Canva for complete beginners

1. Introduction: A Salamu. My name is Di Mu Taken. I am an entrepreneur and a lecturer in computer graphics. Canva is an online application that changed the face of design industry forever. Since its inception, Canva has made it possible for everyone to create stunning designs quickly, even if they are not designers or have had any design education with Canva. Not only can you create graphic designs for print and digital media, you can also easily create presentations, edit videos, and add animations, write content, and even create websites. Canvas intuitive interface makes it easy for new users to use while still giving professional designers p***ty of room to channel their creativity. If you want to master Canva quickly from the very basic to the advanced level, then it online course series is the answer. You will be guided step by step to master and utilize all the features in Canva, be it the free features pro features to the features at the Canva 14 level. In this first BC level, of course, you will learn how to create an account and get started with Canva. Then you will learn to create a new project. Then learn to use templates. You utilize an AI feature called magic design. Then work with folders and then learn to publish design projects. Next, you will learn various design editing techniques. From how to add design elements. Setting various parameters related to shapes, texts, photos, and graphics. Then learn to upload and use your own image assets. Learn to use the group and frame features. Then learn to use various layout techniques in Canva. Then you will also learn how to edit PDF files using Canva. For the final project, we will put all that we have learned into practice to create a design for you to video Tamil. Again, this is just the first of Mini canva or series that I will be releasing on score. By taking this on line or series in shallow you and your business will be able to utilize Canva to its fullest potential. Creating designs of any kind will no longer be a burden for you. Instead, it will be your age over the competition. So don't wait any longer. Join this chorus now and start your journey in mastering Canva Salamu. 2. Projects files and shortcuts: Welcome to the online chorus Canva for complete beginners. Before we get into the lessons, there are a few important things I need to explain. First, this online chorus doesn't actually require any project file. Because most of the graphic elements you need can be obtained directly from canvas library. But there are some lessons where I upload my own image files. For this, you are free to use your own files. However, if you want to match the image files you use with the ones I use, you can download the files from the following link. Please pay attention to the letter cases as this link is case sensitive. Next up is the keyboard shortcuts issue. I recorded all lessons in its online course using a PC with Windows stand operating system. All the keyboard shortcuts will use only apply to PC computers. If you are using an Apple computer or Mac, you can still use the keyboard shortcuts. It's just that you need to just the keys a little. Generally, the control key on a PC is comparable to the command key on a Mac. And the key on PC is comparable to the option key on Mac. Most users are already aware of these keyboard differences, but I still need to explain it at the beginning just to play safe. 3. About Canva: If you have decided to take this course, chances are you already know what Va is. But just to be safe, I need to clarify several things related to Ken Va so we are all on the same page. What is V? Simply put, Canva is an online application that can help us create designs for different types of media. You can use it to create posters, brochures, social media graphics, presentations, videos, websites, and so on. The list of canvas capabilities continues to grow over the years as it develops. Canva, which was founded in 2012, was originally a company based in Sydney, Australia. Now, Canva operates globally or around the world. What sets Canva apart from other design tools that have come before is is of use. Instead of having to create everything from scratch, Canva provides tons of ready made templates As users most of the time we only need to tweak the templates just a bit to fit our needs if we were more customizations. Canva also provides tons of ready made design elements. We can still change or modify these design elements further. We can say that Canva is a design tool. It is very easy to use even by non designers and or beginners. However, it still provides professional designers a wide room for further creativity. You open canvas official website, which is Canva.com then open the plans and pricing page, and then open the compare pricing link. You can see that Canva is available in several pricing tiers. If you are a teacher or a school administrator, or even a student, you can get Canva 100% free. Of course, to get this privilege, you need to go through a verification process first. For personal or business users, you can start using Canva for free by choosing the Canva free plan. In general, you can access almost all Canva features even if you use the Canva free plan. If leader you need more features, you can upgrade your account to the Canva Pro Plan or Canva Four Teams plan. The price will be cheaper in total if you pay annually compared to monthly. Canva also provides custom pricing if you enter the number of your team members in this field. For example, this is for one person, this is for two people. And if I type ten, for example, this is the custom pricing offered by Canva to check feature differences between the plans. You can see the details in the list below. Obviously, the more expensive the plan, the more benefits or surfaces you get. I'll just touch on a few differences which are usually the main considerations in choosing a plan. The first is the amount of design content. Can v free users only get 250,000 templates, whereas Canva pro users in addition to getting everything that the free users get, they also get access to over 100 million of content in the form of design elements, photos, videos, and so on. This is a huge amount of content. Perhaps this benefit alone already far exceeds the price we have to pay. But again, this is only useful if we often create designs using Canva. Besides that, can pro users also get 24 hour customer support and then they also get up to 1 terabyte of cloud storage, whereas free users only get 5 gigabytes. Now if you work in a team, you might be interested in a top tier plan called V Thames. On this plan, users can access various collaboration and communication features, such as commenting a signing work, creating reports, and more. If you are still not sure which plan you need, just start with the free plan. And even if you think you need to upgrade, know that both Canva Pro and Canva teams provide free trial offers. It's better to take advantage of this free trial period before deciding to purchase the plan. Finally, before I end this video, I need to emphasize that everything I've said in this video is valid in mid 2023, which is the time when I recorded this video. These features and pricing policies may change at any time. So it is possible that when you watch this video, there will be some changes to the features and, or the prices. The point is you need to go back to this pricing page to confirm what features you will get before you decide to purchase a certain plan. 4. Getting started with Canva: To get started with Canva, you can open your browser and go to the official Canva website at Canva.com If you already have an account with Canva, simply press the login button. But if not, you can use the sign up button to register. Both will display a similar panel. Now if you already have an account with Google, or Microsoft, or Facebook, or Apple, if you're using a computer, the login or sign up process can be even faster. You should note that the login options you see here may differ depending on the device you are using as well as the country or location you are in. For example, I live in Indonesia. For users in Indonesia, you can log in with a blood erroded account for your information Blood Got. Id is a government program that provides various online benefits for students. If you are a student in Indonesia, from Pot to Grade 12 or even Grade 13 for Amca, you can get free access to Canva. Of course, you need to create a student account first at Badger ID. For now, let's assume you want to register manually using your own e mail. First, you need to enter your e mail. The system will check whether e mail you input has been registered or not. If not, you will be prompted to create a new account After that, don't forget to open your e mail inbox to verify your e mail. I will log in with my Google account to save time. Once you have successfully logged in, here is what you will see. If this session is your first time using Canva, you may get some questions first about your purpose for using Canva. Feel free to answer all of them. Depending on your situation. Your choices will help Cava prioritize the content that will be suggested to you leader. For now, I will use the personal option. Then you will also be offered a free trial of Canva. Basically, you can use all the features of Canva Pro for free for 30 days. Feel free to take up this offer. In the earlier part of the course, we will only focus on features available in a Canva free tier. Then as we progress to the end of the course, we will discuss the features of Canva. For now, I click this maybe leader button. After that, Canva asks if you want to join Canvas email newsletter. You may join now or not. It is up to you. You don't need to worry about making the wrong choice. Because later you can still customize what kind of content you want to receive. All right, on the left side you can see the side bar. You can show or hide this side bar by pressing the burger button or sandwich button above. If you open canvas and you don't see the side bar on the left side, just press the burger button. Next, you can access the setting speech by pressing this geon. There are many settings that you can set on this page. For now, let's discuss the most important ones in the your account category. You can change your profile picture. This may be important if you work in a team so that your colleagues can quickly recognize your account. Next, if you scroll down, we can set them color of canvas, UI or interface. You can set the color to light or dark, or we can automatically follow the color settings of the operating system. Then in the login and security category, you can change your password if you want. Since I use my Google account to log in to Canva. I don't have a separate password option that I can change, but if you've signed up with the e mail method manually, this is where you can set the password settings. Next in a message preference sub section, you can set what types of notifications canva, can send you to your e mail. You can click here if you don't want to receive any e mails on celebration days. Here you can specify the type of news or notifications you want to receive. This is for setting the frequency. If you want to opt out of the email newsletter completely, you can click this unsubscribed button. All right, from this page. If you want to go back to the main page, just click on a Canva logo on the top left. The last thing I want to explain in this video is that in addition to being available as web app or an application that runs in a browser, Canva is also available as a desktop application. To access it, you can press this button if you have installed the app before, then pressing this button will open the desktop app. But if you haven't, Canva will guide you to download and install the desktop app. I have the desktop version already installed. Off the record. Therefore, if I press this button, then confirm, I am now accessing Canva through the desktop app. As you can see, the desktop version of Canva looks very similar to the web version. This will make it easier for us to learn both. Basically, if we learn the web version, we automatically learn desktop version two. The advantage of using the desktop application is that it helps you to open Canva faster. As you can create a shortcut for the app on your task bar or desktop. It also helps you to focus on your project without the distraction of various websites in your browser. 