A non-designer's guide to the basics of Canva

1. Introduction: You may not be a designer, but this, this you may need to create a lot of designs. Maybe for your social media post, for determinants of your YouTube video. Maybe for some offline work like posters for your business, your business card. Or maybe you may need to design some T-shirts for your brand. And for all of these, you may follow three approaches. First, you can hire someone to get this designed for you, which will cost you some money. Second, you can learn photos of yourself. These two will cost you money because Photoshop is not free. And if you are like me, who is not a designer, then learning for so may be quite intimidating. And thus we have this third option, which is Canva. Using Canva, anyone can design literally anything for free. So there are some tools which are not available for free, but most of the time you will not need them. Canva provides lots of templates for almost any type of designs which are beautifully designed, designed by the experts. You can use this template as it is. You can use a template, you can remove the content, you can add your own content, you can change the text, change the image, and you can publish it as it is. Or you can decide to make some more changes. You can customize the templates entry is something you unique out of it. Or if you want to get more creative than you can start from scratch. And while designing, you can get inspiration from the defined, free and premium templates available in Canada. You can edit images and you can also edit videos in Canvas itself. So I'm not a designer, I'm a developer, and I have to create designs for my social media post. I have to create beautiful presentations for my clients. And for all of this work, I use only one to m, that is Canva. So in this course I'm going to teach you how to use Canvas for creating the designs for your content. Start with this simple one. Start with a basic template for a YouTube thumbnail and Wiesel change the text, change the team, and we sat down with Venus. Then I'll show you how to make major changes to a terminal and create something unique out of a basic template. And then I'll show you how to create a design from scratch. And then I'll show you how to create some content from Instagram, which I'll create a regular post and we sell also create a seamless care of them. The posts with multiple images. And when you scroll to the images, you feel like you're viewing a single image itself. And I'll teach you multiple ways to create such a seamless girls. And then I'll teach you how to use the video editor of Canva to create some simple videos we sell, create a intro video for YouTube videos. And one of the very important feature of Canva is that you can create teams and collaborate on your designs. And I'm going to show you how to use that feature to. The Canva has been a game changer for me and I hope this will be for YouTube. So let's explore more about Canva inside the course. 2. Exploring the interface: Welcome to the glass. In this first lesson, I'm going to walk you through the interface of Canada. The first step to get started with Canva is to go to this website, canva.com. And it's very beautiful, very intuitive web page will appear in front of you. And here we have different options. For example, first we have this button home. This will bring you to the homepage, to this page from the other pages of the website. And then we have this dropdown menu named design. So here you will find different resources with the information for creating different types of content using Canva. For example, if you want to create some content for Instagram. But you're not sure how you can use Canva to create that type of content. Then you can go to this page, this link, and it will APL did define information about how Canva can help you in creating some content for Instagram. You will find similar links for other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. And you will find links by the type of content. For example, if you want to create business cards and you want to explore the different options. You can go to this link, business cards. And similarly, the other options are available. So this is the place where you should come when you want to create some content. And you want to know how camphor can help you in creating that those types of contents. Here you will also find another link named video editor. So you can edit videos too with Canva. And if you're thinking about creating video content for the different social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. But you're not sure about what type of continuity will create. If you're struggling with the ideas, then you should visit this place and you can get some inspiration. Then you will find the Next button, template. And we are going to come to this later because this is a place where we're going to spend most of our time. We're going to spend most of our time with templates of Canva. Next you will find the drop-down menu name features. And here you'll find the links to the canvas apps. So there is a Windows F for Canva and F for Mac, for Android, and for iris. You can use this apps or you can continue using this website itself. Then you will have other features provided by cameras. So first here, you will find a button named design types. If you click on this link, then again you will get an over view of the different types of designs that you can create using Canva. Then you have prints. Canva provides printing as a Service. You can create a design and then if you want to get it printed, you can make an order. You can place an order to get your design printed and you can enter your address, make the payment, and the designs in the physical form, whether it's a t-shirt or poster or something, is will be delivered to your address. Then Teams. You can create teams and collaborate all the designs on Canva. You can integrate different apps with Canva to enhance your designs. You can, you can facilitate the design process in different ways with help of different apps. Are there are different ads which can help you create different components to be added to your designs. Graphs and charts. You can create beautiful charts, graphs to be added to presentations or in other types of designs. That photo editor, you can edit. Photos in Canvas. You can do simple editing. You can enhance the colors and the qualities of your photo. You can do some simple editing inside Canvas itself. Next we have this option learn here you'll find different resources to learn Canva, you will find different video courses. You will find different blog posts from where you can learn more about designing with Canva and then plants. We are going to start with free because this is sufficient for basic uses. But you want to upgrade. You can upgrade to the pro or the other options. Are there plans if they're suitable for you? Now let us talk about the most important feature of Canva. Templates. Templates makes Canva different and it is the reason Canvas so much useful. For someone like me who's not a designer, it is often difficult to get the idea of the design itself, the idea of the layout and the templates of Kendra makes this extremely easy. There are lots and lots of templates available for free. And if you upgrade to a Pro account, then you will get access to more templates and other resources. You can use a template as you can. Use the template, you can replace the content, you can add your own text and then change the color or change the theme of the design. And then you can use it as it is, or you can use a template as the base of your design and then make changes to create a unique output. Here, if you go to this page, you will be able to explore the different types of templates available in Canva. You can also search templates by particular terms. For example, if you are planning to design a thumbnail for a YouTube video, you can search for YouTube terminal here. And lots of results will appear. Lots of terminals. Select one that resonates the most with your idea. If you start typing instagram, it will suggest you the different options available for creating content for Instagram. Or you can also browse through these different options here. So this is a better life for you. This is something like customize some, some designs templates are listed for you. Then you can search by presentation, you can browse through the different templates for social media, video, etc. So let us start with it. It'll let us start with a template for you to turn it. Now you can start designing even without logging in, but I'd recommend you to login because otherwise you won't be able to save your design. Now you can sign up with your e-mail and then login using the mail and password. Or you can use the different social media social login options. Once you login, you will notice some differences in the page, in the homepage of Canvas. Here you will find some options related to your designs. Use either option home to come back to the homepage and you will find the option to object to pro. Then you will find the option named your projects where you will find all your designs than templates. You can browse through the templates. From this page. You can go to this place and it looks similar to what we have explored before, then shared with you. If someone shares some design with you, then you will be able to find in this place than trash, create a team. This is for collaboration. So you can create a team and you can even share your design with your team and all of the members as part they assigned role will be able to collaborate on your designs, on the design. Then discover apps. There are different apps that you can integrate with. Canada. For example, here you have this app for creating 3D elements for your designs. Using this, you can create different 3D elements and you can use them on your design. You have app like Bitmoji using which you can create a Moses to be used in your designs. Then you will find this option name brand kit, which can be used to create identity for your brand. You can add your logo. You can define the colors for your brand. You can define the font that identifies your brand. And then while designing, you can access this predefined elements, predefined fonts, colors, et cetera, directly in your designs. Then content planner for planning content to be posted in different social media accounts. But these two features are not available in the free account for to be able to use them, you have to upgrade to, true. So whenever you notice this crown in any place, in any design or in any feature in Canva, then you will know that this is not available for free. For to be able to access that feature, that design, that template you have to upgrade to prove. Then towards the right top corner, you will find your profile icon and you'll find different settings related to your account. And then you will find a button to create a new design. You can click here and you can search for different templates, or you can select these options to create designs for the different types of content. You can create custom sized elements to Custom Size design to, you can edit photos. You will also find another button here named custom size, using which you can specify the height and width of your Canvas off your design. Using templates is easier because they already come in the specified diamonds. And for example, if you are planning to create an Instagram post, and if you start with the design, the design, the template is already in the appropriate dimension. But if you need for any reason, a custom sized design, a custom size canvas, then you can start here. Next we're going to explore the editor of Canada. We are going to design it. It's thumbnail for a YouTube video. And we're going to start with a beautiful template which will make some minor changes. There was a gene Z takes this and change the colors. Msl download the image to be used as the company of a YouTube video. 