In today's video, I'm sharing an
in-depth Canva tutorial for beginners, and you'll learn everything there is to
know, to start designing your own graphics. And whether you'd like to use it for YouTube,
Instagram, other social media channels, it doesn't really matter because Canva offers a great
variety of tools and it's free to use as well. So after watching this video, you'll know
how easy it is to actually design with it. So let's do this. Hi my lovely people, I'm
Natalia and welcome back to my channel, where I share super actionable ideas
on content creation for entrepreneurs and creatives. And in today's video, I'm
bringing you a comprehensive Canva tutorial. And if you've not heard about
Canva, it's a free design tool, completely brilliant. It's got tons of different
photos, elements, and other graphics for you to use. So in other words, a complete
lifesaver in the content marketing world, it's absolutely brilliant for any graphics that
you want to design. Whether it's for social media, your website and blogs, whether
it's for any presentations cards, anything of that nature, Canva will sort you
out. So without further ado, let's do this. Okay. So we'll start off with creating an account
in Canva and it's completely free to begin with. Um, so you can sign up either with Google, with
Facebook or traditionally with an email address. Obviously I have an account already, so I don't
need to do that. So just sign up. It's super easy. And then we'll start designing. All right. So
this is what the Canva homepage looks like. And there are quite a few different areas
to help you navigate. So I'll explain each and every one of those so that you know
where to go for certain functionalities. So let's start off with the top right panel.
You've got your account. So this is where you can kind of change your account settings.
You can set up your profile photo as well, refer your friends and things of that nature. Then
there's a create design button, which I'll explain in a moment. You've got the settings in here, the
account settings as well, there's a help center. And one of the most important parts is the search
bar. Once you've signed up for a free Canva account, there are some differences between
the basic kind of free Canva and Canva Pro which I'll explain at the end of this video. So
make sure to watch till the very end, but at this point I'm just using the free Canva because this
is what the majority of people will use and need. So we'll just stick with it. And then at the
very end, I'll explain it. Oh, the details. So the first thing we want to start off with
is the top right corner. And in here you can see the search bar and I have to say it's one
of the quickest ways to find any templates, any different designs with specific dimensions
that you need to look for. So for example, if I wanted to quickly create an Instagram
post, I'll just type in Instagram. And it already gives me a few different options.
You've got your Instagram posts, reels video, which is a new feature. So it's quite good that
they've already applied that to their program. They've got Instagram story quiz, Instagram
story, and more specific designs for Instagram. So this is how you can just quickly kind of
browse through what they offer and it's a great way to find it without scrolling forever.
Okay. So in the top left, you've got the main navigation panel and you've got the, you know,
the returning to the homepage, of course. And then you've got templates and they're obviously
categorized into different types. You've got your social media, personal, business,
marketing, education. So there are various different templates for you to
browse and whenever you need something you can just glance through it and see what they
offer already in Canva. You've got the feature section as well with photos, icons print,
because Canva now offers printing as well. There are different apps that you can have
connected to Canva, for example, Bitmoji. So, you know, we can create your own little,
little kind of avatar personality with Bitmoji and then apply it to different designs.
Use it in there, which is quite, you know, quite useful, especially when you've got a
very specific personal brand. So this is, you know, it's good to know that this is
an option in Canada as well, and kind of a, has quite a few different integrations. So
this is how we can kind of read more or know that this is the functionality that they offer.
Uh, there's also the explore section, uh, with different graphs, charts, videos, teams.
So you can kind of have a look in there. There's also the learn section, which is super
important, especially when you're a beginner. So after you watch this whole video, set up your
account, kind of get the feel for what Canva actually is I would highly recommend you actually
go to the learn tab and watch some of the kind of quick tutorials that they offer. And they've
got various different things like social media marketing. So they, as they say in here, learn how
to connect and grow your community. So they've got quite a few different features and tips for you.
So the learn section is really, really important, and I'll mention something at the very end of this
video as well, a resource for you to learn even more in depth than this video is going to go,
but stay tuned. I'll explain that at the very end. And, and then you've got the pricing
section and obviously the free version will be most useful to the majority's people wanting
to use Canva because it's, it's really great. It's packed with different functionalities, but if you
want access to different parts of Canva, again, I'll explain later on in the video. You might
go for Pro, so there's Enterprise, which is a bit more bulky. There are more teams involved.
If you've got a large business that you need to design for, or you're designing for multiple
different companies. If you're, for example, a social media manager, that might be a kind of a
good option, but I think the free version is still really amazing. And then the next tier would
probably be pro I would say enterprise is a very, very big type of plan. I would leave it. It's
probably not well for the majority of people. And they also have pricings for education
or non-profits, which if you're a part of, I would highly recommend you look into
it because they've got some great deals. Next we go to the left bar. And first off,
you've got the recommended for you, which is the homepage. Uh, with the recommendations
they'll go through in a moment, then you can see all your designs at a glance. So this is what
this tab is for is very, very useful. And I'd say this is probably something that I go to
straight away after opening Canva, because I sometimes like to refer to previous designs
or templates or different things of that nature. But again, I'll explain that later then
there's shared with you. So if you've got shared designs within a team or from other
people that you've invited to work with, this is where the designs that they've
shared with you would show up. I don't have that at the moment because I'm not really
working with any other creators in Canva. But this is where you would
go for the shared designs. And then you've got the brand kit. The
brand kit is a functionality only available for the pro users. And this is really an amazing
functionality. If you have a specific brand and you like to stay consistent, which I'm a huge
advocate off. In each and every one of my videos, I always say. Stay consistent with your brand. And
this is how Canva facilitates the process for you. So this is where you can upload your logos. You
can create different brand palettes, so they, you know, it doesn't have to be just
one palette. It can be a few and you can pick your brand fonts for your
heading, subheading and body. And this means that you have those available
when you're designing. I'll show that to you in a moment, I won't be available to me because
I'm just showing that at a free Canva account, but you'll see where it is and how easy it is to
actually access it. If you have a pro account, then you've got your folders, which is quite a
neat way for Canva to again, keep you organized. You'll find the, at the beginning you have a few
designs, right? But after some time you'll have multiple, multiple designs pertaining to different
parts of your business or dealing with different social media platforms. And if you just refer to
the old designs tab, You'll find that you'll be scrolling, scrolling, scrolling all the time, and
it's very easy to kind of get lost in the mess. So I would highly recommend for you to set
up your own folders right from the get-go. So for example, if you're just focusing on
social media and designing for social media, choose the platforms that you're on. Again,
I would focus on one or two at the beginning, but if you're on more, then you
can just create folders for it. So say Instagram, YouTube, you know, Pinterest
have those folders ready, and then whenever you design. Just file it away in that folder, it will
still be visible within the, all your designs tab, but you can just go to your folders
and select a particular one if you're looking for something. So again,
you're not scrolling for ages. And then you've got your trash folder. So you'll
have all the things that you've trashed. Uh, you can just delete from here. You can see kind of the
images that you've uploaded, which I've not done on this account or any designs you can just delete
permanently, um, that will be sorted for you. I've created a team as well for myself. So this is
how I view it to my team. I can change the name of the team and here I can add members in here create
new folders within that team. And you can see the specific things for your team and in here so
again, your designs, folders, apps, people, groups, settings. So this is where you can set
up your team. So you know, who can actually join, you can add your people in here. Canva at the
moment has pay one, get four free. So you can invite four people to team up with you on Canva
Pro for free, but obviously it's just Canva Pro. So let's get back to the recommended
for you tab. And this is your main, main kind of view on the homepage. So you
can see that you've got the recommended tab. So you've got your poster, infographic,
presentation, video message, logo, Instagram posts. You've got tons of different things, but
then when you go through the different tabs, you've got various categories again. So you've got
social media, Instagram posts, Instagram story, animated, social media, TikTok background,
Canva's developed the TikTok part as well. They're really quick, by the way, really, really
quick with introducing different features or different resolutions. So as you've seen before
with the Instagram Reels part that was added almost instantly after the Reels were created,
even though it's a very similar resolution to other kind of mobile graphics still,
they want you to access it really easily. So, if you're looking to
design something for TikTok, you can just type in TikTok , and
they'll show you all the different types, even if that's a resolution that already exists
and has different templates on Canva. Okay. So you can just go through it. You can see events, you've
got different invitations, posters, tickets. You can design so many different things in
Canva. It actually blows my mind. I used to work in Photoshop. Mostly. I was an avid Photoshop
user, not just because I was a photographer, but then I started designing, playing
around more. And to be fair, I used to think Photoshop is the way to go. Just because it's
got all the functionalities that you need. I have to say I've not used Photoshop for
designing for a really long time. They've developed it so much that you actually don't
really need it. That's not to say that Photoshop is not useful. That's not to say the Canva's
got all the functionalities that Photoshop has. I have to say that. Still in some parts, Canva's
a bit more cruder, but let me just say that. I think within the next few months, years, I think
they're going to develop this platform even more, but their main goal. And you can see
it it's infused within the whole app. Their main goal is to keep it as
simple and intuitive as possible. And this is why with this tutorial,
I'm trying to keep it at that as well. So really, really try Canva and let me know in the comments below what you think about it.
And if it's that easy to use. All right, so let's start designing. And there are actually
three ways in which you can create a design. So right off the bat, you can see the big purple
button in the top, right corner, create a design. And that's probably the easiest quickest way.