5. Creating a new design: Before we get started for your information, I am currently using Canvas, desktop app, and not the website version. Because the interfaces are similar. You may keep using the website version if you want. All right. To create a new design in Canvas, there are a few ways you can go. One of them is by clicking the Create A Design button above. As you can see, there are tons of different types of design projects you can create on canvas. You can create graphics for social media like Instagram. Make videos, posters, and so on. As our mouse hovers over one of them, you'll see their sizes. If the design preset is for digital media or monitor screens, then the unit is pixels. But if it is for print media, then the units are centimeter or millimeter. Two design options that new users often ask about are dog and whiteboard. A brief explanation. First, Doc is basically used to create digital documents. You can add various design elements just like a block page. You can share the documents you create via link. You can then also download it as a PDF file and so on. Then for Whiteboard, this is the type of design project in canvas that has no size limit. Its purpose is to replace the whiteboard function that exists in the real world. You can use it, for example, to manage projects by creating, can burn boards and gun charts. Brainstorming by creating mind maps, or just personal reminders by creating sticky notes and so on. We will have a dedicated chapter discussing whiteboard features. Now, apart from scrolling and selecting manually, you can also filter this last by typing in keyboards, for example, you can type Instagram. Then Canva will only show design templates specifically for Instagram. Let's say choose the one with a square size of 1080 by 1080 pixels. The project we created in Canva will be lined up on top as a new tab. This is to go back to the main page, and we can click the tab again to go back to our previous project. The website version of Canva works the same way. The only difference is that the tabs on top are the tabs belong to your Internet browsers. The first thing you should do after creating a new design project is to give it a name. You can do this by clicking on this area and then just typing in the name you want to use for the project. For example, I'm naming this one Instagram 01. Now let's go back to the main screen or the home page. Another way to start a design project is by using the home page directly. You can utilize the search function or you can go through the category buttons below it. For example, this is the videos category, this is the print products category, and so on. Specifically for you category, you will see a list of design templates similar to what we see when we press create a design button. The difference is that here we can see thumbnail images. Below you can see the design projects that you have created recently. Let's try creating a whiteboard project for now. As usual, we can give this design project a name. Let's say Whiteboard 01. Next, if you notice, the appearance of this whiteboard type project is slightly different from the appearance of the Instagram type project next to it. At first glance, we can see similar features, but there are also different ones. Take this panel on the left, for example. Both the Instagram and Whiteboard projects look exactly the same. There are many features provided by the side panel. We will discuss them gradually. If you want to close this side panel, just press this little arrow button to reopen it. Just like one of the tabs or category icons, if I click on the text icon, the side panel will open again. But now with the text step active. From here you can switch to another tab if you want. Again, this panel area is the part of Canva that is likely to be uniform across different projects. Yes, we will see slight differences later when we discuss the app feature, but that will be a discussion for another chapter. For now, let's assume that the side panel always looks the same. Let's shift our focus to the tools in this bar area. They are generally uniform with slight differences depending on the type of design project. For the whiteboard type, we can press this grid view button to see the whiteboard pages in a grid layout, you can see that this project only has one page. We can press the plus button here to add a new page. We can delete the selected page or duplicate the page. If we want to open a specific page, we need to double click on the page Tum nail. Now if you try to open the Instagram project, you can also see the bar below. There is a grid view button here as well, which functions the same. But if you look closely, it doesn't have a time or button. As for this page button, apart from the whiteboard project, most other types of design projects also have it. The reason I explain all of this at the beginning is that if we have already discussed a feature or a tool in a certain type of project, while another type of project has exactly the same thing, most likely, I will not explain it again, this is to save my time and your time too, unless the features are different. At this point, you might be wondering then where is the save button or how do we save or work? Well actually you don't need to save your work manually because every time we make changes to our work, Canva will save it, automatically, lose this cloud icon. As long as there is a check mark on the cloud icon, your work has been saved. If the checkmark doesn't appear, then your work is not saved by Canva. This might be because there is a problem with your Internet connection. After you have your connection resolved, you can force Canva to save the project by pressing this icon. Or you can also go to the file menu and select this save command. 6. Create designs from templates: Previously we created a design project from scratch. Blank page. In this video, we will create a design project from a template provided by Canva. This is why working with Canva is so much more convenient, and why Canva has become so popular in such a short time. By using templates, most of our work is already done. Or at least we can use the templates as starting points to create our own designs. There are at least four ways to use templates in Canva. Let's go through them one by one. The first method is to utilize the category icon on the main page. If you notice on each of these category pages, Canva provides a blank project at the top. However, if we scroll down, we will see the design templates. This is the first method. The second method is to utilize the side bar on the left side. That is by pressing the template category. You can open or close the subcategories by pressing the small arrow buttons. Alternatively, you can also select the category from this area. For example, I can use social media and use Instagram Post Square. We can pick the template we want to use from this list. For now, let's go back to the main page. Now, apart from pressing the Canva logo, you can also return to the main page by pressing this back to home link. All right, the third method is to utilize the search feature. This is very useful if we want to be more specific in finding the templates. Just make sure you use the templates option and the projects option. You only use the projects option if you want to search for your own projects you have created before, you can see the two projects I have created in the previous lesson. Again, make sure the templates option is active and just type in what we want to search for. Just for example, let's say we want to open a new toy store and we want to promote it on Instagram. We can type toy store Instagram. You can directly select the template that appears below. But I suggest you don't select anything in this panel and just hit the Enter key or click on this or link. Because if you do that, you'll be taken to a page where you can see all the search results. There are more templates that you can choose from. Now, when choosing a design template, you need to pay attention to this small gold crown icon, or the RP. If the template looks clean or doesn't have any icons, this indicates that the template is completely free. But if it has a gold crown icon, then you can only ****** the template if you have a paid account like Canva or Canvas. Whereas templates that display the RP symbol like this indicate that they contain paid design elements. Rp means rupa, the currency in my country, Indonesia. If you are in another country, you will see a different chronic symbol. So what is the difference between a template with a crown and one with a currency symbol? If you are a canvas free user, you can still use a template like this by paying a small fee for only the paid design elements you use. At the time I recorded this video, it usually costs only $1 per design element. This pricing standard may change in the future or when you watch this video. However, as a free account user, you cannot use the templates that have the crown symbol. To access these templates, you'll have to upgrade to Canva or Canva for teams. Meanwhile, if you use one of these paid tiers, you can use all templates on a Canva platform, including those with paid design elements. For now, let's just pick a free template such as this one. Canva will show you a preview in larger version and also display its size. If you like the template, you can press the customized this template button. This will start a new project using the template. So waves. We should first give each new project a name. I'll just call this one toy store Instagram 01. All right. As you can see, our design project this time is not empty. Instead, it already has several design elements. You can select a design element by clicking on it. You can move them by click dragging. If the element is text, you can double click to change the text and so on. We will discuss design editing techniques in more depth in another lesson. For now, let's discuss the fourth method of using templates in Canva. If we are currently on a project work space like this, we can utilize the panel on the left to select design templates. Make sure the design tab is active, and make sure the templates option is also active. You may use the search feature here if you want. For now, let's try to find a free one. For example, this one. If you already have some design elements or if our canvas is not empty, Canva will first try to confirm whether we want to replace everything on this page with the template we choose or do we want to add this template as a new page. Let's try the second option by pressing the ad as a new page button, and this is the result. This is the first page. This is the second page. Now if we create a new page by pressing this ad page button, if reactive page is still empty, like this, when we choose a template canvas will immediately apply it without displaying any question or confirmation. Those are the four ways that you can go about creating designs by using ready made design templates. 