*This is a collaborative post
Us bloggers love a flat lay don’t we? Photographing our shopping hauls? Lets do a flat lay! Showcasing our new planner for 2020? Ooh lets do a flat lay! Tackling our to do list? Not before we’ve taken a photo! I jest, (I’m not quite that bad) but whilst flay lays are a great way to showcase products, look beautiful on the Instagram grid and make fab blog featured images; they can be time consuming to create, and that perfect flay lay can take far longer to put together than we’d have our followers believe. If only there was a way to create the perfect flat lay scene more efficiently! To not have to worry about finding the perfect floral, to brew the perfect cup of tea, or find the only tidy spot in our homes in which to take a clean, crisp shot. Battling with sunlight glare, shadows gallore or dark and dingy mornings where everything just ends up looking dark and boring.
I recently came across the website Design Bundles, which offers a wide range of mockups and photo templates, allowing you to quickly and easily create effective yet simple blog photography, flat lays and imagery with minimal technical knowledge. From iPad mock ups, to book mock ups, tshirt designers to popping your own personal prints in a scene of your choice, the opportunities are endless! Design Bundles offers some designs which are completely free of charge to download, with the rest being very reasonably priced. Once the template is downladed, you can use for as many images as you wish.
I recently used the Design Bundles scene creator to show just how quick and easy it is to create 5 featured images for my blog. With some blog content, it can be hard to find featured images that fit, so creating a flat lay with the blog title is often a great way to make it stand out.
The top view scene creator is a flat lay lovers dream – it comes with 5 different backgrounds, and 40 moveable props and objects, which you can resize and rearrange to create a different scene every time to use on your website, blog or social media. The files are downloaded as PSD and PNG files, and can be used with or without photoshop knowledge.
Here are the images I created…
Image 1 – Nail that To Do ListÂ
Image 2 – Summer Vibes
Image 3 – Gender Reveal Yes or No?
Image 4 – The Working Mums Club
Image 5 – Autumn Vibes
These images were so so easy to create, and I love the overall effect. It was super easy to rearrange, resize and even readjust the angle of the objects so that they appeared in the right scale and angle. I think the finished result is really effective, and has the added bonus that i didn’t even have to clear any floorspace to create them! Win win!! 😀
If you’re hoping to simplify your blog imagery in 2020 I would definitely recommend having a browse!
