5 Tricks to Make Your Canva Presentation POP!

if you're using canva to create presentations that's great it's a very powerful tool but I want to teach you five tricks kind of hacks if you will to take your presentation on canva from meh to awesome here we go the first thing I want to show you is my blur transition this is a very powerful way to present a point during your presentation so I'm going to take a busy image here like this guy maybe my presentation is about customer service our customer service is the best and I want that text to pop up but of course if we pop in that text our customer service is the best let's do that now our customer service is the best it's hard to see right because it's a light font so let's make it a little bit darker like League Spartan still not able to see well let's make it white so it stands out against a darker background well it works but my eye is busy it's going everywhere and across this person's lighter shirt it kind of Blends in there just looks like it says our customer service that's probably what the people in the back of the room and see so what can we do here well let me me show you exactly what I recommend doing so before anything I'm going to delete this one more time and I want the background of this to be black so I'm going to go and make the black the the black round the background so you can go to background here just hit black or hit the little icon up here and again make it black I want the background to be black that's number one so now I'm going to bring that person back and I want to duplicate this page because I want to lead into the page with the text on it so typically when I'm presenting I share a picture and then I add text on top of it and to make that text powerfully show up this is what I do so I go to the second slide and what I'll do first is I'll blur this background so I'm going to hit edit image hit blur and the whole purpose of blurring this I'm going to hit Auto to do that as well and just just a little bit more so it's a little bit more rounded the whole purpose here is to remove the details right I'm blurring things it's still basically the same image if you go from one to the next you would see that it's kind of the same thing but now the details are gone which now allows me to bring text in let's add a text box our customer service is the best and I'm going to make this a bolder font like League Spartan and probably make it a little bit bigger let's go maybe 55. still hard to see which is exactly why we made the background dark because now if I click on this image and hit this transparency icon up here I'm going to bring the transparency down and look at what happens to the text it really begins to stand out 50 usually works pretty well so now if I add a transition between this slide and this slide it will blur it and the text will come out and just pop on the screen so I'm going to hit these three dots right here hit add transition and I like to typically dissolve this you could even see a preview of that check that out oh that's just beautiful and I like the duration to be just a little bit shorter 0.3 seconds Let's Go full screen present and see what that's like our customer service is the best you see that I use this all the time I even do this in reverse order sometimes right so maybe I switch these around and I might go in reverse order I might go from text or some blurred image to then reveal something right maybe I'm revealing a point in the story or showing a map that I was talking about the whole time whatever it might be right there there are use cases for that as well so let's pre present from here it's blurred revealed this is Jack he's our best customer service person like that might be the way to go about it our customer service is the best meet Jack he's been in our customer service team and he got promoted to manager just last year and he said and then I might move to a quote or something from him or something like that let me escape out of that so that's the blur transition very important you want the dark background first so that you can change the opacity and transparency down which allows that white text to stand out on the blackish darker background next I want to show you one of my favorite effects which is called the light box effect which allows you to draw the attention of the audience to a certain point on a slide so to do this I'm going to find a map for example and let's go to photos let's say we want to do this map right here which is a real nice map of the world but I want to hone in on let's say Africa for example and I really want to point people to that now there's a couple ways to do that obviously I could go here and have like an arrow and draw attention uh with a graphical Arrow right like that and just go Africa there's Africa right now and I can go from one slide to the next so that it really just hones in on that right so here's the before slide and then after the world is huge but for right now we're going to be talking about right but how might we do this even better and with a little bit more sort of finesse my favorite way to do this would be to do the light box effect so let me show you the first slide we're going to remain the same right and we'll dissolve into this one in a minute but again I want to focus on Africa all right first I have to detach this from the background so I could work with it so I'm going to detach image from background and now I want two copies of them right two copies of them so I'm going to hit command copy or C and then command or copy V now you can see there's two images I'm going to Overlay them right on top of each other right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag and drop this over both of them and then begin to resize them so again they're the same position as they were on the previous slide so now I have two images right two images right on top of each other as you can see now what I'm going to do is I'm going to double click on this top image and that'll bring the crop window and I can now bring this over to where Africa is because that's my the point that I'm trying to make here I want to really hone in on Africa so now if I click out of that there's still two images there's the Africa image here as you can see I now have it and it's in its exact place where it should be now what I'm going to do is I'm going to and again I need to make sure the background is black now I'm going to click on this larger image right the Africa image is still there the larger image I'm going to bring the transparency down and look at that look at how Africa just pops out so so satisfying to see it done in this way right and I like to bring it down to maybe 10 to 20 just to darken everything else and this brings the user's attention to that area of the slide again I have two and I've cropped the one in the front keep that the same color everything else darkens out and so now if I do a dissolve transition watch this on the preview yo this is so cool and this transition the lightbox transition I like to make it a little longer because it's definitely like turning the lights off on everything but the thing you want people to pay attention to right so let's actually go to present now that it's a second long transition so the world is vast and large but today we're going to be talking about Africa next up I want to teach you about the timeline a timeline is something that you can include in your presentation as a way to have your audience know where you're at in the presentation they know where they're going to end up but you know where you are now and this way people never get lost this that you're looking at right now is the timeline of a presentation that I recently gave at a business event online and it was about launching a community so I wanted to share with people the different stages of launching a community which is exactly the stages of the presentation I was giving so I found a timeline this timeline right here and I found this by simply going into elements and saying timeline and now there's all these different existing timelines that you could choose from right I can choose this one and I can make it white to show you a little bit better right and now I can have a timeline I was born in 1982 and then this is when I broke my arm and this is when I learned to play the trumpet and this is when my girlfriend