Ready to up your design game? Check out
these awesome Canva tips and tricks that will make designing super efficient and
smooth! I’ve got some pretty fresh ones this time too so even if you're a seasoned
Canva user, they may be completely new to you. Ready? Let's do this! Hi my lovely people, it’s Natalia and welcome
back to my channel where I help you create better content and grow on social media! Do you
know how to resize designs without Canva Pro? How about instantly finding the perfect elements
for your graphic? Even if you already know Canva, I’m sharing some nifty tricks to eliminate some
pesky little issues and make designing a joy! In this video, I’m showing you 10 new Canva tips
and tricks that you probably didn't know about. If I helped you to find a tip that you liked, hit that like button and let me know in
the comments what it is! And of course, don’t forget to subscribe to get even better
at Canva and create more engaging content! Let's start off with Tip no. 1... **TIP 1: Move Freely with CTRL** Do you know how sometimes, when you have
plenty of different elements on a design, Canva tries to help you position your
element correctly and it keeps snapping to the different boundary lines to align with
them? You often end up frustrated because you can’t get it into place just the way
you like. Well, here comes this tip! TO DO THIS: Select your element, and instead
of just dragging it as is, hold CTRL and you’re gonna be able to freely move around the
Canvas with no interruptions. Problem solved! **TIP 2: Find the Perfect Elements** It’s not always easy to find the right graphics,
photos, or other elements to fit your design well. The good news is that we now have a
personal assistant to help us massively! Click on our new Magic Assistant here in the
bottom right corner, scroll all the way down, and discover all the suggestions for
graphics or photos to match your design perfectly! You can also tap See All to expand
this selection and view this in the left panel, where you can also use Magic
Recommendations even further. **TIP 3: Resize without Canva Pro** The Resize button in Canva Pro is
definitely a godsend and speeds up the content creation workflow a lot.
But what to do if you’re a free user and still want to resize your designs
quickly and efficiently? I got you! The first method is to create a new design
with the dimensions you want to end up with, go to the left tab for Projects, look
up the design you want to resize, and just click on it. That’s going to
transpose it onto the new canvas at which point you’d need to slightly adjust
the elements to fit the new dimensions. Another option is to select and copy everything
from the first design and just paste it onto the new one, then again, adjust which should
be easy since everything is still selected. For this method, you’ll also have to change the
background yourself because it doesn’t usually copy unless it’s a photo or a graphic that’s
been previously detached from the background. Both are effective depending on the difference
in dimensions that you’re working with! **TIP 4: Import Instagram Posts** Have you ever wanted to just grab a post
you’ve already published on Instagram and use it within your new Canva design? In the second
installment of my Canva Tips & Tricks video, I’ve shared a hack where you can embed your
social media posts in your designs but how about just grabbing that image right
into the editor? That’s possible too! Go to Apps in the left panel, scroll down
for Instagram, or just search for it. Then, connect your account, and you’ll see your entire
feed right here. The cool part is that you can also import your videos with sound which not only
land in the editor but are also automatically uploaded to your files, meaning you can reuse
them in the future. Of course, that goes for the graphics or photos from IG too. This is such
a neat trick if you want to reference an old post, reuse a photo or a graphic in other ways, or
are planning out your feed visually in Canva. The only downside is that it only recognizes
the cover image for carousels and you won’t be able to access the other slides from here. That
being said, it’s still a pretty cool feature and reusing parts of old content (like clips from
my published Reels) is definitely a time saver. **TIP 5: Generate Backgrounds** AI has quickly become ubiquitous and it’s
no different here in Canva. I’ve recently shared two videos about the new Canva features
which are full of incredible possibilities for us created by AI and Text to Image has
just gotten much better for us. I want to share a little tip on how you can use it to
generate fun backgrounds for your graphics. Go to Apps, Text to Image should be the first
thing you see in the panel, and start describing what you’re after. I like to use certain keywords
to get these backdrop-worthy images and these include words like “pattern”, “collage”, “texture”
and of course “background” so let’s try something like “abstract light blue background”. You can
then choose a specific style as well. I’ve gotten great results both with 3D and with watercolor
of all things so definitely experiment here. Ok, we’re halfway through the video, I hope you’re
enjoying yourself - if so, leave me a thumbs up, it really makes me smile and also helps a ton! -