3. Using a template: In this lesson, we are going to explore the editor of Canva. We are going to use a template to create a thumbnail for YouTube video. We're not going to make any major changes to the design, to the template. Wiesel change the, takes, the colors, change the theme. And then I said download the image to be used as determining. We are not going to make much changes to the design. We are going to use the template almost as it is. We are simply going to genes the existing content, the images, text, etc, and add our own analyser also customize the theme editor. Let's get started. First, let us search YouTube thumbnail. Select this one. Now lots of beautifully designed templates for creating a YouTube terminal will appear. Let us select one from this. Let's select this one. And the template gets opened in Canvas Editor. And this is the place where we are going to spend most of our time while creating content with help of Canva. Now here on the editor towards the left, you'll find different options like template, elements of votes, takes, etc. We're going to explore them one by one. But first, by default, the first step templates is opened. And we have this portion here which is presenting a few more templates that can be used for creating a YouTube thumbnail. We also have a search bar where you can add some terms and filter the results by, by that, by the particular keyword. For example, if you plan to create a video related to food and you want a thumbnail for that, you can search for food here you're going to add the word food and filter the results which are most suitable for food-related video. You can search for the term technology and the results will be filtered by the body ones that are most relevant for the term for the keyword technology. And you can also search by colors. You can filter the results back colors of the designs. So here you have this button. If you click on this, you will find the option to select colors. You will also find the option to select languages. Now here let's, let, let me select this color and then apply filters. And then you will notice that the results are filtered by the ones that have more of the selected color. You can click on this icon here to collapse this window and to make the more the editing area bigger. Now below template, we have the option named elements. So this is a very interesting and very important parts. So you will find lots and lots of elements or some components to be used in designs in this section. So you may need some shapes to add in your design. For example, here you will notice squares, you know, the circles, and you will notice lots and lots of different elements that can be used in the designs. So whenever you open a template, you'll find lots of different components, lots of different types of elements that are being used into designs. And you will find this type of elements inside this section, you will find, you will find graphics, you'll find images, you will find audios, you will find any related components, innovations. You'll find gradients. And many more. Elements are one of these very important components of Canva. And you will realize that soon when we start, when we will start customizing the templates a little more. When we start making major changes are when we start creating the designs from scratch. Then you will realize that, that we are going to use a lot of elements from this portion in our designs. Now below this elements you will find the tab named uploads. So here you can upload media from your computer. You can upload images, you can upload videos, you can upload audios, and then you can use them on your design. You can also connect your Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook accounts with Canva, and you can access the media from those accounts directly in your design. Then we have this step takes. So here you will find different fonts and you will also find different font combinations which are very useful. So this is another problem, another difficulty that in non designer of interfaces, the font combinations so which homes match better with another phone? So here you will find different fonts, font essence easily and you can use them in your designs. Now below text we have this button More and you should go to this tab. You will find some more features of Canva. Using photos. You can browse some photos here, Kendra provides a library of free and premium photos styles. You can customize these tiles of a template. Audio. Again, there's a library of free and premium audio files. Similarly, videos and then backgrounds. Using this background feature, we can easily change the background of any design. Folders. You can create folders to organize your designs, your projects. And these features are not by default edit to this menu, but if you click on this, they will be added to this Meno, to this bar, and you can then easily access those features. Here you will also find links to different apps. As I mentioned earlier, you can use this different apps to create components, be used in your designs. Or there are some apps which can help you facilitate the process of designing this. I'll explore some of them later. Now let us get started with our design. So we're not going to make, make any major changes in this design in this template. The first thing that we are going to change is the text. Let's consider that the video for which we are creating the thumbnail is about the basics of Canva. So the text will be easy ways to create content using Canva. So first of all, I'll change the text of this block. Two easy ways to, and then I replace this, make money which create content. Now, if you bring your cursor and click on it takes, you will notice the square around the element and the text will be editable. So you can change the text. And you will notice this handles at the corners, at the edges of the square. And you can use them to re-size the element you can resize, and the fonts two will be resized. There are other ways to change the size of the fonts. So here you will find the option to change the font itself and the font size, and you can customize the other properties of defaults to notice this icon here, using this, you'll be able to rotate the element. Let us try to change the color of this squared. So when you select an element, you will find the relevant options for customizing that property. In this portion. Here, when you select the square, you'll notice this option here to select the color. So click on it and this window will appear with the different colors to change the color of the selected element. Select one. Try with different colors. But in this case, it feels that this square is not necessary. It does not make any sense, make add any value to the design. So I'm going to remove it completely. So select it and press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete this element. Now let us try to change the theme of the design. So we are going to make changes to the overall design. We are going to change the colors and the fonts. And Canada provides a very easy way to do that. Click on this button more, and here you will find this option styles click on it and a new tab will get added to this bar named styles. And here you will find different combinations of color palettes and fonts. You'll also find some color pallets. You will find combinations of fonts. And you will find this combinations where we have a color palette and a combination of fonts. So now you should click on one of these combinations. These tiles will be applied on your design instantly. Give it a try. Click on one of these. And notice the changes, the colors of the different elements of your design got changed. The fonts to our changed. Explore this different combinations until it looks good to you. I'm going to keep this one. Now. If you want to keep these colors, but you want to change the font, then you can do that with the help of this font seats. So click on this button, see all, and then you will find more options, more options available for font seats. And if you select this, if you apply these concepts, then you will notice that the fonts changes. So the colors are same as the previous palette and the fonts are changed. According to this newly applied to form. Said, this is a very cool feature of Canva, right? Realized where we have started. We have started with this thumbnail and with a few clicks only. Now we have a unique design for our terminate. The next thing that we would like to do is to use our own image here in place of this image. We sell exploited in the next lesson. But for now, let us consider that we are going to use this terminal with this image itself. So now we are going to download this design as an image. And for that, we have this button here at the top right corner named Cher. Click on this and then you will find the different options to download this design. Here you will find the option for selecting the file type. Bnc is recommended, but there are other options too, which are suitable for other types of design. For example, if you are designing an e-book, then you can download as PDF. If you are creating a video, then you can download it as an mp4. And other options are there. So now for this design, as we are creating a thumbnail for YouTube video, we are going to download it as a PNG. And then they are. If you prove features, you can change this size, but you cannot do that in this free plan. You can do that in a Pro account inappropriate. And then you can download the image which transparent background and compress the file. So we are going to download it with this resolution itself with this size. Which file type selected as P&Z. Now click on this button, download. And our image gets downloaded, which we can use in our videos. Which if few very simple steps, we have created a beautiful thumbnail for a YouTube video. In the next lesson, we are going to upload our own imagine we shall use the maze in this design. So we said also learn about image editing in Canada, you can do some simple editing of images in Canvas itself. 4. Using and editing images: In this lesson, we shall learn how to use MACs in Canada, we sell upload an image from our computer. We said lose some simple editing in the Canvas editor itself. And then we use that image in our design and we sell create something like this one. Now on your homepage you will notice this portion where your recent projects will appear. And you can also find it inside this tab, inside this page, your projects. So here we have the project that we have created earlier. And now click on it. This design, have this image. We're going to replace it with our own image. We are going to upload an image from our computer with an ADT. And then we said, use it here to upload files to Canada. We have to go to this button here, upload. And then here we have different options to bring files, images, videos, and audios to Canva. So here we have this Upload button. Using this, we can upload files from our computer. If you click on this icon here, on the Upload button itself, you will find the different other options of uploading images. Bringing images to the project. We can connect these accounts, Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. And we'll be able to access the files from those accounts. You can drag and drop the files in this portion. And we have the similar options of this, of connecting to these accounts here too. Then we have this button record yourself, and if you click on it, you will be able to record yourself using the weight came off your computer. Now click on this button, browse the means that you want to upload and select it. I'm going to upload this image. Now, you will notice some very cool innovation during the image upload. Now we are going to use this image in our design. We're going to add it to the design. But before that, let us delete the existing image and to delete any element from the design first, you have to select it. If you click on any element, it gets selected. And you'll notice this square around the element. You will have the handles to resize the image. So here I have selected this image. And if I click somewhere around this portion than the circular element, this circle behind this image will get selected. Now let's select this image and delete it. You can click on this button here. Then place the Delete key on your keyboard to delete it. Now let us add our own image, and for that you have to click here once and the mesial get added to the design. And now you can drag it to place it at the proper position. But before that we have to remove this background because it does not look good with this background. If you have a Pro account, then you'll be able to access this very cool tool of Canada named background remover, using which you will be able to remove the background with a single click. But as we are using the free plan, we don't have access to this tool background. Thus, I'm going to show you a few other options. Other tools which, using which you can remove the backgrounds of any image or free search for background remover in Google and you will find some cool tools to remove backgrounds for immediate. So I've used this one. The first one we removed all busy and I have used another from Adobe. You can try the other tools to remove got BZ allows you to download a single, a PSD file for free. Once you download that free, free copy, later on for free, if you want to download for free, then you will be able to download a lower yours and image only. So you can try that, or you can try the tool from Adobe. Upload your photo and it will automatically remove the background. And then you'll be able to download this image. Now upload the downloaded image to Canva. Click on it to bring it to the design and drag