And this gets you to really blank kind of page where you can just start designing whatever
you want. Then the other option is to search as I've shown you before. So I'd say YouTube,
and if you want to create channel art. You just click on that particular tab and it just
displays a specific resolution for your design. Again, it takes you back to designing and the
editor part. And the third thing is to obviously use the templates from here. It's very similar
to the one in search because the search bar shows you the templates as well. I mean, not the
specific templates, but shows you the resolution. Or if you go to your designs and copy an
existing design, just click, make a copy again. Oh, we'll take you through to the designing
panel. Okay. So let's just pick a specific template. So I'll show you how we can actually
browse through different templates. So let's say, um, I want to design an Instagram post.
I clicked through to templates in the Instagram post. And as you can see, Canva's got
tons and tons of different templates in here. So you can see it's endless, it's actually
endless and they keep updating this as well. So you can have a look at what fits your
brand, what you know, matches what you want to create at this moment. And then, you
know, you just, just start designing. So let's say I want to pick that particular one.
And this is when it takes you to the editor. All right. Just like with the homepage, I'll
just break it down for you. How the editor actually works. So. Again, it's very intuitive,
just like everything else in Canva . But if you have a look at the top panel, you can return
to home to any of your designs. And by the way, the new design, if you click on a template
or create a design, it opens a new window. Um, so it's quite a useful thing
because you can just get back to what you were looking at, or if you need to
open another design that you've designed from previously, you can just do it from here
and it doesn't affect the thing that you're actually designing at the moment,
apart from home, you've got the file. So you can create new design from there as well, and he can save it, which it automatically saves.
And you can see in here that all changes are saved. If there ever any issues with Canva, this
is where you want to look at, just to make sure that all of your things are continuously
saved. Then you've got resolved comments. You can add. If you're designing within
a team, you can have different comments added and you know, people can refer to
it. There's a version history, which is a. Pro option. So you can see what changes you've
made. You can make a copy of that, a particular design from this, this moment that sometimes
when you create something, you might think, well, I might go in a different direction,
so they can just make a copy at this stage, leave it at that, or start designing and kind
of one type of design that you want to do. And then within the other one, you can take it
to another thing. So this is why Canva is so very fluid and so, so really nice and intuitive
for you to use. And then you can click download, but again, most of these are shown in
different places and this editor as well. And then you've got the view tab,
scroll, scrolling view, thumbnail view. So if you've got multiple
pages, I've just created one, or we can just create it from here. This is
how you would kind of jump in between those, uh, let's get back to it and then there's a grid
view. So again, if you've got multiple pages, so for example, if you're creating an Instagram
carousel, this is a really good way to check the whole design, see how it fits, see how
it would look like kind of as a whole. So it's a really, really good thing,
especially with Instagram carousels, I really refer back to it. So let's go back to
the scrolling view. You can show rulers, um, so you can see. And here that pop top show
guides as well. If you create any guides, I don't have any guides in
here can show margins as well. This is something that Canva will show you when
you drag different elements, which I'll explain in a moment when we actually start designing and
it can show printed bleed. So for any materials that you want to print, he wants to have bleed,
which means that when you have a poster designed and it goes to printing, usually any printing
companies will require for you to have that bleed. Which means, for example, when this collect
moments design, you can see that this photo, when I clicked on the bleed to show the bleed, this
photo kind of extends beyond the borders, which means that if you send that design to someone
for printing it and get cut off. So it's like a safe area. So yeah, don't have any kind of white
spaces or anything like that within your prints. That's very, very important when you you're
creating any kind of printing collateral. Okay. I'll just untick all of those. We're back
to scrolling view, and then you've got the resize option. And again, it's available just for pro,
but it's really a lifesaver if you're creating multiple graphics for different social media
platforms or again, for different purposes. So you can instantly transform that one
design into a different resolution. So let's say obviously the Instagram, you can
transfer Instagram posts or Facebook posts. That's quite a similar resolution or even the
same, because most people will use the same kind of 1080 by 1080 pixels design,
both for Facebook and for Instagram. But for example, for Twitter, you
maybe want to have something wider and this is a great way to actually just
click. It gives you different resolutions and you can just transform it. It will
extend your photo if it's wide enough, obviously, to, to show it, but I can show
it to you in the pro version later on. So this is a really useful tool if you
want to have it. And then you've got the CTRL + Z, so you can just undo any
changes. And as you can see at the very top adjust saves it instantly very, very useful,
very important. Then you've got the name a bit further to the right, so you can change
your, the name for the Instagram post. You can just add a date. So say 2020. I don't know
what date it is to be honest, because that year just went. So let's say the 18th of December.
I don't know if it actually is, but nevermind. And you can say inspiring quote. It's
really good to have a way to, kind of, name all of your designs, because if you're
going to a specific template and if you use that template multiple times, you will not
always know what that template is about. Obviously you can see the thumbnails, but I'm
very neat with my naming. So I would advise you do that as well. So just when you open
a design, you know what, you're designing, just change that name in there. Do yourself
a favor. Then you can share your design. So you can share with the
owner, which is the account. And then with, uh, my team, uh, share link to
edit, you can share link, choose this template if you have pro share link to view. So for
example, if you are an agency or a social media manager and you were designing for a company
and you want them to approve the designs, you can just share a link to view rather than edit. And
obviously they cannot mess up your design in the process. So that's a very useful functionality,
especially when you're a social media manager. Then you've got the download
tab really easy to use. Ready there at a glance when you're finished
with your design and you've got different file types. So for that particular design,
you've got PNG, this is a high quality image. This is what I use for my social media
graphics. You've got JPEGs for a small file size. It explains everything. This is
why Canva is so amazing. It just gives you all the solutions ready. So it's
not like you need to Google. Oh, should I, you know, save PDF standard or should
I save PDF print? It tells you what it is. It tells you what you can use for. So for
PDF standard, you've got a small file size multi page documents so that you know, that
this would be useful for emailing someone, but then you've got PDF print, high quality, multi
page document. So, you know, it would be much more suitable to be printed. Then you've got the MP4
video ,SVG we'll just leave. And then you've got GIFs because you can create GIFs as well. Then in
Canva pro you have the ability to change the size. So you can kind of double it. Triple it, you can
just kind of move that cursor over the slider. And we give you a specific resolution
again, available only for Canva Pro users. And we've got transparent background, which
is quite a neat thing if you want to create PNGs without any backgrounds. That's quite
useful if you've got certain elements or something like this that you want to kind
of overlay. So if you're creating a PNG or something that you're creating, let's say for a
video and you don't want to have the background showing this is where you would go
for again, available just for pro. And then you can compress file to lower quality
if you're uploading to your website or something, and then you can select pages. So
if you've got a multi page design, you can just choose to download one
part of it by selecting in here, or you can just take all pages and
it will download it as a zip file. So this is when you would click done and and it
just exports it, download, preparing your design. You always have a neat little quote. All right.
So once you open the design, the left panel shows up as well. And the first element in
there is the template. And obviously you've chosen your template. If you went for template
from the homepage, if you created a design, you can go to templates from here as well and
browse through the different options that it has. Obviously we've chosen one. So we've
got the recently used as this one, but if you want it, you know, if
you were to create something for Valentine's Day or something in particular, you've
got Love Instagram Posts. So Canva continuously tries to inspire you with different designs.
So I can click on Love Instagram Posts. If you're looking to post something
about gratitude or something, you know, you want to express how loving you are of your
customers or whatever it might be. If you're, you know, thankful for your partner, you can just
go in here and see if you can get inspired by what Canva offers. So you can browse through the
different templates that Canva offers in here. And if you were to change something, you can
just click on it and it applies it to that page, as well as you can see their video
kind of animated templates as well, which is shown by that little kind of video,
a miniature thumbnail in here. So if you click on it, you know that it's going to be an animated
element, which again, I'll explain that later on. Okay. So let's stick to that template
that I've chosen in the beginning. And the next element in this left panel is uploads and Canva lets you upload different media.
You can upload images, you can upload videos. You can also upload audio, which is
the latest kind of addition and Canva. Canva is trying to develop the video part of the editor
as well, which audio is obviously a huge part off. So you can just upload any of your sounds, any
of your, you know, uh, music that you want to apply to different videos in here. And it's
so neat. It wasn't available until kind of a few weeks ago. So it's, it's a really cool
feature. So as you can see, I've got some of the images that I've uploaded, so you can just click
on it and it will just copy it onto your design and you can change the size of it in here. And
then you've got the Photos Tab and the photos tab is a stock photo library. It's so cool. There
are tons and tons of different photos that you may need for your business. And there's a
search bar in here as well. So if you were to change, for example, that little kind of ocean
view, in here you can just drag a photo like this. As you can see, this photo has a watermark,
which means it's only available for the pro users. And this is the one kind of caveat.
