Canva AI Advanced Masterclass: Create Animated Content & Automate Your Workflow

1. Welcome to the Canva AI Advanced Masterclass: Welcome to the Canva AI advanced course. If you're already comfortable using Canva and want to take your content creation workflow to a professional level, you are in the right place. My name is Kim Diboska and I'm a designer and content creator with over six years of experience creating social media campaigns, branding systems, and marketing content for businesses and digital platforms. This class, we will explore Canva latest AI Power tools, including magic video, image to video generation, AI assisted design features, and Style Match, helping you create higher quality content faster than ever before. You will also learn how to automate repetitive tasks using Bulk Create, connect Canva with external apps and publishing tools, and build workflows that save hours when managing larger content libraries. Beyond design, we will focus on collaboration and scalability. You will learn how to protect templates, manage brand permissions, organize file delivery, and prepare projects for clients or team members. Throughout the class, we will apply everything by creating animated social media posts and professional videos using modern Canva workflows. By the end of this course, you will understand how professionals use Canva to produce content effectively, collaborate with teams, and build scalable creative systems for social media. 2. Animations: Text, Elements, Timing : So Canva has easily become one of the most powerful design tools, not only for simple social media posts and stories and what have you, but also for professional level work. And if you've been using Canva to build beautiful static designs, you already have a pretty good foundation. However, I do think that it is time. Level up. So in this lesson, I am going to show you how to level up your static designs with animation because animation includes moving graphics and elements on your design that can easily make your design stand out and not get lost on a feed. And lucky for us, since we are using Canva, we don't really need to learn animation by itself, because it is quite the skill to learn, and it can take some time. Canva does make it easy and super fast to use. So let's jump over. I'm going to show you how this works. So here you can see, I have a example design already for us to play around with. And when it comes to animation, this is how you would access it. So you click on any kind of element that you have on your design, and up here, you're going to see this little beautiful button that says Animate. I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And on the sidebar here, you see you have kind of three sections, right. Of course, you have the custom, which we'll talk about in a minute. But overall, since this, what I have looked on is a text element, it means that I get more animation styles because it is text and it has additional ways to animate it. And if I hover over it, it will show me a preview on how that looks. However, going down, I have the general animation effects, which these pretty much do appear for every single element, so you can definitely make them match. So you have many different kinds. You have the breath. It's like a slow Zoom in or zoom out, then you have the baseline, which this one is very good. I do tend to use this one quite a lot. This one and the rise because I think they are the most aesthetically pleasing and clean ones. And then at the very bottom, you have the add on effects, which these aren't necessarily like a transition on entrance and exit of the element. These are a constant motion that the elements going to of the whole duration of the clip. So, for example, this one, your elements going to keep rotating, then you have the flicker, then you have pulse, and you have the wiggle. This one could come in handy with more of a playful design. In my opinion, that's how I have used it so far. But going on to something like an image of this beautiful young girl here, as you can see, these effects up here kind of changed up. So since this is a photo, it has different different kind of animation effects that are available. I do enjoy the old TV one. I do use that one very often. But as you can see, there's many different styles, and you have the reveal, which also include things like ink, Bosch digital, gradient, sketch, and spray paint. And then you have the ones that we just saw. And, of course, you have the suggested, which Kenna has suggested some, which you can use and, of course, again, the constant motion. So overall, when it comes to animation and making your elements move on your design, there's different kinds of ways you can go about it. And last but not least, you have the Create animation, which is a custom way of making your element move. So, for example, let's do it with a title. I'm going to click on Create Animation, and as you can see, even explains to you how this works. So you pretty much drag your element in the kind of in the motion, you actually wanted to move. So in this case, I could do things like that. And then when I release it mos this is a really cool and useful way to go about it. However, I do find this particular option. It needs a steady hand. You know what I mean? Because it's very easy to make it look a little bit more clunky since I am using a mouse and I don't have the most steady hand. It can look a little clunky. So but that's an option, and it can definitely spice up your animation if you have a very particular idea. I'm not going to be using it on this project, so I'm just going to click the backwards button up here. Of course, then after you've explored your options for animation effects, you can animate each individual element on your design by clicking on it and then choosing your animation, or you can animate the entire page, which then you would go click here on the page tab, and this is kind of like already a kit. No, no, not a kit. It's a whole animation package put together for your entire design. Right. And some of these are very good. So if you find something that you like, great, go ahead because it will save you a lot of time on choosing and then clicking around your elements. Some of these aren't the best because they don't tend to be very in sync. For example, like this one, you can see that. Since these elements, like these little buttons and this little top bar isn't grouped together, it comes in a little weird, right? So in this case, you will go to your positions and make sure that you have your elements grouped together in a way where you would want them to move together, right? So in this situation, I'm going to hold down Command key on my keyboard and start clicking around making sure I click everything that I want to group together. So for this would be the entire bar here. And also, I think I would go for this actual window to make it a whole one single element. So now I have everything highlighted and I'm going to group them together. And now, I'm just going to position in the correct place, which is behind the girl. Okay. So now, when I do start animating this element, it will actually move together like this before each individual little button and shape would come out individually, which can make it look a little bit more weird. So when it comes to animation, what you want to make sure for your design, first of all, for the style to fit, obviously, since this is a very clean looking design, it's not very, um, I don't know. I don't know how to call it. Since this is a very clean looking design, I think what I'm gonna go for is something also clean in the sense of the animation. So I wouldn't go for something like or the text to, like, stomp, right? I would want something a little bit more seamless, so a pan I think is a good option. From here, I can go on enter and exit. So this way I would click both, so it will come in and then when the video is over, it'll go out, or I can just choose one. I usually go for Enter. Here, I can slide this little button up and down, controlling the speed, and of course, also change the direction. I like to go from here. So I have a overall general idea on how I want this animation to look. I already chose the pan for the title. For example, with this girl and the window behind her, I would want them to come up from the bottom. So either baseline or I could do Rise, which this one fits the pan better. So I'm going to do rise, and I think I'm going to of course, yeah, leave everything all the settings as they are now. The click on the girl and do the same thing. Click on Rice. So now it's more in sync and it's more together and it fits. So now we have the title animated, the girl and the window behind her. And I think next let's do this text down here, which also should be coming up. Like so. And when it comes to these, these I want perhaps to match with the title. I think that's a good idea. Or I could do one to come from coming soon will come from the left side and March 20 to come from the right side. So it kind of comes together, perhaps. I actually might have an idea. For the title, we could do from the top down. So then everything kind of comes together because we do have the girl and the window coming from the bottom. Same thing goes for the text under, and then we have the title, the top coming soon from the left side and March 20, from the right side. I think this should be good. So now I have chosen all my animations. I'm just going to cover hover. There we go. And by covering over whichever button they're setting because I have open here it's kind of demo how it will look together. Okay. Let's download this and take a quick look. I think it should be fine, but of course, from here, you can adjust the speed for it to be a little bit more seamless and in sync. So I'm just going to hit Download and make sure you download it as a MP four as video because that's how automated designs work. They're pretty much videos, so let's wait for it to download, take a quick look. Alright. Okay. So I'm just gonna So there is a fade effect with the girl. It's actually not bad. That looks kind of good. Actually, I am very happy with this, yes, because this fade effect also comes in with the title, you can see. There. So now that we chose all of the animation to kind of work together and complement each other, this design looks more directed than just animated. And we went from a completely static design to a beautiful animated one in a couple of minutes. So this is how you can take a simple static design and elevate it tremendously with a couple of buttons and a good idea. I hope this comes in handy and feel free to play around with all the effects and give it your own flair and your own style, and I hope you have fun using your new skill, which is animating on Kema. I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Video 2.0 Editor + Magic Video: Now that we learn how to animate individual elements to uplift a static design and make it look a little bit more dynamic, I think it is a good time to look at an overall video workflow and how it looks like on Canva. The reason why is well, first of all, video is very popular these days, especially vertical video. We have so many different platforms that are promoting and pushing on vertical content, starting from YouTube shorts to Instagram reels and, excuse me, tik talk, tik talk is everything. So you definitely want to be in a position where you are capable and able to produce a good video. And again, lucky for us, Canva makes the process actually very available and very simple. Now, before we get into it, I do want to mention that before Canvas video editor wasn't as intuitive or as smooth. It was great for very simple social media work, like maybe a quick trim or a simple text layover. However, once you started to layer a lot of elements on top of each other, maybe sync some clips. Or add transitions and effects, things started to feel a little bit more clunky. The overall interface wasn't very clean. Canva now has updated its video editor, and it is way more smooth and the experience overall is much more enjoyable and understandable, especially if you're not very heavy into video editing or you haven't really done much of it. So following the whole trend of Canva making design and creative work very available for people, they have not slacked in the video area as well. First of all, let's jump over to the video editor. I'm going to show you how to get there. So you can either go from this little shortcut area or you can hit on Create and select video here on the side. Here you're going to choose your preferred format. So whatever kind of video you want to make, you have all kinds of options for YouTube, Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, and so on. I'm going to go with a vertical Talk video. Now we are in the editor itself. We have our workspace here, which is our window where we're going to see the video pop up, and this is the timeline. And as you can see, the timeline has been cleaned up quite a bit, and you can see where everything goes, you have area for your elements. So it goes for your graphics, stickers, text, and other little things. Then you have your main area for your media, so your videos and your photos. And