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Hey guys! So before diving into today's video, let me drop some info about why
infographics are just so damn effective. Our brain processes visual information
60 times faster than it does text. People also remember 80% of what they see and
do, only 20% of what they read, and then 10% of what they hear. And infographics
are 30 times more likely to be read by people than a simple text article. The
most effective infographics have great visuals, awesome structure, and will take
their readers through a bit of a story or maybe an informational journey. So in
today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to use a free online tool to
make this awesome infographic in less than 10 minutes! Let's do it.
So for this tutorial we're going to be using a tool that's found at Piktochart.com
It's free for you to sign up and it's super easy to use. So once you log
in under the infographic tab over here you're going to find some free templates
for you to use for your designs. You can also find some pro templates, so you
would have to upgrade to their paid account to be able to use these - but you
can also click down here in the bottom left-hand corner on the 'inspire me'
section and it's going to show you lots of different designs that other people
have created using Piktochart. If you're just looking for inspiration and then
you can always start from scratch and try and replicate these awesome designs.
So we're just gonna jump back and what I'm going to do is just click on 'create
a new infographic' so I can show you what it looks like when you start from
scratch. So when you first begin you're just gonna have this blank template over
here, so we wanna go ahead and select that and just click delete. It's
also this long, big canvas so we want to actually go ahead and drag that up - and
we're gonna shrink it - so we're gonna be working with something called blocks. So
you can see over here you can clone a block or you can just add a new one.
Cloning a block means that it's going to replicate everything you do here with
text and images whereas just adding a new one is going to bring over nothing
except for the background colour which is white at the moment. But what I want to
do is, I want to start off by just putting in a new background colour so I'm
just gonna go ahead and select my background colour here. And I want to add
some text. I could just use these categories up here but I'm gonna go
ahead and use a pre-made one over here. Now just double clicking into it and
I'm going to go ahead and write our business name and this is going to be
'The Living to Roam Story', so we're going to be creating an infographic which is
going to be about our five top destinations for 2017. So making that
larger and I'm gonna snap that into place, you want to make sure that this is
switched on as that's what's going to allow you to align elements on your page
with other elements on the page. If it's not selected then you're moving around
freely but you actually want to be snapping into place
so you know when you're centred. And I'm going to just go ahead and add a
little bit more text over here. So I want to just double-click into this like that,
2017, and change the font so it matches. And I'm going to increase my font size
over here as well. Now what I want to do is I want to rotate this as it's gonna
be just directly in the corner and as you hover over the rotate you can see
it's telling you that if you hold down Shift as you're rotating it's going to
allow you to move in increments of 15 degrees. The reason that's important is
because it's going to allow you to have different elements overlapping on top of
each other about being rotated in the exact same way. So I'll show you what I
mean by going over to graphics, I'm going to select a shape here, I am going to go
ahead and make that white. And I'm just gonna drag that into more of a rectangle
and now if I twist it by holding down my Shift key, now it's just rotated it
perfectly to the same degrees as my '2017', which is great. Now I want to select the
arrange icon over here and click send backwards so it's behind my numbers, and
I'm just gonna use the arrows on my keyboard to shift it up. And that looks
good. Now I could click into my text and maybe arrange the letters to be spread a
little bit wider and centre that a little bit better - yeah that looks good!
So now I want to go ahead and add a new block. This one's gonna have a bit of a
different background here, so I'm going to select our blue, I'm going to go back
to text and I'm going to select this frame over here, and snap that into the
middle. So I'm gonna go and just widen that a little bit. So now we want this to
say 'Our favourite destinations for the year' and I'm just gonna double-click
down here. And I'm gonna write 'So many adventures...'
Now in the middle here is where our interactive map is gonna go. So I'm gonna
head over to tools and click on 'maps'. Now you could just select the countries over
here or go by regions but I actually want to go ahead and select the whole
world. And I'm gonna change the colour. Now you could keep the border, but I'm
actually going to choose not to in this case, and you could use this column or
additional columns to add different values to each country - so when somebody
hovers over it's going to display those different properties - but actually I want
to go ahead and right-click and remove this column. And I'm just gonna search by
the top five countries that I want to display. So I'm gonna go with Canada, and
I'm gonna change the colour for it so we can see it better. And Australia,
Greece, Hungary and Vietnam. Perfect! So you can definitely see them there and
I'm going to go ahead and insert the map there. I'm just gonna move that over in
the middle, and I'm gonna go ahead and add a new block. Now these are gonna be
slightly smaller, I'm gonna go ahead and drag that up. And this one's gonna have a
different background, we're gonna go back to our orange. Right, so now we're gonna
get a little bit funky with this and we're gonna go over to graphics and
photo frame. And I'm actually gonna use the letters of the countries overlaid
with the photos that we took in that country to make this graphic really
stand out. So we're gonna start over with Canada so we need a C I'm gonna go ahead
and select my text to complete this graphic.
And I'm gonna select the correct
font that we've been using throughout this infographic. And where you actually place
it is up to you but I'm gonna go with the centre. And now we want to head over to
'uploads', I'm going to select the photo that we took in Canada. I want to make
sure my element is selected and drag and drop now if you double-click on
it, it's going to allow you to edit the photos so that it makes more sense so
you can actually see it in the C. You could actually stretch that out a little
bit more so you can see us both. That looks good - and now I'm just gonna go
into some light-speed here so you don't have to see me do this four more times.
But I'm going to be using the exact same strategies, so let's do that!
And you could then also spruce it up with some icons, so if you head on over
to 'graphics', then you go to 'shapes and icons' you can actually search for icons
or you can just scroll through them as well. But I already know the ones that
I'm gonna use so I'm just gonna go ahead and add those in.
So then all that's left to do is click on 'download'. And on the free version you
can download PNG, and you can download medium or normal quality, and you can
also download it as individual blocks - but I'm happy with downloading it as one
long infographic. And then when you open it up on your computer it'll look just
like this. And the only difference between the free and paid version is the
fact that you'll have this white bar at the very bottom, telling you that it's
been made with Piktochart. Easiest way to do it is just to crop it
right out. And you can do this really really easily. Just like that. And there's
our beautiful, new infographic! So I hope you guys really enjoyed that mini
tutorial. And if you'd like to learn more about how you can improve your visual
marketing or just your online presence overall. Then make sure to check out the
link in the description of the video for your access to our design school. And if
you like this video remember to like it, subscribe to our channel, and let me know
what you thought in the comments. Thank you so much for watching and until next
time, keep creating the life you love!