Also the free Canva. You've got tons and tons of photos in this library, but
some of them are just pro and some of them are free to use. So as you can see,
I can drag this one and it's a free one. You won't see any watermarks,
but for this particular one, you have the option to remove watermarks. And
if you do, if you click that or if you were to download a photo like this, so let me show you
like that. It will show you the it's got one premium image and you would have to pay, and this
case 99 pence for that particular design, you can download a watermarked picture, then you can pay
and download, but you can also get Canva Pro. As you can see, this premium image is point 99. If
you were to, you know, have more elements to it, it can take you up to like, you know, let's say
three pounds per design or five pounds. If you're designing something more, elaborate like a poster
or a brochure. And in that case, that's one design that you're paying for, but then you've got Canva
Pro and first of all, you've got a free trial that you can have for 30 days and it's completely free
and it gives you access to all of these photos. So you can start designing that way, kind of, have
a feel for what Pro offers and then, you know, just download these images and then they're
yours or you can just take Canva pro and if you design quite a few things in a month, if you're
designing for social media and you really need those really kind of more pro images, something
goes really well with your ,design Canva pro in the UK at the moment is £10.99, so as you
can see in a month, if you're using quite a few of those photos, it, you know, it makes
more sense to have pro, but obviously again, more than enough free photos are available
in Canva at the moment. So you don't really have to do it is just to show you that this
exists and you need to kind of look out for it. If you scroll through the library and if you hover
over different images, it shows you in a bottom right corner, whether it's a free design or
whether it's a Canva Pro design, as you can see, I've got tons and tons of different free ones. So
I cannot actually find a pro one at this moment. Gosh, there's so many, see, this is it.
This is what I'm talking about. There are so many different free images that
you don't really need to have pro unless you need all those different functionalities,
but let's find something that is pro. Okay. Let's just drag this one. Yeah. So we can
just scroll through it, see if something fits your brand or something in particular that you're
looking for. Drag these over your design, and it will kind of apply it to the background. And
obviously in this case, in this particular case, this is a really cool feature that Canva offers
with all those different free photos. It's really amazing, but you can also search for something
in particular. So if you were to say, you know, travel or whatever, you can just type in
travel, you can see different travel photos. So, Oh, I found one pro. So again, if you
drag it, you see the watermark. So you can just purchase that video or sorry, you can
just purchase that photo or you can just choose a free one and that's you sorted.
You can see that you can drag them in here. So again, this is how you
navigate this particular panel. Canva also shows you the recently used one. So
obviously I clicked through quite a few ones, so you can, kind of, have a look at what you've
chosen before, especially if you were going for a particular look or you were using some photos
in your previous designs, you may want to kind of refer back to what you were looking for. So this
is how you would do it. The recently viewed, then you've got the more kind of seasonal subjects
that Canva shows, so Christmas, you know, different things to keep you inspired to go Santa
for example, you can just click on Santa sometimes with Canva pro you've got PNG and designs as
well. So photos without backgrounds, obviously this is again a paid element, but if you were, you
know, if you had a model and here, it can just add that Santa hat on top of that kind of model
and it would emulate a more Christmassy vibe. Then you've got the elements tab. And in the
elements tab again, it's another library of amazing, amazing elements. You've got the
recently used as with the photos. You've gotten the featured ones. This is something that
kind of a showcases a few. They've got an artist that they're showcasing at the moment. This
is where you will go to get inspired. Some of them again are free. Some of them are, are
pro, but you can kind of add them to your design if you want. And many of them are actually
adjustable. Yes. We've got different featured elements in here that you can view. So
they're really cool kind of graphics. You can search for icons sometimes. This is
usually very seasonal for Canva, but there are different things in here like for example,
this one, which is a photo frame actually, and I'll go through the photo frames as well.
They can kind of drag your photo frame to a specific part of the graphic design, and then I'll
leave it in here. Obviously it doesn't look cool, but if you go back to photos and you
drag a particular photo into the view, obviously it doesn't go well with this particular
frame, as you can see, this is a frame that you insert the photo into and it gives you almost
like a, almost like a vignette with colors. Yeah. So we've got these different
types of elements that are featured, but obviously if you're looking for something,
it's something in particular, you can search icons or shapes in here as well. He's got lines. So
different types of lines. If you want to make your design a bit more interesting. If you're looking
for something in particular, you've got kind of more written lines, as you can see, almost reminds
me of like a lipstick stroke, very thin one, but yeah. And he can change the color later on,
but I'll just kind of leave it out at the moment. This is one of the options. If you have
different types of lines, as you can see again, some pro some free, like this one, let's say
actually kind of liked that one. So you've got these different elements in here. So these
are within lines. You've got shapes as well. So let's say I want to add a bar that showcases my
website as well. I can just click on any of those shapes in here. You can play around with these
shapes. You have frames, you know, if you want to again, make your design a bit more interesting.
You've got different shapes. You can, you know, add different elements. Let's say you want it
to do something a bit more, kind of like this. I can drag, it rotate it. I can overlay it with different elements to make it even more
cool. I can kind of change the colors of it just to make it a bit more three-dimensional, you
know, there's no limit to what you can do with combining these elements and in the Canva Learn
part, you can learn how to combine those as well. Let's get back to the elements. There
are also frames and frames are a really, really cool feature. Let's go back to
that second page just so I can see it, show it to you kind of as a clean design, these
are different frames, or you've seen it before in the elements section, but these are different
frames that you can insert your photos into. So let's say in one to show something like a
lead magnet or whatever, I can just drag that laptop frame and I can use my uploads let's say.
Or, I mean, it doesn't really look that good, but nevermind. Or you can just drag a photo and
then if you double click on it, you can just kind of move it. And you've got that displayed in
there. So it's almost like a mock up and you've got so many different options of the frames as
well. So I can just delete that particular one, but let's say you want three part design for
your graphic. You can have a wee quote in here and then he can have three different
photos, kind of, showcased in here. So if you're designing like This or That post,
or which one would you prefer, like spend time with your family or, I don't know, workout, you
know, obviously it doesn't go together. So I have to, you know, Read through it a bit
more. Yes. So you can use that for example, to get your followers engaged, add a little
quote at the bottom, or let them choose. And they can just vote in the comments, which,
you know, let's say way of spending time, they prefer so again, a really cool feature
from Canva. Just delete the photos like this, or you can delete the whole frame like that.
I mean, there are so many different options. Really. You can change the background in
here. I'll explain that kind of later on. Yeah. So let's say, I've got this in here.
I've just moved it. It can have that. And a kind of a cute quote in here. Yeah. So these
are the frames. They're also stickers. So more animated elements. Canva is really expanding their
library when it comes to any animated elements. So you can just add that one and export that
whole graphic design as a GIF or as a video, which you know, is a bit more interactive for any
people that are watching it or, you know, browsing through your social media. So it's a
really cool kind of feature that they've got that. Okay. Then you've got a chart.
So if you're creating a report, an offer, um, maybe you're doing marketing for
someone you want to showcase your data somehow presentation for school as well. This is a
really cool option because Canva lets you do that, and you've got the charts as well in
here. And you can just kind of showcase your data, which is a really neat way to
integrate it within your designs. There are different grids, which are very
similar to frames, but grids are more mobile. You can move them around, you can do different
things with them. So let's say I were to pick this one. I can actually amend that grid.
I can just kind of take it to the specific shape that I want to take it. So they're ,
you know, obviously they're a bit more mobile. So they've got gradients as well. If you're trying
to make your design a bit more interesting, uh, it can introduce gradients and change their colors,
change the different parts of it, and you can just position it in a specific way. And you know, it's
just a way to make it a bit more interesting for you. They've got tons of different gradients.
They're mostly free. I have to say, which is a really cool option. And then they can be used in
a plethora of different designs. So it's really cool. And as with the previous sections of Canva,
you've gotten the recommended parts. So something that, you know, maybe kind of a, maybe featuring
a specific artist at the moment you've got, you know, let's say Zodiac, symbols. So you can
go through that. If you're creating, you know, quotes for. Gemini or something, if you're
into astrology or something, or if you're your brand goes with that, you can just kind
of browse through them. And this is a cool little feature that they do. They kind of, you
know, gathered these for you and inspire you. And when you get back to the elements, you
can obviously search for specific icons or shapes. So if you're looking for, you know,
a flower, let's say just type in a flower, you'll have a variety of kind of, you
see the watercolor ones, you see kind of different graphic elements, different
illustrations, sketchy ones, or you can something, you can have something that
looks a bit more like an icon as well. So let's say this particular one may be an
icon. And try to utilize as many of those kinds of elements into the design, because that
makes it a bit more fleshed out. It makes it look a bit more nice. Again, a particular one
doesn't really go that well with this design. But just for the purpose of showing you, uh,
what you can do with this particular one. And another neat thing as well, is that if you
find a specific element that you like, and by the way, it goes for the photos as well, or other
elements, you can just kind of click on it in here, see what it was created by. So you can see
view more by Sketchify, which if you click on it, it will give you other elements created by that.
So you can maybe sometimes look for something that looks similar. So, you know, this one will look
very similar to that one. They're watercolor. Obviously they've got some kind of white elements
below that. So you would need a lighter background for this, but you, you get what I'm saying. It's
just quite a cool trick to search for different, very similar elements as well. You can also
see the different keywords that were used to describe that particular element or a photo.
So it's quite neat as well to look at it here. And maybe you can click on foliage, the elements
that pertain to that particular keyword will display for you here. Again, a really neat way to
find really cool elements that will fit your brand or your particular design. Then you can see how
much it costs, obviously if it's pro, but if you like it, you can add it to likes and I'll show
you if you add it to likes and here you can go to your folders down here, you can click on your
likes and it will display that particular element. So if you like an element very much, or you like a
photo and you want to use it continuously, this is how you save it. This is how you remember it. And
this is how you actually refer back to it. Really neat trick. Another cool trick that Canva does
within these is the Canva magic recommendations. So, if you click on a particular element,
you see the magic recommendations in here. If you click on the magic recommendations,
Canva will pull different designs either by the same author or very similar in terms of
how they were created, or again, match them by the keywords. And this is a really, really
neat thing. If you're looking for more than one element to kind of fit into your, your design,
again, doesn't go well with that in particular, but a really good idea, especially when you're
designing a few graphics of the same type, or maybe again, you're creating an Instagram
carousel, it might be quite useful to have different renditions of a similar design.
