Piktochart

It's a great free graphics software which allows you to build infographics, presentations, posters and reports using their online designer which is really easy to use and has a nice amount of easy customization possibilities for your designs. They have great templates as well which save you a good amount of time up front having to design a really professional design to work with and customize to suit your brand and message. The editor uses drag and drop technology which makes it really easy to create custom formatting and use various modules just by dragging them around. And it all works smoothly; there's very few sticking as you move components around which I like a lot. I've definitely noticed a range of quality in terms of stickiness of drag and drop technology and the ability to use all of the space available in your design. And it does an exceptional job of it. The image upload size in the free account is 100mb which is very sufficient. I've turned 6000 x 3600 pixel images at 300 dpi into .png files recently and the resulting file was just a little over 13 mb. So 100 mb is adequate for almost any purpose. You have a fully functional account with their free plan so that is outstanding value for any software as a service to offer. You don't have to use their templates at all if you don't want to. You can download to image file with the free plan. There's a Piktochart watermark on your free images downloaded but that's to be expected with a free version. There is a cool selection of buttons and stickers you can use which they call frames in your account with a couple hundred or more to use. You can edit each of these graphic elements with your own text and edit the text appearance as well. You can share graphics easily in social media channel from your dashboard. The dashboard itself is very easy to use. They have the combination icon and label style menus which are my favorite in terms of user friendliness. You can use great charts and map features which allow you to customize fourteen different kinds of charts and add a map of any country while adding your edits to it and placing each into the best context of your overall graphic. It's really quite powerful, especially for the price. It's also easy to add videos to your graphics which is outstanding. All you do is copy and paste the URL of the video into the field and click save. So it's simple while you can use Youtube and Vimeo videos too which is good.

There's not a lot to dislike about this service. There could be more templates in the free section but that's not a complaint. I'm sincerely grateful for the options they offer. There's a learning curve to using the editor I suppose but it's about one hundred times easier than creating these graphics from scratch using any number of other graphic software. It's dead simple.

It's a really creative tool for professional purposes. I like any software that facilitates my creativity and Piktochart makes it enjoyable to create business or event based presentations, posters, infographics and two page reports, as you have a full range of customization options even with the free account. The free account integrates with Evernote which and their premium plan adds Slideshare which helps you to get more views. The premium plans are very fairly priced as well in my opinion. The $15 and $29 per month prices are for all templates, or all templates plus high resolution downloading basically as well as larger image upload sizes but I'm not sure how this is an issue unless the 'image upload' context they are suggesting is for overall file storage. Then it's quite small on both accounts in my opinion. But you can download graphics so there's a work around. Anyways, this point eludes me slightly as I'm a free user at the moment. Otherwise, very highly recommended.