7. Magic Design: In recent years, AI, or artificial intelligence technology has developed very rapidly. This also has an impact on canvas development. Since the 2023 release, Canva has provided many features utilizing AI technology. We will discuss the AI features of Va more in depth in a dedicated chapter. For now, we will focus on one AI feature that can help us start a new design project called Magic Design. In short, magic design works by selecting a design template, as well as making initial changes to the template based on the image file we upload, let's say it in action. The first step is to upload our own photo or image file. For this step, you can do it via the Upload button on the main page, or you can also press Create a Design button and then select Import File. I have prepared a photo of some salad or vegetables on the plate. This photo is free. I downloaded it from one of the stock photos websites. Feel free to use your own image file. After selecting the file, click the open button. Ken Va will then upload the image. Once it is done, Ken Va will give us two options used in a new design or add to a template. Now this is important for you to remember to use the magic design feature. You need to click on a second option, add to a template. Our image is now analyzed by the AI. After the process, Ken Va provides a selection of design templates that its AI system consider suitable. As you can see, the AI feature in Kva was able to recognize the photo I uploaded as a food photo. More specifically, food in the healthy category. Yes, it is not 100% profit. For example, this template considers our slate photo as noodles, perhaps because it does look like noodles at a glance. But this is not a big problem, as we can further edit the text or redesign to suit our needs. Before we discuss editing the template, there are a few things I want to show you. First, curly canva, features various types of design templates. What if we only need to create a poster? Well, we can filter the template list from here, then go to the marketing category and then strike poster. This now only shows poster type design templates and hides the others. You can see that I feature can even suggest the word salad in this design template. Now if you already know what you want to write for the title, just click on this headline dropdown list and type in the title you want. Just for example, I am typing in Mini Salad. Then press the Add to Results button. Now all the headlines in the design templates have changed to timid. You can also experiment with the color combination. Just click on this style dropdown list. Let's say we want to try this color palate. Then click the Results button. At this point, if you want to choose a design template, just click on it. Then press the customized template button. Can va we'll create a new design project. Again, what we did is just uploading a photo and letting the magic design AI to do dress for us. From here, you can freely customize the design As always, we can start by naming the project. I'll just name this one after the title, which is T Mini Set. 8. Finding and opening projects: In this lesson video, we will learn how to find and open design projects that we have previously created. To see all our projects from the front page of Canva, in many on the left, we can click on the link that says Projects on Projects page. We will see the last few projects we have worked on. This includes the image files that we have uploaded previously. If you want to see a more specific list, for example only the design projects, you can click the Design Stab. If you only want to see image files, you can click the Image Stab. We will discuss the folders features in the next lesson video. Now let's go back to the design step. As you can see at the moment, I only have four design projects, so it's not too difficult to find a project that I want to add it. But imagine that we've been using Canva for years and we've been very productive during that time. We may have hundreds of design projects, and so the list becomes too long to scroll manually. For this condition, Canva provides various project management features that can be very useful. The first one is the search feature. We have already discussed this feature, but before we used it to search for templates to create a new design. Now we want to use the projects mode, as we only want to find our own projects. For example, we remember that we designed a tie sell poster. Let's say we forget the full name, but we are sure that it has the word tie in it. So we can just type in tie again. You need to make sure that the search mode is on projects and not on templates. Canva will display projects that have blue word tie in them. If we click on a Project Tam nail, this will open a project in a new tab. For now, we want to focus on a project management feature. So let's just close this project by pressing the symbol on the tab. The next feature is filters, which are these three pull um lists on the top left. We can filter the list of projects by the person who created them. We can also filter the list by the type of design. For example, we only want to show the whiteboard design type. To go back to seeing all types of designs, we can select the all categories option. Or we can press the clear all button to clear all the active filters. Let's go back to the design step first. Then we can also use the time when the project was modified as the filter parameter. For example, we only want to display projects from yesterday or only the last 30 days, and so on. Next is the sorting feature. In addition to displaying projects based on the most relevant tubules search, we can also display the list of projects based on their name, that is either alphabetically forward or alphabetically backward, or by the creation time from old to newest, or the reverse from newest to old. Then the last feature is for changing the display mode of the list. You can select the grid mode. This is useful if you want to preview the projects in larger thumbnails. Alternatively, you can use the list mode. This mode can provide additional information such as who created the project and when the project was edited. Furthermore, in this list mode, you can see a dotted icon on the right side of the project. These dotted icons can be used to access properties and various commands related to the project. If you are in a grid mode, you can still access the dotted icons by hovering your mouse over the project tum nail. If you click on this dotted icon at the top, you can change the project name. You can also duplicate it, move it down, load it, and so on. For now, let's focus on the move to trash command. When you click this command, the current project will be deleted or rather canva moves the project to the trash folder. If you change your mind and want to restore the project, you can access the trash folder by pressing the trash button in left menu at the bottom, you can see that the project we deleted earlier is still here. If you want to restore this file, simply click on the dotted icon and select the restore command. But if you are sure you don't need it anymore, you can permanently delete it with this command. But to save you time, you actually don't need to manually delete the content in a trash folder. Can va automatically deletes content in a trash folder when it is more than 30 days old. For now, I am taking this project back out of the trash folder. Now if I go back to projects, the Instagram 01 project is back on the list again. All right, in the next video, we will discuss the folders feature. 9. Working with folders: In this video, we will discuss the folders feature. Just as we manage files on our computer, we can manage projects and files in Canvas, utilizing folders to create a new folder. You can click on this Create Folder button. But remember that this button only appears if you have not yet created a folder. If you already created a folder, you can press the add new button on Upright dense like folder can display a window in this field, you can give your new folder a name. For example, I'm naming this social media. Then if you're working with a team, you can specify who can access the folder through this field. We will discuss the theme feature in another chapter. For now, just click Continue. Now we have a new folder called social media. To get in and out of a folder, you can use the menu on the left side bar. Just click on the folders name to see its contents. Since this is a new folder, it is still empty. To go back to the main folder, you can click on All Projects Link. Another method to go inside a folder is to click directly on its stamina to go back out. Apart from the menu on the left, you can also utilize the bread crumbs above. For example, you can click Projects to go back to the main projects folder. All right, if you open the folder step, it turns out that Canva has provided us with these three folders. You should note that these are special folders, you cannot move them or delete them. Like normal folders, the pros folder will contain various design elements that you process from Canva. Then the uploads folder will contain your uploaded files. Finally, this Start folder is a special folder that will display projects from all your fat folders. Just for example, if you want to make the social media fare folder, click on the dot icon and then select Star folder in this case. Or the projects inside the social media folder will also appear. When you open the start folder to return a folder to a normal or non favorite status, you can click on the dotted icon again and then star folder. At this point, you might be wondering, how do we move projects or files into a folder? There are several ways to do this. If you are in the tab, simply click right the project you want to move, then drop it on top of a folder stem nail. We can check by going into the folder, and sure enough we can find a project inside this folder. Besides click dragging in the main area, we can also click Drag to the folder name, left side bar or menu. For example, I can click Dirk this toy store project to the social media folder. Now in the social media folder, there are two design projects. Besides the click drag method, you can also move projects by utilizing the dotted icon. For example, I can click on the dotted icon of this Select Poster project, then click Move to Folder button. Then select the social media folder. Then choose move to Folder. To move a project out of a folder or to domain all projects folder, you can use the dotted icon again. Move to folder, then all, then choose your projects. Then press move to folder button. Or you can do this faster by click, dragging it directly to the all projects in the left side bar. Just like the local folders on our computers, folders in canvas can also be nested and can be moved around. If you are in a folder like this creating new folder, we make the new folder or a folder nested inside another folder. For example, if I click the At new button again, then choose folder name this Facebook, then click Continue. You can see that now the Facebook folder we just created is located inside the social media folder to move a folder to another location. The technique is similar to how we move content. You can use the dotted icon method. That is by selecting the move to folder command, or you can click Drag directly to the target folder you want to move to. One important thing you need to know in terms of moving folders around in a version of Canva that I am using at the time of recording, which is in the middle of 2023, there is a stripe bug related to the display of the folder in the left side bar. If we click the Facebook folder to all projects, in theory, the Facebook folder is now outside or at the same level as the social media folder. However, in the left side bar, the folder structure is not immediately updated. Don't worry, this is not a serious bug. In shallow, your files or projects are safe. If this happens to you and you are using the web version of Canva, just refresh the page. If you are using the desktop app version of Canva like I do, you can close the app first and then reopen it again. Usually the folder structure on the left side bar will get updated. Hopefully, this bug has been fixed in the version of Cava you're currently using. The last thing I want to discuss is how to delete a folder. For this, you can use the dotted icon in the folder, then select Delete. If the folder you want to delete contains files or content, Canva will display a warning window. Are we sure we want to delete this folder? As that also means deleting all the contents inside it. We can press close to cancel if what we're deleting is an empty folder, for example, this Facebook folder, then Canva immediately deletes it without giving any warning. Now, unlike other content empty folders that we delete do not go to the trash. They will be permanently deleted by Canva. 