Graphic Design Fundamentals Made Easy with Canva

1. Course Introduction: Hi, my name is Mankatsh. I welcome you all for this course Canva graphic designing fundamentals. In this course, I teach you how to use the fundamentals of graphic design Canva. At the beginning, you will learn the fundamentals of graphic design, the typography, the font pairing, and the font combination. Then you learn how to use colors in Canva, how to utilize color theory, and color wheel, color palette, all those things using Canva. After this, you will start to learn how to do a design from the scratch using Canva. You will also learn how to use the user interface of the Canva, how to utilize the elements, how to manage image, video and audio files, and how to create a project works using Canva for graphic design works. At the end of this course, you will learn both Canva usage as well as how to create a graphic design using Canva. Let us see in our course. 2. Introduction to Fundamentals of Design: In this lesson, I'm going to show you what are all the basic fundamentals we have for design using Canva. So Canva itself provide you a list of explorations that gives you the knowledge about the basic graphic designing fundamentals. To access that, you can go to this Google and you can type Canva fundamentals of design and I typed here, you can see that I have a list of results. In this, I have design elements and principles. I just opened this in a new tab. Here I have the new page, which has the design elements and principles. The elements and principles of these designs are most important for a fresh graphic designer. Or even if you already know the graphic design principles and elements, you can go through it and you will have some surprise elements there. Now, I come to the bottom. Here you can see that I have a list of principles in the form of infographics. You can download it and you can utilize it wherever you want. Now, I have a detailed explanation here. First, they have given information about the elements of a graphic design. At first, they have given you the basic element which is line. Line was created by two dots, which is called line. Here we have the list of elements we have used in each and every graphic design most of the time. You can see this how they utilized those lines in this design and they have list of examples here. After that, they have given you the second element which is scale. So scaling the objects in a proper hierarchy is much important. Then you will have the look on the bigger element first, then you will move the focus to this next, uh, you know, the bigger element and the next one and the next one. Instead of having the structure like this, you can have the hierarchy based scaling for the objects. So the most important elements should have the maximum size, and, you know, the less important can be a little bit smaller and the least important should have a smaller in size. So that's how the IMAP was working. That's why this is one of the important design principle. Then you can see this example. They have given you the movie poster and the leading character has the bigger element, which is the bigger size and the second leading character has the second important dimension, which is smaller than the leading character and the least important characters have small dimension. This is one of the best example for this scale principle. I have given you a few more options here, when you look at this infographics and charts, first, you will have a look on the bigger element only, then only you will focus the rest of the things. That was the deal with this particular design principle, which is a scale. Then we have colors. Colors plays a crucial role. We have dedicated separate lesson for the color theory and color is one of the most important design element that decides how the audience going to accept that design or the information, how they are going to process the information in their me. This is most important part of the design element which is colors. After these colors, we have the reception. When you look at the series of trees and series of fillers, that will be repeated and it will have a huge amount of vibration when you have a look on those structures. Repetation is one of the design principles. Most of the time we use this principle in our graphic design as well as other design works. So after repetition, we have this negative space. In a design, we have two kind of concepts. First one is positive space, and the second one is negative space. The negative space means you can see this. We have a shape. The shape has a color and this white area is called positive space. This shape or this color have a different appearance, which definitely shows two faces are present on the left and right hand side, both are having no colors. This negative space gives you the idea about what we have on both sides, the image or any other objects. This is a negative space. You can see these examples. And we have symmetry. Symmetry is another major design principles. Most of the time we use this symmetric concept to mention the balance of the design. We have a bilateral symmetry, which means when you cut the design or shape of the design, it will have equal weightage on both left and right hand side. Or if you cut in vertical form, you will have equal amount of weightage on top and bottom area. That's what is called bilateral symmetry. And we have another concept called radial symmetry, which means if you cut the design or the particular element from any direction with multiple slices, each segment will have the same kind of structure. That's called radial symmetry. You can see this particular example is good for radial symmetry. So this is how we have those designs. We can see this. This is bilateral symmetry. You can just cut at the middle and you can have equal space on left and right hand side. This is one of the best example for radial symmetry. Symmetry is another design principle. Can say this is a bilateral symmetry design, and this is two. Transparency. After the invention of the transparency, the blending of images, this plays a crucial role, the transparency. Most of the time we didn't use this concept unless we have the need of this transparency element. Here they have given you the example of how the transparency will support you in a design background. Here also they have given you how that transparency concept gives support for the concept of the image. Texture texture is another major design element. This is not a principle, this is a design element. Texture gives you the idea about how the particular object has a surface. Basically, texture means a surface design. When you look at that particular dinosaur or the ground, the surface design, sharing the information about what kind of platform it is, whether it is a dinosaur skin or it's a ground, you can decide through that texture design and your brain process that particular picture or a design according to that only. Texture is another crucial design element. You can see that how that texture plays a crucial role. And we have the concept called balance. So we have balance. We have a close relation with the symmetric concept. Here you can see, they have given you the example here they have given you the well balanced design, and here they have given you the design without balance. Like I told you, if you look at this design, you can have a visual balance on left and right hand side in equal weightage. Even if you measure the top and bottom area, you can see you can feel the equal weightage. But here it was lack. That was the principle which is called balance. Now I move to the next segment, hierarchy. Hierarchy is another design principle. This is not a design element. When you give you the list of instructions or a series of informations to the audience, they need to know which one they need to read or which is the most important content, whether it is a picture or shape or