Have you ever scrambled to find a fast and easy way to view an EPS file, or just add a website or phone to a logo?. Without having to go out and buy an expensive, complicated, design program. Among many other everyday challenges that can be easy to solve with the right app.
That’s the reason we’ve compiled this listing of useful apps and websites that will help you run your distributor business more efficiently, without spending money on software that you don’t really need
This is a work in progress, so if you have a great tool you love and is not on the list, please send us the info.
VECTOR ART RESOURCES
EPS Viewer is a free downloadable software tool that allows you to open EPS graphics files, display image preview and provides the option to convert opened image and save them in other file formats such as .jpg, .gif, .png and others extensions.
EPS File Viewer is a free viewer for EPS files, simple and fast, no need to install any other program, this standalone software can quickly open an EPS file and display the file image.
Inkscape – Vector Graphic Design
Inkscape is a vector graphics software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It’s free and open source. It’s the free alternative to Illustrator or Correl Draw.
Pixabay – Vectors, and illustrations
Pixabay is a Creative Commons resource for beautiful high-quality photos and vector illustrations. It’s free for commercial use, no attribution required.
Another source for beautiful
Vecteezy – Vector Illustrations
Vecteezy is an online marketplace for community-generated royalty-free vector illustrations. Most of the files are free to download and, depending on the license, free to use in your projects.
The largest library of major brand and franchises logos in vector format available to download for free.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Inkscape – Vector Graphic Design
Inkscape is a vector graphics software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It’s free and open source. It’s the free alternative to Illustrator or Correl Draw.
Gimp – Photo Manipulation
GIMP is a free image editor available for Mac and Windows. It’s the free alternative to Photoshop. It allows editing photos, removing backgrounds, adding text, etc.
Canva – Online Graphic Design
Canva is an online design tool, easy-to-use that comes with tons of customizable templates, including social media. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It offers free and paid plans.
Unsplash – Photos
Beautiful high-quality photos, that can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.
Pixabay – Photos, vectors, and illustrations
Pixabay is a Creative Commons resource for beautiful high-quality photos and vector illustrations. It’s free for commercial use, no attribution required.
Google Fonts is a library of over 800 fonts, free to download and to use on print or web.
DaFonts offers a large variety of fonts, not all are available for free. They are generally the property of their authors’ and you have to check the license terms for each one. They are available for free for non-commercial use, for demo versions or public domain.
Find the Pantone equivalent for CMYK colors
Handy tool to find colors quickly.
Available both in Mac OS and Android
This handy tool will display a list of the closest Pantone colors to your RGB color.
MARKETING
Source for the official holidays and prominent observances in the US
A comprehensive calendar of holidays, observances, awareness dates, unusual and fun national days, weeks and months.
Grammarly is a very useful app that will let you eliminate grammar errors, punctuation, and improve your writing. When you install this app it will proofread and show you mistakes as you write emails, social media posts, blog posts, documents, etc.
The Hemingway App is an online writing editor where you paste in your text and the app makes suggestions to simplify your content and make it stronger. It will highlight any run-on sentences, adverbs, and passive phrases that make your writing weak.
HootSuite is a tool that will allow you to manage your social profiles from one central dashboard, track your social results and schedule posts. Hootsuite works with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Foursquare, & YouTube. Their free option includes up to 3 social profiles.
PlannThat is an Instagram planning, scheduling, and analytics app.
Feedly provides you with a central place to organize, read, and share information from the online publications of your choice.