to place it at the appropriate position. Now this looks good. It feels that it will look even better if we can flip this image to make the poster inwards to the design. Canva provides a easy tool for that to select the image. And here you will find the option to flip the image. You can flip it horizontally and you can flip it vertically. We're not going to flip it vertically. In this case, we are going to flip it horizontally. So click here. And now it looks even better. Now let us do some simple editing on our image to improve its quality. So forth. Let's select the maze and here you will find a button named editing is clear here, and you will find different options to edit your image. You can adjust these properties, brightness contrast, saturation, and you can play around with these simple changes in these properties itself. Mixed, use different in the image. Or you can apply these filters which are kind of preset if you select one than some of the properties of the image will be changed automatically. You may already be familiar with this because apps like Instagram and other different editing apps to provide this type of filters. Here you will find another section named photos in it. And here you will find different versions of this image itself. When you select this image and click on the button AD, than Canada itself, makes some changes to the properties of the email. And it says this, The difference, Parsons, as some recommended options here. You can click on it and the effects will be, the changes will be applied to your image immediately. And if that looks good to you, you can keep it. You can click on this button, see all, and then you will find more of sense recommended by Canva. If you click on this icon here, then you'll be able to control the intensity of the effect of the filter. Apart from these three properties, brightness, contrast, and saturates. And there are some other properties which can be customized to. You can click on this button here, C on, and then you will find all of them. Now here, you will find the find Fx that you can apply on your image. And we are going to use one. We are going to use the effect shadow. So we're going to make our image a clue. We are going to add an outline around the image to make it look something like this one. So this is a pretty common effect and you will see this in many YouTube terminus. So you're going to achieve this with help of this shadow effect. You'll find this shadow here in this portion, or you'll also be able to search it in the search bar or search for shadow and click here. And now you will find different options to add different types of shadows to your image. You can try these options, but here, for this particular image, we are going to use this shadow glue. So click here and the shadow will be immediately applied on your image and the image already looks better. But we are going to make some more customized reasons. And for that, click on this icon. And now we have a few properties which we can customize. So first of all, reduced to 0 and make transparency a 100. Let's change the color. Now here we have this different colors and here we have another six and name the document colors. So this is showing us the colors that are already present in our design. And this is pretty helpful. I'm going to add this color, select this, and notice that the outline is already visible. Increase the size a little bit. And now it looks perfect. Now our YouTube thumbnail looks a lot better, but there is one thing which does not fit well in this design, and this is the background image. This was perfect for the original concept of the template. Make money, right? But in this case, for the concept of our video, this is not perfect. This does not fit with. In the next video, we're going to use some other image as the background. We are going to explore the free images and we're going to use one of them, has the background of our design. 5. Changing the background: Now we are going to change the background of our design. We're going to add an image which is related to design or content creation. So we search for the best fit. But before that, let us keep a copy of our current design as the backup. So if you take a look at the editor, you will find these two buttons using which you can create a new blank pages. So try clicking on it and you'll notice that a new blank page gets created. But in this case we're not going to create a new blank pages. Instead, we are going to create a duplicate copy of this design itself. And for that we have this button here. Click on it. And notice that a duplicate copy of our current design has been created. So keep this second page and we are going to make the changes in the first one. Now let us change the background image or hard design. And the simplest way to do that is to go to this tab Background and then select one image or color from this. But if this is not visible on your editor, on your page, then you can click on this button more. And there you will find the option Background, click on it, and this will be added to this bar. Now here you will find different images. Some of them are free, some of them are not free. If you see a watermark on the image, it means that that image is not available for free. You can try one is simply click on it and that will be added as the background. You will find some colors. Also. If you click on a particular color, that color will be added as the background. Now if you want to explore more options, more images than the one way is to go to the some other stock image website and download the image and then upload the image to Canva and use it as the background. Or the simplest and other simple ways to go to the option photos. Again, you will find that inside this option more and there you will find the option photos, click on it, and then you will find a library, use collection of free and premium images. You can filter these images by some particular keywords. For example, here in this case, we are looking for something which is related to design. So search for design or graphic design. Then the results will be filtered by this keyword. Let us search, will, let us find one that, that will be based for our design. You'll notice this crown, this icon of ground in some of the images. And this means that data are not available for free. And others where you don't see this crown are available, Sophie, we are going to use a free one. So let's use this. Once you click on it, this image will be added to the Canvas page. And now if you right-click on this, select the maze and right-click on it, and then you will find this option. Replace background, click on it, and this image will be added as the background. Let us change the transparency of the image a little. And Let's select this image, select the background, and then you will find this option here. Click on it, and then you'll be able to control the transparency. Now the yellow-colored that we added previously does not look good here. Now select the background. If you select the background here, along with the options to ADD maze, you will also find a option to change the color. Click on it, and try changing the color. So this one from the document colors, it looks good to me. So I'll select this one. And now our thumb that looks pretty good, isn't it? 6. Using elements: Until now we have been making some minor changes to a template. We have changed defaults, we have changed the background image, we have changed the team, and we have also changed this image. But we have not made any major changes. We have not added any component of our own. And in this lesson we're going to do that. We sell add some elements from the Elements tab, and then we say, make something very unique. By the end, it will be difficult to imagine that we have started from this template, from this design. Let us start with the elements. Click on this tab. You will find different elements. Here are different elements which can be added to the design. You will find shapes, you will find graphics, you'll find stickers, you will find animations, you will find audios, you'll find images, you'll find videos, and many more simply, you can search on this search bar and you'll get some results as per your need. So we're going to start with this basic shapes. Let's start with this rectangle. Click here, and this will be added to the design. Now you can keep pressing Enter, you can drag it to the different portions of your design, this farm portions of the canvas. And while dragging it, you will notice some guides. So Canva provide this guides, which makes it very easy to position the elements in the proper place. You will find guides which are relative to the page. So you'll be able to find the exact center of the page. And you will also find guides which will help you to place the element relative to other elements of the page. You can play around with this annual realizable realized how you can use the guides to place your elements at the proper places of your design. You will also find the margins. If you bring your element towards the aids, then you'll also be able to see the margin of the design of the page. Using these handles, you will be able to resize the element. If you use the handles of these corners, then you will be able to resize it maintaining the aspect ratio. And you can use this one's at the sides to resize it in a particular side, you can, you can expand it horizontally or vertically, or you can reduce the size in this particular axis. And you can use this handle to rotate DMAs, and the degree of rotation will be visible in a small puff up here. Now our element, this rectangle is overlapping our image, but we want to place it below the image, behind the image. And we can do that by Silicon Valley selecting this element, the right-clicking on it. And then here we have these options, send to back and send back one. If you click Send backward, this element will be pushed backwards one step at a time. So it will be placed behind the next element on its way. The next image or any other element. If you click Send backward once again, then it will be pushed one step further. But if you click Send to Back, then in a single state, it will be pushed behind all the other elements. And once you push this element backwards, then you will find these options are getting enabled, bring forward and bring to front. So these are similar, but they bring elements from back to front. So if you click on this button, bring forward than the element will be brought forward one step at a time. And if you click on bring to front, then it will replace at the top of other elements. In this case, we're going to keep our rectangle at the back. You will find this similar options here too. Once I select any element, you will notice this button here, position, click on it, and you will find similar options here, like Bring to Front, horror or backward to front to back, etc. And along with this, you will find some other options to named A6 and named align to page. Here you will find top lift, etc. So you will be able to align an n element with respect to your page. Give it a try, select an element and click on this option and your element will be aligned towards the top, left, middle, etc, as far the selected option. Now, in this case, as we have rotated our rectangle, it has become a little difficult to get an idea of these alignments. So for the timing, let us add another element to the design. Let's add a circle. Select it and click on positions and try these options. Try to align it towards the top of the page, towards the left. And you can try the other options too. Now, along with this, there is another interesting way to align your elements inside your design. So just now we have seen how we can align an element with respect to the page, with respect to the edges and center of the page. But we can also align the elements with respect to other elements. And for that, we have to select multiple elements. First, let us select this circle and this rectangle. You can keep pressing the shift key and then select multiple elements together. Or you can select multiple elements with help of your mouse cursor. In this way, you will notice a problem. In this case. I'm going to show you how to avoid this problem. Avoid this type of unintentional selection. So the problem here is that we wanted to select only the circle and this rectangle. But accidentally we have selected the other elements, this taste and also this image. But we don't want to select them because otherwise, when we move the selected elements, these two will be moved and we don't want to change their quotient. So to avoid this kind of unexpected selection and movement, you can lock the elements. To log the elements. You have to select it, and then you'd have to click on this icon here. Let's lock this image and let us also lock this texts. And further, let's select