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Imagine you are an infographic maker god who can take 1,000 words and help people digest that information in only a few seconds.

An infographic, put simply, is a creative way to take a "thousand words" and depict them using a picture. These days, readers are looking for quick access to brief information.

Website visitors love this unique form of presentation which is quickly gaining popularity, and in some cases, becoming the standard form of communication instead of page long, lengthy blog posts.

Infographics have emerged as one of the most popular forms of content marketing in contemporary digital media.

Why should you care about infographics and do I need an infographic maker?

We receive 5 times more information than in 1986 and are 80% more willing to read anything with colors. Infographics are great with colors.

45% more users will click on a link if it features an infographic.

They help us get valuable inbound links - Streetcouch does a great job of explaining the importance of creating infographics and sharing them on social media in a 5-step process (as a link-building strategy).

But readers are not the only ones with time constraints and an inclination towards quick and easy ways to consume information.

What if you, the infographic maker, are also short on time and need a simpler, quicker way to create beautiful infographics in an instant?

Forget about Photoshop and other time-consuming infographic maker alternatives.

Let's take a look at how to create infographics with the best tools available online.

Visme is a super cool infographic maker that allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, ad banners, animations, customer layouts, and more. It has an extensive library full of templates, shapes, icons, and objects to choose from.

It is a highly-recommended app by Coursework Spot, a service that offers academic research. If you're not up for a bunch of changes, edits, additions, or subtractions, you may simply edit the text and hit publish. You can also directly insert data values to change the charts and graphs.

Another plus point is that it's "specially priced" for teachers and students. Which means it is affordable for all of us online entrepreneurs as well. Their premium plan is only $16 a month.

But before you even pay a cent, Visme lets you take it for a test drive with their free account alternative.
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This infographic creator will help you put together a stunning image in just a few clicks.

First, you get to pick a template from a long list of cards, then a search bar and drop down menu on the side will allow you to filter the template results. For instance, you could search for a template that deals with geography (maps) or templates with a timeline format.

Once you've selected your template, you can add in more shapes, backgrounds, charts, objects and of course text to personalize the template and let it tell a story in your own way.

The basic version of this tool is offered for no cost, so you can start making free infographics in no time!

Visualize.me focuses on letting users create "infographic resumes". However, the template designs are not limited to that purpose alone.

Once you've signed in with your LinkedIn or email account, you can select from a range of beautiful themes, language maps, timelines, bubble charts, tree maps, pictograms, and other formats.

Infographic maker like this one could kick graphic designers out of business before we know it, since PiktoChart markets itself as the tool that let's "non designers create beautiful infographics in as little as 10 minutes."

This may be a shocker - or maybe even a bit offensive - but it is true. Piktochart has over 400 fully customizable themes with retina-ready images, objects, graphs, and colors you can edit and adjust according to your preference.

It makes creating infographics a pleasurable experience.

One of the most uniquely and brilliantly designed websites, Canva aims to train both designers and non-designers to come up with cool and creative stuff.

Canva is an infographic maker that will start out with a brief tutorial to acquaint you with their program. Once you're through with that, you can move on to creating your project whether it be a presentation, Facebook cover photo, business card, ad, poster, banner, or a retina-ready infographic.

Infogram is all about making charts and infographics "the easy way". So far over 2 million infographics have been created with this infographic maker and some have even been used by prestigious organizations including Euronews, University of Cambridge, and the Huffington Post.

Whether you are blogger, educationalist, brand ambassador, or an organization, you can make charts/infographics in three easy steps: pick a template, visualize the data, and publish.

Venngage has everything you need to create free infographics and publish them on the spot. You can choose from hundreds of professional templates.

Infographics is not all you can make; reports, posters, promotions, and social media posts can also be created using Venngage, allowing you to tell your story "visually" with the help of charts, maps, icons, and visuals.

With Dipity you can create digital timelines. If a timeline-based infographic is what you are after, you can use Dipity to do the job. Dipity aims to organize web content by date and time.

iCharts is not your everyday infographic maker. It is a cloud-based visual analytics platform that allows users to create quick and easy visualizations for complex business information, data sets, or extensive research work. You can access and update your data in real time whenever you like since it is cloud native.

Perhaps, you're more interested in presenting maps instead of timelines. Geo Commons is perfect for geography-based infographics that must include a map of your choice.

Create feature-rich maps and share what you know!

Why not simply use Google charts? This is probably an infographic maker you are already familiar with and definitely one that requires little training or experience to learn.

Google Charts is a free solution with all kinds of charts, maps, bars, and statistical goodies to choose from. Google's gallery is rich with variety.

Infoactive is a simple and flexible platform that allows you to create interactive infographics and other "data driven" stories. InfoActive lets you connect your data to the application and let automation do the rest for you.

If your infographic is based on the number, ways, or timing you take your photos, you can use this Android application to sum it up for you.

This is a very specific program with a very specific purpose, but if you're a photographer looking forward to fulfilling that purpose, it will suit your needs.

Another infographic maker designed to cater to a specific purpose, Get About lets you create infographics that determine your social media activity.

