Pinterest can be a great place for documenting your bucket list. And with bloggers like supremebucketlist, bucketlistforgirls & perfectbucketlist popularizing the bucket list pin, you can find plenty life list goals to pin.
But what if you want a pin that doesn’t exist? Or if you’re not sure about copyright infringement?
Make your own. With a photo and descriptive text, you can create your own Pinterest Bucket List pin. Here’s how you can make one that fits the bucket list genre:
Find an appropriate, public domain or Creative Commons-licensed photo (or use one of your own). Search a site like flickr or freedigitalphotos.net. Make sure you read the license to know what uses are available. Usually you will need to credit the photographer (which means including their name in the wording of your pin) & link back to the original photo. In this case I used a photo I took myself.
Next, you’ll want to create a text overlay using a photo editor like Photoshop or PicMonkey. I used a workaround on mine and created these in Microsoft Word, using screen shot to capture and save the images as jpgs (I explain why below).
Insert your bucket list text. Most bucket list pins use a font like Arial, in white, kerned very tight (the text below is before kerning). Some will also use a black outline for the letters so the text stands out from the photo. PicMonkey requires manual kerning and doesn’t offer an outlined font, hence my use of Word.
Remember that your pin completes the sentence that starts with I want to… or Before I die, I want to… Therefore, bucket list pins commonly omit the initial capital and end with a period. And use first or third person pronouns – I, my, mine; we, our, ours – when necessary.
And that’s it. You’re ready to pin.
Happy pinning and happy bucket listing! If you know of any bucket list pin resources I didn’t mention, let me know. I will continue to update this post so bucket list pinners can create the most awesome images for their lists.