the colors, whatever it is. You are going to the hierarchy value for that in terms of size, in terms of color reference, which is highly recommended. Why hierarchy plays a crucial role of giving a story to the audience in a proper way how they need to read the information or the design, in which direction they need to move their eyes. So hierarchy is another design principle. You can see that when you look at the design, you can start to read this time to start planning, then you'll have to look at the picture and you will start to read all things. That was the principle called hierarchy. Also we have a design. You will read this text first because that was bigger in size, then you will start to read the date and other all things. That's principle called hierarchy. Now we have another principle which is contrast. Contrast plays a crucial role in terms of light and dark values. So even sometimes if you want to show the hierarchy value, we use this contrast to differentiate the foreground or background objects or the background shapes as well as foreground shapes. It plays a crucial role. The contrast gives you the weights for the most important element and less important elements. Here they have given you the example, and here also they have given you the design example for the contrast principle. You can see here, we have a mid down little bit dark green color value and we have a light as well as dark text elements. The same way on right hand side, you can see this. We have a dark background here, and to show the text elements, which is having light and dark values, which is perfectly added with this contrast principle. Now after that, we have the principle called framing. Whenever you do a design, better you should create the design within the particular visual frame. It's not visible, the frame is not visible, but when the audience have a look on the design, it gives the proper arrangement appearance because you have created that design with the boundary, which gives a very good readability to the audience to the design. This principle is framing. You can see this how the audience can read the content. They don't divert apart from the content here also. Next, we have the principle called grid. So grids helps you to build the particular design with a basic plan. You don't need to start and do the design immediately when you got the order or the particular design work. First, you need to look on the elements, what you have, the images, text, and other all things, what you are going to use for the design work. Then you need to plan how you are going to add those elements together in the design. For that, this grid will be highly helpful for you to arrange all the objects inside the design in a proper place. After the grid, we have the example for that. You can see most useful places for those grid concept the magazine design or any multi page design, that will be highly useful for them. You can see that. Then we have the randomness. Instead of giving all the objects in a shape, same size, you can give a different color, different shapes for the design usage so that the audience will not feel bored and each and every segment of the design or the page will give new look to the design and the audience will understand and read the design in a better way. Randomness is another important principle we have for this design. I can see how beautiful it is with the randomness. Then we have the principle called direction. This principle direction gives you the awareness of how you I was moving from one place to another place. You can see this, they have given you the hierarchy design, so you will have a look on this place first, then you will move your eye to this place and this place. The direction movement is highly need to be prepared within the design so that the information will be conveyed in a beautiful manner. And here they have given you the heat map of the eye. When someone look at this particular information, here they will give their maximum readable duration, and here they have given you less amount of duration. If you want to add a title on the most important content, we have to add in these places instead of adding at the bottom. So we know the concept called inverter primed, which is highly useful in a journalism industry. So at first, itself, they have given you the most important elements. Then they have given you the less important element, and they have given you the least important elements. So how this direction principle works, which is highly useful for us. You can see in a website how it will be useful for creating the design. Then we have the principle called rules, which means we have certain principles, we have certain rules. When you follow those rules, you will achieve a very good graphic design work. Of course, you don't need to follow those rules for 100%. If you can do a design even if you don't follow those rules, that is what is called a rule here. We have the concept called alignment. You can see this how the text was aligned, that the beginning was not proper, you can see this and the space between two lines are not proper here. After this, the text space, you can see that. Here we have more space for the text. Here we have less amount of space. But still, this design looks good. You can command, but still this convey the message what it has. This is what is called rules. Of course, we can follow the rules and we can break the rules also. But what we need is we need a good design. That's the motto of this principle, which is rules here also they have given you the design. Then we have the principle called movement. So when you create any design, that particular design has all the elements, which is in the form of shapes and images. When you look at those shapes, it will give you how that particular element was present on the screen, whether it is a static or moving element. You can see this appearance, most of the time, we will have that in a flag. So when we have the flag, it will, you know, float on the air, and it will define in which direction that particular flag is moving. This we have the triangle shape. Behind this triangle, you can see the lines, which is indicates, this triangle was moving from the top to bottom. Here also we have the shape which is circle. It has a tail which means the circle was moving from this left to right in a quick manner. So this is how those movements of the shape was defined in form of graphics. And here you can see how that particular bows wing movement was mentioned. Here they used the transparency principle, which is also mingled with this particular element. And here also, they have given you this particular principle which is movement. You can see the moment of the ball. Here also you can see the movement of the shape which is the text, and here also you can see the moment of the text, which is, moving on. Next, we have a principle called depth. Depth gives you the different feel when you look at the shape. The square is entirely different from cube. The square will have only four sides left, right, top, bottom. But we say object as cube because it has the depth. The depth will always provides you the more information what the normal lines don't. That's why this is an important principle which is depth. Here we have the example for the depths in the form of typography and here we have the depth in the form of visuals. You can see those visuals, leaves have coming out of the frame. Here we have the clause which is behind the frame. It clearly shows, this is not just a flat appearance, it has the depth. That was the reason why they used like this. Here, of course, beautifully they used this principle which is depth then we have another most important principle, typography. We have a basic two different category text, Serif and Sanserif. The thick and thin appearance text is called Serif and the flat text appearance is called SNSerif. You can categorize all the text or