Designing with Canva - for complete beginners

1. Introduction: Hi there and welcome. My name is Holland, and I've been using Canva for many years and for all kinds of purposes. For example, promoting my Etsy shop and for publicity work for organizations that I've volunteered for. In this class, we're going to be talking about using Canva for small businesses and creators. If you're wondering what is Canvas, A web based piece of software that you can use to create designs? Some of these might be designs for printing, like business cards, flyers, or stickers. Others might be social media posts or website banners. You can even create short videos such as social media reels, gifts, presentations, Youtube intros or video app. Those are quite new features though. What Canvas really known for right now is creating still images with a combination of photos, graphics, and text. That's what we're going to focus on in this class. To find Canva, just type Va.com Canva.com in the address bar at the top of your browser. Or you can search Canva in Google search. There's also a Canva app available for smartphones and tablets. Most people use the free version of Canva, but if you want more features like a wider array of graphics and stock photos, you can pay for a monthly subscription to Cama Pro. It's worth mentioning here that if you're using Canva for an educational organization or a nonprofit, you can apply for a free subscription to Canva Pro. In this beginner class, we'll cover the basics of using Canva to make designs for print and social media that you can use to promote your small business or creative work. I'll show you how to use templates at photos and graphics. Apply text, resize and rearrange everything, change things like colors and fonts, and download your finished design onto your computer. I'm going to show you two example projects, a logo and an Instagram post. And then we'll work on a class project together where we'll design a business card. If that sounds like the class you're looking for, then come along and join me in the next video. I can't wait to see what you design. 2. Getting started: To get started with Canva, create a free account at Canva.com You can do this by signing up with one of your existing accounts with Google, Facebook, or various others. Alternatively, you can start from scratch by signing up with your e mail address. The search bar here is where most people start. The first thing Canva needs to know is what is this design for? Because that affects the size and shape of the design. If you're making something common like a business card, you can just type that into the box. Canva will give you some options to choose from. You can also type in a standard paper size, such as US letter, or one of the sizes like five or four. Some people prefer to browse these options here instead of typing in the search bar. Or if you want your design to have a specific size, you can choose the custom size button up here. Then change the pixels to inches, millimeters, or centimeters, whichever you want to work in. And then put the dimensions in these two boxes. Then click Create New Design. All of these various methods will lead to the same place, a new canva design like this. But some will offer you templates to choose from first, and others will give you a blank design first. You can still use a template either way. Here's how to get to the templates once your new design has been created. On the left hand side, look for this dark gray menu. And then click the top icon, which is design. Now you can browse through all the templates below, or you can try searching for something such as floral. If you're using a free account, make sure you only pick templates that don't have the little crown in the corner which says pro when you hover over it or a currency symbol in the corner. Those are the ones that you have to pay for. Annoyingly, even when you pick a free template, sometimes it will contain elements such as graphics that are not free. You can tell these because there will be diagonal lines across them like this. And it will say remove water marks in the top right corner. When this happens, you can delete the premium element and search for something similar but free in this element section, which we'll talk about in the next video. 3. The 'Elements' menu: Going back over to this left menu. The Elements menu has shapes, graphics, photos, and plenty of other things that you can include in your design. Starting with Shapes, I'm going to delete this premium element by clicking on it and then clicking delete. And then I'm going to go to Shapes and just choose this square. I can change the color of this, which I'll go into in more detail later. I can resize it in this way, Replace the element that was there before. But we're not limited to just basic shapes like squares. We can also choose graphics. So let's say you wanted flowers. You can simply type it in the search box at the top and get lots of options for flowers. Now again, we want to avoid these ones with a little crown or any that might come up with a currency symbol. The rest of them are free to use. It's easy to get lost in this menu because the Elements menu has got lots of sub menu it's recently used. It's got shapes, graphics, stickers, photos, videos, and lots more. Once you actually go into one of these, let's say you click on graphics. It can then be easy to forget that there's a back button at the top and that you can then get into all these other things. So don't forget that the elements is more than just one menu. So let's say we wanted photos of flowers instead. We can type that in in exactly the same way. And just like with every other menu, just ignore anything that's got a crown on it. Unless of course, you do have a pro account. If we want to use one of these photos in our design, we can use it in one of two ways. We can drag and drop it somewhere in the middle of the design, in which case it'll come up smaller than the full width and the height of the design. I'm just going to delete that. Or we can click and drag and we can drop it right on the edge of the design here. And you can see that if you do that, it takes over the background of the design. However, you're not stuck with it being framed like that. If you double click on it, it now shows you the whole design. You can drag it around. Just click and drag to where you want it to be. Let's say you wanted less of the white and more of the flowers. You can drag it over like that and then click Done. Now you're getting more of it in the background. However, if you wanted just one flower in the corner, you didn't want it to take over the background. Oops, that's a pro one. You could click and drag and drop it in the middle instead. