Canva's Guide to Social Media Photos

1. Class Introduction: Hey everyone Ronnie. Here it is a pleasure to be back here to teach you about finding and editing social media photos with Canva exclusively. And you will see that Canva is a fantastic one stop shop when it comes to working with visuals. We'll start by exploring Canvas. Massive library of over 100 million stock photos. Yep, you heard that correctly. There are over 100 million photos to choose from in Canvas. So how exactly are we going to find the right ones? Well, I'll share some tips on how to search and how to filter this ocean of images so you can uncover the perfect ones for your post. We'll also look at how to upload and import your own photos into Canva, including files from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Powerpoint. And that will be super useful, particularly if you already created a bunch of content. With these platforms. I'll show you an easy way to bring them over to Canva. Then comes the fun part, editing these photos. I will demonstrate canvas easy photo editing tools so you can adjust color, blur, brightness and more. We'll cover how to crop and resize for different social platforms. I'll also showcase some magical Canva and Canva Pro features like the background remover, magic eraser, and magic edit. Finally, you learn to organize your photos by adding titles, tags, and storing them into folders. This will help you keep your media library neat and tidy so your images are easy to find later when you need them. After going through all the materials, you will have acquired concrete skills for selecting, editing, and organizing photos for social media using Canva exclusively. All right, let's head over to the photo library. 2. Discover the Canva photo Library: Using great photos on social media is like wearing a vibrant peacock feather headdress in a crowd of plain hats. It's an instant attention grabber that sets you apart from all the other post out there. And guess what, when it comes to great photos, canvas, got your back. They've got a massive collection of 1 million free stock photos and over 100 million premium stock photos. Yeah, that is with their canvas subscription. And that's not just random photos. Talented photographers have contributed to canvas library. So for sure, there is something in there for every design project you can think of. Now you might be thinking, how on earth am I going to find the perfect peacock feather photos in that sea of options? Well, don't you worry, I am here to help. And in this lecture, we are going to jump into Canva and I'm going to show you exactly how to uncover these amazing photos. All right guys, I am here on the Canva homepage and I'm going to show you several ways you can search for photos in Canva. First part is going to be from the home page, starting from the home page, and you'll see in a second from the photo library. And then the second part will be searching for photos directly from the Canva editor. So that is the design area in Canva where you actually design. So, starting with number one, searching for photos from the home page or from the photo library. The first way I want to show you for searching for photos actually starts right here on the Canva homepage. From here, you are going to head over your Templates button. Right here on the left side menu. Click on templates. Then you should see a section right here on that menu that says Photos. If you click here, you will land on this Va Photo library, a direct URL. To go directly to this page, you can simply type in Canva.com slash photos, photos with an S plural. You'll get on the same page as I am here. So let's analyze a little bit what we are seeing here. So in the banner we can read Discover photos, millions of high quality, free, and premium photos to create beautiful designs. So that is in a nutshell where all of the photos that are part of Canva will be searchable. And I like this user experience versus the one we get in the editor, because in the editor you will see that the search area is much narrower, much smaller. So this is more like a full website experience. So that is why I enjoy searching for my photos from here. So let's see what we have here. The banner, we have a big search box right here on top, so it says, Search millions of photos, so we can start our search from there as well. And then underneath the banner, we have a couple of a couple. We have actually a lot of different ties right here with categories of photos. We have background, summer, beach, money, gradient, water, a bunch of different, I would call them tags or categories from which you can discover photos. So if I click on, let's say, music right here, I will see a bunch of different photos related to music. And you will see that some of these photos are completely free. That is if they don't have any indication on them, like this one right here and some will be pro, you see the pro ones, we'll have a little crown, a yellow little crown on them indicating this photo is only going to be available for kind of a pro user. But you'll see a mix between pro and free photos. Let's come back to the home page of this photo library. Something else I want to show you. I'm just going to browse here from the main home page and select a photo that I like. Let's say I like this one right here. When I click on it, this is what I will see. I will see the photo in a bigger format so I can really appreciate it and see if this is what I'm looking for. I will see the title of the photo, Men in Trendy pastel outfit. I will see the dimensions of that photo. So 38, 62 by 57, 92 pixel. I will see the name of the Canva contributor, so that is the photographer, the contributor who contributed this photo to the Canva Photo library. And then I will see a big button that asks me to use this photo in a design. So if I click here, it will just open that photo in a design that will carry these exact same dimensions. Okay, So that is what you can do from here. There is a star button. So if I start the photo, it will be added to my Start folder. And I'm going to show you where you can find this folder in a second. And then we have the three little dots right here. If I click here, I see more options. I can add this photo to a folder. What could report this photo to Canva? That is if I find it offensive. Or. There is any kind of problem with it, you can report the photo directly from here. All right, So adding to a folder is an interesting feature that will allow me to kind of keep or organize the photos I come across in the Canva library in different buckets, in different folders in canvas. So that is a very useful feature. Instead of simply staring it, I could add this photo to a folder, an existing folder, or create a new one. I could create a folder called, I don't know, plants for example. And then I would store this photo in my plant folder. So that is completely up to you. All right, continuing the scrolling here on this page with the photo, I see a color palette. So five different colors that have been generated from this photo. So that is the very useful photo color feature in Canva that we can also find from within the editor. But right here, the fact that I have these five hex codes for these different colors, and if I click on any of them, you see I'm copying the hex code. So I could be going back to my Canva design and use that. So very useful for staying consistent with colors. So they are available right here. And these are the five dominant colors from this photo. So I find this feature very useful. So let's see, what else do we have on this page? If I keep scrolling down, I have this section called More like this. So this will basically show me more photos that are related, that are similar to my main photo right here. So we see this subject, this man with the beard. I believe this is the same person right here on all of these photos. So these photos are probably part of a set with this man right here, but yes. So if you want to double check, you just have to see if there are also photos that belong to capture now as the contributor. So I'm going to click on this one right here, for example. Yes, by capture now. So there's a good chance that all of these photos are part of the same photo set. So yeah, that is, in a nutshell what you see here. So I can close that window and continue browsing for the right photo. Okay. So if I prefer, let's say this one right here, the man with the flower on his face. I see this is a different Canada Contributor Diversify Lens. Okay, I have the same option. So similar photos, I have my color palette. Oh yeah. Something else I didn't mention in the previous photo is that I have all of the tags that have been added to the photo represented here. So I have floral, studio blind flowers blindness. So this person seems to be a blind person because he has the walking stick. So I will have all of these tags right here that are clickable. So if I want to find more photos of, for example, blind people, I could click on the blind tag. And then I will see a bunch of different photos with the tag blind showing up here. That will be a mix of different contributors. We are not within the same contributor anymore, right, So the second way of searching for photos in Canva actually happens from within the Canva editor. So what is it that we call the Canva Editor? Where it's simply the design area in canvas. So what I'm going to do, I'm just going to start a design, okay, Social media design. Let's say I want to start Instagram post. Okay, So the squared one by one Instagram post. This will bring me to this design area that we call the Canva Editor. Okay, so the Canva Editor has the object panel, this black menu right here on the left hand side. And this is where we are going to be able to search for different design ingredients, including our photos. What is interesting for us in this lecture. So in order to start a photo search, there are different ways of doing so. The first one is simply to head over your element tab, right here on the left, and then start typing, okay? So if I want the man with a trendy pastel outfit outfit, just going to type this and then I'm going to filter. If I type a keyword like this or a key sentence like this, I will have a mix of different results. So I can use the different tabs right here, right underneath my search box so I can search for graphics or filter for all the graphics photos, videos, audios, frame, and charts. So what I want is photos toilets, come back to photos man with a trendy pastel outfit. So if I scroll down and try to find the same photo I was using before, I would scroll until I see it. And there you go. It is right here. This guy right here. From here. In order to bring it to my page very easy, I can simply click on it. It will bring it to the design area right here. Some other options I had available to me. Instead of just clicking on it, I could click on the three little dots. And then I would see again, the information related to that photo. Men in trendy pastel outfit view more by Alyssa Alvez from Capture Now, okay. So now I can click either on the name of the actual photographer or capture now, which I believe is the stock photo database. I have a couple of tags that are also clickable. These are called the keywords. I can start it, I can see more like this. I could see the collection. So sometimes photos or graphics in Canva that I can find from within the editor will appear to be in a collection of similar items. So in this case, this photo is part of a collection. Another way to do so to search for photos is to actually go to the Apps Tabr here. So click on that and then you locate your photo button. Okay, so more from Canva. You can open like a button with your charts, your photos, your audio clips, your videos. So I'm going to click on Photos Only Photos. And then you should see another button is going to be pinned to your object panel right here, and it's going to be called Photos. Similarly, you could do the same with your videos. Open the video, it opens a second button right here that is pinned. The pinned button could be deleted, unlike everything else that is above this line right here, you see that the apps, for example, I cannot close that button while the video here, or my photo here, it has a little x to it. So it means I can actually get rid of that button and you can pin a couple of different buttons here. Going from the Apps button right here, very important. Open my photo tab. It is right here. From here, it works in a similar manner, can just search for anything from here. Okay, so a funny cat. I can find a photo of a funny cat. All right, so that is just another way of searching for photos. Let me show you a third way to search for photos. Okay, So I'm going to add a new page by clicking on this ad page button. The last way of searching for photos would be to use the Canva Assistant. You see this little button right here. It says Canva Assistant. There's a keyboard shortcut to it. It's the button, at least for English users. Like users that have their Canva account set into English as their language, I'm not sure about other languages, but for English users, the shortcut for the Canva assistant will be the slash key. What happens if I hit my slash key? Well this happens. This little menu right here will pop up and I can search for basically anything right here in the Canva assistant. If I search for a photo, I will have a shortcut to my photos. And then it will bring me here in the object panel to this photo menu again slash, let's say I'm searching for a funny cat again. So funny cat, I can just click on the suggestion. And then a Canva will show me some photos of funny cats. And then also some graphics, some videos, et cetera, et cetera. All the way to some of my own design right here. So if I want to see more photos of the funny cats, I can click on CR. And then all of these funny cats will be populated right here on my object panel. Okay, So I can use this funny cat. This guy look pretty cool going on the trip with his passport. Alright guys, I think I have covered all of the different ways you can search for photos in Canva. You're still feeling a bit overwhelmed by such a vast selection of pictures to choose from. Well, let's move on to the next lecture, where I will share some of my personal tips on how to find the best photos in Canva. 