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! Today, I’m back with another Canva tutorial
slash Canva tips & tricks video to help you discover some of the most recent exciting
updates. If you already know Canva and want to use
it more effectively, you’re in for a treat because we have some very fresh news and some
hidden gems that you probably haven’t heard of! If I helped you to find a tip that you liked,
go ahead and hit that like button and subscribe for more videos. 1. Remove video background This latest Canva update is mind-blowing! Do you know you can remove backgrounds from
any image in Canva and it’s like THE favorite feature for everyone? Well, now you can do the same thing with videos! Yes, we can now do it with one click and it’s
amazing! Find any video from the library or upload
yours, then select it and just as with an image you’d click Edit Image here, now you
choose Edit Video and here’s our Background Remover. See, it works like magic! Now imagine all the different things you can
do with it! First of all, with the Canva video editor,
you can use different animated green screen elements from the Library and use them as
overlays on your videos. If you’re feeling a bit more funky and want
to extend your personal brand a little, you can create gifs or animations of you to use
within your designs. It’s also a cool option if you’re creating
a Reel in Canva and want to replicate the green screen effect that we know so well from
Instagram or TikTok. Or you can just use your clip and switch up
the background for something completely different. So many great possibilities from this one
update! (IG) And if you want more cool Canva tips
like this, don’t forget to follow me here! What you need to know about the new Canva
Video Background Remover is that it’s still in the beta phase so it definitely works better
with simple backgrounds, however, I’m sure it’s going to get even better over time,
just like the second update. And now, before I move on, I’d love for
you to join the waitlist for my upcoming Canva course! It’s a full, comprehensive course that’s
going to help you master the platform and efficiently design engaging graphics for your
business and social media. The link is in the description! 2. PDF Another exciting update that Canva released
is the PDF editor. This is the feature we had in beta for a while
but now we have access to the fully developed function. You can simply upload your PDF from the homepage
and Canva is going to, again, work its magic to break it down into separate editable elements. So say you have a flat PDF meaning a PDF that’s
not been saved with the layers retained. You can click Create a Design here on the
homepage, click Import File and choose this PDF. Canva is going to create a new project for
you and identify all the different text boxes, images, and graphics so that you can edit
them freely. Just look at this PDF that I’ve just uploaded. Instead of a flat document, I now have a fully
editable design and that’s a game changer in my opinion. When I first talked about the beta version
of the Canva PDF editor, I said that it’s not always perfect and that it doesn’t get
a lot of things right. Well, that is now much much improved. You can see that I can now change the font
of the headline here at the top, I can make this image bigger or smaller, I can move the
arrow here because it’s been perfectly identified as an element by Canva and what’s new and
really cool is that I can now treat it as an editable element just like some of the
ones in the Canva library and change the colors to whatever I want. It even divided the colors for the body of
the arrow or the shaft, right?, (the dashed lines), and the point of the arrow. How cool is that! I’m so happy that it’s now a full release
because before, I would not be able to grab these numbers from behind the text box. It wouldn't be identified correctly by Canva. But now, easy peasy, I can just grab them,
change the color, move them around, so cool! Of course, editing the PDFs is the most exciting
part of this new update, but I want to mention the other possibilities that this editor gives
us. So often, we have to merge PDF files, reorder
the pages, move something from one page to the other, and now all of this is possible
within Canva. I can import two PDFs, go to the thumbnail
view, and literally copy over entire pages of the document to the next one! If I just want one page, I can do that too
and easily download the PDF with the current page option. We no longer need to use Adobe Acrobat Pro
or look for free online editors like smallPDF to be able to do all of those things! Not to mention, you can now use your existing
PDFs and transform them into presentations or social media designs, and if you’ve gone
through the process of rebranding, you’ll be able to apply your new brand guidelines
to your PDF easily. (YT) By the way, if you’re always on the
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check out this video next to discover Canva tips & tricks you might not have heard about
before! 3. New shapes features You probably know that we’ve always had
access to a variety of generic shapes within the Canva editor. You had your standard circle, and rectangle,
and triangle, but you couldn’t do much with them other than stretch them out in different
directions or change their color. Now, we have a whole new layer of editing
available with these simple shapes! Let me add a rectangle so that you see what
I’m talking about. First of all, you can see straight away a
text bar is flashing within the shape meaning we can start typing and it’s going to act
like a text box. The top panel has been updated with new functions
and the text options are readily available for you there. But notice this Shape button at the very beginning. When you click on it, we can change the rectangle
into any other one from the shapes library which is very handy ESPECIALLY when you include
text there. That’s already quite a useful improvement
but I want to move on to the part that excites me the most and that’s the button with these
little unassuming lines. It looks simple but it hides a few really