So, you know, you can have things like that and you would have them kind of for a different
Instagram slide. Really cool feature really neat. Next up is a text panel, which is quite
self-explanatory. This is where you add text to page. So you've got a heading, subheading,
a bit of body text. As I mentioned at the very beginning, when you have Pro, you can customize
them. You can actually choose your brand fonts, and these will be kind of applied in here. And
each time you click a heading a subheading, a body of text, you'll have your typography,
but it's not available for the free users, but that doesn't stop you from actually going
into that particular design and picking from a multitude of different fonts that they offer.
Yeah. So you can choose from the popular fonts and here, or if you scroll a bit further down,
so you've got tons and tons and tons and tons of different fonts that you can get through. And
if you're looking for a particular font that, you know, you use for your brand or
something that you've seen on Pinterest, that might've caught your attention. So let's
say Open Sans and it will show you all the different fonts under that category. So I typed
in Open Sans and obviously for these, you've got so many different varieties, so you've got the
classic one, but you've got the condensed light, extra bold, sauce, you know, different types
of things. And I want to maybe make this one, one Playfair Display. Do I see it in here? I
don't see it in here. So let's search for Playfair cool. And I'll make it like that.
And let's say family is everything. So you can kind of add it in here. And then if you
want to add a subheading, if I choose open sense yeah. So you can kind of play
around with your topography and a really, really cool thing. The canvas offers
are the font combination. So you can add text by clicking on these different panels. And
then if you go down, if you scroll down, there are different font combinations already
prepared for. You can have different styles, let's delete these two and it can, you
know, choose this one if you like it. Or if, especially, if you're looking
for particular or look for your brand, and you're not very much kind of into typography,
this is a cool way to get inspired and to kind of look for different fields with the fonts and
maybe then stick to the one that you really, really like. So, you know, you've got
different inspiring ones by Canva. Skim, you know, have family in here and
you can just adjust it to what you like it to be. And these come in a group, I'll show
you in a moment how these kind of play out, but you can go through these
different types of font pairings, and you can just apply them to your design,
which is such a cool, such a neat feature. Yeah. So for this one, let's pick, you know, this
one, as she even liked the text. So I'll just stick it in here and let me explain the rest of
it for you. And then I'll show you the different features when you're actually designing. Then
you've got music. So when you're creating a video, you can actually have different music, you
know, different pieces that kind of offers. So you can search by, different types of genres
or feel. So you've got these and these are, some of them are available for probe, but some
of them are completely free to you. So let's say that's a free sound. And it can just add it
to your design. Yeah. That's how you do it. I can move it in here just at the
top panel, just to see which part suits your video. You can adjust the volume, just
deleted. Then he'd go to videos as well. You've got different types of videos, which are either
free again or pro, but these are quite cool. If you've got a presentation or again, you
want to create a more interactive graphic or not graphic, but like a video for social
media as well. Really, really cool. Then you've got different backgrounds as well. So let's
go back to, or let's create another one. If you're creating quote or something, kind
of offers different backgrounds as well. Again, this is pro, but let's say, you
know, this one and again, you may be one to create a quote or something. Let's pick
the same one and you can just have it kind of in here. I'll just flip it and here, just to
show you I'll show everything in a moment, but you know, we can create different kinds
of quotes and different styles or, you know, whatever you may need the background for just
know that canvas offers a ton of different ones. Again, then you've got your likes. So the, the,
the, any elements, photos that you've added to likes, he's got your folders. So again, refer
back to your likes as, see what you've purchased previously. If you've purchased any pro elements,
and then you've got more suitable styles kind of offers you pallets already kind of matched with
different text styles and things of that nature. And there are also different integrations. So
if you've got some files on your Google drive, you can just click in here to connect your
Google drive. And that way canvas can pull different photos that you've got saved on the
drive, and you don't need to actually kind of drag them to upload them. They will just appear,
, or you can kind of grab them from Google. , there'll be a tab in here that can grab
them from Google Drive as well. Yeah. So you can kind of look through them, you can
connect your Instagram account as well and grab any photos that you've got published
to your Instagram as well. Really cool. If you want to maybe utilize them in your designs. For
other platforms or just for Instagram as well. Cool. So we've got the, we've got
the top panel are out of the way, you know how to use it. You've got left panel
with the different functionalities and then we go to the editor itself. So when you have a look
at this, you've got your page number in here and you can actually title your pages, especially
if you're designing something a bit more bulky. You can just name all of your pages,
just to know what they're referring to. You also can add notes. It's really
cool when you're sharing the design with other people. And it's really cool. Um,
too cool feature to kind of have any comments pertaining to the design. This is where you can
actually move down or up your multiple pages. So let's say I want this one to go down and this
one to be first, this is what you can actually do. You can just leave it in here and use these
arrows to move those pages around the design. Then you can duplicate pages. So if you want
to create something, you know, very similar or you want to use the same design, you can
just do it in here and it just duplicates it. Then you can delete a page in here. And at
the very end, you can just add a blank page in here as well. And whenever you use
kind of these, duplicate or add page, they get added as a next page to the one that
you were viewing at the moment. So let's say, you know, I'm on two. If I duplicate it, it
doesn't duplicate it at the very, very end. It doesn't duplicate it at the very bottom. It
just duplicates it as the next page and the same goes. For new page as well. So page title, and
as you can see, if you add a page from this one, it adds a blank kind of white page, because this
is the background or is it even white? Is it off white? No, it's just off white, but it just grabs
the same background that we, that was used before. And so for this one and just copied that
kind of tope color for this one, you know, if I were to duplicate it, would it be blue?
So once we've got these out of the way, so this is where magic happens. If you
click on that element, they added before you can actually see that this particular
one can be adjusted second change the color of this particular element, which is really cool
because that means that you can stay on brand. This is how you do it. If you want
to crop it, if it doesn't kind of fit this, you can maybe crop it like that for
different elements. It may work quite well. Let's say you want it just kind of a
quarter of a turn of this little thing. You can also use that you can also flip
it. So let's say I wanted this kind of from, you know, from here, somewhere in
here, you can just flip it like this. You don't need to rotate it, but if you
kind of selected, you can make it bigger, smaller, you can rotate it like this
as well. And it gives you the degrees as well. So it's quite a cool thing
because you can just stay within the frames where you can make sure that all the
elements are going in line with each other. So let's say I were to, you know,
change that to 135. I can then click on, ungroup it. I'll let you know what that
is. Later. I can click on a particular text and I can kind of, I mean, it's a different.
Rotation, but whatever, but let's just revert back. So I'll keep it as that further
on. You've got info on this element. And so that pulls back the same kind of three
dots that you had in the design. So if you still really like that element, you don't have
to search for it through the elements. You can just add it to likes in here next, you can
position it as well. So if you're designing, you know, if you have some designs,
maybe it's something that I can show you. on this one, actually, let me add an element.
So let's say I've added that element, right? I'll change the color in here. So again,
an editable element in here I've changed this color. Let's say to that and make it bigger
and make it smaller. It can rotate it again. And then if you click on position, it
can, can actually move it backwards. So you can kind of move it behind that particular
element. . As you can see, I kind of moved that photo around in front of it, but I cannot really
grab the element, which is because it's behind, you can click on the position again and
you can just send it backwards as well. If you have multiple different
elements, let's add another one. Again, it won't go well with this
particular design, but nevermind. If you've got multiple elements,
we'll show you more options so you can send it forwards. So that sends it kind
of one by one forwards or backwards one by one, as you can see it went behind the text. And if I
click backwards again, it goes behind that right. , graphic. And then if I click backwards again,
it sends it back off the left element. If I click to front. It will instantly move it to the front
of this design. So it's a really cool feature very quickly. You can just do it like
that. And then if I want to push it back, just click to back and that's cool. So this
is how you would use it, the position one. Then you may adjust the opacity as well.
You can also copy style. So for example, you've got this text in here. If I
click on that particular copy style one, I can just move it to this one. I will just apply
the same formatting. It works just as it would work in Microsoft Word or Excel. If you're using
these, there's a copy formatting or something like this and there as well, it looks exactly like this
little kind of paintbrush or whatever paint role. So you can do the same thing in
here. So you can just move the styles to the other one. Another neat thing
is that you can adjust the transparency so you can make your elements more kind of
opaque. And it's not really visible in here, but let me show you in here. Maybe. And as you
can see, it kind of disappears into the photo. So it's quite a neat one to play around with, if you want to maybe create a bit of a shadow
of an element or whatever, so you can kind of play around with that. It doesn't really
go well because it's more of a sketchy one, but if you want to play around with text, you can
apply the same thing to your text or whatever. You can just adjust the transparency in here. Same goes for the photo or the frame.
These is actually a framed I've inserted that into, well, let's get back to
this particular design. So let's say I want to have another element added to that photo so I can
just click on that. I've recently clicked on it. So it's here, but it can choose different shapes
as I've shown you before you can just drag it in here. And this is where you change the colors.