3. Find the Right Photos for your Posts Inside Canva: You, my friend deserve the very best. Never settle for less. And that also applies for the photos you will use on social media, Okay? Okay Ronnie. But how do I find these perfect photos without searching for them for hours? There's just so many. That is true. And let me show you some of my favorite tips to search and find the right photos in Canva. All right? The first tip is to search for specific contributors. So for that you will need to start from a photo that you like. Okay, so I suggest we come back to one of the photos we were using in the previous lectures. So I'm going to open this photo from this blind guy right here. And the way you will search for contributors. If you look at the information of this photo, you should see the name of the contributor right here. You will have different logos. It's not always going to be Canva. Okay, so Canva is just when it's Canva who contracted the contributor directly or the photographer. But what's important is the name of that contributor. It says here, Diversified Lens. So if I click on it, I can find more photos from that contributor. You see right here, That's kind of their contributor profile, their Canva creator profile. I'm going to talk about what Canva creators are in a second, but I just want to show you that from this profile, you should see all of the photos that have been uploaded, contributed to the Canva Library by that same photographer. Okay, so if I come back up, what I can do is to follow that contributor Diversified lens. Let me show you where you can find the content from that person. So starting from the Canva home page, it's always good to come back to the home page in case you lost yourself somehow in my explanations. Now you know exactly how to catch up again. From the home page, you'll go to your Templates button, right here. Okay, Templates. And then on this left side menu, you should see a section called Your Content. Within your content, you should see creators that you follow. If you click on that, now I will see the latest Canva contributors of that I follow, which is Diversified Lens and all of the photos from Diversified Lens. From here I can click on that name. Come back directly to diversify lens profile. And if I come back to my previous screen again, right here on all of the people I follow, all of the creators I follow. And you will see that Canva calls a creator Canva Creators, any person that contributes to the Canva library. And these contributions could be photos like these people right here, Studio India, capture now Anthony J. Rayburn, et cetera, et cetera. But it could also be template designers like for example our friend Roger Cores, Sandy Sevilla, or even Diana. Diana is a Canva creator. She creates a bunch of different Canva templates that she contributes to the Canva library. So, for those of you interested in following Diana's profile, you can use the link that shows on your screen right now. So this URL Canva.com slash the letter P, like patriot slash Diana Munoz. Okay, so if you copy this URL into your browser, you should land on canvas profile. And if you follow her, you will see in your creators, you follow section, all of Diana's template, which I recommend you do, because she has a bunch of template both for paid users like pro users and free users. So that's just me and my little pitch right here for you guys to follow Diana's profile. I think there's a bunch of really interesting resources there for you to follow. So back to my creators, I follow page. There's a couple of different things I can do from here. I can sort all of these contributors by most recent or the most popular. If you created my most popular, we can see Diana comes first. So congrats to you. Let's go most recent. I think this is the most convenient way to sort these contributors. For me, at least. You can also, for each of the contributors, you have access to your three little dot right here. You can unfollow them if you're tired of seeing their content or you can share, okay, so you can copy a link to their profile and share. That is very useful I would say, because then you can really share that with the friend. You could add this to your design, make it clickable in your design, et cetera, et cetera. So that is pretty cool. That was the second tip I wanted to show you to really find the photos that is right for your post, is to follow creators on the Canva platform so that you are always aware of what they publish, of what is new in their collections. All right, let's continue exploring some motives to finding the right photos for our social media post. For this one, right here I am, back inside the Canva Editor. Okay. In my Instagram post documents that I created in the previous lesson, and you can still see some of the photos I used. So let's say I want to continue exploring the photo of this man right here. I want to find more photos that would look consistent, that would carry a consistent look and feel, and could be used in the same campaign as this one, for example. So one thing I could do is to locate the photo. Okay, here it's in my recently used click on the three little dots. Simply use the button that says more like this. This is using simply the more like this option. Okay, let me come back here and click on the three li dot again, because there are other buttons that interest me here that can really help you find similar images. That is not the more like this. What I want to point out here is this last button right here that says View collection. Sometimes photos or graphic elements in Canva will be part of a broader collection. So it's not like a standalone photo or graphic, it's an item that is part of a larger collection. So here it is the case, this photo is actually part of a collection if we click on View Collection, so this is what happens. I have the photo collection right here. I can click on C all. And then I see the entire set of photos with the same subject. So this guy right here with the beard, it's the same guy. So I have all of these different photos. And I think I have over 50 of these photos with the same model taken from the same photographer. If I'm not mistaken, if I click on any of them, I can see view more by Elisa Alvez from capture now. And we see I have two different clickable elements now I have Elisa Alvez and I have Capture Now. Capture now is probably the larger collection or the stock image library, which is a subsection of the broader Canva library. And Elisa Alvez is the actual name of the photographer, and both of these names are clickable. So I'm going to come back to this in a second. But when you click on View Collection, this is what happens. Something else I want to show you is that this collection has a specific keyword attached to it, so you could surface this entire collection of photos simply by copying this keyword right here. Everything. Just everything including the set the column. Just copy everything right here. I'm going to come back to my elements page here, so you see everything is gone. I'm going to search for that keyword again, it will show me the entire collection. So I would definitely recommend that you start a document and you save all of these keywords that you find interesting, especially for your photos. Once you find a photographer or a set of photos that you like, save that keyword. Okay. It's a pity that you cannot save that keyword directly in Canva. But what you could do is, for example, if you like this photo right here, you could save that to a folder. You see this photo could be added to a folder. We cannot yet save an entire collection. But if you save that photo to a folder by clicking on that button, could be an existing folder or a new one that you create via this create new button. Then you can always go back and find that photo. Where do you find this photo? Well, in your Projects button, right here. You see this project. I can go here and pretty much browse any of my folders. If I go to my folder button, if I had placed my image into my Assets folder, I would find it here. And once you find it, you can do a similar search. So you can click on the three little dots and view the entire collection. All right, so this is super powerful. Something else I want to show you if we click on the three little dots and click on the name of the actual photographer. Now we see another menu, right here we are, on Elisa Alvez profile. Remember the Canva creator profile? This is the equivalent, but from within the Canva editor, I can search for elements by Elisa Alvez. So I could search, for example, for plant, and it will showcase every single photo with a plant taken from Elisa Alvez. Or at least every single photo that has the keyword plant attached to it. And I can filter by photos, videos, et cetera, et cetera. This is pretty powerful indeed. There is a difference between a photo collection like this one right here and all of the photos from a photographer. You see all of the photos from photographer, could be collection of different collections. If I may say for example here, I can see the same lady here using some sort of skin products. I see her here, I see her here. This is probably part of a collection. So if I click here, I see here, yes it is indeed part of a collection. So if I click on View Collection, then I see all of the photos from that same model, from that same set. I have a different set keyword right here. So make sure you save these set keywords somewhere where you can find them and. Easily recall them to use these photos in a consistent social media campaign. Let me come back to my collection here. Let's actually get out of this and let's try something else. I'm going to type funny cat again. So funny cat. Let's see all of my photos of funny cat. And let's delete this guy right here. Let's go with this kind of like chubby cat right here sipping a cup of coffee. All right, what I want to show you now is that you can actually star your photos. How do you start a photo? Well, very easy. When you have it right here in the object panel, just click on the three little dots and click on Star. There you go. You should see an indication that it's start. You could view your star folder with this button right here. I'm not going to click on it right now because I want to show you where it is actually located. The photo is start. Two ways you can access it. First from the object panel, from within the Canva editor right here, going to my projects okay, folders. And you should see a star folder right here showing on top. If I click here, I should see my fat cat right here. The other way of doing so is going back to the home page, okay? Clicking on your templates right here, your Templates button right here, and heading down to your Start folder right here. So my cat is now right here. See, so these are two different ways to find your start photos in Canva from within the editor or from the home page. Now let me come back one last time to my document right here. Let's say you open a document that somebody shared with you and you see a photo that you like. You actually love it. Like you love this cat with a tie, sipping a late. How can I find it back in the Canva library if you don't know what keyword have been used to search for it. If you don't know anything really about this photo other than it's right there on your page. Well, if you click on a photo or on an element, it works with graphics as well. You need to have it selected first. But then head over your top Naf bar right here, and locate the little button for information, the Info button right here, click on that. If it's a photo from the Canva library, it's not going to work. If it's an uploaded photo, if someone uploaded that photo to Canva. But if it's from the Canva library, Canva would give you some information about the photo. It will give you the name. It will tell you who is the contributor, a little description, the tags or the keywords, and you can see all of the keywords. And then it will give you the option to star or untar it, in my case it was already start. You could add this photo to a folder. Remember told you, you could add photos to folders, to an existing folder, create a new one, which is cool. Finally, if it's part of a collection, you could find the collection. You could click on the collection's name, or you could see more like this. We've already gone over this like the object panel will be populated with similar looking photos, so we can see the same cat right here. Yeah, this is a great way to find consistent photos, I would say, that have the same look. All right, so again, this is by selecting a photo and locating the little info button right here for the extra information about the photo. And then one last thing before we wrap up is I want to show you some filters that you can use while searching for photos. So again, let's go for our funny cat example. So I'm going to run that search and see all of the photos with that search. Funny cat. Okay, I have a bunch of photos, actually, way too many photos of funny cat. What you can do is to use this little slider icon right here. This will open your filtering options. So there are different types of filters that you could apply to your search. The first one is a color filter. So what that does is basically you ask Canva to filter the results of funny cat photos to show you those with a dominant color only. Okay? And you can pick that dominant color. So you can pick from this list right here. Or you could click on the color button and put your own color. If you want this kind of like very hard red, you can do this apply. Then coming back to your result, you will see a bunch of funny cat photos with a dominant red color, which is pretty faithful. Here. I can see not only cats, I have Santa, I have dogs, but I do have some cats. And I do have some funny cats as well. That's the first filter that is the color filter. If I click on it, I can deactivate this filter. The second filter we have is the orientation. So I can search for square photos. I can search for horizontal or vertical. Which is going to be super useful for our social media campaigns. Because if we need a photo for Instagram, for example, and this particular document, which is a square document, I'll click on the square filter. And now I have a bunch of funny cat photos that are perfect for Instagram. Like this one right here, right? Coming back to my filters one last time, I could also select animation if I want static or animated. This is mostly for elements, because photos will not be animated. You can decide to search for cut out photos. So cut out only this will show me cut out photos of cats. Let me delete and show you, for example, this one right here. See it has no background. And then the last filter we have is whether you want free or Pro filters. Okay, I'm going to clear all filters first. This last option for the price will only be available to you if you are a Canva Pro user. I believe if you are a Canva Free user, you will not have this filter to choose which type of media to see free or Pro. You will see all of them by default, okay? That is because Canva wants you to upgrade to Pro, so they show you the Pro media as well. If you never saw these Pro Media, maybe you don't want to upgrade that much. Because you think, oh, I have plenty of choices. But the truth is there's way more choice when you are a pro user, a paid user. Canva wants you to see that this option will not be available if you are a Canva free user. But that's, in a nutshell, all of my best tips to surface the right photos for your social media campaign. I hope you enjoyed them. In the next lecture, I will show you how you can upload and organize your own photos in Canva. So what do you say? Are you ready for this? Let's keep the ball rolling. Let's go. 4. Upload your Own Photos to Canva: So you would rather upload your own photos, right? Yeah. Very well. And that's a great choice if you're building your personal brand or if you're working with a lot of product photos, for example. So how about I show you how to upload your very own photos into Canva? And don't worry, this is super easy. So this will be a quick lecture. The very first way to upload your own photos into Canva is actually something you can do from the home page, okay, so from your Canva home page, locate the Upload button right here. When you click on this upload button, you can simply select a file. You can choose a file on your computer. If you know where your file is, just click on Choose File and go to that specific folder. Here in my downloads, I have three different photos of myself. I'm going to upload these three photos to Canva, you see uploading your files. Now, this could be a little bit confusing because it will show