this text. And then here you will notice another option to group. You can group multiple elements together if they are similar day, if they fit in a group and each, you often move them together. In this case, this takes fit in a group. They can be considered as a group of elements. And then we can click on this button group and we can ungroup them later on. And this time the icon, the button to log the elements got hidden inside this menu here, inside this option to click here. And then you will find the option to log the elements. So select your text, select the elements, and then click log. And now try to select the circle and the rectangle to data with help of mouse. And this time you'll notice that only these two elements are selected. Other elements are not selected this time. And now we can easily move them around. Now you should click on this button position. You will notice some changes here. Previously it was aligned to page, now it is align elements. So try this option, try clicking on top lift, etc. And you will notice that the circle and this rectangle are getting aligned with respect to each other. So these are some cool ways to airline and pushing elements in your Canvas. In Canvas. Let's remove this circle now because we are not going to use this here. Now let me show you another interesting feature. For that. First of all, let's unlock this text and I'll bring the, the last takes this one using Canvas downwards. Let's consider that we have added this takes separately and they are not properly spaced. But we want to place them in such a way that space between these, This tastes are same. So we want to evenly space this tree taste. Now, let's select this tree taste and click on this button position. And now you will find some more options here. Named space evenly. So try these different options. Click on particularly horizon. The length I'd tidy up vertically is the option, which will give us our desired output. So click on this and you'll notice that this tastes are spaced evenly in the vertical axis. You can create a duplicate copy of any element by selecting it and then pressing Control D. So let us create a duplicate of this, reacting. Later change the color of the top one. Let's just, it's, it's published polish and a little, I'm trying to achieve something like the effect of adding a shadow. Now push it backward. I want it to be above the blue rectangle but below the image. Now let us also try changing the transparency. You can play around with these settings. This fellow's until you find something that looks good to you. Let us push this rectangle one step farther backward to reveal this icon. It was hidden under this rectangle. Now let us try to make the fonts look a little better. Select the fonts and here you will find the different option to configure defaults. So you will be able to change the font itself. You'll be able to change the size of the fonts. You'll be able to change the color of the fonts, will be able to make the font bold or italics depending on whether the font allowed it that or not. You'll be able to add underline to taste, to default. You will find option to change the letters to uppercase. And you will find the option to align the text. Using this option, you will be able to add bullet points to make. At least. With this, you'll be able to adjust the space between the different lines of text. We have effects and intimate. In this case, at this moment we are going to explode this option. Here. You will find different effects and we are going to use one from this to make our texts look better. You will find different types of effects here. You can add shadow. You can make the text look like this one hollow. You can add shadow to this hollow with help of this effect. You can make the text look like this one, Neon effect. We then add a background to the taste. Or here we have this option to make the text look like on a car. But in this case we're going to use this effect lift. So click on it and notice the difference, a shadow, it appears below the text. They say do is edit and it looks good. Now let us try to add a few more elements. Let's try with a circle. So let's add a circle. And I'd like to place it at the bottom left corner. So bring it to the two displays. Push it to back, and let us try changing the color. Let's try different colors. This one looks good to me. I'll keep it. Now let us add another circle, circle and I'll place it at the top left corner. Let's select this and hit Control D. Now bring it to dispersion. Let's increase the size. Push it to bag. And let's try a different color here. Let's try this one, T. This looks good. Now this looks good, but it seems that this blue color is not standing out on top of this. So let us try changing the colors of this circles. But before that, I'll keep a copy of this design. So click on this button here to keep a duplicate copy to create a duplicate copy of this design. Now, let us change the colors of this circle. Let us also try adding some transparency. This looks good. Let us also try changing this fixed Canva with the logo of Canvas. But where to find the logo of Canva? And don't worry, you have everything inside this div itself elements. So go to this tab elements and search for gain valuable and will find different options, different types of logos which you can use on your design. Let us try this one. Remove this text and this logo at the proper position. Now give you the color of this logo. I'm going to change the color of the circle to the yellow again. And let's make this deal again. And this time as this is transparent, it looks good. So I'll keep this one. Or you can try different options if you want to. As I have told you before in this section, elements, you will find lots and lots of resources for your design. And you'll notice this section here named amazing recommendation. So whenever you search something, Canvas starts recommending you some alternatives are some options which is often very helpful. Now our design already looks good, but let us explore a little more. Let us try to add some more elements. This time, let us try with a line. So in the step elements search for lines and you will find different lines here, different types of lines. In this case, I'm going to use this one, this dotted line. And let's add it to the page and I'll place it at this portion. Let's bring it here and I'll change the color to gray and send it to back. This may look good to you or me. No, this is not necessarily that. I'm just trying to show you that different options, different shapes are available inside elements which you can add to your designs. Let us search for some graphics here. Let us search for plants, and you will find refined graphics related to plants. Search for computers, for phones. If you need these elements to add to your design, then you can search problem and you will find lots of different free and premium officers. Here. Let us search for plants. Again. Let us try to use one. So add this to the design and let us try to place it in a proper pushing, pushing where it may, it makes design better. But it seems this may not make any sense to add this plan to our design, but I'm just trying to show you the different options, different possibilities available with the elements of Canada. A different plant may look good. Let's try another. And let's try to make it look like a print of the T-shirt. And now it looks good. So I'll keep it and I'll download this image. So click on Share, select PNG, and then you just select the pages that you want to download it. Then you can select one page or multiple places, or you can select altogether by clicking on this button here. And then if you download a zip file containing all the files will be downloaded. But in this case I'm going to download only this kind page. With this, we have created a beautiful designed for a thumbnail of a YouTube video. And if you compare this with the design of the template with which we have started, you'll be surprised to see the differences. You will realize how far we have come. We have learned a lot when designing this, right? In the next lesson, we're going to start a design from scratch. We are going to design a do terminal itself, but we're not going to use any template. 7. Designing from scratch: We have learned a lot about the templates of gamma. We have learned how to use a basic template and made some changes as per our need. We have made some minor changes and we have made some major senses and created unique designs out of the basic templates. In this lesson, we are going to design something from scratch. So we're going to start with a blank canvas and we sell add some components which I'll add some elements. This will add some shapes, some images, and some forms. And we sell create a YouTube thumbnail from scratch without using a template. So first of all, let us create a new page. We're going to create the terminal inside this product itself. So let us create a blank canvas by clicking on this icon here, this button here, it will create a blank page. Now you will notice these buttons here. Using this, you will be able to change the order of the basis. You will be able to take the MRS upward, the pages upward or downward. Let's bring it to top and change the color to white. Now let us start with the font, because this will give us an idea of the design of the concept that we are creating. Read the text first, let us consider the topic. So let's consider that we are going to create a video on, if you recipes for developers. So let's consider the topic to be five simple recipes a developer may try. This may not make any sense because if there are some recipes, probably anyone would we be able to try or anyone should try. But for the sake of this video, Let's consider that this makes some sense. The topic will be five simple recipes a developer may try, and we're going to create a thumbnail for this video for DVD having this title. Now let us add the text and click on this button taste. And from the step, we can either select a font combination where we have different fonts which predefined sizes, which we can customize anyways. Or we can select this, select from these options. We can add these individual taste from this section. So let us do that. Let's add a heading at a sub-heading, and we're also going to add one of these smaller text. Now let's bring this smaller text. Who has the drop? Now let's Aaron's. This takes properly and for that first of all, select three of them and then click on this button position. And now here we can click on this button late to align. This text box is towards the left. And you can try this button to, if you click on it, it will enhance the tree elements in a neat way. It will add just these pieces to make it look beautiful. Now we are going to align it takes towards the left inside these boxes themselves. And for that we sell, keep them selected, and then we sell. Click on this icon here. Now let us group this tree takes to get our because we are going to place them together. So wherever we place them, this tree takes will be together. So it makes sense to make a group of this tree. So let's select this tree and click on this icon, this button here to group them together. And now we can move them around the page together. Now let us change the text. Here. I'll add five simple recipes. Main heading will be hello, pardon, may try. And then let's add a subheading. Let's add vegan alternatives included. Now notice that even if we have grouped this tree takes these three elements, we can make changes to the individual elements inside the group itself. Now let's bring this takes towards the right bottom corner. Notice the margin, keep it inside the margin. Now let's change the background color. So click outside the text and notice this button here, click on it and change the color. Let's keep this one, this yellow color. Now let us add some elements. And I use this saves a lot. So let's start with the square. So add a squared. Now let's rotate this rectangle a little and I'll try to increase the size. So you can try different shapes and sizes and these things are subjective right? Now let's change the color. Try different colors. I'll keep this one. Now let's log this rectangle so that we don't move it. Accidentally. Select it and click on this icon to lock it. And now let us change the color of this font. Let's try white. Or maybe this one, this May 1 look better, which has some gray, some relevant. So click on it. And let's keep this. Now. We're going to add some images. So first let us try to find an image related to programming, related to developers. So go to the tab, photos and search for coding. Let's use this image. And I rotate it a little and align it with this rectangle and increase its size. Let's also change the transparency. Now I'll search for another image related to food this time. So search for