then on the bottom, you have your audio. So that's where you would put your background music or maybe even some sound effects if you wanted to. You can also drag this line up down to reveal more of the timeline. So this comes in handy. If you have a lot of elements stacked up on each other and it shows the timing and the position of it, so it's easier to work with that and things do not get lost, which makes it super easy. But overall, to begin your video editing process, what you need is, well, first of all, obviously, an idea. However, if you don't really have one of those, you do have, again, some wonderful templates you can choose from and work from them here on the side in the template section. You can scroll and find something that fits you best. If you're starting from scratch, of course, there's three different ways you can go with your media, so with your base of the video, whether it's photo or video, you can either upload it from your device. So computer, tablet, smartphone, whatever. If you're working on the Canva app, you can also use their very extensive video and photo library, which we've seen before. Finally, you can generate your AI videos. Let me show you how that goes first because that is a very quick little thing that you can do. If you cannot find a clip that suits you or that you have imagined, that would fit your video. First, you go to the elements section and here where you would normally put in some keywords to search for videos, photos, or graphics. Is where your prompt is going to go. When it comes to prompting and generating images or videos with AI, of course, we all know that you should be as specific and detailed as you can be because generative AI is built to fill in the blanks, not leave them empty. So whatever you don't put into your prompt is going to guess. So if you have specific kind of vision, make sure to write it down in your prompt. I already have some prompts here. I'm going to choose the one I just recently used. This works pretty well. And here is your generate button. So if you click down on the ARO, this is where you're going to choose what kind of media you want to generate. For this, we're doing the video. So now we have our prompton. We have selected what we want to generate. Now we wait. So the video has been generated, and now I'm going to click on it, and it's going to drop it into my timeline and onto the window itself. So I double clicked on the video to recenter it. And let's just take a quick look. Of course, you have the preview. Here. That's very, very cool, actually. Okay, so this is how we would look on the actual vertical video. So this is how you can generate your own clips if you cannot find anything that fits your vibe. But if you do already have some videos or you want to go with the video library on Canva, this is where you would find it in the video. Section here. So before we start editing, there's, like, a simple little process that I would recommend personally. So first of all, is you gather your media, right? So the clips or photos or whatever it is that you want to use in your video. I'm going to use some videos from the library itself. So I'm going to go in and start looking for those. I'm just going to go with a regular coffee. But since this is a vertical video, I'm going to go ahead and select Vertical here in the filter section just because it does make it much easier and the videos framed way better. I'm going to go with this. So I like this video. I clicked on it and it dropped it into my timeline. So before we start adding anything else, I'm just going to gather all of my clips that I want to have in this video, and then we're going to move on and trim them up. So I'm going to need six videos for this little video that I'm trying to make. I already have an idea that I'm going after. I think I'm going to go with this maybe, but I don't want it in the front. I like the first one being there. So I just dragged it over and organized the order of the clips. So I'm just going to make sure to have my cursor here just so it drops the videos there. So my second clip. Let's see. Let's see. I like this one. I like this one. Maybe this one, two, three, four, five, and let's go for one more. Why not? Let's do a macho latte, too. So now we have all of our clips dropped into the timeline, and from here, I'm going to start to trim them. And you can go in two different ways about this. So you can do it in the timeline itself. So make sure you have your clip selected. And once you get close to the edge of the clip, little arrows will appear. And by dragging these arrows, you can trim to whichever part you want. So I think in the beginning, it's kind of still. So I'm just going to start the video here, there. Okay. Let me trim it to about here. And you can check the duration of your clip by just clicking on it. And from here, I'm just going to go up here, and I want each of these remaining five clips to be 1.1 now, 1.5 seconds long. So here in the length of the clip, I'm just going to type in 1.5, hit Enter, and I'm going to find the 1.4. I wanted 1.5. What do you mean? I'm going to do this where she starts to lift. Okay. Let me trim it to 1.5 and drag it where it zooms out. I think that's a good little okay. This is actually pretty good here. Just make sure it is 1.5 seconds long. Same thing with this. Let's check it out. So from here to here. And this one about from here, I think would be good. That'll make it. So now we have clips all trimmed. Okay, clips are all trimmed, and now I'm going to go ahead and tie the clips together because they are from different completely different videos, different creators. They are looking very different enough where I would want to make them a little bit more cohesive. I'm just going to apply a filter that I have used before, and I'm going to go to about 80% of intensity on each of these. So here I'm clicking through the clips on the timeline to adjust and not lose this little ex or edit window. So same thing. I believe it was 80%. I'm here, and I'm going to do that for all of the remaining of the videos. Now I have the filter is applied. So every single one of these clips, now let's go ahead and add some text. I'm going to go ahead and click on the text area, and I'm going to click on this subtitle. So this is going to be kind of like a thing that I'm going to post on the Cosmica Chick Talk and Instagram. That's why I'm keeping the brand identity and aesthetic the same. So I'm choosing this particular font. Of course, you go ahead and you can get really creative. But let me start typing in the text that I need. I'm going to go Oh, I'm going to go with do you have any hobbies? I recently saw this really funny video online, so I'm kind of recreating it to an extent. I'm going to add an effect, so it a little shadow moment, so it's a little bit more visible. So do you have any hobbies? That's going to be only over the first clip, and as you can see, by dragging the sides or the ends of the element, it kind of snaps in place and makes it super easy to time everything nicely. So here we have the text over the first clip. However, I also want to add an animation to it, so I'm going to click on that, click on Animate. Do maybe a typewriter moment. Definitely. Let's go with typewriter and speed it up a little bit and do only on Enter. So here, let's play back real quick and a little lag here and there. Okay. So let's just move on. I'm going to take the same text because I'm going to use the same font. I'm going to right click it and hit Duplicate. And it kind of dropped it on top. As you can see, I'm going to drag it to the side and have it over the rest of my five clips. But this text, I'm going to adjust. E and start adding some Emojes. Let's do a little coffee cup. By the way, I'm getting the Emoji tab on Canva by hitting the little globe key on my keyboard, and this is on Mac. Next, let's do a book. Then we're going to do. And maybe a heart. Let's do that. The star zone. This fits. Okay. Their croissant. Pastry. A, there we go. Let's add a croissant. Oh. Okay. Now, I'm just going to center the text. Effect is already added. So now I believe I have the animation also added from the previous one because I did duplicate it. So once you duplicate any kind of element, any kind of animation effect, anything that is attached to that element is going to be in the copy of it. So that's a good time saver if you don't want to adjust each little element, let's play this back. Okay. That's good. However, I want these to be a little bit darker. So what I'm going to do is go to okay. I'm going to select all of these. So how you would select elements on a actual window, you would do that. So I'm just going to go ahead and edit these clips to be a little bit more dark. So I'm going to click on Edit, adjust and lower the brightness just a bit by ten maybe. So do that for each. I think that should do it. Okay, that's perfect. I'm just going to increase the time on the animation of the text here because I want it to be way faster. Okay. There we go. And the video is pretty much done now. I'm just going to go ahead, download it as a P four. You always want to make sure your videos are in MP four. And we're done. Let's hit Download, and that's how you do it. When it comes to video editing on camera, remember to, first of all, prepare and drop your clips, trim your clips and kind of make a whole kind of skeleton or base of your video, and then you start adding your effects, transitions, if you want, your text, other elements from the graphics staab whatever it is that you need, always start with the videos and the trimming because it makes the rest of the process much easier and quicker. I hope this helped, and I hope that you can get really creative on the Canva video editor and make some awesome videos. I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. AI-Generated Video (Image To Video) : So far, we have worked with media that we already have, plus we generated a whole video in the last lesson with AI. However, there is another really cool feature that you can use when you only have a static image or picture that you have taken. So imagine a situation. You have the most beautiful shot of your cup of coffee. You have the perfect shot, but to post it as a static picture just feels a little bit boring. However, you have a fix. Canva can actually take your picture with AI, make it into a video. Let me show you how this works. I have used this feature a couple of times and I'm always impressed. So I'm going to go ahead and go to the social media and get Instagram story because we're going to post this on our story. So I have taken the picture. It's going to be in my uploads folder. Here it is. Okay. I'm going to take this beautiful image that I have of my little latte I made the other day. So I have made this picture to go from corner to corner just so we can fill the entire canvas. Now I'm going to click on the picture itself, click Edit. And from this top menu bar, I'm going to click on Image to Video. So here we have two options. You can either go the Smart Way, which the AI will imagine what to do with this. So it will fill in the blank without the prompt. It will create a five second video, and let's click on that, and I'll show you what I mean. So I have not given any particular direction. There is no details that I have entered. Let's just see what the AI comes up with. Usually, with these types of images, I have noticed that if you go this way, it will do something like a pan in. So there you go. It pans in. It's incredible how realistic this looks because you saw that's just a picture I took on my iPhone, and now it looks like a real video I actually filmed. So a five second clip of this on the story with a quick caption, beautiful. So from here, you can do generate again, undo or just keep it as is. However, I want to go in with a prompt. So let's go back. The image is back and static. And let's go back to edit image to video. But this time, I'm going to do custom, and I'm going to put in my own prompt. So I want steam to gently rise from the cup. So Machine. What else what else? What else? Camera slowly pushing in towards the mug. Okay. So I have given a fair amount of detail to the AI, so there shouldn't be much filling in the blank, if you know what I mean? Let's see what the AI does from my own experience. I usually is pretty on point. However, if you do end up getting a little weird generation, something that maybe it misunderstood your prompts, you can always go back and edit, adjust, or just generate again. But as you can see, here you go. We have the steam, the Zoom in. However, I see that there is no light reflection off of the espresso machine, which is fine, I guess. But overall, this on an Instagram story, this works amazing, and I absolutely adore this feature. So even if you just have an image, you can make it into a fun little clip that you can post online, and it really just takes one prompt, one click, and you're good to go. And just like you saw in the previous lesson where we generated a whole video, this I personally like this option just a little better because you're working from something you already have. So from something you already think is really good. So this barely looks at it like