Canva Tutorial for Beginners 2022

welcome to our 2022 canva tutorial for beginners video so in this video i'm going to walk you through step by step everything you need to know to create amazing designs with canva canva has been a platform that we've been using as a team for a couple years now the first year or so we were using the free version the last say a year and a half or so we've been using canva pro in this tutorial i'm going to use the canva pro version but 95 of what we're going to be doing you can do with the free version and i'm going to point out the premium feature so you know hey this is something that you would need to upgrade to be able to utilize really quickly let's check out the differences between the free and the pro version of canva so you get 250 000 free templates with the free version over here you get six hundred and ten thousand you get hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics here you get hundreds of millions of photos videos audio and other graphics here you can also save a bunch of different brand kits so with the free version you can save up to three colors for your brand kit with the pro version you can have a bunch of separate different brand kits for different companies you may work with you can save logos and fonts as well then the next benefit here is to be able to remove the background of images something that we use for youtube thumbnails and other designs basically every single day the next thing is you can quickly resize your design so you could go from an instagram image there to square to an instagram story that's vertical the next thing you can do is save templates and use as a team you have more cloud storage you can also schedule social media content across a platform so this is similar to later buffer or some of the other scheduling softwares if you're interested in trying canva pro for free for 45 days check out our affiliate link down below in the description if you end up upgrading to canva pro we may earn a small commission but at no extra cost to you this is longer than canva's normal free trial so if you go to canva.com you will not get as many days free as the link that we have down below in the description i recommend just checking it out for free see if it's worth it if not don't worry the normal free version of canva is really really powerful with that said let's hop on the computer and get started once you click on our affiliate link it's going to look something like this where you can sign up to get your 45 day free trial so when you sign into canva it's going to look something like this obviously if you're signing in for the first time you're not going to have these recent designs now let's just walk through everything on screen right now so up along the top you have all the different templates that you could create here are the some some of the different features so photos icons print products apps explore you can download the canva app onto your computer or your phone we have a tutorial on how to use canva on your phone i'll link to that up above right here then onto learning they have a bunch of tutorials to help you learn how to create better designs about fonts colors all sorts of things like that so that's a great resource to check out then that's kind of all along the top right here then let's move along the side so all of your designs your recent designs stuff that's been shared with you all of your folders stuff that you've added to the trash here's where you can add someone else to your team and then you have the brand kit and the content planner so the content planner is just available in canva pro and then the brand kit is partly available in the free version but you get a ton more within canva pro so within camera pro you can add your logos and add fonts the colors right here so you can see we have three different color combinations if you're using the free version you're only going to get three colors that you can save for your brand colors that's most of what you're going to find here now let's go back to the home and create a design so there's a lot of ways you can find what you're looking for in terms of the type of design so you can see you have for you right here you can create presentations social media videos print products marketing and office so you could just go explore within one of these and scroll along to the side or sometimes it's just easier to type in whatever you're looking for so if you type in youtube you're gonna have the channel art your thumbnails stuff for youtube shorts etc as well as the outros and intros if we were to create something for instagram you have instagram posts real stories etc so let's say we want to create a post for instagram here is the size so you could just type in 1080 by 1080 and create a design really easily or just click on instagram post so when you get here you see that there are a ton of different templates 88 455 to be exact i would imagine for the normal version of canva it's probably around half of that but to tell which ones are free and premium if it has a little crown that's the icon for canva pro so as we kind of mouse over you this is a normal free one this one this one that whole row was essentially free so we're you know half of that row so you can see here there's there's tons of different options and you can go and filter along the side right here colorful minimal elegant simple so maybe we want something simple something like one of these maybe so what you can do here is you can start with one of the templates they have or you always have this option to create a blank instagram post or whatever the design is that you're creating so why don't we just click on this first one and really quickly i'll show you how to edit a template and then we'll create something from scratch and i'll basically show you all of the different things you can do within canva so if you picked a design like this what you can do is go and click on anything here so you can you know grab drag the corner change the size if you