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to resize and there's even a way to recolor some of the elements. In the rest of the elements menu, we've got stickers. These are graphics that move. You might find these useful if you're doing a social media reel or a video or something like that. Photos tend to be photo realistic, but sometimes they're not. Sometimes it's a photo of an artwork, so it can get a bit confusing. Whereas, whereas graphics are usually illustrated, you can also bring videos into your design. If you're working on a video, you can get stock video clips. You can also bring audio in. You can bring these charts and these tables. I don't use those very much. Frames I do use sometimes. Now these are interesting. Let's say we click on oil to see all the frames. What these do is create a constrained area for a photo or graphic. Right now there's nothing in that. It's, it's just that default hill and sky. But what that is, is a placeholder for a picture. Let's say we wanted to put a photo in there, we'll search flowers again. I'll try with this one because it'll be easier to see. You see this is a, this is a rectangular photo. But because I've dropped it into a circular frame, it's constrained it to that circle. And you can do this with a number of different shapes of frames. That's really useful if you want to create a template that you're going to use over and over again, but drop different pictures in each time. 4. Adjusting things: In this video, we're going to talk about how to move the elements around in your design and change the colors. Going from the elements menu, we're going to go into graphics and then see all this time we'll search for pizza. Now as before, we're going to ignore the ones with little crowns on, so let's grab one that doesn't have a crown. Graphics work a little bit differently from photos. With photos you have to click and drag them onto the design. But with graphics you can just click because graphic don't have the option of taking over the screen like the photos do. A simple click is all you need and it will appear in the middle of your design. You can then click and drag to move it around within your design. You can use this rotation button at the bottom to rotate. You don't get much of a difference with this one just because it's a round design. In the corners, we have these re size handles. You can see if you hover over the corner, you can see the arrow changing and that means it does something different. Every corner has one of these and they all do the same thing, which is to make it smaller or larger. There are some extra handles at the sides here. These ones will basically, it's hard to explain really, but it will do that. There's not very many situations in which you'd want to do that, because it's cutting off pieces of the image. But you might wish to in certain circumstances. Now with some images you can change the color of them. This isn't one of them because it's quite a complicated image. But if I were to click on a simple one like this, where I can see it's only got one color. This also sometimes applies to graphics that have two or three colors. You can click up here, you notice with this one, there's a black box up there. Whereas you click this one, it doesn't have that. That's the difference between ones you can't recolor and ones that you can. When you click on this, you could change this black color for something else. If you click on Photo Colors here, you can choose colors that are already in your design, so you can make it match what's already there. As before, we can use the Rotate button and we can use the resize handles. Now once you start filling up your design with various different things, you'll notice that some of them are in front of the others. If you need to change this, there's an easy way to do it. You just make sure that the thing you want to change is selected by clicking on it. Then go up to position here. There's two ways of changing. The easier one is to use this range bit where you've got forward to front backward, or to back. Some of them are grayed out because they're not applicable. This one is as far forward as you can get it. So I can't choose those, but I can make it go backwards. Now of course, I get the other options where I can make it come forwards again. We can also use this section here to align it. Let's say I wanted this pizza and those chips to be aligned down the middle. Then I could choose center here and it would do that. If I wanted it aligned the other way, I can do that. Or I can align the left side, the bottom, the right or the top. If you have lots of images and you're struggling to find the right one to make the position work, then instead of using this bit here, you would change this arranged tab to layers and then you get a more detailed view. If I wanted this pizza at the top, I would simply click and drag to the top of the layers. Think of these layers as sheets of plastic with things printed on them. And then the bottom layer as being an opaque white sheet or