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    Home ยป Recipes ยป Food for Thought ยป How To Create a Pinterest Pin from Scratch: Photos & Collages with Link

    LAST UPDATED: May 26, 2020 โ€ข FIRST PUBLISHED: September 9, 2014 By Toni Dash 26 Comments

    How To Create a Pinterest Pin from Scratch: Photos & Collages with Link

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    Creating a Pinterest Pin from Scratch Tutorial

    Ever want to create a Pinterest pin from your own image with a link? Or wonder how to create a Pinterest board, secret or public? This simple tutorial on How to Create A Pinterest Pin From Scratch will help you do both in a flash!Creating a Pinterest Pin from Scratch Tutorial

    Creating a Pinterest Pin from Scratch Tutorial
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    UPDATED: JULY 2018

    I think almost everyone uses Pinterest these days. For those who may not, it is a search tool to help discovery and catalog visual images on theme boards created from pictures, and linking to websites.

    Why Use Pinterest?

    Pinterest is a fantastic discovery and collection tool. It is essentially a search engine for creative content. Their goal is to help users discover new things, locate content like desired recipes and encourage trying new things.

    Plan Trips

    It is a fantastic way to plan trips, by creating a board and ‘pinning’ different pieces of information such as sights to see, places to eat, informational articles or pictures that make you anxious to go!

    DIY Project Ideas or Gift Ideas

    Want to start thinking of DIY Gift Ideas for the Holidays? Create a board and use the Pinterest search feature to find fantastic options that appeal to your fancy all year long.

    Party Planning

    Planning a birthday party? Start collecting ideas so all your links are in one place when you are ready to start shopping, creating, baking and having fun.

    Recipes

    Bloggers like me also use boards to chronicle our own recipes as well as other beautiful images that inpsire us. Pinterest really is a visual wonderland for everyone.

    Creating From Scratch Pins for Pinterest

    Have you ever wanted to upload your own photos into a Pinterest board?  Or maybe a photo from the web?

    For Bloggers, have you created a collage of photos from a certain post and want to link it back to the post but aren’t sure how? Or want to create a pin of a related photo that might not be in the blog post and link it back to the post?

    It’s very easy to do! Following is a Step-By-Step guide for Creating a Pinterest Pin from Scratch: Uploading Photos or Collages with or without a Linking URL.

    2018 Pinterest Update

    Pinterest continues to make changes that make it even easier for users to create pins, boards, move pins around on a board, archive a board, delete content in mass and more. These changes have made the creation of a pin from scratch simplier too, as well as creating boards.

    This guide has been fully updated in 2018 to include all new step-by-step screenshots for:

    • Creating a Board (secret or public)
    • Creating a Pin from Scratch
    • Editing a Pin Board
    • Deleting a Pin

    Lola the English Bulldog Halloween

    Tools for Creating Photo Collages or Text Overlays on Images

    I have two preferred tools I use to both create photo collages or to add text overlays on images for my blog and pinning to Pinterest.

    Picmonkey

    I historically have used Picmonkey, a creative photo editing site,  for adding titles to photos in my blog posts or to create collages.

    It has a photo editing element as well, which is very easy to use. Picmonkey no longer offers a free option. There are two subscription levels with the main difference is the number of options for fonts and embellishment detals.

    Picmonkey is great for seasonal projects as well due to their fun options for effects, fonts, backgrounds and more. You can create cards, collages, edit photos; the project opportunities are endless.

    For this example (done on Picmonkey) I edited a photo of our bulldog, Lola, using some Halloween embellishments on Picmonkey and saved it to my computer. Here is a Step-by-Step to turning that photo into a Pin.

    Create a Pinterest Pin with URL link from your photo

    Canva

    I’ve also begun to use Canva for adding overlays on photos, and to create collages. It’s a FREE photo design and graphic editor tool with loads of drag-and-drop featues, fonts, and templates (for personal projects like greeting cards too you may want to make and look professional).

    The photo with title overlay of Grilled Peach Mascarpone Ice Cream in the screenshots was created in minutes on Canva.

    They have many fonts and the graphics tool helps create title graphics quickly. Canva also has premade templates that can be easily modified with your script. They have many standard social media templates matching the dimensions for each social media platform for easy editing too.

