Canva Basic para el entrenamiento avanzado

1. Introduction to the Course: Hello and welcome. My name is sad and I'm a graphic designer, a web designer, and an intrapreneur. And together we are going to study Canva. In this course, you will be able to learn how to produce stunning, beautiful, professional looking graphical designs quickly. This course is designed for busy people who want to be able to produce their own professional graphic designs than ever the need them without having to rely on any expensive third parties. So if this sounds like you and you can spend some arts dedicatedly to learn a skill, then you could be producing the work just like this. In this course, we will learn how to design social media ads and boost, which is most important in your business promotions. We will also learn how to create business presentation and documents, menus, and resumes. You can also design brochures, invitations, and YouTube thumbnails or Facebook covers. The real toward behind learning discourse is to work smarter on gamma to save you tons of ours. So we'll be starting this course from learning the foundation of success. And that is learning all that little tools that will eventually help you to create professional designs of your own. After learning the little tools, we will be moving forward to create professional designs or projects like a social media post or Instagram or Facebook. Creating the resumes, making YouTube thumbnails, Facebook cover brochures, and much more. And then discourse is complete. You will be able to produce any kind of design that you need for your own blog or business or for your clients. So if you're tired of time digging task on graphic designing for your business. This course is for you. Join now and I'll see you in the class. 2. Setting Up Canva Account: Now in this lesson we are going to see how you can create the Canva account. If you already have the Canva account, you can skip this lecture. If not, the procedure is pretty simple. Just go to, just go to www.canva.com. Now you can create a free account. You also have the plans right here in which you can subscribe for pro version Enterprise Education and non for profits. But we will cover that difference between free and pro version in the later videos. So right now we're just sign up for a free account. So here's the option. Sign up for free. Let's click on it. And if you frequently use Google, you can sign up from Google or you can continue with Facebook. So I'll continue with Google. In here it is going to ask you the ID and password. Let's mention are IID, click Next, the password next. Most of the times it is already saved in your account. For verification, it will send you a verification code sometimes. So here we have pasted our verification gourd. And that's it. Once you sign up for the account, they will ask your preference. What will you be using Panama for? For personal use? Large companies, teachers, small business, or a student or non-profit or charity. For now, I'll select small business and IT team name. You can write your team name. You can invite some other team members and click on Create team so that we, whatever you design, it can be shared between your team members as well. So they're giving the message of try Canva pro for free. I can try this for free for 30 days as well. What will I get in this 100 million premium photos, videos, and elements? 3,000 premium fonts, 610,000 premium templates. If you're working professionally as a designer, you must subscribe for it. Stay organized, extra folders or 100 db storage they're giving. And you can cancel anytime. So you can start the free trial as well. But I'll click on maybe later. And this is your brand new account of Canva. So in the next video, I'll show you the comparison between what you will get in the free version and what would you get in the pro version? 3. Diffrence Between Free vs Pro Version: Now let's learn about the plants. If I go in Plans and Pricing, you can click on it directly or you can just browse it. If I click on compare pricing, I will get all the details right here. Free version is totally free, but you will get to 50,000 free templates, 100 plus design types, and five dB of cloud storage. You can invite your team members and stuff. But this has very limited functions. If you want to use some stock photos, stock templates, talk designs basically. But if you are a designer and you are using completely for your own designs and you have to picture collection and icons collection. You don't need to subscribe for the pro version. But for pro version, it comes with a lot of facilities, like you already have the scheduled social media content to it. Eight platforms. You can resize indefinitely by magic resizes some additional tools. Are there the color schemes, logos, fonts, options are great. And it has the pricing off $54.99 per year, and it can be used for up to 5 ft. So that is great. If you talk about per month charges, it's only 6.49, so you can subscribe for that as well. So if we talk about the difference, it is huge. Once we get started with it, you will feel that difference. That a lot of post, a lot of templates, lot of icons, shapes are available just in the pro version. So only the basic templates are available in the free version. So the major difference you can see is in this area, in this version, the free version, you are getting 100 plus design types. The pro version, you are getting 100 million premium stock photos, videos, and audio and graphics. Similarly, if we talk about the templates, 610,000 plus premium and free templates are available. So if you're a designer and even if you are a marketer that is using the Canva to design their regular post, marketing post on Facebook, then I recommend you to definitely go for pro version. It has a lot of features. So for this training, there is no harm to go with the free version because you can always upgrade later on. And the most of the functions that we will be discussing is available in the free version as well. Because the functionality will remain the same, right? So this is the basic difference between the pro version and the free version in Canva. 4. Home Screen Introduction About the Interface: Okay, Now this is the home screen that you will get when you first log in to Canvas. Now the design. Now the design and templates might be literally different from when I'm recording this video and when you are seeing it, because the software or the website keeps on changing, but the function should remain the same. So right now, I'm recording on grainy second of July 2022. So if you are watching this video, sometimes it in the future, then your template or your interface might be different. So if he talks about the home screen, what you will get by default. On the left-hand side there is on navigation pane, which is by default on the home screen. On the home screen, you have the search option that if you want to search out from the templates, are particular design, e.g. you do banner or a Facebook post. You can get some templates about it. You can also get some template, videos or presentations as you like. And their sum also suggested templates down there. Now, if we scroll down, the most popular templates are shown up here. Also, your recent designs, if you have created any. Right now, we're under new accounts, so there are no designs to show up here. And if we change it from home tab two templates, Let's see what we get. You can get the option of all the templates to browse from. You can choose the category of business, social media, video marketing, and custom prince. Also, some educational templates are down here. If we click further down here, you will get some further options like flashcards, storyboard, comic strips. So that's about it from the templates. And the most widely used options that we will use in Canva is the search option and the create design option. Now what the create design option offers is very interesting. Let's see if I click on it. The suggested ones are video presentation, Instagram post, logo, Facebook post, and other things. If you are working on YouTube, you can simply write here YouTube and you will get all the suggestions regarding the YouTube templates, e.g. YouTube banner channel logo. You can create your profile pictures, you can create your shorts, titles, thumbnails, so on and so forth. So these are some of the basic options. Now also, when you click on search, you will get two areas to switch from. Either you can choose from the default templates that you have. Or if you switch the tap, two projects, you will find the projects are designs that you have created. So e.g. now, if I select and write Instagram, you will get the options like Instagram Live, Instagram grid, post, portrait, and landscape, both. And these are some suggested templates as well. If we browse further into these templates, you can click on see all. So there are a couple of templates that is available for the free version. Obviously, if you're subscribed for the pro version, you will get a lot more. So you can choose from these and you can further customize it. Some of them even are showing in the pro version. Right now, only this post is available in the free version. If you want to switch back to the homepage, you can click on the homepage from here, or you can click on the Canvas icon to go back. Now the most important thing is you can design anything you think of in Canva, e.g. if you just want to design your resume. So you will just write resuming here and you will get a lot of resume templates that are available for free. You just have to select that template. Just make sure that it is not in the pro version or the paid version, which is indicated here. Let's see, this is my free version. Let's click on it. And there it is. Now, it is available in the Edit mode. You can change the title, you can change the profile picture and all the details to customize that for you. You can also change the color scheme if you like. So this is just one example. Let's say if you want to design a flyer for your business. So this time let's write flyer. So you have the option of designing the Business Flyer, the real state school flyers. You can choose from any template, from thousands of options available. And that's the power of this app. So you can see here this is a Business webinar, can split off a business flyer. So professionally designed and it is available for free. Now one more thing that is super important in Canva. Sometimes you need a custom size for your banner or for your any flex. Our four-year any business design, e.g. print cards or something. So in that case, if you are unable to find the standard template size, you can set the custom size of your own. You can just click on here and you can design the vet e.g. 1920 by 1080. If you want this size to be designed, you can create 1920 by 1080 pixels. And let's click on Create design, although it will create a blank page for you. And you also will have some suggestions here. But the best part is those templates, even if the pixel size or the dimensions are different, you can adjust it on this template by your own, e.g. if I throw this here, you just hold it, drag and drop. And it will automatically adjust according to that size. And same thing goes for all the templates, e.g. even if they are little bit less in size. Let's give an example. E.g. if you want to upload some images, you can go to uploads. After you open the design and click on upload media. Let's see from pictures, I want to upload this screenshot. Now like we have discussed in the difference between the basic and the pro version, that the background removal tool is available in the pro version. So it is suggesting that here. So when we drag and drop this image here, if you bring it to the corner, it will automatically adjust in size. But if we just drag and drop on the center, it will have the standard size, which you can adjust later on by these controllers. You have the option to make it wide. You have the option to move the arrow here. On all of these sites, you have the controllers. So you can adjust according to your requirements. This is an important tool that you can adjust the custom sizes in your Canvas app. Also, if you have the size, not in pixels, but in inches, millimeters, or centimeters, you can change the proportion. Our calculation here as well. This is it. This is the basic introduction of the home screen and how you can launch a new projects in Canva. 5. Postioning and Spacing Elements in Canva: Now let's get one step further and discuss about the spacing of the elements and shapes in Canva, e.g. if I want to design a template, I can create a blank template as well. I'll simply click on Create design. And if you want to choose a blank template, you can set on Custom Size. And e.g. if you have the statistic size of this presentation size, you can click on here and then you will get some blank template grade. Now, e.g. if I want to select a shape or upload a shape in here, I can go to the elements and you have different shape options to choose from. You can choose the boxes, the curve box, some arrow keys. You have brown circles, triangles. You can insert any shape, e.g. if I want to insert our triangles, I can just drag and drop here. And now I can adjust the size by dragging it upwards, downwards and in whatever position you like. And these are all the controllers are pinpoints from where you can adjust the size. You can also revolve it by using this option. When we hover over to this option, it will change it to color, which is an indication that now this is selected. So if we hold the left mouse key and start moving towards any direction, you will notice that it will start changing its direction or rotating its direction. You can stop at any point you like, and just release the mouse key. Now for your convenience, if you select this icon, you have the option in more to set the position as well. You can set it on the top. Right here. It will be automatically adjusted. You have the option of middle, bottom, and center, left, right, whatever you want. Now, if I want to make the copy of this strip, e.g. I want ten identical shapes. After I've customized it, Let's say I've changed my color to my default template. I've made some other customizations like size. If you are using a text box, you can change the writing style. And once the customisation is all done and you want identical shapes with identical colors and sizes. What you can do is just hold the alternate key, choose that shape, and move towards either right or bottom. You can see that you can create a lot of copies like this. And similarly, the most popular shortcut if you want to use that, you can choose that as well. Just click on Control C and Control V, and you can create multiple copies out of it. And similarly, now, if I want to select all of these shapes, you can just drag it towards all the shapes and you can move all these shapes to whatever position you want. Now e.g. now, if I want to position it, I'll select all of these shapes. And let's click on position. Let me just zoom out a little bit so that you can get the options to see that movement as well. E.g. if I want to select Top, it will arrange all of these, but these shapes are one over and other, right? So let's select all of these and move to a different position. And since now all of these are selected as a group. You can select to tidy up. Now, I got rid off with all the other multiple shapes copies. Let's select all of these. As you can see that they are haphazardly arranged. Now, if I selected all of these, now if I click on position and click on top, you will see that all of these are arranged in a proper sequence. Similarly, if I select all of these again and position it center on the right. But on these conditions they are all over one another. You can arrange it horizontally. Idea, tidy up. We'll arrange exactly in the same distance and in the same position. So you can experiment with that by inserting multiple shapes. And whatever works for you, just try it by yourself and you will get your most relevant option from here. It will save you a lot of time to arrange the data when you're customizing your templates now and other useful option which can save you a lot of time is when you are inserting text, you can choose our custom heading or any custom template from here. E.g. if I click on this one, this is a heading. Now, if you want to move it anywhere, just click on this Heading 1s, and it's not necessary to move it from a particular point. You can be within this box and move it anywhere you want. So it is especially convenient when the heading size is too small. Now when the heading size, if I switch it to too small, you will get an additional option in case it's very difficult to select this or move it around here, you will just click on the heading. And once the heading is selected, you will get this special icon to move around the four arrow keys indicated you can hold it and move it anywhere you want. The most important things that we have discussed in this lecture is making a copy of your headings, e.g. this one, if I want to create copies, simple method is just customize your main heading and then hold the alternate key and move towards upwards. It can easily create a copy. The next option that we have discussed is the alignments and making the copy of the shapes as well in the same manner. Also, you can use the short keys like Control C and V. So that's it. This is how you can position and space elements in Canva. 6. Working With Rulers and Grids in Canva: Now to quickly get rid of all of these shapes and text, you can simply just drag it over all the shapes and then hit the delete button. Now let me just adjust the size of the pH a little bit. I can zoom it from here. Now, if you want to arrange the data in more proper form, you have the option to enable rulers. I'll click on File Options. You can show margins, you can show rulers. And this is the shortcut Shift and are. Now you also have margins that you can enable this in case you want to design within these borders, then you can add margins as well. Now again, if you want to shoot print bleed, brain bleed means if you enable it, you can design all of your template just before this line so that if any printer have different settings, it will not cut off your designs. So this is just a safe border for it. So you can enable and disable all of these options from here. But the most useful one is rulers. You can see here that we have a very limited editing space. You can increase your editing space by hiding this speech and moving this editing area backwards. And hiding this idea as well if you don't need it right now. And afterwards, you can zoom it according to your requirements that will make your designing. Morgan, we need. Now, if you want to enable the show guides, I can click on File. And from here, you can sort of read from here, down here, and you can add some margin from here. The simplest method is just go to this ruler and hold the left-click and start moving towards right. Wherever you want to place it, you can release the mouse here. So you can break this position with the help of rulers so that you can customize it even better. You can divide the beat. And these rulers are used for the advanced designers, which wants to design specific areas in each particular boxes. They can divide the portions and then start designing your template. Now e.g. if I want to insert a shape just within this area, I can go to elements and choose any shape, e.g. let me choose this one, this box. And if I want to fit this box in here, it's very convenient for me to design a same amount of The box. It's very convenient for me to design the same proportion of the box in each area. Because of these lines, you can just zoom it a little bit. Let me just zoom it. And you can see that when I adjust the size of it, as soon as it snaps in this line, it will show you the indication with this pink color. So you know where to stop. And same goes for every box that you create. So this is, it. Same is the case here. Now if I want to make e.g. copies of it, you will hold the alternate key and start moving towards right. This is the new shape that you need to adjust as well. Now seemed goes on for every box that we created. Since we have the indication, we can create identical sizes and you can move it as well if you don't find it identical in shape. So let me design one more box here. Just hold the alternate key, start moving downwards and you can adjust that like this. So this is it. This is how you can work on the rulers and the other guides in Canva. 7. Working With Text Alignments Efficiently: Now, as we have learned about a couple of designs, Let's get rid of all of these shapes and stuff. Just simply select all of these. Right-click and delete. And when you want to get rid of the rulers, you can turn off the ruler from here. Now let's see some of the tips to precisely align the text. E.g. let me just create a heading or let's say a shape. Let's write a line here. I mentioned a line and ligand lines. I have different options to choose from e.g. this one I select. If I want it to be thicker, you can choose it from here. You can increase the weight of it. And if I drag it towards right in the perfect alignment like this, you can align that. And now if I want to change the color, I will select this line. And I have the option of here on the top, we have line colors. So let's choose that. And let's see that if I want to choose this color, so now this is inserted and I want to create a stylish headings, so that is the border for it. And now let's add a heading. You can just click on that as well. And let's write something like this is my heading. First of all, I want it to be a single line heading. You can just reduce the size of it and the text size. And let's see, Now it is like this. Now my heading is of this size. I want it to be exactly aligned as per that shape. So you will notice that if I start moving it towards right, let me just zoom it a little bit so that you can see proper form of it. E.g. if we are in here and if we start increasing the size of it, and we want to match the exact size from that cheap as well in the perfect alignment. So you will notice that when we go just on the corner of that shape. So you will see that when we go just around the corner of that shape, it will snap it and show the line that is an indication that it is in perfect alignment right now, similar cases here, if you start moving this shape, words are this point, it will snap it and show the shape indication. Now you can also adjust and play with the spacing. If you select this text, we have the option of spacing in here. If you click on it, you can change the letter spacing. You can increase the size like this. And let's see if we reduce the size. The overall look will be like this. If we increase the letter spacing, you can increase the line spacing if we have multiple text. And let's reduce this. You can even change it to like this. So these are some of the options that you can play with and experiment what works for you. But one thing that you need to keep in mind is when you are experimenting with this spacing options, you need to make sure that you are under the proper alignment. E.g. if you are left aligned, the spacing will not work in the same way as when it is center aligned. If you notice that when, now if I'm increasing the space, it is not changing any position from here. It is static here, it is touched down here, and it is only increasing the speed towards the right. Same as the case here. When we change it to the left aligned. All of the spacings are and will be adjusted towards my other side. This side is not static and it is adjusting according to the side. And again, if you want to move up and align with the sheep by yourself, you can play around and see what works for you. So in this case the ideal one, but I think is the center alignment. And you can play with the spacing after that. Now, again, the subheading area, e.g. you want to add some padding just under this. There is an option by default available in the text area, and that is at a subheading. Now, if I write something like this, now this is my subheading, and now if I select this, I can increase the spacing. It will look very stylish like this, e.g. and you can align it just under that. So these kinds of textiles look pretty cool when designing a professional template. So this is some of the option of precisely designing the text sizes, although it's not very complex. But it will be a great help to design some beautiful textiles and alignments. 