fonts, what we have in this world in this simple two categories, Serif and SNSeri. You can see how the pography plays a crucial role when they use this in a design. We do have the detailed information about the series and SNSerf here. You can just open this and a new tab or you can download it and you can have the detailed view of the Serif and SANS text information. And they have given you a few more important elements which is leading, which means the line space, the base between the two lines, which is called leading. And here they have given you a few examples for that. Then we have the concept or the principle called composition. Sometimes we call it as unity, which means we have so many design principles like hierarchy, contrast, shape, and typography, colors, all those principles and elements should be used together in a design. That principle is called composition. So these are the 20 most important principles we have for the graphic design works. You can see how it was used. If you don't have a proper idea about the graphic design, first, you should have a look on this particular page which is the design elements and principles or the fundamentals of graphic design. You can learn it through the Canva website itself. 3. Anatomy of Typography: In this lesson, I'm going to tell about what was typography. So it's a brief information about typography. If you know already this concept, you can skip, or if you are a fresher watching this concept first time, just watch this complete video. If you go to the Google and type Canva anatomy of typography and presenter, you'll have list of lengths. I opened the very first one which leads to this page, which is typography. So here, it shows you what are all the shapes, details and explanations we have for each and every part of text. You can see at the bottom, we have a dotted line, and at the top also we have the dotted line. In between, we have, you know, marked circle here and we have, you know, the complete closed area, which is filled with a color. So let us explain what are all those things and I will give you all those things with the example. Now I scroll down, you can see that Canva itself provided a poster design about what are all the details they have given here about typography. This concept is common and followed around the world. That's why this is most important thing. Now you can download this and you can print and you can place it in your home if you really have interest with a graphic design work and whether you are doing a web designing or UEXsignGraphic design motion graphic design, you'll always need to know about this typographic concept. Let us move further and here we have a detailed explanation with examples. So at first, you have the option called font phase or type phase. So here they have shows you how the font file looks. So this file will be available by default in our computer. Whether it is Apple or Windows, you'll have this. Of course, we can install additional fonts if you want for your graphic design work. So this file have all the detail about the particular font style, which means a font phase, uh, including the numbers and, you know, A to Z. Now, in this anatomy before you came to know about, all those things, you had to know a few more basic things. First thing is character. As I told you, in this font file, you will have the characters, which means letters and you'll have the numbers 0-9 and you'll have the punctuation and other symbols which is completely related to that particular font phase. After this character, we have alternate character. This is the standard text, you can see that when we have some other text styles, how do they create those texture styles? That's what we are going to see through this typography and here they call this as accented and decorative. How do they add? How do they create those kind of fonts during the logo design and other all typography based works, including title design, we need to know about what that means. That's why we are here in this lesson, which is anatomy of typography. Now I move further here, basically, we will have all those texts in the world in two categories. First one is Serif. Here, you can see that in the fourth and second one is San serif. So how do we know whether that particular font is Serif and Sanderf If you look at that particular, you know, the text, if it has thick and thin appearance, which is also including that filler appearance at the bottom, you can see it has a basement like that. So this thick and thin appearance of the text explains this is called Sherif. I conclude this next to fonts, which is SNSerif. The San Serif always have the flat appearance. We can see that there is no any different projections. From the beginning to end, almost that particular font will have the similar kind of appearance. That's why this particular font is called Sanserif. You can see clearly the difference between the serif and SAseri font styles. And we have the basic font style which is called Italic. You know the regular text and Italic. I don't need to mention a lot about that. You know that. Then we have the concept called baseline. So each and every character was sitting over that particular line which is called baseline. And we have another line in this typography, which is called cap line that plays finishing that particular font style from the root, which is the baseline. And the baseline is a starting point of the text where the cab line is the end part of the text. Then we have X height, which is the mid line, you can see that where it end with those small letters like E and O and E. This line is called X height. Now after that, we have a concept called tracking. Tracking means the space between each and every character. You can see here, we have the normal text, which means we have the optimum space between each and every character. And here you can see that we have less amount of space between each and every character, which means the text is in tight form of tracking. And after this second example, we have another example here which is loose, which means we can see that the basic space here, which is optimum, which is also called normal. But here you can see that we have more amount of space, which is called loose. Sometimes when we do that text work typography based works, we need to use. That's why you had to know about these two things tight loose and normal. That space between the character is called tracking. Now we have another concept called kerning. What is kerning? Basically, here also we have the same concept which is called the space between two characters. But few letters need some different space you can see here, we have the text T and we have E. We have the natural space between these two. But here we can see that the W was stated here and the A was here and you can see this characters was having the space where the A was started is already, we have the text which is W. Still, we need to give some space. Yeah, this is a default value. If you want to reduce that value, yes, we can use this concept called kerning then we have the concept called leading. So we will use all those things in a software or the canva. Wherever you do the typography work, we will strictly use these concepts. That's why this is an important thing. Leading means the space between two lines. You can see here we have a normal text, and here we have less amount of space, which means that line spacing, which is called leading in tight form. And here I have given more space, which is loose leading form. So the space in two line are called line spacing or leading then again, we came back to the anatomy of the text. This concept is called stroke, which means you can see in the text we will have the direct complete stroke like appearance in a letter in L and X, you can see that in R. All those things including here, you can see. But here, since it was the base of the particular text, we have another name. We'll see