App Sumo Deal review – RelayThat

if you want to be a successful blogger

or YouTube or anything online and build

an influence you need to be able to gain

some social media traction and if you're

one of those people who have never in

your life created one of those pinnable

images or you don't have that graphical

design or feel then this video is

exactly for you hey guys I'm John from

in kamesh calm and in today's video

we're gonna do a quick overview of a

appSumo deal for relay that which I

purchased about a year ago or a several

several months ago and it's back up on

appSumo now and I just want to give you

an overview of my time with it what I

use it for and why I recommend it for

you guys today so let's go ahead and

quickly review the appSumo

page here so essentially for $49 you get

lifetime access there I don't know how

you put a price value on lifetime access

since it should be going on in

perpetuity but regardless you get

lifetime access to this tool I think

it's a great tool you can make unlimited

projects unlimited image downloads so

many different things you can stack

additional deals I just got one deal and

I'm happy with that I don't know why you

would need additional accounts but if

you have clients or things like that you

may want to get some additional accounts

let's quickly take a look at the pricing

for the tool itself so this tool here is

$25 per user per month and so if you

think about it if you're taking the risk

of I think the $49 on appSumo it's a

two-month cost for life I definitely

think this is a no-brainer

deal let me show you several of the uses

that I use relay that for so here I am

in one of my accounts you can see here

essentially what this is is an image

photo editor optimizer all sorts of cool

things you have up here the ability to

create multiple brands which have their

own color scheme so for example if I

let's pull up a layout here so let's

just go quickly to an ad let's say we

want to make a Facebook ad here you

don't have to start from scratch you

don't need to have graphical design

skills and you can still make some

pretty nice-looking ads so let's say for

example I like this one here it's got a

certain color scheme that this is kind

of loaded into this theme for born to go

but if I go over to 95 for example the

colors are going to be entirely

different different logos different

everything because this is a different

brand so you don't need to kind of keep

all your color palettes together you can

just separate them out into different if

you have different blogs or different

things you

it's a really convenient way to keep

your branding on point so let's see what

else we can do here so let's say for

example I want to run a Facebook ad for

a travel agency for somebody who's

visiting London so you can go in and

anywhere you want to if you wanted to

kind of update this text here so you can

say take London tour Oh today that looks

nice right that pops pretty well we can

add a border over here just by clicking

on the border and all these are kind of

pre laid out and pre-configured and

what's amazing about this is when I

first purchased this deal I wasn't so

keen on relay that and the reason for

this was if you had let's say a long

title you wanted to write in this

location here it would just kind of

scrunch the text or squish squish the

text and it wouldn't kind of spread out

over the area that it had to work with I

wanted a bit more control but I didn't

have the ability to kind of drag and

drop and resize different elements that

were on the images well all that

frustration is gone now with a recent

update within relay that which is

probably why they're going on appSumo

again but now take a look at this so

let's say if this is even more and let

me add some text here and get 50% off

your first guest

okay well that actually does a really

good job of fitting it in the location

but what's cool about this is now you

have full design control so you get

these pre-built layouts where like 80%

of the work is done for you but if you

need to tweak a couple of things now you

have to be able to drag and increase the

sizing and do a number of cool things

without any real muss or fuss well you

can also do which I really like is let's

say we want to really focus on this get

50% off text over here I want to put

some brackets around get 50% off and

then look what happens it changes the

font it changes the coloring it changes

even the size let me get off the dirt

here again it changes everything because

it has what's called font pairs so it

has not only the primary font and font

color but you're also able to select a

focus I think it's called a focus let me

see what it's called here

a font pair and so you even quickly like

show like look how cool this is like if

you're not a designer cuz I am NOT a

designer I'll be the first to tell you

like I could design something looks kind

of good here I kind of like it so let's

go ahead and keep this here you've got

the different text settings all sorts of

really really cool stuff you can do here

let's go look at this button here so

learn more so the button is linked to

this text if you don't want the button

boom the button is gone but if you want

the button here it is and even with

arrows you've got three different

options for arrows like cool stuff right

like I I'm a big fan of this one even

the three areas you want to be like uber

pushes let's be Ober pushy here and

let's make this button a little bigger

it kind of Center it over here and

change the text to get free ticket I

don't know I don't do anything with

travel agents but we're gonna go with it

but now let's say for example we want to

duplicate rinse and repeat and do the

same thing for France so you don't have

to go and find all these stock images

for France or anything like that look

how cool this is I'm gonna go here to

the Images tab and I'm just gonna search

for France bitch I get an Eiffel Tower

where's my Eiffel Tower there's a half