you this screen right here and you might know where to find your photos. The trick is to scroll down a bit and you should see your three photos. So these are the three photos. They should be right there under your images. If you don't know where we are with this page right here, if you don't know what that is from the home page, again, I like to leave some bread crumbs so you can follow my steps. Here you go, to your projects. Okay, So your projects, now you are in your projects, which is the same page as before. If you scroll down a bit, you should see your images, and so your three latest uploads will be here. Another way to find them in your projects, you simply filter by images and then you will be brought to that section called Images. Okay, so that is the first way of uploading photos into Canva to delete them because I want to show you some additional ways of doing so. I select all of them and then here at the bottom of your screen, you should see move to folder or move to trash. I'm going to move them to trash. For now. This is not going to delete your original photos from your computer, only the ones that you uploaded into Canva. All right. So let me show you another way of uploading your photos into Canva. The second way is to start from your projects, okay? And to start from a specific folder because maybe you want to be super organized and know exactly where your photos are going to live. Canva, which is what I would recommend you do. Right here I can see all of my different folders that I created in Canva. So what I will be doing, I will be using my Assets folder right here. And under Assets I have a bunch of different things. I can change the view here to list so you can see I have profile pictures and badges, Youtube thumbnails, and then I have icons, textures, a bunch of different things. I don't have photos for example. So I would create another folder so I could click on Add New. Okay. A new folder that I will name photos of Ronnie. Okay, I can decide whether I want to share that with my team. You see Not shared, can view, can edit. I will leave it on. Not shared for now. Continue and now photos of Ronnie has been created and it should be right here somewhere. So let me find it. Photos of Ronnie right here, The first one. So if I actually open this folder, you see it's empty. But what I can do is to upload some material. Okay, so I'm going to click on Upload and again select my three images right here open. They will be uploaded into this specific folder. So that is the second way you can upload media photos. Canva is to do so from a specific folder, either a folder that you already had or a new folder that you just created. This way is probably the better way, in my opinion, because you always know where your photos are actually stored. Because it could be a nightmare to search for photos in Canva if you just upload them like so with the upload button or with the other ways I'm about to show you in a second. They're just like added to your images and there is no particular organization. So I think this is a better way. Could create folders by social media platforms. For example, photos for Facebook, photos for Youtube, photos for your thumbnails photos. I don't know anything really. You could organize your folders by campaigns. I don't know if you have a Halloween campaign, if you have a Black Friday campaign, so you could add these photos relevant to this specific campaign in that folder. But yeah, that is a really good way. Again, I'm going to delete everything. I'm going to delete the entire folder because I want to show you more ways. Again, simply select my folder, Delete. Are you sure you want to delete this? One folder will be permanently deleted and this cannot be undone. Okay, I'm going to delete this, and normally the content of that folder, AKA my three photos, should be deleted as well. Now let me show you yet another way to upload your own photos into Canva. And for this one we are going to start from within the editor. So coming back to my IG post right here. The next way to upload photos is very simple as well. You just locate the Upload button right here in the object panel. Okay. Your left side menu right here. Click on Upload, and then you should see all of your latest upload right here. You're just going to click on that purple button that says upload. And then again, just simply upload your files. Just going to upload one for now to show you so I don't have to delete the three of them and it's going to be faster you upload it and then it will show right here. Again, this will not be stored anywhere in particular, in any folder in particular. But that's okay because you can still add that photo to a folder by clicking on the three little dots. You can move that to a folder right here, okay? You can move to trash, can move to folder, You can add tags which could be very useful. For example, I could add the tag Ronnie right here. I could add the tag surprised. Like so, you have created different tags for your photos that you can modify, but also you can use for search. You can also rename that photo. So this could be, for example, Ronnie looking very surprised. Okay, Now this photo has a name. Okay? Ronnie looking very surprised. The reason why you might want to add a name or a tag is for searchability, okay? For example, you see this search bar right here. It says Search upload. So if you want to surface this photo, I could just type in Ronnie, and this would show up because I have added the tag Ronnie to that photo. Similarly, if I start typing, surprised. There you go. I can find my photo because it carries the tag surprised. All right, perfect. That's pretty much what I wanted to show you from this particular form of uploading your media. Just using the upload file button right here. So you click on that button and you can upload from your hard drive. There is the three little dots right here, meaning you can upload photos from Facebook, from your Google Drive, Instagram, Dropbox, et cetera. You will need to connect your Canva account to these platforms before, but once it's done, you can fetch your media, fetch your photos from these different platforms, which is pretty cool as well. Now there is another way, Faster way, I'm always up for faster way to do things. There is another way to simply bring a photo to Canva. Let's say I have a window open here. You don't see it, but I have my download window with my three photos. It's open here on my second monitor. Let's say I just want to bring that file. You see it's here, right here. I want to bring it to Canva. So without clicking anywhere, really, I can just bring a file and drop it right here. I can drop it anywhere. Really, if I drop it here in the design area, the photo will actually load on that page. If I drop it on this side right here in the object panel, the photo will start uploading right here. Again, let me show you what would have happened if I had dropped that same photo right here on my page. Well, the photo will actually load on the page and it will also load right here in the object panel. Now it's duplicated, so I can definitely delete one of them like so move to trash. So yeah, these are different ways you can simply drag and drop images straight into canvas. You don't even need to be on the upload stab. This would work if you are on any of these tabs. Okay, so it doesn't matter if you are on the upload tab or not. And that's pretty much all the different ways you can upload your own photos into canvas. I told you this was going to be quick. Now, in the next lecture, I'm going to show you how you can upload native files from other platforms like Photoshop, Powerpoint Illustrator, or even PDFs. 5. Import files from PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator & More: Imagine you could open Photoshop or Powerpoint files directly into Canva. Wouldn't that be amazing? Well, the good news is that you can. Let me show you how. All right, back to our Canva home page. Okay, the starting point of a new adventure. So this time I want to show you how you can upload different file formats from other platforms that you might have worked on. And now you want to kind of bring all of that work to canvas. So it is possible for many different formats. And before we start uploading things, I think it's a good idea to kind of figure out what format we can actually import into canvas. So two different ways to show you these formats. Because I have noticed that Canva doesn't have one block post or one place where it gives you an exhaustive list of the format. But rather there are two different places where you could gather this information. The first one is the Upload button right here. So when you click on it, you see, okay, start from a file, Upload, your own photos, document, file, video. You have this little file highlighted word right here, and it says you can upload PDF, Word document, Powerpoint Excel, or Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator. That's great. But I think that is not exhaustive. Like you can actually upload more than just these. The other way of knowing is to actually open a document, okay? And I'm going to grab a file, in this case is just a PDF. Okay? One of my CV's, so I'm going to grab that Ronny CV and bring it over here and now you see some more information. Okay, so files PDF, PSD, so that's Photoshop. Pptx, so that's Powerpoint C X, so that's the C or the word document key. Probably keynote numbers and pages. So these are different formats that you can use for five and then for images you have your H E I C H E IF the gift JP PNG SVG A V I F Web IFF W D P N J R. For your videos, you have all of these different formats for your audios. You have your classic MP three, you have M four wave and OGG. And since I'm here, I'm going to drop my CV right here. So this is a PDF that I'm importing. Okay, so since we are here, I'm going to show you the actual CV and what it looks like. So this is the actual CV. Okay, so Ronnie V, this is the file I just imported. It is right here. Come back to full screen here. So let's come back to the home page. Okay, so going back to the home page and I'm going to click this PDF CV that I just imported from the get go. I can see different things. I can see that this PDF is not exactly the same as the one I uploaded. For example, this color right here in the original was a darker shade of yellow. The same yellow as this one right here. Now it's pale. Something else I noticed is that everything is clickable. You see all of the text that was on my CV, on my PDF is now right here. And I can actually edit that text if I double click on it. So that's pretty cool. All of the little icons also something I can work with. Every single text, every single images I uploaded into my CV is editable. I have a bit of mistakes right here. If I move this, you see all of these bullet points have not been correctly ported over, which is okay. I can still work with this. I can delete them and simply recreate them very easily. Right here, I can select all of my bullet points and just hit my bullet point right here. Similarly here, you can fix the little mistakes in your document that easily. Okay, I'm not going to do all of these now, but these are just like minor mistakes that can be fixed quite easily. Okay? So here for example, the sentence should be starting here. And this one as well. This one should come here. And again, I should have my boarded points. So there you go, boarded points. All right, so I have this little window right here. I can make this disappear. I don't need this. I'm happy for you to inspect this file later. Okay, so let's give this some stars. Okay, I can close it here. Perfect. So let's investigate what happened to this color right here. I think it's just a matter of transparency. You see, If I bring the transparency back, I have more something that looks like my original. So I'm really happy about this, like how I could import a PDF. Into Canva and everything in that PDF is editable. I have my frame right here. If I want to update this for a new photo, a newer photo could go to my photo. So my project, I could find another photo of myself like this one right here, and I could drop that in the frame. So not only was I able to open this PDF, but it's also editable. And that is great because I can use some of the stuff that I have. For example, here I can see the Y was ported over to the next line. So you need to be careful, you need to double check every single details. But I have saved myself a bunch of time. Let's say you have loads of PDFs or maybe loads of Photoshop files or Illustrator files, or Powerpoint files that you have been working on over the years. And you'd like to have all of these in Canva. Well, it is possible. And you won't just have like rasterized images, you have editable documents, which is very powerful. Now let me show you how to import another type of file, another format. So coming back to the home page. So instead of starting from within the Canva editor, I could just use the upload button right here. Choose a file, and this time I'm going to use a PSD file, so a Photoshop file, big one. With that, This one is a pretty big file, It's around 90 megabyte, okay? So it's a pretty big file. I'm going to select it, open it, it's going to take a bit of time to load into Canva. You see this one is a roll up design that we created quite a few years back when we were working with our nonprofit, Fair Trade Connection for one of our clients. So this one is real size like human size roll up poster. So you know the roll up that are printed on some fabric material that you bring to fairs and conferences. And you just open them up. They stand on a little stand and yeah, so they usually represent persons. Ight my document is now loaded. It carries the same title, so roll up naginausmnisdI'm. Going to open it up and see what it looks like. Okay, I'm going to close this window right here so I can see I have all of the different elements of my original roll up. The only thing I don't have is the font that was the custom font of the client. Okay, so the client, which was Oxfam in this case, used this custom font, which is this one right here. And this text was in the same font. So I'm not sure why this one carries the font. Probably because it's been considered a photo. Yeah, you see. If I double click on it, I can crop it. So this last piece of text has been considered as a photo versus an editable text. And that's why also it looks different from this one. Because supposed to be the same font, but because I don't have this custom font installed on my computer or in Canva, it just shows in a different font. But I could definitely use a different font. I could use Prompt, I could use anything really from the Prompt Library. The beauty here is that these are still editable, which is pretty cool. Let's use Prompt Board for now. What I want to show you is that I have all of the ingredients of that roll up of that design. I have my pictograms, I have every single line of text, I have a QR code that was an important part of this design. I have my custom visuals from the client, and I have the photo that we took and we used to create that design. We have the logo, everything is here and everything is editable. So again, this is coming from a Photoshop file. Okay. Some little problem with the text because it's in a different language. It's in French, so you have the accent letters that not every single font will support. And of course, we have the missing font problem. But that is going to be common for sorts of design platforms. So I'm going to leave it here. Remember, you can import a wide variety of formats into Canva and find yourself with editable design, which is pretty awesome if you ask me. All right guys, I think we have covered all of the fundamentals of using photos in Canva. Now let's have some fun and start editing some photos. 