whatever color it is. You can shuffle those sheets of plastic around so that different things can be at the top. 5. Working with text: Next we're going to talk about how to bring text into your design. Again, you want to look in this menu here, but instead of elements, we're going to click on text. Now you can click on these for various sizes of heading. You could click on some of these if they're not pro, and that will give you some grouped text. Or you can click Add a Text box. They are all just different ways to do basically the same thing, which is to bring a bit of text into your design. While you have that selected up, here is the place where you can change fonts. You click on this and you have all these fonts to choose from. Bear in mind that the fonts here might not be the ones that you're used to. For instance, the ones that you get with Word. Canva has its own fonts, but it does have a lot of them. You probably find want, similar to the ones that you're used to, as well as browsing through them up and down the way I just did. You can also type in here, for instance. You could type handwriting and it will give you options that all look like they've been handwritten as before. Just ignore the little ones with the crowns, let's say we want to choose this one, actually. That's not very readable. Bear in mind that these fonts, they may look nice, but you've got to bear in mind how quickly people can read when it looks like that. I think rather than choosing a handwritten one, I'm going to use a Corporate one instead. As well as the option to change the font here. We can also change the size. We can press the up or down buttons here to do that. Or we can also use the resize handles the way we did with the graphics. If you use these side handles, then it'll wrap the text like that. Just bear in mind the side handles don't make the text bigger, but the corner handles do make it bigger or smaller. We can change the color of the text here. At the top here, it'll give us the document colors. That is the colors that we've already used. I have this up here, that's why it's bringing up pink. If you have a pro account, you can set some of your own colors that you like here or colors that you're using for your brand. These are the colors of the photos that I've got in my design. That's a useful one to pick from. Or you can pick a whole load of different ones here. But these aren't your only choices, because you can click on this plus here to add a new color. You can slide this all the way along the rainbow. And then you can use this bit here to choose how much black or white you want or how vivid or dark you want the color to be. Then you have options to make the text bold, italic, or underlined. Not all of the fonts have that, but some of them do. You can strike through the text. You can choose whether you want it capitals or just normal. You can align it to the left, the right, the middle. Or you can make it justified, which doesn't really show with this, but it would with a larger block of text. You can make bullet points. The spacing is really good for like titles and stuff like that. So let's say you have this big title here and you click on Spacing. The letter spacing will move the letters further away from each other's with more space in between or less space. And then line spacing. I'll have to put in an extra line to show you this one for line spacing that can make the space between the lines bigger or smaller. Animation isn't something that you'd use for a still image, but you can use it if you're going to be putting your design into a video or presentation, or a gift, or something like that. That basically allows the text to move around. So you can have it slide onto the screen or fade in. You have it move slowly, come up from the bottom. You can have it like a typewriter. Things like that, position we talked about before. We have these options to move it into the center, into the middle, the bottom right or left. That can be a quick way to position it in exactly the place you want it to be. I didn't talk about these options before. I can show you with the text, it makes it more transparent. That can be useful if you have a small bit of text at the bottom and you don't want it to draw the eye away from the large title or too much. And it's also a useful one to do with elements. If we had a shape in there, we might want this color put a bit more see through. Just bear in mind that's not adding white to the color, but it's actually making it more see through. It's almost like adding water to paint. Then if we had that, but we had it positioned to the back, we'd still be able to see it because this is partly transparent. We also have the option of adding effects to text. To get into that menu, you would click on the text and then click on Effects. At the moment, it doesn't have any on, but I could add a shadow which would look like that. I can change the color of the shadow here. I can also change how big the shadow is, what direction it goes in, whether it's blurred or how transparent it is. Here are some of the other effects. There's lift that can be useful if you just want the title to stand out a bit more from the background. And you can change the intensity here. You can make it hollow splice, which is hollow with a shadow. I think you can have an outline and you can change the color of the outline and the thickness. You can choose echo glitch or Neon. Again, lots of options for customizing these things. You can give it a background that's useful if the background is busy. You need the text to stand out from that. As usual, you can customize bits of that background with these options here, including the color. Another interesting effect is curve, which doesn't have to be that pronounced. Once you've clicked on curve, you can move the slider here to decide whether you want it to curve up or down, and by how much. Then