Easy Canva for Professional Results

1. Welcome to this Easy Canva for Professional Results Course!: Hi. My name is Tim Wilson. I'm a senior trainer at Red Rocket Studio, and I would love to help you to create beautiful and professional looking work in Canva. Not only have I trained for some of the world's leading companies like Adobe, Disney, Times, Nissen. I've also worked for many years as a lecturer at a university teaching graphic design. We'll start right at the beginning, and we'll go through everything step by step. Now, you won't be left on your own because I'll be there to answer your questions. So by the end of it, not only will you have about 20 or so projects that you can use and you've created, but you'll also be a Canva master. I'll be showing you some pro tips and tricks, as well as design principles to help you create amazing looking artwork. These are some of the real world examples we'll be working through during this course. Social media documents. Flyers documents for screen documents for professional printing, animated page documents, Animated posts. Video posts, multimedia projects Infographics. As well as we'll create a website and so much more. Start right now. I can't wait to help you to loan Canva. 2. Get to Know Canva - Intro: Welcome to the first section. In this section, I want to spend the first two videos looking at the differences between the paid and the free version of Canva. Now, if you can possibly get the paid for version and you can get a free trial of it, I'd suggest doing so for this course because there's a lot of things that we do, which are only available in the paid version. It's not to say that you can't do a lot of the stuff in the free version as well. Of course, if you've already got the paid version and you don't want to see the differences, go on to the third video, and that's where we'll start looking at the interface of Canva. So enough of me, let's get straight on and get started. 3. How to Get Canva: So how do you get Canva? Well, there are two forms of Canva. There's a paid for version as the free version. To get the free versions really easy, you just go to the Canva website. I'll ask you for an email, and then you go and get an email. Oh, you go to your email account and they will have sent you a code. You put the code in and that's it, you're actually in. Now, in Canva, you can either use it in a browser like I've got over here or you can download an app, whether it's Windows or a Mac. You can have an app, and here we go. It's the same thing in an app, and they both look absolutely identical. So when you first sign up for Canva, you will probably be in the free account. You can go and try the P account out for 30 days if you wish. I'm going to start off with the first project done in the free account, so you can see that most of the features are there, and then I'll move over to the Pro account after that. The Pro account, you can either rent it on a month by month basis or you can pay for it over a year. If you pay for it over a year, it saves, probably about 40% of the cost. So where else can you use Canva? Well, you can also use it on an iPad or an Android device, as well. And it's all pretty much the same wherever you're actually using it. Now, if you want to pay for it, and you can just go along here and I'll just say tripro for 30 days in there, and it's going to actually ask some details. You can say start my free account in there, and then it will actually start to ask you about payments. Now, you can see mine is set for monthly payments of 13 pounds because I'm in the UK. It's different depending on where in the world you are, or you can have a yearly account in there. Now there are different kinds of accounts in here. You have sort of the standard or the free version. You have a paid for personal version. There's a teams version as well for multiple people, and then you've got the enterprise version. They don't give you a price for that. They just say contact us. So no idea how much that would be, I think, depends on the size of the business. Anyway, make sure you've got Canva on your machine. If you want to use it in a browser, that's fine. If you want to download the app, that's fine, as well. It's going to be exactly the same for both of them. 4. Free vs Paid: As far as the differences between the paid and the free version goes, there's a few of them. Now, first of all, there is a big difference between the storage space that you get. So you'll see that on the free versus paid page. But the other things are that there's a lot of templates which are paid for. And you can always tell the paid for ones because they've got this little crown in the corner. When you first go in here and you think, Well, there's only don't seem to be too many paid for ones, there aren't in the default setting, but the moment you search for something, there will be, I'm going to search for cake. In there. You can see we've got some really nice templates over here, which are the paid for ones. The ones that are not quite so great are the free ones. So that's for the templates. If I go across now to my elements and into photos, so I'm just going to go down here to photos. Once again, I'm just going to search for cake in there, and you'll see that the better pictures are the paid for ones. It's the same with video. If I go down to the videos here, we'll search for cake in there, and the better ones are the paid for ones. Now, if you've got your own pictures and videos, this won't affect you at all, so don't worry about it. But there are other things as well. And I'm going to just go and find a photo. Let's go and get a Oh, I know. I'll use one of these free pictures over there. So I've got him and I want to cut him out and get rid of the background. So we've got a background remover here, which will just cut him out really quickly. But once again, that's a paid for feature. The other things are when you go to export, if I want to share this document and if I'm going in and downloading it and exporting it as a JPEG, it will allow me to do that, but it doesn't give me any options over here for the size or for the quality. If I go back again, you'll see that if I'm trying to schedule something, so I can get the different things I've made to appear on different days or to be post on different days, you can't do that. Lastly, over here, if I'm downloading this and I wanted to go for commercial printing, I could actually choose PDA footprint in there. The crop marks and bleeds are they're available on the free version. By the way, if I'm talking about things and you think, What on earth are you talking about, Tim? Don't worry about it. We're gonna be covering all this as we go through the course. So the thing about printing, though, is if you're sending workout for a commercial printer, they usually expect the file to have a color profile. That's this here of CMYK. And if you go and try and choose CMYK, once again, it's a paid for feature. Once again, that's not the end of the world because you could send a printer an RGB file and then ask them to convert it for you, and some of them are really nice and will do it straight away, and others will charge you a little bit for doing that. Anyway, those are the big differences between them. You might need some of those paid for features. You might not. It's entirely up to you. 6. Getting to Know the Interface: Let's have a look at the interface. Now, whether you are in the app or whether you are in the browser version, it's exactly the same. What we've got is something which looks like this. And we are in the home area up here. There's a project area, which will show any projects that you have been working on down there. There's a template area, once again, showing all the templates. There is a brand area you can see there's a little crown over there, so a lot of the brand stuff is just for the paid version. And finally, this apps down here. Now, we're going to be looking at some of these apps. It's a lot of them, some of them are really quite cool and useful. But let's go back to the home area here. Now, when I'm creating a new project or document, what I can do is I can either click Create a design button up there, or I can choose one of these existing ones over here. For example, if I clicked on social media there, it takes me into creator design. It says social media and I can then choose from the options in here. But if I click Create to Design up there, it takes me into exactly the same thing. So those two are the same, and it just takes me to the appropriate area that I want. Now, once you get into this create design, you can then go further in and you can say, Well, I want to do, for example, a Instagram post square. Or I can go in here and I can choose from the presets. I'm going to click the Instagram post square in there, and it then opens up a blank Instagram square document for me to work on. Now if I change my mind, how do I get rid of this? Well, don't go and close this down. When I first started with Canva, I closed that down, thought, why does it keep closing down down Canva? You need to close down this little window here, and then you're back to the home area. So it does open up in windows like a browser. Anyway, I'm going to go along and choose one of these again, so I'll choose social media in there. And if I wanted to use one of these pre made posts, I can just go and click on one of those. Now, if it's a paid for one, it'll ask you to upgrade. If you find one, let's do that again without the crown on it. Like that. I'll go straight into that and you can then start to edit. Now that you're in the document itself, you can see we're actually in this Beige White soft document. I've then got tools or areas down the left hand side and some options running along the top over here. If I click on Design, it opens up a little window here which shows me things like templates and styles. I've got some brand styles that I can work from. Or I can go down to elements. Elements are things like your photos, your videos, shapes, those type of things. I can go down to text, and this is all things about text, putting in text, adjusting your text. Now, if you do use some of these areas here and say, for example, I click on the text in there, it opens up another little area or tool set over here to allow me to adjust those. So if I click off of that, you'll see that that disappears. Moving down, once again, we've got more brand options, uploads, drawing options. So there's some tools here you can draw directly onto your project. There's the projects option and the apps option down there. And then we've got something called Magic Media at the bottom. We'll talk about that later in the course. And finally, this big button here, which is just quick actions. So it just allows you to go into actions that you might want to use, which might be appropriate for what you're actually working I'm going to go back to my elements. If, for example, I want to find a photo, I've clicked on elements, I've scrolled down to photos, and I can say see all. And then in here, I can search for the photo that I want. I'm going to say makeup I can pick the one that I want, and it will appear on my document. Then to get back again, I go up to the top here where it says photos, I click on that little arrow, and that takes me back to all of the different elements in there. If I've clicked on the photo, I've now got options along the top here for the photo. It doesn't really matter where I am over here. If I click on the item, it shows me options for the item that I've clicked on. Anyway, do have a bit of a play with that and make a mess, add some things in. Don't worry about it at the moment. Try doing different bits and pieces, pop them in, see what happens. And then when you want to get rid of it, up the top here. This little tab, you just close that tab down and you're back to your home screen again. Try it out. 7. Create a Social Media Post from a Template - Intro: In this section, we're going to look at creating a social media post, and we're going to use an existing template. Now, there are so many of them and even more if you've got the paid for version. But if you haven't, it's absolutely fine. You'll be able to do everything from this section. Now, we're going to take the template and we're going to totally redo it. We're going to add our own text in. We're going to change the text that's there. We're actually going to change the pictures as well, and we'll have a look at the graphics, too. Anyway, you can see on the side this is what we're going to be creating, so let's jump straight in and do it. 8. Make a New Document & Add Template: Let's create a social media post for Instagram. I'm going to go up here to social media. You can, of course, click Create a Design. It's exactly the same thing. I'm on the social media area there, and I'm going to find an Instagram square over here. There it is. Now, that's given me my Instagram square. If it's not the right size, you can actually go to resize if you have the paid for version. But I've made the default the correct size. Now, what I want to do is I want to add a template to this, and this whole project is going to be about a piece of cake, slice of cake. So it could be for a restaurant or a coffee shop, and they're giving free cake with every two cups of coffee. So I want to search for some cake templates in here. I'm just going to do cheesecake. In there. And there's quite a few nice little templates, and some of them are actually rather nice and are free. I like this sweet and tangy one. I like the very delicate text that they've got in there. So I'm just going to click it, and that puts that template onto my clear background. Now let's have a look at this template and see what's actually in here. You can see I can click on the text over there. I can click on these bits of text. I can also go down and click on this black square and the text that's in there, that text, which is actually on a circle over there. So all of these things can be changed. Anyway, if you'd like to bring up the same one that I've got over here, and then we'll go and adjust this and make this how we want it to look. 9. Find a Photo & Change Stacking Order: I'd like to change this picture to something with coffee and cake because that's what mine's is going to be about. So I'm going to click on it. Press the backspace button to delete. You can just click off to deselect it. And I'm going along to my elements. And in the elements, I'm going to go down to photos, click on SA, and I'm going to search for coffee and cake. And I found a really nice free one over here. I'm going to click on that, and then I can grab a corner and just scale it up until it fits in. So I'm after a sort of a piece of cake which looks like that. And you can just about see the coffee on this side here. Now that I've got that in there, you can see that my black bar at the bottom is actually underneath the picture. If I do that over there, the black bar is behind it. So with the picture, I'm going to make sure I've selected it. I'm going to go up to position up here. Click position. This opens up a position panel and I can then just send that photo to the back. You'll see if I click on this send to the back, it goes behind everything and then this little picture, sorry, this little graphic appears in front of it. You can change the order of things by just going to position and it works with anything, by the way, not just pictures. If I move that out a little bit like that, clicked on the text, click position, and said send that to the back, you can see it's now behind the photo. If I said send to the front, it'll bring it right to the front like so. So I'm just going to get that into the position that I wanted to be in something like that. It doesn't matter that it's sticking out over there. If you grab a corner, you can pull it in if you want to be a little bit neater. It's up to you. But have a go, change the picture and try out that position option of sending things to the back or bringing them to the front. It will become very useful later on. 10. Change the Text: I like to move the text around and change it. So this sweet and tangy, I want this to say coffee and cake, and I don't want to be right up the top there. I want it to be down here. So I'm going to move it down. I'm going to double click on it, which selects it and allows me to just change the text. So coffee and pisand cake. That fits in rather nicely, but as you can see, we can't actually read the text because it's so dark on a dark background. So along the top, remember this little bar that changes depending on what you click on. We've got an option there for the text color. I click on that, and in the solid colors down here, I'm just going to choose white. Now, I've chosen white. Why is it not changing my text? Well, if I select some of the text, I can then change individual characters like that. But if I click off and just make sure I've selected not the text itself, but the whole box, then when I do this, it will change all the text inside there. If you've double clicked and you're actually in the text and you've selecting individual characters, or you can see that little flashing eyebam then when you change it, it's only for the character or characters that are selected in there. Whereas, if I click out and just click on the frame and do it from the frame. So there's no little flashing ibam in there, then it will change all of those characters as well. Let me move this a taste cake taste of. Let me change that over there to a little bit of slightly different text. I'm going to select that and say free cake with two coffee. Now, it's gone onto two lines, but let's have a look what happens when I click off over there, it puts it onto that circle again. So when you're editing, it goes back to a linear shape. I'm going to move that up just a little bit over there, and I'm going to change the color of that also to white as well. These bits of text, I'm going to obviously adjust them as well. But have a look as I'm moving them around, can you see the little dotted line that appears? Have a look there. When I do that, a little dotted line appears in there. I do that, and it just jumps around. What this is doing is show me what things are lined up with other things. If I move that closer, you can see that topet of text is now lined with that. So moving things around just helps you with those dots to align items. Now, I need to change some of this text around a bit. There's a little line over there. I'm going to move that up. Over to there. The price I don't want, so I'm going to delete that or you can click on little bin like that. This is very, very small this text, so I'm going to double click it. I'm going to change it. It just says, each bite offers creamy richness over there and I'm going to delete the rest of that text. And make it slightly bigger. I'm going to select the text by clicking on it a few times until it's selected. I can go in here and just adjust the text. Let's have creamy on that second line. I need to move some of these things around. This will move up, and I'll grab that and move that down a bit or I could put it between the two of them. But I'm just watching the left hand side for the lining, for the dots to make sure that everything is lined up. Don't want that at the top. Like so. Anyway, I'm going to change the color of this text in a moment and adjust the text a bit, so you don't have to copy my text exactly. We will be changing it as we go. I just want to show you how to edit the text, move it around and change the color. Have a go with yours and have a play with the text. 11. Color from Photos & Letter Spacing: I've changed my text around just a little bit, removed some words, changed them about a bit. You can have anything in there that you like. But let's have a look at a bit more in the color. I'm going to go to this bar along the bottom, this black shape that we've got down here. And I want to change the color of that. So I'm going to select it. I'm going to go up to the top and once again, this little interactive bar is now showing options for the shape. I'm going to click on color. But this is really cool. Have a look over here. This actually shows me colors from the photo. So I can go and say, well, actually, I wonder what it'll look like if I use that color, which probably comes from the cup or something like