now whoo

okay so now we go all these images and

check it out so this image is probably

really small text but you can see this

one came from unsplash this one came

from pixels this one came from pixabay

did that think that's it but imagine

being able to aggregate all the stock

images from like the most reputable

stock image sources that are free for

commercial use and have those at the

ready that's pretty cool I'm gonna take

this one I like this one was very nice

just drag it over I see it does its kind

of magic to resize it get it nice and

tight and then I can drag the image in

perfectly and like this is a cool thing

I would I would buy this I would click

on this add and you can add overlays

which doesn't really seem to do a whole

lot in this one like everyday it's a

little bit different so you get to learn

a little bit as you go but this is a

really cool image and if you want to go

ahead and keep this guy you can either

download it as a PNG or as a JPEG

let's go PNG and just click download and

this will pull it up directly in your

image browser let's go and just open

this guy up I'm not gonna rename it or

anything and now you have this image

that is yours and ready to go and ready

to use like this is pretty cool right so

that's one big use I mean using it for

ads is pretty awesome because you know

making sure you have the right image is

like critical when you're running ads so

even let me show you this even this

button here I'm sorry I'm a little

spastic today let's say I want to change

the design I can quickly change the

design of the the button the size

everything and there's no coding there's

no remembering hex codes you set it up

once and you're good to go so for

example we can go to our workspace

assets up here and set you know a lot of

little images and icons and things that

can be used anywhere and you can also

set all the different colors that would

show up for this particular brand again

if we switch to the brand

let's just go to clean I don't even know

this one is all sorts of crazy stuff

from height little crazy projects and

totally different Organization for every

separate brand love it so what are some

of things that I use this for so let's

go ahead and let's say I want to make a

featured image for a blog post I can

come here it's not gonna be under the ad

but you can see some of the different

ads here so like perfectly designed ads

for skyscrapers or half of the page and

like this is made to make an ad like

pretty cool but if I wanted to go to

other I can see here I've got blog post

banners audio covers video stills so

even like YouTube video covers the

perfect for that

a ton of different designs but unless I

said we want to do a blog post so we'll

do a blog post real quick and now let's

just scroll through here and see what

some of our options are you know it

looks a little busy up front but when

you get into it you can do a lot of

changes to it as you go

I'm kind of digging this one so we'll

take this guy here because now we have

icons and photos here like this is

pretty cool you know what I would

probably change this text to white if I

were doing this for real but what I can

also do is maybe let's add some fade-out

to this background image so if I click

on the background image I get additional

editor options for the image I can

either make the image larger or smaller

which is pretty fantastic

I can also blur the image

like that immediately by blurring that

image I have made my brand-name stick

out a little bit more but let's do a

couple things as well let's go ahead and

look at let's do it like a sepia mmm not

a big fan black and white mmm it's okay

what if I were to looking for let's do a

fade so you got all these different

one-click edits to the photos which

really really helps you also do an

overlay on top of it which that

seriously helps bring out the color of

the text there so now we've got some

that can very easily see all right let's

say I don't like the stripe I can change

the stripe or remove the stripe or

change the color right here now remember

if I change it here it's also going to

change that specific stripe asset color

across any other size I'm using but I

like this it looks kind of cool so we'll

keep that I've got a blank icon here so

one option is I can remove the icon

altogether and remove that shape or even

kind of just keep it as that shape is

kind of cool but let's say I want to

have like a an icon of maybe an airplane

I'm gonna search for airplane under the

icon section hmm kind of nice so again

all these are free for commercial use

the challenge with this is it's kind of

hit or miss like obviously the styles

are all different you got some glyphs

you got some outlines you've got some

colors I kind of like this guy I'll just

drag him in and now boom that looks

pretty good

I like it so now this would be a great

blog post let's just change the title

real quick and call it essential tips

for new France travelers and then I've

got complete walkthroughs a second text

I can include so I click this guy look

at that so now that text actually shows

up on top of the icon not a big fan so

as easy as clicking it off or I believe

I can go ahead and move this guy over

here and maybe like this like

overlapping a little bit and what if I

make this complete walkthrough accent

text see I'm not a designer but that

looks kind of cool I kind of like it

what's even better about this though is

that when you make a blog post you're

not

right like Pinterest is so good for

organic search and organic traffic to

new blogs so you want to have a pinnable

image well I would be pulling my eyes

out if after every blog post I had to go

and make a completely new image from

scratch for a different aspect ratio so

check this out down here I think you can

see what we're going with this is down

here underneath the image you worked

with you have some additional options to

change it around let me see here I'm

gonna click on resize so down here looks

