Design Tools
Canva Design site full of FREE beautiful and fun templates for social media posts that will encourage engagement. NOW FULLY INTEGRATED INTO EDESIGN!!
Inspiration Tools
Pixlr A FREE online photo editing tool.
Creative Market The Amazon-equivalent for all your graphic design/font needs.
DaFont A site of FREE downloadable fonts
FontSquirrel Another site of FREE downloadable fonts
Coolors A great site to search trending color palettes and create your own
Colorpalettes Another site for more color palettes and tools to create your own
Visme.com Create professional infographics for FREE
Remove.bg Remove image backgrounds for FREE
Color Tools
Issuu A FREE site of all types of print inspiration. We recommend searching “magazines” and creating a free account to follow publications you love.
RBdigital An online library that’s an extension of your local library. Start at your local library’s site and sign up for an RBdigital account to “check out” magazines and books.
Dribble A place to browse creative work from the world’s best design professionals to see what’s trending and get ideas.
Behance An amazing amount of design ideas for all types of yearbook-related content, including graphic design, photography, branding, and typography.
Abduzeedo Another site full of inspiration in all areas of design.
Production Tools
Clip Drop App for desktop & mobile. Extracts objects, people, drawings & text- just point & tap. Check it out!!
Otter Record a conversation/interview and convert to text notes all in one app!
What Color is This App For iPhone and iPad–snap a photo and it will list options of colors in a variety of color libraries. So cool!
Photography Tools
Digital Photography School Tips, Tricks, Tools and weekly challenges to up your photography game.
Photography Life A blog, lessons, and tips for all things photography.
Snapseed A photo-editing application for iPhone and Androids that enables users to edit photos with a full set of editing tools and apply digital filters quickly and easily.
VISCOA Mobile app for iOS and Android devices that allows users to capture photos in the app and edit them, using preset filters and a full palette of editing tools
B & H Photo A great place to buy camera equipment and accessories.