Again, you can see kind of most of the elements I went through, I'll go through the rest of
them in a moment, but let me just show you this. So you go to that particular, you can pull
photo colors, you can have document colors. So all the colors that were used for this
particular document that will be showcased in here. You've got default colors in here as
well, but you can choose a new color. So if you've got a pallet, if you know the hex code for
the color, you can insert it in here. Or you can kind of play around with this little slider and
you can choose the color that you really like. So let's add another layer of text .Let's go
for something that I've added before maybe. I like this font, it's Glacial Indifference.
Perfect. So if I go in here, click add subheading, it will showcase. And the fonts that I've
used previously. So I'll click on the Glacial Indifference. And let me show you the different
ways you can actually manipulate the text. So this is where you've got the font to the very
left. And this is how we can just change the size. You can also drag it like this. And it will show
you the width and height of this. Or in here, you can see that it changes the numbers
are changing as well. So you can see how big it is. Let me just move it kind
of a bit lower so they you can see it. You can click on this and you can see the text
color again, let's choose something light. Because I'll beputting it over that let's pick, this
is when you can make it bold kind of italic, underline, and this is how you can force it to be kind of uppercase. , So if you click
on it, it will always stay kind of uppercase. Cool. So I've got that in
here. If you drag it in here, we'll make the text box a bit wider. You
can make it whatever you want, obviously, but then you will be able to see the alignment as
well. So this is the alignment tab that's aligned to the left. You can obviously center it and
make it right. Or you can just kind of adjust. So that's like this and I can drag it in here
other options are list so you can list it. I can number it as well. So it's quite neat if
you're putting some more information on a text, then there's spacing. So if I had more to
this text, so let's say I had another line saying whatever, you can see that
you can space out letters in here, this actually pertains to that
particular one, but I can do it for both. So you can adjust the letter spacing. It's quite good to actually play around with it
and see how it fits with your design. I'll just go back to that and then you can
adjust the line height as well. So how close that second line or how far from the first line
it is? So you can kind of play around in here. Cool. So another option in
here is the effects option. Let me actually show it to you on maybe this
one, because it's a bit thicker, a bit better visible. I'll go back to the other design in
a moment. But if you click on the effects, it gives you various options to play around,
to manipulate your text even further. So if you click shadow, if you
want to add shadow to your design, this is where you do it. And you play around with
those sliders. You can adjust the transparency, you can adjust the blur, so, and you can change
the color as well. And here. So let's say you want more. Three dimensional effect. You can add it and
manipulate it in here it can change the direction. If you want to make sure that everything goes in
the same kind of direction you can offset and here you can manipulate it. So it can make it a bit
further from this and you can blur it out as well, but that's just shadow, but there are so many
other options you can lift it. So it's more of a kind of, um, a blurry background it lifts your
text from the background there's hollow as well. It's very, I'd say it's quite a
popular way of playing around with text at the moment. You can make it very thin,
which looks a bit more elegant with that sort of font, or you can make the stroke a bit
thicker. So this is where you kind of manipulate it and play around. There's
also the splice option. I love splice. So the way you play around with splice, it's got a few different options. You've got
thickness again. You can make that stroke a bit kind of more elegant. Thinner then you
can have offset. So again, it puts your design kind of more in line. So it looks just like
a stroked text like this, or you can offset it. So it looks a bit more modern. This is what a lot
of brands are using at the moment. And there's a direction as well. Just what, like previously. So
we wanted to stay consistent with that. And this is where you pick a color for that fill color,
and let's pick something from the palette in here. You can actually go, if you choose a color
and nothing really works for you, that way you can click on that new color and again,
play around with these different options. And this is what I find a bit more
appealing. You can obviously not be so monochrome and this, but if you click text
color and that kind of, of particular effect with the splice effect. Yeah. The main color
that you've chosen is actually the color. That will be the outline. So this
is the stroke color within that. So this is this effect. Then
you've got echo as well. Which kind of multiplies that shadows.
So there are a few different ones, again, offset or direction. It can change the color
of that echo. You can also choose glitch, which is more of a cool kind of 3d effect that we see
was very popular. At the beginning of the year. I feel even a bit further in graphic design,
you can choose the colors. So a bit more kind of older style, kind of blue and red,
or the blue and pink one. And again, more offset to give you a bit more of that kind
of 3d dimension gives me, feels like it reminds me of those little kind of cool cards or things
like that, that we had back in the nineties. There's neon as well. It makes your graphic like a neon, obviously with this color is a bit
more toned, but I see when I'm going with this, this is the intensity. If I were to change the
color to something a bit more bright. You see instantly what I'm talking about. See, this is
more of a neon type of text, which is super cool. Especially if you want to differentiate
yourself from other designs or if you want to make something stand out a bit more. If you've
got a sales going on, this is a really good one to make it work. And the last one guys, I have
to say, I've been waiting for this for very, very long time. This is something that was
actually missing really heavily from Photoshop. And this is one of the reasons that I
would kind of sometimes go to Photoshop, create a text like a curved text, exported
as PNG, and then upload it to Canva just to have that curved text, but users
have requested it have been requested for months and months and Canva listened.
This is what is so great about Canva. They listen to lovely people who use their
product, and this is what it does. You can curve your text and Canva now. It's just,
you know, it's beyond, it's amazing. Let me revert back because I actually want
to show you what it looks like. So you can go back to none right? With this one,
but let me showcase something like this. That's absolutely fine. And let me
show this to you on a different text. Let's go for Glacier. Let's do this and let's
say swipe, if you want to incorporate that kind of call to action within your graphics
and have people swipe, show them that they actually need to swipe graphically to another
carousel photo or whatever you're creating for. So you click on, you know, again, effects curve, and this, if you go like this, it shows
you how on a circle. This thing appears. And if you play around with the spacing of
the letters as well, it kind of goes around a bit more. If you have more text, you can just
double click on it, swipe to see more. Right. But if you play around with. The letter hide.
See? You can create something like this. And I can actually just kind
of, let me just move that one for a moment. If I were to
click like swipe to see more and manipulated a bit kind of a bit more, it can
maybe do like a half circle or like a full circle. You can just add an element with an arrow.
So just quickly search for an arrow. I've got again, different types of arrows that
you may want to use. And I can just choose one, right. And put it kind of
right in the middle here. Kind of like that. And it grabs your attention.
I mean, you might not be able to see everything. So let's say swipe for more. Right. And you
can kind of play around with it. Let's go for a half circle actually. And then if you click
on it, it can kind of make it smaller as well. So that's rotated added kind of in here like that. And again, you can position it. So I'll send
it backwards just to be able to manipulate that little arrow. And if you drag an the element,
as you can see Canva lets you adjust it with the elements that you've got around. So when you
click like this, it just positions it kind of right in the middle. So you can see the middle
one horizontal you've got, you can kind of make it adjust to different elements and
it actually snaps in place like a magnet. So when you drag it, it kind of guides you,
um, as well. But let's say I want it to have these elements, not kind of
work separately from each other. So you can, you know, drag just one, but
not the other. If I click on anything kind of click on the background and drag it, this
is how Canva lets you select different things. So if I drag it over these two elements, I can have another option here at the top, which
is group. And if you click on it, what it does, it connects these two, you can still amend
them individually. So you can see that I can still manipulate the colors. I can still
manipulate the font on the text is just that. Now when I move it, this is actually one unit.
This is one entity in a way that I can kind of move it around together. And I don't need to
worry about making this kind of misaligned and the same goes for this text. So I
will ungroup it because I don't like how to the left. It's not properly aligned.
So I'll, ungroup it click away. And if you drag that love, peace and joy text,
you can see, they can align it to different elements. If you see the solid frame, this
is a margin that Canva shows for the image. So for the specific resolution, so this
is the Instagram post. This is what Canva thinks is the margin for it. So if you leave a
bit more space, this is how the design breeze, and this is quite a cool thing because for
people who are not really graphic designers, it's a neat way to make the design
look and feel a bit more professional. So you've got that kind of breathing space for
it. So keep it in mind when designing things, push it towards that margin. I'll push it in here
and then I'll grab this one as well. And as you can see, I can align it to that margin as well.
And then. The stroked one, the kind of dashed line that shows me that it aligns to different parts
of that other element, that swipe for more thing. So this is the middle and this is where the
whole kind of grouped element swipe for more. This is where the middle of that element is.
This is where I can actually align this text with the middle of this as well. But it doesn't
work just with that. It's just the same for any other elements. I can kind of put it in the
middle in here, or if I wanted to drag it kind of across that one as well, obviously it's
not aligned to the middle, but let's center it. You can do the same thing kind of over
it. So Canva by dragging the elements, kind of lets you align it with different
parts. As you can see in here vertically, this is the middle of the graphic.
But then if I drag it along here, the dash line shows me that this is
the middle of that frame of that photo. So I'll get back to it. I'll align it to
the margin. Once I'm happy that these are working together, I will click on it group
it, and this is how these two stay together. And now I can maybe drag it a bit further. And
instead of just having it aligned to that left margin, I can also drag it down and have it
aligned perfectly to the corner of the margin. So let's go back to this design, right? So I told
you that with this text, www.nataliakalinska.com I want to showcase my website. So this, I
added this panel again from the elements in different shapes. So I can make this
text a bit smaller and what I'm doing, I can drag by the corner and it will kind of
drag it down to one corner to the opposite one. But if I click alt. It will drag both
corners kind of to the center in a way. So it, it kind of goes down. So when I've
got something aligned to a specific element, it just kind of stays that way. I don't need
to kind of move it further. If I click alt, even when holding it, it will stay
aligned to the proper element. So if I've got that, I can just move it down.