8. Selection and Grouping Benefits: Now let's see some of the quick tips on how to select objects and how to group the objects in gamma. Now e.g. if you want to select the multiple objects in Canva, you can just hold the left mouse key and start moving towards the other portion. So it will select all of the texts and then you can move it around and just hold it from the left mouse key and then move anywhere around. You can move it upwards, you can move it downwards, anywhere you want. Whenever you want to de-select the text, you can just click any where in the blank space and it will be unselected. Now, if you don't want your texts to move or this line from what setting you have made. You can group all the texts and the content in here. How you can do that. You will select all of these texts and shapes, like I just told you. And then after the selection, you can go to more options and you can click on Group. So now, whenever you select only this one object, you don't have to select like this. Instead you will just click on it once and it will all selected as a group. And then you can move it anywhere you want. So this is how you can group the elements, which is very convenient if you want to move some advanced designs which have multiple shapes and text involved in that. Now, again, if you want to select an ungrouped data, now, you can just right-click and click on Ungroup. And you can also do it from here, e.g. group. Now, if we go to more options, you can ungroup from here as well. And then you will have the regular options to move each object and text separately. Now these options are very important if you want to keep things together and within the proper alignments. Now one other benefit of this is e.g. let's add a shape, e.g. this one. And if I have a shape in the background just like this, and let me just format it to any other color. Let's say this one. And let's see if I send it to the background. Now what we will do is we need to keep this box inside the group. That is important. If it's not showing inside the group. First of all, we will ungroup that. Ungroup all of that. And then select this box. Let's see what happens. This textbox has some additional texts. So let's say we have removed this. So basically, first of all, we will keep in areas so that all the elements and text can come within this filled shape of yellow box. So once we're done with this, let's select all of these and group that again. Now, one of the benefits of the group is, let's say this is the text. And let's see in this text, I will add, let's say line one and line two. So you can notice that this additional text is being out of that colored shape. It is not automatically expanding. Now let's Control Z and undo. And let's make sure that there's no additional spaces in here. If there are, then get rid of that by pressing the backspace and just make sure that all of the elements, including the texts and shapes are within this colored box. After that, Let's select all of these texts and go to group and group it. Now, if I want to add some lines to it, Let's see. I will add line one, line two. So you can see that whatever is contained in the group, it will automatically expand the colored box according to that. So this is also very convenient. You don't have to change and adjust the shape according to the texts. Rather it will automatically expand by itself. So this is how you can use and take the benefit of grouping and selection options in Canva. 9. Sending Text and Shapes backward and Forward Object Stacking: Alright, now we're going to learn about the objects stacking or selecting the hidden elements, e.g. if I insert multiple shapes, Let's give some different colors to it. Let's say this one is purple. Add some more. This one is, let's say blue. And we will add some more. Just hold the alternate key and move downwards and change the colors for every shape. All the time, you will hold the alternate key to make a copy of this shape ordinarily. And just hold the mouse with the left key and just move downwards to see a copy of this shape and then change its color. So let's see, these are different boxes overlapping one another. So when you have multiple objects on your screen or on your design, you have to learn about the objects stacking or what items to show on the front and on the back. So here are some of the designs I have in here. And on the top of that, the full box, what I can see is the yellow box. Now e.g. this one is not our main boss, but the red one is. What we have to do is this is on the front and you can see that this is on the backward. So what we can do is just select and right-click on this one and click bring on front. So you can notice that now this one is the main one and this is overlapping under that box. Similarly, e.g. blue one is our main box. So I'll click on, bring this one to the front, send backwards, and it will automatically come to the front. Now this one is our main box. And if you want to work more efficiently, you always have the short key is written right in front of every option, e.g. Control plus bracket sine is the key. The key is basically this one. Control and this bracket sign. This is just to show you if you can't find it on the keyboard. So let's see if I want to bring it to the front. The short keys. Bring forward closing bracket, controlled plus closing bracket. So let's select purple and bring to the front. And you can see that this is not properly brought to the front because it is already selected. This one is already selected, bring to front. I'll rather select Send Backwards now. And this one send backwards two. And now let's bring to the front. Again ten backwards, backwards. And send to back this one as well. Send to back this one as well. And backwards. And now it is on the forwards. So if you have multiple shapes overlapping one another, you need to try it multiple times. Just makes sure that all of the other shapes are sent to the backwards and the main one is brought to the front. Now, this one is related to the shapes. Now, if we delete all of these, Let's insert one shape. And let's make it like light color. And let's insert a heading again, go to text and click on heading. Now, these ones, normally what we do is we insert a shape separately and then we adjust our heading on it. If we want a highlighted heading with a box. Now if we try this sending backward and forward in here, e.g. you have a shape here and due to some reason you need to send it to backwards. So let's see what is the impact of it. You will just right-click and click on backwards. So although you can't see it right now, but in some cases, you will make the image transparent and will show the reflection of it from the background. This is some of the designs types that I can't explain right now. But if properly designed, it looks very beautiful. As you can see that all the texts is in black, but still because of its transparency, it's showing irrelevant color, like a dark green matching with this theme as well. So if you design it further, you can give multiple sheets to it as well. So this is how it will work. If I click this one to send to backwards, you can see that the original color of the text heading is in black. So you can experiment with these further when you make your own design. This is also a quick option that I wanted to share. 10. Locking and Snapping: Alright, now we're going to learn something about snapping and logging. Let's insert one shape. I'll go to elements and just select one shape, make it attractive color, and increase the size of it. Now once you grasp the concept of snapping logging, it will help you a lot in maintaining your designs alignments. If you have some complex design and you don't want the shape to move out from their position. When you are working on some other elements, sometimes the objects are shaped, slips down from its area. So you need to look at that, especially if you have some complex designs rate. So let's see this shape. If I move it around, it will show you different positions on different points. That e.g. this is the center of this design. And this is the center from the bottom here as well. Like from this position, this is the center as well, and this is the center of the page. So this is indicating that some of the rulers that is automatically enabled, which is indicating the different positions in the design or in your Canvas. Now e.g. if I want this shape to exactly snap between that middle, it will show you up here that this is the exact middle of the full canvas or your blank page. So you can snap it anywhere you want. You can snap it to the center, you can snap it to the corners, and it will indicate automatically enabled. So basically this is the hidden ruler guides that will automatically guide you as you move around. E.g. if I make a copy of it, and let's choose a different color for it. Now let's see if I want to exactly align. The shape is something like here. And this shape is here. If I want to exactly snap it on the same lining as this shape. So once I will move it around here, it will compare the objects here as well. This is the center of the other objects. This is the top line and bottom line. So this is guiding that you are exactly in the same alignment. The only difference is on the corners if you see the borders, the new shape is exactly snapping the border, while the old ship is not exactly snapping it. So what we can do is we can move around here as well. Now, both of these are snapping exact to the page corners, which is perfect. So this guide is essentially to perfectly align your objects and text within your redesign, although you're just on the starter point. But I'm explaining in detail about all this, that when designers use these features professionally, it is very important that every object and sizes and texts are in the perfect alignment for their design. Now once you have carefully designed and lined all of your shapes and text on the positions. Like I said, you don't want it to drag a little bit when you're making your other designs. So what you can do is just select all of these objects and lock it at their positions. So after that, whenever you try to move it upwards or just because of slip off or mouse, it will not move from its position. It's locked. So to unlock that, you will select both of these objects and click on unlocked and then you are able to move it. So this is perfect option to lock the objects if you want, the ease in creating your designs. So that's it. These are some of the options off snapping and locking the objects in Canva. 11. Free vs Premium Elements in Canva: Now let's analyze what elements do you get in free versus premium version in Canva. So with the free version, you get a lot of elements and templates for free. But premium the options are much wider. If you can see some of the templates, which are all the professional design is available to use for free. But some of them are in the Pro version. As you can see here, it is marked. Now let's click on elements. Now let's click on More and click on photos. You can see that many of the professional photos are available in the free templates. But if we scroll down a bit, you will see that some of the photos are available just in the pro version. So once, if I let say add this pro version icon, if I right-click on it, you can use this one design for one time for $1. So that's not much for your project, but still it is available for the pro version. And if I click on it, you will see the canvas watermark with it. To remove the watermark, you need to purchase this premium image. And even if you insert this premium image, and let's say you want to continue with the watermark still, whenever you want to download this, you will see this e.g. JPEG. Again, if you want to insert some shapes, Let's go to Shapes in the elements. Again, lots and lots of shapes are available for free, but some of them are marked as premium. E.g. this one, you can remove the watermark for $2 in this image. Let's check this one only for $1, for this one as well. So these are some of the difference between free and premium images, although you will get most of them for free. But still if you want to download some more professional shapes and elements or images, you need to purchase that image or that particular shape for $1 each. Now, sometimes there are some conditions in wall with the free templates as well, e.g. some of the elements in this image might be off the pro version and some of them might be free. So e.g. if I click on it and if I add it here, all of these images are free. But sometimes it is the case that the design is free, but the image is not. So in that case, you can replace the image with your own and make your custom design. So you can just simply use the template and ignore the image that is of the premium version. Simply replace that with your own image and you have your custom design ready. So e.g. if you are professionally giving services of designing to your client. So most of the time they will pay you extra for that premium images if you are using that. But most of the elements and shapes are free in Canva. So oftentimes you will get all the elements for free. But if you need some premium elements for a client, the client will pay for it. And even if you are buying that premium element, that's still a good deal since you are making professional designs as your service. So that's it. This is the difference between free and premium elements in Canva and how to identify that. 12. Saving your Time With Templating: In this lesson, we are going to learn about the template thing. So what we will do is we will works marking on the templates that we already have and then make some customization. So although it will take you some time to develop all these templates, but in future, you can smartly use that templates for multiple designs that you create frequently for your clients or for your business. Now, e.g. there is a template that you will use over and over again, but with different customizations. How can you do that? If I go back to my home page and let's see if I create a recipe. Let's see this recipe card. So in this way, let's see if I choose a template that has multiple photos involved with it. What I can do is I can create multiple variants of the same template by creating a copy of it. Just click on this plus sign and it will create the copy. You can easily customize that by changing the color scheme, e.g. this one right here. And you can make some customizations in the images as well. Let's see that sometimes you need a template for the client which has only two images in Word. And sometimes you need for, sometimes you need six. So you will create some multiple variants of that thing. E.g. I. Sometimes needed like this without text and sometimes I need four images. So sometimes if they're different color. So the benefit of creating this multiple templates, you can remove these photos as well, is that when you need a quick customization and just download that image, it will provide you different variants to choose from. You don't have to customize it every time. If you have this four images, these two images customization, six images customization with different colors. So you will choose whatever you like in here. You will just fit in your images, e.g. if I have different images right here, I'll just fit my images like this. So e.g. if I want to print out quickly this variant of the template, I can just quickly put my images in here from the upload section if you already have the elements, otherwise you can just go to the stock photos. And let's write food here. And e.g. this one is my first image. And second one is, let's say this one. So I can quickly break. Now. I have how many different variants? Three different variants with different colors, with different customizations in here. And whatever I want to print, I'll click on Share now and click on Download. And you can choose the page you don't need to download all of these. You will just choose the pH in here. I will uncheck all of these and I'll select only, let's say pH2 done the suggested type most of the times is JPEG, but we will discuss all the other templates in detail as well. So let's download and let's save it on desktop. And once we open it, you will see that this is only one template readily available for the download. This will save you a lot of time. You must read all the frequently used templates, different variants of it with different colors, with different customization so that you can just quickly choose that vertical template that you want for now and then quickly work further on marketing or printing whatever you want to do with its template. So that's it. This is how you can quickly use templating idea to save you time. 13. Quick Magic Search Box for Easy Designing: In this video, we are going to learn about new technique to quickly work through your templates. And that is forward slash search tool, which will save you a lot of time in creating your designs. You don't have to switch between the sections to find your photos, elements or text. You can simply type forward slash on your design and you will quickly get all of these at one place. So to demonstrate this, I'll just scroll down and Vered sees you might want to try, you will just scroll it a little bit and let's use Instagram false for now. Now I'll choose any template, e.g. or birthday. I have different templates right here. You can choose any of these templates. Some of them are in the paid version and some of them are free. So what we can do is just scroll up whatever you feel like. Let's insert this one because this one is quite basic. So we will add some customizations to it as well. So let's say we have inserted this one. I, let me just zoom it a little bit. Now, e.g. this template is quite nice, but you feel that this balloons, you don't want, that, you want some other type of violence. So to find that you might want to search elements are some other areas. But you can quickly do that by just typing the forward slash on your design. And you will get the option to choose or insert our texts, align, arrow, circle, different shapes, different charts, and logos, videos, photos. All of the options are at one place. So you will simply write, let's say, balloons here and hit Enter. You will get a lot of templates from here, e.g. if I choose this one, I'll just resize it like this. And then you will start moving around. And you will notice that many of the times, whenever you go in any corner, it frequently suggest you to set this as a background. You don't want that solution every time. So if you don't want that, you will just hold Control key and then start moving around. So you will notice that now you're not getting that option. Similarly, if I want to place it here as well, you will just make a copy. How to select that image, press and hold the ordinate key and then make a copy of it like this. Hold the Control key so it doesn't suggest the background and set it anywhere you want. Now, it is dependent on your designing sense, what you design out of that tools. But this is the option that you can quickly use as a quick search. Similarly, if I want to, let say if I want to change the background, right. So instead of going two more and photos and finding that from there, I'll just be in my own design and then hit the forward slash. And here is my all tools at one place. Let's write birthday here. You will see that it will suggest all the shapes and images all at one place. So whatever you want to select, most of them right now our elements. Let's see if I want to search only images. So what you can do is write birthday and select photos from here. Now let's see if I want to change the background. I want this background to appear here. So now this one is paid template, right, birthday again. Now the free templates, you will usually find it on the top. All of these that is marked as crown are in the Pro version. So let's select this one. And let's set this one as my background. Now you can match your designs with what you have chosen. So you can re-size this, place it anywhere you want. Like this. And let's change this. Okay, So this is my custom design. Now e.g. if I quickly want to add a background because I think that this Happy Birthday should appear in a box. So I can quickly insert that rectangular box by hitting the forward slash again and write rectangle R, E would be enough. So rectangle is here. And you can set that and resize that. And then as you can see that birth is not appearing. You can right click and click on bring forward. I think the color scheme is different. Yeah. So now you can set that here. So basically these are the tools that you can quickly use for your customization, although the designing sense will still be dependent on you. But these are tools that are helpful to quickly create your designs. 14. Canva Power in PDF Imports and Edits: Now let's say that we have a PDF. Now we will learn how you can import or edit the PDF documents. Right now, I have a PDF document that I have opened in Brave default browser. So as you can see that this will be used just to view the document and you cannot edit that. And even if you are using the software like Adobe Acrobat Reader, even in the pro version, when you click on Edit, It's very difficult to edit the document in that software's in Canva. It's super easy. Now what I'm going to do in Canva is just open the Canva and open that PDF folder where you have all the PDFs and then drag and drop to the Canva like this. Now you can see that if you scroll downwards, it is automatically designing it according to Canva. And now you can simply click and open it. And if I zoom it a little bit, it is already under the Edit mode. Now you can add it that easily, like you can see that now each of these are already in the edit mode, e.g. instead of checking count, I might want to mention the bank name, that is e.g. Barclays Bank. So I can easily do that under name if you want to change it to account name. Let's see. So all of these are easily editable in Canva. You can try any of your PDF document, just upload, drag and drop it on Canva and try to edit that. It's super convenient. So this is how you can easily edit your PDF documents in Canva. 15. Canva Practice Exercise 1: We can now is the time to do some Canva challenge. In this exercise, I've given you some of the tasks that you need to complete. And just don't think of it like a homework. Just think of it like a preview of what you have already learned and then practically implementing it on the conditions that I have provided. So it is the best way to lock in your knowledge what you have just learned. So you can find the link to this camera, a template with this video are with the resources section of this course under challenge one. So just copy and paste the link or just click on that link, it will automatically open in your particular version of canva.com. These involved a couple of assignments like can you group all the squares so that you can then move or delete them all at the same time? Or can you lock the circles? Can you move it on the species? So all of these we have already learned that just use the link to open up this template, read the requirements, and do it by yourself, and then consult your answers and match it with the solutions are provided in the next video. 16. Canva Practice Exercise 1 Solution: Now I really hope that you have already completed the challenge. And this is just a go-to of what you have done and you need to just tally your answers with mine. But it is very essential that you practice on all of these scenarios. So let's see. Now, the simple requirement for the first one is can you group all the squares so that you can then move or delete them at all at the same time. Yes, of course, we will select all of these and click on Group. It's as simple as that. If you want to delete, you can delete it together. If you want to move it anywhere, you can move it like this. The second requirement, can you look all the circles so that they are protected from being moved or deleted? Yes, of course, select all of these. This is the lock option. So now you cannot delete it just like that. You need to select an unlocked that to move or to delete the objects. Now and other requirement is how fast can you evenly spaced circles into all the grid cells. You can delete this text before you start. So you have a cleaner workspace. So for this, just hold the ordinate key and start moving towards right, so that you can get to know about the alignment whenever it is effected. So right now, this is the perfect box shape, as you can see the borders. And this is how we move it. Same gaze is for moving downwards like this. And same goes for this one. Same goes for moving downwards like this. They can delete the extra one. This is the perfect shape. Here. And again, ordinate is just to make the copy of it. And we will move it and place it like this. So you can see that all of these shapes are in the perfect alignment. Now again, if you want to insert more, you can do that like this. Alternate, make a copy, alternate, make a copy, alternate, make a copy. And then you can select all of these and click on position and align that horizontally. And then you can group that and fill all the other species quickly. Let me just get rid of this one. Let's copy. Paste like this. Copy. You can make the copies from alternate as well. See how quickly and in the perfect alignment, I've created all of these circles using that Greeks that we have just learned. Now let's move down. There is a hidden text element behind the green rectangle. Can you find the V to select it and bring it to the front of the rectangle. Of course, we will right-click and click this shape to send two backwards. You did a nice job. But you can also do with this is you can reduce the transparency and enable that. If this suits you, the best option is sending backwards and forward. Now the next requirement is how quickly can you left align all the green rectangles so that they are flush with the red line. And then space them evenly so they're horizontally aligned with decreased rectangles. Looks difficult, but it's pretty simple. You just need to position the first box as a sample, a line that perfectly with the red line. Now select all of these elements. And in the Position, click on left aligned. Now move one object downwards and aligned so that all of the remaining can position itself automatically. Now select all of these objects and go to position and click on align vertically spaced evenly in the vertically. So you can see that it is in the perfect alignment of all boxes. The next requirement is can you recreate the stacked circle design like this one? You see to the left with the circles below. We need to create this design right? Now here we will smartly use all the techniques and make it as quick as possible. First of all, bring these shapes under this one circle like this. Then according to this steep, this should be on the front. So bring forward, bring to front. And this one should be under the position. It's already on the back. This one should also be to the back. You will make the alignments like this, and then select all of these and click on position and click on middle, aligned, and then aligned to the center. So as you can see, more or less, it is like this. If I, this is one to the backwards. So as you can see that this one bring to the forward and select all of these. Click on position. And first of all, click on center. And then select all of these. First of all, go to position and click on middle, and then click on center. So you need a little bit more experiment with it. Only the, the shape is not aligned perfectly. So we can manually do that as well. I need to send this one backward now. And this one should be reduced in size. And then you can middle align that, or you can center align that. Afterwards, you can align that. And now it's perfect. So this is how you have fulfilled all the requirements on the challenge exercise. Congratulations. 