click this one if you decide you don't like that. After all, another two options I haven't discussed at the top here are copy style. This would be useful with text if, say you had another text box here, you wanted this one to look like that one, you could click the roller here, which is copy style, and then click on the other one to make it the same size and the same font. The option at the end is if you're sure that something is where you want it to be. The option here is lock. Let's say you like that big title, you want it to stay there. You can click unlock. Now this is not forever because you can see you've got an option there to unlock. But that just means that you can move around everything else that you want. And you won't accidentally move your big title, but I'm going to unlock that again. When you click on the title, you get some options here. This one is to duplicate it, this one is to delete it. And the rest. So you can copy it. You can copy the style paste, duplicate, delete. You can align it to various places on the page and you can do these things as well, which you probably don't need as often. It is a little bit harder to move text around than it is with graphics and photos, because when you click on it, you can click and drag. But if you click twice, then you get the cursor so that you can change the text. If you have the cursor up and then you want to move it, it can be a little bit tricky, but just look. When you go to the edge of the box, you can see the cursor changes to that four way arrow, and that means you can move it around. 6. Uploading your own pics: In this video, we're going to talk about uploads on the left menu Here we're going to click on Uploads, and this is going to give you the option to upload files here. You can bring in photos that you've taken yourself or artwork of your own. You can also bring in videos and audio, and you can record yourself using this button. This can be really useful if you've gone into elements and you've gone into photos or graphics, and you've searched for something, but it's really specific, I don't know. You want a yellow ukulele and everything that comes up has got a crown on it, so you can't use any of them. You can go to a website called Pixabay and you can search for anything you want on there. And all of these pictures are free to use. Just ignore this top line here because you can see it says sponsored images. This top bit isn't actually Pixabay, it's an advert from another website. Whereas, when it says royalty free images, all the ones below here are the ones that you can use. I forgot to search for the thing I wanted. Okay. That was too specific for Pixabay. But you get the idea. You could search for it anything. And it would bring you all kinds of photos that you can choose from. And these are all free to use. What you could do is you could pick a specific one, click on it, download it, you may need to log in, depending on which one you choose. I'm just going to choose that one that's going to download. And then I can go back into Canva. I can click Upload, and I can click Upload files. I can go into my Downloads to find the picture that I just saved and click open. You can see it uploading there. It's going to take a little while to upload and now it's ready. So I can click and drag onto my thing as before. With any photo, you can click and drag into the middle. Or you can click and drag to the edge to make it take over the whole screen. Another website similar to Pixabay is Pexels. And that's just the same as Pixabay. Really? It's photos that you can use for free. Let's say you wanted a smartphone with a blank screen. You get lots on here. The main difference I find between the two sites is that Pixabay is mostly horizontal photos like this, a landscape photo. Whereas pexels, you've got more portrait photos in there. So you do have horizontal ones as well, but it's a mixture. And I think a bit more variety on pexels unless you're specifically looking for landscape photos. You also have videos that you can download on pexels and on Pixabay. On Pixabay you would just choose all images and you would change it to photos, illustrations, vectors, videos, music, sound effects, or gifts. Depending on what you want. You have a similar thing on here where you can choose photos or videos. 7. Customizing templates: So we talked a little bit about templates before, but I'm going to go back into that now. I've shown you how to move things around. I'm going to search for a specific template that I know I want to use. So I'm searching for breakfast and I'll just find the one there it is. So that's the one that I like, but I don't have to use that for breakfast. Okay. And I don't have to use these pictures. I can change everything on here, but keep the basic layout. Let's say I wanted to use this to promote my Etsy shop. I could say now on sale. And just move that across a little bit and then make it a bit smaller so it doesn't get in the way of the other stuff. I can get rid of this chef's hat because that's not relevant to me. Let's say I changed this to my hoops Etsy name. Drag that out so that all the text is on one line. And then resize it so that it fits in there better. I could change the color of the text and then if I wanted to put my own pictures into these frames, I would go over here. This is my upload, spit. So I've clicked uploads on the left menu and I've already got some things that I've uploaded here. Let's say I just want to put these products into the pictures. I'm going to get rid of these little dollar signs. I could change this text to describe what's in the pictures. That's not really standing out very much. I think I'll change it to a lighter blue. This could go this way a little bit. Then let's say I don't like the background. I could go to elements. I don't forget about this back button up here. We do have lots of options, but I'm