There are tons of online resources that you can use when you customize twitter. Here, we’ve picked out the best for you – excellent functionality, online/no download, free/very affordable!
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IMAGE EDITORS
photoshop-like online tools for free. To edit your twitter photo & background.
1. PIXLR (Free) – our all time favorite! Welcome to the most popular advanced online image editor in the world!
2. AVIARY (Free) – also very popular! Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more!
3. Photoshop.com (Free) – online version of the great photoshop by adobe! not as full featured though.
IMAGE SOURCES
Always choose high quality photos. Professional quality photos are so cheap now a days that it makes good business sense to use them on you social networks/marketing materials.
4. Fotolia ($.75 up)
5. iStockPhotos ($1 up)
BACKGROUND/PATTERN CREATORS
Fun online aps that helps you create your patterned twitter background !
7. Themeleon (Free) Tons of templates. With one click, you can apply beautiful color combinations to your background pattern.
8. BGPatterns (Free) Deceptively simple. But the elegant and intricate designs are perfect for twitter background.
9. OliveManna ($5) Elegant & beautiful templates. If you are in a rush, you can simply shell out $5!
COLOR SCHEMER/ PALETTE GENERATORS
Which color compliments with what? What’s analogous to your favorite color? You have a photo but you don’t know exactly what colors it has. These tools will help you figure all these out.
10. ColorSchemeDesigner (Free)
11. DeGraeve (Free)
FUN PHOTOEDITING TOOLS
You’ve probably come across some of these tools. With just a click, they turn your photos into a work of art! You can then use these artistic rendition of your photos for your twitter page. Here are our favorites!
12. Picnik (Free)
13. Befunky (Free)
14. Photofunia
TWITTER CUSTOMIZED DESIGNS Paid
You may opt to pay. There are a lot of companies offering good customized designs and most of them are less than $100. The limitation here though is that, every time you want to change your design, you’ll have to shell out $. We strongly recommend you to try creating your own designs first. You’ll learn valuable design tricks & tools which will but add to your online skills. This said, it’s also a good idea to checkout the designs made by professional designers. It might just spark your creativity! Here are the more professional twitter designers online.
15. TwitrBackgrounds ($99)
16. CustomTwitterBackgrounds ($67)
17. CustomBackgroundsForTwitter ($129)
18. Twitart ($78)
What about you? What tools are you using to customize your twitter page? Do share!