17. Use of Grids to Create Powerful Layouts: Now in this video, we are going to discuss how you can create a side-by-side grid-based layout in Canva so that you can design some articles or the texts like you see in newspapers. So let's see that how we can create such layouts in Canva. And it's important to learn about the grades here in Canva because a lot of people think of grid as just, you can just drag and drop the image in the background or a shape in the background. And that's it. This is what we consider as a grid, but it is much more than that. So first of all, let's select a template. Now what we can do is you can insert a presentation template. There we go. So to insert the grid or divide the page in two sides, I can divide that by going into the elements and then search for grids here. So let's write grids. You have degrees different layouts. Right here. You can insert and divide it into vertically, horizontally in three sites. So these are the different configurations here. So e.g. if I want to divide my layout into two, this is the ID layout for that. Let's see. If we click on that, it will be inserted right away. So in this way, it will be divided into two columns. And if it doesn't fit in properly, what we can do is just select and click on this shape. Or you can see image kind of thing and just drag it towards the corner until it snaps. Like this. You will notice a color change or border will be much thicker when it snaps the corner. Similarly in here, and it snaps, you will automatically know. Similarly here. You can identify it by yourself. So now it's exactly divided into two pages, except for the species in the middle. Now, if I don't want this deviant as a space here, so I'll just come in here, select both of these. Actually, I can select the single one and removed space in between. Like this. Choose any of one, and then remove the space. Now, let's design something on it. So let's see, for this grid, I can differentiate that in colors. Let's see. For this one, I turned into gray, and for this one I turned it into white. Now let's see if I want to insert multiple grids in the same layout, but at the same time, I don't want it to be move from its place. So I need to lock the scripts at its pollution, right? So then I want to select both of these and lock it in their position. Once we select both of them, you won't be able to see the Log option. So instead, look like this. Whatever you select, both will be locked together. Now e.g. if you want an article kind of look like you need an image here and you need three columns to be written in text, separated by a little space in here. So what you can do is you can insert multiple grids. Now. Just insert the single grid. Let's say if I reduce the size and it just it on here. Now in this case, it totally depends on whether you want it to be snapped to the corner or you want the image to be smaller size. Most of the times the image should appear in the middle of the page. So you can adjust it like this. If you feel that you have less space left for your text in here, you can reduce the size even further. Now let's see. Now I want the text to be appeared in three columns, like an article. So I can insert this three columns like this and just reduce the size of it. And if you want to snap it for this particular thing, you can snap it to the corners as well as you'd like. Or you can also match with the image above. When you want to match, you can match it exactly why the help of automatic rulers that is enabled, as it shows when it completely matches with the shape. Now, I'm not going to fill them exactly with the image or with a particular text. I just want to see a separate separation to that. When I design my article or newsletter, I can identify what areas do I have. So let's paint it white now. And for all the shapes, I can make it different colors, but I'll prefer to give white. And then the next one, white, next one turn into white. You already can see the image forming up here. So you can already see layout forming up here. Again, since I have used a lot of grids here, now you can select and lock it at their position so that it won't move when you are designing further into Canva. Now, maybe if you want the copy of that in this portion as well, because you will be designing something similar here. So just hold the alternate key. It is always used to make a copy, but since it is locked, you need to unlock that first for select that, unlock it from here, and then hold the alternate key and start moving towards the left. And since this is also white, you need to change the color to something else. And let's see that for this, you want the different spacing out here. Maybe this one is enough or maybe the center of the speech from like here. Now, let's insert our heading. Let's follow what we have as an assignment. This one is our heading. You can place it anywhere you want. You need to reduce the size. You can easily do that by going into corners and adjust according to your requirements. And if you want to insert an image here, a small one, even, you can use this as a shape on lock that. Use a copy of that and just reduce the size so that you can insert a smaller image here, genes the color so that you can identify what's in there. So e.g. if this is my heading off the image, or even let's just reduce that. Let's say this one right here. Let's use that one. And let's put it this way. Now, let's see if I want some article related to forest here. You can go to photos and write forest here. And let's see if I want to talk about the greenery. So let's just hold and drag it right here. You can just hold that and put it in this image, drag and drop, and it will automatically fit in the positions. So whatever suits you according to your article, you can search that quickly. Now let's see that if you want it to appear in this particular columns, in the center of this, you can adjust it according to its size like this, you can also increase the size to make it convenient for you to identify the positions in here like that. And you can move around to see the alignments. And let's see if I move it to the top. And let's insert some more text here. E.g. I. Insert a sub adding here. And if you want to reduce that in size, you can do that as well. And you can, alright. Anything you want related your article. So what we're going to do is we're just going to fill our template, whatever we have designed. And we're seeing some different possibilities on how you can make your designs better. Now again, if you want an image here, you can put the image of, let's say the parks, let's say, and let's say this one or this one. Okay, Now, let's see how we can do the texts insertion here. E.g. you want it to be appeared in different columns. The texts, ligand, article or news paper. So what we can do is you can just simply go to text and put a body here and just adjust according to the size of this area. And this is the body. You can reduce the size like this. And you can write anything here. So something like this. So this is my text area. Let's see. And now if I want it to be written in two different columns, I can make copy of it, make a copy of it, and write whatever you want to write here. If you want to insert just some random text here, you can Google that. You can write Lorem Ipsum text. And you can copy some random text here. You can find it in paragraphs and whatever. So you can simply put it here where you want. As just an example of the template. Now, to give it a proper look, let me just copy this text of Lorem Ipsum. It's way more than I need. So let's just get rid of some of the text here. So let's reduce this. And if you want to align it, some weird, you want, you can just align it to justify it, or any sequence you want. Just divide doesn't look good. Let's try different layouts here. And you can fill this text box around the corner so that it will look nice and fill the area properly like this. And you can fill some more text in here. Now this one is just an example so that you can get the idea of how the texts will look like. And then after that, you can just simply make copies of it like I showed you here. So it will have a look like this. And afterwards. You can, Let's see if we can change the text styles of all of the boxes together. Yes, we can. So let's try a different text styles here and see what suits you according to the overall look of the article. So let's say this seems nice. Now these grid lines, when you are finished with designing, It's just a guide for you after that, if you want to get rid of any of these gray colors, Let's unlock that first, select this area and remove the transparency. And boom, you can get rid of that easily and you have the simple design like that. So it's just to give you the perfect outlook of what the alignments should look like when you're designing something here. It's still have some things to achieve that design that I showed you as an example. But you get the idea of how you can design and play around with the functions that we have learned. And you make the most of the grids and makes the excellent use of the grids and adjust your designs accordingly. So if I try to quickly build a kind of a shape that we have seen in our designs. Let me just quickly get to some sort of design in here. So although it doesn't exactly matches our design, obviously you need to spend some more time on it. I just quickly showed you through all the tools that we can use. But you can design it seem as shown in the example, by using all the tools that we have discussed here. 18. Using and Choosinf Fonts Strategies: In this video, we're going to see the strategies for choosing an organizing the fonts in Canva. So the first method that we're gonna be using is just exploring around the canvas and observe different fonts. And e.g. if I go to templates, see different designs and the fonts you like, you can make a note of it and create your own collection out of it so that you can create or store the fonts that you regularly use are like now e.g. if I browse in some categories and click on, let's say pollster, I have couple of designs here. And let's see. I'm interested in this kind of font. So let's click on it and customize this template. E.g. this is the font that you like. What you can do is you can just make a document in Canva, make it a design, e.g. let's say our presentation, but you can do is just copy and paste it right here. Makes sure that it is in the same font that you like. And then just copy this name as well. And then just note the font name and write it here to indicate that this is this particular font. So this way you have the collection of fonts ready. You can make it small so that you can fit in many fonts in here. Similarities with this one. Just copy this text pasted right here. Let's change the writing because it was white. It's worth not showing on this page. So I made it black. And the text name is moon time. So just make a copy of it holding the alternate key and you can manually say it a moon time. So this way you will note multiple fonts and create a collection for yourself. You can always add new pages to it like this. So page one, page two, you can make a lot of collection out here. Just make sure that whenever you copy and paste the particular text style, it is in its original style so that you can get the idea of what this looks like. Now once you go back, you can find your designs in here. You can then rename it e.g. my, fonts designs like this. And you can rename it from here as well. So that's it. This is how you can use and choose different fonts with this strategy. 19. Canva Design Sizes: Now let's talk about one more gain resource and that is Canva design Size Guide. Now, this one will be helpful when you are creating the professional design in Canva. So it will be very helpful for you when you're using the design sizes. Now, e.g. if you are on the homepage of Canvas where it is different, you might want to try. You have different design or Facebook post letterhead in voices. So it's gonna give you a starting dimension of what you want or choose from. Here with the particular previews. E.g. you are creating a design, but you know that it will be for our larger display. So can you get more information about that? Definitely, yes. What you will do is you will write here canva.com, forward slash sizes. So it will open up design size guides. So e.g. if you don't know the standard size of a poster or brochures that you see as a template in Canva. You can check the sizes are designed size guides for these particular boosts, whatever you want. So e.g. if you are interested in a poster, then you will click on it. And it will give you all the details about the pollster that you wouldn't want to design. The smallest one is in this dimensions, the small, medium, large movies bus stop. So if you want to design it for a larger display, you have all the options to choose from here. So this is perfect when you are using Canva to professionally be a graphic designer, there might be different requirements for your clients. Sometimes they want a smaller poster, like a pamphlet or something, and sometimes they want it for a larger display. So you have to make sure that it is of the optimum quality. Similarly, if you want to see all the dimensions in centimeters, millimeters, or pixels, you can set it accordingly here as well. So similarity for social media, Let's see, for Facebook post, if I want to see all the possible sizes in here, you have the profile picture, default size. Let's change it to inches. Let's keep it pixels, profile picture pixels is this cover photos, this image post. And we have all the sizes that we want to adjust accordingly to get the optimum quality image. And it also talks something about each of that category down here. I'm sure this is helpful for you. See you in the next lesson. 20. Linked in Banner Creation Project: Now let's make the practical use of all the tools that we've learned in a practical project. So now we are going to design a LinkedIn banner. So first of all, if you are on the Canvas homepage right here, you can search for the templates. You can just directly write linked in and hit Enter. You will find this category right here. To stick on that, it will pop out all the LinkedIn templates that you by default have. Some of them are bead and some of them are free. But obviously we can easily work on these predefined templates. We only have to just customize that, but we will not use any of these templates. We will create our own template from scratch. So that obviously if you know how to create a template from scratch, you can easily customize all of these. So let's create the template. What we will collect on is create a design. And right here linked in Banner. So this is our untitled design right here. So since we are creating the complete LinkedIn banner design from scratch, and this is the most ideal way of learning that if we can create a banner or anything from scratch, obviously we can use or customized logo within minutes. So for now, first of all, we will select our background, go to more backgrounds. And we have different backgrounds here to choose from. We have Wall pays, sky based. We have different solid colors, shaded colors. So we can use any of these. Now e.g. I. Want to create a banner for digital marketing. So afterwards we will go to elements or we can just directly hit forward slash N right here, digital marketing. And as soon as we hit Enter, we have different shapes here. We have different templates here. Make sure what you are choosing is not under the pro version, but on the free version. So we can use any of these right now. E.g. if I use this one, now, we will enlarge this on the corner. Now what we will do is after we have selected the image, we want to use it just as a textured background. We will not actually be using this image. We will reduce transparency so that it will look something like this. You can even make it more lighter. This totally depends on your designing sense. This just to give a professional look to the template. Now similarly, let's take another image. Let's write digital marketing here. Now, let's select any other free templates here, e.g. this one, let's enlarge that. And we will also make this one as transparent. Now, let's select two shapes, one square and one circle. This is square. Let's make it white. And let's insert a circle. Now, This is our circle. Actually, I don't want this circle. We will just delete that. And right circle here, you will find different categories related to that circle. We will use actually this one. So let's increase the size of it. And I want to make it like a corner of this design, something like this. And you can change the color to white. And as for this box, you can take it to the bottom. And just to create a border line out of it, something like this. It should look like a border. Now afterwards what we can do is we will reduce the size of this footer a little bit so that it can give a look like that. It is a proper design like an L-shape. If this looks empty, you can insert one more image. Like, let's say this one. And let's make this one as transparent as well. Now, let's select a frame for our image as well. I'll go to elements and scroll down. And we will select a frame of a circle, make it a little larger here, e.g. here, I want to select my own picture. So for demonstration purpose, we will take any picture from Google, this write something like this, man with two presentation. And choose any image that is more relevant to your design. E.g. I. Find this one as relevant. Let's download that. And after downloading, you need to upload this on Canva. So once this is uploaded, you can fit in like this. Just drag and drop. You can crop. And afterwards you can just double-click. And fit it wherever you want. If you want to reduce the size of it, you can reduce the size. You can increase the size, whatever you want from it. Now let's insert a company logo. And for that we will take an example from Google as well and make sure it's a transplanted local. So write something like this. It will really help you to find relevant images on Google, digital marketing company logo transparent. And to make sure that it is the transparent image, the proper transparent won't go to Tools. And under the color, select transparent. Now let's select any image, e.g. this one, select a color one and upload that. And let's paste it right here. You can increase the size. And if it doesn't suit the background, you have to change the background altogether. E.g. it suits more in the white background. So I've changed that. You can also move this transparent images here so that it looks a little more professional. Now e.g. here you want to mention some other details regarding the website, the phone number, and such details. And you want to insert some images, right? So just straight forward slash right verb here. You will find images related to web. Make sure the one you are inserting is free. So just select that. Make it short and size. You can enlarge your image to design that properly and displays it on. Let's see here. Let's write the text now with it. When we click on text, it's better to write not in the very bold form, but in the normal form. So add a subheading would be better. It will be perfect in size to write the website address. You can write address like this. Just adjust the position, just the image so that it looks nice with it. Something like this. Yeah. Now similarly, if you want to make some other details, just make copy of it. Copy of it. And you can write F be forward slash and your number. Let's say. Similarly, you can insert these images here as well. Make sure the immature inserting is not off the pro version. So let's use this one. Change it to black. You can again increase the size to make sure your design is in synchronization. And again, search for, let's say phone. For an image. If this suits you well, that's best. Reduce the size that just it, and make sure it is in line with all the other elements that you've inserted for website and Facebook. And this looks good. So although there is much more customization that you can do, you can make it even more lighter. But this is just to give you a brief idea on how you can design your own LinkedIn banners. So this is how you can easily create LinkedIn banners on Canva using that simple techniques that we have learned in our creating. 