that. Or how about that one over there? Would that work? Would it look better? I kind of quite like that color there, but we'll try out that one. Mm. That's rather nice. I'm going to go with the blue, though, so it helps to balance the whole picture up because we've got blue up there and we'll put some blue at the bottom. And you can do that with anything. So for example, here, I can go along to the cheesecake at the top. And once again, I go to the colors over there, and I could pick a color from the document somewhere in there. Now, the second thing I want to do is to change the text a little bit in here. You can see with the text, my characters are quite close together. The coffee and cake. All those characters are really, really close. Now, that might be an effect that you want. But if you want to change that, go along to the top. These are the options for the text and find this little button here, it's called spacing, and it's got an arrow that goes up and down. If you click on that, it allows you to change the line spacing. Well, we've only got one line there, so this is actually not going to really do anything. But we can change the letter spacing which will and I can move the letters closer together or further apart. I'm going to go back to this bit of text here and once again up to that and just change the spacing on that so it looks a little bit better. There. Do have a bit of a go with those two options there, changing the color and getting text getting color from the picture, and if you go to your text using this little spacing option to change the spacing or the letter spacing on your text as well. If you find it doesn't go as far as you want, just pull out the little box that the text is in like so, and then you'll find that you can actually get it to go further as well. I'm looking at mine and thinking I'm lining it up with that bit of text over there. To try it out. 12. Copy Shape & Add Graphic: Let's have a look at a few little graphics. Now, first of all, we've got a square graphic down here, and I'd like another little square to go across the top. The easiest way if you've got something and you want to copy it is to hold down the Alt or the option key. A option is usually a MAC key, and the altar is the same thing on a PC, and you just drag the shape so I can just drag a copy of that right up to the top. In there. And I'm going to make that right to the top, so it's going to be quite small over there just to help frame the picture. Now the second thing I want is I want a little logo of a coffee cup in here. I'm going to go from my photos, I'm going to click the little back button, and I'm going to go down to Graphics, click on CAL, and I'm going to search for coffee. And once again, you can see there's some really nice ones which are paid for, but there's also rather nice one over here, which is free. I'll click on that. It brings the graphic in, and I'm going to scale it down, so I want to be a lot smaller. Maybe like that. I'm going to put it just above that bit of text in there, and then I can change the color because up here, we've got the options for editing that little shape. So I'll click on color there, and I'm just going to choose white, certain matches, everything else in there. I might even make it a little bit smaller and just pop that in the center. You can see how those helper lines are showing me exactly where the center of the document is. In fact, I need to move that over, so that's in the center as well, because it wasn't quite centered. In there. Do try that out. So remember if you want to copy something, hold down the Alt or the option key, and you can just drag it like that. You can also use Command C to copy or Control C if you're on a PC and Command or Control V to paste to paste in copies. But honestly, the lt or the option key is much, much faster. Have a little bit of a go with that one. If you want to take this one and change the color, remember, click on the color, and you can take colors from the document itself or from elsewhere. I might even go with actually, I'll go back with the blue. I like it like that. It's up to you how you want to do yours, though. Try it out. 13. Check Size & Download as a JPG File: Before we export this out as a JPEG, what we need to do is we need to have a look at this and see how it'll work on devices because it's all very well to look at something quite large like this, but how would it look when somebody's looking at it on quite a small phone? So I'm just going to go down here to where it says, page one of one and a percentage, and this will allow me to zoom in and out of my document. I'm just going to zoom it down like so to think, well, if it's on a small phone, it might be about that size. Can I read everything in there? And the answer is no. This pata I definitely cannot read, and that there is quite difficult to read. We can just about get away with the free cakes with coffee because people's, you know, they were just about to be able to read that. So with that in mind, I might need to go back again and actually just adjust the size on some of these items. So over here, we'll just make the address a little bit larger in there. The visit us could be a bit bigger, as well. Although, to be honest, we don't need visit us. We just need the address in there. I'll just pop that in the center. Now, when you're moving things around, you can either use your cursor or you can just if it's selected, use the up and down arrows left and right arrows on your keyboard to move things about. I am also going to select these and make them a bit bigger. So I'm going to click on one. I'm going to hold down the Shift key on the keyboard to select the second one and click on the third one as well. I can go to the corner and I can then just pull them out like that to scale them up all at the same time. I think that should be readable, even if it's quite small. Yeah, people can read that. So do bear that in mind, especially if people are flicking through different social media posts very fast. If there's something which is really important, make sure it's readable quickly. Now, we're going to save this out or we're going to export it, shall I say, we're going to do that as a JPEG. We go to the Share button, the top right hand corner, click that, and I'm going to download this over here. There are some other options. For example, we can take things directly to Instagram. I just want to download it as a JPEG file so I can upload it when I want. Click on Download, and in here, I'm going to choose JPEG at the top. All I need to do now is to click on Download in there and it will download it to my machine. Now, you can see we've got all this stuff about scheduling your posts, but that's only available once you've got the paid for version. It's going to be called Coffee and Cake. I'm putting it onto my desktop. You can place it wherever you like. It's a JPEG file. I'll click on Save. And now I've got that on my desktop somewhere over here. Uh, coffee and cake. There it is. I'll just preview it, and there it is ready to be uploaded to Instagram. Have a go with that. Once you've finished this one, try it again with some different subjects. Find something which is close to your heart. Obviously, as you can see, cake is pretty close to my heart. But, um, do whatever appeals to you cats, dogs, cakes, mountain climbing, whatever. Try it out. 14. Instagram Story - Intro: In this section, we're going to take an existing template, and we're going to redo it, and we're going to be adding video. Now, of course, we'll change the text, we'll change everything about it, so you won't even recognize it. And you can use the free version, you can use the paid for version. It'll be pretty much the same. Anyway, as you can see, this is what we're creating and it's going to be awesome. Let's get going. 15. Find & Explore Template: For this particular project, I've gone over to the paid for version of Canva, but you can still use the free one. You just might not have access to the same templates and the videos and pictures that I'm using. But you can find some free ones. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to social media because I want to create an Instagram story, and we're going to add some video to this. So I'm going to Instagram story here. I'll click on that, and this then opens up my project. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to find a template, and I have been searching for templates, so you didn't have to watch me doing it all the time. I found a really nice template under boat rental, believe it or not. Now, we're not going to create or I'm not going to create a Instagram story about boat rental. I want to do one about dune buggies. So you don't have to use the same subject that they give you. You've just got to find one that looks really good. Of course, for you, you could do any subject you like. Once again, cakes, cats or climbing mountains. Anything you want, it's up to you. But I'm going to start off with this boat rental. I'm just going to click on there and bring it in. Now what we have here are photos which are in little shapes in there. There's one there, one there. I can move them around. There's this one over here, which is in that shape at the top. We've got some text over here. We've got a button. We don't want buttons, so I'm actually going to delete that little button over there. We'll talk about buttons and things later. And we've got some shapes over here. There's this shape and that shape in there. So I'm going to bring in my pictures and my video into here because although this is stills, I want to actually have a video in the background, and I want these two to actually be stills or photographs in there. I'm going to change that logo. I don't like that logo, so I'm going to change that. Let's delete that and bring in my own logo in there. You know, if you'd like to get up to this stage, find a template that you like the look of doesn't have to be the same one as mine, but just a template where you've got maybe some pictures which are in shapes in there so that I can show you how easy it is to change them. Have a go. 16. Working With Photos And Video in Shapes: These pictures here are just normal photos inside a shape. And if I click on them, I can press backspace or delete on the keyboard to just get rid of the picture, and there's my little shape over there. Let me do that again with this one, backspace. To remove the picture, and I'll do the same with this one over here. Click on it, backspace, and that gets rid of the picture from there. Now, let me go and find some images to go in here. I'm going to go along to the elements, and I'm going to go along and I'm going to search for Buggy. And what I want to do is I want to go to the photos over there. This is a great one, so I'm going to just drag that across. But you can see it doesn't go into any of those unless you click on it and move over and then it pops it straight in. It just drops it in like that. Let's do that again. This looks like a great picture. Let's pull that over to there. Oops, let's try that again. Pull it over to there, and I can drag and drop it straight into there. Now, if I click on it, I can then also go and grab the corner and size the whole thing around if it's not right. If you go in and you double click, then you can actually size the picture inside the frame like so. So with this one here, if I double click it, I can go in and I can adjust where the picture is. We want a little bit more of the buggy like so, I think. Well, actually, it's going to go over the edge, so we'll do that. And then just click out to get out of it. Now, what about video? Well, it's exactly the same thing. I'm just going to go to videos and show all the videos, and let's find a little video over here. That looks like an interesting one with the buggies on the dune. All I have to do is to drag and drop it. You can see as I move over it, drop it straight into that frame like. Let's play that and have a look it really is as simple as that to get pictures and video into the shapes. I'll stop there, try it out. 17. Add Your Own Frame: What about if you don't have any shapes? How do you get the shapes in there? Well, I'm going to get rid of this little one over here. We'll delete that and I'm going to delete again to delete the shape. What you can do is if you go to your elements, you can go down or scroll up, shall I say, until you get to frames. Over there. Let's just say see all frames, and there's all sorts of different frame sizes and shapes in here. We can just take something. Let's get a really weird one at the moment. I'll just take that little one in there. Drop that in, you can see it's got the same background that we had before. So now if I go back to my pictures or my video, I'll just go back again over here to the video. I can drag that in, and you can see I can then drop it into that little shape over there, and it will just play. Let me just undo that again and get rid of that video. So what about the colors around the outside? Well, we can do that up here because you've got a border style. I'm going to put on a border and just increase the width. You can see how it's actually changing the shape in there and just adding some width to that. And I can click on there and pick a color if I wish as well. And that's how those circles are done. Let me get rid of that one over there. In fact, I'm going to undo this, so it's either Control Z or if you're on a PC or Command Z to undo and I can just keep undoing until I get all the way back to my picture. But if you'd like to have a go with some other shapes if you don't have any on there, or if you want to put in another shape for video or pictures, by all means, do so. 18. Trim Video: Let's adjust this video a little bit. I'm going to double click it, and that takes me into this area where I can crop it, or I can resize it. I'm going to pull this out a bit like that and maybe move it up so the buggies are going to be bigger in the video. Over there. Now, when I click Done, you can see at the top here, we've actually got a little timeline which is showing us what's happening in there. Now, I don't want the whole of the video in here. I just want part of the video. So right at the beginning, I'm not that interested in here. I'm not really seeing very much, so I'm going to stop it there and I'm going to move the beginning up to that point. It's going to start there where this buggy is coming along in there. I'm going to then play on. I like those two. And I'm going to stop it over there. And once again, I'll just pull that back to about that position. So all we've done is crop this down to 10 seconds. I think it was about 30 seconds before that. And you can just choose done, and that's it. If I now play this video, it will just play that cropped version where the buggies are a lot bigger in there. I can still at any time, click on there and resize it. Now, remember, if you click and you resize over there, it's resizing the shape on the outside. So make sure that you deselect it, and when you click, if you don't see anything else over here about the shapes, just click again. So that's it. I can then pull those up, maybe make them a little bit bigger in there. That looks a lot better with those buggies coming in. I might have to move it across a little bit, so we'll double click on there, move it over. And let's see how that works from the beginning. Oh, that's pretty good. I like where those positions or the buggies are positioned. Do try that out. So remember, if you click twice or double click over there, you can get into this area. Once you click Done, you can actually get into the trim area here and you can trim your video to any sort of length that you want. Click Done to come back again. And remember, you can always just double click, resize, move it around in there. Double click to get out of it. Have a go. 19. Change Colors: I'd like to change some of the colors, and I want to start with the background color. So I'm going to click on the background, go up here and just choose a color. Now I'd like a color from my photos. So I think something like that works quite well. And then I'm going to go along to the shape over here, and it's got a stroke. The stroke or the border color is that one there. So I'm going to click on that, and I'm going to choose a color. I'll use a bright yellow for that. Now that I've done that, it comes up down here with a little button. It's only once you've changed it, and it says, Do you want to change all of those shapes that have got the same color there to yellow? And I'll say, I'll change all and it changes that, and we've got the yellow down here changed too. A really nice, quick and easy way of adjusting your colors. You can experiment with some of the other shapes. I'll go to this shape over here. Once again, click on the color at the top and see if that works with a different color, kind of quite like that. And this one as well. The white just doesn't do it for me, so I'm going to go over here and pick a different color for that. Let's have a bit of red to just get a bit of something more interesting in there. Anyway, once again, have a bit of a go, change your colors. 20. Change Text: Now this next bit is really easy. I'm just going to go and sort out my text. Get rid of that bit of text there. This one here, this is going to be called une Buggy. This bit of text over here is going to say whatever I wanted to say. In my case, it's going to be noisy, dirty, um, noisy, dirty, whatever, fun fast. Let's try that again. Fast fun. I'm going to change the size of that by going to the top and just increasing the size of that text. That looks okay, and we'll move that down a little bit to there. Maybe move this one down as well. And then, of course, we can update those to our appropriate phone number. Lastly, I want a little graphic of a dune buggy here, so I'm going to go once again back to my elements. I'm going to search for Buggy. And I'm going to go to graphics, and then we can find a little buggy in here that will work. I think I'll use that little one there. Bring it in. And, of course, I can always go and change the color over here. Yellow. No, that doesn't really work. Let's go with a white on that. So we'll make that a little bit smaller, but it will still sit maybe on top of the text, like so. 21. Download to Video: Let's save this out as a video. So I'm going to go up to share. I'm going down over here to download because I don't want to upload it yet, so I'm just going to download it. And you can see it actually suggests me doing this as an MP for video, which I'm going to choose. Now, in here, we can choose different qualities. You'll find that if you are on the free version, you can't always get to these settings, it's a little crown over there. So I can go with 1080 P. Or I can go with four K, which is higher. Mostly for social media, ten ATP is absolutely perfect. If you find your files are too large, maybe they're just taking too long to upload, you could try 720, but ten ATP will be perfect for it. I'm just going to click on Download over here and it's downloading it to my Downloads folder. Might take a moment to do because there's video in there and it's got to render it out. As you can see, I've got my dune buggy Save As options here. I'm going to put this onto my desktop so it's easy for me to show it to you and it's going to be an MP four file. Let's click on Save and that's done. Now, let's have a little bit of a look at it. I'm going to go over here to my movies. I'm going to find it and double click and here it is. The whole thing is playing. That's it. As easy as that. Have a bit of a go and download something. And if you want to upload to your social media account, by all means, do so. 22. Simple Video Advert - Intro: Let's take some video and put them together. So we're going to have four videos, and we're going to put them together in pages. You'll see how that works as we go along. We're going to put some text in, and we're going to make once again a social media video post out of this. Let's start. 