going to go into photos, I'm going to search this time for mystical. Then I quite like this forest or this one, the galaxy. That's quite nice, but I don't know if the colors really go. I'll try the forest, I think goes a bit better. But now I can't see my text here. The blue chalet.com I can see it, but not properly. What I'm going to do is go to Elements, Go to Shapes, and I'm going to just click on that to bring in a shape. I'm going to change the background of the shape to white. And then I'm going to change the transparency so that I can see through it, but not fully. And then I'm going to bring that up here. I'm just going to change the sizing so that it's here where my text is now. That's actually worse, not better. It's just because the colors are too similar. I will change the color of the text back to the dark blue that I liked. In fact, I'll choose this one because it goes more with one that's in the picture and I can bold it as well, that's a little bit more visible. I think I'm happy with my design now. That's how you customize a template. Bear in mind that you don't have to use a template for the purpose that it was originally designed for. You can just change everything that's in it and just keep the layout. 8. Downloading your design: This one's going to be a really quick one. I'm just going to show you how to get this design onto your computer now that you've finished it. So let's say I'm happy with it, I just want it on my computer. And I don't think that this part is very obvious. But you go up to the top right and you click Share, And then you go to the download button here, click here. It will come up with a suggested file type, and you can just stick with that if you want, or you can change to one of these other types of files. A J peg is a small image file that is good for sharing on the Internet. A PNG file is a higher quality image file, but it may be slower to load if you put it on the Internet. And then you've got a PDF standard and PDF print. Pdf standard you would use for a document with just text in it and PDF print. You'd use a document if you need it to be a higher quality. Like if it's got some images in it and stuff, SVG, you're probably not going to need. Or if you've created a video, you can save it as a video or a gift. I'm just going to keep that as PNG. Then it's important to tell it which page you want to do. Now, I will just tell you a little bit about the pages. Okay, So this is the design I was working on before. And then this is this one. If I wanted to add a new page, I could click Add Page at the bottom and just give me another page. This is always going to be the same size as the pages you've had before. So if you need to do a new design with a different size, you have to go back into Canva and start again from the beginning. But if you need the same size, you just add a page. You also have the option to duplicate a page up here, or you have the option to delete it. I'm going to delete this page. I'm back to having these two pages. That's why it asks you which page you want. You go to share, download, check your file type, and then you're going to select the page. At the moment it's got both of them selected. But I only want the second one, so I'm going to tick that one. I'm going to click Done, and then I'm going to click Download. It's taking a minute, but it should soon be in my Downloads folder, but now it's on my computer. That's how you get it from Canva into your computer. 9. Example Project: Logo: The next couple of videos are going to be example projects. For this one we're going to do a logo, so we're starting from scratching Canva, we're going to go to the search box and we're going to type in logo. I could do this from a blank design as well. I've shown you how to get to templates from there, but it's a little bit easier to do it from here. Because what you can do is click all filters and you can go down to the bottom and you can choose free. So that's not going to show you any of those annoying ones with the crowns on that you can't use. Then you can have a look, try to pick one that you think fits the style of whatever it is you're doing or selling. You might like something like that, but it's quite glam, so you have to ask yourself, does it suit what you're doing? This might be, it says fashion, but it might also be good for something like tech or something because it's quite modern. You might like this, but if you're doing, I don't know, crochet, it probably is not going to fit it. It's not just about what appeals to you personally, it's about what fits your business. Let's say we pick this one here for a crochet shop, so you could call a R crochet. You can get rid of anything that's on it that you don't want. You can change the colors by clicking up here. So let's say you want it to be purple. I can see that there's a dot there. Randomly, I can see that there's a shadow. So I'm going to click on Effects to get to that. You can see that it's blue. I want the shadow, but I want it to be, I don't know I can do that. And then you can it just to make it a bit bigger. You want it to take up most of the space but not to go entirely to the edge. So that could be a good one, or if we wanted to choose a different one. So this might work for, I don't know, a flower shop. So you can click on things to change how you want them to look. This is a recolorable design. You can see that when you click on it and it brings up all these colors up here. So you could change the colors to something else that you prefer. If there's something in it that you want to change, you just simply click on it, type something different, or delete it if you don't want it at all. If you want to change the background color, you just click on that and you change it in the same way. So you click background color and change it to whatever you would like. I personally think that text is a bit weird. I