And as you can see again, straight line in here completely solid. That means I'm right
in the center of this particular graphic, but then down at the bottom, you can see that
it's aligned to the center of that shape. And you can see it by that dash line. So
this is where I'm putting it in here. I can maybe adjust it again. I like it actually
not bold. Let's make it again a tiny bit smaller. And then you can, you know, if you were
to play around with the position as well, you can send it backwards. You can send
it forwards. You can also align it to page in here so you can align it to top and
it will kind of drag it to the very top. I can align it to bottom as well, left. Right.
Change the alignment in here. And you can add it to the very middle again, quite a cool
feature. If you want your text to be right in the middle the middle of the graphic, I'll
drag it down in here just to show you perfect. This is aligned how I like it. And if I want to
go back to this, I use that one from a template. So these texts are grouped. So I
will ungroup them. And let's say, I want to make that look a bit more like this,
right? So instead of going and searching so I can still apply all the things kind of
one by one. So you can go pick, you know, Yeseva One, however you pronounce it, Bodoni,
whatever I can play around with these, right. And I can add, uh, you know, I can make them
bold. I can make it smaller. I can do the same thing, but again, clicking back to this one
specifically on this element, clicking copy style. And I've got this in here. So
at least I know that this is the particular font that I want and I can
kind of make it aligned to center. You have to kind of play around in here with how
wide you want that text? Right. But I'll leave it as that and I can make it and I can
force it all to be an uppercase. So I do it in here. I don't need to kind
of re type it. It's really cool. And I can just kind of drag, see how big I
want it. This is quite a cool thing. I like this one, but I'm not a super big fan of
that. So let's leave it like this. Maybe kind of align it in here as well. Yeah. So this is how you
would design. If you start designing something, don't like a particular photo,
you can just delete it in here change the color to the one that
you've used kind of before to is that the ones I've used actually,
no, it's not. This is the one that I've used before. Right? So you can see document
colors in here. Again, you can click on the color and you can see what colors you've
used before. I can see in here that I, I've not changed the color of this font. So
I can change it to the one that I've used. So next, let me show you how to add photos and
what you can actually do with photos in Canva, because just adding them is not enough.
There, there are different tools, different functionalities that you
can play around with. So let's say I'm picking that particular one. So
I've dragged it in here. You can see I've searched for plant and you can
see that I've got another neat one. So this is the PNG, the transparent
background one. So I'll just add it in here. Let's say obviously it's a pro one, so I
won't remove the watermark at the moment, but just for the sake of this tutorial, I can
position it. So it's below that bar in here, but I can kind of move it forwards and this
way it would look like kind of on top of it. Obviously it doesn't really work that
well for that design, but just to show you what functionalities you've got. So
for the photo that I've chosen in here, you can see that it doesn't really go that
well, some text in here overlays the plans and you don't really see what it reads.
So if you double click on this photo, you can actually see the original
outline of the photo and within it. Which is not transparent is actually the
graphic, the boundaries of the graphic, but anything outside of it is opaque.
So if you move it to the left, right, you can see that dragged it kind of
a bit further. And it's even worse, obviously. So this is not something that
we want, so I can just drag it in there. And this is how you can move it to the
side. It's still doesn't work that well. So another thing that you can do, you
can click on flip and flip it vertical, and this way it actually works. It doesn't
really affect it that much. I might actually want to align this kind of, to the left a bit
more. This is how the process of designing. Obviously you may cope as you go, you see
what works and what doesn't work that well, but maybe, you know, this works a bit better.
I actually have to remove that one. I really don't like that one, but you can see what you can
do with this one as well. You can move around. You could actually, kind of extend
it a bit more so I've extended it. And I just see that little cactus but
you can drag it in as well. And you can play around with it. How well it goes
with the image. Maybe that's a bit too big, but let's make it a bit kind of
smaller, but you can see that it still goes kind of outside it. I actually liked this
look. I actually like it quite a lot. Let me show you another neat thing.
I'll go back to the photos as well, but when you click on three elements,
if you go to position. Sometimes Canva lets you space things evenly. So automatically
align different things, kind of evenly for use. If I click vertically, you can see that it kind
of adjusted that middle text, that heading. So you can see that it goes together.
Well now it's kind of more harmonious, right? So you can kind of pick
horizontally. It won't work like this, but if you're trying to line something
horizontally, this is where you would use and it can also use tidy up the tidy up.
Doesn't work in here particularly, but let's say I wanted to add social media buttons to that
graphic or I was designing an interactive PDF. Right? I can add different social media
buttons, right? So I can do Facebook. Let's search for Facebook. This is a free one. Let's
see in magic recommendations instantly you can see different social media platforms so I don't
need to look for them. I don't need to type in Instagram, Twitter. I can just grab these right. And as you can see with some graphics,
you can adjust the colors as well. So if my brand colors were,
let's go for something a bit more contrasty. So you can see that Canva pulled
photo colors from here. So this green actually works quite well with a bronze they've chosen. So
let's say I want to kind of adjust it like this. Right? I've got Twitter. I want Instagram first see this Instagram. I cannot really amend the
colors off. So I will look for a different Instagram icon. So let's say Instagram and I want
a full one. Okay. I don't quite like that one, but let's say, you know, this is what
I'll use for this particular photo. Doesn't really look like Instagram, but who
cares? And as you can see, I can just kind of align it with the top of this. The Twitter
icon, and I can just align it to this. I know how big I need to make it for this to match. And the
same for Facebook's. I can just pick the correct color from here. I'll make it a bit
smaller to make it align a bit better. And yep. This is how I do it, but the
problem is I don't really know if those gaps in between are equal. So what I can
do, I can select all of this. So again, click somewhere on a safe space, like somewhere
where you don't have any elements or texts or anything, just drag it over those buttons,
click position, and then click tidy up. As you can see Canva aligned it for me and then
S together I can just group it, make it smaller and make it align. To that particular list. And
then if I select all of them, I can still kind of align them vertically by Canva and it will make
it all an equal. I'll go back to that because I don't want to look like this, but another
cool thing that you can do in Canva is link. I've not explained that link thing. So if
you link, you can enter a link. So I can add my Facebook handle for example. And it's
quite neat. If you've got interactive PDF that you're organizing, you can just export
it as a PDF. And all of those things, all of these elements will
link when you click on them. So let's say facebook.com/nataliakalinska .
Let's apply same for the Instagram. I just click link again. Doesn't really work for graphics on
Facebook, but it's good to know that you've got this feature in here. So this is what I've got in
there as well. And if I want to, let's say I added a link to that one, right? I've got this link
added to the nataliakalinska.com at the bottom. It will automatically underline it just as kind
of few, you have links underlined in various different programs, but I'll just kind of, I can
remove it. So I've made it not underlined again. And if I drag this one and I group
it, right, so that's together, but another thing you can still
kind of move it and it's not cool. If you want to, maybe duplicate the page, change
the design, just to be sure that that doesn't get moved unnecessarily. You can lock it. So
you can actually click on that little lock icon in the top right corner. And if you
lock it, it will stay in place. You won't be able to move it. And the cool thing is
you won't be able to select it as well. So won't, you know, accidentally drag inside
of it. So let's go back to this design, for example, right? So I've got this right.
And if I want to maybe select these things. But I don't want that to select it will be quite
tough. You know, I can do it in here, but if you don't want to select the whole thing, you can
actually click on that one, lock it in position. And as you can see, if you kind
of move it, you won't be able to select it. And if you want to unlock
it again, you can click on this one, you see that you are not able to adjust
anything on this one. You need to first unlock it and then you can delete it, manipulate
it, whatever, but this is how you would do it. And this is why you use quite often,
especially when I'm creating templates, which I explain later. Yes. If I want for
something to stay in place. Stay put not be moved, not be selected. This is a great way to
actually kind of protect your design as well. So within Canva, you can also have shortcuts. So
if you want to duplicate that particular element, you can do it right next to that lock icon. You can duplicate it here and it will collect it,
but you can also use shortcuts. So I've just done with that particular one. I clicked control Z
and it removed it. I don't have to go to that top arrow to actually kind of make it,
you know, make it go away or, you know, come back to the previous step. I can just
click control Z and it just disappears. Right? Same goes for copying and pasting.