like these aren't exactly the same

they're very similar but they're not

exactly the same so I can do a 1080 by

1920 which honestly this is not the same

image as the other one so let me just

remove this photo remove that photo hmm

that's a little bit different than what

I was expecting

let me show you a different example here

let's let's go back to layouts and I

normally start with like 8 YouTube

thumbnail so let's go with this guy for

example all right so it's the same text

I'll a slightly different styling it's

got a button here but still very similar

overall so I like this one

if I wanted to then take this which

would work really well for a blog post I

can quickly and easily find a Pinterest

aspect ratio of 800 by 1200 and boom now

I can just make some minor adjustments

and move the Eiffel Tower over there

maybe move my name over somewhere else

you get the idea I move it over there or

remove it altogether and remove the

button on Pinterest but you've got a

fully functioning and let's make this

actually make this the orange color it's

not as a better contrast I suppose I

don't like I said I'm not a designer but

a lot of different options here so being

able to take one image and mess with the

layout and adjust the layout back and

forth you can even save the ones that

you like you want to come back to most

frequently you've got this little heart

over here or you can see what you've

used in the past and would you like to

come back to and so that makes if you if

you have a certain brand you want to

keep your images on brand so this tool

really helps you in doing that one of

the other things I like this for just

for kind of time-saving is actually

compressing the images for me so what

you can do

you can go to unsplash and you can

download a photo that ends up being like

seven megabytes and then you can take

that photo and put it into an image

compressor and then do all that work and

yadda yadda and then finally put it in

your blog post right well obviously you

don't need to do that anymore with this

tool we can come here to the other

options here checking a little while to

find this you just go to crop photo when

you go to crop photo let's just go and

pick one of these let's say I want to

put like a nice little oh is this twenty

five that's a pretty big image there

let's find a that's a pretty good blog

post or kind of top of the I don't know

it's a pretty big image there but if we

want to use this image and let's go and

find it something different here if you

want to use that aspect ratio but then

let's search for like surfer just

something totally different and this

will quickly pull up a bunch of

different surfer images here I like this

one it's pretty cool I used to surf

probably not that well so now we have

this image here we can adjust it around

as we want to and if we can do any

editing we want as well so for example

we can go ahead and blur it I don't know

why I would want to do that let's

saturate it hue 90 degrees invert okay

that's creepy let's just go to vignette

okay it looks kind of cool kind of retro

so now for a photo I like to download

those as JPEGs to save image size if I

were to download this from unsplash or

from wherever this particular image came

from it would be megabytes and megabytes

at large but simply by finding it

putting in the correct aspect ratio and

downloading it I could pull this image

up and it is 145 kilobytes that is

perfectly acceptable to put into a blog

post and not affect your loading speed

too much if you have an additional short

pixel or Smosh or one of those plugins

that can reduce the size of your images

obviously that can work well together

with this but this does all the heavy

lifting for you without ever having to

have a plug-in do the work as well

you can obviously also upload your own

images here so if we have a picture for

example this is a picture from my one of

my show it's child anymore one of my

children's baptisms which is a raw food

it looks like a

fourteen megabyte photo but if you have

a photo that's underneath ten megabytes

which most of your photos should be

let's take this guy for example a little

a B split test icon you can also pull

those into your layouts wherever you

choose so for example we want to do a

facebook cover oh yeah this is another

cool feature I like this one so if you

pull out like a Facebook cover you know

you have your profile picture on

Facebook here you have some other stuff

that's kind of out of view here and then

you have this up here which is gonna be

out of you in certain aspect ratios on

certain devices

what unsplash does is it also like it

puts the guides there so this is the

image right but this is how it's going

to look when it's on Facebook so that

couldn't just save you a lot of time

you're kind of creating that design for

yourself so let's say for this backdrop

I'm gonna go to my uploads and drag my

split-testing icon to the backdrop to

this image and I can move it around a

little bit as well pretty cool right so

if you like this if you struggle with

images like I do

it's okay there are tools like that for

people like us and go ahead and go to in

kamesh comm slash relay that let me just

show you how that status spelled out

here and go to and comets-- comm slash

relay that and that will take you to

this appSumo deal it dropped a few days

ago and here it is go ahead and check it

out I would recommend just go ahead and

get it and try it out for sixty days you

have 60 days no questions asked I have

refunded quite a few appSumo deals it

just weren't quite for me but this is

one I would feel really bad for if it if

it comes through and I don't pick it up

and I continue to struggle with images

for this my life so go ahead grab it and

leave a comment in below if you like

this tool or if you've even been aware

of this recent update because it really

has been a game-changer for it again if

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