AI. It's up to you, of course, to decide whether that is good or bad. But definitely a good way to spice up a simple picture. It comes to AI generated videos, we have come so far, I think, in the last few years I remember back in the day, there was this very viral clip of somebody had generated a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, and that has become kind of like the point of where we look at how far we've gotten with AI generated videos, because if you compare that clip, which was, oh, my God, a nightmare to what we have now is pretty incredible and the fact that it is available, on a platform like canva.com is insane. So since these AI tools on Canva tend to shift to homes very often and they are either relocated or clamped together with other AI tools and apps, this image to video feature you can usually find in the edit tab which I showed you just now. But also they mostly tend to live under the apps or worst comes to worst. If you cannot find that tool, you can also always go to the Canva AI, which should be here on the homepage. So if you go to your homepage and then enter the AI chat, this is where you can upload your image and then give the prompt here on what you want to do with it. So, of course, as I said before, you can always generate an AI video on Canva. But if you want to make it a little bit more personal and you have a great image, but you want to make it come alive, this tool is incredible, and you can definitely use it for short little clips for stories. Okay, thank you for hanging out with me, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Canva AI 2.0 & The Design Model: So, in case you haven't noticed already, Canva is heavily leaning into AI, especially as of late, especially in 2026, because there have been so many updates and new features and tools on the platform. And of course, it is for you to decide whether it is good or bad, whether you want to use these tools or not. There are no wrong answers. We're all different, especially in the creative field, in the design field. Some people like it, some people don't is good. But in my opinion, I think it is still very, very important to stay up to date and to be informed about what is out there and what is at your disposal if you wish to use it. So, these days, Canva is introducing us to AI two point, which is a completely brand new design model. And I'm not talking about generating a design, a flat image where you really can't do anything when it comes to customizing it yourself. I'm talking about AI generating designs that are multi layered and fully editable. And on top of that, Canva describes this as a constantly improving tool, which holds onto the context. So what does this mean? This means that it learns the information about your brand, the kind of designs that you make and so on and so forth. And holding on to this context, it's treating all the next conversations that you have with this AI, and it designs based on that information. So, the more you use it, the smarter it gets. So let me stop yapping and let me just show you how this works. So here, I have a design that I have created previously, but I altered a couple of things like in the title area, I just put drink Name, and then I have a price here. So what do I want to do with this and how I want this AI model to help me? I wanted to create different kinds of designs that I will be posting on different platforms. So here I have the design with all the elements, and I'm going to go over to Canva AI chat. Here in the prompt area, I'm going to put in a prompt with exactly what I wanted to do. So I'm going to say Create multi channel. Am I typing. I'm typing, yes. Campaign to launch Ember nova Latte. Let's say I have a new drink. So, you see, I'm referencing Cosmica which the AI will recognize this to be the name of one of my brand kits. So what is it going to do is take that context into account of what it's going to do and how it's going to design these posts. So since I have a brand kit named Cosmica, it's going to reference that I have my color palette, my fonts and all the other things necessary for a brand kit, and that's where it's going to take the information from. So let's keep writing. Oh Cosmica. I need instagram post. And Instagram. Is Gram story. And a Facebook post. A on brand. So what's going to happen now is it's going to take this very design that I have, and it's going to make it about Ember no vat for Instagram story, Instagram post, and Facebook post. So let's send this out and see what happens. I already know it's gonna happen, but so it's going to make an Instagram post first for your Imbert Nova at launch campaign at Cosmica. As you can see in the chat, it says searching brand templates, which, as I said, it's going to reference that because I did mention Cosmica. And this is super great because all of these conversations that you're going to have with this AI, not every single conversations gonna be scratch, it's going to hold on to information to context, and the more you work with this AI, the better it will get, the more precise it will get, the more you will learn your style, your brand, overall, and it's eventually going to become very intuitive. So there's a lot happening. So first of all, you have so we got designed, searching brand templates, tasks completed. Here you have we have referencing all the sizes for the post that's going to make and there's already some changes here on the actual design itself. So I did misspell Amber. Did I misspell Amber? Yeah, I did. No worries. We can go into chat and fix that. I did not expect to make a typo, but this is a very good situation where we can see what happens. There, I changed it. Bravo, thank you. So even if you do make a mistake, you can always go back and fix it. And worst part is, you don't have to go back yourself and search up all the designs to fix the typo, it will do it for you, which is very handy. So the Embnovat it changed to $6, which is very interesting because I did not specify the price. But that's okay. As I said, generative AI is built to fill in blanks if you don't specify it. So make sure to give it as much information. I see it also has pulled another template from my brand kit. And, of course, you can see generated images. These can always be replaced by your own product photography, of course. You definitely want to be as accurate when it comes to visuals for your own brand, for your own product. Here we have another one. This also can be replaced. And as you can see, it has re created kind of my style that you can see here, I have, like, the stars in the corners of the design. So it has kind of substituted that with different shapes. So overall, we have a Facebook. Okay, this is not bad at all, of course. But as I said, this is a very new feature, so don't expect it to be perfect on day one. Again, as I said, the more you talk to it, the more you work with it, the more it learns your style. And also, the more you will kind of get the way you should clarify things and maybe once you start your prompt, what you're lacking, you will notice things that it will filling in the blanks, and that's why you can go in and adjust your prompt and learn yourself. So overall, we have this first design that was adjusted. We have another one up here, and we have the Instagram story, which is the correct size. Let me zoom out a little bit. This would go on Instagram story. Of course. Since I said, this is an actual design and all the layers and all the elements are completely adjustable and I can fix any kind of fixing that is necessary, but the basics are here. So here we have the Facebook post, the story that I asked for, and we have an Instagram post here. So this is pretty impressive. So with a single prompt minus the little typo that I made, I have one, two, three, pretty much four designs that are ready to go out with minor adjustments that I can do in a couple of minutes. Doesn't take me too long, but this is a very, very useful tool, and I can't wait to see how far this gets. Canva has disclosed that is new, and it will just keep evolving also without your presence because they do have to update it and improve the tool and make it more intuitive. But for what it is right now, it's very cool. I am a very big fan of this. I think this one came out the best out of Bam besides this little time thing we have, perhaps you should bring that to the front. That would make more sense. But overall, this is really good. Long story short Canva AI 2.0 now acts as your design assistant, which you just give them or it, the direction, and it will do whatever it is that you need to get done. And all of that is just in a and all of that happens with a simple prompt. Alright, so the more you talk to this AI chatbot, the smarter it gets, the more it learns about you and your brand, and you can definitely take it far and make your work way easier and quicker. 6. Ai-Generated Visuals + Style Match : So on the topic of AI generated content, Canva also has a nifty little tool that solves one of the most annoying headaches that you can get when it comes to working with a brand on Canva. And that is called Style Match and AI generated Graphics. If you are primarily working with elements and graphics from Canva itself in their library, you have probably spent a lot of time just scrolling through the never ending little elements graphic section and to find the perfect little graphic that fits the brand. And then you come across something that is close enough, not quite there, but it has potential, and then you hope and pray that you can at least change the color of it so it can fit the brand. Well, I've been in those shoes, and let me tell you, it is not fun. However, now, what you can do in Kanama is not only generate your own graphics with AI, but you can also change the style of a graphic that already exists. So first of all, I'm going to show you how Style Match works. So here I have a previously designed business card or back of a business card. This would be the front. But here I have two little graphics that I have found that has a phone and a little email. So, I would like to add these to these two lines with the phone number and the email. So what I would do in this situation is I would just move them around, make them fit, like, so let's make sure these match in size. And of course, there we go. Okay. So now they are in place. However, they do look a little weird. It doesn't quite match the overall color scheme, the brand itself. It just stands out like a sore thumb and I don't like it. So what I can do in this situation, instead of scrolling through the graphics library for another 3 hours, I can just click on the element and go to Edit. And here, I would find this little area that's called Style Match. So I'm going to click on CAL here we have so many options that we can choose from, and we can style match to all of these options. So now I can take this little graphic and make it into a different style to fit the design and the brand way better. So this is fairly illustrated, two D. Also not as vibrant as this red phone. So what I would do is go to Style Match and now see what fits here. So I think I would go with the cartoon, so I'm going to click on that. And now we give it a little second, and it will change the style of this. Besides that, there's so many other ones. I see this chrome when I have yet to try that one. Okay. So now this is way closer to what we have going on with this design. But to make it even closer, I can go up here and change the color of it. So I would change to something that fits cosmica from its own color palette. I have this one which doesn't look that bad, this one, I have the green, the yellow, and the brown. I think this one would be the best. Same thing would go for this little plane, so I can go ahead, Style Match it to this. So it looks the same. And it looks like it's cohesive in the actual design. I will find a way to try this chrome out because I think it has a lot of potential. That's pretty cool. Okay, let's change this color to match the phone. I think I went with this. Alright. And now we have two elements that existed before, but now they look like they fit on my actual design, which is amazing. There you go. This, I think, looks way better than that red and the bright blue that we had before. What I can also do on Canva is generate graphics. If I cannot find something, I'll just generate it. That's, I suppose, how AI is these days. So I'm going to go to element and then here, again, generate going to select this and select the graphics. And here where we would search something, I'm going to put in a prompt. Let's do what could we do? Let's see if we can generate maybe a consolation. Oh, my apologies, click on the Generate button, not Enter. It did give me search results for the actual consolation in the premade graphics library, which is cool. But what if none of these really hit the spot? I'll just make him myself. If you want to have something done right, you have to do it yourself. Now, we just wait and see it looks like we will get four separate options, which is exciting because we will have the opportunity to choose the best. Okay, so the interesting part is that I was very specific with oran consolation, and it's not quite