For instance, Get About will let you track your Twitter terms, hashtags, and mentions. Also you can monitor your social activity with infographics that chart out how you connect and share with your network.

Creately is not only a diagramming tool, but also a tool that works for teams requiring real time collaboration. Creately will let you create and style smart shapes, diagrams, connectors, and more to gather information in one compact space.

Another interesting infographic maker choice for you to consider.

This is an iPhone application dedicated to generating infographics on how, when and where you take photos. Similar to Photographic Gen Lite for Android, the application will reveal your photography habits in just a few clicks, and if you like, make it available to your friends.

Charts Bin is a free online solution that allows you to create interactive maps. After a sign-up, create a map of your choice by inserting values or zooming in. If you like you can copy and paste the HTML code to your blog without having to go through a bunch of tricky steps to display it on your website.

Gliffy will transform your ideas into shapes by providing you with a variety of flow charts, UML diagrams, wireframes, network diagrams, org charts, and sitemaps.

Create digital visualizations by dragging and dropping shapes/lines/objects from the library and transforming words into graphs.

Sometimes word clouds are all you need to explain a concept in just a few words. Wordle will let you create unique and interactive word clouds in a variety of fonts, layouts, color schemes and more.

Smile Widgets is an extremely simple website that allows users to create "free, open source data visualizations and web widgets". The software will let you create exhibits, timelines, time-plots, and runways of your choice.

Wrap

So after all of that, what would I consider the best infographic software?

It's definitely not a black and white decision. There are several infographic makers available that could service your needs and help you quickly and easily create great visuals in no time.

However if I was to pick ONE tool that stood out above the rest as the best fit for this audience - it would have to be Visme.

The reason I say that is because Visme is both designed and priced with the virtual entrepreneur in mind. You won't get blindsided by an outrageous recurring fee, and the functionality of the tool rivals anything else available.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start creating more infographics right now!
Guest Author: An aspiring blogger, Jillian Petrova loves blogging a lot and in her leisure time she writes insightful posts on latest trends, education, marketing, etc.

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Infographic Maker Guide: 20 Cool Infographic Creator Tools That Will Turn You Into A Designer

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Imagine you are an infographic maker god who can take 1,000 words and help people digest that information in only a few seconds. An infographic, put simply, is a creative way to take a "thousand words" and depict them using a picture. These days, readers are looking for quick access to brief information.

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If you ask us, infographics aren't going anywhere.

This year alone, we've covered how essential they are to SEO, and the numerous resources available to create beautiful infographics of your own.

And yes -- when it comes to infographics, we do like to play favorites.

That's why we went scoured the web for some of the best infographics of 2016. Their topics are vast and their formats are many, but this year, we truly saw some excellent examples of informative design.

Have a look and let these examples inspire you. Who knows -- with all of those resources and a new year around the corner, they might help you create of the best infographics of 2017.

10 of the Best Infographic Examples of 2016

Music is known to enhance many situations. It livens up a party, gets us through a brutal workout, and can make a long commute seem quicker. But did you know that it can also make you more productive? WebpageFX collected these science-backed reasons why music can help you get your work done, and worked them into an infographic that delights us.

This infographic does a nice job of balancing two different color sets -- a best practice, according to Marketing Consultant Brian Downard's infographic design playbook. Downard encourages the use of soft, subtle colors in the background, with pops of color in the foreground to highlight important elements. As you can see below, this approach results in a really clean design.

Beyond the color palette, the folks at WebpageFX did a nice job of following through with the theme, with various musical notes and other symbols that represent a melodic sound. Speaking of symbols, take note of how they used the image of the brain to break down how music stimulates and activates specific sections.

There's so much information out there about the drawbacks of overusing our mobile devices. They make us lose sleep. They facilitate email addiction. But very rarely, it seems, can we find all of this information in one place -- until now.

Trustmypaper created this infographic, which packs 15 eye-opening statistics in a condensed yet engaging format. Plus, the accompanying images help us to process exactly what each number conveys, and reinforces the danger of each fact.

As for the font, it's more than legible, but isn't so big that it doesn't fit in with the overall design scheme. According to a Kissmetrics article from Henneke Duistermaat and Neo Mammalian Studios, poor font choice is one of 19 infographic red flags, and while it may seem obvious, you'd be surprised how many brands just don't get it right.

We are definitely preachers of vacation -- how to relax when you're there, how to catch up on email when you're back, and how many of us feel too guilty to take one. But it's a must -- and this infographic explains why.

From the good, to the bad, to the ugly, Quill makes great use of imagery here. The infographic uses a generally bright color palette, to reflect the lightness of vacation. The "happier" images incorporate the benefits, too. But when it comes to the negative impacts of not taking time off, the pictures don't hide them -- even if it's a cartoon, we can sense the annoyance of the characters that work or receive a call from the office during their time away.

Some of us have a tendency to chronically expect the worst. (Cough -- guilty.) But chronically worrying isn't good for you -- from heart disease to memory loss, all of that stress can take a toll on one's health.