would probably change it to something different, make it a little bit bigger. I think I would rotate it. I just feel like that would work. I'm not too sure about the font. Yeah, I like that one. Obviously, it wouldn't really be called that, it's just an example. And you could click some kind of effect here to give it an outline. Or any of these effects, they don't really show up that well against the black background. Okay, let's say it looks like that If you felt like that was too simple or it is missing an element, then you can go into your elements and you can choose something. Let's say you want some flowers from the graphics. Then you can add in a flower just to make it more obvious that it's flowers or something like that. That one probably goes a little bit better with the colors, so you could make it fit more. And then what I would probably do is select everything and just make it bigger because the space around the edge is kind of a bit wasted. And then I'm dragging it so that it's in the middle that way, and it's in that way. You can see the lines that appear down the middle and across when you've got it exactly central and you just drop it there. 10. Example Project: Instagram Post: Now I'm going to show you one more example project before we move on to the class project. For this one we're going to do an Instagram post. Again, we're starting from scratch in Canva, we're going to go to this search box and we're just going to type in Instagram post. Just like before, I'm going to go to all filters and I'm going to scroll all the way down to the bottom and choose free by the way. You can also use this filters bit to filter by style. You can say you want it square or portrait theme. I don't know how that really differs from style. You can say whether you want some animations in it or not, which you might do if it's an Instagram real what subject is. But don't forget, you can change templates, you know, you can repurpose them for any subject, but you just might find that the style will suit one thing more than another, and then topic as well. So lots of different filters there. I've just chosen the one to show me free ones, so let's have a look. Okay, let's try this one. So we just click Customize, And we can drag any photos we want into here. Yeah, so we've got three different frames there. We can drag our own photos into there. We can change this text, and we can bring in our own elements if we want to. So I'm going to do it just the same way that I did before. I'm actually going to use the same pictures, let's say I want to do it like that and I could say clay ornaments. I'll make that a little bit smaller so that I can line it up with that on then I might say handmade with love, just for you, which means nothing whatsoever but just filling the space really. Then I might think, okay, I like the layout, but I want the colors to match my photos a bit more. I can click on this brown part here and I can go up to where it says color. And then I can choose some colors here which fit my photographs. I could say I like that green because it goes on my tree here. Then for this leafy thing, I can choose a darker green or gray. I think I like the gray. And I'll do it with this little one here too now. All the colors match the photos. I've changed the text, and I think that works pretty well. I would go to share, I would go to download, I think for Instagram, I'd probably save it as a Jpeg. And then I would click download, and that would put it into my downloads folder. And then I'd simply go to Instagram and upload it on there. If I wanted to make one that moved instead, then I could bring in stickers so I could go to elements. Oh, we've got some interesting ones here. You could put in something like this if you wanted to make a little reel instead. But just bear in mind, square works well for posts, but reels are usually portraits, so they're a different size. So to get the right size for that, when you go to search for your template, you would instead type Instagram reel and it would bring up these more portrait ones. So that's the example project for the Instagram post. And in the next video, we're going to do a class project where we're going to design a business card together. 11. Class Project: Designing your business card: It's time for our class projects. So we're going to design a business card together. So I want you to bring up Canva, go to the search box and type in business card, and then presuming you have a free Canva account and not a pro one, then go to all filters, all the way to the bottom and choose free. And then apply. And then just have a look through these designs and pick one that appeals to you and you think that goes with whatever it is that you're doing. Now, I just want to show you something quickly before we get into doing a design here. If I were to click on one, it does have two pages on it. So that's an interesting thing to note. Another thing is that it's offering you options to actually have them printed. And you could do that if you like, but I would recommend that you use another company. I'm going to just bring up this one. So this is the company that I use. It's called hello print and it's at hello print dot code, dot k. Okay? So they operate in these countries. So if you're in America or Canada or anywhere else that's not on here, then you'll need to find a different company, I guess. But bear in mind, of course you don't have to have them printed from Canva. Just because you've done the design on Canva. You can download it onto your computer and then you can take that design to anyone you'd like to have it printed or even print them at home. I'm going to choose a different one. Let's say I choose this one here. This is for a makeup artist. And just like the other one, this one comes with a front and a back. One thing to bear in mind with business cards is they don't have the