ThinkLink #Padlet Tools for creatives!

Today I am going to share with you two very interesting tools: ThingLink and Padlet

ThinkLink

ThingLink is the leading platform for creating interactive images and videos for web, social, advertising, and educational channels.

With this tool you can select an image or video from the web or your computer and put spots with interesting information, images, videos or links to a specific web location.

Padlet
Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. 

Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki.

You just need to double click and add whatever pops in your mind, when you're done share it easily.

Give these tools a try!
by: +Gabriel Ramirez Reyes 

#Picmonkey VS #Canva

+PicMonkey 

 

PROS:

• Simple and free
• Very good for image editing:

           - Faces touch up

           - Effects 

           - Frames

• Easy to save and share
• Text effects (e.g. overlay)
• Good for collages (spaces for photo pre-organized and very clear)

 

 

CONS:

• Only a few pre-adapted sizes for the initial design
• No text designs
• Less freedom when creating a collage

To conclude: PicMonkey is very good for "organized" works (e.g. work presentations) and image editing.

 

AN OVERVIEW:

   

 

 

 

+Canva 

 

PROS:

• Simple and free 
• Good for creative collages (You can mix text designs & images)
• Adapted sizes for any type of document you would like to create. (e.g. Twitter post, Facebook cover, card, flyer, a Google + post, etc.)
• Fun text designs  
• Some free images
• Direct links to share and print                                                            

 

CONS:

• Can be long to load and save.
• The saving sometimes does not work very well.
• Less "pre-organized" than Picmonkey

So, in case of problems with saving, I recommend you to download Jing, a free and very simple program which allows you to take screen shots of the part you want to have, either all the screen or a small part of it.

 

To conclude: Canva is good for creative and more "fun" works (e.g. invitations). Also well adapted to social media differences. 

 

 

AN OVERVIEW:

 

 

 

If you have any questions or comments about this post, do not hesitate!