that further. This stroke appearance is called stroke. And here I told you, we have the concept called stem. Here also it's a stem because that was having the foundation of all the complete character. That's why this is called stem. Here also we have the same concept and here also, you can see it looks like exact stem of the tree. Then we have the arc of the stem, which means you can see here, we have a stem, of course, but when you have the curve like appearance like this below the basement, which is called arc, remember that it will be below the basement as well as it should be in the stem. That's why this is called arc of the stem. Then we have the foot foot means the part which is placed over the baseline. Can see here we have all those appearance which is called foot. And we have the concept called descender. So the extensions, which is present below the particular line which is called base line is called descender. I can see that they have given you that in a yellow color appearance, and we have the concept called ascender, which means we have the X height and few extensions are present above the X guide. Those things are called ascender. And we have a concept called joint. The joint connect each segment of the particular character. That's why that particular part is called joint. You can see it almost has a look like how the tree branch will have the join with the stem. That's why this part is called joint. Then we have apex. Apex means that was also a concept which is having the joint, but it will have the shape at the upper end, you can see that we have the appearance. This is called apex. We have vertex. So you can see that point which is connecting two strokes, which is called vertex. You can see those shapes here in a V and Y. Trot means you can have the filled angle with this particular shape, we have Y, W and V. All those means we have this particular space, which is called Krot and we have m. Basically, it will be like arm of the man or arm of the tree. So it gives that illusion. That's why this particular area was called m. That was the end of that particular character. You can see those things. We have the concept called leg, which means that will give the support to the particular character, which is the stem. That's why this is called leg. This part and this part is called leg because it supports the particular character. We have a shoulder in this text, you can see it looks like a shoulder of the human being. You can see that. That's why it gives strength and unite those different parts of the particular character. That's why this is called shoulder. We have the section which is called a bar that bar connect two segments again, you can see how that bar was formed. We have the cross stroke, which means it helps to define the particular character. This is called cross stroke. Then we have bowel and loop. These are the two concepts. You can see we have the baseline. Below the baseline, if you have this kind of closed area, this is called loop. You can see they have given you the curved portion, but the baseline is called loop. Now, if you have the same kind of structure above the baseline, that particular part is called bowel. You can see. These are the examples for those bowel. Then we have the concept called counter. Canto means, yeah you can the colors using the fill color values. It will have the closed area. Sometimes it will have a small opening. All those areas are called Canto. Then we have a concept called aperture which means opening. So each and every character has this part, which is called a small opening. That particular space is called aperture. Then we have a double story, which is called option. It's a part of the typography. You can see the single story, which means we have only one closed area in this particular text. But here we have the closed area. You can see it's a semi or completely closed. Both comes under this called double story. We have two different examples for a single story as well as double story. Then we have a concept called terminal, which means the end part of the particular character. You can see this. These things are called terminals. Then we have swash, the external appearance of the standard text, which is called swash, you can see how it looks. And we have gasa Ligasa or gasia is the space between the two characters. Basically, it will have the joint appearance, but some people will not like this concept and they need to separate both text. In that time, you need to adjust this ligasia or ligature value, then you'll get what you need. These are the options we have a typography any text, you need to know about all those things. Then only you can concentrate the typography work in any design because typography plays a crucial role. 50% of the designs output depends on the typography only. 4. Font Pairing: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use a different font combinations together, which is called font pairing. When you go to the Google and type just Canva font pairing, you'll have those access, and you can open the first link and I will get this page which is called the Canva font combination page. Here they given you what are all the different font combinations we have with this Canva and how it will be useful for a design. Now before that, they've given you about the rabography the basic and different typographic glossary and we have the different font combinations. They have given you the particular font name and how it looks then you use as a title as a body content and a subcaption. I come to this example. They given you the same font style in a design, how it works as lead and the subheading and the body content. Then we have so many examples like this. You can see how those font styles are helping the resonate to improve the readability of the design and reach the audience in a better way. There are so many different font style out here. You can see how those two font styles interact audience with the text content. The color also plays a crucial role. We'll see that in upcoming lessons. So this concept is called font pairing. They have given you so many examples here. Based on the design, you can choose which one you want. This concept is called font pairing and they used those kind of script font. Based on the need, of course, you can choose those font styles. They used, the SanseryFont styles and they too used Ser font style. All those things are based on your need only you are going to use. This concept is called font pairing in Canva. 5. Google Font Combinations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can access Google font combination using Canva because Google itself have a lot of font combinations, which is used in various platforms. So to access that combinations, I come to the Google search and I tried Canva Google font combinations. Now I have very first result. I just opened in a new tab. So here they have given you the different font combinations, which is from Google. Now I come down they have given you as about how those font combinations are used and they to have all those templates in Canva. If you really like that particular design and you want to use it, you can directly click use this template and you can access the design, you can customize the entire design. These are the different the Google font combinations they have given you for any kind of design like this teaching material or this kind of invitation design or rapper design, whatever it is. All those things are available with the Google fonts. So you can just have a look, if you really want to use and you have the interest, definitely go for those Google fonts. 