10. Publishing projects: In this lesson video, we are going to discuss some of the methods to export or publish the designs we create in Canva. The first step to doing this is we need to open the project. First, make sure we are in working space like this and not on the home screen. Then you can press the Share button on the top right corner. At the top of the Share menu, you will see the option to share your work with your colleagues or team. We will discuss the collaboration feature in Canva in Leader in its own chapter. For now, let's focus on the bottom part of the share menu. Here you can see for options, download, Share on social print, your design and more. Let's go through these options one by one. The option you will probably use the most is download essentially. With this option, you can download the designs you create in Canva to your computer locally. If we click on this pulldown list, there are many options that you can use. The option you chose in the pulldown list above will determine the parameters displayed below it. If you want to download your design as an image file, there are three options to choose from. You can download it in Pe, PNG, or Fiji format. Generally, what you want to use is the PNG format because PNG supports transparency, whereas P does not. However, if you notice the features to just image parameters such as transparency can only be used by paid users for your information, as Fiji is a vector image format. With this format, you can further edit the image in vector software such as Rub, Illustrator, Coral Row, or Scape and so on. Unfortunately, this feature also only applies to paid users. Besides using image file formats, you can also download your projects in PDF format. Canva provides two options for PDF If you don't intend to print it on paper, such as just sending it via e mail or shared it on your website, then you should use the PDF standard option. However, if you intend to print it on paper, then the PDF print is a better option. Finally, if your project is a video or has animation, you can download it as an MP four or as a GF file P four. Video files are more suitable if your video is long audio or you want to edit it further. In video editing software such as by Premiere Pro Final Cut, the fancy resolve and so on. But if your video is short, contains no sound, and you want to embed it on a web page, then the format is more suitable for you to use. For now, let's return to the main Share menu By pressing this arrow button. In addition to downloading your design as a file, Canva can also help you directly publish your design to various other platforms or web applications. For example, you can publish it to social media in cloud storage service or use it for e mail marketing and so on. Indeed, the option you can see by default is share On. If you click this, you can see a list of various popular social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and so on. But if you go back, then click on the More button below, you can see that Canva allows us to connect to a lot more online services. You can access Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive. Then below we can see Whatsapp and Mail Chimp. There are also online applications for an emission, such as Po tune and so on. Now it is important to remember that in order to take advantage of the sharing feature to these various online applications. First, you must already have an account in those online applications. Then you need to set up the connection from Canva, which basically you need to login into the app through Canva. Once your account is verified, you can then utilize the sharing or published feature. It will be too long to connect all these apps one by one. Feel free to experiment and try it out for yourself. If we go back to the main share menu, you will see the print your design option. Even above, there is now a print posters button. Now you need to know that the definition of print here is not a feature to connect to your home or office printers. If you want to print on your own printer, then you need to download the project first as a file through download option as we discussed earlier. All right, what does Canva mean by print here? The definition of print is a print on de service. Essentially, we can order the designs we create on Canva printed products that are delivered directly to our address. For example, in the form of books, flyers, leather heads, ca***dars, business cards, and so on. Of course, this can save us time, especially if we are too busy, to go to the print shop ourself. Since its introduction in 2017, this printing service has only been available in a few countries then since 2019. This service also covers Southeast Asia, one of which is Indonesia, where I live. However, you should note that at the time I recorded this video, which was in mid 2023, the printing process can only be done in these eight countries. Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and the US. Orders from outside of these eight countries, for example, from Indonesia, will be made in the nearest country, and the prints will be shipped via international shipping. In terms of pricing, it is important to factor in the shipping costs as well if you are ordering this print surface from countries outside of the eight countries mentioned above. 11. Adding design elements: Starting from this video and the next few videos, we will discuss the various editing features in Canva. For this video, we will discuss how to adjust the background, then learn how to add new design elements, and then learn how to perform transformations. We will start with a blank new design. If you frequently create content on Youtube, you often need fresh designs for video cover or thumbnail. Thankfully, Canva already provides a size three set for this purpose. If you click on the Create a Design button and then type in in the search box Youtube tumi, or simply thumb, you can see that the standard Youtube tummil size is 12 pixels by 720 pixels. Click the design preset to start a project with that size. Let's give this project a name. I usually put the code Y T in front of the name. If the project is for Youtube, tumailnIusuallyutjectde, for example, 020 span, followed by the video name, how to b***d colors, creta. Then press Enter or just click anywhere outside the text field. This is how I usually name my projects. Your free to use zero naming system according to you or your team's needs. All right. The most basic design element is the background. To select the background element, you can hover the mouse in the center area until you see the high light surrounding the whole page. If you click on it, the background element will be selected. You will see this rainbow colored icon on the top left. If you hover your mouse on this icon, you can tell that this icon is for setting the color. So from this example, we start to understand that every time we select an object or element, the parameters of that element will be shown at the top. Depending on the element we select, sometimes we can see a lot of parameters appear at the top bar. We will discuss this position button later. For now, let's click on this background color icon. You can see that the panel on the left changes to a panel where we can set the background color. To return this panel to its previous condition, you can click on a background color icon again, or you can also click on one of the tabs on the left or just click anywhere outside the design area. Let's click on a background object and then open a background color panel. Again, as you can see, Canva provides two options for background color. We can use a solid color or a gradient color. We can also insert an image as the background, but we'll get to that in another video. Now let's say we like this black too, blue gradient color. But we still want to tweak it a bit. One way to do that is to click outside to confirm. Then click again to select it and reopen the background color panel. If you notice there is now a gradient box at the top. We can click on this box to adjust the color further. For example, we want to make the gradient colors from black to color that is close to San. Just click on this blue color box and change the color of bit to the direction we want. We can also add more colors to the gradient by pressing this plus button if we want. We can also change the color again, for example, to green and so on. We don't need this color for now, let's just remove it by clicking on the X button in the top right corner. Next for the orientation, or the direction of the gradient, I think I like this middle one better. All right, now let's say we want to add a new graphic element to our design. For this, we can click on the element tab icon. You can see that Canva provides different types of design elements. For convenience, all these elements have been categorized according to their type. We will cover all these categories gradually. For now, we want to focus on the lines shapes category. You can browse by pressing the right or left arrow keys. But if you want to see all the design elements available from this category, you need to press the CO button. Right now we are in the lines shapes category. You can press this left arrow icon to go back out. But for now, let's assume we want to add a circle shape. For this, the shape directly into the design area, or you can just click and release it. With this method, the element will be placed right in the center of the page. If you want to duplicate a design element, you can click on the element and then click on this plus icon. If you want to delete it, you can click on this trash can icon. All right, before we discuss the various parameters above, let's first discuss how we can perform transformation on design elements. To move an object, you can simply click drag the object and then release it at where you want it to be. Canva helps us to center the object horizontally, vertically, using guidelines and snapping effect if we have multiple objects on the page. Canva can also help us to snap the active object to the boundaries of other objects. If you want to move an object straight vertically or straight horizontally, you need to hold down the shift key while moving the object. The object will snap vertically or horizontally, depending on which is closest to the most colossal location to scale uniformly. You can use any of the control points at the corners if you want to scale, but non uniformly, you can click drag on one of the control boxes on the sides. Then when scaling an object, you can make use of the key with this voll. Use the center point of the object as the center of the scale operation. If we release the alky, again, the center point of the scale, we'll return to the point opposite to the one we drag. Finally, we can rotate an object by click, dragging on a circular arrow icon. All right, since this video is already quite long, we will continue the lesson in the next video. 