accurate to oran itself, but overall, this looks pretty good, so it does look like a legitimate consolation. Let's see, we have this option as well. This one's not as good. The stars are a little questionable, but that's why we have options, right? Okay. So this one resembles the style of it resembles more of not geometric stars, but more of a hand drawn situation, which isn't bad at all. I see this one has a lot of potential. The stars are a little bit more bald, and actually, it kind of matches the cup. So this in particular, this graphic, and work as the background little pattern we have going on on the actual business card, and I can easily replace this one with that. But this is how you would generate your own graphics and change the style of the ones that you can find in their library. So using these tools, you could actually make your design look from patchwork to a cohesive design. I hope you find these tools useful, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. Bulk Create + Meta Catalog Integration: So far, we learned about creating a single piece of content at a time. But in this lesson, I will show you how to create dozens, if not even hundreds pieces of content all at once. This is called Bulk Create, and this tool was directly made for large scale client work. If you need to create a bunch of content all at once, you don't have to go back 50 times changing the text element or the images or the prices or any kind of information yourself because all of that is going to be done by Canva. The idea here is very simple but very powerful. It all starts with a simple template which you create yourself or you can take one of the templates already waiting for you to be used on Canva. Then you feed the Canva system some sort of source of information, which in this case will come in the form of a spreadsheet. And then Canva will automatically create designs based on each row of your document. So first things first in front of me here, I have the template in question. I have the name. I have the price, and some more information and designs all over. Everything is ready. Now I need to edit the information source. So what I'm going to do is go here on the sidebar and look for Bulk Create, which is right here. We click on this. And of course, there are many ways you can add your information source. You can connect to your Google Sheets, Analytics, Meta Catalog, which we'll talk about a little later. Also, you can enter it manually. But for this example, I'm going to upload my data that I already have. So I have a spreadsheet here, an example, spreadsheet of some drinks that I would like to advertise. So I'm going to click on. And upload it to Kanva. Now we see we have Auto Match field. So what does this mean? This means that Kenva needs to know what goes where, right? First things first, before I do anything, I do want to get rid of this and make this title text a single element because it can get a little tricky if you have two separate ones. So drink name, and now let me just adjust line spacing just a little bit. There we go. So we have the drink. Okay. So we can either auto match the fields, which is pretty much AI looking for the correct place where this information from your sheet should go into or we can do it ourselves by just grabbing these and assigning them. As you can see, there's the sample information is seen here. So you have Nebula latte and Bernva and so on and so forth. So this will be the title. I'm going to drag it over to the actual element. So drink name goes here. Perfect. Price, where would the price go? In the price tag, right? So I'm going to dig that and assign it to the placeholder number I have here, designated area for the price. So since this is an example spreadsheet, I do only have two rows for each of these items. However, if you have more rows, you will see more elements pop up here, and again, you can do automatch or you can just assign it yourself. You can also include images if you want, and really any kind of information and be very specific. But since this is an example and I don't want to waste your time, this is the overall. So, of course, now the next step would be to select the preview. There we go. So we will show you more or less what this will look like. Do you want to show you the actual spreadsheet just so you can see it for yourself. Can I open it? So I'm going to open up my spreadsheet. So, as I said, it's very simple. We have the drink name. All the drinks are listed out here and the prices, according to assigned to each of these drinks, right? There is some information, and that's exactly what we see on this template right here. So again, let's go back to preview, and the drink name is correctly assigned. The price is also. However, I do see there's a little error here, which I don't like, but that's why we do the preview so we can see any kind of mistakes because trust me, it is way easier to fix these things before it generates 50 different designs where you then defeat the purpose of bowl Create because you have to go back and fix your own mistake. So also, make sure you check the information on your spreadsheet and your data there is an error in the data, the Canva system won't be able to tell, obviously, so it will just put in whatever you have on your spreadsheet so make sure your data is correct. So let's go back and see what the problem here is. I assume it is the size that is the problem, perhaps not bigger, but let's give it a little bit more breathing room by expanding the sides. That must be it. Also, let me take off this. I think that's a little bit better. So now when we have that adjusted, let's go back to previo and make sure. Okay, so again, size is the problem here. So what I can do is either make the numbers smaller or the circle bigger. I think I'm going to go with the circle or no. I'm going to go with decreasing the size of the number because this is going to be a post, and I don't want it the elements to be too large. So decreasing that? Okay, and now it fits. Now it actually looks pretty good to me. So let me just make it a little higher, center it again, preview. Bam everything looks good. So then since I have not included any kind of product images in my document, the image area is empty, but feel free to again, as I said before, be as detailed and enter as much information. Because at the end of the day, if it is you assign these elements to your design, there really shouldn't be any problems. But again, this is an example. So let's just move on. So everything looks good so far. I think I'm just going to hit Continue. And here we have apply data. So let's dapple check. It has listed out all of the information that I have on my spreadsheet, which everything looks correct to me. I can select and deselect if I wish, but I do want all four designs to be made. So let's just click Create four designs and wait. So one design created and saved to your projects. Cool. Let's just click on it and see. Okay. So we have nebula latte. There's a blank one here that not necessarily needs to be there, but that's okay. So we have AmbernovaGod, good. Another blank one. Okay, so I see. I see. Alright. So the reason why I did that was because I do have another blank template here, which skipped my mind altogether, but that's okay. We just don't use it, you know, if it's there, it's there. You can just sit there. Doesn't bother me. Then we have the comic aco. And that's it. Let me just get rid of these spare ones. And I do see an interesting little air moment, which easily adjustable. So we see there's the startup cold brew the brew is hiding. Just go to decrease the size with fits, you know? Its fits fits, let's go. Alright. There we go. Okay, so now it fits perfectly. Cool. Great. Wonderful. Love that. All I have left is just drop in my product photography if I have any or any kinds of images. And we have five pieces of content ready from a spreadsheet and a couple of clicks. Alright, before we end this lesson, again, I do want to mention something interesting about the Bulk Create a recent update that we have gotten from Canva which is the Meta Catalog that I mentioned before. So why is this so important? These days, most ecommerce and even retail companies do have a Meta Catalog set up for meta advertising because it is a very popular way for advertising in this digital age. So since most businesses already have it set up, what you as a designer can do is just connect it to their catalog, and that can be your data source. So what does this mean? This means that this, again, cuts your work in half in a way don't have to make a separate spreadsheet with all the products, or you don't have to enter the data manually, which you would just click on this and you would pretty much be putting in your own information, which can take a lot of time. So by connecting this very popular thing that a lot of businesses already use makes your life twice as easy as a designer. So I did want to mention that because it is an important component of this bowl Create tool. So overall, Bowl Create takes you from oh, I can create cool designs to Oh, I can handle large amounts of content and many different clients all at once, which is a plus in my eyes. So before I let you go, again, I do want to remind you when you work with Bowl Create, make sure that your template is all in order, and there are no errors like we saw before. There were a couple of adjustments that I made, and one error that we saw with the size of the title. But since I only had four designs, it was easy to go back and adjust that. But if you do have 50 designs, that could be a problem. So make sure that your templates are in order. It's way easier to do it once than 50 times, trust me. Also, again, make sure that the data that you are entering or the data source you're inputting is all correct and double check your information because if there is a typo or anything, it will go onto your design. So with that being said, Bulk Create can make your life much easier if you are working with large amounts of content all at once or with many clients at once. I hope you find this useful, and I will see you in the next lesson. 8. Apps & Integrations - Connectors, Publish Apps: Now, let's talk about how Canva can help your CAVA account connect to many different platforms outside of Canva because most likely your work doesn't start in Canva necessarily. It might start in your email, maybe on a slack channel, maybe on a spreadsheet. And then your finished work needs to be published somewhere else like Instagram, Facebook, or any other platform. This lesson is all about how Canva can bridge those gaps. Cena AI now supports a thing called connections. This is pretty much you connecting your Canva account to many different apps and platforms to make your work a little bit more seamless. So we are talking about integration of Slack, Gmail, maybe Google Drive notion, and really any other kind of productivity or any other kind of productivity or communication platform. So the idea here is very simple. Instead of you manually entering information into Canva AI will actually pull that information from whatever platform you have connected to and generate things like designs or templates or any kind of other thing that you need from that source. Let's pop over to the connections tab here on Canva and I'm going to show you all of the options that you have. Here I am on the homepage. I'm going to go ahead and click on Me and click on Apps. And here you can see you have so many different kinds of options. So for example, you have cards and invitations. Then you have the content schedulers, like YouTube or Google Calendar. You have your email platforms, social networking as well. So for example, you have a recording of a content strategy with your client from Zoom. You have the recording. So instead of you going back to rewatch the call from Zoom with your client, you can connect Canva with your Zoom account, and the Canva AI will get the transcript from Zoom, give you a summary, and you have all the information already on your Canva so you don't have to go and look for any kind of key point of the conversation. And the cool part is that, let's say you cannot find Zoom here on this long list of things, you just go to the search tab and you search for the app that you would like to connect to. I typed in Zoom, and the first thing is here, you click on that, and this is how you would go ahead and connect your Ken AI to your Zoom account. That would require you to, of course, login with your login information. Oh, and the same thing goes for things like Slack. You can connect your Canva to a Slack channel and then again, get transcript or summaries on your CNVAcunt so you don't have to go and then retype the information with your Canva AI. You already have the context on the platform. You can start working right ahead. Also, you can connect to things like notion spreadsheet. So let's say you are working with a client and you have a whole spreadsheet of things you need to do and need to design. Instead of you logging on and looking at that long list of things, just connect your Cam account to notion and start working. Right away. And just like getting outside context or outside information onto your Canva account, the same goes for getting the content out. So what you can do, you can connect your Cava account to Facebook or Instagram or Pinterest. And instead of downloading the content from Canva onto your device to then upload it, you can actually publish that work directly on to these platforms. Same goes for Cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox or what have you. Besides outside context and getting your content out, there's plenty of other apps that you can connect your CaM account to and make your workflow a little bit more seamless. Just search up the app or just go through all of these different categories and find something that works for you. This connector tool does make it super easy if you're getting your information from a lot of different platforms and you just feel like your time could be used a little bit more useful by designing cool things instead of entering data into your Canva account. So I hope you find this useful, and I'll see you in the next lesson. Mmhmm. 