21. Facebook Post Creation Project: Now let's go one step further and create a new design of Facebook post for your business. So although we have templates for that one as well, if we write Facebook here, in the search, you will get different options and you can filter again to Facebook post. And you will get a lots and lots of templates. Some of them are paid, some of them are absolutely free. They are absolutely best thing to use. But since we are in the learning process, we will create our own Facebook post from scratch. So that when we know how to create one from scratch, we can easily customize and use this templates for ourselves. Now for that, I'll create a design, right Facebook post here. And this is how you insert a blank Facebook post. Even when we are in the blank design, you still have the templates on the left-hand side of Facebook post. You can just click that template and it will be automatically fit to your blank template and you can simply customize it. But again, we're learning to create everything from scratch. So let's get rid of it. Hit Control Z. Let's zoom the template to make it easier for you to design. Now let's go to background and select a color. I'll insert blue. You can also write gradient here. You will find different shaded kind of templates. Here are color schemes here. It will look more professional. Afterwards, Let's go to text and click on our main heading that we will create and write. Let's say a special offer. And in fact, write it all in capital letters. You can make it uppercase from here as well, go to three dots. And from here. Now, after that, most of the people get confused on how we can make a background in that text. Some of the we will insert elements like this and then make it off a desired color, e.g. this, this is also a way, but this is not very efficient way of doing things. What we will do is after the text is created, I'll go to effects and just select texts with the background. So this is not only in the perfect alignment, but it is simply expandable with the texts as well. So you don't have to manage the shape separately and tech separately. This is the best way possible To do the thing. So see, in the process of creation a template from the scratch, you learned many new options. Now similarly, when we create this background, you can adjust the roundness of it. You can adjust the spread of it, the transparency of it, and you can choose any color you want. So let's increase the transparency. And also let's see that if you want it to be curved, the shape will automatically curved with it like this. Now let's take it to the top, like here. And you can reduce the size. If you want to. Just reduce the size of the text box will automatically reduce itself. Now let's say I want to create special offer for watches. I said Watches. So I will go to, again, add a heading and write watches here. Let's see if I want to make it more stylish. Give it gaps like this. You don't have to do it that manually. You can do that with a trick as well. So just select that. And you can go to this option that is spacing and increase the letter spacing like this. So you can see that how cool it looks now, change the background, make it, let's see, white this time. And you can reduce and customize further whatever looks appealing. Make it to the uppercase as well. Now we have given special offer in yellow and this one in white. Let's make this one white and this one yellow. Whatever it looks nice, you can work and test that. Afterwards. Let's try to change the color of the text so as you can see that it's created a different kind of design. It looks nice. Now let's take it to the top. Reduce its size so that it is just under the special offer and little smaller than that. It largely depends on your designing sense. But I'm designing from the scratch for you so that you can get different ideas on how you can create a template from scratch. Once you create a beautiful design, you will always improve and try to add something by yourself. Let's make this one as a delegate as well, and just reduce the size a little bit. Let's add some more shapes now, go to elements and let me insert a circle here. I'll make this one yellow as well. Just make sure that you don't over use colors and different textiles. When you're creating your designs, Let's copy this same texts design. So what I can do is if you want it to in, to be in the same format, just hold the alternate key and then move downwards. It will create a copy of it. And let's write only $65. If you want it to appear like this with the background, then you can choose that. Otherwise. Just get rid of the background and make it something like this. Reduce the size so that it can fit in and make sure to follow one designing pattern as well. E.g. if I choose this here, this color, you can choose black as well, but just don't overuse. Different colors. Follow the pattern which has been already used until now. It looks very basic, but there are a lot of elements that can enhance the look of your design, e.g. in the elements right dot. And you have this three dots, these dots, some of them are in the Pro version. Some of them are free. Let's choose, Let's use this one. And the name for this is contemporary pieces, elements seven. Just try to write this so that you can easily find that. Otherwise, you have to scroll down a lot. This make a copy of it and answer to the top as well. Make it a little wider like this. Now you want this shape to be on the top. You want this to go in the background rate. So send to back like this. Now, if I want it to be white, I will change it to white. Now for this one as well. Let's make this one white as well. Now let's add some transparency because it's too much visible. Now again, let's insert one more circle and take it to the corner, increase the size of it. And let's see if I make it yellow as well. Now, let's give it a field, like a corner at the bottom. Now let's showcase our product. And for products you can find it on Google wrist watch. Let's see. Let's see, this is our wristwatch. Now let's upload that. Now this is our image, but before inserting the image, we will actually insert an element or a shape. Because we need to fix a picture in a frame. We will select a frame here, select that, and afterwards just drag and drop here. And it will automatically fit to the area. You can just double-click and adjust that further if you want to increase the size of your image and place it anywhere you want. Like this. That looks perfect. If you want to add some more effects, e.g. this one, I got two elements. Let's see, you want to add a little shine in there. So this one, you can use this element and place it anywhere you want, where it looks nice. Let's say it looks nice. Here. Let's see. Now, we will give our phone number here. Forward slash, right foreign. This can be used to reduce the size and place it here. Let's match the color scheme. Now, it's very important in Canva make this one as blue. And the space in yellow make this one yellow and one blue. Like this. Reduce the size. Place it at the proper position. Now let's add your number. Go to text for that. Just remember that if it is not the main text off the complete image, like special offer some bigger text. We will always use subheading for that. And we will add our number here and just move it where you want, aligned with it and make sure it is visible now. So change the color to something visible like white. And if this dots are confusing, then place it lit up like this. So you can reduce the transparency of this one as well. And please sit like this. So as you can see that you can design the post just in couple of minutes. Although we are teaching all of this, it only took us like ten to 15 min, even with explaining all this. Once you know all the tools and how to use the right functions, you can do it in 5 min or less than that. Now if I want to download this in high-quality form, I can just click on Share and click on Download, click on a JPEG and click on Download. Finally, right here, watch banner. So it will look something like this. Looks nice. If you spend some more time with it, with creative ideas, you will get more professional in your designing sense. See how simple it is to use some of the tools and create a wonderful design or boost for your business. 22. Working With Backgrounds in Canva: In this lesson, we're going to talk about the backgrounds that you can find right here. If you are in the template editing screen, which you can find by clicking on Create a design and you can click on presentation that I clicked. And then you will come across this blank page. From here on the bottom left corner. You will find the backgrounds. But before discussing the background's, actually let's go through the elements and some of their options. If you remember, we have gone through in detail with the grids. If you want to add a grid in the blank canvas, you can just click on it and it will be filled in the whole area. Then you can customize the size of it, right? And then if you want to click and drag a photo in this area, it will automatically fit in once you drag and drop it. And maybe after that, if you want to reduce the transparency, you can do something like this and create your own design, basically, whatever you like. Then basically you will add a new page and that new page will be completely blank. But backgrounds doesn't work this way. First of all, we will delete this designing page and we have the blank page again. Now one thing that I forgot to tell you is that once you, let me just Control Z, let's see, this is our image that we have inserted in a grid. So let's see if I want to get rid of this image. If I click on delete, you have the option to delete an image or delete a grid. If we click on Delete Image, we have to delete the grid separately. But if we delete on the grid, all of the stuff will be removed immediately and you will find this option on the canvas right here. So let's just get rid of the grid. Now for the background feature, it acts literally differently. Because in the grids you have the option to either fill the whole page or you can resize and fill the partial one and then insert the image in here. But because background are meant to fill the whole canvas by default, once you click on any background, it will be filled completely and there is no option to re-size it or reduce the size of it. And also when you insert a new page. So basically, let's see some of the options that we have in the backgrounds. We have all these different cool designs. E.g. if I select this one, if I double-click, you have the option to move up or down. Similarly, for this, you have the option to either move up or down. But basically you cannot resize it lower than the size of the canvas. Once, if I need a new page, I can insert it from here at the beach. Once you need a good new beach, you can simply click on Add Page. And basically you can simply duplicate the page. And then you can click on these three dots. If you want to follow this background through all pages, Let's duplicate the page. Again. When ever you insert any image, any background, or any element. Once it is in the Canvas, you will always get this Edit Image option on disposition. And you can apply different filters through it. You can adjust the brightness, saturation, whatever you want basically. So we have some of these formats as well. And you can adjust the brightness and contrast and saturation, whatever you want basically. So these are some further customizations that you can try. Now, if I want to use the photo as a background, Let's see. Recently used. Let's see. Let's see this is the background that I want to use. If I drag and drop it, it will. It's going to snap in the whole area when we click on the corner. And again now it is set as a background if you want it to, if not, snap to the corner, but as a picture, you can just keep it to the center. Don't go around the corners. So it will not snap the whole page. Again, if you want to duplicate this further on, you can just click on these three dots and click on Duplicate page. And even you can follow a short key that is Control D for all the new pages. Let me just get rid of that. Now, one important thing while using the backgrounds is e.g. if you are using, let's say oranges as your background. Okay? So this is, let's say our background. After you have made a background with certain color scheme, let me just get rid of this. Let's see. Afterwards you want to add an element. You will go to elements and let's see if I want this trip. So most of the time it will follow any kind of color scheme that this background has. Basically, you have all the brand colors or for two colors option here. So you can easily match the text with the background right here. Similarly, let's say this is my background, or let's say this is my background. So once I selected this, now let's try this shape. You can see that some of these colors are automatically read from the background and is set here. Again, if I want to click on this colors, you can see all the photo colors used in the background. So it's basically very easy to create the post this way since it automatically suggest different color used. And then of course you will add your text and you will create it in a particular v, Let's say this one. So as you can see that since the element is already falling this color scheme, once I inserted the x, it is starting to adopt a professional look. So these are just small tools that you need to learn in order to smartly handled the future projects that we will discuss here. So that's how you can work with backgrounds in Canva. 23. Working With Photos: Now the next thing that we are going to discuss here is the photo step. To discuss that I need a clear canvas here. So like I said, it's easy to get rid of all this stuff. You can just click on Delete Page and you have the fresh canvas right here. Now let's discuss about the photos tab. Just keep in mind that if you want to use the photos that you have uploaded, you will not come in this section to find it. You will go to either upload section to find your photos. This is photos are basically where you are searching for the stock photography that you might want to use in your project. And the best thing about Canvas, there are a lot of stock photos and scenarios that you can avail for free. A lot of them are free, some of them are paid as well as you can see here. But most of them are free. So basically it's a great way to save time. Obviously, if you can't find the stock images here, you need to download it from Google images or some other websites. It will take some time to download and get those images. Like e.g. if you want to create a birthday flyer really quickly, let me just try and other design. Since we are creating a flyer, we will search for the flyer portrait. And now we let see if I want to design a birthday Flyer. I'll go to photos and click on here and write birthday. And you can get a lot of backgrounds for free. Some of them are paid, actually, most of them are paid. But again, you can use a lot of them for free. And if you want to make sure that it is under the same orientation, you can write vertical here, apply filters, and then you will find a suitable images that you can place directly right here. Now, although this photos area is pretty basic, we will still learn what we can do to customize it in a smarter way. So let's see if I want to design something here. Let's see, click on this one. Once you insert the photo, if you click on it, you will see these handles here. The corner handles means that you can proportionally re-size the photo to the smaller size or the larger size. And this one means that you are basically cropping the image. If the image is larger one, you can see it all here. E.g. let's say some vertical image so that you can understand it in a proper way. E.g. some of the images, Let's see. Let's say this one. So this one is reused to proportionally resize it. If I use this handle, you can see that it is used to crop the image. So e.g. if I want the image up to this point, only, you can simply crop it like this. And if we move it up or down from here, it will proportionally resize it the whole image. But if we use this option, it is also used to crop the image. Again, we will double-click to see the whole image. E.g. if you want to adjust the image within this area that you have defined just right now. So let's say you want this kind of image. So what you can do is basically double-click and start moving the images. It will show the background and just went over it. And once you click anywhere outside the box, it will set the image right here. So basically what we have seen is about the handles from these corner round dots. You're not just adjusting your image, but you are reducing and increases in the size of basically the whole frame in the same proportion. Once you use this handled, it can be used to crop the image. And again, just double-click is used to adjust the image anywhere within that defined range. Now, there are some other settings as well, e.g. if you want to flip your image, you can flip it like this. Lip horizontally. You can flip, flip it vertically like this. So you can notice the direction is changing. Now under edit image. Again, you can edit all of these settings. You can apply filters to it. You can adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation. You have some more options. If you click on the option dietary, again for the food images, particularly if you take shots of your images by your own and you're not using the stock photos. Even if you click on the upload and click on the image, it will be inserted in the same way. Then you might need to enhance the colors specifically for, for promotion or restaurant promotion. You might need to edit it and make it more photogenic. Let's see. You need to enhance the colors so you can do it like this. It's not always nice, but for some particular images, it might be upgrade option. And again, if you want to apply filters instead, let me just get rid of this and make it none. For the filters, you can basically use all of these. And as you can see for the food images, it kinda looks nice. Then we have this, the original photo looks like this, and the festive looks like this. And then we have all the other options as well, depending on the type of the food, we can always add the filter to make it look more appealing. Again, you can make some more adjustments to it. One, once you finalize your filter that is increasing or decreasing, then intensity, as you can see, you have the controls here. If we click on it, you can set the intensity of that filter. So that is pretty cool and that is very convenient as well. You don't need to use Photoshop if you're not a professional graphic designer, these kind of softwares are little bit tougher than Canva, as you all may know. 24. Elements Tab Grid Shapes Frames and Other Graphics: In this video, we are going to discuss all about the Elements tab, which we can find right here. So on the project interface, you can open the Elements tab. Now here you can find lines and shapes, graphics stickers, photos, videos, audios, charts, tables, frame scripts. So basically we have all the tools available to create a beautiful design for ourselves. But we already know that we can learn best by example. So let's jump into the project and see what example do we have? E.g. if I want to use the grids and I want to see more of them, you can just click on see all. And you have all the grades of a labeled right here. And whenever you want to get back, you can click on this backwards from here. Or otherwise you can directly click on the Elements. Let's go back to grids. Now, whenever I drag and drop it to my main screen, most of the times it will fill the whole screen, but you can resize to any size you want. And like I said in the previous video, from the corners, where these round handles are given, you can just expand and reduce the image size proportionally. And these handles are used to crop the image basically. Now, if you want to place the images here, you can just simply drag and drop. And it will snap to the defined area that you have selected for your grid. And again, if you want to re-size or adjust the image within this grid, you can always double-click and adjust that accordingly. Let's see how it impacts when we use the image of a specific person. Let's say this one. Now, let's see the impact. You can adjust it like this. And if you want to crop it, you can do it like this. And again, if you want to focus just on the particular thing, you can reduce the canvas size and then you can increase the image by double-clicking it to fit like this. And afterwards, if you want to add it to your design on the top by after leaving this margin. And then let's say I want to add a text here in the alignment. Obviously it shows the alignment and positioning. You can to create a design like this. So all these are the small tools that will be helpful in creating your design. So we have a lot of choice in the grids. We have only sampled one, but it totally depends on your image style. Maybe you need this kind of collage for your design or any design you want. You can check out grids and you can experiment with these. But basically the concepts will remain the same. And most of the time you will be using only the single grid that we can see on the top. So I don't need to explain this. It's pretty basic. Let's move to what are the elements do we have in the elements section? Now after this grid style, you can also check out the frames, although it will work in the same way as the grids. But grids are most of the times in the simple design. While in frames you will find many designs that you can use for your project. So you can see there are lots and lots of them. Obviously you need your own designing sense to build that properly. So e.g. if instead of this grid, let's see if we use this image. And after that, we want to insert this picture. And then we will adjust that. Something like this. So it can appear like this. And again, if you want to do something very artistic, you can use frames for that. Let's see this one. Afterwards. You will go to photos. You can just Let's see. Okay, this will not fit in e.g. this one. You can see how cool it looks. You can use many images. So this is the beauty of the frames. Some other options that we have in elements is the shapes. And shapes are pretty self-explanatory, but let me just go through it quickly. E.g. if I insert this kind of shape. So it has a particular design where it has borders on the corner. Whenever you insert a shape that has borders in it, or some kind of different color schemes used in it. As soon as you select that, you will see all the color customizations here. You can make all the customization you want for yourself. Let's say like this one. And obviously you have a lot and lot of options that you can try and experiment with. Let's go back and let's see what other options that we have. We have graphics here, we have audio tables, some collections of the images. If you want to design something for your gym. Friendly art stem collection. Here we have some graphics as well. You can use. So that's it for the elements. In this video, we have basically discussed more elements like grids, frames, shapes, and some of the graphics. Although give already used that in our previous designs as well. But it's always better to discuss all of that separately. 25. Text Customizations: In this lesson, we're going to talk about the text in Canva. So we need to go to create a design. And let's see, I want to create a Facebook post. So once you are in your project, you will find the text option on your left here. If you want to increase your working space here, you can just always hide that increase the size of your project. So once we click on this text, you will see some default heading styles here where you can add the main headings, subheading, and the little body text that you want. And if you scroll down further, you will see this all cool fonts that you can use for your designs. Some of them are obviously paid and some of them are free. So these are all the presets that you can use. And sometimes if you want a particular preset for your text to be inserted, there are some samples, e.g. 35 per cent, you are telling some ratio about our research. So this texts have some actually the Texas whites or I need to change the background color, let's say this one. So afterwards you can change the sample text. And similarly, like let's say you want to add e-mail and web data is a preset for that. You want to define your brand and eat dinner party. So we have all the presets here. If you explore that more in detail, you will find a lot of them. Like here, very important, talk to us, or a date or subject for your leisure. What kind of menu alignment for your business? Now you can also use this search text feature to search the texts that you are looking for. And if you don't quite know, this text is suitable for you, you can actually hover over to that text. And if I click on these three dots after that, this is the name of the text and some more details about what it is suitable for. Similarly, this one is text holder or a memo address. These are all the relevant keywords. So e.g. if you want to add quotes to your design, I'll write codes here. And let me just get rid of this. Let's see if I insert this squat. And then you can simply change the text the way you want. So you don't have to spend much time if you want to design your code for a European or for your group, you can simply pick any design and just customize that. You don't need much time to think over it. You have all the designs readily available for you. So it's really cool. You can experiment around with all the text types that you have here. You can try typing different keywords here, e.g. let's say menu. So these are the relevant details. So it will really save your time to create all by herself from scratch. Instead, you will just insert your textiles. You have all the customize what is in big, bigger texts. What is it in smaller text? And it is exactly the way you required. You just have to customize the texts words. There is one other thing that we'll see a lot of time. Let me change the background back to the original one. And let's see if I go to the text and insert this kind of texts. Obviously you can use this controllers to increase the size. Let's see you further customized it, e.g. if you go to the document color, you can choose your own custom color that you like. And let's say some more customizations that you have made, like italic or something. And afterwards, you want, you want this other texts to be customized in the same we'd like this. So what you can do is you will just select this one and use this copy style option. And as soon as you click on that other decks, it will be converted in the same way as this one. So it can save a lot of time to customize the text. This option is similar to Format Painter if you have used word or excel. And again, if you talk about the other options that we have in this text when we're customizing it. You have the option. When you select the text, you have the option to change the text styles. You have the option to customize the size. You can play with colors, bold, italic, some alignments. And of course we have the spacing option and the bullet points if you want to add the most important one when you are creating, especially like a post or a YouTube, I might say, you can actually go to effects and add different styles to it. E.g. you can add. Some shadow kind of design lift or the most important one that I liked the most and used most of the times are the background. You don't need to add a separate element or shape for it and then add the text. You can do both of it in the same step. Now you might be thinking that whenever you insert this background, It's always rounded around the corners. So you can reduce the roundness and you can make it flat. Then you can change the color if you want. E.g. something like this. Or let's give it more attractive colors. Let's make it dark. So you can make it like this. And furthermore, we have a lot of other options that you can, you can reduce the transparency, you can change the colors. You can change the shape of the text and make it curved. The spread is here, the overall spread of the sheep around the corners. So these are all the options that you can play with to get the better idea of all these options. And again, often a light say that you want to write paragraph for this topic. We want to go to Text and let's directly search paragraph instead of thinking that how the paragraph will look like and how will you further design that? You can actually write? Better graph right here. Now when you write a paragraph, you will see a lot of fonts. You just have to directly scroll right at the bottom. You can use these paragraphs or yourself. Again, the background should be black, I guess. So it will look something like this. And if you want to change it to the black, you can select this and change the text color to black. And let's change the background now to white. So again, this will be pretty convenient. You don't have to decide what text you will give on the heading. Let's get rid of this one because this includes heading as well. So this is heading. You can just change the text. And this is a sub-heading. This is the body of the text and this is some website for your reference. And you can also notice that all of these is grouped in here. So even if you want to ungroup these, you can choose to do that. And then you can move the text anywhere you want. So all these options, all, there's nothing technical in this stuff, but it's good that we come across all these options that we can use. Most of the times, we are using the options that we know of. But when you come across the different options, you might be using when you create your designed to save your time. And some of the other options that we want to discuss here, although we have already used that functions and that is e.g. if you want it to be uppercase, for all, you can just go to these three dots. You can click here. And we can change between these. And for the body, we can change the alignment to left align, right align. And we have to justify it one as well, where it balances on both sides. So that is how you can do with text in Canva, hope you understand all the concepts well, just rectus that and I'll see you in the next video. 