12. Shape object parameters: We will continue the lesson from the previous video. Now we will focus on the parameters of shaped objects. If we select a shaped object, you will see a button that says Shape at the top left. If we click this button, we can change the shape of the object into another shape. For example, a square or a star, an arrow, a heart, and so on. If we click the circle again, it will return to a perfect circle. Next to the shaped button, we can see two more buttons. This one is used to change the field area, or the inner color of the shaped object. If we click the button, as you can see, the panel looks similar to the background color panel we discussed in the previous video. We can choose a solid color or a gradient color. We can adjust the current color and shift it to another color. Or perhaps convert the color from solid type to the gradient type from this panel. All right, next we can use this button to adjust the outline of the shape or Canva calls the border. Currently the active shaped object does not display any outline because by default the option is set to no border line. The border line will appear. If we change the option to a solid line or any other types that have gap, we can adjust the thickness of the line by dragging the cider or by tapping the value directly in this field. Now to be able to use the corner rounding parameter, we must use a shaped object that has corners. We cannot apply corner rounding to a circle shape because all of its sides are already a perfect curve. Just for example, we can create a rectangular shape. You can also use triangles or other shapes that have corners. Now if we change the corner rounding value, the corners in the shape will become blunt or rounded. Now if a shaped object has an active border, Va will display a new button in a middle border color. Again, this button only appears when a border setting of the object is active. As the name suggests, we use this button to set the color off the border line. For example, we can change the color to red or yellow and so on. At this point, you might be wondering why does a shaped object have for parameters and various other text formatting parameters. Well, this is because in Canva, every shaped object can also act as a container for text. Basically, if we double click on a shaped object, we can type something inside that shape. For example, I type in Hello Canva. We can select the text. We can change the phone type if we want, or change the size, and so on. So that is the reason why there are text parameters on shaped objects. We will discuss text formatting features in more depth in the next video. 13. Working with texts: In this lesson video, we are going to discuss creating text objects as well as text formatting techniques. Previously, we discussed how to insert text into a shaped object in Canva. Apart from creating it inside a shaped object, we can also create a standalone text object. But before we start, it might be a good idea to delete all these shaped objects first. An easy way to delete multiple objects is to click Drag first to create a selection area. After the objects are selected, we can press the delete key on the keyboard. All right, To create a text object, we can open the text category in the side panel. Can Va provides several options for creating text. If you press the Add a text box button, Canva will create a text object in the center of the page. Another way is to use the three buttons here. For these three buttons. In addition to the click and release method, you can also click direct the element to any location on the page. What makes these three buttons different from the one above is that they have default formatting applied to them. This one is more suitable for heading because it is large and also bolt, this is for subheading because it is quite large. And this one is more suitable for body text or long paragraph text. But you need to remember that no matter how we create the text object after the object is created, we can still adjust it as we like. If we scroll down further. Canva also provides various design elements in the text combination category. Basically, they are a collection of several text objects combined into a group. Sometimes apart from text objects, you can also find other design elements inside them. We will discuss these text combinations later. For now, let's discuss how to create and edit basic text objects in terms of transformation. The way we transom tax elements is similar to how we transom shaped objects. We can click and drag to move it. We can rotate it by click, dragging the circle arrow icon. We can also perform a uniform scale by dragging one of the control points in the corners. What is different from the shaped objects is that we cannot perform non uniform scale text objects. Instead of scaling, dragging the control boxes on the sides will only resize the text container, but the form size of the text inside it is not affected. If we select a text element or object, Canva will display various P for text formatting. For example, we can change the phone type. As with other design elements, not all phones are available for free. Phones that have a gold crown symbol indicate that they are only accessible to Canva or Canva for them, users. For now, I want to use a free phone called Open Sense. I can just type the name here. Open here is the phone for the other text parameters. I think they are all very common as you can find them in other software. Let's just go through them quickly. Here, we can change the size of the text, then we can use this button to adjust the color. Let's say we can make this text white for making the text bold. Making it italic or not, adding underline below the text. This is for controlling letter cases. This is for text alignment. Whether we want to make it left, justify, white, or center, then this button will turn our text into a list. To make it clear, I'd better delete the other text objects first. Besides the click drugging method, you can also hold she and click to select multiple objects in Canvas. Press the delete button to delete them. Then we can add the text by double clicking on the object. If the object has not been selected before, just for example, I can change the text to a list of days, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Then click outside. Then click again to select the text object. All right, if we click this button can change the text to a bulleted list. Click again to make it numbered list and click again to make it back to normal. Next, we can set the spacing between letters with this letter spacing slider. And we can control the line spacing. This line spacing slider. Now if you want to format only part of the text, say only the word Sunday, we can click first to enter the text editing mode. This mode is marked by the appearance of the text cursor, which is a blinking vertical line chef pointer. We can move it with the arrow keys on the keyboard. We can select text with a direct click of our mouse. Or you can hold down the Hefkey and press the arrow keys on the keyboard. In essence, the text selection technique in Canva is similar to how we select text in other software. When we have some text selected, any formatting changes we made above will only affect the selected text. Now if you are in a text editing mode like this, and then you want to move the entire text object, you cannot use the click drag method as before because that will only select the text. What you need to do is move the move cursor until it is on a border or bounding box. You will see the cursor turned into a four way arrow symbol. In this condition, you can click to move the whole text element to another location. In Canva, we can apply various visual effects to text elements. That is basically the function of the effect button. Canva divides text effects into two types, style and shape. By default, these two types of effects are set to none, meaning none of the effects are active. If we activate an effect, for example the live effect or shadow and so on, the parameters of the selected effect will appear below it. For the shadow effect, we can set the distance of the shadow with this offset parameter. Then this is for the direction of the shadow. This is to set how blurry the shadow is and so on. It will be too time consuming to go through all the parameters in each effect one by one. Feel free to experiment with this style type effects on your own. For now, I'll return the effect to the non option. The second type of text effect is shape. If we activate this curve effect, we can make the text curve or circular. The text will curve downwards if the curve value is positive. And it will curve if the curve value is negative. If the value is large enough or small enough, the text will form a perfect circle. The last two text formatting features I want to cover are transparency and copy style. If we want to make our text object transparent, we can click this button, Then set the transparency level with the slider. If the value is 100, it means that the text is solid or not transparent at all. 50 means it is semi transparent. If it is zero, it is completely invisible. For now, let's set this to 70. The last feature is copy style. This feature is used to duplicate the formatting of a text object to another text object. To show you an example, I can create a new text object and then type in some dummy text. For example, good morning Jakarta. Okay, let's assume we want to duplicate the style of this text text First, make sure the text object we want to duplicate is selected, Then click the copy style button. If you notice now the most cursor changes to a black roller brush symbol. In this condition, all we need to do is click on a target text that we want to apply or copy the style to. You can see that now this text changes to follow the style or format of the text next to it. 14. Working with photos: In this video, we will discuss various techniques related to photos to add a photo element to our design project. We can go to the elements step. You can see there is a category called photos. As usual, we can press the CO button to view all the content from the photos category. We can use the search feature if we want because we are still in a free plan. Let's pick a free photo, for example this one. Now to insert a photo into a design project, you need to be careful if you insert it with the click brack method and your mouse position is on the edge of the background area mating that you want to use the photo as the background. If this is what you want, simply release the most button here. Now the photo is set as the background. But if this is not what you want, there are two things you can do. First, if it just happened, you can press the undo button above. Second, if you cannot undo it, perhaps it is not a current event or you are using a design template. You can change the background type to a solid or gradient color, the same way we discussed in the earlier lesson. That is, you first select the background object, then click on the background color button to open the panel on the left side. From here, you can use a solid or gradient color to replace the current photo. Now when we want to change the background type to a color canvas extracted some dominant colors from the photo, which we might want to use as a background color. For now, I'll just use the white color. Let's try to insert the photo again, but this time not as a background. To be safe, you can just click once on a photo so that it is placed in a center. Or if you want to use the click drag method, just make sure your maps cursor is not too close to the border of the page or the background object. All right, in terms of transformation, the technique is basically the same as that of shape and text objects. I don't think we need to discuss it again in its video to save time. What we need to discuss is the difference. That is, if we try to do a uniform scale on a photo object by dragging the control boxes on the sides instead of scaling, Env will only change the size ratio. The consequence is that some of the photo areas might get cut off or hidden when a photo object is selected. We can see some buttons above the button with letter. I will display information related to the image file, such as the title or name of the photo, the photographer or artist who created it. Then license a list of keywords or tags. You can make this photo your favorite if you want, by giving it a photos that you give a start to will appear in your start folder. You can also put this photo into a specific folder that you have if you want and so on. Then using the flip menu, you can mirror the photo horizontally or vertically. The one button that needs our attention is probably the added photo button. If we click this button, you can see Va divides the added photo features into three categories. Or tapes. They are effects just and crop. Let's take a look at the crop tape first. As the name suggests, we can use the features in this tape to