23. Make a Custom Video Size: Let's make a custom video size advert. Now, I'm going to go along to video, click on Video there. What I'd like to do is rather than use these sizes that they give you, I'm actually going to go down to custom size, and then I can put in my width and height for my advert. Now, if this is for an advert, they've probably told you exactly what size you want or they want. I'm going to go with a width of 1080 and a height of 2,600. You can do any size you like. It really doesn't matter. I'm just making this thin and tall. And the units are going to be in pixels. I'm going to click on Create New design in there and you'll see I've got a nice thin advert like so. And then we're going to go to our elements, and we're going to go and find some videos. So I'm going to do cats. You can do dogs, squirrels, raccoons, anything you like. It really doesn't matter at all. Just pick a subject that you like. And I'm going to do cats, as I said, I'm going over to videos. Now I can either go to videos there or I can click the videos button at the top. It's all the same thing. What I'm doing is I'm just looking for a few videos that I can put together. I like this one here. I want some light videos because I want to put some text on the outside. I'm going to start off with that one over there. I'm going to well, actually, it looks like it's on its side, so I'm going to rotate it round. There we go. That's a bit better over there. I'm going to make it the size that I want it. I'll just scale this up a little bit. Like so. Now, I'm leaving this top section free because I want to put some text on this as well. There's my first page. What I'm going to do now is to add another page in so I'll just say add page in there and it comes out below it. Now, this can be a bit annoying when you find that you've got one video there and one video there. It's nicer to see them all on the same timeline. But what I'm going to do is I'm just going to bin that one in there. I'm going to stop so you can catch up to this point here, and I'll show you how we can get them onto the same timeline to bring in the other videos. While you're there, have a look at some other videos you might want to use. We want four of them together. 24. Add More Videos: Now, as I said, if you add a page, it comes in below it. But if we go along here to the bottom, we can click on the thumbnail view, and that shows us the pages next to each other. But we also want to see how long these videos are going to be. I'm going to click the duration button down here. That takes us into this timeline. When we play the video, you'll see the timeline going along like so. Watch out which of these areas you're in, and you might need to click the button, say you might need to click duration. If you click duration again, it'll go back to there just go back and forth between these various views. So now I want to add in some more video. I click on the little plus here. It adds in a page on this timeline, and I can then go and find my next piece of video. And I'm just going to use this little cat over here. So let's just pull that up. A little bit like so. Now, this is getting very, very long. We've got 8 seconds for the first one, 10 seconds over there. And I want this to be really quite short. So maybe just three or 4 seconds per cat. So I'm going to pull this in over there, and let's have a little look. At how that plays. Oh, no, that's the second one. Well, let's look at that anyway. So I want to looking up towards its owner. So I'm going to pull this bid into there and that bid across to there. And I'm going to go with I think 3 seconds on that. And the same with this one, I'm going to pull that back to about 3 seconds in there. So if we play this now, we'll get 3 seconds of that. And 3 seconds of that. And then continue on over here as well. So go and find another cat. Here we go. We got another one over there, so I will just make a new page, drag this one in. And once again, I'm going to take that down. I'm just looking to see what sort of area of this cat I want There we go. I want that little bit where it's looking at the camera, so I will pull that in and make that 3 seconds as well. We'll have a last one in here as well. I won't get you to watch me doing it because you know how to do that already, so I will just add another page, add the video in for that. Have a little bit of a go with that and don't forget the duration. And this little button down here, the scroll view, you can go between scroll view and thumbnail view in there and have your duration on. 25. Font Combinations: I've put in my last video and I've made it a lot longer. I've made that 6 seconds. So those are three, and this is six in here, because the last one is going to have the main product in it. So let's go and get some text. I'm going to go to the first page here. You just click on the pages to jump to that particular page. I'm going to go to text, and I want to find some text for this advert. Now, this advert is all about cat food, so I'm going to just put in food in there, we've actually got quite a nice little one over here, the new menu for foodies. I'm going to use that. I'll click on there and pop it in here. Now, of course, what I want to do is to change that text. When you have text like this, which comes from these font combinations, it's grouped together. You just choose ungroup to group it into the various types that we've got. I'm going to just zoom in a little bit over here, and I want each page to have a slightly separate bit of text on it. So I think I'll use words, whatever the type, whatever the color of cat, whatever the age of the cat. So I'm going to have whatever and let's have type in here. Whatever type of cat. That's the first one. Now, I'm just going to take these ones here, copy them, so it's either Control and C or Command and C to copy. And then I'm going to go across to the second page over there and once again, control and V or Command and V. The control is if you're on a PC and the command is if you're on a Mac in there. You can see I can just paste it straight in over there. So let's have color. And once again, I'll go to the third one. I'm going to paste that one in as well. Command Va for Mac, Control V on the PC, whatever age. So I'm just going to zoom out a little bit over here so we can see those in there. Move back to the beginning and just play that get 3 seconds of that, whatever type, whatever color, and whatever age. And then the last one, I'm then going to have the final bit of text in there. But if you go to these types of texts that you use the font combinations, and you'd realize, actually, you know what? I don't want that offcaT. You can just delete them individually. As long as you've ungrouped them, you can get rid of any of those bits and edit them as you like. I'll stop there so you can get some text on those three pages, and then we'll come and we'll do this last page and we'll save this out ready for uploading. 26. Final Text & Download: I'm going to bring in the font combination again over here for my last page, and I'm going to change it a little bit. I'm going to ungroup it. I want to zoom in, so I'll use this little Zoom button there. I'm going to change the new over there in the menu, click onto that. Double click it to select the text, and this is going to say real in there. I want that to be a lighter color or white. Now, if I go up here, there's some really interesting sort of colors in the cat's eyes. So I'm going to go to my text color in there, because this is sort of a yellowish green, I'm going to just try out a yellow and see how that works on there. I might even try green. No, I like the yellow over there. I'm going to do the menu over here. I'm going to make that white, and actually it's not going to say menu, it's going to say meat. And this one here is going to say for foodie cats. And I'm going to select that, and I'll probably go with the same yellow again over there. Get your last piece of text in. So let's download this. Go to share. Download. We're going to choose an MP four video. That's the size that we originally made it. And all I have to do now is to download. Now, it's popped up, so I can just go along to desktop or save it wherever you want. I'm calling mine whatever. And I'll click on Save and let's go and have a look at that. Here it is. We'll play it through. And there we go till finally the cat just looks at us. Yours might be totally different, as I said, different subjects, but have a bit of a go and put together some videos like that. 27. Make a Flyer - Intro: Let's start on this amazing flyer. Now, as you can see, we've got a number of different pictures in there. We're going to create an interesting background by montaging pictures together. We're also going to add a cutout picture in the front. Now, if you don't have the paid for version, you won't be able to cut it out. But there are websites that you can find that will cut out images for you or you can find an image which is pre cut, or you could just use a smaller image as well. But we're going to be adding text, text effects, all sorts of cool things. Anyway, let's get started. 28. Add Photo & Cutout plus Filters: I'm going to go across to the print option over here, and this takes me to print products, and then I can choose from the different pre made sizes in here. I'm going to introduce flyer, which is going to be an A four. So, of course, if you're printing this on the office printer or a home printer, A four is just perfect. And of course, you might want to be emailing it to round people and they print it on their home printers or office printers, as well. I'm going to click on that. And I'm then going to go along, and I'm going to do all the bits myself. So I'm not going to start off with one of the templates. I'm just going to jump straight in to the elements. Now as you've seen from the intro video, mine is all about a poster for a guitar fest over a weekend. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start off with an image for the background and then add a few more images on that. We're going to be looking at some cutouts over here, chopping images out. Now, when you start to select your images, if you're on the free version, you won't be able to use the cutout tool or option, so choose your images very, very carefully because you won't be able to cut them out. I'm going to pop in here and I'm going to look for grunge backgrounds. Now, of course, if you don't want to do a guitar, grungy background type of picture, feel free to do any subject you like. The principles are all the same no matter what you do. I'm going to go to my photos and I'm going to find something in here. I really like this grungy one over there, and I'm going to rotate it round, so I'm going to just click over there, rotate it round into the right position, and let's just pop it up there and move it down to here. I think that's probably about right. Now, the next I want to do is I want to bring in some shadow shapes, which will be guitarists for the background. So I'm going to go to graphics, and I'm going to put in guitarist in here. Now, I've got a few different guitarists in here. I want some sort of action type shots. I'm going to take that one. I'm going to make it a lot bigger. You're not going to see Well, it's going to be difficult to see this. You're just going to see bits and pieces. I'm going to go up to the top and I'm going to click on color and then I'm going to change the color of this. Now, we've got white there, black. That doesn't look too bad at all, but of course, I'm going to change the transparency. So with this, I'll go up to the transparency option and just reduce the transparency a little bit so we get the feeling of the guitarist although we're not getting every single detail. Let's go and do another one. So I'm going to go and find a different guitarist. There we go. We got a really cool one there. Once again, I'm going to bring that in, like so, and exactly the same. Well, it's black already, so I'm just going to change the transparency down a bit. So we're getting these guitarist shapes in the background. You can do them sort of different sizes. You can do them at different opacities, as well if you like, I just want the head and a bit of the guitar in there. And now I want to go and find the guitarist who's going to be the front most or the important person in here. So I'm going to go to photos, and what I'm looking for is a guitarist that I can cut out reasonably easily. Some of them are easier to cut out than others. Something like this where you've got a rig dark image in there, doesn't always cut out soap so perfectly. I did try this one earlier, and it cut out really well except for a little bit by his leg. I'm going to click on this one with a blue background. I'm going to make the size a little bit bigger, like so, something along that line. And I'm going to click the BG remover. And what that does is it just cuts out the image, and it does a really, really good job. If you want to, though, do a little bit more yourself, if you find that it's cut out too much or not enough, if you go to where it says BG remover, and click it, it will allow you to use some tools in here to either erase or add. For example, if I click on Restore, I could actually restore those bits over there. If I choose erase, I can erase those bits in there and you can change the brush size to anything that you want. Over there. Now, of course, I don't want to do that, so I'm going to use Command Z or Control Z to just undo those cause I was quite happy with the way that it was. Let's click over there. Now, when you go in there to the background remover and start messing around, I've noticed this before. Sometimes it doesn't always update with what you've done. So to get around that, I'm going to undo that, get rid of it, bring it in again. There. Let's just resize it. And use the BG remover straight on there. Now, the next I want to do is because, well, the guitarist looks a little bit too, it doesn't look grungy enough, I think, if there's such a thing. So I'm going to go to Edit up here next to BG remover. Click on Edit, and this gives me all sorts of ways that I can edit the image. Click on filters, and you can see if I choose some of these colors you can see how it's affecting the color in there. We get different variations. The one that I'm actually interested in some of these ones down here, the black and white versions or some of the color pops in there, which do look quite cool on there. I think I'm going to go with a black and white version over there. Let's try the black and white ink. And then I could just change the transparency on that so we can get the feeling of the guitarist coming through there, but with slightly less opacity. And, you know, once you've done that, experiment with different options in here. Uh, let's try the color pop again. Poster. That's not bad. That poster there looks really quite good. In fact, I'm going to go with that one. I will stop there because I've done quite a few things in here. So first of all, bring in a background. Bring in some graphics in there and reduce the opacity on them. Finally, bring in your main hero subject, and once you brought it in, use the BG remover if you're on the paid for version, and then you can click on Edit after that and you can go in and you can change and effect some of these filters in there. If you want to try out the other ones, go along and have a look at Blur. Have a look at the duotone option. There's tons of duotones in here. Let's do a purple one, mustard. Sepia. The Sepia one actually works quite well, as well. I might keep it on on that. Have a play. Whatever your subject is, just try it out. 29. Add Text: I let's go and add some text. I'm going to go along to the text tool over here, and all I'm going to do is to put in some text straight onto the image. So I'm going to say, add a text box, that's that button over there, and put in my image. So this is going to be called crazy shred. I'll just do the word crazy in there. And let's pull that up to make it a little bit larger. I want to change the font in here. Fonts are often called typefaces, as well, but let's go with the font. And up the top here, I can then change to a different font. I'm looking for something which is fairly heavy duty, like that. But you've got so many different fonts in here that you can try out, just lose yourself for an afternoon looking for fonts. Now, what's an interesting one. Hm, that is kind of a little bit wacky, isn't it? Anyway, I'm going to just go back to the one I had a moment ago, which was this heavy duty one. And I'm going to rotate this around. So I'm going to have the text going vertically, like so. It's just pull that around over to there. And this needs to be a little bit larger. So we just pull out the ends over there. You'll notice I've kind of gone over the edge there. I'm not too worried about that. And I think I'm going to move that over to there, it's going to say crazy on one side and shred on the other. To make a copy of this, I'm going to hold down the option key or the old key, move it across to there, double click it, and then change the text. Now, the shred has got five letters in it. Crazy has got five letters, and I want to move shred so it kind of goes from edge to edge as well, and I'm going to select it. And then just change the size a little bit. Over here. This is kind of slightly cheating, but let's pull that up a bit so they're all go on one line. But you probably won't notice it because it's all going to be in the background. Right. Now, I've got those two over here. I would like them to be kind of quite light so you can't see them. They're not taking over everything as they are at the moment. So I'm going to select both of them, so I'll click on one, hold down the Shift key, and select the other one. Go up to the color in here, and I'm going to use the color from the photo itself. I wouldn't bother to use it from here because we're not using that color. We're just using the background color at the moment. And then I'll change the opacity on those or the transparency as well. But I'd like the guitarist, the hero of my poster to come through and be in front of those. So I'm going to make sure I select him. And as you can see, if I click and move, he's sitting behind those bits of text. I'm going to go along to the position up here, click position, and then over here, I'm going to say move him to the front, and that'll move him right in front of those bits of text in there. Do you have a bit of a go with that? Get some sort of text going on in the background. Your background text, move it around. I'm just putting mine on the edges. You can place it wherever you want, but then move your hero object in front of the text to get a really interesting look. The amount that you actually change the opacity on that text, it just depends on how you feel about it. You can make it as much or as little as you wish. Try it out. 30. Add Text Effects: Let's put some more text in. I'm going to go and add another textbox over here and once again, do the same thing. Crazy. And I'm then going to make that a bit larger over here. You can change the typeface at this stage, if you wished, and I'm going to make a copy of that, select it and say shred So these two here really should be a wild color. So I'm going to select them both. So I've selected one and held down the shift key to select the other one. I'm just going to go down here to the colors and find something totally really wild and wacky. And I also want to put some sort of effect on here, as well, because it's still a little bit boring, and I want this to be really in your face wild. So I've got those two selected, and I'm going to go along and find some effects for the text. Now, if you scroll up and down here, what you see are pre made text, and all of those have got different effects on them. There's one here called Tech glitch, which actually looks quite interesting. I'd like something like that. I'm going to go up to the effects at the top here, click effects, and this is where we have different things that we can put on. I've got these different styles that I can apply or we can apply them to shapes. We'll do that later on. I'm going to choose this glitch effect, and I'm going to offset it quite a lot and just angle it around a little bit. Like that. So we get that really weird, weird and wonderful effect. This of two colors that you can choose to work from. I think that one looks completely benign. Now, let's look at other effects as well. If I select them both, go to effects in there, we've got things like this lift. This lift is actually just a little drop shadow you could put on instead, and it just helps you lift that text further up. I'm actually going to use Command and Z undo that, just go that wild effect. But I'd say that that is probably one of my most used effects in there where you can just lift the text away from the background with a very subtle drop shadow. Have a bit of a go with that, get your text in. Once you've done that, I'm going to make another copy of this again, select the text and put in the rest of the details. Mine's going to say, Camden town, London. That is a really cool music place in London for those of you who don't know London, but just in normal text to go at the bottom. But I'll do that while you get your crazy shade or whatever text you're using with an effect on there. 