    HOW TO CREATE A PINTEREST BOARD (Secret or Public)

    STEP 1:  Open your Pinterest Profile and Select ‘Boards’ from the menu above the Boards. Click on ‘Create Board’:

    A close up of food, with Pinterest and Collage

    How to Create a Pinterest Board Step 1 screenshot

    STEP 2: Give your Board a name (once it has been created you can edit to add a description too if desired), toggle the ‘Secret’ button to be ON (for Secret: first photo) or OFF (for public; second photo), and click ‘Create’:

    How to Create a Pinterest Board Step 3 making the board secret or public

    How to Create a Pinterest Board Step 2 screenshot - saving the board

    STEP 3: Fill in the Board details (once it has been created you can edit to add a description too if desired), the Description, Category and select SAVE:

    Filling out the details of a Pinterest Board

    After Selecting SAVE, the Board will appear as below. To EDIT the board, select the pencil icon above the Board Title and the second image below will appear.

    You can change the board name, fill out the description, select a category, change the secret/public setting or invite others to collaborate on the Board.

    To add Pins, either pin from an existing board, the Pinterest Feed or Create a Pin by selecting the icon “+” shown below:

    How to Create a Pinterest Board - adding pin and editing

     

    HOW TO CREATE A PINTEREST PIN FROM SCRATCH

    STEP 1:  In your Pinterest profile, the first square will have a red circle with a ‘+’ symbol and ‘Create Pin’. Select the ‘+’ symbol:

    How to Create Pinterest pin from scratch step 1

    STEP 2:  When selected, this image below will pop up. Click to upload the image (or drag and drop it) OR insert the URL to a photo you wish to use. 

    For this example I will show how to build a pin from a photo on your device:

    Creating a pinterest pin step 2 screenshot

    STEP 3:  The top image will appear after selecting the photo from your device (this example for saving from ‘Your Device’ but the same will happen if inserting a photo URL instead).

    Fill out the URL the pin should link to (the site that will open when the pin is clicked) AND the pin description; press DONE when finished:

    Creating a Pinterest Pin - Filling in the pin details screenshot

    Filling out Pinterest pin screenshot

    STEP 4: Select a Board for your new Pin. The second image is what will display after the Board is selected:

    Selecting a Board for a new Pinterest Pin

    Screenshot to new pin on a Pinterest Board

    How to EDIT a Pinterest Pin

    Once a pin is created you may decide to edit the description. In the Pin mode (not looking at the pin in Board mode), select the pencil icon above the pin image:

    How to Edit a Pinterest Pin screenshot

    This image will appear. Edit the description as desired (you can change the URL in this step too), and select SAVE:

    How to Edit a Pinterest Pin screenshot

    How to DELETE a Pinterest Pin

    If for any reason you decide you’d like to DELETE a Pinterest Pin, select the pencil icon above the pin (when the pin is open, not in the Board view) and the image below will appear.

    Select DELETE in the bottom left corner. NOTE: this is a permanent action and cannot be reversed!

    How to Delete a Pinterest Pin image

     

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    1. Corritta Lewis says

      May 29, 2019 at 9:23 pm

      This was so helpful, as I am just starting my blog and have no idea how Pinterest works. This helped me figure out where to start. I will be back to check out more of your content.

      Reply
    2. Amy Wisdom says

      April 24, 2019 at 6:41 am

      How do you get a recipe into a pin? Is there a certain format? Can you do it with Canva?
      Thanks!
      Amy

      Reply
    3. Ingrid McQuivey says

      August 05, 2018 at 7:27 am

      Thank you for the tips! I’m horrible at using Pinterest, and I’m out to conquer that. I’ll start looking into Canva.

      Cheers!

      Reply
    4. vanquisher says

      July 23, 2018 at 1:02 pm

      I’ll love to create a pinterest account for my Biz.

      Reply
      • Toni Dash says

        July 23, 2018 at 2:01 pm

        Pinterest is a great tool for businesses. Since it now functions like a search engine, it’s just another great discovery tool!

        Reply
    5. Poornima says

      December 30, 2017 at 12:18 am

      Lovely tips!
      something I was dreading to attempt was made extremely easy to do.
      wonderful style of instructions and LOVELY Lola!!!

      Reply
      • Toni Dash says

        December 30, 2017 at 6:47 am

        Iโ€™m so glad it was helpful! Itโ€™s realy pretty simple to do though imaging how to do it if you havenโ€™t before can be time consuming.

        Reply
    6. Cheryl says

      August 14, 2017 at 8:25 am

      I really appreciate the 2017 updates – I don’t recall ever seeing a site do that before!

      Reply
      • Toni Dash says

        August 14, 2017 at 8:31 am

        I hope it’s helpful Cheryl. The content isn’t really valuable to you unless it works! Pinterest is changing things fairly regularly so I try to test the method and update to how it is operating as often as possible.

        Reply
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