pasta. And I'm looking for an image that I have used previously, this one. So let's use this one. Rotated and crop it edited. So you can use these handles at the corner to scale the image. And you can use the endless I decide to crop the image or you can select the image. Click on this button here, crop, and then you can crop the image. Now let's also add some shadow, select the image, click on edit image and search for shadow, or as we have previously added shadows. So here we have a six and name shadow showing the different option to select this one. And it looks good now. Now let us add some elements in this portion too. And this time we are going to add some patterns. So go to elements in such short pattern and you will find some awesome patterns which we can add to a design. I'm looking for something that I have previously used. Instead of scrolling through all of these items. There is a place where we can find the recently used items. So go to the elements that the mean is the homepage of the Elements tab. And there you will find this recent view section where you can find the elements that we have previously used. I was looking for this one, so let's click on it and add it to the design. And I'm going to make a few copies of it. First, let's reduce the size a little. So I want these elements to look smaller. And then let's create a few copies by selecting it and then pressing Control Z a few times. And I'll add in this, in this portion. Let's also push these elements to the bank. And now here I'm going to add any major mind. So vindictive uploads. And here you can upload your images or you can, you can fats images from other accounts like Google Drive, books, etc. I have uploaded an image and I'm going to use this one. So click on it and the image gets added to the design. Now this time, I'm going to show the image inside the circle. So basically we are going to display the image in this form inside the circle. So let me show you how to do that. And again for that, you have to go to the tab elements and here search for frames. So this, this thing that frames in Canva or some of the coolest elements off of the platform of Canada. There are different types of frames, frames of different shapes, which you can use in design. And we can do some cool things. You can create some unique designs using this, using this frames. For example, if you want to create some mock-up, then you can use these different, these frames of different shapes. This frames for mobile phones, you can use these frames for monitor, laptop, etc. There are other different unique sets of friends which you can use to create some unique awesome design. So in this case, we are going to use this simple one is cycle. So you have to click on it to bring it to the design, bring it to the page. And then you have to drag the image that you want to place inside this frame on top of it. So select this image and drag it inside this frame. And now we have a circular image. But now if you try to add some shadow to this image, you will see that things does not work properly. So when the message inside a frame, it, it becomes difficult to add shadow, the effect shadow. There is a workaround. So again, go to the tab elements and search for settles. We are going to use some elements foreshadows this time. So here you will find shadows of different shapes. You'll find shadows for circles, rectangle, etc. So in this case we are going to use this one, the circular shadow. Click on it and now resize it and place it at the place it below this image. While moving an image, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to make minute adjustments. Now this looks good. So adding a shadow to an image is easy. Simply select the image, go to Edit Image, search for the effect, say two, and apply one of the different types of shadows. But you will find it difficult to apply shadows to other types of elements. In such a case, you can use this shadow elements from this elements that the way we have done here. Now let us add some shadows to the taste, and that is pretty easy. Simply select the text, go to effects, and then use one of these effects. So let's add this one lift and you can control the intensity here. Now in this effects Fiction, Horror it takes you will find another effect named backgrounds. So let us try to add this to this day. So let's add the background and let's try to change the color. So this one looks good. Now let me add just the alignment product. We have to ungroup this first. Now our design looks good and we can share it with others. And we have already seen how to download this design in different formats. If our farms in this portion share, you will find lots of other cool ways to share your designers, others and it makes video. We are going to explore them. 8. Sharing a design: In this lesson, we are going to explore the different ways to share the Canva designs with others. We have already learned how to download it as an indifferent forms, right? But apart from downloading the error, other different ways to share your designs with others. For example, here you will find this option, share on social media, using which you'll be able to connect your social media accounts and you will be able to share your designs, your content directly on those social media platforms. You will find this option. Print your design. As I mentioned earlier, Canva pro my sprinting as a service. So you can go to this option, you can click on this button, then select the type of print, and then you can place an order. You have to specify your address and your design in printed form will be delivered to your edges. But apart from this, we have some more cool ways to share the designs with others. Click on this button mode and here you will find the different other options available. And in this lesson we are going to explore these options. For example, the first one here is view on the link click here, and you will find some information about this option issues here, this link with someone else. The user, the person will be able to view your design, but he or she will not be edit your design, but your design will be public and you won't be able to make it private. Again. Give it a try, copy this link and open it in incognito window. And you will be able to view the design. You'll be able to slide through all of the pieces of your design. So the next option here is a template link. Click on it and you will find some information and you will find a link. So if you share this link with someone than he or she will be able to use your design as a template. So give it a try, copy this and open it in incognito window, add a page like this one will appear where you will have a preview of the designs and you will have this option to use it as a template for the user needs to log in to his or her Canva account. And then this design will be opened in the editor and he or she will be able to make any changes to this design and use it as a template. So next option is present. So this will be helpful if you need to present your, your designs in front of a team or in front of multiple people. So here you can select the type of the presentation and you can start presenting. Here you'll be able to start the presentation using this Play button, or you can control the movement. You can move from one place to another using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Now, try this option present and record. And as the name suggests, you will be able to record a presentation. And you will also be able to so yourself with help of the camera, of your computer or some connected camera. Then you will be able to share the link of the recording with others. So click on this button and here you will see a preview. Notice this circle here. So the video recorded by the connected camera will appear in this way. So it is a nice way to add a talking head portion to your, to the presentation so you'll be able to show your face and talking something, explaining things in of the presentation. Now click on this button. Go to recording studio. Now, canva.com will ask you for the permission to access the camera and the microphone. So allow these permissions and then this preview will appear. Here. You can select, you can change the camera and microphone if you need to, and then click on this button. Start Recording. Now you'll be able to slide through the different pages of your presentation. You can explain things and notice this notice this portion they video recorded by the camera is appearing here. This is a cool feature, right? And this will be very helpful if you're teaching something. So you'll be able to record your presentation, explaining things, and you'll be able to show your face, which increases engagement with the students. Right? Now, click this button to stop the recording and the video will be uploaded to Canvas.com and then a screen like this one will appear. Here. You will find a link which you can share with others so you can copy this link. You can download the video to. The next option we have is copy to clipboard. So if you click on it, the image of this design will be copied to. Keyboard and you can paste it in supported applications. For example, let's open paint. And I have copied this to clipboard. And now in the application paint, I'm going to paste it. Here we have our design added to paint. We can create a QR code based on our design with the help of this option. So click here, select the page for the design. Here you will notice a preview. So the QR code will look like this one. Here we have a field name URL here we can add a URL, which will be encoded in this QR code. So let's add URL. So let's add a URL. I'm going to add the URL to my blog. And now download this QR code. Now, anyone scanning this QR code will be able to find this encoded URL. So let me show you, let me connect my phone with a tool named visor. And I'll open the QR code scanner. Scan this image. Here is the encoded URL. We have a option named safe to folder using which we can organize our designs inside folders. Here, if you click on this button, you will find the existing folders of your account. You can create new folders here by clicking on this button. So click on it and let's create a new folder. It's intimate YouTube, we are going to store our designs related to U2 here. Now once the folder is created, you can click on this button to go to the folder, or you can go to home. You can click on your projects. And here you will find all your folders. So here we have this polar named U-tube, newly created. If you click on it inside, you will find the design. Now we can also create folders from this base itself. We have to click on this button and then click on this option folder, folder name. And you can also add members with whom you would like to share. And then click on this button Create folder. Now let us explore this option embedded. Using this, you'll be able to invade your Canva designs in a website. So you can invade your designs in a article on Medium.com. You can embed your designs on WordPress blog posts, or you can embed them in any website. So in this example, I'm going to show you invading these designs in a blog post on my WordPress blog. So click here and you will find the HTML code to embed and you'll also find a smart embedded link. In this case, I'm going to use the HTML code. Now. I'll go to my website and I've created a demo article, it MO post, which I'm not going to publish, but I'll show you the preview. Here. I'll search for HTML. Then add a blog, a custom HTML block. And here I'll paste the HTML code. Now save the draft. And let's have a look at the preview. Here is our design. We have all of the pages here. We can slide through the different pages. This is cool, right? We can do a lot of thing with this option, with this way of embedding Canva designs, we can make our blog post more informative, more interactive, and more engaging. You can also share your Canva designs informal websites, and next option is for them. So click here. Website. Here you will find the option named website style. So there are a few styles. And the default is presentation and as you have a preview of this time, so Let's click on this open website, this button, and let's see how does this website look. Here is our wave set, pretty simple one. We have this links which you can see here with others. And here is our design. So we have a simple slider using which we can slide through the different pages. And the viewer can also provide feedback on it. Now if you go back and try a different type, you will find some other options like a website, a scrolling website. So let's try this one. A beautiful single page website with parallax effect on the images, on the scrolling. If years. Then the third option is classic navigation. In this option, in this type of website, we still have only the first page, first design in the first place. And then here you will find a menu where you will find links to go to the other pages of the design. And the last option is similar to this one, but along with the demeanor in the space itself will have all of the designs. And when we click on the items of this Minos, it will be scrolled to the exit portion of this selected. So this is another cool way of sharing design in Canva. The next option that we are going to explore is this one, share link to watch. Using this, you'll be able to share a video of your design. So click on this, then copy this link and try to open it in browser, and you will find a video of your design. We have one more option here named prototypes. So using this, you'll be able to create a prototype for a mobile app or website. So our current design is not suitable for such a prototype. So we said exclude this option later. So these are some of the excellent ways. Excellent features can have robots to share your design with others. But this is not on. Canva has a lot to offer. So canva allows you to create teams and you and your team members can collaborate on your designs. So you will learn about that in one of the upcoming videos. And in the next video, we are going to explore some text effects. 