If you want to add essence to your crafted blog post then adding a feature image would be a great idea. You spend most of your time writing an informative article, then adding a featured image in less than 5 minutes can help people engage in your posts. If you have read some of my articles I have used the first image as self created images. It has been proven that adding featured images in your articles and social media posts boosts public engagement.

Well you can search for the library of images but you may still end up using copyrighted images. The online tool  I am discussing here to create engaging images for your blog posts and social media posts is Pablo by Buffer. The tool is completely free and you don't even have to register to create your images. You don't have to be a professional to create one with Pablo. I have been using this tool for so long and believe me its awesome.

License

The images you search at Pablo are provided from the royalty free image library Unsplash and Pixabay. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images for personal and commercial use without permission or giving any attribution to Pablo, Buffer or Unsplash or anyone under the Creative Common Zero Licence used by Unsplash.

But the images you upload to Pablo to create one cannot be guaranteed to be royalty free. And adding logos and other graphics to your photo from Pablo are no guaranteed to be copyright free.

I have also added a visual guide on how to create engaging images for free with Pablo.

Create Engaging Images With Pablo:

1. Go to https://pablo.buffer.com/

2. Use the search button to search images as per your post requirements. You can search through the 600+K images. 

You can use reposition tool to frame the image.

3.  Now choose the size, Filters and Add text and logo to your image. For the size choose the wider one as in the screenshot below that works fine for blog posts here in Steemit.

The filter can be used to make the written letters readable. There is a wide range of filters for your images.

Add text to your images about the blog post. This tool has a wide range of Fonts to choose.  I wrote the Title on the Header and the main content in the Body section. You can even use the caption to add caption to your photos.

You can even add the logo of your blog if you are using for other personal blogs.

When you're done creating your featured image. Click Share and Download button on the bottom right corner and Click on Download. Now you can use these images for free on your steemit articles and also for your social media posts.

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