cool options that we’ve missed within Canva. First of all, you can add a border and choose
anything from a plain line, through dashed lines, all the way to the dotted effect. Pretty cool. Of course, you can then adjust the border
weight with the slider right here and now for what’s my favorite shape update - the
corner rounding. I love this feature, it definitely makes my
life easier not having to search for specific elements to achieve this look. It’s so simple and it has the power to really
transform the shapes you’re using. When you think about it, if your brand is
a bit more organic in feel, and you don’t use many harsh lines, this feature is going
to help you a ton. Let’s switch this rectangle to a harsher
shape like this four-pointed star. When I use the corner rounding, it just completely
transforms the shape so that’s definitely a much-needed update from Canva. 4. Whiteboards We’re getting more options to actively collaborate
in Canva as teams! The new feature is called Whiteboards and
it’s the perfect tool to brainstorm, plan, work on projects, collaborate during meetings,
basically anything you’d do with a big whiteboard in a group of people in real life. There are already so many templates for you
to use from the library to inspire you and help you use this new feature. You have a remote meetings whiteboard, project
journey templates, voting boards, diagrams, mood boards, mindmaps, and even games, it’s
actually quite incredible how many options we get so early after the launch of this new
option. I highly recommend you scroll through this
extended library of templates to see what may work for you personally and within your
workflow. When you choose a whiteboard template to work
on or actually create a blank one (because you can do that too), you’re taken to a
whiteboard editor and this is a part of its magic. It kind of is infinite. I mean, technically it isn’t, when you zoom
out, you’ll see there’s a limit, but from a practical standpoint, you’d be pressed
to try and use up all that space. When you zoom in, you can see how close you
can get to specific elements which gives you almost a tunnel vision but I’ll get back
to it in a moment. Now, this new nearly-infinite editor for whiteboards
reminds me of a cool software I used to use a ton as a student and then later on as well
which is called Prezi. It’s a tool that for me revolutionized the
way we looked at presentations at the time when PowerPoint was the name of the game and
you’d look at boring slides all the time. Just like now in Canva, you could literally
build your whole presentation on an interactive backdrop and build slides from zoomed-in or
zoomed-out snippets. There were transition animations when you
moved from slide to slide, very cool. Let me know down in the comments if you remember
or ever used Prezi, I’d be super curious to know if it’s like a well-known tool! I used to love it so much so it’s great
to see a similar concept in Canva now, albeit used for a slightly different purpose. Back in the editor, within our Elements tab
in the left panel, you’ll notice some new, whiteboard-specific categories like sticky
notes, stickers or whiteboard graphics, and the regular library is available to you too. Now when you look at this particular template
and it’s similar in many others, you see that they’ve prepared a bunch of different
elements for you and your team to use. You can literally duplicate a sticky note
from here and add it to a specific board, just like any of the connectors or stickers. There’s also this mode called Quick Flow
which allows you to do all of these things even quicker so let’s say I have a new strength
to add in this column. Unless I want a specific element from the
master board here, I can literally just select the sticky note and hit the plus sign wherever
I want to add a new one and it creates a new one beneath straight away. So cool. And you can do it to all the other elements
too like this big one right here. If you don’t like it or don’t need it,
you simply right-click on any element and select disable Quick Flow. If you ever need more space anywhere, you
can easily stretch an element just like you would in a regular Canva editor. With each of the elements, you and your team
members can add comments anywhere they want to it makes for an even more collaborative
workspace. Another thing I want to mention is that you
have the timer here at the bottom so that you can time each member of the whiteboard
and make sure everyone gets enough time. You can also time your sessions, it’s so
useful, a really nice touch for team collaboration. Whiteboards save within your projects like
a regular design would and when you’re done collaborating, you can export the finished
whiteboard as a pdf or a jpg or even as a video if you’ve used any animated or video
elements. I’ll be honest, even without a team, the
Whiteboard feature is really interesting to me and when I first saw it, I was definitely
inspired by all the possibilities so I’m curious what you think about it! 5. Canva Websites I have included websites in the first video
on Canva Tips & Tricks but now we’re getting something even better! With the official launch of the full Canva
Websites feature, we can now turn PDFs, documents or presentations into simple, responsive Websites
and it’s the responsiveness that seems to really have been improved - we’re getting
device previews now. We previously had no options with own domains,
but now we can purchase a branded domain from within Canva or use a domain we ourselves
own. Although a simple Canva website cannot really
replace a fully fleshed-out, professional website to represent your brand well online,
I think this new update is fantastic for a variety of simple applications. The biggest upside? No coding or previous experience with websites
required! You can create your own media kit, a simple
landing page or a press release. If you’re looking for a job, this can be
a website slash resume to showcase your experience, you can use it to create resources for your
clients or even a personalized dashboard for them. As an artist or a designer, this can be a