6. Edit your Photos with Canva: Hey folks, welcome back to the course. If you've been watching the previous lectures, you now know how to find great photos in the canvas photo library, but also how to upload your own. I think it's time we go one step further and learn how to take these photos to the next level. Indeed, in this lecture I would like to show you how you can use canvas photo editor to enhance your shots or to adjust them to fit your visual identity. Simply to apply beautiful filters and effects to them to explore different creative styles. The goal is to get familiar with canvas photo editor to understand everything it can do. But also, and most importantly, to start using it for your social media visuals in order to edit them in a consistent manner. We want to create a visual style for our brand that everybody will remember. All right guys, let's start our photo editing journey with Canva. I am going to show you different ways you can edit your photos with Canva. This first one implies that you already have uploaded a couple of photos that need editing to your Canva account. Okay, if you haven't, then I suggest you go back to lecture three of this section and learn how to upload your own photos into Canvas. But for the sake of this lecture right here, I'm going to be using some photos that I have already uploaded into canvas. So let's go ahead and fetch these photos from the home page. You are going to look at your project tab. Right here on the left side menu. I'm going to click on Projects, and from here I'm going to go to Folders. You could also go to Images. Okay. Where you would find your most recently uploaded photos on Canvas. But me, because I already organized these photos into a folder, I'm just going to go straight to that folder by clicking on the folder tab right here. I'm going to my Assets and then Images, And then I have three items right here, three photos in my photos to edit folder. I'm going to click here and I'm going to start editing these two photos, okay, Starting with this one right here. So if you click on the photo, very simply like you have a photo, you just click on it. By default, Canva will open this photo editor which is called the model photo editor. And model comes from module, Okay, because this is an independent module that Canva offers for editing your photos. And this is often contrasted with the possibility to edit your photos from within the Canva editor, which we will cover a bit later in this lecture. But let's start with the model photo editor. So from here you can do a couple of different things. I am zooming in and out, right here on my photo, and you can see this little slider right here. So you could control the zoom with the slider, but here I'm using the wheel of my mouse. Okay, So I have a mouse with the scrolling wheel. This works as well for the zoom in and out effect. So that's the first thing. Otherwise, let me give you a tour of this model photo editor. What's important to understand is that there are three main tabs right here. You have your effects, you have your adjustment settings, and you have your crop settings right here. Let's start by analyzing what's under the effects, okay? So under effects you'll have a series of tools, filters, and effects. Okay? Also, always try to visualize the little arrow right here, because this means there is more. Okay. Under tools there is no arrow, but under filter effects there is this little arrow that allows you to swipe left and right and just see more of these filters and effects. I'm going to cover the tools in the next lecture. And filters are pretty straightforward. Okay, filters. You just apply a filter to your photo, which is very similar to what you could get on Instagram for example. Sometimes on Tiktok as well, and on Facebook filters. I'm not going to spend too much time talking about the filters. What's important to know if you're using filters is that you want to be consistent, especially if you're using your photos on social media. You don't want to have one day this filter and then the next day another completely different filter. Try to establish a visual consistency between all of your visuals by using consistent filters. Okay, so pick one or two and then stick to them. I will also talk about effects when we get creative with the photos. But in this lecture, I really want to focus on this adjust button right here, which will allow you to control different settings here like white balance, light color, and texture of your photo. So let's go ahead and see what we can do. So this photo is not bad. All right. It's quite decent but could be better. It's a little bit dark, so I'm going to try to bring in more light to this photo and we'll see how we can do that. And I'm just going to make the colors pop a little bit more. Bring a bit more focus to my face. Let me show you how we can do this. All right. I'm going to go through the different options we have here on this side panel. The first option, which is pretty convenient in my opinion, is an auto adjust button. So basically, if you don't know what you're doing and you are confident that Canva has the solution for you, you can just click on Auto Adjust if I do. So this is what settings Canva will choose from me. A bunch of different sliders have been moved by the AI and this is a much brighter photo. You can always use the compare button. Okay. Before, after I see that Canva brought in quite a bit of light, which in my opinion is better in terms of lighting, but the colors are a little bit faded. Okay. So I'm not going to be using this, so I'm going to reset all adjustments. Simply know that this button, this auto adjust button exists, It is right here. It allows you to save a bunch of time or maybe to give you some directions if you are not sure what you are doing. In my case, I have corrected hundreds of photos in my life. So I'm going to do this manually. All right. Something else I didn't show you with the auto adjust, let me do it again. So I clicked it again, color adjusted, you can adjust the intensity. So Canva will suggest some adjustments. And then it is up to you with this second slider right here, or first slider under the auto adjust to adjust the intensity of the applied effects or applied corrections by Canva. Again, I'm going to reset all adjustments. Now if you want to do this manually, the first option you have here is the area, Okay. So this is a very neat and relatively new feature that allows you to select which part of your photo you want to actually work on. You can work on your entire image if you leave this. By default, selected Canva will apply the effects or the adjustments to the entire photo, but you could also apply the effects only to the foreground, which is pretty powerful. Or you could similarly apply the effects only to the background. So let me show you now that I have selected foreground. Let me show you the kind of things you could do. For example, if I grab the saturation slider right here and bring it all the way to the left right here, I am desaturating the foreground of this picture, which is me sitting in that chair. And now I am black and white. And the rest, the background is still in full colors that could generate some cool visual effects. And similarly, you could select your background and do the same. I could desaturate the background and just be me colored with a black and white background. This is pretty cool effect as some pretty common effect that you could do using the foreground. Background layer selection or area selection is to blur your background. How would you do that? With the background selected, you could go to your sharpness and simply add some blur. You would add the blur by moving the slider again to the left. Okay. So if you move it all the way to the right, it's going to be so crisp that you should see some texture on the wall. See if I go all the way, I see more grain on the wall. So yeah, that's pretty much how you would do that. You would blur the background with this photo. It's not so obvious because there is no other subject I would say, or there is no landscape behind myself. But if you take a photo outside and do something similar, you would completely blur the background focusing nicely on the subject. All right, let's improve this photo by using the different sliders that we can see here. So this one probably first I'm going to work on the whole image because I want this entire thing to be corrected. Let's start with the brightness. I need to add some brightness to this photo to make it popular a bit more. All right, next would be contrast. This is pretty contrasty already. Maybe I could get some contrast out of the picture. Yep, highlights. So the way I usually proceed with photos is I go slider by slider, and I start moving them slightly and see what kind of effect they have. Shadows probably need to go down a bit if I go up. Yeah, the image is kind of more dull. Yeah, not too much. Probably a little bit more something like white. Definitely not more white. I'm going to leave this as is black. Probably don't need to add too much black, but a little bit so it pops a bit more. Also something I want to show you, You can type in a value directly, so if you want to be super precise, only add two. Just type in two with your keyboard and then Enter, and then the slider will take on that position. Okay, so you don't have to try to move that little ball here, 1% or one increment to the left or to the right. You can always type. The number in with your keyboard. Okay, So I'm pretty happy about this, I'm going to compare. So you see I brought in more light, so this is before and after I brought in more light to this photo without fundamentally changing it. So I'm pretty happy about this. I'm going to continue color the vibrance right here so I could desaturate less vibrant or more vibrant, which I don't really want. I don't think I need more vibrant To this photo. Pretty warm already. Saturation. Same. I don't think I need more. Maybe I need a little bit less, Maybe something like minus five. Let's compare again. This is pretty good then texture. Do I want this to be more blurry or more grainy? More sharp. I don't think I need to move this clarity. Maybe slightly, maybe five. I'm going to type in five here, there you go, vignette. Do I want a vignette effect? You could add a white vignette. If you go to the left or going to the right, you add a black vignette. I'm not going to touch the vignette. I think I'm fine with this. All right, so these are the final results. This is how my photo looks like. Let's compare it one last time. So you see original and then my corrected photo. All right, when you are happy with your photo, don't forget to click Save. Okay, there is a Save button right here in the upper right corner. Click on Save, and so you can save that to Canva, or you can download the photo. I'm going to save it, Canva, and this will not override my photo, It will just create a duplicate, an edited version of your photo. You see here it says edited, which is pretty cool. You can rename that and for example, have run eating ice cream. All right, let's now edit another photo. And let me show you another way to edit your photos in Canva. So we've seen the model photo editor, the independent photo editor in Canva editing this photo right here of myself. Now, I want to edit this photo of Diana, but this time I want to edit it from within the Canva editor. So, how would you do this? Well, first off, you are going to click on that photo. It will open it in the model photo editor. What you want to do is to locate this button right here that says Use in a design. I'm going to click on this. Canva will open a new design, a new document that has the exact dimension of my photos. And this dimension will be mentioned right here in the title. You see 15 36 by 2048 pixels. That is the dimension of my photo right here, the original photo. It will be different with your photos depending on which camera you use to take that photo. The thing is, my photo is now in the editor, it is right here. And I can start editing it from here with some minor differences compared to the model photo editor. So let's have a look. First things first, you absolutely need to select your photo. Now it's not selected because when I move my cursor outside of the working area, the photo is just not selected. In order to select it, you need to click on it. See, And now it has this purple border. Even if I move my mouse outside of the working area, what that selection does is that it enables the Edit photo option button right here. It's not selected, There is no Edit Photo button. If you click here, the Edit photo button will be visible. So click on Edit Photo, and you will bring back this panel right here, which should look very similar to the model photo editor. You still have your three tabs, effects, adjust and crop. So let's start by simply pointing out the minor differences that you will have between editing a photo within the editor or editing your photo with the model photo editor. First difference is that you should see a section right here called apps. Okay, so at the moment of shooting this video, there's only one app showing here, but I suspect that Canva will progressively start adding more apps. Okay, Right now you have the mock Ups app, okay? So the mock Ups app. I'm going to talk about this in the next lecture when we talk about framing. But for now, just know that it is here and if you want to use it, simply click on it and it will allow you to access another module. I'm not going to use it for now or so. It will pin it right here to your object panel. And you can completely close that panel. Close that section, that menu by just Xing it like so. Okay, again, I need to come back to my photo editing options. Very simple. Click on your photo edit photos and there you go, you're back to your photo editing options. So the first section right here is your tools. So you have the background remover, magic eraser, magic edit. These are the magical tools in Canva, which I will cover into details in a later video of this section. Then you have your filters. Again, nothing really new here. These are just photo filters that you'll already know. And then your effects, you have shadows, auto focus, blur, and the duo tone. Okay, not going to get into these effects into details because Canva will keep on adding more. And these are just like different kind of, I would say, fun effects that you have to experience to really see how they work. They all work in a similar way. In that sense that when you click on it, you should be brought to a new menu with a bunch of sliders and options. But that's how they work. You see now I applied some blur effect right here. I'm just going to remove autofocus and close this effect panel. I'm not going to mess with all of these effects right now, just know that they exist, experience them. One of my favorite is the duotone effect, allowing you to quickly change the color, swap colors, and also customize some of the colors of your design to obtain like some funky effects like what you see here. Okay, so not for today. I'm not going to start explaining the effects because I believe this is a very personal thing. Everyone will appreciate