perform cropping. There are many standards for aspect ratio provided by Canva. By default, when a free form option is active, we can set the crop size ratio freely if features one to one for example. Then the way to height ratio of the crop will always be locked at one to one, even when we try to adjust it manually. If features 16 by nine, then image size ratio will be locked at 169 and so on. To change the position of the image, we can click Rack the photo. To rotate the image, you can click and rack this rotating arrow icon. Or you can also use this rider. If the image becomes enlarged, you can scale the image again by dragging the control points in the corner. Now you can use this auto button. Can we determine the orientation of the image? Automatically, You can even use a Madan feature called Smart Crop. If we press this, will examine the photo carefully and then automatically rotate and crop the image. If you are satisfied with the cropping condition, you can press done below to apply it. If you want to abort it, just press the cancel button. Let's open the edited photo panel again. Now we will focus on the Ja tab. Here we can make different adjustments to the photo. For example, we can adjust the color to make it warmer. Or make it cooler. We can set the brightness contrast and so on. It will take too long to go through all of them one by one. You can try these parameters yourself to see their effect on the image. If we scroll up again, there is a button called auto just the concept is similar to the previous smart crop button. Basically can examine the image file and then suggests the color adjustment settings that it thinks are best. If you want to return all these color adjustment settings to the fault, you can press these adjustments button below. All right. The last one is Effects. At the top, In the 12 category, you can find various features that utilize AI or artificial intelligence. We will discuss these features later in a dedicated chapter. For now, let's take a look at the other features in effects panel. In the filter section, we can find various color adjustments. But in the form of resets, we can press L to see them all. Va divides filters in the seal subcategories. If we select a filter, we can adjust its intensity using the strider that appears below it. For now, let's go back outside and use the non option to disable the filter. Next we want to see the effects category. The first effect is shadows. We can see the options apart from the non option. These three options are actually presets of the same effect, the shadow effect. What makes them different are the parameters. If you notice the parameters are similar to the text shadow effect we discussed earlier, I don't think we need to discuss it again in this video. You can try it yourself if you want. If you don't want to use this effect, don't forget to return the option to non. Let's go back to the edit photo main page. The second effect is to focus. This effect is useful when we want to make certain parts of image look sharp and make the rest blurry. It is as if we are using a camera with a low F number or what is commonly known as shallow depth of field. You can see how advanced this effect really is when you drag the focus position slider canva seems to know the depth of the objects inside the photo. The purple color that appears indicates the area that we want to focus on or that we want to make look sharp. The rest we look blurry. With the level of blur that we can set with doubler intensity slider above, you don't want this effect. Don't forget to set this low intensity value to zero. Next is the blur effect. This will basically make our entire image blurry. Make sure you set this to zero also if you don't want to use it. The last one is the duotone effect, as the name suggests, it will make our image consists of two colors, only dark color and a light color. You can choose from the presets provided here or you can also set the colors manually. If you prefer, you can use the intensity slider to adjust the strength of the effect against the original color, just like before. If you don't want to use this effect, don't forget to select the non option above. 15. Working with graphics: In this video, we will learn how to work with graphics type design elements. You can see the category by opening the elements tab and then opening the graphics subcategory. At this point, you might be wondering what is the difference between photos and graphics? In general, photos are images taken using a camera from the Re world, Whereas graphics is a type of image that is created or drawn from scratch. One important thing you need to know is that unlike the shaped category, which are all vector types and the photos category which is all Raster Kva graphics type elements can either be roster or they can be vector. Different graphic types, we'll have different parameters that we can use to control them. Therefore, before we continue, it is important for us to discuss the differences between raster and vector. First, in the world of computer graphics, we can divide images into two types, Raster and Vector. Roster is the most common type of image, or the one we see most often on the web or screen. I am currently using Photoshop to open a raster image file. If we zoom out at this level, the image looks smooth or seamless. But when we keep zooming in, we will start to realize that this image is actually made up of minimal squares, commonly referred to as pixels. In essence, raster image is an image formed by lots of small squares or pixels. The quality of Raster image is directly proportional to the number of pixels used to define it. Examples of commonly used raster image formats are PNG, Jpeg. Now there is a new up and coming roster file format called web P. Generally, raster images are more suitable for storing photos or complex images. Now let's look at the second type vector. I am currently using a software called Ruby Illustrator to open a vector image file. If I zoom in as far as possible, as you notice the image does not turn jagged or pix elated. This is because vector images are not defined or formed by a bunch of pixels. Instead, they are defined by mathematical formulas or various such as the coordinates of the points, line or curve functions, the color inside the area formed by the lines and points, et cetera. An example of a vector file format is SG. Besides Pg, there are many other vector file formats, but they are mostly proprietary or tied to the software that created them. For example, I for Lustra, CDR for Choral Draw, DWG for Autocad, and many others. Generally, vector formats are more suitable for storing images that contain only a few colors, such as logos, icons, fonts, and so on. All right, let's go back to Canva to add a graphic element to our design project. The method is no different from other design elements. Likewise, in terms of transformation techniques, we can safely skip discussing these topics. What we need to discuss now are the parameters. For example, if we select this graphic object and look at the parameters at the top bar, it turns out that all the parameters displayed are no different from the photo element that we discussed in less lesson. This is because the currently active graphic is Raster type. But if we try to direct this graphic, look at the top bar, the parameters displayed are slightly different. This is because the active graphic element is a vector type. As you can see, it also has an information button, a flip button similar to Raster image. Then there is also the Crop button whose parameters are mostly similar to that of roster type. Although here there is no smug crop feature. Then if we click on the added image button can provide some filters and effects, but not as many as we saw earlier for raster images. The advantage of vector images is that we can edit the color of each shape. Just for example, I can change the color of this one to pink, then this one to purple, and so on. 16. Using your own images: Kva provides tons of various design elements as we know it. Using these elements can certainly help us to save time. However, there are times when we also need to use our own image files. There are at least four scenarios where you want to upload your own image files to Kva. The first scenario is using the image file as the input for the magic design feature. We have already discussed the magic design feature in depth in the previous chapter. The second scenario is to use the image file as a design element in your existing project. The third scenario, to utilize Canva as an image editor and less, one is to use your own image as a reference or a size template to start a new design project. Let's look at each of these scenarios one by one, except for the first one, because we've already covered design in the previous chapter to use your own image files as design elements. First, you need to upload them. If you are in the project work space like this, you can open the upload step. Here we can see the image files we uploaded earlier. We can also see that Canva categorized the files into three types. Images, videos, an audio, not only images. You can also upload videos and audio. To upload a new file, you can press this button, then open the folder where the file is located, Select the file and press open. Or you can click drag the file directly from the file browser to this area. For example, I can select two image files at once, then drag them both to the pad area on the left. Once they are uploaded, you can use these images just as you both use the photos or graphics elements. There are times when we have photos that look too dark, too bright, or maybe we want to apply certain filters to make them look more attractive. We can utilize Canva for this purpose. Basically, we upload image to Canva, then we add the image, then we download it back to our computer. To do this, we can go back to the main page, then create a design button, and then press this button. Import file. Select the image file you want. For example, I am using this image for your information. I created this digital painting using a free software called Creta. This image is part of the final project in my online course on Creta. You can check out this course if you are interested. All right, under these conditions, we already know that this button reactivate the magic design feature. We will discuss the function of this button in a moment. For now, let's focus on a hidden button on bottom life which says edited photo Vol. Open the screen to edit image. We've discussed these features before, but to an element inside a project. Let's assume we want to adjust the color by going to the adjust tab. Right now, the image has an afternoon lighting mode. We want to make it look like it is morning. We can k the temperature slider and also the tint slider towards the left, so we have more coal or blue colors in the image. You can also lower the brightness value if you want. After making some changes, we often need to compare it with the original image. For this, you can press and hold the compared button above. When we press the compared button, the original image will be displayed. From here, you are free to add other effect or perhaps crop the image if you wish. When you are done, you can download the file back to your computer by pressing the Sef button, then select download. Or if you want Canva to save the image first you can press the Sef to Canva button. If you do this inside the uploads folder, you will see two images, the original image and the edited version. Canva usually adds the word edited behind the name to make it easier for us to differentiate the two. The last scenario we want to discuss is using our own image as the basis or template for a new design project To do this. When we upload our image file, if you remember there is a purple button that says use in a new design. You can press that button. Or if the image is already in the uploads folder, just click on the image again to reopen the edited photo window. From here you can press the use in design button. Both buttons have the same function. You should know that cobots image has a non standard size of 11, 41 by 1080 pixels. With this technique, we can create a new design project with a custom size based on the image we use. From here, you are free to add other design elements into the project as needed. 