9. Text effects: In this lesson, we're going to explore two different texts, effects available in Canvas. We're going to create a design for an Instagram post. And we have seen different ways of creating a design. We have seen that we can create a design using this button. We have learned that we can search for templates using the search bar. And this time we are going to use another week. So inside this space, your projects, you will find the different folders that you have created. So here I have created a folder named Instagram previous, previously. Now if you open it, you will find a button to create a new design. Let's click on it. And if familiar pop-up appears. Here, we can search for different types of designs. We can create a design with a custom size, or we can select one from this semester options. So in this case, we are going to create an Instagram post. So click on this option and a blank page appears in the editor. And here we have two different templates which we can use in our design. If we click on a template from tab, then that will be applied to our page. And we can make changes to this template. We have already learned about it. We have learned how we can change. We can make minor changes to a template. And we have also learned how we can add different elements and make a lot of changes to create unique designs out of this template. Here we can change the false, we can change the styles. We can change the images, or we can add lots of different elements and create something completely different from this base design. Here, notice that this one is a frame. Frames are some of the interesting elements of Canva. And we're going to explore more of them. But now we are going to create a design from scratch. So let's click on this button to create a blank page. We're going to explore if you take side-effects available in Canvas. So let us start by adding some texts. In this step takes and add some texts. Let me add hip come and innovate. Now once you select this text, you will find the different options for customizing this taste. So here you will have the option to change the form. So let us try a few different fonts. This one looks good to me and we have used it before. I like this font a lot. Let's keep this. And now you can change the font size with help of this option here. Then you can change the color. So let us try a few different colors. These options to make the font bold or italics is disabled here because they are not applicable in this font. Then you can add underlined with help of this one. And if you click on this button here, then all of the leaders of the text will be converted to uppercase, which is, again not applicable in this fonts. So let me show you by adding some other text. So here we have it taste where some of the leaders are in lowercase. Now, issue, select it and if you click on this button here, then all of this later. So we convert it to uppercase. We can adjust the alignment of the text using this button here. Now the text is aligned to are aligned to the center. Now click on it to align it too late. And we can also align it towards the right. While creating list of items, we often need to add bullet points or numbers. In that case, we can use this button here. So if you click on it than bullet point will be added to the lines. And if you click once again, then you will be able to add numbers. We can control the spacing of the lines and between the letters with help of this option. If you click on it, you will find these two options to control the spacing between the letters and then between the lines. Now here you will find a few other options named anchor text box. So by default the first one is selected. And if this one is selected and you try to change the line spacing will notice that the text box expands towards the bottom vertically. If you select the second option, then it expands into both direction, towards the top and bottom in the vertical axis. And if you select the toddler, then this takes box will expand towards the top. Now click on this button effects. And here we have predefined options defined f x that we can apply on our tastes. So here let us try this shadow. So if you click on it, the shadow will be added immediately. And then here we will have the option to customize the solubility. We can increase the opposite, the direction of the shadow. Then we can control the block. Here. We can control the transparency. And we can come up with some customized said, Oh, for our taste. And then next is lift. So we have already tried this one. So it will, this will add an effect like the, like the taste has been lifted upward. So this shadow will be there, but it will be directly below the text. So we don't have the option to control the direction of the shadow, but we had the option to control the intensity. While changing the font size. You have to be a little careful. If you try to change the font size without selecting the complete taste, then only the line where your cursor is present will be affected by the change. Others will not be affected. Now notice that our cursor is here in the first time. And if he, if you try to increase the font size, only this taste is getting affected. Others are not. So if you want to change all of them, then you have to select them all. And then if you try to change the font size, it will affect all of them. Now back to f x. Now, this hollow effect does not look good on this font. So let's add some other taste and let us add this hallway effect. This looks good. And in this effect, you have the option to control the thickness of the outlines of the fonts. There is another similar effect named slice. So here it is similar to hollow, but there is an additional setup. Here along the thickness, we can control the opposite direction and color of the shadow. Then this one equal looks like this. And deletes is in Italy, France. So this is one of the popular fxy will often notice this in YouTube, thumbnails and other types of design. I like this neon effect LR, this often in most of the cases this looks good. I apply this and you can control the intensity here. Let us apply this to this second please. And try changing the color. And it always looks good. Next we have this effect, backgrounds which we have already tried. So we can add a background to it. And we can control the roundness, we can change the color, we can control the transparency, we can read, we can control the spread, which will increase the padding around the taste, increase or decrease the padding around the teeth. We can control the roundness of the corners. Let's make some adjustments. And now it looks like it. Let's change the color of the text. Now here we have two more options named shapes. The first one is simply the regular way of displaying the text and the second one is current. So let's try this one. So this will make our texts look like a car. And we can control the radius of the curve with help of this property here. It is reduced the size of the font a little. And then let's increase the radius of the curve. And I'll reduce the spacing between the letters, anything. Now this looks good and this effect is a pretty popular one. You will notice this in many designs because this looks good right? Now let us add some background color and let's add some elements here. Now let us go to this tab, backgrounds and let's try to change the background. Or maybe I would like to search for some images inside this photos. Then let's search for innovation. Let's try one. Or maybe this one would look better. So let's try this one. Now right-click and make it the background image. Let's change the transparency little n. Now this looks good. Let us add a few more elements. Let's add something here in this portion at the center. Now this looks good, but I'm going to make some more changes and I'll create something that I'm actually going to publish on my Instagram to promote one of my courses. So I'll change the image and I'll change, I'll change this graphics and change the background image. I'll adjust the colors a little and make changes to the colors. And here I'll add the you are an off my website of my blog. And I'll also change this text. Now we have something like this one. And now I'm going to show you if you beautiful elements that are available inside this section, elements. So search for gradients and you will find this types of elements with some gradient and in different shapes. We can add them in our design if the mic incense, so in this case it is try to add a few of them. So let's add this one and you will notice these colors here. So you'll be able to customize the colors of the gradient. So let's change its position a little, let's rotate it a little tool. Let's change the size. And let's change the color. Let's add a similar one here towards the bottom left corner and send it to back. Let us add one at the center and also add the remaining corners. And now this looks a lot better. So it's some simple as ****'s defects and some simple elements. We have created a good-looking design for an Instagram post. And in the next lesson, I'll show you how to create a charism for Instagram. It kills the list multiple pages. 10. Rulers and guides (Seamless carousel for Instagram ): In this lesson, we are going to create another design for Instagram, but instead of a regular post, this time we're going to create a carousel for Instagram. It posted multiple slider will pages. These are often helpful for keeping your viewers engaged and for providing some valuable educational information in a very compact form. So again, the simplest way is to start with a template. So let's start for Instagram Carousel. Click on it. And now here we have defined options of templates that we can use. If you bring your cursor over this design, you will notice that the preview is played, so you'll be able to get an idea of the different pages. Now while designing carousels for Instagram, you'll come through the concept of seamless corrosion. So these are beautifully designed carousels, which while viewing feels like you are viewing, is single white image, not if you induce separate pages. In this type of designs, you will often find elements that span from one base to another. For example, notice this design. So here you will find some arrows that start in one place and they end in the next page. So let us start with this template itself. And this template looks good and we're not going to make much changes in the design, but the focus will be to learn how to add the elements in this way to create seamless carousel. So we are going to remove this arrow. You will notice this type of arrow across the carousel. So here you will find one that starts from the second page and aims at the target-based, Then you will find another from this page to the next piece. And here we are going to remove this one and we're going to add a separate element, though this arrow looks good. Just for the sake of learning, we are going to replace it with another element. So first of all, remove this arrow. So we'll remove this from both of the basis. Now let us enable the rulers. Click on this button files and here you will find this option. So rulers and guides click on this and then notice the difference in the editor. Here we have this rulers. If you click on this portion and then drag your cursor to, towards the design. This guy tulip here. I'm going to add one from top horizon to run. Now place it in a position where you are going to add the element. Let's keep it here. And now let's find an element. Let's use this one. Now, align this properly with help of this guide. Then display the portion that you want to appear in