different styles of effects. Right here, I want to focus on correcting the photos right here in terms of colors and maybe texture. Okay, so before I get into this, there is one last thing that is popping up right here on my screen. It is that blue frame right here. It says, you are using the new photo editor to use the old experience. Click here. So let me just comment briefly on this before I move on, because you might be wondering why this is showing on my screen. First of all, I believe this is a temporary thing in Canva, because Canva has recently, at the time of filming this course, switched to a new photo editor within the Canva editor. Okay. Meaning that some of the features from the old experience have not yet been added to the new experience. So that means the one I am experiencing right here. That is why Canva gives you the option to switch back, to revert back the old experience. So you get back to the panel you are already familiar with. That could be done quickly here, so you just click on that button, revert to the old editor, can read this message right here. And then what it will do, it will go back to the old way of presenting all of the different filters, effects, and tools, which in my opinion, is not as well organized as the new one. You might come back to some features that seem to have disappeared in the new version, but I believe this is just a temporary thing because all of the things will come back to the new editor. Okay, so if you want to come back to the new one, just have a look at what right here on top. A powerful new way to edit photos is here, Check it Out. So if you click on Check It Out, you will be redirected back to the new experience which is the one I strongly advise you to get familiar with. Because this is where can va is going to build and the possibility to revert back to the old experience is progressively going to disappear. All right. Now closing that chapter of explaining what that frame is right here, let's start adjusting this photo from within the editor. Okay, so I'm going to head over to the adjust button, and for this one I'm going to try something a bit different from the get go. I can see there are a couple of problems on this photo. The colors are a little bit dull, but also the resolution is not great. It's been taken with a smartphone, probably not enough light. That was probably like a night market in Thailand. I remember taking this photo, so I'm going to try to adjust the colors mostly and work a little bit on the texture. See if I can make this image a bit crispier. But also I want to try something different. Playing with the background foreground thing. I would love to try to make Diana like in color, and the background black and white. So the first thing I'm going to do is to start just working on the colors. Okay? The whole image. I will take care of the background foreground situation a bit later in the process. But first, let's try to fix these colors. Adding more brightness to it, adding more contrast highlights. Let's see a bit more highlights as well. Something that you can totally do is to enter your number manually. Okay, if highlight you want a bit less, you want 15. For example, you can type in 15 with your keyboard and just have the slider at exactly 15. Okay, shadows, Let's see, maybe adding a little bit of shadows by moving the slider to the left. Probably not going to mess with the whites. Blacks, yes. Maybe adding a bit. Maybe 20 vibrant. Now, this is where I can try to make the colors pop more. But if I move it to the right, it changes Diana's tone of skin, skin tone. And I don't want to change it too much. So maybe, let's go ten. I'm going to type in 10. Okay? That is relatively subtle. So that's fine. Saturation. Maybe five. So I need this to be subtle. I want the pink here and the yellow to pop a bit more, Okay, Now coming down to the important bit, the sharpness. So sharpness will allow you to, if you go all the way to the left to add some blur. But if you go all the way to the right, you add some sharpness. It makes the image look a bit crazy, like too grainy. So what I'm going to do is with my slider all the way to the right, I will progressively start to bring it back to the left until my image starts to look normal. Not too crazy, not too grainy, so probably around ten. And again, if I zoom out a bit and have the photo at a normal dimension, we cannot see too much of that extra sharpness that I've added. Okay, I'm like, let's see the clarity slider if it can help a bit. Yeah, a little bit. I will have a little bit of that. Maybe five vignette. I don't think I need a vignette. No. I'm just going to leave the vignette slider to zero. Okay, with this, I'm pretty good with this, unfortunately. And unlike what I had in the model photo editor, there is no way to compare my photo right here after adjusting it to the original photo. So this is a little bit annoying, but there is a work around this. So here on the other side, you don't need to save any of your settings. They are already kind of saved to your document. So what I could do is to simply bring my photo, my original photo, to page number two. So I have page one right here. Let me show you the grid view. Page one is the corrected photo and page two right here, I'm going to bring my photo. If I go to image photos to edit, and that would be this one right here so I can replace the background. And now I have the corrected photo. And the original photo, I should probably have them like so that is the original, that is the corrected again before and after. So that's just a little work around to help you visualize the before and after, which was very convenient to have indeed in the model photo editor. Okay, so let's come back and finish the work. Remember I told you I wanted to create an effect by dividing the foreground and the background, desaturating the background of this photo, so ionize in color. But the rest is black and white. So I'm going to use, obviously, my edited photo. So page number two right here, select the photo and click on Edit Image. To come back here, I'm going to go to adjust. And now I'm going to play around with the area selection window right here. I'm going to select the background. Once canvas is done separating the foreground from the background. Now I'm working on the background right here. I'm going to go all the way down to my saturation slider right here on the color. And I'm going to bring it all the way to the left. And this is what I will have. Okay. I'm happy with this result. Again, I'm going to show you before and after. Okay, I think I did a pretty good job at making these colors pop. I would say slightly improving the resolution of this photo. This photo definitely makes a bigger impact than the original one, which looked a bit dull. The colors were a bit faded. But the new version really detaches Diana from the background by one having livelier colors, and two having this clear distinction between herself, my subject, and the background, which I separated using canvas, AI tools. There's just one last thing I would like to do before we move on, is to simply rename this photo. Okay, so I'm going to rename this one Diana holding the French fries sign. Okay, And I'm going to export this photo, page number two. So download not all pages but page number two in PNG format, leaving the same resolution. I'm going to download this photo. Okay, so my photo is downloaded. It is right here. So now what I'm going to do is to head back to my Asset folder. Remember, so it's under my projects. I want to store all of my photos together. So I'm going to click on Asset right here, my Images Photos to edit. That is the original. Now I'm going to add a new photo upload and I'm going to make sure I grab my downloads right here, This photo. And upload it here as well. So Diana holding the french fries sign. Okay, so you can see it. Now I have the corrected photo. Okay, so perfect. Now I have this one which is edited. And this one run eating an ice cream which is also edited. The last thing I want to do is to create under my images. So photos to edit, I'm going to create a new folder, add a new folder, and I'm going to call this edited photos. Maybe I can add an Imog. Let's create okay, Imog. This one is good to go continue edited photos. Now what I want to do is to move the edited photos. I select them both. If you look at the bottom of your screen, you have two options. You can move to trash, which I'm not going to do, or you can move to another folder. I'm going to move to another folder. It's within my images and it's the edited photos. Okay, You select the path and then you move to that folder. These photos will move from photos to it, back to edited photos. Now I have my two items right here. And that is absolutely what I recommend you do. Otherwise, you will have a bit of a mess within your Canva account with photos everywhere and edited photos, Photos to edit, and all of your uploads, everything mixed up. So I really recommend you set a system for yourself with folders. Because Canva is very generous about folders, everyone can create a bunch of folders, so use them and use them to organize your assets, your photos. We are going to leave it here. In the next lecture I'm going to show you how to work on the cropping and the framing of your photos. 7. Crop & Resize your Photos for Social Media: In this lecture, we will explore the amazing tools that Canva provides for cropping and resizing your photos. This will allow you to effortlessly snip away the unnecessary, but also to play around with the proportions with the dimensions of your photos so that you can publish them on different social media platforms. It sounds like magic and it kind of feels like it is. All right, welcome back to my photos to Edit folder. I have added a couple more shots right here. So the three first shots right here. Three first photos because I'm going to be working on cropping, resizing, reframing some of our photos right here. Because I want to show you how Canva has all of these different tools to make it easy for you to have great compositions for your photos, but also have the appropriate format for every social media platform you want to publish on. It is very important when you publish a photo on social media that you respect the aspect ratio and the dimensions of the social media platforms. So Canva has of course, the different document sizes for that. So if I come back to the home page and let's say you want to design something for Instagram, an Instagram post. If you hover over the Instagram post document type right here, you will see the dimensions. So you see that 1080 by 1080, this is a one by one aspect ratio. So we will have to get familiar with the dimensions and aspect ratio. So I'm going to show you because Canva doesn't give you the aspect ratio here. If I click on the little eye button, I see the dimensions, pixels, but not the aspect ratio. I have to kind of know it when it 1080 by 1080, It's easy, it's obvious, it's one by one aspect ratio. But for example, what is 1080 by 1920, the story format? Or what is this 11640 by 924 pixel? The Facebook cover, This is way less obvious. So I'm going to show you a little trick, a little resource website, that will help you understand the conversion between dimension and aspect ratio. But for now, let's head back over to my assets folder and my photos to edit, okay? So image photos to edit. Okay, From here I want to start showing you different features that will be super useful in terms of framing, cropping, and resizing your photos. Let's use this one right here, Runny, looking very surprised. I'm going to use it in the model photo editor, but you can do exactly the same from within the editor. This time we're going to focus on the last tab right here that says crop. Okay, If I click on crop, I see here my aspect ratios, okay? So the first one is free form, meaning I can resize this in a free form manner. So I can drag these corners, drag these sides, and pretty much resize it without any constraints. I can do whatever I want here, which is good in a way but also maybe doesn't give you much information on what to do and how to do it. So I'm not going to use the free form. The next one that I have here, the one by one aspect ratio. Remember that Instagram document size 1080 by 1080. This is the one by one aspect ratio. So when I click here, Canva will automatically resize my original photo. You see the frame has moved here to propose to suggest a one by one aspect ratio, so I can continue like 16 by nine, that would be the HD video format. Okay, so if I click here, it's the entire frame. And then I told you in the previous lecture, don't forget the little arrow right here, because there is more. Okay. Next is nine by 16. So that is the story format. And if just like in this case your photo is not super well centered, you can always move it by clicking on it and holding your click and dragging it, okay? So you can always adjust the framing of your photo. Canvas is always going to suggest the new crop in the middle of your document. But you can very easily grab your photo and move it left or right, or up and down if there is enough space in that new cropping. Next is five by four, okay, so this right here, and this is where things become a little bit complicated. What is five x four for which social media platform? This format is going to be optimum. I have no idea. So let me show you a little resource here. I'm just going to head over to Google right here. All right, so from here I'm just going to run the search aspect ratios for different social media platforms. I'm going to run the search, I'm go past all of the sponsored results here and click on the first one that is not sponsored here. Complete Guide to Social Media Aspect Ratios. So we have a little bit of a explanation of what aspect ratios are and then we have a breakdown. By platform. So we have Facebook with the dimensions and the aspect ratio. This is going to be useful for us to understand what social media platform requirements in terms of aspect ratio for each of these documents. If I look at four by five, for example this one right here, and I'm not sure what format this four by five is optimal four, like what? Social media platform. I can always come back to my article right here, search for four by five right here. And I can see this is the portrait dimension for Instagram. Okay. So now I know that this, if I cropped my photo like so I could probably rename it Instagram portrait. Okay. So this would be the optimal format aspect ratio that I would share for my Instagram portrait photos. Okay, so these are in Feed portrait photos and so on. So we have more aspect ratios here and really canva allows you to crop an existing photo into this variety of formats right here. So I encourage you to use that feature to crop your photos, rename your photos, organize your photos so you have a multitude of, I would say, social media ready photos at the exact right dimensions and aspect ratio so that they look great on social media. So I would say the first step is to color correct your original photo. So that would be what we saw in the previous lecture. So you adjust your photo and you make it look very nice. And then the second step would be to resize your photo in the correct dimension and aspect ratio for the appropriate social media platform you intend to publish on. All right, so that is the first thing I wanted to show you how you can crop your photos in different aspect ratios and make it super easy to create a collection of photos in the