So you can choose an element or a group of elements. I can choose that kind of
social media, a group. I click control C. I go back to this design. I click on
the background and I click control V which pastes it quite cool. If you want
exactly the same elements to go with other different parts of your design, it doesn't just
apply to different pages of the same design. If I open another design, this is just a template
I've opened from Canva. That's why it's called kind of untitled design. If I actually go to this
one, right. And I liked this particular arrow, I can just control C, go to my design
in here, and I can control+v. And I've got the exact same arrow, obviously
that design, which was much bigger. So compared to the Instagram -post, the arrow was really, really tiny, but if
I drag it and make it kind of my own, I can maybe, you know, switch it with this particular arrow
that I had here. Let's go back to my top one, still with the photos. So what you can do with
the photos as well is add different effects, filters or adjust it. So if you click on effects, you can see that
there are quite a few different things that Canva offers in terms of what you can do with
your photos. The first one is a background remover. So if you click on the background
remover, obviously it's a Canva Pro option, but what it does is actually removes
the background from the elements. So, if I were to remove the background
from this particular photo, if you, if it would just leave the, the different kind of
plans, the cacti, it would leave just them. I can erase certain parts or add certain parts, and I
can add these cacti, these plants onto let's say, you know, more of a background like this, and
I would just have those elements on top of it. So it's another layer of being able to manipulate
different elements. There's also various different effects that you can play around with. You
can have more of a kind of pixelated looks. If you connect different apps, see you can just
pixelate it make work for censorship, actually, whatever. But, you know, it's, if you're going for
cool look, whatever you can use that one as well. You can adjust it as well as you can
adjust the radius. I can have more or less segments in here. There's, you know, bad
TV. I won't connect all of them to this account, but this is something that you may want
to have for. For your different designs, they can have C flow and added
a bit more kind of flow to it. See, as if you're kind of dragging it, see,
I can add the 3d effect, these ones, this was quite a popular one. And if you're
going for that particular look, this is how you would do it. It's
really cool. That canvas is actually adding those options for you to be able to,
you know, do these things to your photos. Then you've got filters. So just as with
Instagram filters or so many different filters that we've gotten out on different
social media apps, canvas offers some really basic filter. So you can have your Epic
festive, you know, we can go through it, see if something kind of. Makes it a bit more
fun. You can have the kind of gray scale effect. So, you know, it can kind of adjust to it. It
can make it a bit more de-saturated if you're going for that. Look, you can just adjust
the strength of this particular filter and see what works for you. Again, I'm happy with the
photo as it is, but just to give you an option, and this is a possibility, and then if
you want to manually adjust your photo, especially if you're dragging something, let's
say from, if you're uploading from Google drive, I've shown you before how we
can integrate these two apps. If you've got some photos that you've just taken
with your phone and they just need a bit of, you know, a bit something, a bit more of a, you know,
grit to it, you can just adjust it in here. So you can up the brightness of them. You
can kind of make them a bit darker. You can OBS the contrast as you can see, make
it more contrast, see lower the saturation. Make it a bit higher. You can change the tint
as well and here. So make it a bit kind of a particular feel. You can blur it or make it
a bit sharper because if you drag blur to the right blurs, it obviously, but if you
drag it to the left, it actually makes it sharper. So if your images are not as sharp
as you want, you can just slightly ever so slightly drag it to the left and it will make
them a bit more sharp cross process as well. Manipulates different channels of the
colors of the photo. And you can kind of play around. Maybe it will work
well with the style of your photo. And you can add the yet as well to your
photos crop. You can also crop it. Um, I won't crop it in here because it's still
kind of cropped to that particular photo. So not too long ago, Canva added the
option to actually animate your graphics. And it goes in line with the trends
right now that. So many different social media platforms are encouraging more
of a motion graphic feel to your designer, to your platform or a, they actually just
straight up prefer videos, which is obviously on the rise continuously for months
and months, for years, really. But you can actually animate your designs
as well, make them a bit more interesting, just grab the attention of your followers
as well. So if you click on animate, you can actually choose from different options
and you can click on that particular one down here apply to all pages and we'll apply the
exact same animation to all the pages. So if you click on blog, this is
what the animation looks like, and it applies it to the text specifically. Then
if you click on that little kind of timer icon, you can adjust the timing. So if you need your
graphic to be animated and you have 10 seconds, it can have it here and you can just see.
How it works for your particular design. There are other options as well. So
you've got breathe. So that breeds in the whole graphics. So it's not just the text,
it's also the elements. It's also the photo and then you've got the fade.
So it kind of fades away. That's much more, it feels a bit more organic to that
particular design. You can see that it fades in, and then at the very end of it,
it fades out there's pan as well. So it kind of moves from the side there's
rise, there's tumble. So it goes kind of a bit more funky of an effect and tumbles out.
There's a drift as well. Um, stomp, tectonic, baseline, pop neon scrapbook, which are all
available just for the pro users. Uh, if I click on apply to all pages, you can see that
the tumble is applied to this one as well. Just like this one. And I can edit the timing
on that one as well. So let's say I want to make this one six seconds. Uh, I want to make this
once. Let's say five seconds for both. Okay. So I want to make it five for both. This is
how it's done. And these are all kind of now animated again. Doesn't may not go kind
of super well with that particular one, but it's just to show you that this is an option. I actually kind of liked the block one for
both of them. I may leave that one actually, just to show you that this is the
option. Another thing that I want to show you is how to actually utilize your
own graphics or upload something to Canva. So if I liked something in particular,
uh, or if I've got, you know, a specific design that I want to utilize for this one,
you can just kind of drag it into canvas. When I drag it, you can see that
it says drop to upload your file, and I've just uploaded this completely ridiculous
gift of America. And you can just click on it. And this is your. You know, your, your, your
guests kind of incorporated into that design. Doesn't really incorporate that. Well, heck
I just wanted to show you what it looks like. Right. And if, for example, you want to
add something from a website, you really like something, for example, if you've
got some kind of royalty free photo that you want to use for design at, let's say, I
really like this particular photo, it's a free photo on Unsplash. Don't bother downloading
it, then dragging it back to Canva, just right. Click it. If it's possible, copy image and
then control the in your design and it will just actually apply it. So that's open a new
page, right. Or I can duplicate the whole design actually. And I can just remove that element. See,
that's a frame. So I've just removed it. I can just remove those things. And if I want to kind
of add it as a photo, I can just drag it in here. And it's super cool because I mean, I don't even
need to drag it. I just control V and it's there. Right. So I can just add it again. Same as with
the other ones, you can just crop it. And as you can see, that design is added to your uploaded
media, right? So you don't need to worry about downloading dragging CAMBA is very intuitive and
integrates with different parts of your browser. So let's play around with another shape. Let's say
maybe I want it white. I had some white elements in the previous one. Well, let's make it the
same size. See, so I dragged it to the side of that photo. Right. You see that it snaps
in, and it, you can see the little kind of dashed lines, which means that it's
aligned with that element below it. If I drag it here, again, it snaps in
place and he can see the dashed line. So that means that it's the exact
same shape. And I can just kind of drag it to the side of it. Now, drag it
a bit kind of lower. So maybe I want to, I want to kind of just off that one and I would
just push it backwards and I have it in here. Right. So it's kind of like a new frame
that can also change the capacity of it. So just so you know, they can utilize different
elements to be able to integrate it into your design, play around, have fun, just use
the stuff that Canva offers for you. If you're not that comfortable with designing
yet, canvas is actually a great tool to learn because it's so intuitive and it's got so
many different designs and it gives you all the outlines and different things that you
can actually learn how to design things well. Cool. So once I have all three of my designs, let
me actually just adjust that text on this one, because it bugs me, even though we're just playing
around and it's just, you know, a design just to show you how to design a graphic. I'll just
amend that one. So let's say right, let's say this. And as you can see, right, this is our
first we problem because that graphic is grouped. It's still kind of bound by the limits of
that particular groups. If I just ungroup it. And you can see that the bottom bit
actually went down with that design. So I can just actually drag it in here.
Just to make it wider, right? Let's say I want to make it a bit smaller. So this kind
of fits in. What's your dream destination? Let's say, I want to want for it to
look like this. I can drag it in here. Not particularly to, to the margin.
Cause I like the way this works. Okay. So let's maybe add a line. I feel like it
needs a line just to make it a bit more kind of fancy or line in a bit better.
I don't know. Just like it that way. Let's play around and just make it
a bit simpler. I'll just do that. Yeah. Let's just kind of align it with
this one. Let's drag it. I like that. I like it that way. Nevermind. It's not perfect,
but this is what I've come up with. What's your dream destination. Then leave a comment
below. Right. So I've got my three graphics. The first one doesn't really go super well
with the second or the third, but let's say these are the set. And that one is a standalone
graphic, which, you know, sometimes it happens, you create something and, you know, it goes
another way or inspired to create something else. So I can just start downloading my graphics. So you click in here again, as I've told
you before, you can click kind of different styles. So since I've animated these
graphics, I would need to either choose the MP4 video or GIF for these animations to act,
show up. Say, I will download that first one as an MP4 video. So I click on select pages.
I clicked page one, I clicked done download. And as I said before, it's preparing
your design. It gives you cool, neat little inspirational quote. Everything has
its beauty, but not everyone sees it, any Warhol. So that's just download it and I've got my
video. Automation. So I've got my animated graphic created in Canva, super easy, super
quick, really fun to play around with. So check out this one and then let's download
these two. Not as animations, even though, you know, I have animations applied to them, but
just don't, let's download it as a regular kind of graphic. So choose PNG, just because for me,
it's the best file type to upload to social media. And I can just select page two and
page three, and then just download it. And as you can see at tells you that it
looks like you have links in your design for links to work. Please choose
PDF. Obviously, if you're using image extensions, rather than, you know, PDFs
or videos, there are some functionalities that won't be saved with that. So for PNG or
JPEG, you won't have the links apply to it. So canvas lets you know that and as you can
see, it just saves it as a zip file. So you can just unpack it. And you'll have your designs
ready to upload. Of course, as I mentioned, the very beginning of this video canvas free will
be great for most users. They won't need the pro version because it has 250,000 free templates, a
hundred plus design types for social media posts, presentations letters, and so much more hundreds
of thousands of free photos and graphics. You can invite members to your team. You can
collaborate comment in real time and you have five gigabytes of cloud storage for pro version.