17. Group and Frame: In this video, we are going to discuss how to group and ungroup objects in Canva, and then we will discuss a special element type called frame. We have discussed the text element before, but we haven't touched on the text types that are combinations. If we drag one of these text combinations into the canvas, you can see a button that says ungroup. This button indicates that the object we currently select is a group object. In other words, it is a combination of sufle objects or elements. In a group condition, we can still select each of the elements. The parameters associated with the element still be displayed by canvas at the top. For example, if the element with select is text, we can ****** its phone size and so on. What makes the group object unique is that all transformations will be applied to the entire group object, not individually on its elements. If we click drag, the whole group will move. Likewise, if we scale or rotate, the entire group object will be affected to break up a group object and free all the elements inside it. We can press this Group button. Now we can transform these objects individually. You want to create a group object first you need to select all the elements that you want to group. You can use the click Brack method to create a selection area. All objects in the selection area will get selected. You can also use another method of selection, such as holding the schiefke and just clicking on each object that you want to select. You need to remember that this shift method is a tog. This means that if you hold on shelf and click on a selective object, this will make the object selective instead. This shift click selection technique can be useful for selecting objects in more detail. After we have some objects selected, can vol display a button coup if we cricket. The objects are now joined into a group, that is the group feature in Va. Another method of combining two design objects is by using a frame. Basically frames are special design elements in Va that we can use to do crapping, but with a unique shape. This feature is also known as mask or clipping mask. On other graphic software with frames, we can mask image elements with photos or graphics provided that the graphics we use are of roster type Va does not allow us to frame vector objects, at least not yet. In a version where I recorded this lesson made 2023. We can also use the frame object to frame of video. We will discuss an emission and video later in its own chapter. To create a frame object, you need to open the Elements tab, Then scroll down until you see the frames category. You can press the CO button to see all the frames provided by Canva. Just for example. Let's try to make one that looks like a flower next to insert an image into the frame. The method is the same as when we insert an image into the background object. That is, we need to click Greg the image, and release it when it is in a frame area. You can do this using an existing image in your design or a new image that you drag from the panel on the left. You can see that now the image seems to be inside the frame object. In this condition, if we perform a transformation, both the frame object and rowing object will move or change together as if they are a single object. If we look at the top at first glance, the parameters of the frame object are similar to the image object we discussed earlier, but there are some unique parameters that need our attention. The first one is crop. If we open the edited photo panel and then open the crop tab here, we can transform the image object relative to the frame object. Because the frame object is now basically the crop area for the image. If you like to changes, you can press the Ne button, But if you change your mind, you can press cancel next, similar to the background object. You can also change the contents of the frame area to a solid color or a gradient color. But remember, if you do this, the current image inside the frame object will be deleted. Again, the way this frame object works is similar to the background object. Let me end with first, if what you want to do is separate the image from the frame object, then you need to press this more button. Then use the detached image command. Now the frame object and the image object are separated. Again, even without any image inside it, you can still utilize a frame object by giving it a solid or gradient color. 18. Layout techniques: In this video, we will discuss various layout techniques in Canva. As with other graphic software design, objects in Canva can overlap. It is possible for one object to cover or block other objects for practice. I deliberately made these for design objects close together and stacked on top of each other. One of the chal***ges in object lyout selecting objects that are blocked by other objects, let's say we want to select the solid photo, but because of its position at the back, when we click on it, this text object is selected instead. In this case, there are three approaches that you can use. The first approach is to utilize the Pre view or Hitctangle. The point is, before you click to select an object, carefully hover the mouse cursor until you see the Hitctangle on the object. Only then can you click to select it. The second approach is to cycle through the selection with the help of the control key. To do this, when the mouse cursor is over Sufro objects that overlap like this, you can hold down the control key and then keep clicking. Every time you click, select the next deeper object at the mouse cursor location until the background object is selected. If you click again the selection, we look back to the topmost object and so on. The third approach is to utilize the layers feature. To access layers, you can click on the button depths position, then activate the layers step in. The spannel canva sorts objects based on their depth. Objects that are at the bottom are behind other objects, while objects that are on top are in front of other objects. By selecting a layer, you automatically select the object or the element provides two modes for displaying layers, all and overlapping. Generally, you will want to use the all mode as this mode displays all existing objects. In other words, nothing is hidden. You can use the overlapping mode when your design composition is already too complex. And you need to select only certain objects that overlap with other objects. Just for example, if I select this text layer or I select this layer, the layer that shows the stripes image doesn't seem to exist. This is because both the text object V object do not intersect with the stripes image object. Vice versa, if I select the stripes image layer, it is as if the text and V layers do not exist. But if I select the background layer, all layers will be visible because all of them intersect or overlap with the background object. Like if I select the select photo or layer, all the layers will be visible because they all intersect with this layer, that is the overlapping mode. All right, I'm switching back to the old mode for now to adjust the depth of an object, There are at least three ways we can do in Canva. The first is to use the layer feature to move an object from one level to another. Just click Drag the Layer. For example, we can click Drag this stripes image layer until it is under the slot photo layer. Keep in mind that you can only move layers with a dot symbol on the left side. The background layer is a special layer that we cannot move around. That is why it doesn't show the dots on its left side. Another type of layer we cannot move is a locked layer. We will discuss layer or object locking in a moment. The second method to adjust the depth of objects is through the arranged tab. Here you can see several buttons. We can use the forward button to move the selected object one level up. Pressing this button several times will eventually put the object in the topmost position. In contrast, the backward button is for lowering the object one level down. If we keep pressing it, the object will eventually be at the bottom, just above the background object. Then the two front button will make the active object jump to the topmost position. And the two back button will make it jump directly to the button position apart from this panel. Another way or the third method to adjust the depth of the object, it is by pressing the data or the More button, or just right clicking directly on the object. In the layer sub menu, you can find various range commands we just discussed. You can also see the corresponding keyboard shortcuts if you prefer to use them. Next, let's discuss how to line objects or elements in Canva. If we select an object and open the position panel in the arrange tab, you can see various commands for aligning objects. If you only select one object, then the base or the reference for object alignment is the entire page. If we press left, the left side of the object will be aligned with the left border of the page. If we press, the center point of the object will be aligned with the center line of the page. Likewise for right, and so on. I am sure you already understand how it works. Now if we have two or more objects selected, this line function no longer uses the page area as its reference, but uses other selected objects as the reference. If we press a line left, then the left object will be the reference. If we press a line right, then the rightmost object will be the reference. If we press the line center, then all objects will move to the average center point of the selected objects. The same concept also applies to the top, middle, and bottom lines. Now besides the position panel, you can also access the various line commands from the More menu or from the right click menu. Then open the line sub menu. The last thing I want to cover is locking objects or design elements. Sometimes we want to keep certain design elements from accidental changes. For this, we can use the lock command to access it. You can click or click on the More button, then select Lock. Objects that are locked cannot be moved or rotated, or Scaled Canva also hides its various parameters which usually appear at the top. If you open the position panel in the layer step, you cannot change the depth or the order of locked object. You can see that the layer does not have a dotted symbol like the other layers that are not locked. But for layer ordering, this doesn't really matter because we can still adjust the depth of the other layers by bragging them below or on top of the locked layer to restore a locked object. So that we can edit it again, we can press the unlocked icon above the object, or the unlock icon in the top bar. Now this object is back to normal. We can perform transformation again. We can also see all its parameters again at the top. 19. Duplicating objects: In this video, we will discuss object duplication. There are at least three methods we can use to duplicate objects in Canvas. The first is with the duplicate command, The second is with the copy paste command. And the third is by using the Alk. Let's discuss each of these methods. The first is by using the duplicate command. There are several alternatives to access this command. When you select an object, you will see an icon with plus symbol above the object. If you click on it, it will duplicate the object. Let me delete this object first. Alternatively, you can wide and then select the duplicate command, or you can also use it shortcut, which is control D, that is the first method. The second method is the copy command. For this, you need to make sure the object is selected. You may also select multiple objects if you want, then press control C to copy, followed by control V to paste. All right, let