26. The More Tab: Now let's wrap up things with one more feature of Canva. And that is the more dab if you go on a design and let's see if I click on anything like YouTube thumbnail. So when I am in this blank sheet, on the left-hand side, I have all the options like templates, elements, all the other features. And on the last we have more. So what you can do is you can connect your YouTube account. You can connect Google Maps with it. And if we scroll down, you can connect with Instagram account and bring all your photos from Instagram, from Google, Photos from Facebook directly here. So for YouTube case, it might import the images and it might play as well. But when you download, it might not work with the same features as in the YouTube video, e.g. if I clicked on it, it says, add YouTube videos to your designs, make reduce a seamless part of your next presentation. So it might work in the light presentation, but you won't be able to download it if we click on use and e.g. we use this one. So double-click to interact. We can play it here directly from the presentation. But when we download this, even in the mp4 format, it will be downloaded like this. Like a static image. So particularly for YouTube videos, it might be useful when you are creating our presentation template that you can find here, like presentations. As you already know that presentation consists of a lot of pages you can see here as well, one out of 15. So there are many pages like this. So that's essential if you want to show some YouTube video within your presentation, you can directly link it from the More tab and you have all the options. So for some more features, you have all the pixabay Flickr pixels option from where you can directly get the images. You can also use emojis if you want to. You can click here and you will find lots of emojis here. You can use any of them like this. Just click on it and it will be on your design. Now, some of the features, I'm telling you, you might not use that, but obviously it's giving you more and more insights of what assets that you can use in Canva. So the designing sense totally depends on the collection of assets that you can use in your design. And then obviously, you will need your personal designing skills in order to use that tools. But for that, we need to get through all of the features that Canva offers. Now let's see what other features do we have is you can use videos, charts, you can access to folders. You can add QR codes. You can create your own QR code that is scannable. Then you have all the images to choose from pixels. You can write any particular one, like, let's say sports. So this is all related to sports. So they might be of great use when you're creating your design. And most particularly if you have all the collection of your images, your teams saved in your Google Drive or Google Photos. It will be very smart to connect your Canva account withdraw box with Google Photos or Google Drive. That way, you can have access to thousands of templates and images that you have saved already on your Drive accounts. So in that way, Let's see if you have a friend who is a designer and he has a lot of designs and asserts already collection of assets created. So you can take that all from him and upload it in your collection and then simply connect Canva with it. This will help you a lot in creating the designs instantly. So as we have seen some more features of it and we have already seen some projects as well, like creating of his book, Boston's, something like that. But now that we have completed all, almost all of our journal assets that Canva offers. Now we will create some more practical projects in our future videos. From this predicts what we're actually going to learn is how to make yourself more FUN when creating a design. I'll see you in the next video. 27. Challenge Exercise 2: Welcome to and other challenge exercise that you need to complete. There are some simple tasks mentioned here, so just read through them and dried by yourself. Don't think of it like a homework is really just to lock in your skills that you have just learned. These are very simple requirements that you can easily deal with. And once you are able to deal with, then move to the next section to see all the answers to that challenge exercises. So with this video in the resource section, I've attached this word file. Just copy and paste the link in the browser like this, and then click on Use Template. You will be able to use this template like this. So just try it by yourself and I'll see you in the next one. 28. Challenge Exercise 2 Answers: Okay. 29. Resizing the Template for All Platforms with a Single Click: In this session, we're going to talk about a very important feature and very amazing feature of a Canva and that is Resize tool, although this option is only available in Canva pro version, but I'll also show you a work around for the free version. But right now, let's discuss the pro features that can more offers for the Resize tool. Imagine that we have this simple design of a post or a business flyer. So basically this tool comes into play where we have a single design you want to use on multiple platforms like Facebook banner, for YouTube, for Instagram post. You can resize it all in a single click according to all platforms. So obviously all that platforms will have different dimensions and it will adjust it accordingly for the each platform. So let's take this design for the example, and let's see that if you want to export it or make copies of it for different platforms, how can we do that? So this is our design. I'll go to the Resize tool on the top. And here you can see all the dimensions that you can convert it to n poster. You can convert in Facebook cover, Instagram post logo, Instagram story, resume, A4 document, brochure, postcard. I want that. So basically all the possible options you have in here. So it's very effective if you are providing a designing services for your client. So this tool is very effective, especially if you are providing the freelancing services to a client with all the package of different dimensions for a particular design. So let's select a couple of options. So let's click on copy and resize. That's the option that you only want to click and click on, continue editing. It says click on pop-up blocked and check any sheets because it will open up the different designs in different dabs. And I think I need to select that again before the settings was not enabled. So let's try some options and then click on Convert again. Continue editing. Here it says pop-ups blocked. Always allow all the pop-ups done and click on Copy and resize. And there we go. We have all the designs created according to the different templates are just there to all the sizes that we want them to be in. If you feel anything, is not just looking right according to the template or the size of the post, e.g. this one is a particular format of a brochure. So you might need to adjust that. This tool is basically making its best guesses. Obviously, if you feel that something is not just right. So you can adjust that according to your particular dimensions. But basically what it does is it will convert that specific design into different templates according to the dimensions that you want them to be in. And again, this tool is available for the Canva pro only if you are using the free version. You need an other way around for that, although it's not very effective, but we have Ave. I'll show you here. So to see how we can deal with that, if you have only the free version, Let's go back to the original design. So after the main template, what you can do is you have to do it manually altogether. You will create, let's say, if I want to create Instagram post, let's say. So, I'll click on this. It will be converted to an Instagram post. And then I'll select Control a to copy all of these details here. And the new blank template, I'll select that and paste it right here. So obviously after that, it will not centralize. You have to decide it by yourself. You have to press control it here as well, and you have to manually adjust that according to what settings you need. It will not automatically resized like it did before for Canva pro. So again, this is not the actual solution, especially if you want to create lots and lots of templates and adjust the design according to that, We take a lot of time. But still, if you're using the free version for your minimal designs and you're not providing the professional services, then it might just work for you. But if you are a professional who needs to provide that services to the client, obviously the free version will work for you because it will take a lot of time to adjust the single template according to all the other social media platforms or to the different dimensions. Now, again, let's discuss the features of the pro version. That is, e.g. if you are using a video, the videos can also be resized according to any template that you want, e.g. this is my template. This is a video. Now one cool feature of the Resize tool is it just not only work in the post, but it also works in your videos, e.g. if you have any video like e.g. let's use any video, e.g. this one. And if I want to resize it to an Instagram post, as you can see, it's horizontal right now. I'll click on resize and then just scroll down to make it an Instagram post copy and resize. And it will be adjusted right away. And see how perfect that just meant is it automatically fits all the objects according to the required design. So that is the power of the Canva pro features. Now, obviously, since this image is of more size, you can just double-click if you want to adjust the background here and there. And then you can edit. But the best feature of the Resize tool it is it intelligently places all the objects and adjust the size accordingly, which will obviously the manual copy and paste, work and phosphorylating the bank blank template and then pasting over that and then readjusting. Obviously, it takes a lot of time that you can see from the research tool simply by getting into Canva pro. I hope this tool is also being helpful for you. And I'll see you in the next one. 30. Working With Filter Codes and Color Grading: In this lecture, we are going to learn how you can apply filters to your photos and how you can use that custom preset that you create for one photo to other ones as well. So when you click and select this photo, we have right here, you will get these options. You can edit the image, crop, flip, and animate. So I'll go to Edit Image. There. I will find all the adjustments if you want to change the brightness, contrast saturation, things like that. If you want to apply filters, we have our filters tab as well. So when you click on filter by default the photos filters will come as none. But when you drag over and change it to different filters, you will see the color changing. And filters are applied to the current picture. And when you select any particular image of the filter like festive, you will notice that there is an adjustment kind of symbol here. So if you double-click, you will have the option to change the intensity of that filter so that you can just manually. So when we are done with a particular filter, you will notice that if you go back to your photos and you apply any other image as a replacement, you will have the same color grading or filters applied to the new photo as well. So any picture that you drag, now here, it will have the same filter applied to that as well. Now let's learn about the adjustment of the filters in much detail. If we click on the edit and we've clicked on filters. By default, from Filters, you only get the option to double-click and change the intensity right here. But if you want to see the customization of it further, what do we want do is just click on edit image, filter is already applied and click on adjust. This is the current setting off that particular filter. So you can see that from the normal brightness, it increase, it by nine. Contrast is increased to this taint x process. So you can change all of that manually as well. And then your custom filter will be ready for you. So to test these numbers, let's see that right now, it's 918.21. Just remember that 918.21. If I change in density too much slower, and then check the edit image. And it just meant, you will notice that the numbers change to be lesser than that. So that intensity has the direct impact on all the settings of brightness, contrast, saturation, whatever you call it. So these are some of the settings that are automatically made by changing the intensity, but you can manually adjust however you like. And then you can see if your custom preset. So we can actually ease and decrease all of these manually as we like. But let's say that this is the perfect look that you want for your filters and most of the images because you want to use a blurred background for it. And after adjusting all of these settings, you said to yourself, Okay, that's it, That's perfect. This is what I want for my picture. So if you scroll down with the settings, you will see are filled record. You will also notice that as I change the settings here, that filter chord changes with that. So that means this filter good is based on all of these sliders right here that we make in the adjustment. So once your final image is ready, you can just copy this filter gourd. So in order to see if this, there's no default option to save this directly. What you can do is just delete this picture. And let's select an insert a text here and just change this text to this filter code. And if you want to see something about that, you can write here. High contrast blur. Let's say this one is our God. So as you can see here that it will be saved in here. You can change the name to filter codes. And now if I go back to my home page, you have this image right here. Maybe on the refresh it will show a thumbnail. It's not showing the thumbnail. No worries. Now, whenever we want any image to be set on these settings, we will just come in here, copy this filter code, and let's apply it to, let's say if I want to create a YouTube thumbnail, I will insert a picture. And then in the edit image and adjustments, I'll just select and delete this filter code and paste this one. You can see that all of the settings are adjusted for this particular filter cord. So this is a little hack on how you can save your time to avoid customizations each time for our particular images. Rather, you can save your filter codes and write something about that. And whenever a similar picture comes for you to design, you can apply that filter code in there. And if you want to be more efficient, you can create custom templates right in here, e.g. every now and then you want this blurred image for some of your posts. And let's add a new page. Now, e.g. for a new image, normally need some manual adjustments. Let's make some manual adjustments. So e.g. this is the settings for some other images. And let's create an other one. And for this, let's say these settings. And under the Edit Image, I'll make some adjustments here. Now, the benefit of these three versions is this can be used as a template or settings for all the images. Now, if we want any image to be blurred, like this coffee image, I'll simply go to the corner and it will automatically replace the image. Like this. You will notice that it is with all of these settings and with the blur here, it simply replaces that. Similarly, if I want any image to be adjusted on this pattern, I can simply drop it here. And it is with all the colors settings that I set. Similarly for this one. Whatever I drag here and replace as an image, it will be with that filters that I made. So this is the quickest way to apply filters to your post. Basically do color grading with a preset or filters that you will just drag and drop with new image to replace the image and set the new image on the same filter settings. So that's how you can efficiently use the filter codes and the filter settings that you create as a template with different images to use it most efficiently on Canva, I hope you liked this trick and where they said, let's move to our next topic. 31. Changing Colour Scheme for All Project in a Click: In this video, I'm going to talk about a very important topic and that is changing all instances of color at once. So all the, we have discussed color grading in detail in the previous videos as well. But in case if I have missed this one, let me tell you that thing. I have inserted a presentation from the presentation screen off the main beach. So select presentation, you can select any presentation. And in that case, I selected this one. E.g. I want to use this one, apply to all 12 pages. And let's suppose that your company color scheme is different from what is used in the presentation. You want this presentation, but your company default color scheme is something like blue or red or whatever. You want to change it for all the presentation. As you can see here, that there's not only one involved here. There's are a lot of pages that you want this color scheme to change it if you want to change on one. So to change that, simply, you will select this color. You will go to this color palette and you will change the color you want them to change into. And you will click, click on this magic option and that is changed all. Once I click on it, it will change it according to your brand colors that you've just selected as sample here. And click all of the colors in each presentation changes according to your set color as the sample. See how cool it is. And if you don't know these features, just consider how much time it will take you to manually adjust all the sheep colors to adjust it to your brand colors. So these are some of the tips and techniques that can save you a lot of time to create your designs. Now, just consider a scenario that for one page, I don't want to change their color theme. So what I can do here is I can come to this page, e.g. and then lock the speech. Now, let's move to the first slide of the presentation and let's consider that my brand color is something like yellow. And now I want it to change it for all. Let's click on Change all. So it changes it for all the presentation slides, except for this one because it was locked. So this is the best way to change colors for all your presentation or for your complete project with just a single quick. I'll see you in the next lesson. 32. Color Helping Canva Tools: In this lesson, I'm just going to show you some of the colors, resources that are available to you in Canva, since color can be such an important part of your designs. Now this design uses some really bold color choices. Now, these kinds of designs or colors may work sometimes, but you have to be careful because a super bright colors like this really strain your eyes. But what happens when you just can't find the right color choices for your design. In that case, Kendra is provided some tools that we can use. So I'm just going to jump to the new tab and write canva.com forward slash colors. And here we have different tools available that can help us with the color choices. So here we go to the color meanings. You can look into any of these colors here. And it's gonna give you more information about that color and about the cultural significance and meaning of that color. What color is this? What does it look like? Different shades of it and the history of this color. This could be very important if you are trying to create a mood and you're not sure what color really represents that particular mood. And you want to do some background research. So you jump into this option, canva.com slash colors, and you can do your research about that particular color. So you can definitely take advantage of that. But let me just go back and see the other option that we have, and that is the color wheel. Now sometimes, as we've said here, that you don't know what color goes with the other one. So here, the color wheel comes right into play. Now this is a really handy tool to decide what two colors are complementing each other when you are making the color choices for your design. Now, certain color naturally compliments each other, so they're going to work better together. So this is the main purpose of color wheel. It gives you an idea of what color codes with the other one and complementing each other, you can choose different color combinations as well. Complementary monochromatic, alveolus, triadic, ketotic. I do want to go in much detail here, but let's find what complimentary color does and how to find one. So here on this page you have the color wheel here and just you can drag around and you can see that complementary color schemes change according to each other. So e.g. I. Want to use this color scheme. And also if we want to make it darker or lighter, you can move the view from here. Once your color wheel is finalized, at what point you find the color combination to be just right. You can just easily copy this design or color scheme you choose here. And you can use that on your design, e.g. when I click on this page, it shows me this pink background color. I'll paste my color here, and I'll choose that. Similarly, the four other one, like for the text, I'll choose this. And under the color picker in the text. Now I will paste this. And now let's use this and change to all, all of the writing texts will change. Similarly for this one, change all. This is how your design will look like. Although it's a little bit dark, but as you can see, it's not very odd color. These colors are complementing each other. So if you're not satisfied with the color brightness, you can change the brightness and then try again, e.g. now if I want to change this color to a little lighter and to this one as well. What you can also do is leave this color as it is, like, darker blue and change only this text color if you view this one is little dark. So something like this. When you change here, choose this and change to all. It will show some color schemes like this. So very easily you can find the colors that can complement each other and it will give you an idea of the color combination. And as you get better and better in the color selection, you can do the color schemes by yourself. You don't need the color wheel for it. But initially, if you don't have that much of aesthetic sense, this tool can really help you to do that. Now, e.g. if you change this one to monochromatic, sometimes you want to choose. A different shade in the same color scheme, e.g. this one, this is the lighter version of that same color. So if you need both of these in your design, it will show you the choice that you can make to use that monochromatic colors. And similar is with an alveolus. It will give you three choices of colors that you can make in your design. Triadic is this one. Some opposite colors that go with each other. And tetrodotoxin is for color choices that you can use in your design. So as we move it around Any place, it will give you the choice of colors that you can use in a single design, which have four types of colors used. Now we can go back to the original screen, and now we will click on a color palette generator. Here, it is going to pick colors from the image that you upload or try a demo page, e.g. if I upload any image, e.g. this post right here, it will give you all the colors used in that particular image. So if you want to use an inspiration color to create a design like this, you will automatically get to know what colors schemes are used in that particular design. And you have the code for each color to be used in your design. So if you want to create similar design by yourself, you will know the exact color choices made in this, and you can easily follow that. Now, the last thing here is color palette ideas. If you go in here, it will give you the range of colors that you can use to create your designs. E.g. if you want to create a business design, and this one looks nice to you, then these are the four color choices that you can use in your designs. You can make market as favorites for future use. And basically, as you practice through it, you will get better at color selections. You will get better and better at color selections. Now e.g. if I write something like business, it will show you all the possible color choices that you can use in business. E.g. Christmas. Here are the color choices for the Christmas. So these are some of the explore tools that you can work on to find the better selection of the colors. So this is it. These are the tools basically that will help you if you're stuck in your design and you don't know what color scheme that you can use or you can experiment with. You can definitely take advantage of these tools. Now, just one more suggestion is sometimes the colors that you selected are too bright and too multiple colors. And in that case, sometimes just the simple colors might work for you, e.g. on white. Always, whenever you are stuck in the background pages try white or black. And it will definitely produce some incredible results that you can use to instantly get your design to an ideal team. 33. Using Search Filters in Canva: Now in this lesson we are talking about the search for Ukraine. Now, we have discussed some of that in the earlier videos, but just for your reference or reminder, I'm explaining it again. You have this search bar here. Whenever you want to search in any of the section under elements, under uploads, you have the search bar right here. So e.g. if I want to see something like business templates, it will definitely search for all the business templates that I can use in my designs. But men be talking about more options. I can click here. I can choose the language, you choose the color scheme that I want is preferable. Similarly, Lee, in the elements e.g. if I write, let's say business here again. So you can filter it further. When you write business here, you can choose any particular colors that you want your elements to be in. You can use the orientation shape, like square, vertical or horizontal. You can write it that you want the elements to be static or animated. So you can apply these filters and it will give you better results in selection of your tools. So similarly, like e.g. for photos, I can search for particular photo and change the color scheme. Change the selection or orientation, and cutouts only apply filters. So these are some of the filters that I applied. And now I have choices like this. So when ever you apply filters, you will see the number of filters you applied right here. And when ever you want to reset, you can just click on this filter tab and click on Clear all. And it will be reset to the original search filter. That search filter in Canva, just an other quick way to work through your projects or find the elements that you need to use in your design. 