DesignCap Review: Create free Posters and Flyers online
Have you ever tried creating a Poster/Flyer for an event you are going to organize? How did you manage to make it? Was that so easy? Or time-consuming?
What if you had a template for your event and wanted to change some details? It would have been so easy, right?
Do you have such a tool/ software?
Yes, I do.
It’s called DesignCap.
What can it do?
It has some cool features. I will explain this to you in detail about this software in this DesignCap Review.
Let’s get into this review of DesignCap, but before that, I would like to tell you something.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored Review on DesignCap. I was offered 3 FotoJet Plus memberships in exchange for this review. However, the content of this DesignCap Review is wholly based on my opinion.
So, I have disclosed it clearly to you. Now,
What is DesignCap?
DesignCap is online graphic design software. It is designed specifically for creating posters and flyers. This software was developed by PearlMountain.
Have you heard this name anywhere?
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you could have come across this name.
PearlMountain is the company that created FotoJet and DesignEVO. These people have been in graphic design and software development for almost 10 years. They are very experienced, and they know the needs of the people.
Among their previous products, FotoJet was the most popular one. FotoJet has more than a million users worldwide, spreading across 200 countries. If you haven’t come across this software, you can check my FotoJet review to learn more about this.
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After FotoJet, their next successful online graphic designer was DesignEVO. It is an online Logo maker where you can create Logos for your website/business for free. I did a review on DesignEVO too.
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After two successful online graphics tools, their next one is this DesignCap.
Now, you might feel,
Why should I use DesignCap?
As I already mentioned, DesignCap will help you create posters/flyers. You might come across a situation where you need to create one.
Before writing this review, I encountered a situation where I needed to create one for my website.
Interested to know what poster did I create?
Check it out.
It’s for my blog’s second anniversary, on April 9, 2018.
How is it?
And, coming to our subject,
DesignCap has got pre-made posters (called templates) in the following categories.
Here is the link to Template Categories. So, even without registering for DesignCap, you can check the various templates available. If you like it, you can create your account and start designing.
Next,
How to register at DesignCap?
To register at DesignCap, go to the DesignCap website.
Here, you can find a Sign-up button at the top right corner. Click the button.
Now, you will see a sign-up form popping up.
You can create a new account by entering your email address and password or by linking your Facebook page.
If you use your email address, you will see a confirmation message that your account has been registered successfully as soon as you hit the sign-up button.
But you need to verify your email address.
So, visit your email inbox, and you will see a confirmation mail for DesignCap.
Click “Confirm my Account,”
As you click the button, you will be taken to the page, with email verification successful.
Now, you can log in to your DesignCap account and edit your name and other details.
To start designing, click “Make a Free Poster / Flyer” on your homepage.
Let’s Start Designing our Poster:
This is what your design area would look like.
On the left, you can see five sections, namely,
- Template
- Photo
- Text
- ClipArt
- Background
I would explain what each section is for, one by one.
Template:
The template section is where you can find these pre-designed posters. I already showed you various categories of templates available. You can choose one from hundreds of templates available there.
Photo:
The photo section has three further tabs.
Here, you can add photos to DesignCap in any one of the following ways,
- If you have the photo on your desktop, you can directly upload it by clicking the “Add Photo” button
- You don’t have it on your desktop but on your Facebook. Don’t worry; you can directly import photos from Facebook using the second tab.
- If you want to use a photo from the internet, use the image search bar available and choose a picture from 580,000 images available. These photos are provided by Pixabay.
Text:
This section allows you to add text to your poster.
You can make use of the predefined font styles, or you can create your custom one. Just add a text, choose the font you want, align the font, add font properties, add some effects to your text, change font size, font color, etc.
Though there are some cool font features, I feel it’s missing something.
What’s that?
As you know, Google fonts are so popular. They have over 800 libre licensed fonts. The number of fonts in DesignCap is limited. It would be awesome if there was a feature to add a custom font. So, we can make all our poster’s text look unique.
This isn’t a weird feature; you already have this at Gravit.
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ClipArt:
You can either add clipart from thousands of clipart images available there or search from 93,000 clipart available on the internet.
Apart from the properties and effects you can add to the clipart, the most remarkable thing is that if you add a clipart from DesignCap, you can change its colors.
But you can’t change the color of the clipart added from the Internet.
Background:
If you are not going with the templates available, you can use the background section to add a background color. The best feature of this section is that you can add gradient colors.
This feature of gradient colors is not available in every graphic design software.
Sharing your Posters:
Once you have designed your poster, you can save this project. The saved project file will be downloaded. You can load this file to DesignCap again and edit this.
DesignCap helps you export this poster in JPG or PNG image format in four different sizes. You can even share this poster directly on social media without visiting each social media platform.
Or click the print button and either print on your printer or convert it into a pdf.
Video Tutorial: How to Create a free poster with DesignCap?
I have created a video tutorial with DesignCap. In this video tutorial, I will show you how I made the poster I showed you at the beginning of this post.
I hope you like this tutorial.
Pricing:
DesignCap is entirely free software. It would not add any watermark or logo at the bottom. So, you can enjoy using DesignCap for free.
Wrapping up:
So, DesignCap is an online graphic designer specifically to create posters and flyers. It has hundreds of templates and thousands of photos and clipart to add. It is fully designable and completely free.
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Dev Patel says
Thanks for the review post regarding the design cap I read this article and tried it myself I had a great experience but I feel there are many options still available better than this. Thankyou!
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