right dimensions. I'm going to reset this, I'm going to actually cancel. I want to show you something else. I want to show you how Canva has this other feature that allows you to auto crop or to figure out what is the best cropping of a particular photo. All right, so for this I'm going to be using this photo right here, okay? So this is the photo. It's a photo we took in Madrid in the square. In order to use this feature, the smart crop feature, you will need to work from within the Canva Editor. Why is that? Well, look, if I click on the Crop button, there is no smart crop feature right here. Okay, so what I'm going to do is to use this photo in a design, once again using this button. There you go. So now I have my photo here. I'm going to click on it, Edit Photos, and come back to my cropping. And now I see Smart Crop. What smart Crop will do is that it will leverage canvas I functionalities to figure out a better cropping for this photo. By better cropping I mean better framing. It will use composition rules, the rules of thirds, and different techniques to make this photo more interesting. I can see there's a lot of sky here, There's a lot of empty space. I might be well positioned of one of the third, the vertical third, but I think this photo could have been taken in a better way. Let's see what smart crop can do. I'm going to click here. There you go. I have a suggested other crop. You see the original crop is the entire. Let me zoom out a bit. We see everything that's going on here. This transparent photo in the background is my original photo. The smart crop is this new suggested framing. Here you see there is some rotation going on. We reduce some of the sky bits right there. Two people right here. We still have one, the other one is out of the picture, but this one still looks good there, it's not cut or anything. So I'm going to accept by clicking on Done. Now this is the photo that I have. It's much more interesting because there is a bigger focus on us DNI and I versus before where we had a lot of sky and a lot of other things going on there. Smart crop is, I would say, a powerful cropping feature that will allow you Yeah. To become more creative with your photos and to let I do the work for you. Okay. So I'm going to accept the smart crop. This is a feature I wanted to show you. It's only available from within the editor, so you won't have that feature in the model photo editor. Now there is something else. One last feature I want to show you that will also only work from within the editor and I'm talking about auto rotate. So for this I'm going to be using another photo. I want to show you yet another feature related to rotation cropping, framing of your photos. I'm talking about auto rotate, so I am back to my photos to edit folder. We are going to work with this one right here. The auto rotate feature also only works from the Canva editor, from within the editor. Okay, if I click on Crop here, there is a rotation thing here. What I'm trying to do is to fix the horizon line. You see it's like it's not straight. Ideally on photos you take with the C, for example, like this photo, ideally the horizon and the level is a straight line here is absolutely not the case. I was holding my phone in selfie mode. The photo is not great. Because of that I'm trying to do is to rotate the photo so I could straighten this level, but there is an auto feature to do exactly that. Canva, unfortunately not in the model photo editor. So once again we're going to be using this photo in a design. Now I have my photo right here open in my design. Going to select it, goes to Edit Photos. Click on my crop tab, right here. The third one. Now I see this little tiny button right here that says auto next to rotate. Okay, This was not there in the model photo editor, so I'm going to try the feature. Click on auto and boom, Canva rotated this photo and suggests another framing so that my sea level, my horizon line is completely straight. Now what I could do is to move the photo slightly to the left so I have a little bit more space here for my ear and just like a better framing altogether. Now, once I'm happy with this, can click on Done. And there you go. Now I have a straight line right here. Canva adjusted the rotation of this photo to fix the horizon line. So once again to access this feature, you need to be working from within the editor. Click on Edit Photo, go to your cropping options and locate the little auto button right here next to your rotate slider. There you go. This is something else I wanted to show you. There are two more features related to resizing, reframing, cropping, rotating that I still want to show you. The next one is a Canva Pro feature. This will only be available to those of you who are using the Pro version of Canva and it's called the Resize feature. You see the little Resize button right here on top. It has a little crown, meaning it's a Pro feature. This button is very powerful. It is, in my opinion, a good reason to upgrade to Canva Pro. And it is going to be very useful for those of you creating social media campaigns that involve multiple platforms. So let me show you what it does. What the resize, or some people call it magic resize. So starting from an original document. So I have this document right here which is a photo. Okay, When I click on Resize, I can select different document size. Remember when I went on Google and search for the different aspect ratios and try to figure out what social media platform they corresponded to. Well, with this feature, With this pro feature, you don't have to do this. You can select what social media platform you want your visual, you want your photo to be adapted for. Okay, so here for example, I could go from my original size and transform this into, let's say, a Facebook cover. You can select multiple ones. All you have to do is just tick the boxes. Okay. I want also Instagram story, probably not going to look great because let's try, let's try an Instagram story as well here, Instagram story. Let's try one last one. Maybe a squared one, so you don't have to scroll all the way down. You can also search. Okay. So I'm going to resize for an Instagram post. I type Instagram post. Instagram. Like the square one? Yeah. This one right here. So now I have selected three different document types. Okay. And I can see there are three. I will click on that button and Canva will create three new documents. Okay. So this is the first one. It says Instagram Post Squared. So my canvas has been adapted. Now, it is really up to me to stretch my photo to fill up that canvas. Okay. I'm probably going to do so. I do have still, like, enough space right here to the left of my head, right here. So that would be the first one right here. So my Instagram post, I can see a tiny thing here. I can stretch it slightly so it disappears and it looks cleaner. Now, this was my Instagram post. Now let's see the other canvas that have been created. This one is my Instagram story. So you see the nine by 16 aspect ratio, So this one is going to be a little bit more tricky. To adjust, but I can try have something like this and try to move both our heads in the shot. Maybe something like this. If I keep toggling between the three documents, the three canvas that have been created. This is the last one. This is the Facebook cover you see in the title. Canva really conveniently adds that information. What is this other document that you magically resized? Okay, so remember I had three Facebook cover was the third one. So the entire document has the dimension of a Facebook cover. Let me zoom out a bit. Now all I have to do is to stretch my photo again, to reach the entire, to fill up the entire canvas here. So I could do something like this. Now, this would probably not be an ideal Facebook cover, because things needs to be more to the center of that cover. But it is the exact dimensions of a Facebook cover. So if we click on the file button right here, we see Facebook cover 16 40 by 924 pixels. All right, so that is what I wanted to show you. This feature again, is called the resize or magic resize feature. It is a pro feature in my opinion. Super convenient if you are running social media campaigns across different platforms. Because you can go from one design and then resize it, make some tiny adjustments like I just did to fill up your entire canvas. And then you have all of your visuals ready. You can download them and upload them at the perfect dimensions for each social media platform. Now there is one last feature that I want to show you that has to do with cropping and framing, that I believe is worth mentioning. To demonstrate this last feature called the mock up app, I'm going to start once again from my photos to edit. Okay, I want to use this design right here, which looks like a logo profile picture. I'm going to use that. Use that in a design. Once again, you will need to use it in a design. Okay, I have it here. Okay, this is a photo. I can move it. It's not a bunch of elements. It has been exported as a photo. Let me show you the mock up app with the photo selected. I will click on Edit Photos. You should see right here, if you're using the newest experience of the photo editor, you should see a section here called apps. Okay, the first one is called mock ups. There might be more in the future at the time of filming this video. There's only one. But it's very possible that Canva will add more with time the way you use it, just simply click on it and Canva will suggest a bunch of different mock ups. So you have your popular ones, your smartphone computers, tablets, home and living. So toad bags, cushion covers, et cetera. And then you have your apparel with T shirts. You have prints, packagings, frames, and other different mock ups. So for those of you who don't know, mock ups are kind of like image placeholders on which you can add a photo of yours to make it look more real life. Okay, So for example, if I want to insert this logo on a cushion or toad bag, I could select any of these. So let me see what we have here. Let's use this one. I like this one because it's a bit wrinkled, so I'm interested in seeing how the effect would look like. So I'm going to click on that photo right here of my mock up. And now I have some extra guidelines. It says here, insert your image. Okay, so drag and drop any image into the mock up. So that is the mock up right here. I need to drop an image inside of it. The easiest way to do this is from the upload stab. The upload stab is right here. Canvas suggests, drag and drop an image from my upload stab inside the mock up. But what I want to do really, is to grab this image right here, which seems to have snapped into the background. Maybe the first step would be to right click on this and detach the image from my background. Okay. Again, I right click on my background which I could not select. You see I cannot move it. Detach image from the background. Now it's detached and now I could drop it. You see when I hover over the mock up, it becomes blue like it has a blue frame around it and my logo becomes transparent. So I'm going to drop it in here. Normally, canvas should position my logo on the mock up so you see like that. It's pretty cool. The effect of how it looks like, we have some texture. It looks really cool. I'd love to have this cushion. Once you have this selected, you can still edit some more. You see you have your mock up selected. You have this edit button right here. From here, you will see different options. First of all, how your image would fit the mock up. By default it would just fit it. But here, the situation is a little bit particular because I have a squared cushion and I had a squared image. The image when it fits it just fills it as well. So there is no possibility, if I had used another image, maybe the entire cushion would not be filled by my image. That's when the fill option right here, which is not available right now, would have been useful. Similarly with the alignments, because it was the exact dimension for this squared cushion. I don't have the alignment options, but these will be useful to help you recenter your photo on the mock up and then you have your flips. So you could flip this vertically, horizontally. Okay? Don't really see the point here, but that is it. Then you have the final button at the bottom that allows you to clear your mock up. Let's do this. I cleared the mock up, so that was the last feature I wanted to showcase in this lecture about cropping, resizing, reframing, and all of the different features Canva has in store for you. The mock Ups app is available to everyone, so have fun with it. Again, in order to find it all you need to do, let me add a last page here. For example, I have this photo of a cat. Select your photo, click on Edit Photos, and you should see the mock Ups app right here underneath Apps. So that's how you access this feature. And I believe that's it for this lecture. In the next lecture, we'll have a look at some truly magical features like background remover, magic edit, and magic eraser. 8. Remove the Background of your Photos (PRO): If you thought the features I showed you in the previous lecture were like magic. Well, my friend get ready for the Harry Potter Awesome Wizard of the Year level, because now is when the magic truly happens. A Pro offers some pretty powerful features. Or there I say wow features. Yeah, I think I do. Nda Pro offers a couple of wow features that will really help you stand out on social media like big time. Let's discover them one by one. All right guys, back to our photos to edit folder. I've added some more photos to cover this new lecture. So now we're going to focus on some truly magical features in Canva. I'm talking about all the magic things. So we have the background remover, the video background remover, we have magic eraser and magic edit. So I'm going to introduce these four new features to you. These are all powered by AI, and so some are relatively new, Some are exist inside of canvas in quite a long time already. And one of these four is actually free and available to all users. I'm talking about magic edit, and I will cover this one last. So what I suggest we do is I start showing you what the background remover is all about. And for this, we are going to be using these two photos right here. The photo of Diana, one with a professional blue background, which should make it easier for Canva to process that background and get rid of it. And then I will show you that this background remover also works with no professional background. With any photo, it could work with this one right here of me eating ice cream. This one of Diana, even this one of us at the beach. So let's start with this one right here, the easiest one, background remover. This feature right here which is a pro feature, see that by or Crown will work from the model photo editor or from within the Canva editor. I want to show you from within so that I can actually add a background behind this once I got rid of this actual background. The way you get rid of the background and activate background remover, you need to select your photo. Go to your Edit Photo button right here, and then select the background remover. You see it's super fast, it's already gone. I didn't speed up the video or anything. It took literally less than a second for this background to be removed. I still have the large framing, which I could definitely reduce here to snap my photo around my subject right here, which is Diana. Now I have this photo without a background. And