click on this you can highlight and you know change the text hello you can click on the color and change well that's not going to change that this icon right here if it's something like this you can change the colors of it if it's not kind of fixed like this image doesn't give you options to change the colors but this you see this color appear up here that means that you can go and change this to a different color so now it's green the same thing with this shape right here so you can drag the side of it if you drag the corner it keeps the proportions the same you know you can move it like so again these ones it looks like there's three different colors in this so anyways if you want to change one of them you can do something like that if you click on something you can go and rotate it so you can just go through and take one of the existing templates make it to your liking one last thing if you click on the background you can go and change the color so something like that but now let's just go back click on home again and then click on create it gave us great blank instagram post so here if we just click on the background the first thing we could do is let's use our blue color for the background up here we can say test ig post so now that it has a name if you have the colors in your brand kit you can just click on one they have some default colors here or you always have the option to add the hex code right here or you can essentially use these two screens to get any color you want so you drag here for the different kind of types of color and then from here you can go and choose something you know much more specific and it gives you the hex code right here and then obviously something all the way in the corner is going to be pure black so that's the very beginning hey we got the background done the templates we looked at a second ago and then from there let's go to elements so there's a ton that you have here so it's going to show you stuff you've recently used you have lines and shapes so if there's anything you want to use just click on it it gets added again just go up here change the color if you want if you move the corner that way you change it this way here we could go back to elements maybe we want a line like so and then if you want to see more of any of these you can just click on see all one quick thing with something like this design is that if you drag the corner it's going to change the whole shape of everything you see now the line is much thinner so if you had a line that was too thick for whatever you wanted to do what you can do is drag the corner of it to get the thickness you want and then you can just drag one side at a time to get it back to the dimensions that you want to use so something like that and now we have an outline that's much thinner now one kind of quick thing i think that would make sense while we have three different shapes here this is a good thing good time to show you the positioning so if i were to highlight all three of these there's a lot that we can do now if i click on group that means that all these are going to stay the same proportion if i go and move them and i move everything together if i want to then ungroup i can do that then the position what i was talking about so let's highlight the three things again if i go to position if i position to the top they're all at the top now if i were to move them again highlight all three position and then so you can see so this is going to be middle vertically so it's going to pull them all down like this it could be in the center and then they're all lined up along the center i could align them to the right i could align all to the left the other thing i can do is space evenly and then it spaces all so this space and this space are the same so there's a lot that you can do like that the other thing is the order of the elements so let's do something like this and so you can tell this is on top this is in the middle and this is behind so what we can do again is if we have the line clicked on and go to position we can bring it forward so we can bring forward one and it's probably let's change the color so it's easier to see let's go to this so you can see that this is now on top of everything it's on top of even the square and so this one down here is on the complete bottom so if i go to position here i can move forward and then it is on top of the square but it is being it's this is the middle of the three items right now so if i wanted to push it all the way to the back i could do that so if you have text and something else and you want to change which one is up front sometimes you have text and you want maybe the image to cover up the very end of the text let's say you would put whatever the images in front of the text in that example so here are kind of lines and shapes but within elements there's all sorts of stuff so if we go now to graphics so there's all sorts of different designs something really easy so gradients so or something that's kind of shaded from one color to another so you can just go and change you know any of the these two colors this this you can also use these for backgrounds as well and then you have feature designs you have stickers designs for a cause the foliage zodiac symbols let's edit one of these so if the design is editable in terms of the colors you get something like this along the side and then you can just go through and change you know any of those colors there and then i get the same thing with adjusting the size you know rotate it if you want to etc and then let's see some of the stuff will probably not no this i can change the colors anyways if something isn't allowing you to edit it's not going to give you these up top then you have the photo so within within canva as we saw earlier there's hundreds of thousands of photos for free with the free version and millions within the pro version if you're looking for other stock photos that you don't find here we have a video walking you through a bunch of websites that offer free