6. Colors in Canva: Is a lesson called colors the Canva because design has the major role with the colors and when I type colors in Canva and Google, you can see we have major segment links here about how we are going to use colors in Canva and they too given a lot of basic information about colors. To access that, I just opened the very first link. Now you can see the details of these color information. They have given you the four options here. First one is the color palette generator, second is color palette ideas. Third we have the color wheel and fourth we have color meaning. So all those different categories will lead you into the detailed information about colors. And when I come down, you can see how those colors create impact with the designs in Canva. Let us see one by one. You might already have the knowledge about the color, color theory, and color wheel, all those things. If you already know those things and you can skip this lesson and you can go to the next segment. But if you don't know about all those, what is color theory? Because as a graphic designer or the digital artist, you need to be well versed with the color theory. Then you can effectively utilize the colors in your design or animation. This lesson is much important for you if you are a fresher. We are going to see this in upcoming lessons one by one. 7. Color Theory and Color Wheel: A In this lesson, I'm going to give detailed information about color theory and color wheel. So let I open this option, which is color wheel. Using this, I can able to learn the color theory and many more properties about the color. I click here, you can see, I was having the page, which is color wheel. So basically, color wheel is a wheel, and we have detailed information about other all options what you have here in upcoming lessons. So now I directly come to this place. I just scroll down my mouse, and I come to this place called, you know, um the color wheel. You can see this particular wheel, this is called color wheel. Why it is color wheel. Let us say that. In a color wheel, you will have the 12 colors and we have a different segment colors here, which is called primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Let us talk about the primary colors first. What are all those primary colors? Which means the colors are called pure colors, which means you cannot create those colors by combine any other color that is called pure color. Those colors, which is primary colors are called red, blue and yellow, or you can say red, yellow, and blue. If you're saying that in a clock wise, you can see that we have the primary colors here. So what are all the secondary colors. If you combine two primary colors, it will produce another color. That color is called secondary color. You can see if I mix this primary colors like red and yellow, I will get the orange. That orange is called a secondary color. The same way, if I blend the blue as well as the yellow, I will get the green. So that green is a secondary color. The same way, again, I blend that red and blue, I will get purple. So those colors are called secondary colors or green orange purple is called secondary colors. Same way, if I blend one primary color with one secondary color, which means you can see here I have orange and I have a red. I again combine two colors, one primary and one secondary, which will produce a red orange color. That is called tertiary color. In the same way, I combine one primary with one secondary so that I will get the color which is called a tertiary color. Actually, we will have the equal distribution between each primary color. In this picture, they are given the information in a different way. This is not the right way. So we'll have the 12 colors, which means we have the red and we'll have three different, you know, colors, and then we'll have another primary color and then we'll have three different colors. Then we'll have another primary color. So the yellow should be here actually. So then only you'll have all those different other colors called secondary and tertiary colors. So in this, of course, definitely, it was wrong. Because otherwise, you cannot able to produce those tertiary colors. So don't just exactly follow this. This yellow should be here, not in this location. That's how the primary colors creating the secondary colors, the secondary colors producing the tertiary colors with primary color. So at the end, you can see, we have three primary colors, three secondary colors, and you'll have six tertiary colors because three plus three because the one primary will blend with one secondary, which means we have the six different combinations. Six plus three plus three will create 12 colors. You can see here, I have the 12 colors in this color wheel. I will have equal number of colors. On this side, you can see one, two, three, four, five, six, one, two, three, four, five, six. So we have 12 colors in the color wheel. So after this, you know, we have a primary secondary and tertiary colors. How we need this. Of course, we need to know that in 16 66, Sir Isaac Newton was invented this color wheel concept, and he told about how those colors are for. And he created the very first color wheel during that time itself. And, of course, we use this red yellow and blue in a painting process. These are the primary colors. But in digital form nowadays, we have using the color method or color format, which is called RGB. You know that RGB, red, green, blue. The combination of red, green, and blue create a lot of color variations in various digital devices, including the mobile display and LED monitors and television. All those things have nanotechnology RGB lights and that produce all the color combinations using that display. That's how we use RGB colors. But since from the beginning we use this color combination process, this color will have the primary secondary tertiary color and whenever you are saying primary colors means it's not RGB, so it's red, blue, yellow, or yellow blue. This is the primary color. Don't forget that GB and CMO are different color modes like, how do we have a black and white and gray scale. Those things cannot see as primary colors, or you can say that primary colors of light in visual devices or primary colors of printing. That's how you can represent those colors GB and CM again. You cannot say primary colors by default. Pile default primary colors means that's only red, blue, yellow. Now after this, why do we need to know about this primary secondary and tertiary colors and color wheel? It has huge play with color combinations and other things. Let us see one by one. Now I come down a little bit. You can see we have the option called warm and cool colors. We divide the color wheel into two segments. In the left hand side, you can see we have the colors which gives you the cool feel when you look at those colors. On right hand side, you have six colors, which is called warm colors. Whenever you see those colors, you will feel energetic. That's why those colors are warm colors. Let me give you some example. If you have a house and you have the hall, most of the time you will have these cool colors in the hall. You most of the time avoid the red color or you will partially use but you will not have a major color in the living room which is red. And in a corporate offices, most of the time, they prefer the cool color in yoga center in Meditation Center. And if you look at the sky, you will feel some, you know, relaxed feel because that looks blue and if you look at the ocean, yeah, you will feel, you know, the mind was clear. That's because those colors are cool colors. Our brain process those colors in a different way. And as you can see we have a warm colors. So whenever you see those colors, you will feel energetic and, you know, you start to think about those objus what you have in warm colors. Whether it is a food, most of the time, you know, the food items will have the warm colors. And, you know, if there is a person who is going to fight on screen, they will have a warm colored dresses. And if there is a song and they need to give energetic feel, they will use this red color and you can see that red pink and all those colors in a war zone, most of the time they