but if you want to become super confident in Canva and use it to accelerate your business and social
media, make sure you sign up on the waitlist for my upcoming Canva course! The link is in the
description box! And let’s move on to tip no. 6 **TIP 6: Blur Photo Background** We all love a bit of an artistic bokeh in
photos but it’s not always possible to get it, especially when you’re using existing
photos from the library. Well, you can blur your background ever so slightly
to get this kind of effect in Canva. First, select an image with a clear subject
like a person or an animal, or just something that stands out distinctly in the foreground and
is at some distance from the background. Then, go to Edit Photo at the top, switch to
the new editor if you haven’t already, and select the second tab, Adjust. From
the drop-down menu, choose Background, wait a second for it to process, and then
scroll all the way down to the Texture section and reduce the Sharpness on the slider. Make
sure to work gently for a more natural effect, but there are photos where you’ll
be able to go all the way down. Now, if it’s not enough of a blur for
you, you can duplicate the photo, drop the transparency and align it perfectly to the
previous one, then return the transparency to 100%. Next, click Edit Photo again, remove the
background, and select the photo underneath with the background remaining. Go to Edit Photo,
this time choose Blur and move the slider EVER SO SLIGHTLY. I wouldn’t go above 10 because
the subject then blurs too much outside of the boundaries that are covered by our cutout so for a
more natural effect, just stick to the lower end. This should give you a nice
enough blur in the background! **TIP 7: Bulk Edit Product Photos** Displaying your products online
just got so much easier! Now, you can bulk upload your product photos
and Canva will AUTOMATICALLY prepare them for you so that you can use them
on your website or anywhere else. TO DO THIS: Go to the Canva Homepage,
click Apps from the left panel, and then choose Product Photos. Then click Choose
Photos, upload up to 10 images of your products, and hit Next. Here, you can choose the style
you want, I’ll go for this one. Let Canva do its thing and in a moment, you have a pack
ready to use on your website or your designs. Random side note, you can also choose automotive
styles from this tab right here which works for cars I suppose so if you’re a used car
dealer, Canva got you covered apparently! **TIP 8: Change Colors with Duotone** Duotone is such a slept-on feature of Canva as
it really allows you to get some interesting effects with it. I want to show you how you
can change the color of your backgrounds or textures to match the style of your
design or just go with your branding. I’ve got this background here and it’s
definitely… clashing. I can just select it, go to Edit Photo, and select Duotone. From
here, we’ve got plenty of presets already, I’m going to scroll down and maybe go for the
classic BUT that’s not the end, I can change the color of the highlight and the shadow to my
brand colors so that I keep it consistent. It’s a great tip for those moments when the image
is perfect but the colors are just not giving. **TIP 9: Fix Your Frames** Frames are so helpful when you design especially
when you’re trying to add more visual interest to your graphics. However, when they’re rotated
like this tablet frame right here or this abstract frame there, the images pop are facing
the wrong direction. This is how you fix it! Instead of dragging your image into the frame,
first, add it to your canvas by simply clicking on it, and then rotate it in the opposite
direction. Then, drag it into the frame, and voila, it’s sitting there correctly. You may
need to rotate your image in different directions depending on how the frame was rotated,
but it’s definitely a very simple trick! **TIP 10: Replace Text** If you ever had to change something on multiple
pages of your design, you know it can be a pain, especially with those really big designs.
It can be things like your name, website, a date for an event or on a presentation,
or an Instagram handle like here on these 30 designs I generated with Canva Bulk
Create. By the way, check out this video next to learn how to automatically create
multiple designs in just a few clicks! Well, there’s a simple trick that
will help you change text super fast! Go to File and then Find and Replace Text or
simply hit CTRL + F, type what you want to swap in Find, and what you want to replace it
within the second box, and simply hit Replace All. Now all my IG handles are sorted and I don't
have to do it manually for each and every one! Have you been aware of these tips already?
Drop me a comment down below and if you’ve discovered something new today, I’d love
to hear which one of these tricks you’ll be trying on first! Now, that’s just 10
Canva tips I’ve shared with you today, but I have many many more in my previous
videos so check them out in the description box or just watch this playlist right here
to learn a ton of useful skills in Canva! If you’ve enjoyed this video, make sure to give
it a thumbs up and subscribe because there’s so much I have in store for you! Thank you so
much for watching and I’ll see you… next time.
