Canva Tutorial: How to make a logo (for free)

do you want an amazing logo for a business idea or new project without having to use Photoshop well you're in the right place my friend in this video I'm going to show you a step by step how to make a logo that you can be proud to use for free and even if you have no design skills at all stay tuned hi I'm Sara neuen and on this channel I make tech and social media easier for awesome entrepreneurs like yourself if you're new to this channel consider subscribing for all of the latest product reviews social media marketing tips and training and at any time during this video check out the description for links to all of the resources mentioned in this video when you have a new business idea or project and you need a logo the name of the game is to make a logo that looks professional quickly and easily you have two options option one is to get someone to design it for you such as a graphic designer option two is to do it yourself I'm going to walk you through how to create a logo for free using canva let's go over to my computer now and I'll show you how so this is an example of a logo that I created by myself from scratch for free using canva and it took me minutes I'm going to show you exactly how I did it in canva right now now I'm assuming that you at the very least have a Canberra account if you've never used canva before if you don't have a Canberra account check out the link in the description to my how to use canva tutorial and I step you through everything you need to get up and started with can bar this is assuming that you've already at least watch that or you know how to use canva a little bit and I'm going to show you now how to create a logo so once you've logged into canvas you're taken to the canva home page in the search bar type logo and then where it says create a design select that logo icon there this then opens a canvas where you can start designing your own logo now on the left hand side you'll see that there are logo templates here and on the top they're categorized by different categories and if you scroll down you'll see the different categories and if you keep scrolling for a little bit you'll come across the section where it says all results so that you're able to see all of the different logo templates that are in canva for you to modify and here's where you can have a quick glance at different logo designs that you can choose and you can modify to suit your business and your brand now with these logo templates you can see in the bottom right hand corner of them they say free because that means that you don't have to pay for anything we love free so I chose a template which I could work with and this is the one that I selected and once you click on it it will open itself into your canvas now personally I don't love the pre-built blocks text blocks that canva typically does for you so I'm going to create my own ones so I'm going to start by typing in text over the section so I selected the area that I wanted to replace the text for my logo and this will be the sewing space and that's huge so I've selected that and I'm going to bring it all the way down so that it fits that's much better and then I'm going to drag it so that it fits in this space now this little section here I don't like where that sits I'm going to delete that and I'm also going to delete this element so that it's not that weird text in a strange format so we're not done yet so the sewing space I'm going to get rid of space and then I'm going to add text at the bottom so I'm going to I'm going to add a heading let's call it a heading I'm going to move that down so I flicked it and move it down now I'm going to select it all and write a little bit large so I'm going to bring this down to half about half that size so this is changing before my eyes I'm going to make this a little bit larger there we go so we're getting close we're getting close to the design that you saw on the Facebook page before this pink I think we could do better so in terms of the color I select the shape of it and I can change it to whatever color I like so these are brand colors that I've set up in my brand kid those look nice and I'm liking this this font is the default font that the template came with and I'm like it's okay but I'm going to change it to be a font that I've used and that I've uploaded so I'm going to change this to be this font that I've uploaded I like that it's really starting to come together now the thing that I need now in the logo is an icon of some sort so that people can identify well people know what the business or the brand is about so I go back to elements and because it's the sewing space and it's a new hobby of mine I'm going to look for a sewing machine and then I'm going to select graphics because I want an illiterate Illustrated graphic for the sewing machine now if you have canva for work you'll see free with a little crown and that means that the icon or the image is free for you to use as a canva for work user that's if you have the paid version of canva if you're not a canva for work user you just a free can be user then you'll see this button here that has the free icon this is what looks like for the free images that you can use so go ahead and scroll and find the image that you want to use in your logo I'm going to go ahead I like the look of this one I'm going to select that and then I'm going to resize it and place it just over here so just tying the edges together little bit more to the edge and that's not too bad I don't mind that so just like that I created a logo using a free template I changed the image I changed the font and I changed and I added an element so I added a graphic to it I could also add a new page and choose another template and design another one at the same time so I can compare the designs to each other which is pretty cool because it doesn't cost you anything extra you can design as you want so I'm pretty happy with that it's looking pretty identical to the design that I showed you before then I want to go ahead and download it so I'll select the download button here and then I'm going to go download I want to save this I can save it as a JPEG a PDF but I want to save it as a PNG and I want to make the transparent background option selected there so then I'm also just going to choose the first page and then I'm going to download it and then I can use this as a logo file in designs that I do so here's the design and I'll show you what I mean so this is not so clear because of the preview that you get on Macs if you create a Facebook post and then you upload the image as a the image file which is your logo you can then place the logo on your designs and it's transparent so it hasn't got a white background and like that you can start using your logo in your designs you can add it to your Facebook page you can add it your social media images and it was so simple to make and I really love it I think it's cute it's reflective of what I wanted the logo to be and it's done it's something that I could start using straightaway so there you have it my walkthrough tutorial showing you how to design your own logo now go forth and make that beautiful logo if you found this video useful give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel and if you're looking for more ways to grow your business check out my social media checklist ayat line all the things that you need to do to get up and running on social media so you can start leveraging the power of social to make more sales with ease to get your hands on it simply click on the link in the description below and thanks for watching

Channel: Sara Nguyen

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Id: TQw9j8qE-_E

Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2019