will use these warm colors only. That's how they use the warm colors in our real world. We have two different colors, which is warm and cool. We define that using this color wheel only. That's why color wheel is most important thing. When you are going to be a graphit design, you had to think about all those things. After this, the warm colors cool colors, I move. We have the concept called color combination or color harmony. So if you are going to create a design, we need to select multiple colors because we are not going to use a single color. At least we are going to use two colors to represent different part of the text or different part of the information. So here we have the different color combinations. At first, we have the combination called complimentary colors, which means you can choose any two colors in a color wheel, which is present to the opposite direction, which means I choose a red and I choose the color which is called green, which is a complimentary color in a color wheel. And here we don't have exact green here. Because as I told you, in this color wheel, they have misplaced the green in a wrong place. Actually, this is not a right place because we have a green in this position then you have yellow on this place because green is a second lor and you will have the green here. The red and green will be always the complimentary color. Whenever you choose two colors from the color wheel, those colors having the opposite direction values, that will be the complimentary colors. You can see that And we have a concept called the monochromatic. I prefer a single color and I'm going to use different tones from the same particular color, which is called monochromatic and we have a different name for that. We'll see that in the upcoming minutes. Let me move again to the color combination. After this complimentary color, we have the color concept called analogous. Analogous means we will have continuous three color selection. You can choose any continuous three colors. Those colors will be used in a design. That pattern is called analogous and we have the concept called triatic triatic means in this color wheel, you will choose the colors in a triangle pattern. You can see this. We select this color and we select this color and select this color. Those colors are called the triatic pattern colors. In between, you can see we have equal three different colors. That's why it's a triatic we have tratriticO course, if you want to choose four colors for the design, you can use this concept, tetratic. We choose four colors, which is creating the square shape here and we have two colors in between all those areas. This is tetratic after the triatic we have, and we have another option called a rectangle, which means they will select whether the designer will select two colors like this one and this one, then they will select the two colors that it will create the rectangle pattern and in between the sides it will have one color in between the middle, it will have three colors. That is called rectangle. That was missing here, but I just tell you and you just note those things. After this, the complimentary color, we have another concept called split complimentary. Slit complimentary means now I choose this color and I come to the complimentary direction opposite direction. Green will be here. Instead of green, I choose two colors which is present on adjacent sides of the particular complimentary color, which means I choose this one and this one. So if I split that complementary color and I choose adjacent to colors from left and right, that the color scheme or color combination is called split complimentary. That is also missing here. We just note that and sometimes, yes, of course, we use that concept also during the design work. These are the different color combinations we use in real life graphic design works. Then we have a concept called a tint shared and tone. Try to remember in this form tint share and tone. What is tint actually? I have the pure color. For example, I have the red, and I add white step by step into the red. For example, I have 100 milliliter red. Now I add 10% white inside, which means ten milliliter of white inside the red. So after the pure color, it will have, you know, uh, the white inside and that's not a pure red. So it will have a little amount of white and blender. It will have a different color now, not exactly with that same red. You can see this, I have a pure red I was added a 10% of the white with that. I will have the color like this. Again, I was adding a 10% of white. I'll have the color like this. I will create a different, the tint value of the color. Whichever the color you choose from the color wheel, of course, you can able to create the light colors using that white. That process is called tint. We add the white with a pure color. That is tint. What is shared? It's a simple thing. We add black with pure color. Whatever the color, whether it is a red or green or yellow, we are going to add the dark color, the shade bs in a dark appearance. You can remember that way. We just add dark black, not just the dark the black with a pure color, which is called a share. And we have the tone, which means, yes, we add gray with a pure color, which is called a tone. So when we do this, yes, of course, we will have a different, you know, the pattern colors. We have the different tone colors from the same pure color. That's why these things are much important. With this, yes, we can able to produce a lot of different, you know, variety of designs and artworks in Canva and other primary designing software also when you are using that in offline. These are the concepts called at shad tone. Remember it in that way in shad tone instead of share tint tone. Then we have hue saturation and luminanm. Hue means color, so if you want to switch the color from one to another, we use this concept called hue. Saturation means we are going to either increase the color or we are going to remove the color. That process is the saturation, which means yes, of course, we are going to increase the color, which means we boost the color value. Desaturation is another term which means we are removing the color. Here I have given you only the example of saturation. And we have aluminum, which means, yeah, we are adding the bright values with the particular design. Those things are here, uh, basic things. You had to know about this color theory, and this is what is called, we can use this tint. That's why it was not coming in color combination. On right hand side, you can see they have given you the different you know, the color combination processes. Now, what I do here is I just select the color what I want. I choose yellow. I just imagine I choose the yellow, and if I want to select the complimentary color, yes, I can choose this. You can see this, I choose red. So red will have actually the green not this value. I'm not sure. I don't think this is exactly right value because the green will be always the complementary color of the red. But anyway, now I choose the yellow so you can see how we have the complimentary color for the yellow. I pick one color and that opposite direction will automatically get another color which is complimentary color. Now I choose monochromatic, which means it has different tones of the same and I have analogous, which means it'll select the continuous three colors. I can choose any pattern. You can see that. It will select the continuous two colors. If I move towards the inside, it will desaturate and if I move towards out, you can able to see that, I can able to have the complete color value. I have triatic three different color combinations. It looks like a triangle, you can see that and I have the tettic see I have four color combinations. So I'm in a situation to select multiple colors, of course, you can go for this. So these are the different color combinations you have. And from this color value, if you want to add the bright values in outer ring, you can see we have the dot. Just click and track down. You can see I can able to add the tint. You can see that how I can able to add the tint. The same way if I want to add the shad, I can go towards the top. So I can able to add, the shad. Got it. If I want to tone that time, just click and track towards center. You can see that I can able to add the gray values, which is called tone. Based on the mood of the design, you can choose any color or color combination using this color wheel, you can choose you can choose the color carbon is, all those things and you can able to um export those colors also for usage of the design in Canva. This is what the color theory and color wheel you have to know before you are going to start your design works. 