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If you have read many blogs and articles on the internet, you may have come across pieces in infographic form many times. Those are long images showing exciting facts and statistics. The statistics tables are not only for you to view and get information about, but they are also a great marketing tactic for your website.
But if you’re not a designer, you probably have no idea how to create your infographic. Do you need to know all the design principles when deciding to make an infographic? Thanks to the Piktochart tool, it’s now straightforward to create an infographic. In this article, I’ll show you exactly how you can use Piktochart to complete your stylish infographic.
Why should you create Infographics?
A few years ago was the golden age of statistics. Infographics have gone viral and become popular and are a great way to increase traffic and backlinks for your website. Even though the graphics craze has slowed down, they are still a beneficial marketing tactic. Here are the reasons why:
- Humans process images much faster than text. The statistic is 60,000 times faster. For example, I rarely read a 3 mm thin book, so all the data in it is indeed encapsulated in several Infographics pages. Even if it was 2x faster, it still made a big difference.
- Infographics have a vast spread. With the right outreach, you can get your infographic and share it on other related blogs. Each share means a good backlink for you.
- Infographics have appeared on social networking sites such as Pinterest, Facebook … and brought excellent effects.
So, to help your readers understand the information you need to convey and quickly, to enable your article to be widely shared on social networks, you need to create statistical tables.
How to Create Infographics with Piktochart |
For this article, I will be using the free Piktochart account. The free version gives you complete access to the primary Infographics generator and lacks the following features:
- Library of more than 600 different templates
- Piktochart’s ability to remove watermark
- Download higher quality.
If you are an enterprise, these features are for you. But for most individuals, using a free account is best.
How to use Piktochart
You start by visiting https://piktochart.com/ and sign up for an account:
Once you have signed up and validated your email, you can access and create your first Infographics.
Next, choose the type of content you want to create. Piktochart allows you to create:
- Infographics
- Presentations
- Post an advertisement/report.
In this tutorial, I will choose Infographics.
Choose Template or Start from Scratch
Once you’ve chosen your content, you can choose to start from one of Piktochart’s pre-existing templates or use a completely blank canvas.
However, the free account comes with only ten basic templates while the premium account has over 600 templates.
Although limited in sample selection, it is still easier to choose a template than nothing. In this tutorial, I’ll first select an existing template to show you how quickly you can do it by tailoring it to your needs. Then I can show you how you can add your elements to the template.
Edit existing template content
Because infographics are long content, Piktochart divides your infographics into different little blocks. You will edit each block. To start editing, hover over the content to edit and click to select the block.
You can edit text by simply clicking and typing.
If you want to change the font, font size, or color, you can use the toolbar at the top of the editing area.
Add new content.
If you’re starting from a blank canvas, you’ll need to add new content to create your own infographics.
But even if you use pre-built templates, you may still want to add some new elements to create your template.
I will show you how to add new templates using an empty frame. The process is identical when you want to add a new element to an existing template.
To add any new file, you will use the menu bar on the screen’s left side.
Example To add a WordPress icon, go to Graphics> icon and search for WordPress. Then drag the icon over the infographic canvas image.
You can do the same to upload your images or add blocks of text.
One nifty feature to use is to explore the Tools section. It allows you to convert raw data into charts easily. You can then add your icons.
Because many infographics are based on statistics and marbles, this is a very useful feature.
You can add your data through a spreadsheet in a browser or click it from an existing spreadsheet if you’re working with big data.
You can then choose the right chart type from the left-hand side.
Whenever you’re done, click the Insert Chart button and your chart will be added to your work-frame. You can change the size and position until satisfied.
Piktochart comes with two other handy tools.
- Video – quickly embed video from Youtube or Vimeo. This is essential when you want to create digital infographics.
- Chart – displays a map with custom data for each region. For example, on a United States map, you can customize the data for each state.
These tools are essential when using infographics. You can showcase and manipulate data quickly and powerfully with Piktochart.
Customize your background
The last important element is its background image.
In the Background Color tab on the side, you need first to choose the base color. You can then stack one of the Piktochart wallpapers on your white background.
If you use a background image, you can create its opacity to make sure it’s not more apparent than your other infographic elements. You can do this by reducing the opacity.
Y, you can also upload your image for use as a background in the Upload tab. You need to use the Arrange to Send to the back tool to appear behind other elements on your page.
Conclude
Piktochart is a user-friendly infographics creation app, but it still takes time to create a quality infographic. However, if you are not a professional designer, using Piktochart is much easier than creating an infographic from scratch. Good luck
