One of the most popular ways that businesses promote their products and services is through posting content online. This means that there is a lot of demand for virtual assistants who can offer content creation and graphic design services. But to offer these services, you need to be familiar with the common tools that can be used for content creation and graphic design. 

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Looking to edit photos, create visuals for brand promotion, trim videos,  use animations, convert files to your desired format, add a soundtrack to your videos, and many more? These tools do just that. Helping your clients assert their online presence has never been easier. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, with these tools, your craft and creativity meet digitization. You can create posts faster while maintaining your brand themes. You also get to use thousands of templates, enabling you to craft different ideas each time you are designing. You can also collaborate with other team members or your clients to come up with a design that everyone agrees on.

Keep reading to find out some of our favorite content creation and graphic design tools.

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Examples of content creation and graphic design tools

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Canva is an online platform that enables you to create various visual content, including social media graphics, presentations, posters, reels, and more. It enables you to craft fascinating designs for your professional goals. Its ease of use means that you don’t need to be a professional graphic designer to come up with a compelling design, nor do you have to hire one. You can easily create your content from scratch without having any prior experience in designing.

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Canva also allows you to collaborate with others while working on the same creation. This way, you and your team borrow creative ideas from each other, maximizing the output. You can, therefore, easily draft posts alongside the client and use them to promote their businesses. 

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You are also able to use numerous templates to create your designs. Canva has a wide variety of templates, illustrations, soundtracks, videos, photos, and many more. With these, you can ably design social media posts, certificates, presentations, wallpapers, infographics, brochures, newsletters, and many more.

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Features

• Video trimmer
• AI photo enhancer
• Real-time collaboration
• Define your brand
• Multi-app integration
• PDF converter
• Add frame to photos
• And more…

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Pricing

Canva offers three pricing plans that include the free plan, Canva Pro, and Canva for Teams. The free version allows you to design anything and allows collaboration. Canva Pro costs $54.99 per year and entails unlimited premium templates as well as round-the-clock customer support. Canva for Teams costs $130 per year for the first five people. This package has AI admin controls and ensures brand consistency with the introduction of approvals.

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Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of creative desktop and mobile tools that provide powerful solutions for graphic design, photo editing, and multimedia content creation. Armed with creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Firefly, and more, Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to design superior content with its one-of-a-kind photo editing features. 

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You can automatically resize images, texts, and graphics to suit your frame. Content-Aware Fit now automatically resizes images to fit your frame using the power of Adobe Sensei. Additionally, Adobe Lightroom CC enables you to edit, organize, store, and share your photos from anywhere. 

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Ultimately, Adobe Creative Cloud offers you a wide range of features and tools that make it a powerful and versatile tool for video and photo editing. 

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Features

• Adjust images and backgrounds
• Paint and draw 
• Cloud storage
• Customize wallpapers
• Generate images from detailed text description
• And more…

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Pricing 

Adobe Creative Cloud has three business packages that allow you to settle for what you find affordable. You can get an app of your choice at $41.39 per month per license. Creative Cloud All Apps package costs $97.74 per month per license while Adobe Substance 3D Collection costs $114.99 per month.

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InShot is a mobile video and photo editing app that enables you to create the most fascinating content for your social media. InShot enables you to craft your imaginations into reality with its photo editing features. You can easily filter images and add stickers and animations to suit your desired outcome. With InShot, you are able to sell your brand in whatever fashion you wish to design.

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Armed with AI, you can easily employ AI effects to improve the quality of your posts. You can also add your brand backgrounds to videos, use videos in slow-mo, and even have auto-captions.

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Features

• 3D editing
• Auto caption
• Music Library
• Add speed curves to videos
• Video transitions
• Video trimmer
• And more…

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Pricing

InShot offers its users either a monthly/annual pay term or a one-time pay term. The monthly plan costs $3.99 per month while the yearly plan costs $17.99. To remove ads in the one-time pay, it costs you $3.99 while the InShot Pro Lifetime costs $39.99.

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CapCut is a video editing tool with several features that enhance your video quality. With key features such as an intuitive interface, text solutions, an audio toolkit, and extensive templates, you can customize your content to create whatever sells for you. CapCut saves you precious time with the easy use of templates that already have color schemes, soundtracks, transitions, and animations embedded in them.

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CapCut also has a large pool of soundtracks to choose from. You can choose any audio that represents your professionalism and brand. Additionally, CapCut offers you both video effects and body effects. These features are a game-changer in your VA journey.

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Features

• Intuitive interface
• Chroma keying
• Stickers and special effects
• Audio toolkit
• Extensive pool of templates
• Collaboration
• Text to image generator
• Image background generator
• Voice modifier
• And more…

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Pricing

CapCut is a free video and photo editing app with a free version and a free trial. The app has a starting price of $7.99 per month, and also offers a yearly subscription for $79.99, a one-time PRO subscription for $9.99, and a special subscription for $5.99 per month.

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