9. From Batching to Automation: At this point in your Canva journey, you probably have developed a very healthy design workflow. You probably have set a time aside for planning, set aside the time for designing and set aside the time for posting or sending out your work. Now, let me tell you what if there was a way that Canava can serve as an assistant that works in the background while you're not even logged on. So imagine if you have an assistant, let's say you have one and tell this assistant, Hey, listen, every Friday, I need three posts for Instagram. So every Friday at 9:00 A.M. They have to be done. Can you do that? Yes. Okay, cool. And you can move on with your life, do something else or work on another project. The cool part is that Canva can actually do that now. So what you want to do is go onto your Canada profile and on the sidebar, you will find this magical Canva AI button that we have used plenty of times. And you have the Canva chat bo here ready to take orders. So how this works is you put in a prompt and you pretty much create a task for Canva to keep in mind. Now, what will happen is because you have a beautiful brand kit already set up on Canva, meaning you have your phones in place, your color palette in place, perhaps all the other assets and brand things that you need, everything is locked and loaded and ready to be used. Plus, the Canva AI has learned a decent amount of context from your work. So now, what you can do is just schedule a task for Canva to do while you're logged off, and Canva will design things for you based on all the knowledge that it has gathered about your work or about the all of this will happen in the background while you're not even on the platform, and once it is ready, it will be ready for you to adjust because it will pretty much end up being a multi layered design that you can then go in and adjust or improve or change. Let me show you how this works. I have a prompt locked and loaded. I'm just going to paste it in the text area. Let's read it together. So every Friday, generate a set of three Instagram posts for cosmica. Use these exact drinks and descriptions only Nebulate. So you have in parenthesis description of it, so the info that will go on the design and the price. Same goes for Aberova and start as called Brew. And then I have specified, do not invent or substitute any drinks or details not listed here. As I have said two or three times before, if you don't give it enough context, it will fill in the blank just guessing information, which if you have a very specific post or very specific information you need in the design, you need to disclose it in your prompt. Be specific, be detailed. It will save you a lot of time and a lot of headache, I promise. I have my prompt ready, and I'll just send it out. This will create a whole task for Canva. As you can see, it's saying I will set up a reoccurring task to generate three Instagram posts for Cosmic every Friday featuring those drinks. So this task has been scheduled. I've scheduled a recurring task that will generate three Instagram posts for Cosmic every Friday at 9:00 A.M. Eastern Time, featuring la, la, la, la. The post will use your Cosmica brand kit to maintain consistent branding. Now, this is key. And this is the importance of having a solid brand kit because I have mentioned the name Cosmica in the prompt. It knows. It's like, Oh, okay. I have a brand kit under the same name. Let's go. So what it will do is actually pull the color palette, the fonts, and all the other brand assets I have saved. And on the side here, you see scheduled tasks. So this is where you can go in and delete the test if you do not like it. But here you can see all the tasks that you have scheduled with your Canva AI. And this also works not only for designing in the background, but you can also ask this Canva AI to scan your email for any new emails from your clients or anything else, and then give you a summary, for example. You'll also see the same thing appear here on the side once you enter this Canva AI chat. So if you do have some calls in the day, you can just log onto your Canva and see if it has received any kind of information, maybe an email, a brief from your client, and it will create a little document for you to read right before your call. And this is legitimately like having a whole assistant, not only a design assistant, but overall, just kind of overlooking your emails and your work life and managing things. So I find this to be very, very impressive. So if you need a little extra hands, this is definitely a way to go. Another thing worth mentioning is that not only can this work to create designs in the background, scan your email, but also give it context to scan, for example, the notion page that you have connected. The thing that we were talking about in the previous lesson about connecting outside context to your Canva account because let's say if I said, Hey, scan this notion page two time on Mondays and I don't know, Wednesdays and see if there is any updates, new information and give me a brief. Giving tasks and integrating your connected apps to your Canva account and treating this as your manager or your assistant can really make your life much easier because at the end of the day, you just have to log onto your CAPA account and you have all the information regarding a particular client or all your clients maybe all in one place, and you don't have to jump around and do all of that reading and thinking and summarizing yourself. So before you go, remember to always be fairly specific, especially when it comes to giving it a design task. So give it specific information, make sure there are no typos and no mistakes because they will appear on your designs. As I said before, these templates that can with designs are completely customizable, so you can go back and change up whatever it is. Need changing. So since I'm not going to sit here and wait till this Friday, I will leave it here. But once you do this, and let's say, you put in every Friday, if you log onto your GAM account on Friday 9:00 A.M. You will, for sure, see predesigned post ready to be either worked on or posted. I hope you find this super useful, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 10. Template Locking + Brand Permissions: Once you start working with clients and with your team, your templates and designs are going to go out to people and especially your templates are going to be touched by other people. So, for example, your client might take one of their social media posts and want to change some information or update it, or maybe your team member be working on some of the templates as well, and things happen, fingers slip. Also, not everyone is super knowledgeable about cannabis, so things can happen and different kind of assets can shift around. So what you want to make sure is that you protect your work. And there are two ways to do it. Now, I'm sure we all are familiar with permission restriction when it comes to templates. If you're sharing the link of your template, with others. But just in case I will refresh your memory. So I have a template here in front of me, and if I was going to share it, I, of course, would go to the Share button. And here where it says access level. So the dropdown menu shows your options. You can either so you have only you can access the design using this link then you have your team or you have anyone with the link. So let's say that I would share this with someone else via a link, and this next little button will show you the particular permissions, right? So you can select whichever one fits. So this would be that they can edit. So in this case, of course, the person that you've shared this template with can edit everything about your template, change colors and fonts and images and shift things around and so on and so forth. Then this one can only allow them to comment, and this will only allow them view. So select whichever you want fits. But in the case where you are allowing to edit, there are extra steps you can take. But before we get into that, you have two more options down here for all team members and then only for members with the link. So but going back to can edit. So if this is the case and you are allowing people to edit your template, the extra step of protection you can make in this case is you can lock separate assets on your template. So you click on, for example, the logo, you can click on this little lock button which will lock position and the appearance, right? And if you double lock it, now it's not even movable at all whatsoever. Same thing goes for your text. You can lock it, your images, lock down the position of it. So now it's not movable whatsoever. You can move everything around it, but the cup will stay, but I realize I have a little mement here. Let me fix that up. Okay, so this is a very great way, of course, to make sure that some things are locked in place and only other things like text is customizable. So in a situation where I would send this particular template to someone else so they could perhaps update it, what I would probably lock, and this would be my personal choice in this kind of template situation. So, what is this? This is a promotional post of a particular drink. Uh, however, if this template is reused for other drinks, what I would do is I would make sure that the logo is locked down. I would keep this. So in store offer $5, keep it unlocked because the price might or might not change, but let's leave it unlocked. Same thing with the name. We'll keep the name customizable, limited edition, so that's extra info, which will also probably will need to be changed. When it comes to the photo, of course, you want to unlock it because the product photo will change. And other things like at Cosmica, I would want to lock that because that's not changing anytime. Soon, same thing with the hours most likely aren't going to change. But also, I would lock down things like the background and this frame with the stars and the little element behind it. So what I would do is go into positions and look for these elements. So what do we have here? These are these are the lines. Whoa. So we have the operating hours are locked. Our handle is locked. This is unlocked, unlocked, unlocked. The logo is locked. Now, I would most likely want to lock this star, but I would also want to group all of this, not these. Let's find the correct stars. Okay, we'll group these together as well. And now we lock them down. This stays unlocked, unlocked. This is the name, and now these are the stars in the frame along with the lines. So I would also want to group this together and lock it down, right? So now, this, as you can see, I cannot move it. I cannot move this. The name can be edited. This is the background stars. And the little circle behind it, which is locked. This image should be open, which is this is locked, and this is locked. Okay, so we have everything in place. And it's also very important to pay attention to the decisions that you make when it comes to what is it that you lock down and what you are not locking down. So you can have this verbal agreement with whoever is receiving the link that, Hey, I've locked down some assets, don't change them because, you know, they're going to stay the same. That's the brand. Everything else is up for you to update or change as you wish. So, besides protecting specific templates, once you share them, there's also another thing that you can protect, which is overall brand identity in your brand kit. So this would be called brand permissions. What we're going to do now is go over to the brand tab from the home screen and make sure you have the correct brand selected. And now, if you drop down with all of your kits open, you will see at the very bottom here is called brand controls, and this is where you can take a step further and protect the brand itself. So these restrictions are in place for you to lock them down. So whoever is also working with this brand kit and making things from it on Canva, again, teammate, for example, you can lock these down and they won't be able to change anything. Also, if they are working with this brand, so let's say they are working with a saved brand template, they're not going to be able to change