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There are few things more exciting than travel. There are so many new places to explore, so many sights to see, and so many new people to meet. There’s the thrill of doing something unfamiliar and adventurous and the excitement of learning something new – about the world and about yourself. There’s the motivation of escaping your humdrum routine to experience new cultures, sometimes losing your way but often finding yourself.

Can something this wonderous ever seem even slightly boring? Seems impossible, right? Well, it isn’t quite. When people travel around the world and visit some of the most enchanting places on earth, naturally they want to share some of that magic with others. One excellent medium to share their travel stories is to set up a travel blog. But the mistake travel bloggers often make is trying to convey their experience in long blocks of text, thinking they can conjure up an image in the readers’ minds like the one they have in theirs. While it’s not impossible to do, it is certainly very difficult.

There is an age-old adage, “a picture speaks a thousand words”. In this age of camera phones, it is easy to capture moments as they happen, and it is easier to share a picture of that stunning purple sunset you saw in the Maldives than to write paragraph after paragraph explaining the exact shade of mauve the clouds turned (and still fail tragically).

This doesn’t mean people shouldn’t write about their travels. It is important to preserve their experiences and share them with others. What it means is they should also employ the use of well-placed and relevant imagery to break up the text and make it easier to consume so that the reader does not lose interest after seeing long expanses of text.

Granted, travel bloggers don’t always have the time or the necessary design skills to create captivating visuals for their blog, but that should not stand in their way. In the age of technology, there’s an app or software out there for everything. Take PosterMyWall, for example.

PosterMyWall is a free online graphic design tool that lets you create stunning, professional-looking and attention-grabbing visuals in a matter of minutes, even without any design expertise! Sounds unbelievable but it’s true. Now you can add visuals like breathtaking blog headers, travel collages, and travel videos to your blog posts with incredible ease. Let’s discuss how!

Create Stunning Blog Headers

Blog headers make the first impression for a person visiting your travel blog for the first time so you have to ensure it is a lasting one. The header must be unique and attention-grabbing enough to convince the visitor to read on.

PosterMyWall has hundreds of customizable blog header templates – or you can create your own from scratch! Here is one such blog header template customized for a blog in the PosterMyWall editor in only a few minutes. Travel bloggers can use imagery from their own travels or they can browse through the vast stock image and video library in PosterMyWall to find relevant and eye-catching pictures.

Design Attractive Travel Collages

A collage is an interesting way of showing the audience multiple travel pictures while avoiding visual overload. It allows bloggers to use photos that may otherwise not be as compelling by themselves.

PosterMyWall is a simple collage maker that you can use to easily make an interesting and eye-catching photo montage with your own pictures and text or customize one of the hundreds of free collage templates available on the site. Use clipart elements from the PosterMyWall editor to give a fun look to your collage or play around with different fonts to give a stylish and aesthetic effect.

Make Captivating Videos

Internet users want to see more and more video content. You can hop on the video trend and make your blog more dynamic and lively by sharing your travel videos. Present them in exciting ways by adding them to the hundreds of travel video templates available on PosterMyWall and enhancing them with exciting audio – you can upload your own audio or choose from PosterMyWall’s stock audio options.

One way to make your videos interesting and unique is by adding text, shape or freehand masks to videos. It is fun, different and very easy to do using PosterMyWall. Here’s how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dWadFcDK2g

Share Your Blog Everywhere

Once you have created a visually pleasing and engaging blog post, you have to spread the word about it. When you are promoting it on mediums like social media or email newsletters, you should remember that these channels also require outstanding visuals to captivate your audience.

Bloggers shouldn’t underestimate the importance of using visuals here; these will help to attract visitors and make them actually click on the link and check out the blog. Creating these visuals is a piece of cake with PosterMyWall. Simply pick a template from the thousands of email header templates and social media templates available on the site and personalize for your campaign.

You don’t even need to make the same image in different sizes for each platform separately; simply use the free Resize button in the PosterMyWall editor to repurpose the same image for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest or any other social media platforms. With the Premium subscription, you can even share your designs directly to social media from the PosterMyWall website, or schedule posts for later. PosterMyWall is a huge time saver for travel bloggers who have little time to spare.

To sum up…

While it is extremely difficult to capture the extraordinary magic of experiencing new places and new things in travel records, well-picked visuals can help travel bloggers retain- and spread- some of this magic. Preserving such wonderful memories shouldn’t be hard work and is made unbelievably easy with PosterMyWall.