great way to build and be able to quickly update your own portfolio. If you create websites for clients, this feature
allows you to share mockups with them and work out the finer details before you build
the official website elsewhere. I’ve previously shared a tutorial on how
to create a link in bio through Canva for your Instagram link and there are really plenty
of different ways you can use Canva Websites in your business and life. The great thing about this new Canva update
is that we now have access to hundreds of templates and that we can create using all
the lovely elements, and photos, and videos from the Canva Library. Another amazing feature is that we can keep
the website private by adding a password or choosing to hide it from search engines, which,
again, works brilliantly if you’re creating something for a client. And of course, no website would give you a
good overview of your visitors if it didn’t provide you with analytics so Canva took care
of it too. We’re getting access to Website Insights
which can help us track views, clicks and engagement on our new page. 6. Text to Image App Yes, you’ve heard me right, it’s text
to image, not text to speech or any similar combination that we already know and use. With this new feature within the Canva editor,
you can generate new ideas from a simple description. Let me show you how it works! Let’s say I need an image for an upcoming
post and I have a rough idea as to what it should include. When I click more here in the left panel,
you can see the new Text to Image tab and when I select it, it allows me to type our
a simple sentence to then create an image for me within seconds. Sounds pretty cool, right? I can let Canva generate any image that it
feels will look best but I can also choose a drawing, a photo, a 3D image, a pattern,
or concept art. Now, granted, this feature is brand new and
it’s still very much in the beta stage but just like with PDFs, I expect it to get much
much better. It can be used to create unique images that
may surpass the need for stock images in the future. It’s also a great way to stir your own imagination
and help you come up with new ideas for your designs. I’m very curious to see where Canva takes
this new feature! 7. Quick Create If you’re on multiple platforms, you’ll
know how hard it is to create posts for each and every one of them and make sure they’re
all the right size and vibe. Sure, you can design one post and then use
the Resize button if you’re a Pro user. The downside is that you have to do it each
time and adjust accordingly so that is looks good. If you’ve created a post for Instagram,
you want to repurpose it for Pinterest and that’s going to be much more vertical so
it’s going to move the elements around… then you want a visual for Twitter, and that’s
a completely different size too, so you adjust again… In short, it’s not effortless. Well, as usual, Canva decided to deliver! With the Quick Create update, we now have
the possibility to, well, quickly create a bunch of posts from the same template with
a few clicks. If you’ve ever used Tailwind for Pinterest,
you’ll know they had a similar option and it was so helpful to creators on the platform
so that they could produce a lot of similar Pins all at once. Now if you want to try the Quick Create feature
in Canva, it’s slightly hidden and not so obvious. You’ll need to go to social media tab on
the home page right beneath the big search bar and you’ll find it as the first option
here. When you’re in this new type of editor,
it allows you to speed-design a square Instagram post and a vertical story, a Facebook post
and a cover which is helpful if, for example, you’re planning a new campaign, a Twitter
post, a Pinterest Pin, a LinkedIn Post and an email header, because let’s not forget,
among all the social media portals, it’s always crucial to have a platform that you
yourself own so I love that it’s there! Once you select which placements you want,
you can add your primary and secondary text, add an image and a logo. Then, you’ll be able to choose the style
from the library of templates. I feel like at the moment the selection is
slightly limited compared to what we’re used to seeing in the Canva library, but the
update is fairly new so I expect it to be expanded in the future. I hope at least! And now for the absolute banger, we always
want our designs to keep with our overall brand image, we need to keep a consistent
look and that’s where our trustee Brand Kit comes into play. You can now select your own color palette
or choose something from the additional ones suggested by Canva and you can apply your
own fonts. I always emphasize it, this is what really
sets apart a newbie from a more professional creator, you always want to make sure you’re
keeping a consistent brand image and that’s why this part is so important! If you keep on clicking on the palettes, the
colors are going to shuffle and you’ll see a lot more variety so that you end up with
a well-matched design. When you’re done, you just click finish,
wait for Canva to do its magic and voila, you can now download a whole pack of your
new designs, ready to be uploaded across all platforms. How cool is that! One honorable mention that I want to include
here that’s not yet launched is Canva Docs. They’ve been announced at the Canva Create
conference and it looks like it’s going to be another very exciting addition to the
platform. Going beyond the boundaries of the classic
documents, we’ll be able to combine rich text, various media from the library as well
as some new data visualizations like new graphs, charts, checklists and tables plus it seems
that we’re getting Insights within this new feature too. I’ve joined the waitlist for Docs in Beta
so I’ll report back once I know more and hopefully had a chance to test them! Have you discovered something new and exciting
today? Jump to the comment section quickly and let
me know which update is your favorite! Now, if you want more great tips, check out
the first installment of the Canva Tips & Tricks and for more quick Canva tutorials, head on
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