Teaching how to create a catalog is the subject we will discuss in detail in this article, and we will introduce several free design software programs for free catalog design.
Free digital catalog design is significant because in today's digital world, an online presence is more of a necessity than a choice, and accordingly, it is essential for every business to turn to online sales and digital marketing to survive and compete with its rivals.
Moreover, managing and even reducing organizational costs has always been and remains one of the important issues for brands. Therefore, the need to use digital catalogs on one hand, and the existence of free tools that provide users with smart digital catalog design services and interactive flipbooks on the other, became a reason for us to introduce free digital catalog design tools.
However, to better understand the importance of the smart digital catalog and its role and position in digital marketing, it is better to first examine the necessity of using a digital catalog.
Why Do You Need a Digital Catalog
A digital catalog is a modern tool for presenting products and services to customers which, compared to printed catalogs, while maintaining quality and visual features, is both very cheap and cost-effective and provides organizations with very important and practical features.
If we were to name just a few of the most important features of the Lenoos digital catalog, we would arrive at the following list:
- Ability to add background and music
- Creating an advertising poster as a cover
- Sound effects during page turning (or flipping)
- Creating shadow for pages,
- Inserting links for social networks
- SEO optimization
- Design customization
- Privacy settings
- Generating reports and analyzing visitor views and clicks
- Ability to generate leads via tools like forms, and many other benefits
In the two articles below, we have explained many details regarding the nature, application, and benefits of digital catalogs, which we recommend you definitely read.
Introduction to Practical Tools for Free Digital Catalog Design
Certainly, the topic of digital catalog design, in a way that is both attractive and effective, requires knowledge and experience, and we have addressed this specific topic in a separate article:
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In the following, we will introduce tools that allow you to create a smart digital catalog with the least possible hassle and completely free of charge, and make it available to your customers. Although, as mentioned, creating an advertising catalog, if it is intended to be effective and to the customers' liking, should be done by a professional catalog designer.
The Lenoos platform, in addition to proudly hosting your digital catalog, smart brochure, and essentially your digital content, will not leave you alone if you need consultation on design matters.
For free consultation regarding your smart marketing solutions you can contact us.
Websites for Free Download of Catalog Templates
Using ready-made templates, on one hand, increases design speed, and on the other, helps novice designers gain a better understanding of design. From the websites introduced below, you can download ready-made templates for catalog design.
Moreover, beyond the ability to download and use pre-made templates, you can also find and use other content such as photos, videos, music, vectors, PNG files, and even ready-made projects for Premiere and After Effects, etc.
The Vecteezy website is an online store that provides various templates to photographers, graphic designers, video creators, and other artists and users, and is also widely used for free digital catalog design. Many of the templates and services on this website are free, and to download ready-made templates from this site, you only need to create a user account.
This same free account and using the free ready-made templates on the Vecteezy site is enough to handle the basics of your digital catalog design. Besides ready-made templates, the Vecteezy site also provides users with various videos, photos, PNG files, and vectors.
The Freepik website is also one of the very well-known sites among graphic designers. With the free subscription of this website, you can access thousands of ready-made templates for your designs and utilize them for preparing a free digital catalog. Also, some files on this website are downloadable as open-layer. Although with a free subscription, you will have a daily download limit.
Mixkit is another online store that provides various content for creating advertising catalogs. The variety of free files on this site is much greater than the two previous sites. In Mixkit, tens of thousands of videos, music, sound effects, photos, ready-made Instagram Story projects, video projects for Premiere and After Effects, etc. are available for free download and use. And the interesting point is that the music on this site is copyright-free and easily usable.
The Marq platform, which is another one of the free digital catalog design tools, was previously active under the brand Lucidpress and provides the ability to create e-books with features such as page editing, adding links and media, etc. Free digital catalog design is possible using the free plan of this platform, but naturally, you will face some limitations.
Free Catalog Design Software
Downloading catalog creation software is a topic we will now address. In this section, you will first read a brief introduction to each of the digital catalog creation software, and immediately the download link will be made available to you.
FlipHTML5 (Desktop Version)
The Marq platform, which is another one of the free digital catalog design tools, was previously active under the brand Lucidpress and provides the ability to create e-books with features such as page editing, adding links and media, etc. Free digital catalog design is possible using the free plan of this platform, but naturally, you will face some limitations.
FlipBuilder
FlipBuilder software can be utilized to create various flipbook catalogs, brochures, and e-books. This software also provides users with multiple features such as page editing, adding links and media, etc.
MyBusinessCatalog
In this software, with its very simple user interface, you can easily place your product images along with the price list and descriptions, and after design, prepare multiple outputs including HTML, Android, and PDF files. This software is not free, but you can benefit from its cracked version. Thus, you can easily prepare a free digital catalog.
Introduction to Free AI for Creating Smart Digital Catalogs
As you know, a smart digital catalog has multiple elements, and infinite text, photos, videos, 3D images, animations, etc. can be placed in its pages; provided that the rules of digital catalog design are also observed.
In the following, we have listed several examples of completely free AI for generating various digital content for you. But we have addressed this topic in detail in a separate article.
- Generating Text Content with AI
- Grammarly AI
- Wepik AI
- Generating Audio Content with AI
- Splashmusic AI
- MusicFX AI
- Generating Visual Content (Photo) with AI
- imagefx AI
- wepik AI
- Generating Video Content with AI
- Splashmusic AI
- AI for Page Layout and Digital Catalog Design
- Wepik AI
- Generating Text Content with AI
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In this article, we aimed to introduce tools related to free digital catalog design. Using free digital catalog design tools can be useful for the design unit of various businesses or novice designers.
The smart digital catalog counts as one of the modern tools for customer presentation and its use is increasing day by day; because by creating an advertising catalog, one can have a different retelling of the brand, products, and services of any business. This is why different businesses active in every industry need this tool alongside other advertising tools. On the other hand, the increasing use of mobiles by customers encourages businesses to use it.
The important point in this type of advertising catalog creation is that all types of content can be used in product introduction, and neither the designer nor the business owner faces the common limitations of printed advertisements or PDF files.
At the end of this article, it is also worth mentioning that by using the Lenoos platform, you will have access to comprehensive tools and features, and you can perform all stages of design, production, and publication of your digital content in a user-friendly environment.
To know about the features of the Lenoos platform, you can refer to the Lenoos features page.