relevancy that they used to. But they are still relevant if you're selling things online because it's good to just pop it in the box. And then they know straight away when they open up the package who it's come from and how to contact you. And for that reason these days, a lot of business cards will say things like thank you for your order on them. But this one wouldn't say that on it because it's for a makeup artist. So let's say we went into elements and then photos. I mean, ideally you'd put in a picture of some make up that you've done yourself. But if you were just starting out, you might not have very many pictures yet. So you could go in here and you could choose something like that or something like that. See, all you do is you just drag in the photo that you want and drop it into the frame where the picture already is and it'll just replace it. I think that that one works really well. So then you could change it to whatever your name is. I would personally change that font. I don't know whether I've put a capital Yeah, I did. And then you could change your number to whatever your number is. Whatever your site is, people don't tend to share their postal addresses anymore. But you could put in a Facebook page, your page, in fact, a make pass. It would most likely be Instagram. So you could put in your handle and go into graphics. You could search for an Instagram icon. Just be careful where you drop it, because if you drop it in the wrong bit, it's going to take over something that you don't want it to. You could do something like that. And then we've got another side as well. You would change that one too, I think that works really well. You could keep it exactly as it is, but just bear in mind that a lot of people use canva, if you use this design more or less exactly as it is with the same colors and the same pictures and stuff. There may be a lot of other people out there with the same or similar looking business cards. You might want to just change things up a bit, change colors, change fonts. Just to give yours a little bit of individuality. I want you to do the same thing, make your own business card. It doesn't have to be two sides, It can be one if you want, but choose from the template or make your own, download it onto your computer as an image file such as a Jpeg or a PN G. I think a PNG would be better because you're likely to be printing it out. And then go to this class on Skillshare. Go to the Projects and Resources tab and upload it there using the big blue button that says Submit Project. Now I will respond and give feedback to everyone that uploads one on there. But don't worry about being graded because that's not how it works. It's actually instantaneous. As soon as you submit a project, you then get a certificate to say that you've done that. And then that will show on your skillshare profile. 12. Bonus Tips: Time for some bonus tips, and I'm going to show you how to do a gradient on your page. If you click on the background of the page, just anywhere on the page. And then click at the background color here. You can go down here and you can choose from these gradients. I really like this one. There's quite a few to choose from. If you have a pro account, then you can change these gradients in a much more granular way rather than just choosing from these premade ones. But I think that even the premade ones are really nice to look at. Another bonus tip is to look into this apps thing. And this is from the front page of Canva. So you just go to Canva.com and then go to the apps. There's all kinds of different apps here where you can add something a little bit extra. I actually don't know which ones of these are free and which ones are pro, so you have to just click around and figure it out. But for example, you could add in a QR code into one of your images or a Google Maps. You could, if you store your photos on Google Photos, which a lot of people with Android phones do, you could add photos from that or from Facebook. I quite like this wave generator. So if you were to click on that, you'd get this here and you can change how it looks. I'd prefer it to be like that. You can sort of just move this along to get different ones. You can randomize it like that, and then once you're happy with it, you add it to your design. So it's quite a nice thing to just like put along the bottom of a design or something. So that's an interesting one. Mock ups, I think. So the idea of this is you can bring in this image and you've got a frame here into which you can insert any image at all. So if I wanted to, one of my products, I could just drag it into there, drop it on the phone. And now it looks like she's looking at my product on her phone. Which is kind of fun and would be useful perhaps if you're selling things on Etsy or something like that. If you're selling digital files, I think that would be useful. So that's another interesting thing to look into. To get back into any of your previous designs on Canva, simply go to Canva.com Make sure that you're signed in and scroll down and you should see your most recent ones at the top here. But to get into older ones, you can go into projects at the side here and then designs here. And you can click all to get all of them. As you can see, I have quite a lot. Thanks for joining me in this class today. I hope you've got something out of it. I have another class on skillshare, which is all about selling on Etsy. So I have a look at that. It's called Getting Started with Etsy. I am considering maybe doing some other courses about Canva. So like maybe one about Canva Pro. So if you're interested in that, please do let me know. Because I want to be making the kind of courses that people want to take part in. And if you have any questions or comments, you can just go to the Discussions tab on Skillshare and type them in there and I will respond to every single one.