31. Make a PDF file: I've got my two bits of text in, but this little bit of text, well, it's getting lost in the background being white. Obviously, black would be even worse and colors, well, they're not really working so well for that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along to the effects. I'm going to use LIFT on there, and I'm just going to increase the intensity there. If you look very carefully here, that's it off, and this is with it on. You can see as I'm scrubbing that backwards and forwards, it's very subtle the effect. It's just enough to lift it up. You could try some of the other effects in here as well. We've got an interesting echo in there. There's hollows, there's slices. So many of them in there. But as I said, I'm going to go with lift and take the intensity right up. The second thing is I've got Camden Town and London with a big gap between them. I want them closer together. I'm going to go up over here to the spacing and the line spacing. I'm going to use that to move those two closer together. If you come from a more design background, you might know that as being called leading. If I'm feeling happy with that, I'm going to go along to share and I'm going to be sharing this by downloading it first of all, and then choosing how to share it. Now I'm going to share it as a PDF. I'm doing it as a standard PDF, not a PDF for print. I know we're probably going to be printing this on the office printer, but the PDF for print really is good for commercial printing. So I'm going to choose PDF standard in there, and we've got a little option here which says PDF standard. I'm going to go and choose a download over here, and that's going to download the file. There we go. I'll put onto my desktop. And let's go and have a quick look at that now. So here it is, as a PDF, we'll zoom out a little bit so you can see the whole thing in there. At this stage, I might look at it and go, Well, I don't like the guitarist being in that darker color. So I can always go back in there again if I need to make any changes. So I'm going to select the guitar, maybe adjust the transparency, so he's a bit more obvious in there, or I can go along to the edit options and just change some of these options in here, maybe go to the filters and say none for the filter. There. Everything is fully editable once you've created it. In fact, I'm going to go down here to Duotone and just say none on the duotone to get them back to full color again, I think. So there we go. We've got some crazy colors going on, too. I'll stop over there so you can try that out. But once you've done this one, have a go with some other subjects, try different subjects in there, move the text around, move things in front or behind, try some effects on your text, as well, and just have so much fun with it. 32. LinkedIn Multiple Banners - Intro: In this section, we're going to make some banners. Now, I've put them as linked in banners, but you could make the same thing for advertising or anything else. It's the process that's the important part. And you'll see as we're going along, we're going to make copies of things and then variations on them. We're going to use all sorts of new techniques as well. So I hope you enjoy it. I'm sure there'd be one sort of banner in there that you'll really, really like a lot. Let's get started. 33. Create a Very Simple Banner: We're going to create a LinkedIn banner. So I'm going to go along to social media, click on the social media button. And along the top, we've got some popular sizes, and I think the LinkedIn one is probably in the popular size. There it is over there LinkedIn background. I'm going to click on that and create a blank LinkedIn banner. Now, it comes up with all of these templates and ideas for you, they're quite interesting because you can go through and you can get some great ideas from that. But we're going to make something which will be our own design. I'm going to go across to elements to start off with. Now, what I'm looking for is some sort of background element over here, which, um well then sort of describe my business. Now, for this first one that I'm doing, I'm going to say I am a motion designer, so I'm looking for something with movement. Now, we could try some pictures. It kind of gets a little bit twee if you just use somebody sitting at a design computer. That's not so great. So I'm looking for something a little bit more interesting. I'm going to do that by going along to my graphics in here, let's just see all the graphics. And I'm going to type in motion. And see what I get. Now, those ones look well, awful. I'm going to try something different. Let's try graphic design. Now, once again, they're getting better, but these ones are a little bit too well, everybody uses those. Let's go and find something different. Now, this is looking more interesting. This sort of weird shape over there. That's the one that I like. And I'm going to click on that, bring it in, and I can then pop that over my whole screen. For this first example, I'm going to keep it really, really simple like that. So I'm happy with that exactly as it stands, and I'm going to get some text to go in there as well. So I'm going to go to the text. You can see how simple this really is. Then I can go in and down here, we've got all sorts of font combinations. I want to have my name and then something which says motion designer. So we've got these ideas that we could use in here or if nothing appeals to you, I'm just going to say, add a text box and put this in. I'm going to put in my name in here, Tim Wilson. Now it is really tiny at the moment, so we'll double click on that and increase the size quite a bit. And I'll just move it along to the end. So click and drag that can sit really nicely in there. Now, the font, I don't like what I've got in the font there, so I'm going to click down here and find something which says motion designer. So let's go down here and have a look for something which looks interesting. Right, I found a font called Quicksand, and I rather like that it's very rounded. It kind of looks like what I feel is motion, so I'm happy with that. And then I'm going to hold down the alter the option key and drag it to make a copy. Double click that, and this is going to be what I do Motion design. I'm going to take that and use another font in there. So this is called font pairing when you use more than one font. I would suggest that you never use more than two fonts at a time. Things can look very, very busy if you do. To are great. Or you could use one ready bold and one light, and then a slightly different one as well. But I'm going to go in there and I'm going to find a different font over here, something really simple to go with that. And I think just something not avener that's too close to it. We'll just make that a whole lot smaller. And I could spend ages just looking through fonts here to find the perfect font for this. I'm going to go ready safe and just use Helvetica for that. So that's my first design in there, ready to go. Really simple, a picture and a bit of text. That is it. But then what we're going to be doing is we're going to be creating some variations on this, and that's what this little project is all about creating variations. So if you'd like to have a go, just bring in a simple picture, put in a little bit of text, make up job spec for yourself. I'm not a motion designer. I do motion design, but I'm not a motion designer. I'm going to do some other ones. I'm going to do one for a graphic designer, and I'm going to do one for a font designer as well. But have some fun with that, keep it simple, and then we'll go on and we'll do some copies of this four variations. 34. More Variations: Let's make a copy of this page. What I'm going to do is rather than say add page down there, I'm going to go along to these little buttons, and this will actually allow me to duplicate the page, so I can just do that and I get a second copy. Now, this copy I want to change a bit, so I'm actually going to move the picture out the way. And if I click on the background, it gives me options to change the background color over here. You can see the background is selected. I moved out the way. Otherwise you keep clicking on the picture. The background is selected and I can go along to the color and just pick a different color. I'm going to go with solid black over there. Move that back to the same position that I had it before and then go to my text and I'm going to change the text in here to white. I'll select that, choose white for that bit of text, and this one over here, a bit of white on that. Really easy. Let's try another one. Once again, I'm going to go over here, click on Duplicate page. I've got another version of that. This time, I'm going to change the color of this image. What I want to do with the color is I actually want to go and adjust it and make it shades of gold. To edit an image, you go to the top up here. You can see it says, edit in there. I'm going to click on Edit. Now this changes to editing the image rather than just showing the image options. We've got different filters that we can use. I think I'm actually going to go down and I'm going to find Duotone. Now, Duotone is interesting because you can choose the ones that they give you there or you can actually click and change the color because a duotone is about two tones, two colors. If I click on this one, for example, this is about pink and blue, pink and blue in there. So if I click there, I can click on the lighter area. I can say, Well, that one there, I want that to be a yellowish, a light yellow color like that. And I'm going to make this a darkish brownie orange, maybe like that. And you can just experiment with your own colors in here and see what works for you. I think that's a little bit, too bright. With gold, probably something like that might work. It's not a true gold, but it gives you that impression. I've made another copy over here, and what I'm going to do is just move this picture around a little bit. I I don't like it that way, you can use the little flip button, so I can just flip it either horizontally or vertically. I think that would probably work a bit better because with LinkedIn, you have a photo in a circle over there, and I can then just take my text and drop it up here, keeping this really nice and simple. Anyway, do have a good go with variations of your theme in there, and then we'll try different one. 35. Color up Graphics: Now, if you want to view your projects in different ways or your pages, shall I say, there's some options down the bottom. First of all, is the Zoom. You can zoom in and out on your pages. By the way, you'll notice I've only got three now, I deleted one of them because I didn't like it. I thought I had too many of those with that little bin in there. But we can then zoom in and out on our pages. Now, this is in scroll mode. If you go to the right of there, there's a little button called thumbnail view. And if you click on that, you can then see your pages as thumbnails down the bottom and just click on them. We can also go along here to the grid view, and that just gives us the documents as a grid. This is really helpful if you've got tons and tons of pages in your project. To go back in, just double click and that takes you into one of these views over here. Now, what I'd like to do is I'd like to create a new document, so I'm going to click on the plus here, sorry, I would like to create a new page. I'm going to click on the plus over there to make a new blank page. Now, my page has come up as black, so I'm going to click it, go up to the top to the background color, and just change that into white. I'd like to go to my elements now and find an element. Once again, I'm going to use the graphic design. Oh. Can't spell graphic design, can I? Right, graphic design in there, and I want to use one of these little characters. So I'm going to go along and find there we are my graphics in there. I missed it totally. That's the one that I'm after, and I'm going to click in there and bring in that graphic. Now, these graphics are really quite cool because you can still go and adjust them a little bit more. So I've brought in my graphic over there. I can adjust the size at any stage. I think I want something like that. But if I was looking at this and think, You know what? I don't really like the color. Now, if I click on it and click on the ddt button here, we could go in as we did before, and we could use something like a duotone to put another color over the top, but that's just a two color one. But if you look along the top, it actually gives you the colors which are in these files. And this is really cool because looking at this, I can then go to the purples, click on the purple, and I could change that to a different color. I'm going to go with a red for that. Takes a moment, but it does it. Then I can go along to the yellows and I'll change that to try a lighter pale of a yellow in there. In fact, I think I preferred the colors that were there in the first place to be perfectly honest. I'm going to go back to that, but I want to show you this, anyway. So I'll click on that red and then go back to my purple over there. That's a much brighter purple than I had before. Let's try that one. There. So this is brilliant because you're not stuck with the colors that they give you in these graphics. It doesn't work on all of them, but some of them it does really well. For example, this one over here, if I brought that one in in there, that's set to black, I can go in, I can change the color of that to anything that I like. I'll just delete that. Lastly, I'm going to put in some shapes on the side, so I'm going to go back again to my shapes. So let's go back down here to elements and I've lost my shapes. I'm going to click on all over there, so I can go down and find shapes. And here. Now, sometimes when you start scrolling up and down, you think, Where on Earth's everything gone? Well, what you do is just look along the top over there. I'll click on shapes, and that will then take me into shapes. Now, it says there's no shapes for graphic design. So if I get rid of that, now my shapes will come back. Anyway, I'm going to bring in the shapes. I'm just going to drag and drop it in there. I'm going to use the same sort of color purple that I had for that one. And I like that, but I want to rotate it a bit. So this little rotate button over there, you can see the little circle. Click on that, and I will offset that a little bit like that to give it a bit more life, I think. I'm going to hold down the alter the option key and drag a copy and put another version of that. On that side, I might have to go up a little bit like that. That's a nice sort of angle. I'm trying to vaguely match the angle of the pen. And then I want to get the text from one of these other ones. I'm going to just go to this one here. Get this bit of text. I'll select both of them like that, copy them. Control and see on the PC, Command and C on the Mac. To copy it, go back to this one and then control and V to paste or command and V to paste it straight in. So I can now just change this to vector design or whatever else you want to call it. Right. Do have a bit of a go with that, bring in a graphic, but bring in a graphic which will allow you to change the colors and you can play with the colors in there. Do a variation, and then have a look at the different ways that you can see all of your different pages along here. Once you've done that, try a different color variation of this design. So remember, if you go back to your scroll view, when you're there, you can just go to that little button over there, click on that to duplicate the page and then change the colors on that. 36. Create a Monogram: I'm going to add a new page down the bottom. And for this one, I'm going to use a photograph. So this is going to be Tim Wilson font design or font designer. And I'm going to use a photo. So I'm going to go up to my elements, go and find my images. Now, I'm going to choose font design. There we go in there. And you can see if I go to photos, well, I'm still getting these photos of fonts. I want something a little bit more serious for this. So I'm actually going to try graphic design again. And see if I can find a photo with some fonts or some type in it. So I'm just looking over here at these desk type of images, and I did see one a little bit earlier. There we go. That's what I'd like. So I'm just going to click on that and I'm going to bring that in, maybe make that type or that picture a little bit bigger so I can see the type a bit clearer in there. Now, of course, this is very, very bright. It's different to the rest of the style that I've got where it's fairly muted in the colors or limited in the colors, maybe not muted. That's the wrong word. Limited in the colors. This is nice because it is sine magenta, bit of yellow and black in there, so CMYK. But I'm going to go along to the Edit button. So I'll click on the picture over there, go up to edit, up the top, click on Edit, and I'm going to use a duo tone for that. Now, I really want to knock the color back on this. I don't want those A's and pencils and paper to be overwhelming. I just wanted to be there in the background. So I can go and pick one of these colors in here, or and we've done this before, I can go along and say, well, the highlights, I want them to be more of a sort of a yellow color like that. And the shadows, well, I'm going to go try a blue, but let's go with a red over there. So I'll just do a darker red like that. The yellows, I think, are still a little bit too bright and over the top. It's just darken it down. Alright, so you can sit and play with us for ages. And unfortunately, I do, but you don't want to watch me doing that all the time. So have a bit of a go and get what you want. There we go. I kind of quite like that sort of a sepia sort of effect. And then I'm going to bring in a shape in here. You've done this before, so I'm going to get rid of that over there. Go along to my shapes, and I just want a rectangle, which I'll drag in, and I'm going to make it a lot bigger, put it on the side, using the same sort of feel as that where we've got something which is angled around, like so. Now, the color just does not work with that, so I'm going to click on the color and choose something else, which I think might be a bit better. Now, with these colors here, those are from the document, none of those are working. I might have to go down and find a different color in here that will work. Now I'll come back to that and sort it out. By the way, while you're in here, you can have a lit bit of a go with some of the gradients as well and experiment with those. But let's just go back to that for a moment. What I want to do is I want to create a little logo out of some characters. So this is going to be about font design, so I'm going to use the character F and D and put them together so they look like a little logo. So let's do that. I'm going to zoom into my page over here, and we'll just move that around so I can get to it. I'm going to go along to my text, and I'm going to go and find a font to add in, so I'll just add in a textbox, first of all. I'm going to type in F in there. Going to make it a bit bigger, double click it, and then I'm going to go and find something which works. Now I'm looking for something similar ish in style to that. So going up to here again, I'm going to go down and find something that I want. Now, I've come across a font called fabrica, and I think that works really well with that style. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make my font color white. So either white or slightly off white, maybe off white would look better. I there, you won't believe how simple this is going to be now. So I'll just click off of it. I'm going to move that up there, hold down my ultimate option key to make a copy of that, and remember this is font design, so I'm going to double click that and make that into a D. And then I can just move them together. So I'll just place that one right over there somewhere until we get the feel that I'm after. So they almost like they are a single character in there. Now, that looks a bit too heavy in the middle. I can experiment with different parts of this, moving it along. Like, so that might work in there. There's no right or wrong here. You can just play with these until you get the look that you're actually after. I think I'll just take that one down to there. So we get that F and D together. Now I'm going to select one, hold down the Shift key, and select the other one and move them across on my page to the edge or wherever I want to put them, to be honest. I'd like to bring in my name now, so I'll just go over to here, copy it from this image in there. You can either do the copy and paste or you can just hold down the alter the option key and drag it across onto that document. And, oh, my screens getting a little bit weird Whenever I move over it. Come on. Stop. Okay. I might have to zoom out, so it behaves itself again. There we go. And we'll just pop that down there. Then these two here, I'm going to move St over them, so they sit in there. I could try different typeface on there and see if that works. Now, I really don't like the colors that I've used here, so I'm just going to go back to that one, back to edit and over to my duotone in fact, I'll just use a dark gray over there and a very light gray over there. Right, that looks kind of quite classy. Now, I want to see what these are going to look like finally. So if you go along to this little button, it's sort of a double arrow. Click on that. It shows you your design full screen. And then I can just flick through them and go, Yep, quite like that one. Oh, not too bad. Yep. Happy with all of those. So just flick backwards and forwards with them. But do have a bit of a go with that, and don't forget you can always make custom logos, just using typefaces by mixing the two of them together. Have fun with that, try it out, and then we'll export these. 37. Download: Let's go and download this. I'm going to go up to share and I'm going to go to Download, and I'm going to choose the JPEG option for this. Now, we will talk about PNG files later in the course. But for the moment, let's go to JPEG. You'll see we've got a size option over here. Now, these ones are all fixed if you are on the free version. But on the paid for version, you can go to your size and you can actually increase the size. I could go along here and actually double the size up. You can see on the right hand side, if I go back to one, one is normal size, so that's 15 and 84. If I go up to two, that will double up the size to 13 68, and you can actually go three times the size in there. So if you do need a larger file than you have, this is a quick way of doing it. You could also go to half the size that way. Then we've got a quality option over here. Now, the quality default is 80, and that's a really good quality because you get a slightly smaller file, so it's not too huge, but the quality is still pretty good. If I took this all the way down to one, the file size would be really small, but the quality would be really poor. So 80 is good, 100 is brilliant, but the file sizes are much bigger. And lastly, we've got a limit file size two option here. This is if you need to limit the file sizes of certain things that you're exporting, a lot of businesses say, Well, your image can't be more than X kilobytes, and this way you can limit it to whatever you need. Now, the select pages, I can click in there and I can choose which ones I want. You can see I can pick them that way. In my case, I'm just going to choose all of them. I'll click on Download and again, this just takes a little moment for me to download it. Let's just click No thanks on that. Then it says, We do you want them? It's going to put them in a zip file because there's six of them, so I'm going to put them onto my desktop. You can put them wherever you want. So desktop over there. Click on Save. Now, if I go along to my desktop, here is my zip file. I'll double click to open it up. There's the open file. And here are all of my pages as JPEG files like so ready for me to use. Anyway, have a bit of a go and export or download your files to JPEG. 38. Business Variation: Now, let's add another one in here. This is kind of like just a little extra one, and I'll show you a few more options. I'm going to add another page, and this one is going to be for a little business, like a fashion shop or a clothes shop. But you can do it for whatever you want. So first of all, I'm actually going to take a few items from here. So this one, I'm going to hold down the Alt key and drag it across. Now, when I drag it across and drop it over there, you can see it doesn't actually show up. Let me undo that. So when you do drag it across with the Alt or the option key, you need to drag it until the whole thing is in the new page and then it'll come across. Otherwise, it still thinks that you want to drop it there, even though you're on this particular page. Let's go and find a picture to go in here. I'm going to go to elements. I'm going to go to photos, and you can see I've actually found this one already. It's in my recently used. That's the one that I want to use. So I'm going to drop that in there. Let's make this larger. In fact, I'm going to make it so large, it's going to cover the whole of that background picture like that. But I want it to be underneath that gray thing, so I'm going to click on position and send to the back. Now, if I could this shape here and click on that, I'm going to change the opacity in the top, the transparency, knock it down a little bit so we can see some of that picture coming through in the background. Let's go and get another picture to go in here. So I'm going to and once again, I found this one already. You can find anything you like. I'm going to bring this picture in. I'm going to change the size of it. My screen just goes really weird sometimes with this. Pull that across. And what I'd like to do. Now, if you have problems getting things in the right position, use the arrows on your keyboard and I'm holding down the bottom arrow and you can see how it's just moving down like that. And then I'm going to go to the BG remover. Click on that, and that gets rid of the background for me. Now, I want to bring in some text for the shop in the middle. So if I had white text on this background, it'd be quite difficult to actually see because we've got some well, darker colors in there and some lighter colors as well. If I had a dark text, you wouldn't be able to read it either. So I'm going to take a shape. So I'm going to go down to my shapes. I'm going to use this shape here, drag that in, and just pull it around. Now, as far as the color goes, if I click on the colors here, I can then choose colors from my photos over there. You can see I can just take a color from the photos in there. I might even do that for the background. Click on the background and pick a color from the photos. I think that actually works really well that color. This one here, let's use that brown, and I will change the opacity or the transparency a little bit, so it's not quite so harsh. But I'm also going to go to the corners. Click on the corner rounding and round off those corners so we get something a little bit softer and more interesting. Lastly, I want to bring in my text, and I'm going to use this bit of text here, hold down the alter the option key, drag it across, and change it. So let's have some text in here which says, Summer Oops. Put an R over there. Summer style styles. I'll just click off of that and move it in there. Now, I'm thinking at the moment that the text needs to be bigger. So if I grab a corner, I can just scale it out, get into the right position. I'm also thinking that the picture in the background is a little bit well, overpowering. So I'm going to click on it, and I'm going to go to edit, and I'm going to use the blurring. Now, when you come to blurring, you can either blur individual areas. If you go to brush, you can paint on things and then blur just that area. You can see we've got different brush sizes and different intensities in there. I'm going to just undo that or you can click on whole image and you can then blow the whole of that image in there. I just want to feel of clothes on a hanger we're done, and there we go really quick and it looks quite professional. Let's click on this little background image here. I'm going to see if I can change the opacity of that just a little bit more. I'm going to go to my text, move that down into the right position. I'm using the arrows on the keyboard over there, and I feel quite happy with that. Let's do a quick variation on this. I'm going to click on the duplicate button. I'm going to go to the clothing, and then let's go to edit in here. Now, there's a few things that we could do. I could go down to the shadows and within the shadows, I could put a bit of a drop shadow underneath the clothes. If you scroll down here, you've got things like how much blur you want to put on the distance away from the clothes, that the shadow is, the angle in there as well. Keep going down, you've got the intensity of the shadow, so maybe just a very subtle shadow like that might work beautifully. The other thing that we could do, though, is we could put a edge around the clothing. So I'll just choose none for the moment. I'm going to go to outline. You can see that's really an awful outline. But if I go down here, we could get something that looks like one of those cutouts that one used to get in the olden days of clothes that you'd cut out and you put on a paper cut out of a doll. So I'm just going to click on the color, choose white. And then I can go to the size and I can choose whatever size I want in there, maybe something that looks like that. That looks quite interesting, shall we say. The shoes work really well. Not so sure about the white shirt on there. So if you just had a pair of shoes in there, that would look really, really cool. Anyway, do have a bit of a play with these options. There's glows, there's angled ones, there's backdrops, which sort of puts it down at the bottom there, and have a look at the settings that you get down here. I'm just going to go with a black shadow underneath that. Try it out. 39. Animated Icon - Intro: In this section, which is not going to take too long, we're going to look at animation, and we're going to animate some characters coming in. So we'll have different characters coming in with different types of animation, and we'll make it into, like, a little animated logo or icon. What else can I say? Let's get started. 40. Create Background & Type: Let's do a little animated logo now. I'm going to go to social media again and I'm going to go across to Instagram and just animate a little Instagram square, so we can have a look at some of the animation options. Now, what I want to do is I want to start off with my elements in here and I'm going to go to the background first of all, and just change the background. I've clicked on the background. I'm going up to the background color at the top here. And then instead of actually using these colors here, I'm going to go down. I'm going to use a gradient. So I've just got this little gradient in here, which looks quite good. Now I want to have another shape in here as well. So I'm going to go to my once again elements. I'm going across to the shapes over there, and the moment that they appear, I'm looking for a rounded rectangle. Now, there we go. And I'm going to take that rounded rectangle and just pop it in there as well, maybe slightly smaller than that one in there. Now, I can go to the shape up the top here, and this shows me other shapes as well. So if I got it wrong, I can just change it to something else in there very quickly. And then obviously you've seen this already. We can go to the corner rounding and we can round off the corners how much we want them to be. We're just going to have little rounded corners like that. Let's go and change the color. I'm going to go up to the colors over here, click on the color, and I'm going to just change this to a solid peach. Now, because the one behind it is a gradient going from a slightly darker peach to a lighter peach in there, it makes it look, well, this one's actually got a gradient on it as well, which it hasn't. I'm happy with that. So the next thing we want to do is to bring in some text which is going to be our logos. And we're going to do that by bringing in three individual letters. So I'll start off by saying, add a text box. This is going to be my logo. My logo is going to be for cats and dogs for want of anything. Use your initials or try something different. I'm just going to see over there for a cat. I'm going to make it a lot bigger. Select the text. I just double clicked to select the text in there. I'm going to go and find a really nice, um fairly solid looking like that one there, typeface. And I'm going to make that white. So I'll go down here, make that white, and then I'm going to click it again. You notice I always click off, click over there and then come back and select it. Otherwise, it just thinks you want to select the text itself rather than the frame that it's in. Hold down your option key, make a copy, double click that. This will be my absaneOce again, you'll notice I'm trying to move it, but I can't because I'm still in the text tool, so click off, click it again, hold down the alter the option key, and this will be the D for dogs. There. And then I could just move these around so they kind of look almost like they're one item. You see I've kind of got that D just in there. And you can use the arrows on the keyboard to move things very subtly up and down. There. There we go. That almost looks like it's one shape. Now. So have a bit of a go with that. Get a background, pop in maybe a gradient, get another shape in there. I've used this rounded rectangle. You can use a circle or anything you like, and then get three characters in there. We're going to animate this. Once you've done those three characters in there, add another little bit of text. So another text box over here, and this is whatever your business is going to go. So mine is going to be cats and dogs design. So I'm going to put in fashion. Fashion would be good one. So cats and dogs fashion. I'm going to select that and then I'm going to go and find a typeface which is different to the C and D. I'll go up to the top and I've got one over here that I used recently. That's perfect. It looks like it's just scribbled on very quickly. That's exactly what I was after in there. You just change the size to anything you like and see how it looks. Just get a nice balance in there. Anyway, get that far and then we'll start to animate them. 41. Edit Gradients & Use Groups in Layers: I think I'd like to actually put a gradient on this one here because it's not showing up as much as I'd like against the background. So to do that, I'm going to go over to my colors again and I'm going to pick the same gradient. Now, you're probably looking at me and thinking, Well, Tim, that's just even worse. It just doesn't appear at all. But if I go to the top over here, you'll see there's a gradient in the document colors. If I move onto that gradient, what I can do is I can click it and there's a little edit icon that comes up in there. If I click on that over here, I can change this gradient around. Now we have different styles of gradient. In here, some of them are circular and some of them are linear. Or I can actually go in and change the color, so I can click on the yellow and say, well, let's make that yellow orange. I just move it across to a similar orange in there. I can go to this orange here and I can make that yellow or any other color that I want in there. I'm going to make a yellow color and match that the other way. I've got my two gradients going in opposite directions now. Hopefully that will show up a little bit better. There we go. It's showing up so much nicer. Over here, I'd like to take the C, the D, and the A. I think I've got them all selected, and I want to group them together. So when I move them, they will all move at the same time. I haven't done that with fashion in case I want to change the color of fashion. I've left that separate. I'm then going to go over to the effects over here and I'm going to click on the effects, and I'm going to put a lift, which is a drop shadow on there. Now you can see, even though I've grouped them together, it's still showing up as putting it on the individual characters. So let me undo that. So I'm actually going to make sure that I select all three of those characters. Now, I'm having trouble selecting them. So how can we select things otherwise? Well, if we go along to position and then over to layers over here. So instead of a range, we go to layers in there. I can then see my items, and they are all in a group together. If I click on that, now they've all selected. You see if I click off of that, if I just choose one of them, it's just select that one within a group, even though they move around together. But if we go to position and layers and you select it in there, it selects all of them. So if I go back to my effects now and apply the lift, it applies to all of those items. Now, I want to make it very subtle, so I'm going to take the intensity right down over there. Feel free to try out some of the other items in here as well if you think that they might work a little bit better. Anyway, keep it nice and subtle and don't forget, edit your gradient and also have a look at actually just grouping these items together, but using layers and the position there to select them all at once. 42. Animate & Download: Let's animate. I'm going to go to my C over here up to animate, and I want this one to come in with the pan over there. I'm going to click on that. Speed wise, we don't want it to be too fast, but we don't want it to be too slow either. So somewhere in the middle. I'll do the same with the D. I'm going to bring that one in over there, and then I'm going to go to the ampersand, and I'm going to get that to come in with something different as well. I think I mean, this one here looks a bit extreme in the middle there, but maybe it will work. Let's find out. And those are all on enter in there. I really don't like that stump. It is really a bit too much. Let's have a bit of a go with a blur, so it just blurs up in there or fading up, that'll look a lot better. Then I can go to fashion as well and once again, do something with that. I will fade that in as well. Anyway, do you have a bit of a play with those characters and get them all to animate in individually. And once you've done that, we're going to go along to share, and we're going to download this. And you'll see it says it suggests an MP four video, which is absolutely perfect for what we want. Let's take the quality a little bit higher over there. You'll see that in here, we've got for streaming and we've got different qualities, and those are resolutions. So it's not like JPEG where it actually compresses the size down and it doesn't change the number of pixels. This changes the number of pixels. So that's fine for Instagram. But if I was putting it on somewhere else or doing it as an advert, I might want to increase the resolution in here or the number of pixels, shall I say, in the image. So do watch that one over there. I'm going to take my little bit higher than Instagram. We're just going to click on Download in there. And then once it's downloaded or once it's getting into downloading process, it'll ask me to save it. So here's my save option, and I'm going to call this C and D. Click on save, and we're done. Let's go have a look. I've saved mine into my Downloads folder, so I'll just go to Downloads in there, double click it and I suppose we should click the play button ready. There we go. Really nice and fast. It just comes in very quickly. At this stage, you might look at it and go, Well, my timing doesn't look quite right. Maybe I'll slow those down so they come in a little bit slower. It's up to you as to what you want to do with that. But do have a bit of a go with that and then try some others, different characters in there, and maybe some different animations. 