34. Creating Facebook Cover Photo From Scratch: In this lesson, we're going to create a Facebook cover. And as a starting point, you can use some templates of it and you can easily customize that. But even if you want to start from blank, you have enough knowledge now to create a design by your own from scratch. So I'll click on Create a design. And right here, facebook. And here we have Facebook cover. When ever you select any design by default, what you see on the right is a blank canvas. If you want to use any template as a starting point, you can use it from here. What you can do is you can select any of these designs and make it your own by customizing the information right here. So let's say you want to design this one for the restaurant business. So in that case, this is the financial design. So this background image doesn't make much sense here. So I can delete that. And you have the option to use your own elements here. But even if you want to use this one, you can continue with this. Now, let's say that I want it for my restaurant business. So instead, you can use this as your image. Like the restaurant team missed. Something like that. If you feel that you need a little lighter design, you can try different designs here. What works for you? You can change the textiles. Now, let's say that I want to use this all options, but the color scheme should be different. So in that case, right now, I'm using this one. Let's move it to some other scheme, like this is for text. Let me just zoom it a little bit. And then select this box. Teens the default color to, let's see something like this. Now, if you want to change for all, you can click on Change all. And it will be chained for all of the design. See how quickly you have to customize your design according to your requirement. And similarly, if you change the texts scheme, let's see, for one, you make it white. You can change it for all. And boom, your design is ready within seconds. Now, in order to learn this designing sense more properly, what we will do is, let's say this one is our final design. So what I'll do is now I tried to create the similar design from scratch. So what we will do is we will use a Facebook cover. That's it. This is the blank canvas. First of all, I want this, this particular design like this kind of shape. So let's go to elements, and let's go to this frames and scroll down for a similar one. Now, if you can't find the similar design, what you can use is you can use some similar designs like e.g. this one, I copied it here and I pasted it right here. So that if the other ones suits well, you can use that one as well. E.g. like this. Now let's insert a photo here. Or let's go with making this background as darker and change it to little more dark. Now let's use the restaurant team here. Something like this. Okay, now, this text right here. As I told you that Antonio board and 73.3, you can note that and you can create it by yourself as well. Antonio. Board. And 73 is the size. You can make it white. And there are some other settings as well. It's boring. And it has some effects as well. It has shadows. And you can check some other customizations as well. Now like right restaurant. But as we can see that this image right here is blur and dark. And since we have used the same image, but here it is not blur. So as I told you that, you need to lighter that team. And if you want to apply some filters to it, you can do so. I just change the blur, something like this. Team-based. Now this is Britney. So add a heading again and change this team to Britney. Team. Based. Again. You need some effects in here. Now for these circles, you can use is right type forward slash here and right circle. And search it in, let's say graphics. No, actually I want to search it in the frames. Let's write frames here. And this one is the ideal one. Now I want three frames to ordinate, hold, ordinate, make a copy, alternate and make a copy. Now once we changed the color scheme of one circle, you can actually do the same for all the other ones. Now, we will insert some people here. So people or person. Let's use some of the images like this. Now we want to define these. Make all the other images smaller. Make sure they are in the perfect alignment. Now we will see the text size here. It's string D for an open sense. So let's insert a heading. Let's add a subheading. It's trendy for, and it's open sense in board. So that is perfect. Let's keep it here. Now let's define that. It says guest speaker. And then the other one might be same. So you can make a copy of it. And these ones are in all the capital letters. For capital letters, I also explain you that the select the text and from here change the case. From these three dots. Change that to uppercase allele. Similarly, now, when it's final, you can easily make the copy of these two. This n like this. Moderator and again guest speaker. So this design is not similar to this one, but it is having some resemblance. And still it looks very nice. And more or less similar even, you can make some further adjustments if you want. So these are the veterans that we can use and this is the best way to learn to create design that you might want to try it by yourself. Just try it by yourself and you will get to know all the tools and how that can be practically used when creating the design. Similarly, if you want to use this boxes or create that boxes. Now for these boxes, I have two options. Either I can write 27 directly as a text, right? Print D7, like this. And make it work like go to effects and choose a background color, reduce the roundness, and change it to this color. Let's kinda look nights. You can use Antonio board and to new board. Now, it will look like this. If you want to reduce the gap in the box, you can make that settings as well. You can just reduce the spread around. Now it's looking perfect. And the other taxes, again Antonio board. So change it to this. Once we are finalized with one design, it's very easy to create the next one, we will just make copy of this, December 2022. So December 2022. And now let's make a copy of this. Let me lock this image so that it's easier to select these. Because if it is unlocked, whenever I tried to select this one, it might move from its place, so it's better to lock that. And then it will be very easy to create a copy. And to insert the time like this, I can hit forward slash here. And right time. This one is the shape that I want to use and make this white. And what you can do is you can type some space here so that it will still be treated as the text to select the text, to select the box, remove the texts and write spaces here. So it will still be considered as texts and then bring the clock to the top and send the sheep to backwards. They should do the work. And if you want to reduce the size and do that as well, wherever it feels good. So as you can see that more or less this design looks identical. And we have learned how to practically use the tools that we have learned to create some wonderful design. 35. Creating a Resume in Canva: In this lesson, we're going to learn how you can create our resume on canva.com. So it's always better to take advantage of the predefined templates that we already have. So in this way, it is very easy to customize any template and make it your own. So to find a template, offer resuming, you can write here resume. So here are the couple of templates or you can click on Create a design, right? Resume here. So just click on it. And although on the right-hand side, you always get a blank canvas, but on the left-hand side, you will get a lot of amazing templates of resuming that you can use to create your own e.g. this one. So if we zoom it a little bit, you can see that it looks very professional template and you can easily customize everything here by adjusting your details in all of these particular areas. So first of all, if you want to make some changes, let's consider creating a copy of it. Let's duplicate this page. So if you make a major mistake, you can still see what default template do we have? From the second beat? Let's continue the editing. You can add in your picture here easily to select this picture, delete that, and it will be converted into a frame that you can use to insert your own picture. Let's go to photos and insert any passport photo, Let's say passport pictures. There we have it. Some of them are paid. Let's search anything free available here. I can write portrait here. E.g. this is the image that I want to use. So I will just drag and drop here. It will automatically fit in. And if you want to adjust it further, just double-click and you can adjust that on any position you want and then hit the click in the corner so it will be fixed. Similarly, if you want to change the name here, you can change the name. Similarly, you can change the contact address. And all these fields are easily customizable, as you can see, whenever you want to edit, just double-click and change the details. Now, let's say that I want to change the color scheme of this gray to blue. But how will I change for all at once? We will apply here the knowledge that we have just learned in the previous videos. And that is just select one shape as the sample and then change the color of that particular shape. It will automatically ask you whether you want to change it for all. Let's click on Change, all done. Similarly, let's try to change the text color. If I change, let's say this one too, darker color. And if I click on Change, all, all the heading styles will be automatically changed to the darker colors. So that is how you can make easy customization to your template. Here. Now, these all things, these shapes, these texts, these symbols are adjusted on a particular shape, that is this one. And this is just a shape that is separately inserted. So if you want to change the color scheme of this one as well, since we have changed the heading Scholar, you can select it from the corner. And once you see that the whole shape is selected, you can easily change to a lighter shade off the blue color that suits our goals with the overall resume look. So let's change it to a lighter shade of the blue. And let's say this one looks suitable. And similarly, if you want to change the font, style or size of the particular details that we have here. You can easily do that by changing one and then applying it to all. But I recommend to keep all the details in the same font, e.g. if I want to use this Playfair display, I will use this. Let's change the size to, let's say nine. And then when you see this option of change, all, you will change all. And you will notice that all of the designs have changed, although the text size is similar, so that I believe you need to manually adjust that. But otherwise, all the textiles are changed now to Playfair display. But I believe you won't be needing this because when you are using the predefined templates, they are using the ideal font suitable for that particular template. But whenever you need one, you can change and apply to all simply by a single click. So that is the quickest way of creating a professional resume on Canva with just a few tricks that you can use to quickly customize the predefined templates on Canvas and make it your own. 36. Creating Social Media Designs Quickly: In this lesson, we're going to create a graphic for Instagram post. Now, when we talk about Instagram or other social media platforms, a lot of blogs or businesses basically use these templates very often. That means that they will be using the same pamphlets with almost the same elements in each post. And the designs will also be more or less similar. Only the text and images changes according to different post, right? So in this video, we will learn the concept of templating. That means whenever you come across the similar projects that you need to create for your business, or if you're providing a service to accompany, you might create some versions of the templates that you can reuse on the similar projects. So in the search area as a starting point, we will write Instagram post. And here is two types of posts that we have. So let's add an Instagram post. So as you click in here, you will see a lot of templates that are pre-defined. Templates that you can use. Some of them are paid, some of them are free versions. So as a starting point, you might want to start off with a predefined template. So let's click on this one template of gym fitness. So afterwards, even if you want to add a page and start it fresh, you can still do it. And if you want to use some other template, you still have all the other template options that we have on the left-hand side. Now the concept of templating is e.g. you might be using this template for a couple of designs. So you might want to convert this into a template. How can you do that? You will double-click here and e.g. you see this picture and you can delete this picture and keep the text only. So whenever you need to upload or create a new post, e.g. this one, you might set it on the background like this and you have a different post. Similarly, since this template is pretty simple, one, I can choose any other template, e.g. this one, I can use another template which have a couple of pictures as well. Now e.g. this one right here. Now, as you can see that this template is made for financial freedom and a couple of pictures are inserted. So what we can do is we can create a template out of it. That means remove all the extra pictures and leave them empty, even from the background, removed this picture. So this is kind of template that is readily available for us whenever you want to recreate that. Now e.g. let's say I want to create a travel post. I will write gravel in photos and paste this one here. Maybe reduce the transparency and then places to visit. And e.g. here, I want to add some attractions. You can add these pictures and this is how you can customize the boost on the particular template. So not only these two, you can create a lot of templates and then remove that pictures that you will customize in future for your post as and when you need it similarity, e.g. this one right here. If I add a new page, and this one is the template that I want to use. You can keep the text and you can remove the pictures. So this is one other template that is ready. Now. So as you can see that you can create many, many versions of that templates. So mainly what it will do is it will save you a lot of time to find some good templates relating to a particular business, e.g. now that are all dendrites are ready. I'll go to the homepage and customize it. E.g. travel company design templates. These are all the templates that you can use for the travel company. So especially if you are a freelancer or you want to be a graphic designer, or you want to start or graphic designing business. So you might get clients that are related to a particular industry. And most often it will be a restaurant or travel agency, a gym or whatever. So all the common designs is what you can save for them and then reuse that templates and provide services to the other clients. It will not only save you a lot of time, you can easily grab a lot of business from this technique. And it is not only restricted to this post templates, it can be used to create flyers, even resumes. You can create some different templates and keep it all in the same area. But remember, whenever you are reusing that template for a particular gravel company, e.g. a. Company is, let's see, name is time travel. So I'll click on these three dots and click on make a copy. Then you will rename that copy and make it change the name. And then work on this template. Otherwise, if you use this mean template, it will be obviously converted. All the posts will be converted for that particular company. So it's always better to copy the designs from a particular template, make a copy, and then start working on the company posts. So in this way, let's see if you have a contract with a restaurant, with a travel agency, or with a gym, that you will handle their social media page and you will upload one post regularly about their current events, about their current promotions. So if you create like 30 to 40 designs for that particular business, you can easily handle their social media page. Because if you visit any page on Facebook, on Instagram, lot of times only the texts and images are changing and the basic template will remain the same. That means you will need only 30 to 40 templates that you can reuse and recreate by using different images and different text styles. But the basic format will be seen. So that is really helpful in providing services to the clients and definitely helps in handling your own business as well. Now what you can also do is e.g. you are providing or planning to provide a service to a particular client related to a particular industry. What you can do is visit some Facebook pages related to that business, or visit some Instagram profiles related to that business. And see what kind of designs to take inspiration from them. Get those templates ready on a single project. And then you can easily quickly use that templates for any business of the similar nature. So this is a quick hack to save your time. And let's move to the next one. 37. How to Animate Your Designs in Canva: In this session, we are going to learn how you can bring your designs to live by animating your simple designs. So to create a design, Let's choose Create, and let's create a YouTube thumbnail. Let's say. Now, let's see, I want this design, but I don't want this one as a picture, but rather I want to animate it to be used in my video. So what I'll do is I'll click on Animate button. And there are some animations which will make this thumbnail look like this. So there are a lot of animations right here. It literally brings your static images to life. So whatever you wanna do, You can try out different templates here. And when you apply a template, e.g. this one, just click on it and it will be applied. And then you can choose the duration of that total video to whatever you like. And this is the final preview. Now this design has some watermarks, so I need to remove some parts of it. And now I can save that. But be careful if you want to save it with the animation. This will be downloaded as a video, not as a static image. So I'll click on Share and click on Download. And it is recommended that you download it in mp4 format. So perfect. This also has some more premium content. So in fact, we have already learned it, right? So let's go with our other designs. Let's say this one. I've already created some design which is a pop effect, looks like this. And let's download this one. Because this doesn't have any pro or premium version content. So it will be easy, lead downloaded, click on Download. And it is suggested in PDF because it has couple of other designs as well. But I'll save it as MP4. Now, if you want to save only single design and you have created multiples in a single project. Then just dropped down the selected pages and uncheck all pages and select the current page. And done. And click on Download and hit Save. You can change the name and then click on Show in folder and play it. This video will look something like this. Now it doesn't matter up to which time period you extend the clip to 8 s or 10 s, then emission will start and stop at the starting. And the remaining will just be this static image showing in the video. So this is how you can easily create your design in animated video form and then use it in your video as a promo or as a intro screen. Now one more cool feature about the animation is if, let's see, if I add a new page and I insert a text in here. I'll go to text and click on Add heading. Let's see. The next is something like this. Now, after writing this, if I want to animate this text, I have some different options here. Let's make it a little concise. Let's zoom it a little bit. Now if you want to minimize this, all pages showing here, you can hide that PTs. And now let's go to animate. There are some basic animations that we have seen so far in the earlier example as well. But here we have a special animation for the writing section as well. You can give it a typewriter effect, a sin shift merge block. So these are all the options that are particularly related to the writing or any text that can be shown with the animation style. So this looks very beautiful when you apply it in your designs. And basically include in your videos. You also have the option to include more animations. E.g. hit forward slash here and write like fireworks animation. You have to write animation with it. So we have different animation right here. We can use any of that. So e.g. if I want to use this one, it's going to look something like this. And again, if you want to add more elements like let's say Hearts animation, you can include that as well. And adjust it in anywhere you want according to your design. So basically these are some of the tools that make your design look more appealing. So these are some of the tools that you can use to make your design more appealing. Now, if you want to play this together, it will look something like this. E.g. if I want to play this, you can click on present and standard present. Now. It will look something like this. And then afterwards it will show the other page. So you can definitely take advantage of all of these tools in Canvas. Now one more cool feature that Canvas has just recently included is on what timing Do you want to animate your text? E.g. this, this text. If I click on the animation, it will ask you the option of, do you want to animate both in the entry and exit, or you only want to animate it on the entry or only on the exit. If I animate for both, it will look something like this, showing the animation now. And then it will wipe out after some seconds. So on board, it will look something like this. On entry look like this. So it can better be noticed if I include two texts. Now let's animate both. Now here if I select the overall page, you can animate both of these texts. So from here you get many different options. You can animate it on both the entry and exit. And you have the option to do both. You can change the speed of the animation. But this is a pro feature. The writing style you can change and then some other effects. So these are some small options that you need to practice on this try by yourself and you will get to know how it will affect the overall presentation of your animation. 