Photos, Stickers, Animation, and More: A Collection of Visuals for Authors

Photos

Photos are great for blogs as well as for books. Make sure you have the rights to use those photos. That’s where stock images come in handy.

• “4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog” on The Book Designer
• Stock Up (About Stock Up)
• Pexels
• “Wikimedia Commons Now Home to More than 27 Million Media Files, All of Them Free to Reuse and Share” on Library Journal

GIFs

Just for fun, you can reverse GIFs with this handy tool.

You can also make stories out of GIFs. BoingBoing talks about novels that are comprised entirely of GIFs, and The Verge shows examples of James Kerr’s GIFs that repurpose Renaissance paintings.

Designs

For icons, animations, fonts, and more, check out Pixel Buddha.

For fonts, see “Not Sure What Font Looks Best for Web?” on Design School.

For fun dongers (unicode characters that form an emoticon), see Donger List.

Interesting Visuals

As Wired reported, even screenshots play an important role for people. Here’s a list of examples of visuals that have made an impact:

• “Book Marketing: How to Use a Quiz to Promote a Book” on HowTo for Authors
• “Google’s “Future of the Book” Cannot be Printed, And It Also Cannot Be Viewed on Many Devices” on The Digital Reader
• “Telling a Strange Love Story, Post by Post, on Instagram” on Wired
• “What Makes a Video Essay Great?” on Vimeo
• “Two Dollar Radio Book Flowchart” on Two Dollar Radio
• “30 Gorgeous and Delicious Literary Cakes” on FlavorWire
• “A 17-Year-Old Artist Created This Incredible Map Of Literature” on Buzzfeed
• “AP and British Movietone To Release One Million Minutes of Historic Video” on Youtube
• “Artists Share “Before and After” Evolution of Their Drawing Skills with Years of Practice” on Stumble Upon
• “Kowloon Walled City” on Wall Street Journal
• “Passports, ranked by country” on BoingBoing
• Incredible Numbers app
• Says-It
• “In Sync: Columbia Engineering Team First to Run iOS Apps on Android Platform” on Columbia Engineering
• Badgeville

How Tos and Tools

To turn photos into line art:

• “How to change a photo into a pencil line drawing in Photoshop” on Photoshop Buzz
• “Turn Photos of People into Line Art” on Melissa Evans

To remove borders on a video:

• “How do I crop a movie with QuickTime Pro?” on Design: Talk Board

To create your own animations:

• Pivot animator

To make your own stickers:

• Canva
• Sticker Mule
• Sticker App

This post was originally published on March 24, 2016.

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