this in this page. And we sell the split the remaining portion in the next page. Now here you can measure the width of the element and then you can find the exact position exit portion up to which you want to display on this base. And in the next page, you can add the element from that margaret, from that, that portion of the element. Or there is another way which I prefer. And for that we have to create a duplicate copy of this element. Align it exactly with this, this element. And now I'm going to crop it. So select it and click on this button crop and then crop it to remove this portion, the portion that we have displayed here. Now we are left with the remaining portion. So I'll bring it to the next page. And we already have the guide here, so we can easily align it to the appropriate portion. You can easily place it at the proper poison by aligning to this guy. And now click on this button to show the grid view of the design. And here you will notice that it looks like a seamless design. This is one way to create a seamless carousel, but there is other, there are other ways too. And I'm going to show you another way in the next video. But now let us create a design from scratch. Now let us create a design from scratch. So go to the folder, Instagram, and let's create a new design. New Instagram, post them here we are going to add three pages. Let's create, Let's add two more pages here. Let's change the background color of the pages. You can go to this tab styles and you can use a color violet and apply the style to all of these pages. Now let us add some texts in these pages. And I'll also add some shadows to this takes n. Now let us add some elements in seamlessly. First I'll bring some guides here and then let us try to add some elements. So let's try this one, this gradient. I'll this element with help of this guide. Then Let's create a duplicate copy and crop it to remove this portion. And now let's bring the remaining portion to rename space and place it in the proper place with help of this guidance. While aligning these elements will hear about this guy tried to match, try to align with help of the square around the actual art or actual art of the element. Just don't try to align the content of this element because then it will be difficult to find the exit portion. Let us add a frame here, because frames make the designs look beautiful and flexible. So let's add one here. Now in this case, the previous approach will not work because there's no easy way to drop a frame. And thus we are going to use another approach that I mentioned earlier. We are going to measure the width of this frame. And we're going to measure the exit portions which we are going to display in each of these phases. So for convenience of mezzanine, first of all, let us resize this frame a little. So let's make it 500 pixels wide. And now let us consider that we are going to display 200 pixels, the first 200 pixel in this space and the remaining 300 in the next page. So let me add a vertical guide here, and let's place it at 200 pixels from the right end of the page. Now with help of this guy's latest pollution, this frame properly. And let's create a copy and let's bring it to the next page. And here, let's add another vertical, get at 300 pixels from the left end. And let us place this frame at the proper portion with the help of this guy. Now let's search for an image. This May 1 look good. So let's add it. And now click on this button to open the grid view. We have learned one way of creating a seamless carousel for Instagram. And I like this image, but there are other ways to end. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you another very popular way of creating seamless process for Instagram. 11. Seamless carousel for Instagram 2: In this lesson, I'm going to show you another very popular approach for creating seamless girl does for instructor. This time we're actually going to create a wide image and then we will split it into the different pages. We are going to create a custom size to design. And the height will be 1080 because the dimensions for a standard Instagram post this 1080 by one's original pixels. This time we are going to create a design which hide one's re-draw pixel, but which will be different. It will be 1080 into three. Considering we are going to have three pieces for our carousel. Let us create a custom zone by clicking on this button here. Let's add 1080 as the height. And let's find out the width. So it will be 1080 into three, which is three to 40 pixels. Let's enter it and click on this button to create a new design. After completing the design, we sell split the image into three parts, into two pieces. While designing. To get a clear idea of the individual pieces, we sell you some guides. So we sell add a guide at the width ones raid 0 and another at the width, 1080 into two, which is 2160 pixels. Here enable the rulers go to click on Files and then click on this option here show rulers and guides. Now, edwin, guide at 100 and another afterwards is 0. Now here we have the idea, the separation of these three pieces. We can continue designing the carousel. Now here we have a white page and we have the margin for this complete canvas. For the complete pace, we don't have the margins for the individual pieces of our carousel. So let us find a work around at a square here and try to position it at the top left corner of the margin. So here you'll notice the margin and try to place it at this corner. And now holding the handle at the other corner, expanded so that the aspect ratio is maintained, an expanded until it reaches the margin at the bottom. Now we have a proper Mars and for this six and 41st, now copy this and paste it twice. Bring one to the center of the page. So it will create the margin for the second page. And let's bring the third one to the third page. Try to align it properly with the margin towards the right. Now we have proper margin. Margins for each of the individual phases are hard keratin. Now you can change the color of the squares to match with the background and you can start designing. Now, if you try to play something at the center of the page, you will get the proper position with respect to the square. Now let us add some text to each of the spaces. Let us consider that we are creating this carousel to teach people how to create a seamless care of them. So we are going to display, we are going to add these tapes for creating a seamless girls in these spaces. So let us go to this tab text and select this combination. Now let's add a header and then some information about the States. I'll do something similar for the other pages to n. Now let us use bullet points for this thieves here. So select them and click on this button to add the bullet points. Now let us add some elements to the design. And I liked the ingredients a lot. So let me use some gradients. I'll add some gradients and this time, we don't have to worry about the size of these elements. We simply need to place it the proper question. So here, notice that we are adding it between the two pages. So it starts here and it continues to the next page. So in this way I'm going to add some more elements. Let me also add if you own frames. And let's add some images to the frames. I'll add one frame here too. Let's add one in this portion in between the second, third pages. Now, this looks good to me. So let's go ahead and download this image. Now before that latest rename our design. I forgot to show you this. So notice this text. This is the title of your design, and this gets this title automatically based on the takes that you have added on your design. And does here we have this seamless care of them. But if you click on it, you'll be able to edit this and you'll be able to change the title of your design. Changes. Now let us download our image. Click here, share, then download, and then download has P&G. Now we're going to split this image into three parts. For that, we're going to use some external tools. So go to Google and search for split image. You will find lots of different tools, but this first one is a pretty popular one. Fine too. You'll find lots of different theaters using this. Open, this one. Click on this button to upload your image. Now here we have some options. We have to provide some information to split this image. So here, select horizontally and keep it selected split by quantity of blocks and then change the quantity of blocks to three. Now click on this button, split images. Now you can download the individual pages or you can download all of them as a zip file. So let's click on this and this will get downloaded. Now, extract the images. Here we have predefined pages of our carousel and they look good here. They look, sing it since that day would look seamless in Instagram. Let us give it a try. So here I have open Instagram and I'm going to create a post, a new post. So let's select this innocence decreases of our carousel. Let's post it. Now here. Notice that this is seamless. So we have learned to create a carousel for Instagram using a template. We have learned to create one from scratch, and we have learned two ways to create seamless. Carol says, I personally prefer the previous one, but both of them are. Okay. You can use whatever you like. In the next lesson, we are going to exploit a video editing features of Canvas. We're going to create a small intro video for YouTube video. 12. Video templates: In this lesson, we are going to explore the video editor of Canvas. Yes, you can edit videos to, in Canada. We are going to create a simple intro video for YouTube. So the easiest way is to use a template. So let's search for YouTube intro. And here we have the different options. Let's select one from this and the template gets opened in this editor. Now here we have the same options of the templates and other opsins. And from this tab of templates, from this collection of templates, we can filter by some specific keywords. So let's search for technology and the results are filtered by the, by this term. Now let's select this one. This looks good. You can play the video by tapping on this button here. This looks good. Weekend. Change the theme by going to background. Or here we have this option styles. So by going to Styles and then changing the color palette, we can change the fonts are also change the video. We can change the way it appears. Here we go rotate it, we can expand it. We can change the size of this video. And we can change the video itself. So let's search for one here. You can add videos tab here by going to more and then clicking on this button. And now here you will be able to search for some of the free or premium videos. So let us use one that is available for free. We don't have the crown icon here. So let's add this one for the purpose of tasting, or maybe this one. Drag the video to this frame and it will be edit to edit here, the video will be replaced. Now in this way, with help of this beautiful designed templates, we can easily create intro videos to be used in our YouTube videos or for some other purposes. Oregon make more customizable. We can add our own elements and we can do more changes and create something unique out of this. Then you are going to explore that too. Now let us try another template. Let's try this one. Select this n clique applied both pages. Now here we have a beautiful intro video. So play this one. Now here we are going to make changes to the text, to the content, and then we sell also changed some of the elements here. So if we have different types of elements, we can notice that some animated graphics are added in most part of the design. So here you will notice diamond shaped element. So these are different animated graphics. Makes sense in this to them to first let us change the latest start by changing with takes. This seems to be a outro videos. So if you deal with this later, at the end of a particular video, we are going to change it. Something different. Welcome to write. Well, let's reduce the size of this font a little. We have some cool effects here on this text and this looks pretty good. We're also going to make some changes to this elements. So here we have this element. So let's remove one. And we said add some other elements here. So here let's open this tab elements. And here you will find lots of different elements. And we are going to search for some limited graphics. So let's search for unlimited. Click on this button graphics. And now we have defined a limited enumerated graphics here. So let us try to add a few of them on our design. This one looks good, so I'll add one of this. So we have added some elements. And I cannot say that this makes the design any better, but just for the sake of showing the different options, different ways to create animated intro or outro videos. I'm trying to add these elements, but definitely the previous