38. How to Organize your Elements Assets for Projects: In this video, we are going to talk about the elements that you need frequently. And you want to save it as your favorites to save you time when creating your next project. So what we can do is find some of the elements here. We will go with not the animated ones, but the fixed ones. E.g. this is the image that I like. Let's remove this option, e.g. a. Heart. So these are the static images e.g. I. Like this one. So if you want to add it as favorites, you can just click on these three dots and you have the star option here. So next time, whenever you are creating any of your designs, e.g. this is my new template. I can easily use that template which I have start, you just need to go to more and click on folders. And here is starred option. And you will find all the designs here, what you have saved. But let's see if I am using an element that is animated, e.g. this one. If I want to add this, our favorites, I can click on these three dots, but here I will not find the star option or Martinus favorite options. What we can do in this case is we can just collect some animated images that we like. And then we can paste it all in a single project and define them with the text if we like, e.g. this is subscribed fixed, so we have the star option. But if some of them are animated, e.g. this one, we won't be able to find this option to store it or market as favorite. In that case, you can just add it to your single project and keep it here. You can add as many pages as you want because it will save you a lot of time to find the assets. So here you can easily create the collection of all the assets that you wanna use frequently in all your designs. Take a day or two to make that collection. And then e.g. anytime you want to use this in your designs, it was untitled design. Let's name it. My assets for projects. So now if I want to use in, let's say this project on the other tab, I can open and keep this element's page open. And whatever I want to use is just I can copy this here and I can paste it right here. So this will save you a lot of time to save all the frequently used elements that you use frequently in nearly all of your designs. So just spend some time and save your most frequently used designs in a single page like this. And whenever you are designing any post, you can just keep it open on the separate tab and copy and paste it to place it right here. So just copy and paste like this. And you have all the animated templates with you. Alright, this is the little technique on how you can manage not only the favorites of the static images and shapes, but all the animated elements as well. 39. Working with Video Editor in Canva: Now let's learn how to create video in Canva. So first of all, for the sample, you can click on videos so that you can get to the interface where you can create your own video. So from the main interface, I'll click on videos. And you can basically use any type of format that you want to make your video on. If you want to make Facebook video for promotion, you can use this or video message or a YouTube video. So click on the relevant video. And the first one is for blacks. While click on this. It is off this size, 1920 by 1080 pixels. So let's create it. So in this interface, there is a little bit change of what we are used to see in the earlier formats. And that is, you cannot scroll it page by page. Rather, it will show you the timeline, which will show the time defined for each slide. So as you add pages to it, it will define the specific time for it and you can reduce or increase the time as you require for that particular video or for that particular slideshow. Now by default, let's say if I want to change the color of the first slide, Let's change the color and let's put a heading as well. And let's put a heading, go to text and click on heading. Now, as this is the static page, it will, It won't matter that if the timing is off 5 s or more in this static page, this slide basically only shows for 5 s like this. You can reduce the timing if you want, like scrolling it down or you can edit it from here as well. The other thing that you can do is you can add the actual videos with it, like a stock videos. Let's see. So I'll go to the second slide. Okay, let's delete this page and I'll insert a new page. And let's go to the elements now. Let's move to the video section. I'll click on see all. And let's say I want this video. I'll just drag and drop here. And I'll adjust the corners just to fit it on the screen. Like this. Now this video is off 10.4 s. So if you want to reduce the time of it, you can reduce the time. If you want a specific scene to be included in your overall video or in your presentation from the specific stock footage, then what you can do is you can apply the split. I'll right-click here and I'll split the page from here. And let's say up to here you want. So right-click and split again. And these timelines, then you can delete that. Also if you want to, let's say, insert more images. You have the option. You can enter specific image in-between. You can enter it afterwards on a second page. So if my cursor is right here, or you click on this add page, you can insert it here like this, drag-and-drop. And similarly, if you want to apply the cut or reduce the time of that specific video, you can do so if you want to cut it from the starting and you only want to play the end, then this is how you will reduce the time from either this corner or this corner. Now, if your video has multiple frames, are multiple scenes in it and you want to cut a specific point, then it's very difficult if you are unable to see the exact timing of it for this, canva is provided a feature to make it convenient for you. You will click on the Zoom page, and then the zoom function will increase the zoom the timeline so that you can identify that exact scene where you want to apply the cut. Because if I zoom out, it's very difficult to find a scene from here. If you are zoomed out completely, It's very difficult to identify the particular scene. So when you are editing in a project, you need to zoom in to see the proper timeline so that you can identify the eat seeds. And when you change it back to Zoom to thumbnails, now the zoom function function will be used to increase the size of the thumbnails that you can see here. Let's see if you want apply cut like here. I'll just select the point from the mouse cursor and then just right-click and split page. And then let's see, I deleted test. If you want to undo, you can always use a Control Z or undue from here on the top. Or if you want to see that since back, you can increase the size of the timeline so that you can see the entire clip. Now if you want to add a title on the screen. But after some time on this specific video, e.g. this video clip is off 13 s, and you want to display the text after, let's say 6 s. So at this point you can see the timeline right here. This is like 7 s something are okay on this point. So let's see how we can do that. If we insert text like this, Let's see what it does. It will include the heading from the starting point. We don't want that. So what you can do is you can always apply the split on this point. Now if you want to see the exact area, you can use this Zoom page option and then you can increase the timeline so that you can identify the exact point where you want the text to be displayed. E.g. like right here, I'll cut at 7 s. I'll right-click and apply the split. And from here I can include the heading on this page. And let's see if I make it a little fancy like this. And let's see, I changed the color and enter some effects like a background or a shadow. Or if I want to animate that as well, feed or something like this. And let's write here beautiful countryside. So now it is going to play like this. Let's play it from the second slide. So this is how it will play the video and to play or stop, you can use it either from here or you can use the space bar to play or R2 pause. And from here you can also define how you want the slide to be changed. You can click on this plus sign between these two flights. And here is an option of AT transition. You can change it to the next slide like this, or you want to slide it here. The options you usually see on film aura or Final Cut Pro as well. It's not obviously that much of advanced as the professional video editor software, but for Canva, as in editing or a graphic designing tools that are only supposed to make like posters or something. This video creation interface is quite handy and useful and it's also very easy to use. So let's say if I click on dissolve from here, I can set the duration. It will either dissolves quickly or you can increase the dimming time from here. So let's say plate now it will play something like this. And similarly, it's particularly useful where the scenes are changing. E.g. here, you will notice a cut here from the second slide. So you can smooth that out like this one. I can smooth that out with this transition effect. So I'll click on dissolve. Let's see. Now what is the effect of it? So it looks a little bit professional to add transitions to the scenes so that the gap between the scenes should look smooth. Now, when your scenes are finally, you can play it on the full screen from here. This option, preview. Or you can use this. But this one is better to show it on full screen. It looks something like this and says, when ever you want to exit from the scene, you can just press Escape and you will be back on this interface. You can hit close or otherwise escape again. And you are on your main interface now. So this is how you can make the video off your own. Obviously, this is not a complete project. We will see. We are just learning the tools. We will cover the complete projects in a separate area. But let's just say that if I want to use some templates of it, you can use the templates from here. If you go to the templates, you will see different templates here. And there are many templates that you can use. So let's say I want to use this one. And if I apply to all six pages, it will ask you that, do you want to replace all pages with the template that you were creating? I'll replace all the pizzas in this case. This is a complete video that you can edit on your own. So let's play this video. It might have some audio as well. Some templates have the audio. So you can change the color scheme as well, whatever you like, and then you can edit it according to your requirements. So e.g. in this case, here it is, it has inserted the video in this particular frame like this. So you can replace it with your own videos. Otherwise, let's just go to the video again. Let's use something that has only pictures. Or let's say if you want to greet someone, you can use this applied to all pages. So this is how it will show. And you can delete any of that picture and you can upload your own picture, Let's say like this. Similarly on the next slide, you can replace it with the other image. Well, let's just use the stock photos. Let's write happy here, like this. Like this. So this is how you can easily edit and make it your own. And if it'll play out something like this. So it's pretty awesome. You can explore the templates as well. And in many cases you might, only, what you might only need is the right template for you to edit. Or otherwise you can create it from scratch if you want. And again, not just that, you can insert a photo in that particular frame. You can use any video if you want. So e.g. if I want a video in here, I'll go to elements and let's say of video. So this is my video. I'll replace it with this and it will play out something like this. So pretty convenient rate. That is the speciality of Canva when you're especially trying to make videos that you will find thousands of it for free. Right now I'm using educational version for it. And if you don't want them by pro account for a costly price, what you can do is you want to use all these templates. Now, most of these templates can only be found under a pro version. And I'm using an education region which is kind of pro version because you can use all the templates are for free. And if you're using the free account and you want to practice more or use it professionally, you can always opt for an educational account. So if you don't want to opt for pro account right now, you'll see prices. It's the monthly $6.49, which is not much, and yearly it's 54.99. Otherwise, what you can do is you can offer educational account. Many people on Facebook are providing the service. You can write Canva premium account for sale and you will see multiple post. You will change it to post. From here. You will see it here, whichever offer you like, e.g. this one is a good offer. And you can find, you can get all of this in a fraction of price. It sees a onetime payment, lifetime warranty, 71 million free photos. You will unlock all the graphics, all the videos. And that is the, you will also get the background remover, which is a wonderful tool. And you can find many different options that you only find in the program counter. Premium account. You can watch set them. So they are charging will lead to $203 for lifetime onetime payment. So this is pretty nice. You can contact them, you can check out the other offers as well. There are many of them. Only in $5 you can get the lifetime access, so they're providing the service. So anyways, the point I was trying to make here is if you can't get access to the templates that I showed you here, you can always upgrade your version two pro or the educational that is a premium version as well. So basically, this templates provide you a great starting point. You can experiment with that. Just try to search for your particular requirement, e.g. a. Birthday. And you can use any of these templates. And this just play around with that template. And let's say this is the party scene and you want to insert your own. You can go to upload videos that you want to upload. Or in this case, I'll just use the demonstration to show you as an example, e.g. this one is the video that you actually uploaded and you want to use this one. So let's replace it with here and replace this one with this. Make sure the format is seem like it's more grid and sport grit here as well. So don't use the landscape videos so that it fits in properly. Like this. And this is our scene now. This is our customized fish. Now, you can play it on full screen. It's really fun to play with all these templates. You will be amazed by how quickly you are able to produce a scene or video for yourself. So this is how you can easily edit your videos in Canva using these tablets. It's fun to play, it's very easy to customize and you can try and play around with it. 40. Working With Audio in Video Editor Project: Now let's talk about how you can add audio to your video project or any static project like this. Now, like in the previous video, we have seen that this static project contains an audio if you play it. So this is playing the audio and how you will realize that it is playing audio. If any of your video project or this kind of static project has a thin blue line here. This means that this project contains the audio as well. If you want to see that audio properly, just double-click on this bar and you will be able to see this audio. So what you can do is you can move it around anywhere you want. Now, if I zoom it out, if I zoom the slide a little bit, zoom out so you can adjust the timing that it will play first, let me expand it. Okay, right now it's set to the maximum. So let's just delete some pages. And you can see that audio will adjust automatically. And if I double-click now, this audio file is off the lens that is more than this slide. You can adjust any part you want to play with this slideshow. And then double-click to go back to the previous scene. Now considering that this video was taken from the middle part of the audio. So you can fade it in or fade it out. You will just select this first and go to audio effects. Here we find this exact options feeding at the start and fade out at the end. So right now you can't see anything here, but let me just zoom it so that we can clearly see the indication of it. As you can see that this line is going up and let me just increase the time so that we can clearly see at the end, you can see that it is going down like this. So this is to avoid the abrupt ending at the end. So e.g. like this, if the song suddenly stops at the full volume, that it won't look nice. So that's why we add fade to it. And we'll play out something like this. That's perfect. Similarly, if I remove this effect, Let's see the changes. What, how it affects the ending feed. Let's change it to, sorry, just double-click here. Audio effects and remove the feet. Now it will end suddenly like this. Now, if you want to adjust the volume of it as well, to select this. And you can adjust the volume from the top-right corner here. You can reduce the volume so that it will play it on a lighter volume. So this is how it will play. Now. Now, in this video editor interface, you can also add multiple tracks, e.g. if I go to the elements and I scroll down until I find the audio section. There are a lot of audience that you can use in your project. So let's see this one. If I click here, you can see that immediately it entered this new audio below the current audio track. So let's see. So let's say that if I decide to play it the first audio until this point and then it should continue with this. We can easily do that. And afterwards you can move it upwards to play on the same timeline. Bring it up. When you adjust the length in proper, it will automatically merge it in a single timeline. Now obviously if you have multiple beats or you want to add your voice with the music, you obviously need to tracks. And then you can, what you can do is you can consecutively plea that to cracks on the defined timeline. Let me just zoom it out. It's not the same length, but something like this. This is the music and this is, let's say your own speech with it. You can add multiple tracks. Similarly, if I click on Third, it will insert the third one as well. So these are all the basics that you can use to customize your project with audio in Canva. So that's it. Just try it by yourself. Insert multiple cracks. And let's see what you can compose. 41. Introduction to Presentation Modes: Now we will see how you can use the predefined templates off the presentations in Canva and use that to deliver a presentation, let's say in your class or in your company. So how you can switch to the presenter view as you're used to see in PowerPoint. So from the main interface, you can see this presentation option. I'll click here. And you have different formats to choose from. This is four by three, brainstorming presentation, game presentation. You also have mobile first presentation, which will be obviously in portrait mode. So any talking presentation, if you want to record yourself as well. There is an option in Canvas that you can play and record for your YouTube video or for any explanatory video that let's say you want to upload it on YouTube or on your personal website, or for communicating a message to your employees or students. So you can create that talking presentation and you can record yourself as well. Basically on any presentation, you can record yourself as well as you can play it at the same time. Let's start off with the presentation in 1920 by 1080 pixels. So I'll click on it. And when I click on it, I have different templates that I can choose. Right now we already know all the tools how to create the presentation. So let's just see how you can use any presentation mode. E.g. this e.g. I'm a teacher and I1 explain the classroom rules so I can use this presentation. This has couple of slides, 1 of 13, 13 slides in total. Let's click on it and apply all 13 pages. So what you can do is when you are in here and you want to present that in front of class. So you will connect the projector and simply go to share and use the present mode. As soon as you click on the present mode, it will ask you the type you want to play. The standard is advanced at your own pace. That means similarly like PowerPoint, it will be played in full screen mode. And you can move to the next slide or the previous slide at your own pace. But obviously you have to manually change it from the laptop. Autoplay means you can set the speed to play for each slide. Presenter view that you can use your notes that your audience won't be able to see, but you have some additional notes what to speak about an upcoming slides as well. That in future slides you will be talking about. And presenting record means you can present the whole presentation and record yourself right now. And let's say if you want to communicate all these rules, not physically, you can just publish it on the website. So that will produce a video. So let's go with the standard mode and click on present. Like I said, you can change it at your own pace. And from the right arrow or the left arrow key, the slides will change. So it depends on how much time you will take on the particular slide and then you can move to the next one. Whenever you want to go to the main screen, I'll press Escape to go back to the main screen. Now let's shift this mode to the other mode, and that is autoplay. Autoplay. Got it. It said timing for each slide. Let's see. To check, I'll keep it 2 s. And let's say I want to apply it to all the 13 pages. And let's see now, present in the autoplay mode. Present. Now you can see E slide is changing within 2 s. So this is the option here. And let's go to the third option that is Presenter View. Presenter View, like I said, it will assist you with the particular nodes. You can keep your notes here. And for each slide, this is page six. You'll want to talk about this topic and these details. Or let's say you want to talk about these three points on five classroom rules. And similarly, you can define nodes for each slide. Let me define for other as well. Okay, Now let's see. Now let's go back to the present mode and the Presenter View and click on present. Now the audience window will be this, and my window will be this. So audience will see only the full screen version of it. And I can see all the details like I can see and take assistance from nodes. I can see what other slides are about so that I can prepare in advance, especially if you have a presentation in class or in a company. So it's better to use this Presenter View. And like we have defined some rules, e.g. here, I want to talk about these three points here. So this is very helpful. You can easily do that here. And the plus point of using Canva for presentations instead of our point is you will find some amazing templates predefined here for whatever topic you want. So it just takes a little bit of your content to be put in and you have a complete professional presentations present here right away. So these are some of the options we have talked about, the standard mode, the presenter mode. And now in the next video, we are going to talk about how you can add animations and record yourself so that you can create a video from that presentation as well. 42. Presenter Mode Additional Features: Okay, one more thing that I wanted to share about the presenter view is once we go in the present mode and we turn on the presenter view, this green is for audience, right? And this screen is for you. So let me just open it side-by-side. So we're going to learn about some more functions that the Presenter View offers. These are some magic shortcuts. If you want to set the timer. Let's see if you have given a task to your audience. Here's a timer that will flash up for the audience. And it's a nice visualization that you can use. You can set it manually as well. You can also use the blur functions, e.g. there are some of the parts that accidentally displays on the projector and you don't want to display that personal information or something like that. So you can use this blur feature for that. And if you want to communicate, something like everyone should be quiet. So you can use this. It will display it for the presenters on the screen. You can use some funny options as well, like bubbles. It will display these bubbles on the screen and some celebrations once you're complete with your rendition, the drum roll, if you want to really, anything special, the curtain call, the mike drop. So these are kind of funny, but it is useful as you need it. And if you go in this options, it is hide magic cursor at the first. As you can see that this is a little circle kind of cursor that everyone can see. But if you want to hide this magic cursor, you can hide it from here. You can hide the live edits. You can share the remote control to some other person. You want to be the part of your presentation. So these are some of the additional features that might be useful for you. Now let's continue to the next topic. 