43. TikTok Product Mockup - Intro: This one is brilliant. What we're going to do is we're going to take a letter. I'm going to use the letter A, and we're going to use AI to make it look interesting. I'm going to put flowers on mine. You can do whatever you want on yours. And then we're going to take that and we're going to put it onto different products. But not just on still products. We're going to put it onto moving videos. So as you can see on the side here, it's amazing. It looks like it really was there. Let's start. 44. Create a Floral Character with AI: Let's make a design and put it on our products. I'm going to go to Social Media again. And this is going to be for something like TikTok. So let's click on TikTok, and that gives us our 1920 by 1080 size. Obviously, you can use that for all sorts of different social media platforms, and it can also go for a web advert. Now, I'm going to go along and I'm going to put in a character in here that I want to have for flowers. The idea behind this, as you've seen from the intro video, is that we're creating a bit of a design for a gift shop, and we want to be able to show it on our different products. So I'm going to start off not by doing the text, but actually by going down on the left hand side to creating things using the AI creation tools. I'm going to say magic Media. That's this little one down here. Now, all I have to do is describe exactly what it is that I want. So let's start off with a few words and then we'll add to that. So I'm going to say flowers on what should we have it on a letter A. And then I'm just going to press Enter and let it get on and create that for us. Now, as you can see, I have cut that. It took a little while, but we've got some really interesting ones in here. That does not look like the letter A at all, but this one does and it's quite nice. I'll just drag that one into my document over there. We'll do a few and then decide which one we want to use. Now, you could, of course, if you didn't like any of those, just click on Generate again and I'll do that now. And there we've got a few more. So this one is actually probably the type of thing that I was really after, so I will drag that one in as well. Now, if you didn't like any of those, you could then go back and just re put in what you want. So I'm going to go back and I'm going to say plants. In a letter A, you can use any letter of the alphabet you want. I want A because this is going to be Andy's gift shop. Plants in the letter A on a plain white background. Be as specific as you can. The more specific you are, the easier it is for the AI to create something for you. Well, those are interesting and none of them look like the letter A, so I might have to keep trying, but I really like this one that I've got over here. So what I'm going to do is, um, close down the magic media. There's a little button at the top that says close. I'm going to delete that one, and this is the one that I'm after. Now, I do want this to be on a plain white background. I'm going to go to the BG, the background remover. If you are on the free version, unfortunately, you won't be able to do it, you can still continue on with some of the other things and use the mockups, but you'll have whatever background it's given you. I'm going to use BGR background remover, click on there, and there we go. It's removed that green for me and left the A. Now, sometimes I do like to just zoom in a bit and I'll zoom in there to just check that it looks okay. I was a bit worried that some of these weren't working correctly, but they all look absolutely fantastic. Have a bit of a go with that. Get a character up like that. Doing it on a TikTok video because we want to be able to save this out as a video in the end. Have a go. 45. Add Mockup Video: Now, I want to have a few different pages in here with different videos to show the product in different ways. So I'm going to go over here and click on these little buttons here. I go to scroll view, and I'm not going to add a page. I'm going to go to the top and just duplicate that page several times. Over there. You'll see if I click on Grid View, I've now got four of these pages with the A on them. Let's go back to the first one over here. What I want to do is I want to go along and I want to find something that says mockups. If I scroll down over here, we've got the mockups, click on mockups, and then we can decide what sort of mockup we want. Now, I don't want to put this on a standard object. I actually want to put this on a video, I'm going to go to videos. I'll choose C A. And then I can choose which of these I want to add. Now I'm going to go down, and I want to add this onto a bag, a canvas bag to start off with. And I do know that there's one down here somewhere that's got a canvas bag in it. Now, sometimes these little videos take a while to appear, and I've got the one that I want over here. I'm just going to click it, and I'm going to scale it up so it fits into my document. Now, what I'd like to do is I'd like to actually move it behind the logo or the design. So I'm going to go to position, go to layers, and I'll just drag my design above it over there. You can drag these above or below each other like that until you get them where you want them. Now, I'm going to take this and move it until you see it goes lighter. As I'm moving around, it doesn't always do that, but when I move it around, it goes lighter in there. I drop it and it will just put it into that area over there where the little landscape is. Now, I'm going to play that and we'll see what happens. Nothing's happened at the moment. There we go. It takes a while sometimes to get it to work. And if I click on play now, you can see it's become part of that image. It's a really lovely little feature. Let's do that again. So I'm going to go to my next design over here. Let's go over to the grid view, this one here, and I'll do the same again. I'm going to go to videos. I'm going to go down. We've got another tote bag over there. I'll click on it, bring it in, make sure it's behind the other things so you can drag onto it and we'll pull that up like so, good position, move one above the other, and then drag the top one until you see it goes light, drop it, and that will bring it in. It will play in a moment. Let's do one last one over here. I'm going to go over to Grid Vew same again, Sal. I'm going to go down, I'm going to find the T shirt. I'll click on the T shirt and bring that in. There we go. Let's change the size of that. Oh, I got two of them now. Let's change the size of that's make it a bit bigger. Move that into the right position and same again. Change your stacking ado. I've got two of them now. Three of them. Let's get rid of that. Pull that down and drag that in like so. So if we go back to all of these, let's just go to thumbnails over here and right back to the beginning. What we should be able to do is to play through, and each one of these they've got different times you can see it's moving on our toe bag. It really looks like it's actually on the tote bag itself. And then onto the T shirt, and you can see how it sort of as the T shirt is moving, it really looks like the design is on it. 46. Add the Text: Let's add some text to this at the beginning and at the end. So I'm going to go along on the left hand side and find the text I need to scroll up because some of those little tools are hidden. Go to my text tool and I'm going to add a text box. You could also add a heading, a subheading, or a body text in there. If I added a heading, it just means that the default text will come in quite large. Adding the text box is absolutely fine. Now, I'm going to change this to Andy's gift shop. I will move that down, so I'm going to click off of it, move it down to here. And I think, well, I don't really like that typeface at all doesn't go with a lovely sort of flower delicate feeling of the products. So what I'm going to do is to select it, go up to my typeface, and find an appropriate font in here. That looks quite good. Let's make it a little bit larger over here and I'm going to move it into the right position. Also, the text. Well, it's quite black and everything else is interesting and delicate shades. So I'm going to go up to the type color and find the color that I want. Now, I'll just click on a color in there. Um, don't really like that orange at all. Let's go with something maybe a medium gray would be better. I could also go to my document colors over here and if I click on the little plus over there in this add new color, I can then go and actually change that and make my own color with this little slider. Or if you've got web safe colors also known as hex colors, you could put the number in there. We've also got it eyedropper, so I can click on the eyedropper. I can move over the design. And find the color from there. I think this dark pink actually is rather nice in there and that suits that really well. Let's just move this up over here, we'll have Andy's gift shop and we'll have a gift for any occasion down there. Anyway, I won't force you to watch me putting in my next bit of text. I'm going to do that. I know it's right at the end over here, but don't worry, we're going to sort that out very shortly. 47. Move Pages: As you can see, I put in my text in there. Now, the problem with my text is the lines are too far apart, but I'm sure you know how to do that now. If I just go in over here and just do a return, select the text, and I can then go up to the top here, up to spacing, and I can change the line spacing to move those closer together. So I've got this little bit of text down here which says a gift for any occasion. Now, I would like to have this logo in Andy's gift shop at the front and at the end of this video. So I'm going to first of all, make a copy of this, and I'll go and do that by going to scroll view over here because it's easy to do from there. Up to the top, there are other ways to copy the page, by the way. I'll just say duplicate page. I've got two of those pages, and this one here, I'm going to change to your design on a product. Let's just say your design on a product. And I think we'll put that over two lines as well. Now, I'm going to go over to the grid view, and you can see this is the order that these will play in. So I'm going to take this one over here and just drag it right to the front. So now the order is this one here with a design on your product, your design on a product. I'll play through those, and the end one will say a gift for any occasion. Let's go back and have a look at all of those. Again, we'll just close the grid view. In there. Now, I'm going to click this little button here, the thumbnail view, so I can actually see the timing on these. 5 seconds is a long time for this intro. People will lose interest really, very, very quickly. So I'm going to take this down and I'm going to just make it maybe 1.5 seconds enough for people to read the text. And then this little one here, maybe 4 seconds so. This one, once again, I think we'll do that also about 4 seconds enough for them to look at the product and see it going. And this one over here, once again, 4 seconds, you could drag from the left or from the right, depending on which bit you want to cut out. And when it gets to the very end over here, this is just going to play out like so. So they can read that and just once again read Andy's gift shop. Now I'm happy with that. I'm going to go up to the Share button, and I'm going to download h. Let's go to the Download button, click Download. I'm going to do this as an MP for video in there. I'm going to keep it at the suggested size because that's fine for TikTok, and I'm going to click on Download to download it. I'm saving mine onto my desktop, so I'll click on Save and let's go and have a look at that. So all I have to do is to double click. A. You can see that 4 seconds is quite a long time to watch. We might need to shorten it as well. 48. Add Music: Let's look at adding some music to this. If I sound a little bit different, it's because I've changed my microphones so that you can hear the music from my computer. I'm going to go to elements in elements, I'm looking for music, and you can type in music in there. You can see it gives us all sorts of music things. Now, what I want to do is I want to use audio. I'm going to say see all under audio. Then through here, I'm just going to click on one of these quick links. I'm going to use advertising in there. And then to listen to the piece, you can just go and click on it. And it will play it for you. Let's try this little one here. Sometimes it takes a moment to just download it. Right, I'm going to use that. So all I do is click it. It will add it in. Now, we're gonna have to pull this out, so it goes all the way through to the beginning because my curse was at the end. I thought I just want to start the music over there. And let's play through this now, so if I click the play, buggy, That's almost perfect the way that it goes right the way through to the end. So all we need to do now is to share this. I'll click on Share, go to Downloads. I'm going to download this as an MP for video, so I'll click Download. And wait for it to download. Now, I'm going to give it another name so I don't overwrite the last one that I did. And I'm saving mine onto my desktop so you can see it. Let's click Save. And we're going to have a look. So it is this one here. Double click it, and then I'll click the Play button. Did the wrong one. Did the one that I did before the music. Let's try that again. So you get these mixed up when you just have two after the name. They look very realistic. That's it. Have a go with that, try some other ones. If you are using music, though, and I'll just go back into Canva, some of the music requires certain things. So for example, if I went to this one here, this kite lines, when I go over here to download, it says, connected to your social account. So do read what's going on here whether in this case, it wants to connect to the social account. So each time you use the video, it stops a content ID claims against you. Anyway, have a go with that. 49. Photo Popout - Intro: This next image that we're going to do is a still image. We're going to be looking at putting text around the circle and controlling the text. But most importantly, I want to show you how to get an image to pop out of a shape like this. It's one of those things that you will have seen quite a few times. And once you've done it like this, you go, actually, it's so easy to do. So let's start it. 50. Put Shape In Circle: For this project, I'm going to go to social media again. I'm going to go along to an Instagram square. You can use any other social media size or whatever you want, Ri. I'm going to go to elements, and we're going to go and grab a picture. So I want something to do with skating. You could do a roller skater. You could do an ice skater, skateboarder, anything you want, Reali as long as it's got action. So I'm going to do skater. Or just skate, I think. And I'm going to go to my photos, S A, and I like this little one over here. It's got a lot of action coming towards the camera. So that's one that I'm going to use. Now, although you can actually go in and use the non paid for versions on here, do remember that this project only works with the paid version because of the background remover in here. If you want to do something like this on the free version, you'd have to remove the background some other way. There are some sites online that will help you to remove backgrounds or if you've got any other applications, Adobe Photoshop or anything like that, you could get rid of the background. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to take little this child and put them into a circle. Now, before I do that, I want two versions, so I'm going to hold down the alter the option key and just drag a second version out, which I'm going to move over that side in there. So let's get this into a circle. Now, to get it into a circle, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back here. I'm going to get rid of skate, and I'm going to go along to my shapes. So I want to use these shapes over here, so I shouldn't say shapes. They are shapes, but I want to use the frames. So I'm going to go along to the frames in there, click on the circle to bring in the circle. And now remember, all you have to do is to drag this into that. You can see as I'm dragging it, I can drop it straight into that circle. If I double click on it, I can then go to the picture inside the circle and I can adjust the size of that picture. So what we're going to do is we're going to have the skater coming out of the circle like that. I think I might just have that it a little bit of a hand coming out there as well. So the face is up there, a little bit of the hand will hide this and we'll have that bit coming out at the same time. So I'll just choice done in there. No I'm going to stop over there. So if you'd like to get yourself an image, put it into one of these shapes, one of the frames, should I say? I always say shapes. Sorry about the confusion. But there are actually the frames in there. You don't have to use a circle. If you say see all, there's all sorts of different shapes that you can go in and use from there. And then make sure that you copy that image before you actually put it into the shape. And we're going to be using this one over here to get the rest of the cut out. 51. Cut-out Image: Let's add a little line around the outside. So I'm going to go up to the top here and we've got a border style. This is also known as a stroke. If I click on that, I can choose from different border types in there. I'm just going to choose a standard border. I'm going to really push that up a little bit like so. Now, don't forget you can go to the color. There's the border color, and I could pick colors from the image itself, which could look actually quite nice. That's not bad at all. I really like that over there. And then we're going to get this image here, and this image at the moment is behind the other one, so we want to move it into the front. So I'm going to do that by going to position over there, and in position, I'm going to go across two layers. We've done this before, and I'm going to move and drag one of those above the other or below the other. So this image is now in front of the other one. Now, the next thing is going to be really simple. All I need to do is to remove the background. I'm going to click on BG remover over there and just wait for a moment while it gets rid of the background. It is quite large, sorry, quite small in comparison to the other one. And the other thing is, as I move it over that one, you can see how it tries to put it into that circle. You have to be very careful at this point that you don't drag it in and replace your last picture. So I've got to grab this corner over here, get it to roughly the right size, and just move it around oh, that wasn't bad at all, that guess there that I had. But you might need to tweak it until it's the same size as the image that you're actually going over. And you can see the effect that we get in there of the boy actually or the girl. I don't know what it is coming out of the picture. But we want to augment that a little bit more. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut the foot off over there, so it looks like that foot is inside and it's just coming forwards. And to do that, we're going to go along and once again, in the BG remover, you'll see there are two options. There's an erase option and there's a restore option. I'm going to use the erase option and just erase. We've got a brush size here. If your brush is too small, you just change it with that one there. So I'm going to just erase that foot there. Now, I'm not being terribly careful. You'll see that if I now close that down, it just erase it because we're seeing both images in there at the same time. If I wanted to, I can, of course, do the other one, so I could go over there erase that foot and let's have a look. It looks like he's actually coming out of that image in there. That's working really, really well at the moment. I want to move those two around together. So once again, I'm just going to go to the position into my layers. And you can select multiple layers at the same time by holding down the shift key on the keyboard, so I can select both of them, and I can move them around together as well. So we're going to pop those in the middle. Anyway, if you'd like to have a go, get to that stage there, and then we'll take it a little bit further, and make it a little bit more interesting. 52. Add Some Text: Now, let's change the background color. To get to the background, if I click on one of these good position, I can then go in and just click on the background in there. It's easier than trying to select it over here because you might have a picture which is in front of it. So this is a great way to select it very quickly, and I'm then going to go up to the top and I can just change the background color in here. I'm going to choose a color which is from the photo as well. So my colored palette is quite simple. Then we're going to bring some text in over here. I'm going to go along to my text tool. I'm just going to add a text box. If you want to use one of these ones in here, by all means, have a bit of a go if you see one that looks really interesting or just say, add a text box over there and put in your text. So I'm going to say learn to roller blade. Now, I'm going to make that a little larger, so it's easier to see. And I'll just change the color. I'm going to make mine white, so it's easy to see against the background. We need to select it first and then make it white like so. So change the background color, get some text in here, and then we're going to make the text go around the shape itself. 53. Type on a Circle: I'm going to put this onto a circle. And I know there's a few things I still need to do. I don't actually like the typeface that I've used, and roller blade should actually be one word. But I want to show you how you can fix that later. So I'm going to click on that. And in the text options up the top, I'm going to go to the effects. And with the text effects, if you scroll right to the bottom, you've got none or you've got text on a curve. So if I click on curve there, now if I scroll up a bit more, I've actually got a curve which I can then adjust. So I could move this up over to there, and I can then make that larger or smaller this way. Now, let's say that I did that and I thought, You know what? I want my text to be bigger. I can just double kick on my text, and you can see how it actually takes me back to normal editing mode, but you can see the text in the background. So if I were to increase the size of the text, you can see how it's showing it on the curve behind you. So I'm going to make it bigger. I don't like the typeface that I've got in there, and by the way, I'm just going to say this is going to be one word, so I'll take roller and put in a B in there, get rid of the space. So I'd like to change the typeface. I'm going to select that. And this is aimed at getting kids to roller blade. So we need a nice child friendly typeface or font. So I'm going to click on the fonts and go down and find something which might appeal to children. So something possibly fun but still readable. This one here is really nice. It seems very child friendly, but it's very difficult to read for a young reader. So I'm going to go to this Canvas student font in there, which looks like it's sort of semi handwritten, but it's actually very, very easy to read. I'm going to make that a lot larger. All right, so I think that's probably quite good. And I'm going to go back to my effects now, and I will change the size of that. And you can see I can just get that to go around like that. If I've got that correct on the circle, I can then still go over here and I can rotate it around. So if I wanted it to be on that side there around the circle, saying, Learn to rollerblade like that, and I can pull this out a little bit over there. Once again, thinking in terms of the people that this is aimed at, learn to roller blade might not be ideal written on the side like that. And to be honest, this is the adverts actually got a very, very small child in there who probably won't have an Instagram account anyway, although you never know. These days. But what I'm going to do is I'm just going to undo that. I just go back all the way to where I had this standard text in there. So going down to the bottom, instead of putting the text around that way, let's pull the curve the other way so I can put it up this way there, and that's going to be a lot easier to read if I then put that around the bottom. I can still make it bigger if I want. I'll just drag it out to make that larger and once again, just pull this in to tighten that up. Like that. I think that'll be a lot easier for a younger learner to read. If you want to change the color, by all means, do so, double click it. Go into your colors over here, and you can pick colors from the image itself or choose your own bright colors in there. I might even try something like a really bright yellow color, although it's very difficult to see against that background. I've just realized I might have to go back to a blue or a white. It's up to you. You can just sit and play for ages with those colors. That totally color wise, doesn't look like it would actually appeal to a child. So I might have to rethink my color scheme in the background, do something a little bit brighter in there. And remember to do your background. It is position over to layers. Click on your background color in there. And I'm going to go with something a little bit more groovy like that. That's probably a lot more appealing to a child. Anyway, have a bit of a go with that. Get that done. Once you have created this, if you want to go and share it, click on the Share button over here, go to Downloads, and of course, you can just download that as a JPEG file over here. If you're on the paid for version, you can choose different sizes if you want something bigger for a poster or anything along that line. Have a bit of a go with that. 54. Alternatives & Shadows: Once you've tried out that simple one, why don't you have a go with something slightly more complex? I've done this exactly the same way. I've got a skateboarder here who's jumping, and I've done exactly the same way, by making a copy and then erasing out parts that I didn't want. You can see the bits that I've actually erased out myself in there. But we're going to take this a little bit further this time. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go along and change my background color first. So remember, you can just click in there, go to position, go to the background. It's a quick way to pick it up and change the background color. I'll use the same color as the sky on this image. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to the shapes. Incidentally, the shape that I've got is one of these frames. If you just click on CO, you'll see there are so many if we go to the basic shapes in there, there are so many different shapes in here. There's a whole lot of letters and numbers and all sorts of things in there. Just keep going down until you find the one that you want. So back to this again, though, what I want to do is I want to actually make this look like it's standing up. I'm going to go all the way over to my graphics. And as you can see, I've already searched for these. But what I did was I just put in shadows. I searched for shadows, and with the graphics, we've got so many different shadows that we can use. I kind of quite liked this one over here. So if I click on that and bring it in, you can see we've got this lovely shadow I'm just going to put that under there, go to position, and move it underneath the S, and that makes it look like it's actually standing up in there. You can put in multiple shadows if you want it, if you want it, say, for example, something which looked maybe a little bit more like the board was in shadow as well. Once again, I could just add another one, maybe make it a bit smaller over there, place that down there. So that's vaguely where the board would be. And don't forget with these graphics, you can always go to transparency and reduce the transparency so I can adjust that to whatever I need. 55. Document for Print - Intro : So many new things in this section. We're going to be making things black and white. We're going to be bringing in charts, and I'm going to show you how to adjust them and adjust the data on those charts. We're going to create something which is going to be for commercial printing. So for those of you on the paid version, you will be able to send this directly to the printer. We'll have the printers marks in there. We'll be converting it into CMYK. If that whole CMYK things just gone Wish over your head, don't worry about it. We'll talk about that as we go along. Anyway, as you can see, it looks amazing. We're going to be erasing certain bits out of pictures as well, which is kind of cool. But let's just get on and get started. 56. Create a Photo Grid: Let's create something for print for commercial print. And I'm going to go to the top here where it says print seal. And I'm going to do a flyer, so I'm going to take this little flyer button. I've created an A four page. Now, I'm going to go and put some pictures on this page, but I'm going to elements because what I'd like to do is I like to put a number of pictures in here. So rather than just dragging pictures in, I'm going to go down to the frames and grids. With the frames, I could draw a few frames in there and put the pictures in there, but I'd like to use a grid for more. Well, so it lines up better. I'm going to click on CO. We've got a nice one here with three pictures in. I think I need a few more than that. I'm going to keep going down four pictures over there. And we can keep going. There's so many options over here. There's quite a few pictures, six pictures altogether. I think that'll take a little bit too long for us, so I'm going to go with this five picture one. Drag that in. Now, as far as the size goes, you can see it is slightly bigger than the page. I'm going to just extend it a little bit further. That is very, very important. This being larger than the page, because when it comes to putting the printers cropping marks on, we want to make sure that there's extra areas on the page. The problem with this, though, is if you make them too big like that, you'll find that you cut off some of them on the side. So just be aware of that. Those edge ones might be slightly smaller than the next one's in. But let's just pop that out a little bit. Like so. So I'm going to go and find some pictures and bring them in. But just before I do that, there's actually gaps between the individual columns. Now, that might look really good or I might not want it. If you click on spacing, you can change the size of those. They're normally called gutters, the shapes between them. Now, I'm going to just leave them like that for now. If you want to change them by all means, do so. But I'm going to go to my elements back to my photos, and I'm going to look for business. Find some business images. Be there? Let's see all. So I'm looking for, and they disappeared. So I'm looking for pictures probably along this line here. No, not too much in the way of people in there, but some images like that. Now, you can see as I'm dragging it, it's just saying Where do you want to drop this? Well, I want to drop that one right over there. If you double click it, you can then go and move it around inside that frame. Don't forget that. And I'll just say done over there. I'll just find a few more. That looks very businesslike, so I'm going to drag that one in and once again place that wherever I want it. Double click, go and edit it. I think we'll handshake over there. Group of people. They're definitely in the wrong position. So I think we'll have that with a handshake. Click on Done and one more image to go on the other side. I think that. Now, I double clicked it by mistake, and it just came in on top of it. So if I do that, you can see I can drag it and drop it straight in. I did it twice, actually, like so. And if I click on this area, once again, it just shows me the individual areas of that grid. If we click on spacing, I can then adjust them all even after the fact. Have a bit of a go with that. I'm going to change some of these pictures because I think these ones here are a bit too light. I want them to be slightly darker, but have a go, put together some images into some form of grid like so, and then we'll go on from there. 57. Black & White: All of these images that I've got don't really work together. There's blues and oranges and browns. They're not really cohesive. What I'm going to do is to make them all black and white. That's actually quite easily because all you do is you just go to the image, click on Edit, and you can go to the filters. Let's just choose CO in there. Now, there's so many different filters down here, but I'm going to go across to the mono filter, and you can see well, the different types of black and white that you can create in here. There's, well, a whole range of them. I think the ink for me looks about the best for that image. Let's go to this one here. Once again, I just click on it, go over here. I think that's the best for that one. This one here, I prefer the slate, and I'll just keep going until all of those on black and white. And the whole thing should then look a whole lot better. Yep. Like that. If you wanted a slight bit of color over the top, well, you could either do them that way, you could go to something like Duotone. So if I went over here, once again, I'm just going to go to edit and I could go and use the duotones on there, so it can go to effects and Duotone. And you can either choose a custom color there, and that way you could go to your highlights and put a little bit of color in if you wanted something like that with your own branding or brand color on it. I'm going to undo that because I just want the fast black and white. Now, if you want to put a color over the top, once again, we could do that with a shape. So I'm going to go to elements. To my shapes, I'm just going to put a shape over the image. You'll notice I'm going right over the edge. I said we'll talk about that later on. And if you notice when I go to the edge there, there's a little dotted line that appears, notice that dotted line. There'll be one on this other side as well. And I'm going to pick a color in here. Maybe I've got a brand color that I want to use quite like that one there, and we could even go up here, change the transparency of that so we can see a bit of the image coming through underneath. I might have that color right at the top there, and the important thing here is that you go over the edge of that. I'm going to hold down the alter the option key and just make another copy of that down the bottom, possibly with a different color in there. If you'd like to just have a bit of a play with that, make things black and white, and then we'll move on from there. O 58. Add Text: Now that I've got my background, I'm going to put in some text. I've gone to the text tool. You can just add a text box if you wish and choose your own fonts or you can go and choose your branded fonts in there. More of that later in the course. You can have it as headings, subheadings, or body text, but I'm going to go down here and find a pre made font combination. These are often called font pairs where you have two different fonts together. I'm going to type in the word business over there, and these are business style fonts. Moving down here, I'm just going to look for one that works for me. I like that. I'm going to click on it, and then I'm going to change the text to what I want to say. Over here, I'm going to put in the city conference. I'll pull that out. We'll change the size of that in a moment. You can see this one moves with that, so I can double click on there and edit it very quickly. Next spring. But also, if I want to have these as separate pieces, just go in and ungroup them. If I click on them, there's a little ungroup button over there so I can ungroup them and now they will all move around individually. This one over here needs to be a lot smaller. Those two, let's pop those two together. And with this bit of text, I'm going to go in and I'm going to make that left aligned, sorry, right aligned over there. So we're going to take this one, make it a lot smaller. It's just a little strap line underneath it. And we'll have city conference sitting on that line. If you can't read it because of the color, just go up to your color up here and pick a different color there. Have a bit of a go, get some text going on in there. It doesn't have to be the same as mine. You can do whatever you want with that text. 59. Magic Eraser: Let's get on and do our second page now. I'm going to click the add Page button, and then I'm going to bring in a picture down here. Now, I'm going to go to my elements. I've put in the word industry in there, and I found a picture that I like. Once again, you can use anything you like, but I'm going to use this graphic over here. I'm going to make my graphic once again bigger than the page. So I'll just pull that down over like that so it overlaps the edge, and I'm going to pull it down near the bottom. Now, I really like this graphic. However, it doesn't suit what I'm doing. I'm just going to zoom in on my page over here a little bit. You can see what I'm doing. Because instead of having these cogs and those industry things, I don't know what that is over there. I want to just have little words in there or even numbers and then a legend down the side. So how can I get rid of them? Because this is a photo. We can click on the photo and then I'm going to go and click Edit. And we've got something in here under the magic studio called Magic rays. Now, if I click Magic Eras, takes me into the magic arrays studio area. I've got a brush in there, and I can change the brush size. So I'll just do a biggish brush over there, and I'm going to remove this weird little robot arm thing. Now, once I've done that, I click rays and it just does it for me. There we go. Very quickly like that. And I can then just work through the rest of these that I want to get rid of that one there. This one here needs to go. Just get rid of that. This one Now, the other two that I've left there, I'll just erase those for now. But there's two more that I've left there, and I want to get rid of them completely. I don't even want to have the little line in there. So it's just move across. So I can now just erase them out by going around them like that. Let's do that one and that one. Once again, click on Ease. I've done that with a largish brush. And then once that's done that, I can make my brush a lot smaller. I think that's about right and just paint along this little line over here. Even though I'm going over the arm, I just keep painting right over that, and I'll do this one as well. The software is really clever way that it just realizes what to fill in on those extra areas. Right, I'm happy with that, and I'll click on eras, and that'll get rid of those too, as well. There we go. You can't even see where they were. Let me do this one over here. So if I do that one there, let's go all the way across into that. I don't think we need this one, either. We go. And then a larger brush. I'll just increase my brush size a bit, and we'll get rid of that and that. Once again, click on eras, and that's sorted for us and we can then put some text into those little boxes. Brilliant. I'm happy with that. I'll just click off of that, and there it is. All ready for me. Have a bit of a go with that. Don't just try it on images with graphics. If you want to have a go with people or anything like that, by all means, try it on there, see what you get. All you have to do is click the Edit button, go to Magic arrays and paint out the area that you want, and then, well, hope like anything that it does what you want. Honestly, no idea what that's going to do, sometimes does a great job, sometimes not so much. But