one was simple and that looked better. So the point I'm trying to make here is that you will be able to find lots of different intermediate components, intimate elements which you can easily add to a design to create an immediate videos. Or you can add some basic shapes, basic shapes from the Elements tab, and you can animate them to yourself. And in the next lesson we are going to exploit that. But now let us explore this button here so you can add transitions between these phases. So here we have two phases, right? And this definitely looks good. The transition from this base to other. Happens only in this portion, you'll notice the taste changes and this looks good. Here. I'm also going to show you another way to add tension between these two places. So here if you click on this button, you will find two options here. First is add base, so you can add a base between these two pages. In this way. There is another button at Renaissance, so if you click on it, you'll be able to add transition between these pages in this portion. So when the second, first base goes out and second phase enters, there'll be some transition as far the selector option here. If you hover over these effects, these transitions, you will be able to get the preview here itself. So notice that the place paste slides towards the left. Let's select this one. And here you can control the duration. You can control, you can increase or decrease the duration for which the transition happens, and you can change the direction. So we have added detention. Now try to play this and see this inaction. Now retention will happen. And here we, the first place slide, slides towards the left and the second vesicles. Again, the original tradition of changing the tastes in a beautiful way to the next one looks better in this case burst. But I'm just trying to show you that this option is available. Now the next thing that I'm going to show you is how to add audio to this video. First of all, let us go to this tab audio. And here Canva provides us a huge collection of free and premium Adios. We are going to use a free one. So let's search for a free audio. Let's use this one and issue. You can play this audio here itself. You can try to listen to the audio here by clicking on this button. If you click here, this audio will be added to the timeline here. Now you can drag it to place it in a proper position. You can dream it will help off the handles at the edges so you can click here and then you can dream it. You can the audio by right-clicking. And then here you will have the option to split or do. You can adjust the portion of the audio which you want to be played in a particular section. For example, let us try to change the audio here. We sell play something, some other part of the audio at the beginning of the second base. So for that you have to select here. And if you click twice or if you click on this button Add just you will notice this wave form, the complete waveform of the audio. And here inside this box you will be able to scroll horizontally. Go to different parts of the audio here itself. Let's bring some other portion here and now try to plate. The front portion gets paid yet. You can control the volume by selecting here and then you can click on this icon here, or you can also right-click and then you will find the option volume. And again, this one itself will get activated and you will be able to control the volume. You can use this audio effects too. So you have to click, you have to right-click on the selected audio and then you can click on this option, audio effect. And then these options will appear, fade in and fade out. So you can, you can add some values here. Let's add one for both, both of these effects, while seconds. And now let us try to play the audio. The first one where we have added the effects. You will notice that the audio feeds him during the start and it fades out while exiting. So in this way, with help of the beautiful templates and the different video editing features provided by camera, we can create simple videos very easily. Next we are going to create another enumerated YouTube intro video. But this time we're not going to use a template. We're going to start from scratch. We still use the basic shapes, we said add animation. And we will also explore the different options of innovations for the text. 13. Basics animations: In this lesson, we are going to export the different options to animate the elements and false in Canada, we are going to create a intro video for YouTube again. But this time we're not going to use any template. So let us search for YouTube intro and click on this to create a new design, a blank design for an animated intro. Now let us add a shape. Let's add a circle. I'll change the color of the circle. Now, let us enumerate it. So if you click on any element, you'll find this option here, this button named intimate click here, and you will find the different options of innovation that you can apply all your element. And if you bring your cursor over these options here over this icon, you will see a preview of the innovations. So you'll be able to see how this element would intimate once we apply this effect, this innovation. In this case, I'm going to use this one. So let's add it. Now let us add another element. Let's add a square this time. Change the color. I reduce the size. And let's place it here. Let's add the same animation here. Now, you can click on this button here to play the clip. Let's Play and see how does it look. They look good. And once you apply a particular animation to an element, here, the button intimate would change to reflect the name of the innovation, name of the effect. Here we can see that it is showing for both of the elements. Now, if you click on it again, you will notice that whenever you select a particular animation, you will find these options to animate. So you can add the animation on enter. The elements will intimate at the start, at the beginning, only, not at the end. If you click on Exit and at the start, there will be no an emission. The animation will be at the end of the clip. And if you click on, click this option, both, then they will animate. The elements will intimate both at the start of the clip and also at the aim. Now we are going to add a third element. This time we sell add a triangle, but we sell added after the animation of this two elements complete, so they appear completely and then only the third element will appear. So for that, let us x-bar disk leaves by dragging here. And then we split it at the coalition, where it completes the animation of these two elements. So let's split it here by right-clicking and then clicking on this button Split. Let's dreamy deleted. Let's reduce its length. Now, it seems that the innovation are played at the both the ends. So let's click here as change it to on Enter. Now, select the Secondly and add a triangle. Change the color, reduce the size, and I'll place it somewhere around dispersion. Now, let's animate it. Let's select this and click on intimate. And this time I'm going to add a different animation. This one looks good. Baseline. Let's add this one. Once this tree elements APR completely with the applied anyway, since we are going to display some text, we will animate those pigs to. But first, let us clip this clip here. Once. Let's verify that the animation of this triangle is played only at the beginning. In the tart live, we are going to add some text. Once we apply a particular animation to an element, you will find this option, this button named removing any mission. To remove the animation, you will find some other options too, for controlling the speed of innovation and the direction of the movement of the animation. But they are not available in a free account. Now let us remove the animation of this element, the triangle from the target. So pain the type text and let us select a font combination. This one looks good. So let's use this. Now I'll change the taste. So consider that this intro is being created for a video on the basics of Canvas. So let's make the title the basics of Canva and the subtitle, a non designers guide. Now let's make some adjustment in the size of the font, in the width of the fonts, the text box to make, to bring the complete title in a single line. And I'll also reduce the size of these elements, considering them together as a group, and reduce the size. And then I'll place it towards the left. And next to this group, I'll place the text and let us place the whole thing at the center of the page. Now try playing the clip ones. This looks good, except one thing, the transition from the second place to retard is not smooth at all. So we are going to add some transition here. So click on this icon and then this one, attention. And here we have the different options Transition. We have explored this in the last video, in the last lesson, and this time we are going to use this last definition here, match and move. Apply this. And notice the changes. This is a cool one. So it will automatically detect the changes in the size and position of the elements of the design and it will create a smooth tension itself. Now let us add some animation to the text. So let's select this text and click on this button, intimate. And now here we have the different options. So hover over this icon. See the preview. This will looks good. Let's use this n here we have some other options. The options to control whether to this 3D animation at the beginning or at the end, or at the both ends. And we have other options like intensity and writing style, which are available only in the Pro account, not available for free. And these are different for the different types of animations. This one we have this offer an intensity, but for some other, we may have a different property like speed. We also have this button, you will for innovation. Now let us add some other animation 2D. Second tastes to the subtitle text. And we're going to display this text only after completion of the animation of the first text. So here I'm going to split this page. And in this page we're going to keep the text, but from the, from this page, we are going to remove this subtitle text and we said keep already titled. Now in this last place, let us add one innovation to the subtitle text. Here. Let us add this one typewriter, this one looks good. So add this. Now let's play the complete video once. We can also control the duration of the pages with this option here. The length of the beads can be specified in this field here. So let's reduce this a little. Now play the clip again. This looks good. So we have created a simple yet beautiful animated intro video all by ourselves. Now the next thing that we're going to do is to add some audio to the screen. Let us add some sound effects to the video. So here in this audience tab, you can search for audio and you can filter your results by these type. So you have to click here and you can select this option Effects and then apply filters. And then the results will be filtered by the selected option. But in this case, for this video, I have uploaded some audio effects which can be found inside the uploads tab. And I'm going to use them here. This one creates a pop effect. Let's add it adds the duration to match with the first clip itself, first page. And I'm going to add one more for the next element, for the rectangle. Let's delete the effect a little sorted. We can hear two distinct sounds. Let's add one more for the second page, or this element triangle. Now for the cart page, Let's add this audio. Now we're going to add just a little. So click here and click on this button that just now inside this box scroll horizon to need to bring the portion of the audio that you want to get played here. Now here I have another clip with the effect of typing on the keyboard. So let's bring here and reduce its size to match this last clip. Just be this complete video once again. Now let us download this video. So click on this button, shares select MP4, select all the pages, and click on this button. The video gets downloaded. And now we have our own complete intro video with beautiful animation, sound effects, completely created inside Canvas video editor itself. 14. Class project: We have covered most of the basic concepts of Canada. And I hope this helps you a lot while creating your content. Now, it's time for the class project. You have to submit a class project. And this is pretty simple, as can write surface simple. So you have to create the design for your own business card and you can use a template. You can customize it as much as you want. Or if you want, you can start from scratch and then you have to share the image in the project section. If you want to design something, is maybe an Instagram post or YouTube thumbnail or something is, then there is no restriction. We would love to see that.