the font and the color palette. So this is definitely a very useful way to protect the overall brand identity. So there aren't any confusions or errors in the future. So again, going back to the decision making, so you want to think about what is it that you want to protect and what you want to leave open. So things that define a brand would be a logo, color palette, font, and, of course, the core layout, just like we just did with this template. All of these things that I just named are consistent and they should be consistent all throughout your designing process. So these are the things you want to lock. So think about it like this. What are the things that if changed can alter the overall appearance of the brand, right? Those things you want to lock. So things like information and titles and product images or images in general, these stay open because they will, of course, change throughout whatever it is that you are designing. Another quick tip before go, make sure to lock everything in place and adjust your brand permissions beforehand, before you share anything and before you work with other people because it's much easier to just do it right away. There won't be any confusion and awkward conversation with other people. So make sure that you lock everything down before you share your work. And this is the way that Canva can help you protect your work and make the handoff much more clean and smooth. Okay, I hope you found this useful, and I hope that you will implement this in your workflow because this does avoid a lot of future issues. And with that, thanks for hanging out with me, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 11. File Delivery & Handoff: Okay, now it is time for us to talk about what comes after you have created a lot of beautiful designs for your clients, and it's time to hand them off. So a clean handoff means to think about these files in a way that your clients will actually use them. So what I mean by that is exporting them correctly and also organizing your files once you hand them off. But first, let's talk about different kinds of files and how you would go about exporting them. So, for example, I have a poster in front of me meaning this would probably most likely be printed. What you want to make sure is you export it in the correct manner. So this wouldn't be a PNG because a PNG would not work on a large file that is printed. What you would want to do, ideally, of course, is save it as a PDF for printing, which is this one, and Canva is wonderful because they actually have it as a separate option. So make sure you export your files appropriately. So then your client doesn't have to come back and be like, Hey, I printed that poster and it's looking kind of wack. Why? You know what I mean? So that would be for a poster. If you are sending out a video, which, for example, we have a Instagram story. You want to make sure to export it as a video because it wouldn't work unless it's an MP four file. So again, once you download your video, make sure you have the MP four video. And also another good thing to know is that Canva will put this little tag next to it, next to the correct format as suggested. So if you're working on a video, they're going to suggest you export it as a MP four. And of course, for an Instagram post, we probably already know this, but just to refresh your memory, this would be either a PNG or a JPG, but I always recommend going with A PNG just because it's a little bit higher quality. Make sure your files match the exporting destination, right? We want to make sure that the file type is correct. Now, next thing is how to organize your work once you are sending out. Let's download all of the files that I have in front of me. Let's pretend that I'm sending this out to a client. So I'm going to download poster. Let's go ahead and select the correct one. Now let's download all of these three separate files, pretend that we are sending this out to a client. I'm just going to download them and then I'm going to show you what is the best way to organize your work just so the handoff is clean and smooth and there aren't any misunderstandings or issues. The video is downloaded. I have all of my three files here. So from my downloads, I'm going to drop it into my folder that I have prepared, which is named to client. And in a situation where you would have many different kinds of Instagram posts, many different kinds of posters and many videos or any type of other type of design, of course, you want to make sure that you organize them and you label them. So it clears up things for your client because now everyone is very tech savvy. So if you are working with someone who's not as well versed in the social media world, for example, want to make sure that you label all the files properly and your folders. So for example, this will be instagram story, right? And I'll drop my video in there. Next folder is movie poster. Drop it in and Instagram post. And of course, if you have done everything correctly, you probably have also named your file in the Canva, which I do highly suggest because that does make things much more organized and easy to then organize after the fact after you have downloaded everything. So make sure you name your files even on Canva because they're going to end up being much easier to also find in your home page where you are presented with all of your designs all at once. So now we have these three gorgeous folders. I'm going to clean up the folder altogether. And now I have this whole thing ready, ready to be sent out. And of course, it depends on what kind of platform you're using to send out your work. I personally usually like to right click on my folder full of the work that I've done, and I press on Compress, and it creates a zip file, which is much easier to then share. It doesn't take up as much space, and everything that has to be done is just double click on the zip and it will unzip the folder and everything will be intact. So always make sure to organize your work. You can label your folders or your files by date, by campaign, by name, by platform. Possibilities, of course, are endless, but whatever is the most clear, that will always work. And once you start practicing organizing your work and making the handoff very clean, that, of course, looks good on your part because it is way more professional to send an organized folder full of labeled files rather than just a mess of different kinds of formats in a single folder, and that just can create a lot of confusion and it doesn't look the best. So make sure you keep your handoff. So make sure you keep your handoff process clean and hope you found this useful, and I'll see you in the next lesson, where we're going to start working on some projects. Very excited. I'll see you then. 12. Build The Animated Social Post: So now it is time for us to get into our class projects. I'm very excited because this time, we're going to make a really cool animated Instagram post, just like we just talked about animation and how simple and quick it is to do on Canva without any particular animation skills, you can just go and choose your favorite effect, and you have a whole animated design ready to go. So that's exactly what we're going to be doing in this lesson. Let's go ahead and begin with the process. I'm going to click on social media and select Instagram post. So we have a blank canvas here. What we need is a beautiful design. What we need is a promo for a cosmica drink that we are trying to promote because it is coming out soon. So let's start with making a simple design. I'm going to begin, of course, with the background. And I'm showing you this process because what we're doing here is just building an average template that is essentially just like a static image, but we're going to make it come alive. So let's start. So we have the background. We're going to go ahead and I'm going to make the background look a little bit more interesting. So constellations, like we have done before with all the other cosmic designs we've made so far, because, you know, you got to stay consistent. I'm gonna bring down the transparency right away, just to save some time, just duplicate it since everything's already in place. For now, I'm just gonna keep it like this. What else do I need on the background? Go for a circle. And we'll go to shapes. I kind of already have a vision on what I want to make. Change the color, perhaps even bring down the transparency. Let's keep it here for now. So now, we, for the most part, have a background done. Now we need some text. So a title picking from the pre selected fonts. This one is going to be about the comet drink. Building this brand so far. Made me want to actually try all of these drinks and visit this cafe it seems so cool. Alright. Well, kind of except the spacing just a bit and change the color. Got to keep things consistent. Another thing, of course, what we need from the brand kit is the logo. So I'm going to go ahead and grab the cosmo logo, decrease the size, put it here. Bam. So far, it's looking real good, but it's going to get better. The subtitle. Okay, so here we need a little tag line. Cozy season has a new fairy. However, I do want to make it in this fun, I think that will look much better. Decrease the size is that we center it using those wonderful guidelines that we have at our disposal. Makes life so much easier. Let me tell you. Okay. So now what we need is the product itself. So since I don't have actual product photography, let's go on and get something from Canada. Perhaps photos. And I'm thinking, this should be something interesting, not like a plain cup. You know what I mean? So let's go for What do I have in my recently used? That's what I want to know. Do I have something fun? Okay. I think this will do. Perhaps let's decrease the size just a little bit. Okay. Centered all in place. What I'm thinking I need some beans. Coffee beans, it's a good visual. If you're making anything for coffee, get beans. Visually, it does make things much better. Coffee beans. Got to make sure to use coffee beans instead of pinto beans. Other beans. Oh, that's good it. Actually, yeah, let's go with that. Do we have anything else here? Um no, I think these are gonna work just fine. So let's place them under duplicate Let me flip it. Like, so there we go. Perfect. Think that's very good. Okay. Or, no, maybe let me twist it a little bit. Maybe this way. Yeah, that's a little better. Okay, yeah, I like that a little better. Perfect. Alright, now it works. So we have our drink. We have I think all the elements are in place. Let me increase the size of the tag line here. We already have some drop shadow behind the beads. I see. I'm going to add it perhaps to the drink itself to give it some dimension. Um, distance and intensity little little less. It's a little intense. Make sure. Okay, it is centered. Good. Okay, now we have the template ready. Let's get to animating. This is the fun part. So I have somewhat of an idea of how I would want this to look. So we're going to make sure to sync everything properly and have an overall direction because we don't want to be too messy and apply all kinds of different effects and make it look chaotic. So first things first, I think, let's go with the drink. I'm going to select that and go to the animate area here. Okay. I'm going to keep it on Enter. It's a little fast, no. Okay. I like that. Let's keep it this way. Now let's do the same, but for the beans. But the baseline won't work. I think the pan. Well, okay. And I like that it's coming from that direction. Let's do the same to the other set of beans, but from the other direction like they're coming together. Increase the speed. I'm going to match it as close as I can. There we go. Now, when it comes to the title and the tagline, this one should be a different kind of animation. And since it is text, there's more options here. Okay, I see there is a little issue that I would love to fix this right away. So if you haven't noticed the beans, actually, one comes in faster than the other one, which I don't like. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to right click on one of the elements, and I'm going to select show element timing. So this way, I can actually see when it starts, and I could adjust that by dragging the sides, right? So which one comes in first? This one. I would want it to be a little bit 4.5 Okay. Let's click on this and match it up. And it is showing that it's coming from the other side. Let's You see now. Okay, now it's all weird. There you go. That's exactly what I wanted. When it comes to the text and the main title of the drink, I would want I think I really like the ascent. And I guess it doesn't really matter whether it's word or line because there's two. Two lines, two words, so let's just keep it like that, actually, kind of like that. I would like to do the same for the same for the tag line, but I'm going to increase the size on the sides just so it's not as cramped. Huh. Okay. Yeah, definitely. Not a word. Oh, that's kind of nice. Yeah, I like that. Let's keep it like that. I like the little burst effect here. Okay, so we have that this all animated. Now, let's do something cool for the logo. So for the logo, I actually like the sketch one. I think that's good. And there's some style options here. No. I think Phil is better. Okay, let's stick with the sketch. And I think the last thing we need to animate is the background. And so for the background itself, I want to make sure to have it grouped together so we can animate together. I think that would be really cool. So I'm going to hold down the command key on my keyboard, select all of the background elements, and now I'm going to press group, and now it's a single thing. So now when I'm going to animate it, it's gonna come in together or move together. Let's go ahead and hit the animate. This one, I think there should be some sort of continuous motion just because I think that would eliminate any possibility for this design to look too still and boring. We have some of these continuous motion options. I don't think I like that. No. That's a no. That's definitely a no. I actually not mad at this one, but it stops, but I wanted to continue. Okay, the drift one's not bad. H Okay, I think this one's going to be it. Should we increase the speed? Okay. I said speed, but it's scale, pardon me. The more you increase the scale, the more, I guess, the closer it comes. So I think I'm going to keep it there. That looks really cool. And now when it comes to the element timing, so let's see what comes in first? Let's take the background because it's gonna show us the entire thing. So the drink needs to come in first, then the title, maybe with the beans. Okay. I think the logo perhaps should come in last or a little bit after. Yeah, I think so. So I think that actually looks pretty good. I'm just checking spell check, spell check, checking my spelling. Everything seems to be good. Wonderful. I think this animation is ready, and it's ready to be posted. So now, since it is a moving design, of course, I would export it as an MP four. So let's go ahead and do that. So I'm going to hit Share Download, and we have MP four suggested, can adjust the quality, but 1080 by 13 50 is pretty good. And there you have it. All you really need is to have a awesome design. And then you go into Canada and make it come alive with simple animation tools and different kinds of effects that you can choose from. I hope you had fun trying out this way of making your design come alive, and I'll see you in the next project, which by the way, is going to be really cool because we're going to be making a whole promotional video. I'll see you later. 13. Build The Promo Video: Okay, folks, it is time for another project. This time, we're going to be making a promotional video using Canvas Video Editor. Also, I have collected a couple of clips from the video library from Canva. They will be available to you as a resource so you can follow along and use the same clips. Or if you want to you can use your own video. And get inspired off of this lesson. Either way, let's start making a really cool promotional video, because I have a really good idea. So first things first, let's open up the necessary canvas for this project. So I'm going to click on the video. And from here, I'm, of course, going to do a vertical TikTok video for this one. So I'm going to click on that. And here we are. Okay. We have a completely blank Canvas ready for us to jazz it up. First things first, we do need to get our videos on our timeline because from our video editing lesson, I did mention that you should start with collecting your videos and then doing the trimming. So that's exactly what we're going to do. I'm going to go ahead and upload my videos. So I'm going to click on Uploads and upload files. Here I have four clips. I'm going to highlight all of them and click Upload. Now let's wait for them to upload fully, so it's just easier for us to work because if you start working with a file that hasn't been uploaded properly, then it can start lagging and just looking weird and getting a little clunky. So two out of three or three out of three, three out of four, pardon me. And we have all four clips uploaded. So I'm going to click on this one. This is going to be our first shot. Got some coffee beans. Second clip. This one is extracting the espresso, third one, some latte art and fourth clip is with a barista, presenting us with the coffee. So I'm going to go ahead and start trimming them. So by dragging this little line, I'm going to see what is the shot that I want? So I'm thinking the first three clips should be the same length, which I think like 3 seconds should do it. Three or 2.5. Let's see. So I'm going to trim this to Let's do 2.5 because I want this to be quick. Yeah, 2.5 is good. Now, this one, I want to get the exact time the espresso starts to drip, which is a little bit about here. So I'm going to trim this up right about there and 2.5 seconds from there, 2.5. Perfect. Now, the same thing with this third clip. I want it to start here. So let's trim that there we go. This is three. So let's do 2.5 again so far. And this one, this is a beautiful shot that I was able to find on in Canada, but it is a little bit on the long side. So let me trim. About here. I think it's a good. If anything, we can go back and change it. So now we have our clips all trimmed up. So next, I do want to give you a little tip. So if you are working with stock footage from any stock website or Canva itself, and you want to make them look a little bit more cohesive. You can use things like filters to match up the lighting and colors. For these four, I have used this one, which is Astro. It's a darker, cooler tone filter, and overall, I do think that it fits quite well to the overall cosmic aesthetic Okay, so we have our clips trimmed, everything's in place. Now let's think about text. So any kind of promote any kind of ad, of course, needs messages. So I'm thinking three different lines of text over the first three clips. So I'm going to start with the first one, and I'm going to do the main font from the cosmic Bandkit. I'm going to trim it up to fit exactly this clip. However, I just got an idea. Okay, before we do that, let's go back to this clip, and I want to add a little animation effect, like we just did in our previous project. I'm going to be adding animations and their effects to the videos to make them even cooler. So I'm going to go to the animation. And just like we just used this very effect for the background of the animated post. I'm going to use breeze. I'm going to increase scale. Should we go all the way? Yes. So it's going to zoom in. All right. Then for the next clip, I'm going to add the same same speed, but the other way, so it should be zooming out, right? Do you see division? Because I see division. I think this is going to turn out really cool. Third clip, again, breathe and out. Perfect. And this should be in and all the way that's perfect. Okay. This is really going to tie things together because we're going to add the same effect to the text, and you'll see I will look really cool. I can't even speak. I'm so excited. Okay, so let's do locally sourced coffee beans. Let's make it all fit in one row, I will add effect, which is going to be a drop shadow just so it stands out. Just a little more, you know, I'm gonna keep it like that. But going back to the animate, let's go and add the breathe effect. Is it even centered? Yes, it is. Okay. And now I'm just going to du Oh, actually, I should increase the Yes, perfect. I'm going to duplicate this same text element and just drag it over because it landed right on top of the other one. Drag it over the second clip. Here we can say, precio Espresso, the text isn't showing up the way I would want it to show up. So what I'm going to do is go back, edit the clip itself and just lower the brightness, right? Okay, cool. And when it comes to the animation of this, we're going to do in, so it matches the actual clip, right? Okay. I am uploading some things in the background, so it might be a little laggy, but overall I see the text. Okay, cool. Let's move on. Duplicate this again, drag it over the third. Make sure that it fits. This one is pouring the latte, so let's say made with. Love. Isn't that nice? Perfect. Let's center it. You should probably do the same thing for the second clip. Make sure it's centered. Always center your elements. Keep it consistent. Okay. Okay, we got to change the direction of the animation for this, so out. And now since we have the first three ready, here, I want to place the logo and a tag line right as the final message. But I'm seeing what I like is that the apron, this is where you as a concentrator, slash designer, slash creative, have to become a little bit more start thinking outside the box, become resourceful. What I'm seeing here is that the apron kind of matches somewhat the color of one of the logo variations, which is this dark one, my bad. So don't click on it. You want to drag it. Over. You see how it matches, I almost disappears, so we can actually lean into that. Pretty good idea. I think it's the best idea I've had today. So let's make sure it is over. The clip on the timeline. And what I would want to do here, perhaps place it a little higher. Let's see. Let's see. Okay, right? So it's kind of like revealing from the apron. That's that's a cool little effect. When it comes to the animation, I could. Why did it do that? No, it's zooming in. Perhaps it should be tiny bit smaller. Something like that. Bam. Okay. You see, you see the vision. Okay, so once the Brisa presents the latte, this is where the tag line should be coming in, right? So let's go back to the text, add that and see how it interacts. Tag line your daily orbit starts. Here, I think that's pretty cool, now. Okay. Let's add the drop effect. Perhaps change the color because it is mainly on the mug, so. It should be it should stand out just a little more. Let's see how this looks. Hold on. Yeah, so it needs to be a little bit more. Should I decrease the size? Okay, I see it. I see it. Like there. And the animation for this should be Okay, so this logo is exiting, so let's make sure it's only on Enter. Cosmica. This is where the tag line should start about here. Yeah. I like that better. Okay, now it's not as heavy. So imagine some either trendy music, maybe some like coffee shop jazz moment as an audio. That could work. You could also use audios and different kinds of songs and sound effects from the Canva library. Personally, how I usually go about these things is when I post, I usually make these types of designs and videos for social media, and a good way to play into this social media game is to actually follow the algorithm in a way where you want to utilize trending sounds and trending filters and trending things like that, because algorithm really likes that, and they like to push those things, right? So what I would do here is just go on either Instagram or TikTok or, I suppose, Instagram and TikTok and just find a sound that is already on the platform and is used quite often by many people. So I'm not going to be adding any sound now. I think so far that looks pretty good. Let's see. Let me download this so we can take a proper look at this video. We have our video. Let's take a look. Okay. Let's check. I think, Oh, no, that's correct. Locally sourced coffee beans. Fresh espresso. Made with love. Cosmica, your daily orbit starts here. That's so cool. And you see how easy it was? I love Canva. This is amazing. The bread kit is locked and loaded with all the fonts and the logo. Everything was so quick and so easy. And we ended up with this beautiful little promotion piece for imaginary coffee shop, and the length is also good. It's 12 seconds. So just right. I would go there. I would grab a good book, good mood, go and sip some cosmic coffee. Okay, our video is done. I had a lot of fun making it. I really hope that you succeeded. Maybe you made the same video. Maybe you thought of something else, maybe something better. But either way, I really, really hope that you took some value out of this lesson and, um highly encourage to keep producing not only beautiful designs on camera, but also videos because with the video editor, there's so many wonderful ways to make these beautiful clips and so many resources. It would be silly for you not to use them. Either way, I hope you had fun. I hope you got inspired. I hope you got creative, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 14. Course Recap And Pro Tips: Okay. Welcome to the very last lesson. First of all, I want to say congratulations and good work on all of the effort you have put in and the time that you have put in. And also, I want to thank you so much for hanging out with me during all of this. It's been fun and great. And you have now become a full Canva Pro. How does it feel to be a professional on Kena? It must feel nice. So in this lesson, I would like to go over and recap what we have learned, and I have prepared some tips and tricks, things to avoid, things to keep in mind, and kind of put a little bow over this entire experience that you and I have gone through. So let's get into it. So first of all, what we talked about was animation and video editing in Canva. So a few things that I would like to remind you is that first layer and don't blanket. So when we were animating the very first post, and when I