to prove to you that there is no background here, I can add a color to this actual background. If I add this green color, there you go. We have ana with this new colored background. So this is going to be very useful in different use cases. So to create all sorts of graphics, we can play around with text. For example, let's say brainstorm. Okay, let's write brainstorm. Let's find a very big and bold font, something like Anton. You can make this super big, kind of like. So I'm going to position this right here. And now I can bring Ana by selecting Diana here without the background, use the Position button. Can go to the layers and bring her in front of that textbox. And so you can start creating some cool effects like this one right here where you can create different layers and this could be very interesting. Like it really allows you to unleash your creativity and yeah. And play around with your visuals. So from here, like 1,000 different directions in which you could just explore. One of them is to select your photo once you've removed the background, like this one, and just go edit photos and add some more effect. For example, you could go play with the shadows. Add a glow around Dana. Right here, for example, could have a glow that has nobler amount and intensity all the way change the color of the stroke. And now we do have an outline around Dana. I could do something like I really like this outline that I created around Ana. It was quite easy to create with the shadow effect. Yeah, this would make a great base for a Youtube sumnel, for example. Obviously, you might want to add some texture, maybe some accent color. Something else going on right here, maybe a logo. But yeah, adding an outline around a photo with other background. Always an interesting effect. So now let me show you that this also works with photos, Do not have a clean background. Okay, so I'm going to come back to my photos to edit. Okay, I want to see all of my images. Let's take this one for example. So this has a little bit more complicated background, but still I'm pretty sure the background remover will work on this photo. With my photo selected, I go to Edit Photo and then background remover. And then it should take not so long. I'm not going to speed up the video, I'm just going to talk through it. And there you go. So I am now cut out, but we can still see a little bit of the chair behind me because this has been recognized as part of the front subject of this photo. So if something like this happens, you always have the option to try and erase the parts that have not been correctly removed with the background remover. So in order to do so without clicking away, so with still your photo selected, go ahead and click on the little setting icon right here on the background remover tile. When you do so, this is what would happen. You should see your photo with two brushes. Right here, you have a minus brush, an eraser brush, and you have a restore brush with the plus sign. Okay? So as you would have understood by now, the eraser will erase parts of your photos while the restore one would just restore these parts of your photos. Okay. Whenever you're happy with the result, you just click on Background Remover right here, and it will just save your photo in the state where you left it. Me, I want to try to clean up this photo by removing the extra bit of chair right here in the wall. So it is a little bit of a precision work. Okay? And you can always play around with the brush size right here. But before we do so, I'm going to try to remove as much as possible with this big brush right here. So still a bit of chair right here. Okay? So this is, like I said, precision work. I would recommend you take your time to do this because the more time you spend on this, the better the outcome really would look. Okay, So me, I'm trying to go fast here, so I'm not boring you to death with this. But that's in a nutshell how it works. So here is the pocket of my shorts. Okay, And then let's quickly try to follow the outline of my shoulder here. Yeah, that's not too bad and you can reduce the size of the brush. Come inside here. Okay. I'm not going to make this super, super clean. I just want to show you, like the potential of this tool right here and also the fact that you can always come back and yeah, try to clean it up a little bit like I'm doing here. One interesting technique is to really go around the edges and even if you crop a little bit too much, it's not such a big deal. So I'm pretty happy with this result right here. So I'm just going to click on the arrow here and you see it's been kind of cleaned up. And if you want to hide the imperfections, you can always add a second effect to this by selecting your photo Edit photo. And then for example, you will look at your shadows again. You could add, for example, another glow effect. And yes, have something similar to what we had before, like nobler intensity all the way, and have something in green colors or even something like so for example. And there you go, now you have created like a different effect, but it hides a little bit the imperfections and you can start creating from there. Okay, so just wanted to show you the background remover for photos. Okay. Will work best if your background is less complex. Also here I was sitting on a chair that had a different color. Let me quickly show you with one last photo. Okay, I'm going to grab this photo of the two of us at the beach. Let's see how it deals with the hair right here with this little bit of someone behind my head. Let's see how it deals with this. So it's more of a complex background to get rid of. I hope this will work. There you go. Let me show you right here it recognized, okay, this is part of the background. The rest is all pretty good. Like the hair is nicely, the only thing that needs to be corrected is this arm of a person right here. So let's go ahead and try to get rid of that again. From here I can zoom in either with the slider right here or with the wheel of my mouse. And I'm going to try and make this blue disappear here. Maybe reduce the brush size slightly. Yeah, let's try this. Let's go one step back. This looks pretty good to me. Now, I can simply zoom out, bring this to a corner, obviously because this part of my body is actually not in the frame. If you want a photo like this to work, you should probably use a similar framing and have have it position in the corner of your image. From here, you can still edit your photo. Obviously here. I'm just going to autodjust it. There you go, More light to your photo and you have something great to work with. From there again, it's really up to your creativity to add this to a template you could really go wild with. Let me show you one example, creating a new page. I'm going to go to my design stab, which is where I have all of my templates. Let's grab something like this with a very colorful background, like this one right here. I'm going to get rid of all of the shapes and just keep the background okay, which is an animated background, I believe. Let me close that and try to preview the last page. Is it moving? It's not moving. It's a fixed background. I thought it was animated. But what I can do is simply to take this photo right here to cut it. To paste it. And there you go. Now we have a very funky background. I still have some space here to add some text if I want to, but yeah, I think canvas background remover did a great job at getting rid of this background. I could even correct the little imperfections here. And now I have a visual that is ready to be customized, I would say, for social media. Now let's move on to the second magic feature I want to introduce to you. Still has to do with background removal, but this time for video because Canva can also remove the background of video. So let me show you how that works by creating another page. Right here, page five. So going to jump back to my folder. Okay, and fetch my video. I have a video right here of myself. Sample, say something like I recorded this during tutorial I was filming for our Youtube channel. So yeah, it's here. It's a clip that is 16 point 1 second long. It's filmed here in my studio with the white wall behind me. It has shadows on it and everything. Okay, so that is the original clip. Okay, so again, if you are Canva pro user, you will be able to use the video background remover. So let me show you where you can find it. The first thing you need to do is to select your video clip and then locate the button that says Edit Video. And you should see a tool right here that says background remover. Remove the background of your videos with one click. Now there is one limitation about the video background remover that I believe is important and that I need to communicate to you. It is that as of today, end of June 2023, the video background remover can only process videos of maximum 90 seconds. So a minute and a half. You will not be able to feed Canva a 30 minute video and ask it to remove the background. As of today, the maximum length of your video clips needs to be shorter or not longer than 90 seconds. Okay, so this one is fine. It's 16 point 1 second, so there should be no problem. Now what I don't know is how well the background is going to be removed, so let's click on it. What I can see from here is a little pop up window with Canva who is willing to understand my experience with the background remover. So I will probably wait for my background to be removed before I rate this. I can see that it's now at 19% I am on purpose not speeding this up because I want you to realize how long it takes for the 16 second video clip to be processed by Canva. Okay, we are now, it's almost done 78% and I have not sped up the video. So this is the real time processing. And me, just for the sake of talking, just to fit up the blank here and wait for this background to be completely removed, which should not be long now because we are at 90% already guys. So let's see how well the background will be removed. I hope it will be properly removed so I don't have to do it again now we are done. Great, so from here, let me reposition this right here and play the video. For example, say something. I'd say something like, I've read a lot of positive comment. Okay, so this is not bad at all. I'm going to change the color of that background, so I'm going to put the green background. Just like for the rest of the next article. Going to be about you see the little gradient here, but we don't see that in the original footage. So let me play this four screen. For example, say something, say something like I've read a lot of positive comments on your blog. What's your next article about? Okay, so this was very impressive in my opinion. Like this video background remover really worked perfectly, at least for this clip right here. Let's admit it, it was an easy background to remove because the wall was pretty uniform and just one color. So depending on the complexity, I would say, of the background of your video, this will work more or less well. But if you're using this, just like me for, I don't know, for creating shorts or for creating short snippets of tutorials like here, this works really, really well. So from here I can do a couple of different things. I can obviously resize this video, for example, I could also drop this video in a frame. Okay, so I could have my slides here. I could add a frame. So for this I would go to my elements search for a round frame. Let's see if I can have a round frame. Yes, like this one right here. I could drop this inside the frame, and now I could get rid of the color of my slide. Now I could add a slide right here from the template, for example, and use the talking bubble to be on top of it. Now the only thing is that if I click here and add a slide to this page, it's going to replace everything that's on the page. I would better copy this or cut this. And I will bring my slide, let's say this one. And then I will bring back my bubble. There you go. I have the bubble here. I could just be here or I could get out of the bubble. Let's detach the video and maybe make video much smaller and put myself right here in the corner. This is a technique we use in some of our older tutorials. For example, this looks very professional. I'd say something like, I've read a lot of positive comments on your blog. What's your next article going to be about? Yeah, I really like that. I think this looks really professional. I didn't even have to use a green background or a blue background. This was just filmed on my white wall. I hope this shows you a little bit of the potential of the video background remover. You can really have fun with this. Yeah, I highly recommend it. Just do not forget that current limitation is 90 seconds. But if you have different clips, you could definitely remove the background of each of these clips and then use them together. There's no limit that I know of of how many times you can use that feature. So yeah, you can go ahead and have fun with it. Something else that is pretty cool is that I can also apply some effects on this video. If I click on Edit Video and go to my adjustments, could add some brightness just like my photos. I can correct the quality and the color grading of this video clip right here, which is pretty cool. It gives me a lot of flexibility. So once it's done, I can reposition right place right here and again, play this full screen. For example, say something like I'm ready, say something like. So there you go. A lot of flexibility with video, just about as much as with photos. Now let's move on to the third pro feature. The third Magical Pro feature I'm talking about, magic eraser. Magic eraser is a great feature if you want to erase little parts of a photo. Let me show you with this example right here. We have Diana at a beach in Australia, and we have the three people right here, which is not too annoying, but I mean, come on, the photo would be so much better without these three people. So you can use magic eraser to take care of this. Magic eraser Is this feature right here. Once again, it is a pro feature. You see this with the little crown right here. And you can use it either from the model photo editor from here or you can use this from within the Canva editor. It doesn't really matter, so you don't have access to more or less functionality. So I will just demonstrate how it works from here, from the model photo editor, the way you use it. Once you have your photo, just click on magic eraser and you will only have one slider here. This slider is the size of your brush. If you bring your cursor over your photo, you should see this circle, okay? And this circle is an eraser. What you want to do is to simply use that eraser to click on the things you want to delete. When you release your click, Canva will use its AI to reconstruct the photo behind the subject you are trying to erase. Just click on the person right here and Canva will analyze the photo and rebuild that photo pixel by pixel until you don't even see that something was there in the first place. So I'm about done with the third person, and you will see that this photo will look perfect. I can zoom in exactly where the people have been deleted and there's nothing there. So now I have magically erased these three people from my photo. So you don't have to wait until everybody gets out of the way to take a good photo anymore or a good selfie. And you can do this in post production with Canva and with magic eraser. In a very simple manner, just click on a detail in your