if it's a simple piece, it shouldn't have a issue with it. That wasn't bad at all. Try it out. 60. Use a Chart: The now, as you can see, I've put in some numbers in here, and these are just using the standard text tool and I just made one the right size and shape, and then I copied it across in there. And over here, we've got little bits of text. Once again, just use a text tool to pop those bits down the side to give us a legend. At the top, we want to add in a chart with some bits and pieces. And I'd like to do a circular chart, so a pie chart. So I'm going to go to my elements in there and I'm going to search for charts. And then we've got all these different charts in here. Now, some of them are really cool, some of them, okay, interesting. I really like, well, not so much the pie chart, but the doughnut chart over there. I'm going to click on that and that pops it straight in. I'm going to just size it down a little bit over there because we want that chart to be over there. And then I can go and change all the labels and the values. So down here, I've got things like network ideas and growth, and those are the three that I want in here. So item one is going to be network Ideas. Oops. I left in the item one. Let's try that again. Network. This one over here. Ideas. And that one is going to be growth. And the networking, well, that's not that important, so I'm going to give it 25. Let's try that again with 25 over there. The ideas over here. I think this is really important. So I'm going to give that 78, and this one over here, the growth is going to be 130 because that's very, very important in there. Now, this one here we don't want, so I'm just going to delete those, and that one can be deleted as well. And that gives us our nice little pie chart over there. If I go along to the colors over here, you'd see by clicking on these colors, I've got the color editor which I can go to, and I can just choose different colors for those areas as well. Let me do that again with the next one. So I click on it. See the three little buttons there. Click Me. I can go to the edit color and I can change to a different color for that. I'm just kind of using some vague colors that worked down the bottom there. I really like those blues, but there we go. So click on three dots, edit color, and pick yourself another color, like so. And we've got so many different charts down the bottom in there and most of them are actually pretty cool, to be honest. If I go over onto my chart itself, you'll see there's some more options along the top. I can see the three colors that I've got in there. I can click on the data to go back to the data in here as well. You can change the fonts, you can change the font sizes. Everything that you normally do is all available up here plus some extra bits down here, like labels and being able to upload data from an EcellS file or a CSV file. 61. Use a Chart Plus: Now, for those of you who are really into your data and graphs, there's another type of chart that we can use as well. We're going to go to Apps and just type in chart or charts in the apps, and it gives you something called Charts plus. If I click on that, this allows me to do all kinds of different charts. So I'm going to just go back a little bit here. You can see we've got histograms, ridge lines, heat maps, all kinds of charts down to map charts in here. Now, I'm going to pick one of these charts. I'm going to go to this bubble map. Click on that, and to help you, they actually give you some examples that you can work from. Now, the idea is that you actually have all your data in a CSV file, as you can see over there. And if you're not sure, just go over to here and click on the example data set, and it will show you how the data should be done in your CSV file. This particular one is all about different areas on a map, and we have got latitude and longitude coordinates. If we just take this bottom one over here, it's 58 comma -3.83. We've got the group, we've got the size, we've got the name in there. So to use it, all you have to do is to choose the file and I've got one here, which is find it for you as part of the course. I'm going to click on that, click Open, and it then shows me that information on a map here. Now, going down, I'm just going to zoom into that map a little bit more and we'll just update the preview until I get the area that I want. I can change the colors on the map if I wish. But once I've done that, I just say add to design and it brings it straight in, like so. And this information here, these bubbles over there are the information that were in the data set. So over here, for example, we've got Paris in there and there is the latitude and longitude for Paris, and that would be right in over there. If you want to try that one out, have a bit of a go with that. If you're not so into data and want to try something else, by all means, have another go with one of those other charts in there. 62. PDF With Bleed & Crop Marks for Print: Now let's go and export this out ready for printing. So I'm going to go across to share and I'm going to go down to download. And I want to choose the PDF for print option. Now in the PDF for print, I'm going to say, make sure that I include crop marks and bleeds. I've got both pages which I've selected, and over here where it says RGB, I'm going to click on that and I'm going to choose CMYK best for professional printing. And then I will just download that and then let's have a look at that. Now that I've downloaded, I'm going to pop it onto my desktop. Over there. I'll call this some conference. And I'm going to click on Save. Now, while I'm here, I'm also going to prepare a version, which I can then pass on to other people as a PDF to just email around. So I'm going to share again, do the same thing, download. But this time, I'm going to use the PDF standard over there. Once again, let's click on a Download and wait for that to do its thing. Now I'm going to save this and I'm going to call this conference Email. And say that. Let's go and have a look at those. So we've got in the PDFs, two options here. Let's have a look at the conference email. That's this one over here, and we'll just zoom out a little bit so you can see that's what we'd be sending to people. There are two pages in there. Everything's done. Let's have a look at the one for printing, though. Now, this one is slightly different. You see it's got a white border around it, but it's also got these little cut marks in there. So those will be on all four corners of both of those. So what happened is when you designed this, what you could see was the page up to where those crop marks are. You couldn't see the outer edge over here. This is known as a bleed a bleed is an extra area that gets printed. So when the gillotin cuts these up into the correct sizes, you don't get a little white funny mark in there if the glotin is not perfect. I cuts it into that printed area in there. That's important. When you design it, you need to make sure that your picture is slightly bigger than the page that you're designing so you can make sure that you get that bleed mark in there. Let's zoom out a bit and you'll see both of them are the same. And this one's been converted into CMYK, as well, which is the color mode that the printers require. Have a go with that. Try both of them. Try one for emailing and round one for printing commercially. If you're going to be printing something on the office printer, you probably won't need these bleed marks. You can just do it as a standard PDF, like so. Have a go with that. 63. Create a Professional Video Edit - Intro: For those of you who need to create professional looking video, Canvas got some really nice features, but you can also make certain things which look really good. So in this section, we're going to look at creating an intro and an outtro or a head and tail, depending on how you want to call it. But we're also going to look at changing the view ever so slightly. You probably won't even notice because I do it on mine, and I will have done it on some of my videos. You probably even haven't seen it until you see how it's done, and you go, Ah, that makes sense. Let's start. 64. Edit the Clip: Let's put together a professional looking piece of video. And this will be a talking head video. We'll put in an intro section, and then the outtro as well, or the head and tail as it's sometimes called. I'm going to go along to video, and what I want to do is I want to do something for YouTube, so I'm going to click on the YouTube video size. Now, I'll bring in my video, and I've got a piece of video that I'm going to be uploading. So if I go along to my elements in here, these bits are all the ones that exist in Canva. And yes, if you want to use any of these videos, by all means, help yourself and have a go. But otherwise, I'm going to go down to uploads in here, and this will allow me to upload specific files. Now, you'll see we've got some options from Dropbox and Google Drive, as well, but I'm going to click on Upload Files in there. And once again, this file has been provided for you if you wish to use it. I'll click on Open. And then I'm going to drag and drop it in here. Now you can see this is me. This is a little piece of me talking to camera and I'm going to make it a bit larger over there. I've got the sound off for the moment so that you can hear me rather than hear me on the video. But I've got this piece of video, and the first thing I want to do is to edit it down a little bit. So right at the beginning over here, there's a piece of me just sort of looking a little bit blank waiting to start. So I'm just going to click the play button. And just before that, just before that little area there, that's where I want to start it. So I'm going to go to the video and just pull it in a little bit like that. You'll see it'll actually snap to where the playback head is. So if it's started, it'll go from there straight in. And the same with the end when I get to the end over here, let's just play this bit at the end. And that's where it ends, and I'll pull this back as well. Now, I'm going to put in a beginning bit and an end bit. But there's a little bit in the middle here where I'm actually talking to camera. Well, it's okay, but I'd like to have almost like a second camera, so I can kind of close up camera in there. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to chop the video and then move in close to the to my face. And if you know what I mean, I'll show you how that goes. But do have a go bring in the video and get those end bits cut off. M. 65. Create a Zoomed in Cut: I have unplugged my main microphone that I use so that you can hear the sound on here as well. And we're just going to start from the beginning over there. Not only have I trained for some of the world's leading companies, including Disney, Nissen, BBC, NHS, the Times, but I've also spent many years as a lecturer now, in the middle section, I refer to some of my previous clients. So that bit there, I'm going to cut, and I'm going to zoom in a bit to my face. I'll show you what I mean here. So I'm going to play this. Including. So including. And if I right click where that playback head is, I can say split the page in there. Now, it's splitting the video, but it's actually splitting it into separate pages. If I carry on playing, Disney Listen, BBC NHS, the Times And at that stage there, I'm going to split that again, so I'm going to right click. I'm going to say split page and this middle page. So I'm going to go to the middle page there. I'm going to zoom in on that. So I'm actually going to go out a little bit there. Pull this out. Now, one of the tricks to using this and zooming in is that you do need to make sure that you actually have the eyes in the same position. So if I go to the top, you'll see there is actually a ruler there and there. And if I drag this rule, I can kind of drag it to where the eyes are, I'll just move my playback head back to the beginning there. And by dragging it down, whoops. I got two of them now. You can see that's right on my eyeline in there. If you're not sure how to find those rulers, if you can't see them, I'll show you at the end of this video. And I could actually even go in there and put in one on my nose. I'll get an idea of exactly where that is. And then I'm going to zoom in. So I'm on this middle video here. I'm going to zoom right in and move my eyeline back to there. So if we play this now, not only have I trained for some of the world's leading companies, including Disney, Nissen, BBC, NHS, the Times, but I've also spent many years as a lecturer. So it just jumps and gives us that sort of zoomed in professional look. Now, if you can't see those rulers, what we can do is go along to the file menu and go down to settings, and you've got show rulers and guides. You can switch that on and you can switch them off. So just file settings and show the rulers and guides. Of course, if you don't want them, you can go to settings and you can clear the guides to get rid of any that you've put in that you don't want as well. Anyway, do you have a bit of a go with that, whether it's the video of me or whether you've chosen a different video that you want to zoom into a little bit? Try it out. 66. Add an Intro: Now let's go and create the intro and Otro or the head and tail, depending on what you want to call it. I'm going to do that by adding a new page. So this page here, I would like to have a different color background. I can change it later on. For the moment, I'm just going to put in something like a gray in there, and then I'm going to bring in my logo. Now, if you have your own logo that you want to work with, you can go to brand over there and you can say upload logo. Now, I've got a little PNG file of my logo here, which I'm going to open up. If you don't have your own logo, by all means go to elements and just choose a little graphic there to work with. So I'm going to just save that in there, and then I can drag in my logo over there. So, I'm quite happy with the logo where it is. I think I'd like some lines in here as well. So I'm going to go along to my elements, and I'm going to find some lines. They're probably going to be in the graphics. Let's go see all in the graphics, and it's usually easier to search for them. Lines in there. There we go. There's a perfect line. I'm going to use that one, move it down, and I'm going to pull it out. So it roughly matches my logo. You can do whatever you want with this. I'm going to change the color of that line to white. I just want to be quite nice and delicate in there. And I want another one, so I'm going to hold down the old key, move it up to the top. Like so, to just frame my logo. But you can do whatever you want with yours. It's absolutely fine. So once again, if you'd like to set this up with a logo or a graphic, bring in some lines or some shapes and then we'll animate this. But you do that on a page right at the end. We will move this to the front, so don't worry about that. 67. Add an Outro: Let's add a bit of animation to this. If I click on my logo for them, my logo is a PNG file. So it sees it as a photo or an image. If I click on animate and go to Photo, you'll see that this is to do with a photo there. If you clicked on the little line there, it's called an element. Now with photo, you have some new features in here for animation. So I click on that, we can get it to sketching or we can come in with this gradient. I got a brush effect in there, or you can just go to the general effects in here and choose one of these. I kind of rather like that blurring or the fading in over there. I think I'm just going to choose the blur in option for that. And then I'm going to go to these ones here, and this one, the line over there will choose fade because it's an element and that one there. I've got fade on that as well. If you go in here and you choose page and you then add one of these effects in here, you click Apply tool pages, it will apply not just to the page you're on, but to the other pages or those clips of video as well. So just be very, very careful with that one. Let's see what that looks like if I move my playback head back a bit, we'll get it to play. And they just come in very, very gently. Then I'm going to take that page, and before I go any further with it, I'm going to make a copy of that. So if you can't see the little copy button, what you can do is you can go down to the bottom and just see your pages in different ways. If I say as scroll view over there, there's the little copy option, duplicate a page, and I can make a second copy of that. You can click back to this at any time. So it's just one of those things if you miss something, you can't see it. Try different views. You might be able to see it that way a little bit better. This one I'm going to drag right the way to the front over there. 5 seconds is a long, long time to sit and stare at a logo on the screen. So I'm going to pull it down. You can see the little timer comes up in there. I just want to be very fast, maybe something like 1 second or 1.5 seconds in there. Let's try that out and see what the timing's like on that. That's it. That's more than I need for that. At the end, it's not such a problem. I'm going to change this and put a little bit more text in here, so I'm going to go over to my text. I'm going to add a text box. I'll just say Thank you for watching. Very simple. Let's change the color of that to white, and I will move that down to the bottom there. So have a bit of a go, do a little bit of animation, and then try this out. See how your timing goes. You might need to tweak things a little bit more. I've noticed that when I've done this, there's a little bit of a gap between this intro happening and me starting to talk. So I might have to shorten that just a little bit in there until I just about start to talk. 68. Transitions & Download: Let's add a bit of a transition between the intro and the first video in there because at the moment, it just goes from one straight into the next. Now, you can do that by just going between any videos that you like, and you'll notice you can either click on the plus to add another page or below that, you can add a transition. If I click on that add transition, it now gives me all these different types of transitions that I can try out and you can see what it's doing. You've got things like wipes, circles, flows from one to the next, stacking. I'm probably going to use something really simple like a very short dissolve, just from one end to the other. So what I've got to do is choose that one over there, and we've now got a transision between those two. Let me go to the end. Same again on the end, I'll click on Add Transision and I think I'll use the same dissolve on there. And test it out, keep testing until you're happy with that. I wouldn't put transitions between these zoomed clips because, well, you really just wanted to go straight from one to the next so people don't even realize that you've zoomed in a bit. Let's have a little bit of a look at this, so that starts to play quick transition into there. That plays along. We have the Zoomed in effect, very, very fast. Zoom out effect, very, very fast. And then onto the transition at the end. And you probably don't even realize that those middle Zoom bits are happening. Now that you've done that, you need to save it out. So I'm going to go to Download over there. I'm going to choose MP for video quality, we've got ten ATP over there, or if you want something higher, we can go for a larger screen. But this video was recorded at 108 P, so I wouldn't want to go too much higher. I'll just click on Download and then save that somewhere where I can find it later. Does take a little bit of time to download it. Right. So now I can actually save this out. I'll put it onto my desktop. Let's have a look. Not only have I trained for some of the world's leading companies, including Disney, Nissen, BBC, NHS, the Times, but I've also spent many years as a lecturer in graphic design at university. That's it. Go make your videos look awesome. 69. Well Done & Thank You: Well done. You've made it to the end of the first part of this course. I bet you're creating amazing work already. Now, please leave a review. It really helps us out, and then just jump straight in to the second part of this Canva course.