was showing you around, I mentioned not to apply a single animation to the entire design. Now, you can, of course, you can. You can do whatever you want, since you are the creative and it is up to you. However, in my personal experience, it is always better to layer different kinds of motion directions, speeds, and timing. So make sure that you tailor every single animation to every single element in your design. So like we saw, text elements get more different kinds of animations than shapes and other kinds of graphics. So keep that in mind and use your animations wisely. Next up is choreograph your timing. So like we did in the project, the first project, I was playing around with the timing of the elements, and again, you can see the element timing by right clicking on the actual element itself and then select show timing. And that way, you can choreograph when certain things come into the frame and overall, just make it look nicer and more directed rather than just stitched together. Video 2.0 is a real editor, like we saw in our last project when we edited that wonderful promotional video for our coffee shop that really we have built together. So congratulations and thank you for your effort. But when it comes to the video editor, it is a wonderful tool, and I think it is so underused. And I do understand as a content creator and as a creative, there are so many other wonderful video editing tools out there, whether they're more serious, like something like Final Cup Pro and DaVinci. There's also things like Canada. And I understand how it can be tempting to use something that's a little bit more professional. And I use this intentionally because you can make videos look professional also in canva.com, and I love how available it is to people. I love how easy it is to use, and it is a very useful tool to keep in your toolkit. So don't underestimate the video editor on Canva. Now, and when it comes to your footage, you do have different ways of sourcing it, like we saw. And I'm sure you are well aware that Canava has a very extensive library of different kinds of assets. Everything from videos, photos, shapes and texts and oh, my God, there's so many things. You can go that way, and there's so many cool stock videos. On Canva. But you can also play around with AI, cause why not? Play around with it. Maybe you create something truly impressive that will even surprise you. So make sure that you explore all of your options when it comes to sourcing your footage. Next, we talked about advanced AI in Canada. So Canvas 2.0 AI 2.0, is conversational. So make sure that you chat with it. If you prompt something and you want to adjust something, just go back into the chat and just talk to it. And as we saw before, it is learning from context. So the more you talk to it, the more it learns your style and your ways, the smarter it becomes. So keep chatting if you're going to use it. Style Match protects consistency. Like we saw, you can take any kind of graphic. From the library, and you can style match it to your brand. And it is wonderful, so useful, and it really does truly save a lot of time because as I said before, so many times have I spent really impressive amount of time just scrolling through that library, looking for the right illustration, the right color. And now I can just style match, and it is a lifesaver. Next up, you have bulk Create scales, one template. So you have one wonderful template. You're proud of it, and I don't blame. You can use that template and not spend hours on creating different kinds of pieces of content from that one template when you can just bowl create. Make sure you have an data source. So make a little sheet. It's not going to take you that long. It's going to be way quicker to just feed that data source into Canva and utilize the bowl Create feature because you can we made only four different templates, but you can go hundreds. You can really, really maximize that tool and save yourself a lot of time. Then you have connectors and publish apps, close the loop. Again, you have this wonderful opportunity to connect your Canva account to many different kinds of apps, anything from Notion, slide, Google Drive. Again, utilize Canva AI 2.0 to pull conversations from Zoom that you've had, and it can create a summary document. You can upload and get contacts from other platforms and over there's so many things I could list right now, but I'm not going to waste your time, but I think you understand my point. Make sure to connect your CAM account to really any kind of ad that you work with, it will make your life much easier. Then we have skiing and client workflow. So first things first batching, plans automation executes. Okay? So again, set aside some time, you know, to plan your content, set aside separate time to design. Next up, you have automated repetition never judgment. So if you have any kind of boring, repeating, task. Automated. If you have the option and you have so many different kinds of tools on Canva, automate your repetitive boring tasks. You can utilize AI, you can utilize Bulk Create, like we just spoke about, and leave your creativity and the fun stuff for yourself. And because at the end of the day, this kind of work is really about getting to express yourself, getting to make something that will bring joy or bring growth to a brand. So you want to make sure to get those boring tasks. And if you can't automate them, use those tools. Why not? It's 2026, 21st century. Why not? Then you have Lock what would break the brand? Take a step back before you share your designs and your templates and kind of think about what are the things that if they are changed, is going to break the overall brand, look, and identity. So lock things like fonts, color palettes, logos, and overall structure of your design. Everything else where the information is going to change like titles, descriptions, and photos, leave them unlocked. And a clean handoff has no ambiguity. So again, make sure to organize your work, label everything correctly and understandably, think about your client, and how are they going to use those assets and designs and label them, export them properly, and take into account where your work is going to be published because again, this does kind of reflect on you as a designer or a creator, because if you do hand off a file that is exported, not in the correct file format, it might come off as not in the best, for example, quality, right? So you want to make sure to export properly and with the right file type. Want to look professional, you know? Now, let's talk about some pro tips. So first of all, mistakes worth avoiding. Do not skip the review step on anything automated or scheduled. So again, going back to things like Bulk Create, I believe I did make a mistake on the design structure itself, so it was a wonderful example, actually, because you saw exactly what happens in real life. When you don't double check your actual template, and then you just bol create and you have to go back one by one to fix that. So you want to avoid that, so check the integrity of your template. Make sure everything fits and also check your data source. And when it comes to scheduling automated tasks, make sure you're inputting the correct information. Then next step is don't leave an AI prompt open ended. If you need exact accuracy, say, use only what I've given you. So that's a very good phrase to use in your prompt, because, again, we have that generative AI is to fill in anything that is empty. So be detailed. Don't leave your prompt open ended unless you have time and patience, of course. You're open for interpretations from the AI. But other than that, use phrases like, use only what I've given you or don't invent anything, so on and so forth. But you can use your own language, of course, because remember that AI is getting smarter off of you and it kind of is trying to understand you. So use very conversational your own language, so then you can understand properly. Then don't hand off a template without locking the brand critical elements first. So, of course, keep that in mind because you don't really want those awkward situations where you have given a beautiful orchestrated template to your client, and they are adjusting some information, maybe changing some information to then upload on their social medias. And then you realize that they have changed the background color, which doesn't reflect their brand. They have shifted the logo. So logo is now off center, and it looks kind of weird and crooked, and you're like, Oh, my God. So make sure you lock everything. Before you hand anything off. Then last but not least, don't mix client brands folders or schedule tasks together. So keep all your brand kits separate organized. When it comes to downloading your work to send off to a client, keep everything separate in its own folder, label everything again. I keep saying label it properly. Just do it. It will save you a lot of headache and a lot of time where you're scrambling around, bunch of files, and you don't know what goes where. So yes, do not mix brands. Make sure everything is organized. Talk about what you should ask yourself before you deliver your work. First is, is it locked. So can the client break the brand by accident or only edit what they are supposed to? If the answer is yes, you're good to go. Then does it match the brand? Would this sit comfortably next to everything else you built for them? Would that piece of work fit on their feet, for example? If the answer is yes, you are in the green light. Then, is it organized? Could someone find the right file in 10 seconds or would they have to ask you? Imagine you are handing off a beautiful folder of so many beautiful designs, but the client is confused because they don't know where did Instagram post go because you didn't label it. So label it. However, if you answer this question, is it organized with S, you're good. And finally, would they know what to use? No ambiguity about which file, which version, which format. So this kind of is very similar to is it organized. So this is more closer to exporting, right? So if you are being asked for an animated post, download it in MP four, right, because it's not going to and serve as an animated piece of content if it is PNG. So yes, make sure you download each file in the correct format because that also does clear a lot for the clients. So these are the four questions. And if you answer to all of these with yes, you're good to go, and you're now a professional. Congratulations. You have gone from just making designs to now being able to run a complete content operation by yourself. You can handle many clients. You know how to cut your time in half, make Canva work in the background, and overall, how to deliver high quality, professional and beautiful work. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. This has been fun. I hope you got a lot of value out of this, and all I can say is good luck. Have fun and stay creative. 15. Class Project: Create Your Branded Social Media Content: Now it is time to build your own advanced CanavaPject. For your class project, you will create a complete piece of branded social media content using advanced techniques we have covered throughout the course. You can choose to create an animated social media post, a professional video, or both. Start by choosing a brand, product or personal project you would like to promote. Then use Canva AI tools, animated features, templates, and design workflows to build engaging content that feels polished and consistent. You would like to experiment with features, use Magic Video, AI generated visual, Style Match or Bowl Create to make your workflow more efficient. Once your project is complete, organize your files, prepare them for delivery, and export the final result. Upload your finished design or video to the Project Gallery, along with a short explanation on your creative process and which advance feature you use. The goal isn't simply to create attractive content, but to build a workflow that helps you create better content faster. I cannot wait to see what you create. 16. Congratulations! What’s Next?: Congratulations on completing the course. You have now explored some of Canva's most advanced features from AI Power content creation and automation to workflow automation, collaboration and content delivery. More importantly, you have learned how to think beyond individual designs and start building systems that make content creation faster, more organized, and more scalable. Canva continues to evolve, new AI tools and features will continue to appear. The workflows you have learned in this class will help you to adapt quickly and make the most out of those new capabilities. I encourage you to keep experimenting with different content types, automation techniques, and creative workflows. If you haven't already, make sure to upload your projects to the Project Gallery. I would love to see what content you've built and what kind of creative workflows you have developed. If you enjoy this class, please consider leaving us a review. It does help us improve future classes and helps other students discover this course. Thank you so much for joining me and I'll see you in the next class.