Process To Enhance Social Media Graphics

Simran Indulkar
4 min readMay 22, 2020

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Creating visual graphics for social media is a dedicated discipline, so it’s important to be conscious of design principles to achieve the best results.

In fact, if your images are strong enough, you might not even need any text or graphic overlays. Proving a few words and a strong image is all it takes to engage the target audience. Graphics help to express ideas quickly.

But how you can enhance social media graphics or creative?

The answer is with the best designing skills, creative ideas, and thoughtful concepts. The best design can help you to get there quicker.

Let’s take a look at some guidelines you should follow to create beautiful and effective social media posts.

Process To Enhance Social Media Graphics

1. Understand The Brief

Understand The Brief

Understand the topic, subject, concept on which you are going to create or design graphics.

2. Ask Your Doubts

Ask Your Doubts

If you understand brief properly there are no issues but you don’t ask doubts freely and understand again. It helps to design graphics creatively.

3. Do Research

Do Research

If you want your audience to notice and engage with your social posts, you need to make them highly relevant to your target group. The more relevant your posts are the more success you will have but relevance, in general, is not enough. You need to take the time to truly understand your audience. Start with the general demographic information and then go deeper. Research your competitors. Search for suitable fonts, colours, typography, graphic resource, images.

4. Decide Graphical Presentation

Decide Graphical Presentation

Colours are a powerful tool for social media because they offer a way to convey mood and meaning without words. Create your brand colour palette, which should consist of two to four colours, apply your colours consistently within your designs. Colour is one of the most important aspects of any design. It helps to set a mood, create an atmosphere, and can even invoke a memory.

Fonts bring your design’s message life. Texts are the major sources of information. You should take care of balancing the graphics and text.

Images help you get your message across. Your logo should never overpower your design, but it’s also important that it isn’t too small. Determine a minimum size for your logo. Use images, graphics, and videos to tell a story where possible. Visual content is more engaging. In fact, an image or video can often stand alone in social media posts while still conveying the full message to your audience.

Too much text, pictures or fonts can instantly turn your audience off.

5. Exchange Ideas

Exchange Ideas

Once you are ready with all the material which you need for graphical presentation, just have a talk with team members and then proceed. Because of this you can portray your thoughts with them and they also can share their suggestions to you and you can create a design without any misconception, your time will be saved.

6. Create A Design

Create A Design

Create design as discussed with your creative skills. Put your creative efforts to convey a message to your target audience.

7. Improvement

Improvement

Take suggestions from team members on graphics accordingly to make changes.

8. Send Output To The Client

Send Output To The Client

Send your graphic to the client for approval and take the client’s feedback. Make corrections if needed.

9. Send Final Creative To Client

Send Final Creative To Client

After made required corrections send the final graphic to the client with require format.

At The End…

Make sure that social media content is not only engaging but consisting creates lasting impressions. We see content everywhere. But do you remember any of it? The best thing to do for any brand is to create content that not only stands out but is visually memorable.

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