photo that you want to delete. Release your click, and Canva will take care of the rest. So from here I can save that photo. I'm going to save it to Canva. And there you go. I have a perfectly edited photo without the three people. We see the difference right here. The one with the people, the one without the people still processing a little bit, but in a second it's going to be as crisp as this one. All right, so that was the three pro magic feature. I have one surprise for all of you guys, even those of you who are not Canva pro user. There is one last feature which is called magic edit which is available to all users. Thank you Canva for this. Without further ado. Let's see how this works with this photo right here. Okay, so I'm going to open the photo and again, this will work from the model photo editor and from within the editor, so there's no major differences here. So what we have here is a photo of Diana opening up her box that she just received from Youtube with her Youtube trophy. So that is a trophy that she got for reaching 100,000 subscribers on her Spanish channel, Diana Munoz TV. All right, so that is absolutely Diana's accomplishment. I didn't participate in this. So she grew this channel by herself. And so she was very happy to receive this trophy which represents all of the years of efforts a building up the Youtube channel. So what we are going to do, we are going to use magic edit, So this feature right here, which is still in beta, and we are going to replace this Youtube trophy by something else, something that I know would make Diana very happy. Okay, So I'm going to keep the suspense going for a little bit. Let me show you how the feature works, okay? Again, this feature is available to all users. So first thing first, click on that, so you have a little bit of instruction. So first you need to brush over the image. This highlights where the image will be edited. Okay, so similar to the magic eraser, you need to brush over your photo right here, the part that you want to edit that you want to replace. Now I can see that this brush size is a little bit too big. I want to be precise here. I want to make sure I keep the box intact, but I do erase the trophy here. So I just want to make sure. I'm going to start with the edges. Okay. And here you can release your click and continue. Which is convenient because on the magic eraser feature, if you release your click, the AI is going to start working and deleting Whatever you brushed on here is different. You have time to perfect your brushing. Okay, so now I can increase the size of the brush because I'm safer here within everything here. Okay, this is good enough. So once you're good, click on Continue. Okay, step number two, describe what to generate. It will be created for you using AI. All right, so that's the front part. You have to be creative. You have to use a prompt of what you want Canva to generate. Instead of that trophy, I want a little puppy on its bed. A little puppy on its bed. Okay. So once you have written your prompt, click on Generate. From here. Can Va should generate four different alternatives. Four different options for you to choose from. Okay? It's similar to text to image, oh, this is cute. Look at this little guy here. My four alternatives are being generated as we speak. So the first one right here is the first one of the four. I also have this one, very little puppy. I like the texture of the mattress here. It's really nicely done. We have this one and we have this one. They're all cute. I think this one is the cutest with this little mat right here. So I'm going to leave this one as the option I'm going to select. This is really cool, You could generate more results. If you wanted to generate new results. You could change your prompt, so you could do a bunch of different things, but this feature is super fun to use. I'm going to save this one and save this photo to Canva so I can compare the original with the edited photo. So there you go. We have the original photo right here, the Youtube trophy, and we have the edited photo right here with the little puppy on its bed. Perfect. So yeah, this is a truly magical feature. I would recommend you try this on photos of yourself. You can treat yourself with a new outfit, some new glasses. The limits are really your creativity and your imagination. So once again, this was magic edit and it's available to all Canva users than we have one more lecture to go in which I will show you how to keep all of your photos well organized in Canva. Not that I'm some sort of tidying up fanatic or anything, but you will definitely save a lot of time if you know where to find your photos when you need them in Canva, believe me. 9. Organize & Tag your Photos: Guys, I want you to take a good look, a good honest look at your uploaded photos in Canva. Yes. Right now. Post the video if you need to see them now, how many of them have names like screenshot 202-03-0510 Dog, I know, and trust me, I've been there too. So let me wrap up by giving you a few tips on how to keep your photos organized in canvas, All right? My first tip would be that you always, like always, should rename your photos. At least the photos that you know you will keep and you will be using somehow, either in Canva or on social media or for other purposes. So for example, I have this edited photo right here of Diana the Beach, titled IMG 23 65 edited. That's not a good title. I mean, come on, let's rename this. So in order to rename a photo, different options, You could click on its title, on its name, and simply use a little pencil icon. Or you could click on the three little dots and simply click on the name right here on the top. The same thing here is Diana staring at the C. Okay. Ana staring at the C. Edited. Okay. Perfect. So hit Enter, and now this photo has been renamed. So I'm going to do this quickly for the photos, I'm going to keep Ana 100 Spanish Channel. Now I want to change this for something else. So this one is not 100 Spanish Channel anymore. It's Diana, this covering her puppy. Okay, good. So I have these two. This one, I'm not going to use this one either. These and these are not edited, So yeah, let's say I want to keep these two. All right. My next tip, if you want to keep your photos organized and easy to search for Canva is to attribute a couple of tags to your photos. For example, this one right here dealing with Diana and her new puppy. I could click on these three little dots and add some tags. You see this option right here? Add tags. So I'm going to add the tag Diana. I'm going to add the tag No, capital Puppy. I'm going to add another tag which is Christmas, because there's a Christmas tree right there before. Okay, I'm good with this. Click on the saved tags and the tags are saved. Like we can see here. Next photo right here. I'm going to add a couple of tags. Ana beach Australia. Anna beach, Australia. Perfect. I'm going to save these tags. There you go. Yeah, that's all I have for now. So that is the second tip. The third tip would be to create a folder hierarchy and some sort of organization with the Canva folders. If you remember, I had already started this with a couple of different folders. So if I go back to my images right here, remember I created these two different folders, photos to edit, which is where I come from with all of these photos. And then if I come back one step in this breadcrumbs right here, my images, I have edited photos. There you go. I have these edited photos. So what I could do from here is to come and paste the two edited photos I just worked on. Okay, let's do this. Coming back to my images photos to edit, I'm going to select the two photos, these two right here tick here. And then find the move to folder button right here, the bottom. Okay? Click here, and then I'm going to move them to my recent folder, which is called edited photos. I love that. Canva now has this recent column and then you have your all, which kind of like forces you to open different folders and find the right one. But the recent one is super convenient because the last folder you've been using should show right there on top of the list. So edited photos. Yeah, move to this folder and then Canva will be moving you items. So they are not here anymore but should be right here in my edited photos. There you go. They are right here. One thing I should do here probably to add tags, so I should add the tag Diana, Thailand Fries. Always try to also be consistent with the tags you are using. Maybe who is in the picture where the picture has been taken. And maybe one last tag that can differentiate all of the photos. And this one right here at tag, so this one is Runny, Thailand, okay? Ice cream. Okay, Thailand ice cream. Okay, Perfect. Save these tags. So now I have already showed you three different tips. The first one is to rename your photos, second one is to add some tags. And the third one is to use folders in a logical folder hierarchy to organize all of your photos, which is what I'm doing right here. If I was to get ready for social media campaign, for example, and have kind of resize my different visuals into platform specific dimensions. I would have a folder called Facebook and then another one called Instagram, and maybe one called Twitter or Linked in. So you could also organize your folders in that manner. Now, something else you could do to stay organized, but this would require for you to have a Canva Pro account, is to start uploading photos to your brand kit. Again, only pro users will be able to add photos to their brand kit. But I want to show you how this looks like by showing you our brand kit. Okay, so if I come back to my home page right here and click on the Brand Hub right here, this should show you all of your different brand kits. Okay, so the Brand Hub is kind of the central place for all of your different brand kits to live to exist. So here we can see Ronnie's brand kit brand kit we created for a Black Friday campaign, the Ron GPT brand kit team Rondi 2023 brand kit. And this one is an older Canva for social media. So that's actually the brand kit we created for this particular course that we are creating. So let me show you what a brand kit actually looks like in your brand kit, you can add some logos. Okay, So these are all what I consider logos for my personal brand. I have my profile picture, my Ron GPT picture, and then different Canva expert badges. Then you have your color palettes. Okay. You can create as many color palettes as you want if you are a Pro user Canva free user will have a very limited brand kit with only three colors. That's really all you can add to your brand kit if you are a free Canva user, but pro users have limited color palettes. You can add logos you can choose and preset up to, I think seven or 912-34-5678, I think up to eight or maybe nine different text styles right here that you can preset. And this is where I wanted to draw your attention since the beginning with I got lost a little bit. You can add photos as well to your brand kit. So when it comes to working with visuals, I think it's a great idea to start uploading branded photos. So here, since this brand kit is for me as Ronnie Hermosa, these are visuals that kind of strengthen my personal visual brand. If I was to show you the brand kit of Tim Rondi, we also have some photos of Anna right here. If I was to show you the brand kit of a brand or proper business, then I would show you probably different visuals, maybe some photos of the team photos of your product, photos of everything really that you use for your website, for example, for presentations. So you can really create as many brand kits as you want. You can create a brand kit for one of the clients you are working for, for example. And maybe that client gave you a bunch of different product photos. So you would include these photos into the brand kit of that specific client. Maybe you would have color corrected these photos first and then save them into your brand kit. It is very convenient to have these photos inside of your brand kit because then it becomes super easy to find them when you're working in the Canva editor just before I switch over to the editor and show you how to use these visuals, how to recall these photos. I want to show you that you can, on top of logos and photos, you can add graphics to your brand kit and also icons. Okay, now let me switch over to design. Let's come back to this one right here and head over to your brand Hub right here. And choose a Brand Kit here. I have access to all of the different brand kits. Okay, let's choose Ronnie's Brand Kit. There you go. It was already selected. Now I can see my logos, they're all here. My colors, my fonts, and my photos. If I click on See all all of the photos you saw in that brand kit. They are right there at my fingertips. I can use that in my design right here, so I can bring a photo without the background very easily. I can be right here next to Diana. Like I can push myself with the layers. So Diana is in front of me. And there you go. If I want to add a similar outline, I can do that as well. Edit photo, shadows, glow. I would just do something like this. Blur amount, zero intensity all the way up and have this set to white. Could probably have a larger stroke, something like that. And there you go. Now we have a consistent image right here with Diana and myself, like yeah, that's how you do it, that's how you use your photos in your brand kit. So I would highly recommend if you are in a pro user that you upload your photos or at least the photos you would use all the time to your brand kit for easy access to them. Okay, so they will be right there under your brand hub. All right, so I think I have covered everything here about organizing and tagging your photos. The last thing I want to show you is how to kind of search for these assets. So let's say you are looking for a photo of Dana, okay? And you are right here on the Canva home page. Just use the search box. Okay? I'm just going to type in Dana. And I'm going to search not in my template but in projects. And if I run this search, I will have a bunch of different results that include Dana. But if I look at, for example, the type, let's say I want only images, remember these guys. These are the photos for which I added the tag Dana. Okay. Each of them carry the Dana tag. This made it super easy for me to search for specific photos. I mean, how long would you have to search for these photos if they didn't carry any tag? You would have to come back to your project, go to your images, and start scrolling. Imagine if you didn't even add them to a folder. You would be scrolling here forever and ever. Yeah, I hope I got my point across that it is super important to organize your assets into Canva. 10. Class Project: Welcome to the project lesson and congratulations on your journey. So far, you have mastered the skills to find and edit photos in Canva and are now ready to make a visual impact on social media. So let's take action. This classes project consists of editing a set of photos using Canvas tools. Your goal is to produce a collection of photos that are ready to use on social media. So start by choosing your raw photos, then use canvas tools to edit and resize them. If you are a canvas pro user, you can also have fun with the background remover or the magic edit features. Once you're done, make sure to properly rename your edited photos and organize them into folders. Remember a photo is worth 1,000 words, so make sure yours evoke emotions and tell compelling stories.