Just to show you, there are quite a few different things. So it has everything that the free account
tasks. But you've got quite a few new options. So the first thing is that you can create one
brand kids and upload your own fonts and logos. And there's actually a bit of
a difference to the homepage and the free version to the pro version
and actually the brand kit you can access straight from the whole page. So as you can see in
here, I can click and upload my logos from here. You can have multiple ones in here. You
can also apply brand colors so you can insert the exact hex colors, just like
with the color picker and the editor. You can also kind of play around in
here, create titles for the pallet, and you can just delete them all together
as well. So you can add different pallets custom. Once you create it in here. Let me
just delete it. You can reorder it as well, or you can discover different custom
pallets, which I've mentioned. Canva has tons of inspirational features as
well. So it inspires you to maybe use a different color palettes as well. So I'll just add that
luscious lemonade one, and this will be my kind of name, a color palette. Great. So I've got
that sorted. I can also add brand phones. So as I mentioned, you can choose a font
for tons and tons of fonts kind of offers. And as you can see, I no longer
see the crown being yellow, which means that I am a pro user. And even
though I see which fonts are the profiles, I have access to all of them. Now let me choose
leaks. Pardon? That's my kind of heading one and I can adjust how big I want it. If I
wanted bold, obviously, for least, pardon? It's quite a bold one already. So it doesn't
have the option to either make it Italian or bold, but I can adjust the specific size
for it. So each time I go, I go to a design, which I'll show you in a moment. I'll have
it ready. It will be pre formatted for me, no hustle with searching for the
font. It will be just in my brand kit. So let me choose different fonts. Obviously
won't be the same ones that I use for my brand, but just to show you that, uh, let's
see, play for. Playfair display. See, so in here I can make it a Taluk. I can
make it smaller. I could make it bold and it shows it in here as well. And add some
body style. Let's say I want open sense again, let's say open sounds light
12 C I can change it all here. And you can upload fonts to canvas as well. Especially if you had the Fonz designed
for you for your brand by graphic designer, or if you transformed your handwriting into a
font, which you can do as well. If you'd like to know how it's done, let me know in the comments
below and I'll create a video just for you. Cool. So once you've got your grandkids
sorted, another great feature that pro offers is a content planner. Guys. I cannot
even express how exciting it is. We all have trouble staying consistent with
social media. It's quite tough to kind of go into each and every platform and post
Canva lets you do it straight from Canva. So let's say you're quite active
on Pinterest. You want to create multiple pins, you have tons and tons of
different graphics. You can just publish or schedule content for Pinterest or other
social media platforms like Twitter. For example. Just from that content planner. So
if you go to your content planner, if I had any posts planned for the upcoming month
or whatever, I would be able to see them here. So I can just click on a particular day. Let's
say, I want to post on Christmas Eve. I can create a design specifically for that one. So
it will schedule it or I can choose a design. So let's say I want the one
that I've just chosen. I can choose a specific one. I can choose
a time that it gets posted at. So let's say, you know, 8:00 AM, let's say done, you can schedule two. And then when you have
that connected, you can schedule to Facebook, Twitter, Facebook group as well. You can
post it to Pinterest, LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn page to your Slack channels or to Tumblr
as well. Super cool. I'm really happy that canvas created that because I feel like it's, um,
almost like an extension of the platform. This is what so many people use Canva
for, for social media. So if you can just schedule it from there really neat. So
let's get back. I don't have it connected, but let's say, you know, we can
connect it straight from here, but let's say I won't connect to at the moment
you can select which page you want to publish. I mean, it's obviously not perfect for
Pinterest, but let's say you want it to post it to a Facebook page. I can do it from here,
schedule two and then write your caption. Right. And then you would have that kind of available
obviously. So you can save it as draft and return to it later and then schedule it again or it can
schedule your posts then and there that's done. You can even publish it straight away.
If you're struggling to stay consistent, this is something that will help
integrate the whole process for you, because you can just create your
captions, then go right into Canva, create the graphics to support it. And just
schedule it and that's you, that's you done? And to make the whole process streamlined
canvas helped us out with this. So as you can see in your folders, you can see the
logos in here as well, but let me show you what difference kind of approach makes
your editor. So this is what I had before. You can still see that the resize option has
the pro version crown req right next to it. Let me just refresh it to show you that.
So in the folders, you can see that I need, I couldn't create folders within the editor,
just because I didn't have the pro version. I would have the photos that need pick like a
pro photo. So if I refresh it. I have access to everything. So now I can just click resize
for example, which is one click resize. So as I mentioned before, you can just
go to, for example, Twitter, right? I want to create a Twitter or posts
from it. So if I click Twitter post, if I click copy and resize, or
I can just resize on this one, if I don't need it for Instagram, but I'll
click copy and resize. And as you can see, it opens another design, which has completely
transformed into that resolution for Twitter. And as you can see, some elements were kind of
extended for me. So that photo was wide enough. So if you kind of click on it, you
see that it's still within the balance and I can actually just kind
of move it together together in here. Right. I can unlock that bottom bit.
Let's extend it. I'm clicking alt as well. Just to go both ways to saying,
save me some time. And I can just lock it again. And that's you sorted for Twitter?
Right? So you've got two different graphics, right? This one for Instagram or Facebook,
whatever. And this one for Twitter. One click and that's you sorted for different posts? It doesn't
mean that you have to post it the same way. It doesn't mean that you have to post the
same copy on it and you can amend it as much as you can, but it just makes it so much
easier without you having to copy it or, you know, apply different elements to another
graphic. If you're choosing Twitter posts, then if you go to folders,
you now can create new folders within the editor and you have access to
the folders that you've created before. So you've got your previous designs, which I've
put in the interesting folder, which was the kind of overall folder. So if I wanted to apply a
different design, I can just add it from here. Or you can access your logo from here.
So you can just add it here. This is not actually my logo. This is just something they use
that kind of to add it in there, but you know, I have it, I have it at a glance and I can add
it and just show you the different brand colors. I click on here with my colors. And as
I mentioned, you can have the palette. So apart from the photo colors, which Canva just kind of pulls all the colors that are
complimentary within the photo, and you can just attach them to your design. You can change
different, different colors and different elements to that particular color, but you've
got your colors of that was my main color. I can just click on it and it's
there. I don't need to remember the specific hex code. I don't need to kind of
drag my, uh, you know, my mouse over the slider, looking for the particular color, which
let's face it. It would probably be off. So, you know, it's cool. It's just, they're
the same for the luscious lemonade. I can just adjust all the colors, the brand
colors that I've got in here and that sorted. Right. You've got all the stuff that you
had saved. It's all there. It's all there. And it can just click on it, obviously.
It's it's far from working on that design, right? It's just an example,
palette I've just added. So you can just change the pallets. You can
add the logos. You've got your brand kit, same for adding text. See, you've got
your heading. It's gotten the subheading everything's pre formatted for you.
So you can just kind of use it, change the colors to the brand colors. That's you
start it all in one place, all within the editor. And just with pro you have that available, not
to mention all the elements, the really fun photos that come for free within that plan.
If you have kind of a pro. And last but not least a really cool feature that kind of a pro
has. You can actually see if your designs as templates. This is something that is kind of
a video in and of itself, a separate videos. If you'd like me to record it for you, let me know
in the comments below, and I can show everything about templates, how you create them, how you use
them, how you organize them, you know, if you want to watch it and I can just record it for you,
but you can create a template from any of your designs. If I click on the three dots, I searched
templates right from here, and I select a folder. I can kind of, you know, add a template to
a particular folder. So let's say if I had a Twitter folder, let's say this is the one I would
publish this template and I can go to my homepage. And as you can see, this is actually a template
it's kind of saved in here. So you can, if you click on it, you can use this template. And create another post and just
copies it over. And as I said before, if you have a connect to, to any of your social
media, you can just share it straight to, you know, Twitter. If I connect to my Twitter,
I could be, I could just schedule it from here, enter captions. And this would be my design
sorted. And apart from that, instead of the five gigabytes of cloud storage in pro you have
a hundred gigabyte gigabytes of cloud storage. And trust me, it does bulk up if
you're creating for multiple platforms or if you're using videos as well as, so
that's something to keep in mind. And I'm not saying you need to upgrade to pro straight
away, but maybe after some time you could try it. If you'd like to try Canva pro for free
for 30 days, I have a link for you below. It's a wrestling. So it's, it doesn't cost
you anything. If you create an account using this wrestling, but does support this channel.
And I should probably, at this point mentioned that this is not a sponsored video by Canva.
I just absolutely love it. As I mentioned, at some point in this video, I used to use
Photoshop for everything, and now I use Canva for everything because it's so much faster, so
much cheaper to be honest and much more intuitive. So guys, go ahead and check out Canva.
I really love it. If you prefer to use a free version straight away, go ahead.
Do it. I still think you will love it. Absolutely. If you'd like to try
the pro version, have fun with it, use the link below and let me know in the
comments, how everything goes. If you'd like to learn more about Canva, uh, I've mentioned
the beginning that they have the learn tab. So definitely go through all of these, but
then I need to mention the kind of a design school. They have specific courses,
um, they're are completely free to use and they teach you a different, um, sides of
graphic design. So you've got graphic design basics. It's got branding your business, which may
be quite useful in creating your own brand kit. You have presentations to impress. If you
do present quite a lot of things, whether you're a business or in personal life, you have
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