me delete this again. To access the copy commands, you can also use the More menu or the right click menu. At this point, you might be wondering if there is already a duplicate command. We still need the PN pace commands. The answer is the duplicate command is limited to only one page of the design. Whereas the PN pace command can be used to duplicate objects between pages and even between different projects. For example, I can write click on this object and s like copy, I can then create a new page by pressing this plus button or the page button below. When I am order a new page, I can press control two Pace, the design object that I copied before. Now I haven't covered this before. You can also start a new project by pressing the plus button in tabs area. But this only applies if you're using the desktop version of Canva and other, a browser version. Just for an example, I choose a random project type and size. Then inside this new project, I can press control V or right click. And the slight paste, you can see that the design object that I copied has been transferred to this project. That is why we still need to copy and pet command, even though there is already a duplicate command. Let me close this project first. The last technique to duplicate an object is to hold down the out key while moving the object. If I hold out and then move this object to the right, automatically duplicates the object. If you want to duplicate and also move it straight, horizontally or vertically, you can combine this method with the chief key method. What you need to pay attention to is the order of the keystrokes. First, you hold down the alky brek, the object in the direction you want. This will duplicate it. Then without releasing the mouse release the al hold down chef duplicate object moves straight, horizontally or vertically depending on which is closest to the most cursor position. After that you can release the Most button to confirm. 20. Editing PDF files with Canva: One of the most common questions related to PDF files is, how do I edit a PDF file? Many people ask this because they think that PDF files are like Microsoft Word files or Rubi Foco files, which can be edited easily if they use the correct software. The problem is PDF files are not designed to be editable. It is designed as a digital document in its final form. In other words, it is supposed to be it only file. But that doesn't mean we cannot edit the contents of PDO file at all. We can edit it by extracting the data inside it, such as texts and images, and the reconstructing layout of the elements. One online software that can do this is Canva. There are three important things you need to consider when editing PDF files. First, not all publishers of the PDF file allow you to do so. When you download PDF file from the Internet, you need to pay attention to the user agreement associated with the file. Secondly, you cannot edit PDF files that are encrypted or password protected. Third, the PDF file you want to edit still stores the data in layers, or they are not flattened into a single image layer. Only if the PDF file is saved from these three things, can you edit it in Canva? To do this, you need to upload the PDF file to Canva. We've discussed various upload methods before. For example, from the Canva mean page we can go to the project step. Then press the At New button, then upload. Go to the folder where the file is, select the file, then press Open. After the upload process is complete, the PDF file is automatically converted by Canva into a design project. You can open it and edit the various elements inside it, as we would normally edit a design project in Canva. For your information, I created this PDF book using a Illustrator. You can adjust the zoom level of document here and then make changes as needed. You can also use the Fit option to set the zoom level automatically to fit the page. When you are done, you can download the project back to a PDF file again, pressing the Share button, then select the download option. Then select PDF standard. If you want to release it as a digital file or if you intend to print it, you can select PDF Print. With this option can va will use the maximum quality setting to compress the image data with a consequence of larger file size. 21. YouTube thumbnail project: In this video, we will try to put all the techniques we've learned before into practice to create a Youtube Tamil design like this. Perhaps you don't need to create tube tunel or maybe you are not really interested in creating designs like this. However, I strongly recommend that you do not skip this lesson as there are some new techniques and tips that I will be discussing. Previously, we discussed how to create a background with a gradient color like this. For this part, I don't need to explain it again. Let's assume that now we want to add a wall texture on top of this gradient color. For this, we can open the element stab photos category. We can click the L link type wall in a search field Canva, we'll display tons of wall images. You can choose the one you like for now. We'll just choose a free image. For example, this gray wall click bag it so that it goes into the background area. Now you need to know that the gradient color still exists beneath the wall photo. I want to make the wall photo a bit transparent so that we can see some of the gradient colors underneath. For this, we can enable the transparency feature. The closer the value is to zero, the more transparent wall photo becomes, causing the gradient color to become stronger. I think 40% is enough. After that, we also want to make the wall photo darker. For this, we can open the added photo panel, then go to the adjust step. Lower the temperature a bit and also the brightness. But we increase the contrast value so that the texture is stronger. I think this is enough. If you want, you can delete the image placed in a background. One way to do that is by pressing the trash icon. This will return the background to its original color, which is a gradient color. Next, we will use the images we uploaded to Canvas earlier. Go to the upload step. I have provided all the image files for this exercise. Inside the project files, you are free to use these files or you may also use your own image files if you want. First, we can click on these stripes image or click drag it to the design page area. Scale the image so that the top and bottom borders are not visible. Then position it so that it is at the center of the page. Besides dragging with the mouse, you can make small changes to the position of the selected object by pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard. For example, I can press the down arrow and up arrow keys to just the position of the stripes image. Once it is done, just to play safe, we can lock the image apart from the right click menu. You can also lock the image by pressing the lock icon in the top bar. Next, we want to insert this vase image. We can just click it and slide it to the left until the vase image is just slightly overlapping the stripes image. Then we can duplicate this vase image by holding out and ragging, then holding shift until it's on the right side, slightly touching the stripes image. Now for the one on the right side, we don't want to use this vase image. What we really want to use is this image. I deliberately use the duplicate method so that I can show you the image replacement technique. That is, if we click drag a new roster image onto a preexisting raster image, we can replace the old image with the new one. It just so happens that these two vase images are the same size ratio. We don't need to adjust the crop settings, they are not the same sized ratio. Then you might want to adjust the crop settings. Next, I want to find an image of an arrow that will cross from left to right. We can open the elements stab. Let first exit the photo category and go to the graphics category. Then just type the word arrow in a search box. Feel free to pick any arrow image that you want. I'll use this one for now. Adjust the scale again, We're holding down the outkey. Then I want to change the color to make it a bright green. And with stronger saturation, I've used the color before, something like this. But let's say we haven't used the color yet. We can click anywhere first. Then reopen the color panel. You can click here to just the color, make it more towards the top right corner so that the situation is stronger. Next, we want to add text. Go to the text tab, then just drag the heading text preset. Then we type 12. Now if we are in the edit mode to exit to regular object mode, but still select the text object, we can press cap, key ones on the keyboard. We can move this up a little. Hold out and rag it down to duplicate it. Then double click it. Type methods with all appro case letters press escape, hold out, and rag down to duplicate the text again. For now, I am going to speed up the video because there are no new techniques that I am using. Okay, we can edit multiple texts at once by selecting all the text objects. Then we can change the color to white. Next, for the font I want to use Montserrat. We can click here. I've used this one before, which is why it appears above. But let's say we haven't used it before. We can type the phone name in the search field, just the first few letters. For example, mont here is the font at the center. I want to create a unique text object of the word b***ding. This is the keyword text that I am targeting or the word that many people search. That is why I want it to stand out from the rest. We can use a font that looks more like handwriting. First, we can press Escape, just to make sure the font will be applied to all letters. The we open the phone panel, press this X button to clear the search field. Now if we click in this field, Canva will display the phone categories underneath. Remember, if they do not show up, click inside the search field area first. With this classification, we can easily search for phones of a certain type. Let's say we want a brush type. Or in other words, once they look like they were created with a brush. Here, Canva provides a huge selection of phones. Generally, the free ones are web forms available on Google Phone's website. For now, I will use a phone called Yester. Then we can set the transformation. I want it to be bigger and also slightly rotated. We can first select the text at the top and rug it up a bit. For the color of this b***ding text, we can use the green color that we used earlier for the aero graphic. Next, we want to add black around the text to make it easier to read open the effects panel and select the effect outline. Change the color to black. Then set the thickness with this thickness slider. I think this is enough for the rest. I didn't use any new techniques, I only just the transformation of each of the text elements. I'm skipping the video to save time. Here is the result. As the final step, if you want to download the design, you can press the Share button. Then select Download. Make sure you use the PNG format for maximum quality. Then select the download button below it. 22. The next step: Congratulations, you have completed this course from start to finish. You have learned a lot in this course. But we have only touched a small part of what Canva can do. As I mentioned in introduction, this course is the first in a series. If you want to master even more of canvas features, you should check out the rest of the series. You can't pick any of these courses that appeal to you, but I highly recommend that you start with this course. Creating websites and working with dogs with Canva. The curriculum mini course is designed to be a continuation of the first course you just completed. Also because it covers a lot of things that will be useful to, not to prepare you for the next courses. You can search for the course yourself, a skill share, or just use this link I provided on the screen. I hope this course series can have positive impact in your life and career. See you at the next one, Salk.