How My Graphics Improved with Crello

Crello Vs. Canva

My Story with Crello

When I became a post-grad in 2018, I transitioned from an intern at Montana Woman Magazine to a freelance writer for the magazine. I started writing more articles than I had that past summer, and began writing more personal stories as well- though Business Profiles were my favorite! After a couple months, the editor invited me to join the Board of Directors for her nonprofit The Montana Woman Foundation. Still unsure about what exactly I wanted to do with my rhetoric degree, I decided that becoming the Chairperson for Marketing was where I would be able to offer my best work. By some miracle, I found my home in the Content Writing business and 1 year later I started my LLC for content writing. During that first year, however, there were a lot of things that I hadn’t learned or hadn’t fine tuned- such as mastering social media marketing, creating graphics for posts, blog posts, and emails.

The first program I stumbled upon was Canva. At first, I thought it was amazing: there were templates, projects that I could start that were the exact dimensions of particular posts (i.e Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Events, etc.). There was a decent amount of free images that I could work with as well, and a variety of fonts. However, I slowly became frustrated with Canva and started looking elsewhere. I didn’t like the ads, and the way I had to manually resize posts from Instagram post to Story (for example). I didn’t like the the limited amount

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As usual, I began research on Pinterest and then proceeded to download a slew a free apps. I tinkered, deleted and moved on to the next one after deciding that I didn’t like them. Then I happened on Crello and greatly enjoyed the app! I can use the app on any mobile device and the computer!

5 Ways I Improved My Graphics

**I stopped relying on Templates!**

Templates are great, for obvious reasons like being able to maintain some consistency or taking shortcuts during your creative process, or giving yourself ideas about where to start, or using a template because certain design elements are not at your disposable without a template (saying this like I am using the Free plan). But in my experience, it actually limited my work and prevented me from being my most creative. Once I stopped relying on using so many templets, graphics got better!

I started taking advantage of Free Stock Photos

Both Canva and Crello have free stock photos and without a paid-plan, that resource is limited in both apps. There are other Free Stock Photo sites that are really good, like Unsplash. Before I upgraded my Crello plan, I still had more access to higher quality to free stock photos and with so much diversity!
Check out my Pin Board Section about Free Stock Photo sites!

By switching to Crello, I had access to more and better fonts

There are so many more fonts and all of them are free! When I used Canva, I had maybe 10 free fonts and the others needed an Upgrade for access… How am I supposed to be my most creative if I only have a few fonts available to me?

My Crello app doesn’t Freeze all the time like Canva

For some reason, this would always happen or when I use my iPad, it just wouldn’t react to my actions.

With Crello, the posts’ sizes change so much more easily!

When I used Canva, I would have to completely start over after I made an Instagram Post and needed to turn it into a Story size because that action isn’t/wasn’t free. With Crello, I just “resize it” for Free and Unlimited times and if an image needs to be resized or replaced, that’s not that big a deal!

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Final Thoughts on
How My Graphics Improved with Crello

I have read many articles that are all about using Canva, and I slightly suspect it is because they have an affiliate program (not judging) but I just was not a fan of the program. I know everyone is different and that’s okay too…and maybe people prefer the ease of templates more than starting a post from scratch, that’s not the case for me. It is entirely up to you.

And granted, there were other factors that contributed to success I experienced during that 1 year: I started utilizing more various business tools, my writing for social media posts got better (because I realized that there were various limits to creating posts) and I started paying attention to how our social media was performing.