subject: Your Quick List Of Great Sticker Design Resources [print this page] Designing stickers today is a relatively easy affair. However, there are a lot of tools and resources involved in designing full color stickers today which you might want to know more about. This is especially true if you are just new to sticker printing and would want to know which tools are resources will help you produce the best looking color sticker designs. Let me list down for you quickly all the best tools and resources that you will want to use. I have divided them by type below so that you know exactly what they are and how to use them.
1. Free Image Resources (good for commercial use too!) One of the most important design resources that designers need for their color stickers are image databases. Now all designers can take photographs and develop graphics quickly. That is why online free image resources is one of the best things that those sticker designers need. For your benefit, below is a list of five image databases that should help you get started with your color sticker designs. Most of these have images that are good for commercial uses too without the need to pay royalties.
a. Morguefile.com
b. Flickr.com
c. Openphoto.net
d. Pdclipart.com
e. pddepot.com
2. Paid Image Resources If you want more professionally made images and are willing to pay for them, you can go for some of the best paid image resources for your color stickers. I have used some of these services before and believe me, some of their images are really worth it. They typically have the precise images that I need to create great looking custom stickers.
a. Fotolia.com
b. Istockphoto.com
c. Bigstockphoto.com
d. Dreamstime.com
e. Crestock.com
3. Free Design Applications Now, staple for many sticker designers is a digital design application that can merge all the important design elements into one design document. For those who want to save on money, there are a lot of free design applications on the Internet that should help you. Below are two of the best and most highly recommended tools that you can use for free in your sticker designs.
a. Gimp
b. OpenOffice.org Draw
c. Paint.net
4. Paid Design Applications If you have the money to buy design applications, of course you will have access to a lot more of the best kinds of tools in designing your color stickers. Listed below are the best ones that you can use. These are what a lot of professionals recommend for new and professional artists in sticker printing.
a. Adobe Photoshop
b. Corel Draw
c. Microsoft Publisher
d. Adobe InDesign
e. Quark Xpress
5. Free font databases Fonts are a staple design element for sticker printing. Finding the best font style will typically give you a wonderful color sticker that matches what you really want to communicate. Luckily for most of us, there are hundreds of free fonts already on offer on the Internet. Here are the best ones you can use for your stickers.
a. Urbanfont.com
b. Dafont.com
c. 1001fonts.com
d. Free-fonts.com
e. Fontspace.com
6. Free sticker templates Templates are a great way to start off designing your color stickers. They provide the proper dimensions, settings and guidelines that will help your custom stickers become more compatible with the sticker printing companies. Here are some of the best sites to get sticker templates
a. Avery.com
b. Printplace.com
c. Stickersandcharts.com
d. Graphicdesign-s.com
e. Onlinelabels.com
7. Fast professional sticker printing Finally, every designer needs a professional sticker printer or sticker printing company to do their stickers well. The best place to look for them of course is online. Here is a list of the best places to do fast and professional sticker printing.
a. Printplace.com
b. Stickergiant.com
c. Psprint.com
d. Uprinting.com
e. Idsketch.com
Great! Now you have all the tools that you will need to create beautiful color stickers on your own. Good Luck!
