The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Billy @ Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book-related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to their own blogs.
I use the Shutterstock website a lot for photos, and they have a cool create/edit feature that helps you create Instagram, Facebook, and other social media posts. I’m interested in finding other sites/apps though. Shutterstock costs me about $30 a month for ten photos, but I can create as many social media posts as I want using existing photos. I get to keep using the photo licenses I’ve bought before so I have a big catalog to choose from.
Anyone have any suggestions for sites/apps to create social media posts, especially Instagram?
Bonnie Reads and Writes 
I use BookBrush. It works very well to create Instagram posts. It has a lot of stock images and backgrounds as well, or you can upload your own. Here’s a link to their pricing structure: https://bookbrush.com/pricing/. I’ve been using the $8.25 per month version. It works fine for my needs.
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I will check that out. Thanks!
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You’re welcome!
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There is Pickmonkey.com which I use regularly, and Canva, a site many bloggers prefer…
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I’m going to keep my Shutterstock for now but I’m also trying Canva and I’ll check out some of the others too.
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😚😚💕
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I had a subscription to Shutterstock for images, but switched to Adobe Stock as it was less expensive – at the time. Their cost is the same now. For posts, I use photoshop, same for covers, but I know so many people who love Canva and Bookbrush for posts, so I need to look into those.
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I think I need to take a class n photoshop. It’s complicated but you produce beautiful covers with it.
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Thank you, Bonnie. I started out just using a few basic features in photoshop and (spent a whole lot of time) playing with it, adding more features as I went. I probably would have saved a lot of time and aggravation taking a class first…lol, but apparently, I like doing things the hard way.
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I use Canva. Usually the free version, but take the 1-month free version when available, or as this month, fork out $15 for the pro version because I needed to do a few more fancy things.
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I just signed up for a free month of Canva. I need to do a tutorial.
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I find if fairly user friendly
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I use Canva and Pixlr. Canva has a lot of images and it’s easy to use. I use Pixlr to put a book cover on a photo for Instagram, and it’s useful for that.
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