How Do You Make Your Featured Images For Blog Posts?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today’s question comes from Mike, who wants to know how I create the images for my podcast posts. Here are the tools I use to make these look nice. Canva (http://canva.com/) is a great tool for creating shareable images. The big listing of resources from the Fizzle guys is available here: http://askpat.com/fizzle-images. For stock photography, I like Deposit Photos (http://depositphotos.com) and iStockPhotos (http://istockphotos.com/). The fonts I use are Proxima Nova (extra bold) and Pacifico. Do you have a question about the images on your website? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:09.1	What's up,
0:11.9	Patflin here and welcome to episode 297 of AskPad.
0:14.7	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.3	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business-related questions five days a week.
0:20.9	All right.
0:21.2	Now let's head on over and check out Mike's question today.
0:25.2	Hey, Pat.
0:26.0	My name is Mike from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I'm spending some time on your blog, and I
0:31.2	noticed that at the top of every blog post that you do, you use a really high-quality image.
0:39.6	And it looks like these images have had a lot of time and effort put into them. They're highly customized. And I'm wondering how
0:46.1	you go about doing that. I also notice that they have sharing functions, like sharing on Facebook,
0:51.9	Twitter, and Pinterest. And that's not something that you
0:54.4	normally get on top of an image. I'm wondering how you do that, where you get your images,
1:00.0	and whether you outsource them or there's a certain software that you use. I was also really,
1:05.6	really impressed with Hayden's blog over at No Hat Digital. I don't know how well you know Hayden, but I'm also
1:13.4	wondering how he creates his because his are absolutely top-notch. If you could give me a little bit
1:19.4	of insight on this, I'd really, really appreciate it. It's been on my to-do list for about a month.
1:24.2	I've searched your blog, and I couldn't find anything that showed how you actually go about doing that.
1:29.8	So I appreciate it, Pat,
1:31.1	and like always, keep up to great work.
1:35.0	Mike, thank you so much for the question.
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