So how do we knock that off? It turns out that there are some fairly simple, science-backed steps to decreasing our anxiety and worry, which Happify has organized into an easy-to-follow infographic. It even has a delightfully helpfully step on figuring out when and how to let go of our negative thoughts, and when they (rarely) deserve merit.

Not to mention, we love the design, especially the combination of bold colors and white space. This infographic manages to work in a vast palette, without seeming to be all over the place with its design scheme -- but its brightness reflects the overall theme of happiness.

When it comes to color, sometimes less is more. In fact, according to an analysis of over 200+ infographics on Pinterest, Venngage found that infographics with only two colors earned the highest number of Pins and Likes. While Classy snuck in a few highlights into this infographic on #GivingTuesday, the primary color scheme is a festive red and green combination -- which aligns perfectly with the "Home Alone" theme.

Speaking of the "Home Alone" theme, the designer of this infographic did an amazing job incorporating subtle, nostalgia-inducing nods to the classic movie -- from the tar-covered staircase to the silly microcopy on the VHS tape. According to Psychology Today, nostalgia memories are social in nature and have the power to inspire social behavior, making this infographic inevitably more sharable.

Female entrepreneurs are taking the world by storm. In fact, among Generation Y entrepreneurs, women are more successful than men. But what makes them so successful? And how are they improving the business landscape as a whole? This infographic from USC Marshall outlines those positive points, from job creation to career growth.

The infographic also includes other fun facts about female entrepreneurship, like the geographic regions where it's most concentrated, and other tidbits on revenue and valuation. It look a somewhat difficult-to-broach topic around which there's a lot of conflicting information, and incorporated the facts into a well-designed visual.

It has consistent style and lighting, and we love infographics than can seamlessly incorporate a map. Being able to share geographic statistics in visual way is key -- and, it helps people digest a big chunk of data. But our favorite part has to be the use of pictogram charts -- where each icon represents a specific value -- to make it easier for the viewer to visual the data. Pictogram charts can help you achieve a more representational view of your data, and even overcome differences in language, culture, or education, according to The Data Visualization Catalogue.

As you might be aware, there's a new year around the corner. With that comes New Year's Eve, which brings a lot of partying. In other words, January 1st might be known as the most hungover day of the year.

Knowing that, Fix provided yet another helpful infographic that breaks down all things hangover. We're delighted by the design of this visual. It incorporates a ton of helpful information, ranging from what a hangover really is, to how to prevent them, to how to cure them the next day. And the images? We don't know about you, but we're craving a full English breakfast.

What we really like about this infographic is the ability to condense important details that, were they in the format of a full article, may not have been as easy to process. We'll drink to that.

When it comes to design and text, there are two things we know to be certain:

1. Comic Sans is bad.

2. We have to be able to read it.

As for the rest, it seems like learning typography is like learning a second language for many marketers. It has to be on brand, it has to be legible, and what the heck is a ligature?

The Logo Company took some fundamental pieces of the typography vocabulary and compiled it into this well-designed infographic. Following its own advice, the text is perfect. It's readable, but considering there aren't a ton of pictures in there, it doesn't leave us feeling overwhelmed by text. At the same time, each vocabulary word has a clever visual representation next to the written definition, which helps to keep the image from looking too text-heavy.

Sometimes, a website redesign is necessary. User preferences change, as do brands themselves -- that should be reflected in your public-facing content. But are you going about it the right way?

According to this infographic from VWO, many marketers aren't. And while we don't love the errors of website redesign outlined in this visual, we do like the way they're represented. It's thematic -- there's a recurring use of contrasting red and green, for example, to symbolize the necessary A/B testing that, evidently, 57% of website redesign projects lack. Plus, we enjoy how literal the imagery is, without going over the top. A burger represents "food for thought," and a brain accompanies the statistic on psychological factors in design.

When the holidays roll around, one of our favorite parts is the food. And what enhances any dish -- besides wine? An accompanying sauce, of course.

So when Quid Corner combined two of our greatest loves -- food and infographics -- we were thrilled. It's not often that actual photos appear on infographics, but when they do, it can be tricky to pull off. The lighting has to be just right, and the coloring has to match the overall design scheme of the infographic at large. This infographic manages to pull that off, by using a backdrop that's ample in white space, and a specific color theme according to each recipe -- red for tomato and green for parsley, for example. Is anyone else feeling hungry?

Let's Get Visual

Okay, so maybe we have a thing for infographics. But it's easy to see why -- they're such a concise, comprehensive device for conveying detailed statistics and facts in a visual way that makes them easy to follow.

So as you plan your marketing for 2017, don't leave out the visuals -- and certainly don't leave the infographics behind. Need some help creating your own? Be sure to check out these free, pre-made Infographic templates.
What were some of your favorite infographics of 2016? Let us know in the comments.

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If you ask us, infographics aren't going anywhere. This year alone, we've covered how essential they are to SEO, and the numerous resources available to create beautiful infographics of your own. And yes -- when it comes to infographics, we do like to play favorites.