stock photos i'll link to the video up above right here but here again you can use the search for anything so if we go what do we want to think about today how about lions so we have all these photos again what we're going to see these are free if you see the crown this is part of canva pro maybe we want to use this image or so maybe this one one of the things that that we can try i've actually never tried this before is to remove the background so this works at least with people i've never tried it with an animal before so we can remove the background and see if we have just the line left there we go so now we have just the outline of the line the same thing works for people this is what we use to create all of the thumbnails for our youtube videos we always use a solid background i take the picture right here we get rid of the gray background and use our blue so that within let's go back to elements so we looked at images graphics so more photos there's videos as well and then from there so if we let's just clean up some of the stuff here so the line's taking up a lot of space let's move that get the line back on move this person down here also within fr scrolling down further you have frames and so if we use a frame like so what you can do here is if you drag an image into the frame you can do that so what's going to happen is there's a circle now so we have essentially the circle and the line is in that what we may want to do within the circle though is put the line at the center of it so now we have a circle element so you would see it better if we change the background there's there's essentially no the element this has no background if this were an image with the background you would see the circle more clearly you have charts as well now if we go down to uploads so this is where you can add you know company logos pictures anything else that you want to have you can even record yourself right here so one one option is you can just drag an image on the screen like this or you can click on it and it does the same thing we only need to have me on here once so with this picture we can again edit this image background remover and then again i wanted to show you all of the other things you can do within the the image editing so this is important so if you click on edit image so we remove the background but then the brightness contrast and saturation so this is something you may use in photoshop or something like that so you can change the brightness the contrast the saturation so you can have make sure that the image looks good you can make some small tweaks to the image right here there's filters for the colors if you want to go back you have to go see more and then go to none then we have photogenic so again it's going to add some type of filter i think these are kind of similar and then we can go back to none again scrolling down further so mock-ups is similar to what we did with the line where we put it inside a form so if i wanted to be inside of a laptop i can do that like so or if it were me on a photo me in a cell phone there's a bunch of different options if you click back or forward you can undo or redo so undo and then you have the different shadows are really interesting too so what you can do if you want to kind of have a highlight or kind of a halo effect around an image so if you want to edit one of these things you see the little dials right here click on that and you see there's three options so the size of the shadow the transparency so if you want to be solid you drag it all the way across if you want some blur so there's kind of a range of from more transparent to less transparent you could increase the blur and you can make it bigger and less transparent so you could do that to it as well and if you wanted this to be white you could also do that and then let's see if there's anything else with an image they have these duo tones that we can do so you can essentially well that's a bit too much and again click on the edits and then i can go through and change these colors change the shadow and then cancel if i don't want to use that and there's a few other things down here that i that i haven't really had a chance to use one other thing with the images so if you wanted to crop the image if you wanted to cut out part of the image you can just you know either drag it by the corner or you so here if i just wanted to maybe kind of cut my hand out of it i could do that and then if i clicked on done there we got rid of the rest of the image i can undo it if for some reason i wanted my hand on the other side you can flip it so in that case you would flip horizontally or you can also flip vertically so that's pretty much the editing for images that you can do now moving on to text so you can click on text here and add something also if you just hit t it will add text on the [Music] on your design like i just did there's a bunch of kind of design fonts for you so something like this and then you can go through and say hello and then it should let me also i don't know if i can change these so i don't know if it'll let me change all three colors or just the top color with this one some of the other ones it will you know let you go through and change you know everything there let's see so fresh baked um maybe we'll change the background to white let's get rid of some of this stuff so here let's see here so we have now this is the the this font and then if i were to click on this i can adjust you know this font if i wanted to click this i can change this one that's basically how you would go through and edit some of that text but again if you want just something more plain which is what we end up doing most of the time if you want to just delete this click on so you're not you know typing in the text and then just hit delete and then i'll just hit t and have some paragraph text and so i can drag this anywhere that i want and then one of the other things that's always important is to to align stuff so it'll always give you these dotted lines so