8. Color Palette Generator: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use color palette and how to use color palette generator in Canva. Last class, we have seen how to use the color wheel and color the color combination, all those things. In the same home page of the colors, you have first two options, which is color palette generator and color palette ideas. Now I first go this color palette idea. I click here. When I click there, you can see I have a lot of color combinations here. In pre race class, we have seen the color combinations like analogous, complimentary color, split complimentary color, trade. In the same way, you can choose ready made colors, the patterns, what they are given here for you. Here you can see we have the analogous color pattern, and here we have all those colors or tertiary colors. And here we have the primary colors. So you can prefer which color combination you want and that particular combination have their own name room for comfort and retro punch. So it has its own meaning if you like, yes, you can like that particular color and that will be available with your design work when you do with Canva. So this is how you can able to choose the predefined colors. You can see we have 199 plus pages of the color combinations. You can use whichever you want. You can choose whichever is your favorite color combination. Now, after that, if you want to choose the color theme, for example, I'm going to type like romance. So I will have all those color combinations based on the term which is called romance. And I'm going to type Kats. So I will have the color combinations for the aids, which is preferable. And I'm going to choose kitchen. So I will have the color combinations, which is better for the kitchen. You can see there. What are the color combinations we have for a different kitchen type? It's organic kitchen and it's organic kitchen again. So far Mouse kitchen. So they have given the different, you know, color combinations with those kitchen category. I have another option here, which is explore colors. I click here. So when I click there, yes, I can give more meaning about the colors. I can choose what they can do, and I can also explore the color gminons which will bring back to the normal potion here. These are the, you know, um, color palettes by default, you have. Now, again, I go to the colors. Now we are in the home page of this color panel. Right now, I'm going to choose this option, which is color palette generator. I click here and it shows you how this color palette generator work. Here we have all those colors and we have the hexa deemal value of the color. The first two letters represents the exact dimal value of red and the next two letters, the middle letters represent the green and last two letters represents blue. So, red, green, blue is the combination we have in a visual content in Internet and mobile and other devices. Here they have given you the four color combination, which is derived from the image of what you have here. Now I can upload image which I want the color combination. I'm going to use that image in a design. So I can prefer which color is better for use in my design. Now, you see, I have two options to generate the colors. First, I have the option called Oparnimage. I can click here. I can browse the image and I can have the color palette of the particular image process. Then second thing, I can just directly drag and drop inside. Now I go to my folder. Here I have image set. You can see. Now, you see, I'm going to choose this particular picture and I'm going to generate the color palette for this because I'm going to use this in my graphic design work. I drag press to dab and here I'm going to drop the file. I just drop here. And yeah, you can see that it generates a color which is, you know, um, spread in this particular image. And if I use these colors for design of this image, that could be the better way to express the unity and contrast of the image, text to contain other all things. That's how it produce the color palette here. You can see this looks fantastic. This is how we can able to produce the color palette. Okay, I'm going to drag and drop one more image. I have a model here, so I just drag and drop so it will generate the colors based on the image, the color values. You can see how it produces different colors from the image. I'm going to choose one more color combination. I'm going to choose the color combination for this interior work, restaurants, the inner view. I just drag and drop here. And you can see this is how we generate the colors. I can use the text color using those light or dark values based on my need. This is how the color palette generator works. Based on your need, you can generate any number of colors according to the image. I'm going to finish with one more selection. I'm going to choose this bike. I just drag and drop and it will generate the colors which is preferable for this bike image using graphic design. This is how the color palette generator works. This was one of the most important resource, what you have a Canva. You can choose the color easy banner using this color palette generator in Canva. 9. Color Meanings and Symbolism: In this lesson, we are going to see how we can have a symbolism for colors because each color represent different ideas. As we have seen in previous lessons, the warm colors represent the energy and the cool colors represent the peaceful thoughts, all those things. So let us see how those colors have the symbolic meaning around the world. So this was a universal thing. And there may be some deviation, but most of the time, those color symbolisms are universally accepted and followed according to this color the. Now, to have idea about the color symbolism, I'm the colors home page, and in this, I just go to this color palette ideas. From that, I'm going to choose the option which is explore colors. When I choose Explore colors, I have a lot of colors at the bottom. You have to scroll down. You see, we have so many colors at the bottom. We have huge amount of colors here and each color has its own name. For example, I come to the first one, this is called orange, if you want to know more about this color where this color was used, I can click the particular color value. I just click here. I click there, it takes me to the new page and that page has its own detail about the color orange. Here you have the meaning for the color. We have a he disemble value of the particular color. We can decide where you can use those color values. We have all the technical details about the particular color here. You can see this and they to given you some basic ideas about how you can use all those things, you can see on right hand side, we have the particular color, the orange. Have given you the mono color tone of the particular color. You have dark colors, shirts and light colors, which is tins. If I want to use this orange with analogous color scheme, color combination, I choose analogous. You can choose any three colors here according to the need. You can choose whichever you want. I choose complimentary colors. We