got me in high school all that kind of stuff you can include here if you want I'm gonna delete that right and it's cool because these timelines allow you to build your presentation off of so if I present this to you let's present this so this is our Workshop plan today this is at the beginning of the presentation or near the beginning after an introduction so first we're going to talk about idea and validation how to make sure that the community you're building is one worth building then we're going to go into the setup next up phase one phase two the launch of your community and then post launch right what's really amazing about this is again it paints a picture of the roadmap that you're about to bring people on but more than that you can continue to bring this back during the presentation for example when I start the validation and idea sequence this is this I pull that part of the timeline out I just blew it up and I cropped out the rest of it see if I double click on this here's the whole rest of the timeline I just cropped it so that you only see this and this arrow is just a separate arrow that I that's a font from from somewhere right and then I bring that timeline back and say okay now that we talked about idea and validation actually let me just present this to you to show you how it's done now that we talked about idea and validation now we're going to talk about the setup and your setup is this keep it simple did you see what happened there look at that animation so I pulled from this timeline the setup and now it went to the top literally the same thing just the same text down there just blew up and went to the top how did it do that well that's the next tip and trick here this is using the match and move uh feature or it's actually a transition so if I go to the three dots on the previous slide you're going to see the transition as match and move this is beta this allows you to take an element from your image or your slide and if it's existing in the next slide it will figure out a way to calculate how to move there it'll scale things up it might even rotate them actually I don't even know if that's true let's let's rotate this and just see what happens let's go upside down and let's see if that actually works I'm just actually really curious it does look at that it like flipped however that same element is it'll find it and it'll go there in that period of time that you set and scale up and and be there for you which is really cool especially if you're using the timeline feature but you can use it for other things as well let's say that the next slide I want to move that uh let's duplicate it and let's move setup just to the bottom right hand corner here and just make sure that move and match is on ADD transition there we go so now you'll see when I present that setup is going to go to the top and then now because we set up that match and move it's going to go to the bottom it scales up scales down really really cool how that works and then as I come out of this you'll see that it goes back to the timeline again because I bring the timeline back right and just to ensure you have the right pieces for example if I just took uh if I duplicated this page that you're looking at right now and I took this part of the timeline actually let's let's call it this part and just blew it up I'm just kind of making this random right I'm just going to make it huge like that like that uh let's just see what happens I think that transition is not on yet so we're going to do match and move see how that just scaled up so there's a lot of fun things that you can do with the match and move feature to scale things up move things around and have those quick transitions be really smooth between certain things again especially if you're using a timeline to help build a roadmap for where people are at in the presentation next I need to talk about notes notes are a great way to help you sort of understand and remember what to say at certain moments of your presentation but you can use them as a crutch and that can hold you back meaning I've seen people who've literally written every single word that they need to say on there and then I see them like on a zoom call but they're not looking at the camera they're looking at the notes and it just does not look professional I like to use notes as cues or reminders of things to talk about and stories to tell the way I like to go about doing notes Here on canva is I like to hit present and then I change the type from standard to presenter view this way I can see sort of what slides are coming next in a little bit bigger of an area and and have a lot more room to work with with the notes so I'm going to hit present this pulls up two screens this is the screen that like your audience would see or that would be on the projector or the monitor so I like to put that aside or minimize that I want to see the presenter view which is what we're looking at right here so now I see these slides the animations work the way that I would expect them to which is why I do the notes here because I can see exactly the flow of how this presentation will work right so here for example why in Alpha launch I might include in a note like this um talk about the dinner party that you and April that's my wife held right I might even go back and just say dinner party story and so when I'm presenting I can quickly glance at my notes and say dinner party story Ah that's right okay I'm gonna tell the story and then I can just get right into it right I don't need to write at 5 00 p.m people started coming in when they weren't supposed to or or in the case of this Alpha launch and Alpha launch is sort of like a a private uh invite to your community with special people in your community that make them feel great and it allows for just more room for error and people to expect that it doesn't have to be perfect anyway so I I could tell the dinner party story of when we had a dinner party at our brand new house but we hadn't yet fully moved in but we wanted to meet our friends who who are in town and it was like you know what they're our friends they don't care that the house is messy and that not everything is set up yet we just want to have a good time and treat them well right so I tell that story and I'm just reminded to tell that story here and what I can do is through the entire presentation go through and just kind of make sure things are the way they're supposed to be right if not you know especially at this stage where you're fine-tuning you're adding notes and kind of adding maybe I'm adding a quote here and there that I can that's maybe hard for me to remember I might put a quote in here from whoever that relates to the thing cutting quotes always make you feel like you're a little bit smarter and people pay attention to that if I find that there's something in the slides that's just not working or not quite right what I'll often do is kind of exit out of this and leave a comment right maybe the I noticed um transition out of this slide was wrong and I don't try to fix it yet right I just leave it at that that way I can go in later and do a sweep of all the errors and all the things as like a bonus uh content or a bonus tip for you I use the comment section here not just to like talk to my other team in fact my team doesn't have access access to my presentations this is for future Pat to go through and go through a run of all the slides and where there are errors or Transitions and this is again why you like presenter view because I can see what slides go to what and where things are headed and what's wrong and maybe the slide didn't work out the way it was supposed to or things didn't build the way they were supposed to I can exit make a note of it go back and then go through one round of edits to fix things it's just so much faster to do it that way good luck on your your next presentation if you don't yet have canva or you want to get access to canva Pros you can get access to more features please use my affiliate link that'd be awesome I get a little Kickback for that Pat flynn.com canva is the place to go I appreciate that so much more tips coming your way hit subscribe so you don't miss out peace

Channel: Pat Flynn

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Length: 15min 25sec (925 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 07 2022