now it's going to so this is left aligned with the square i could right align this with the end of this line i could be right in the middle of the design like this i can you know go and bold italic so if this design was much longer so you can see now in the design it's centered but i could go left align or i could go full right align or back to center if i wanted to add a bulleted list i could easily here's a number list and then if i want to get rid of it and then there's tons of different font options right here and if you're using camera pro you can upload a font that you want to use as well with both images text and things like that you'll find effects and the ability to animate so effects you can see kind of similar to what we did around the image so i can add neon around it i can add splice there's lift and then if i go to animate you can just hover over some of the different types of animations you would have to export this as a gif or as a video if you want the animations to show up if it's just an image you're going to have the static text there so that's essentially the different options with the text so the other thing too is if you want to change the spacing so you have the letter spacing which is how far apart each letter is like so and then the line spacing you can increase right here and then moving on from text we have style so the nice thing here let's actually change to a template for this one which one has a lot of colors do we maybe like so let's say no let's do something else so the newsroom okay so if we want to change the style all we have to do is if we choose our colors i'll automatically adjust maybe it's not perfect i don't know if i like this red background but you can go through and just change the formatting you know all together so it changes the fonts and the colors to to go with whatever the design is so you can take a template you like and adjust it to your fonts and your colors right away and then go in there and edit further and then so let's go back to the blank design let's go back to our blue and what else do we have so we have background so i've just been showing you solid backgrounds but you can also use the what's it called the gradients where you can go and change one of the colors you can also have patterns that you can add or you could add a landscape and put you know text and other images on top of it they have abstract options then down below with pro you have your logo saved within more you can see photo videos the different folders you can connect pixels and pixel bay emojis maps dropbox instagram also stuff right within here then one of the other features that's really useful let me go to something that we've already maybe created though let's go to home so this is a thumbnail for youtube and to put something in the youtube community we upload square images so if i already created this that's set up for a thumbnail if i want to create a square all i need to do is click on resize and then say what i want to be so as we said before 1080 by 1080 i can just do that custom or i could just click on instagram post and then so i could do several different sizes or just one so it's going to copy and resize and so what's going to happen is right here we have all of the the different designs we had so you can have multiple pages when you're creating designs as well so for example if you wanted to duplicate this page i could just do that and have a second one so for this what i need to do to make this design look good is i could maybe drag this up here i could make myself a little bit bigger move this up a little bit and then you know maybe i want to really highlight the free and make that much larger so that takes the thumbnail to a square image in a matter of seconds using all the same text colors and everything else so that's another like really quick pro of using camera pro one last thing along the side here that we haven't touched on is this which is the transparency so this is a hundred percent solid if we pull anything to less transparent you can change that like so the same thing would work for an image if i want to look like a ghost let's say so let's not say i'm happy with this design and want to download this or export it if you click on the three dots right here you can share this you can share the link present add to twitter facebook you can have it printed et cetera but we just want to download this and say add it to the community of our youtube channel then we would just click on download and so you have a couple of options of the type of file that you want so png is what we normally use if you want a video or a gif if you had something animation dated you would choose that and then from here do you want a transparent background so the background wouldn't show through on this this is only something available with canva pro you can see the little crowns right here this is really useful let's say if you have your logo and you want to put it on top of an image or on your website that's a different color if you're not able to export with a transparent background unless you use canva pro and then if you have multiple pages like this what you would want to do is you can download all four or maybe i just want page two so i can just click on this delete this and go to two now page two is what is going to download and then what i would do now is click on download so that's how easy it is to create designs with canva you basically choose the type of design you want choose a template or start from scratch add images add text add other graphics edit each of them when you're done with the design hit download there you go if there's a specific canvas tutorial you'd like to see on the channel let me know down below in the comment section if you want to see all of our other canva tutorial videos check out the playlist right here hope to see you in those and future videos bye

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Length: 23min 29sec (1409 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 16 2021