43. Using Present and Record Feature: Okay, now let's discuss about our last section and that is present and record in the Presenter View. So from the Canvas main interface, we have the choice to create either presentation or a video. So let's go and create a presentation. I'll choose any template for now. Apply all ten pages. And now if I want to present that, I'll go to Share present. But this time we have already learned about standard and auto-play and presenter view. The final option is present and record. So if we click on Next, it will go to the recording studio. So let's click on it. And now it will ask you to allow your camera allow your microphone. I'll just disable the camera from here and let's test the microphone wave. As you can see that while I'm speaking, it is showing the VBS here. That means microphone is perfectly working. If you want to change that microphone to any other any other option, you can change that as well, but I'm using Samson Go Mic, so I'll prefer that and start recording. You can record about your presentation here. This is the recording button showing here. And whenever you want to pause the recording or end the recording, these options can be fine on the top right corner. So as you move through your assignment, you can explain different parts of it. And after you are done, you can just end the recording. Save and exit. Now, the important thing to note here is when I recorded all of this audio, it doesn't sync with the presentation automatically. And that's a negative point of Canva. If I go to the uploads in the audio section, I have this audio here. You can just drag and drop to the presentation and it will add to your music so you can record, as you can see that before that we were in a video mode. So this audio effects or wave timeline we're showing here. Now it's showing here. Let's see if it changes the slides automatically in sync the audio or not. Your presentation here, this is the recording button showing here. And whenever you want to pause the recording or ended, as you can see that it doesn't sync the audio or change the slides on its own with what we have recorded. So what we have to do is we have to adjust manually each section to the particular slide. That's a little bit complicated, especially in the presenter mode, where V even do not see the option to split the audio. We only have the audio effects to feed in or to fade out. And another option that we have is only to increase or decrease the volume. We cannot split it in slides as we used to do in the video mode. So it's preferable that if your presentation or video has audio that you want to Record with it, It's most preferable to go to the Home tab and use the video feature. You can create the same presentation here as well. But the point here is you will get a lot of flexibility in terms of audio editor. If I go here, shear, go to present mode. And now if I use this present and record next, go to the recording studio. No cameras setting is same. So start recording. In this recitation, we're going to talk about our online learning and courses. So you can book a demo class and I'll see you in the class. And then you can move to the next slide and you can speak about that slide. And this is the third slide and this is our topic. And I'll end screen. So as you can see that more or less all the options are same. But the difference is when you save and exit, you will find a different kind of editor here. By default. This one also doesn't support and sync automatically, but you can drag and drop here. And it will add to the bottom the mean plus zero point off. Using the audio feature. Only in the video mode, is that you can split the clip. You can split the audio, you can duplicate, and you can manually adjust the audio with what you are presenting in the slide. So basically these options are not as convenient as you record on a professional video recording software like Camtasia or film era. But you can get the basic decent output if you work around a little bit and you manually adjust the clips with the audio that you're speaking. So it involves more editing, but you can get an output, it will show up something like this. So in this presentation we're going to talk about our online learning and Gordon. And then obviously you will change or split the particular part of audio. And you will adjust that according to the clip. Like this. If there is some gap, you can also create some gap here. Like something like this. And other main reason of using all this audio features with the video mode is that in the presenter board, you cannot add multiple audio tracks, which you can add easily in this video project interface, you can add multiple tags as I showed you before. So this is the main point of the video tracks. So I preferred that even if it is a presentation, but when ever, you need to record a speech with it, I always prefer the video mode instead of the presentation mode. So this is it, this is how you can use the different forms of presentation modes in Canva. 44. Presenting Synced Audio with Video or Presentation: In the last video, I said that you cannot adjust the audio with that present and record feature, but there is some additional option that you can use. There. I'll take some presentation, e.g. from the Home tab, I'll go to presentation and let's see if I choose this presentation about the class slavers apply to all ten pages. And let's see if I want to record something like I'm presenting and recording according to the slides. And the audio should automatically adjust and it should be produced in a video form. So we will use the record and present feature. I'll go to share and present and record. Go to the recording studio. Recording is working, and I'll start recording. Here. I will talk about the presentation a little bit. So this is the forget elementary school class labels. I'm guiding you through the entire class labels that you need to focus on. Hello and welcome to my English class. I'll give you some introduction to the English class. And we will see in the next area what lessons we will cover. I'll go to. The lessons. Lessons to be covered are something like this. There are some requirements for the class that you need to consider. So these are the requirements for the class and some more requirements for the class. And the goal of this class is as follows. So as you can see that I am changing the slides and now I'm going to talk about evaluation. And finally, thank you for joining in. And this is the end of it. So as I record, it will be said, upload to your recording. And this is the link, basically that you can share on your browser or on your website so that all the people or your classmates can access it over the browser. So just copy that link, paste it on your Facebook page or any social media page. And they all will be able to see that recording. So this is particularly useful for online classes like teachers used to do in COVID. So this is pretty effective and save and exit. Now, once I go to present and record, this was the link that I showed you earlier. So if you want to see that recording, I'll just copy this. And let's see how it is available for everyone to view. Here, I will mention a little bit. So this is the forget elementary school class labels. I'm guiding you through the entire class labels that you need to focus on. Hello and welcome to my English class. I'll give you some introduction to the English class. And we will see in the next area. So as you can see that anyone with this link can easily see that recording. Even if we try it in a new private window. The person who doesn't even have the sign-up for Canva can also see that or not. Let's see. So you don't even need to sign into Canva or have any Canva account for that. You can share that publicly and every person with this link can see this recording. So this is a pretty handy tool I'll give. And I said earlier that you won't be able to match the audio with the video. But this is a feature that you can use in here that is the link function. And also finally, if you want to download this in MP4, you can download that and it will be downloaded with the audio. 45. Creative Ideas for Canva: Let me show you some examples on the creativity. We have learned all the tools in Canvas. Now let's see some of the examples how you can creatively apply each one of them in different scenarios. E.g. let's see if I choose a Facebook post. Now we have different templates here. Now it totally depends on you how you want to be more creative with this post templates, e.g. if I choose any of these templates, e.g. this one, which is fresh from the fields. If you want to include not just the picture but a video off the fresh vegetables, then what you can do is you can just delete that, go to the elements and click on videos. And here you will find, let's say vegetables. Vegetables. You can include any video here as well. If you want to include that. It depends on your size, what you feel is a best-fit. But you can choose any of them. I prefer the portrait in this type of format. So we have landscapes and portraits as well. So let's see if I choose landscape version. This is my landscape version. Now it will, it might show like this as well. So it is your choice whether you want to include it as a video or a static picture. So you can see these kinds of posts as well. See how cool it looks like this. And you can just share it as a video, download it, and share on your social media pages. Okay, let's try the same thing on some other horizontal post. I'll add a new page. Now how you can be more creative with the simple option. Let me show you how e.g. if I'm creating something like desktop wallpaper, Let's see. I actually want did a horizontal kind of thing. Now, if I grab the same thing, I'll go to photos. And right here iPhone, known as scroll down. Let's see, I want this image, but I want to remove the background. So first of all, let's remove the background. I'll go to Edit Image. And again, background remover. So let's reduce the size and position it anywhere you want. Now, let's see if I go to elements and I'll grab a simple grid. You can find it in the grid section like this and drag it over here. Let's see if I want to adjust it. Not on the background but on the front. So let's spring forward. And let's adjust that on the mobile screen so that it looks like it is flashing on the mobile screen. Like this. Again, Let's go to our videos. I'll go in the video section. And right here, anything like landscape. Now e.g. if I click on free, you can apply filters from here. E.g. I want to record a scene. I will take this photo as it is this video here. And it just that sent backwards. And then backwards again, and then fit the same video here as well. So now if I click on share and present, it will look something like this. So it looks like although it's not adjusted property, you can use some different mobile image for that, but it creates an illusion of the scene that this person is on the beach recording this scene. So that looks very, very cool. So you can experiment and be creative with these ideas. Now, I've used a different picture just to show you that how the perfect image would fit in, in the scene. Because that hand and mobile image was not proper. I prefer this kind of seen in this area where the hand is holding the mobile and it's in the recorder mode so that the grid would perfectly fit in. And record can show you the illusion of a recording of the scene so you can see how cool that looks, right? So this is nothing but your creative thinking on how you can use certain tools to create different things. 46. Creating a Movie Poster: One way of getting creative with the Canva, as well as creating a bolster like this. As you notice that this is a poster of, let's say, movie or a magazine. And it's a warrior showing here on the mountain and with the scene in the background, the birds. But all of these elements are separately added in the scene. The text, the character, the hill, and the photo. So how can we create such an image or a poster from scratch? Let's see. I'll first go to main screen and right poster here, it says movie poster. So create a blank movie poster. And it totally depends on your thinking how you create that. But let me just show you some of the tools that you can use for that. Now, e.g. if I want to create the same scene, I'll choose a mountain first or a hill. So let's go to the photos. And right here. So take any image you want or you think is suitable, so that you can make them Warriors stand on that hill. So to scroll down until you find irrelevant image, e.g. this one. Now, let's fit all of this to the complete area. Even make you can make it larger so that it can fit your scene. Now, I don't want it to be daytime scene. I wanted to be a nighttime scene. So what I'll do is I'll remove the background. I'll click on edit image and remove the background. Now again, if you were using the educational version or the pro version, you will be able to use this tool. Now click Apply. For the nighttime. These mountains are too bright, right? So what I'll do after that is I'll go to Edit Image and use the edges functions for it. I'll reduce the brightness. And you can increase the contrast. And you can use the saturation points as well to adjust it to the nighttime. Let's say we're creating an evening time rate. So this might work. Okay, let's test this. So this is my mountain. I have adjusted the brightness and contrast a little bit. You need to play around it. Now let's find a perfect sunset image. I'll click on Sunset here and click on photos. You can use any image that you find suitable for the particular scene. Okay? I need to see this option bring to forward or backward. But I need to detach image from the background for this hill image so that both image on the pH can adjust to the scene. So this is my poster. You can set it anywhere you want as you see fit or the image. So this is kinda it. And now let's see. I want to bring it down. Let's see over here. And the other clip as well. Okay, So this is my image. Now, I want a warrior to stand up right here. So I'll search for warrior and click on photos to find one. I can use any warrior image you want from here. Let's see. Let's use the exact one of which was this one. So let's remove the background from here as well. I'll go to Edit image and click on background remover. Remove the background. Now, if you want to adjust it, you find it is not suitable for the scene. You want to make it dark. I can go to adjust and increase or decrease the brightness and the contrast. But it seems suitable to use this one as it is. Just zoom it a little bit, see if it fits the fort. Or you can send it to back. Or you can bring this mountain to the front so that you don't see the feed. Select the mountain and bring front. So this is how now it's standing over the mountains. Looks like this. So that's perfect. Now, I want to use some birds as well. So let's write birds here. E.g. these ones. These ones are pretty perfect. Or the scene. You can tilt it if you want, like this. And if I want to highlight this warrior, let's see in this onset. So how can I do that? I'll used something like Son. And in the graphics that find it what is suitable. So this is my image, but I'll adjust that in a particular way. I'll adjust that over here on the warrior, but I'll use it as a highlighter tool. What I'll do is I'll increase, reduce the transparency first. And then I'll go to Edit image. It just click on blur, increase the blur. And basically what I'll do is I'll bring it forward. Bring the warrior forward. And let's select this. And to backward like this. Okay, now move the mountain up. So it looks something like this. Pretty nice. If you want to blend it more, you can reduce the transparency even more. So now, if I want to add a text, I'll add a heading like this. And write the Valadier and adjusted on the frame like this. And I'll bring it downward. Now I want this text to go through this person. Let's write the warrior only in the warm water only. So let's do like this. I want this eye to go through this image. Let's make sure that you've selected the image. There are multiple delimiters involved. Now, that's why you're unable to select that particular image sent to backwards. So it's showing like this perfect. And then you can move your mountain up. So this is the complete took, this is how you can make your own booster in Canva. This is just one example of how you can get creative with all the tools that we have learned so far. The point of showing you all this poster is, as you can see, that we have included each scene separately to create a complete booster from scratch. So this is how you can use this inspiration and use it all in your creativity for your particular scenario. Just practice it by yourself. I recommend you to come up with your own idea or even reproduce this idea so that you can grasp what I have explained in this video. And then we will move to the next one. 47. Being Creative with thinking Beyond: Now in this lesson we're going to learn the more creative ways outside the Canva or through the help of other third-party apps to achieve the same result that can hurt us. E.g. in this video, we have created something, but we used a technique for it. We have inserted different alphabet separately and then fit the video through that so that it looks like it is playing within this text, right? So we can achieve the same result by using the help of some external third-party apps. Maybe the time you're spending on achieving the same result with Canva is not just worth it. So in that case is, you might think out of the box, think creatively, and you might come up with some other solution as well, e.g. let's see a same idea. I'll add a new page and click on Blank background. Let's see if I write here. Get creative. And just make a copy of it. Great, creative. And I write here colors. I'll make it bold and little white like this. Okay? Now, if you see the number of letters involved in colors, text, and you want to play a video through it. It might take a lot of time for you to achieve the result with Canva. So what you can do is you can be a little creative. I'll click on Add bit, and I'll take the help of a third party app. So I'll just move the colors here and just shared and download that as a PNG file. So let's download this and I'll save that in downloads. So what you can use is I'll go to Google and write online Pin Jie tools here. And this is a simple website online PNG tools. I'll make a PNG transparent. Use this tool. And let's import a file, which I have right here. In the downloads. It was downloaded as a zip file. Okay, we need to extract this first because it downloaded all the images here. I didn't select the option of single one. So now let's choose our image. And this one is our image that is colors. Now what I want to make transparent is not the white but black. So let's write black here and fill shoe transparent image like this. Percentage. You can try different percentages to achieve a smooth result. One example, let me just write here 1010 per cent. But in this case, I can push it to 90% because I totally want to get rid of the black color here. And now let's save this file as and download. And click on Download here. Since it is a free plan, it will have some wait time. So that's okay. Now, instead of this one, I'll use now a different one. I'll go to upload and click on this image and I'll upload that. The transparent image. If we move it here, you cannot really see anything. But if we change the background to black, you will see, okay, this is showing the image. So what I wanna do now is I'll go to, let's see videos, or let's see elements. I'll go to elements and right colors here. And I'll search or relevant video like e.g. this one. And I'll move it in the background. The sort of free size it. I'll actually detach the video from the background and set it in the exact proportion. Weird. I can see it in colors. Now I'll right-click and send backwards. Now you will know what I was trying to make here. If I zoom it here. Now let's play it. Now you can see how the colors are playing within the transparent letters. So the similar thing can be achieved by being creative. Similarly, let's change and try something more colorful so that you can see the actual effect of it. E.g. this one. I'll zoom it out. Just a video. And then you can send it to backward. Now it will show something like this. So this is how you can be creative and achieve the same results by trying out the different tools outside the Canva. So it's just about how you think and how you can plan your work efficiently. So try it by yourself and be more creative. Apply some other ideas. And I'll see you in the next video. 48. Creating Popout Frame Effect: One more creative idea while using Canva is you can create a pop-out photo frame like this from scratch. It's very easy to build. So let's see how we can do that. You can choose any shape for it. I have chosen, I'm already in Instagram post format, so I'll add a page. Let's learn it from the scratch. It really just involves your ideas on how you can build such thing. So I'll go to elements and write like fashion here, and go to photos. Let's choose this one. I'll choose this one. And first of all, what I need to do is I need to get rid off this background here. So select this. I'll use the background removal tool. So until now you might have realized that this tool, background removal tool can do wonders and really help you to create your design very easily. So we're done. You can adjust sites. Now. Let's go to the color. It will automatically pick up the photo colors so you can use any of those colors here in the background. E.g. this one. Now, I need to create a pop-out effect like this. So what I'll do now is I'll insert some shapes. These are men will chips. So from the elements, I'll select rectangle. And it's shaped like this. And place it on your photo. Something like this. And create a copy, alternate, whole, alternate, and select from the mouse and move it towards right. So it will create a copy of something like this. Then again, create a copy and you can move it towards like this. I can now move it a little down. And similarly, I'll create a copy here and they sit here. This is kind of photo frame, but it is not popping out, right? So to pop out, I'll just select these shapes from the corners. I'll choose shift to hold each shape. And from these three dots, I'll go to position and send it to backwards. So now you can see that it creates an awesome illusion of photo popping out from the frame you can do and other creative idea and that is the photo background will be seen, but still it looks like it is pumping out. How can you do that? It's very easy. It's same technique, but we have used here to create the video running through the text. So I'll insert one more photo and adjust that in the frame and match the sites, such as double-click and try to match the sites. Try to match the corners, and then send it to backwards. And just reduce the frame size. It's not matching exactly. So just double-click and send this one back. You need to make little adjustments. Okay, so first of all, it's just this. Now let's try to match. Now it looks like it's matching rate. You can check the corners. For equity. No, it's not matching exactly. Now it's matching. So that's perfect. Now what we will do is, we will do is just reduce the frame size and send it to back and forth that pop-out effect. Let's just bring the frame down. It's much easier to do. Okay, now, what I'll do is I'll send this shapes to Backward, Send to Back and adjust the frame size. Something like this. Now you can see that although it's using the original background, we have create an illusion using two photos that Still it pops out from the photo. So as you can see that we have created an illusion using two photos, one without the background and one with the background. And we have matched the exact size and then try to adjust that within the frame. And then finally, we have sent these shapes off the frame backwards. And now we have a perfect image, which looks like that, which creates an awesome effect of a popping out photo from the frame. So really this is how you can do multiple things. If you focus on what I've just showed you, you will notice that there is nothing new that I have used here as a tool. This is only the ideas that created a completely different thing using the existing knowledge that we have. So this is how you can practically implement in different scenarios. Take some inspirations, take some designs, Google it, and try to create it by yourself. So this is how you will learn more and more. This is just an example of how you can be creative with Canva. 49. Congratulations: That brings us to the end of the course. I hope you guys really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for being here. Hope you have a real sense of achievement. And if I can give back to you some support or by answering any questions you might have. Please don't hesitate to let me know. Thank you again and I'll see you in my next class.