Pablo by Buffer — Create engaging images for your social media posts in 30s

I've been waiting for the Buffer team to release something like this. It's a good MVP and I'm looking forward to seeing how this is incorporated into the Buffer Chrome extension (a one-click option would be nice). While these artistic image + text photos are beautiful, in most situations I'd prefer to use a hero image pulled from the site I'm sharing or a screenshot of the page itself, similar to this tweet of mine. Is this something you're considering, @joelgascoigne?

What is the main difference between this one and https://shareasimage.com/, besides the option to upload your own picture, browser extension etc. And how do you think you would position yourself different on the market?

I love it, but why can't I upload my own photo? I mean, I saw the "upload photo"option, but it hasn't worked all 10 times I tried it...

You guys are so fast :) Excited to see Pablo on PH, what a privilege. Images on social media are something we've been observing and making use of ourselves at Buffer for a long time now, and some time ago we published data about Tweets with images getting 150% more Retweets. We wanted to help people benefit from images more easily by creating a tool with the same simplicity in mind that we often hear as a reason for people using Buffer for scheduling their posts. Here's our MVP :) I've not been all that involved in Pablo, it's been an inspiring effort from @brian_lovin, @patrikward, @sahir_memon, @kevanlee and @leowid. I must say, we still feel we're pre product / market fit (or at least not certain of the fit) with Pablo, and we're working hard to learn and move towards a great mini product people can get a lot of value from. We've done a lot of more private customer development and just today we decided to roll it out more widely and send some traffic from a few places in our app and on our blog, so we can give the product 'oxygen' and learn more. I think you guys are probably the best group of people we could ask for help with getting Pablo to product / market fit. We'd love your thoughts on what we could improve, things that stand out, things that are missing or things we have that are unnecessary :) Also, ask me anything! (update - heading to sleep now here in Sydney, my co-workers around the world will be checking the comments :)

Great tool! Would be cool if it showed what % of the image the text was covering. I know when you want to pay promote a specific post on FB they require text covers less than 20% of the image. It would be good to know ahead of posting to FB that the text fits within that range in case it's something worth promoting on a company page.

I just tried this out. Another amazing product from Buffer. It is simple and elegant and really a wonderful way to integrate words and images. Of course., being Buffer it is great the built in sharing tools. Great job and I know I will get. Lot of use from this.

@joelgascoigne Neat tool! Is there a size limit for picture uploads? I've been trying to upload some images around 4-5 MB, but nothing happens (no error message, but the spinner doesn't start either). Small images work fine.

Hey @joelgascoigne the 'download' feature is not working for me on Chrome after several tries, the loading icon just keeps spinning.

Really slick tool guys! Way to go for keeping users interested in utilizing Buffer app for all their social needs.

Easy to use but at the same time customizable and the ability to add to buffer or post to social with one click makes this my go to tool for all quick social sharing graphics. 30% of my 85k tweets include graphics and that number will only increase thanks to this tool!

This is fantastic. I have been doing this manually for the most part. Would love to see this come to Buffer's mobile app.

This reminds me a lot of http://www.tryspruce.com/, have been using it a lot lately. Nice to see that buffer has something similar now!

This is really awesome! It would be great to have the option to remove the border around the text though.

Neat little product, but I have to say I do hate this pattern that's emerged. I really wish Twitter would add in feed preview for card driven images. In order to get in-feed, many publishers and brands upload an image in addition to a link to the content instead of using a card (@TechCrunch is a fine example). For me, the added context of the card and the deep link possibility is preferable.

Very cool. I've been using Spruce primarily because of its simplicity and speed. I can see Pablo becoming part of my daily workflow.

I was testing shareasimage.com and now Pablo, i would love to give my Facebook page permissions and publish on Fanpages easily, maybe with the Buffer power... scheduling posts.

reminded me of http://www.tryspruce.com/. Would be awesome if this gets integrated to the chrome plugin.

This is really great. Like someone mentioned above I could see a huge fit as extension. On any page, be able to highlight a block of text, click the extension or right click and then it loads up the tool with all the images on the page, plus access to the addition images in your library. Customize and Buffer!

OMG! I don't know how could I miss this awesome tool. Thank you @joelgascoigne @brian_lovin @patrikward @sahir_memon @kevanlee @leowid :)

Congrats @brian_lovin, @joelgascoigne and the rest of the Buffer team. Pablo looks great. So simple to use and certainly saves time creating images on Photoshop. A few bits of feedback: - Share to Facebook: image size at the moment isn't optimised for Facebook, in the future could you add an option to 'Save for FB' and create an image that fits the FB size guidelines - Currently the image links away from Facebook instead of opening up as an image from my FB timeline - Upload an image: could be good to state best dimensions there so people know what size to upload Brilliant stuff! And all the best with the launch.