have a complimentary color of this orange and tritic colors. You can choose whichever you want. This is how you can able to utilize the color what you have selected in Canva. Now, after that, we do have pre set color values here, which is color combinations, which is completely starting or included with this orange. Here, all those places have the orange color values. You can see how those things we have. And if you want more color combinations, we can choose here. Now if you satisfied with this color combination itself, you can go for this and you can utilize that invert design. This is how each and every color has its own value. I choose back and I come back here. Now, I scroll down, I have a lot more color here. Here I have champagne. I choose this one and it has its own meaning. You can see this and it has its own psychology where we use and how it was formed, all those things here. Now for that also, we have the tiran color combinations here. You can see that here also choose the analogous color scheme, complimentary, tritic. Based on the need, I can choose whichever I want. All those colors in this has its own meaning. So here I can type the color which I'm going to use. I'm going to choose red. The red based colors will be here. You can see this. This is red orange, this is pastel red, rose red, red, and I choose this third one, rose red, and it has its own exa assemble value and what it conveys when we use this particular color and the analogous and other all color combinations here. This is how you can utilize the colors with the meaning if you are a newcomer and you want to explore the color meanings and where, you can use those colors. Definitely, this will be much useful for you, which is color meaning in Canva. 10. Design Ideas and Design Inspiration: In this lesson, we are going to see about design inspiration and design ideas. Of course, you can learn those design inspiration concept and design idea using Canva itself. To learn that, I go to the Google and I type C but design idea and design inspiration. When you type and press Enter, you'll have a lot of results. At first itself, you can see we have two results, which is design inspiration, logo, info graphics, and more and second template ideas. I open both tabs, here I have the template idea, which is design idea page. Second one is design inspiration. If you want to get design inspiration, yes, we can access this. Basically, when we do the design work, we always inspiring from different places you will get the inspiration from the nature, we get the inspiration from the vehicles, we get the inspiration from the textile design, peoples and the sky. So through this design inspiration concept, you can able to get the ideas for your concept in easy manner. When I visit this page design inspiration, you can see we have a lot of tabs here, which has the small sub bedding at the bottom. It shows which category content you have with that particular category. Here I have the design inspiration category. Here I have design inspiration. Here I have creativity and psychology. If you want to explore, um, the design psychology and creativity, yes, we can visit this place. The same way we have, the digital marketing based ideas. Again, we have the design inspirations. Here, most of the places you can able to see that we have the design inspiration post. Now, what I do here is I visit the very first link, which is how to design a digital portfolio. Through this, we can able to understand how to create your own digital portfolio, how we can able to build it. I just visit that particular page. And they have given you the detailed information about how that works and how the work helps you to get this portfolio and how can you make your own logo visible and how you can do other works, the creative works for your portfolio, and how it ends up with. All those informations are available here. Now, again go back because I want to show the remaining design inspirations also. I come to this place, the design inspiration, the second here they shows how to be more creative eight tips from designers. I just click here and I'll have eight tips to be more creative and getting the design inspiration. They have given you the YouTube links here. You can just watch the video and you can see the designs which is inspired from different boundaries. Now after that, I go back. I pressed design inspiration tab. Again, I came back to this design inspiration category here. I have different, various information again. I come to this place, design thinking, I click here. I'll have more information about the design inspiration and the way of design thinking. So in this way, what you can do is you can able to get the design inspiration from various sources. You had to know about the design thinking process before you start to do any concept thinking about the design. All those things you can able to access using this particular category, which is design inspiration. You have a lot more with this. You can just watch all those things. You have multiple pages here. Watch all those things before you start your graphic design work and career. 11. Design Elements and Principles: In this lesson, I'm going to show you what are all the design elements and principles we have with the Canva. We already seen this content design principles in previous lessons, but Canva itself have additional features, all those information in a single page which gives you a perfect guide to create a graphic design work. To do that, I just come to the Google and type Canva design elements and principles. Now I scroll down here and I have the link which is a comprehensive guide to understand graphic design principles. Now I open this when I open this in this page itself, completely, you will have all the information about the design and elements about a graphic design. Now, I just scroll down and here they have given you a detailed information about the visual design process, how it works and how it reached the audience, how do they understand all those informations. After that, they had given you the table of content about those principles and design elements. Now I'm going to scroll from this. You can see this table of content, first one is how to design using the golden ratio. From that, I just scroll and move. At first, they had given you the information about the golden ratio, which is highly important for creating photographs and every photographer as well as people who create a painting about this golden ratio. As a graphic designer, you need to know about how to utilize this concept golden ratio because most of the time you will manage the images, design, and we use when you create the graphic design work. Every design is a art. It's important to maintain this golden ratio with our work. It's illustration which is providing the information about this golden ratio step we can able to access it using this option. And they have given you all other informations about the visibility of text by using hierarchy order. You can see which one is the first content, the audience need to watch and which one is the second content. How do you differentiate the major content from the normal text content? You can able to box the content. You can show the different font size, you can show the different color, all those information with the different sizes provided here for the visibility. And here they have given you the information about how the primary elements like the title of this particular magazine, the image, what we have with a magazine wrapper supports the other elements of this wrapper design and how this visual focal point in your design works. How can I choose those things? All those informations, not just the design, the elements. All the information, the basic things, what you need to know about the graphic design is here. You have the color temperature, details, you have the content about the values, saturation, warm colors, cool colors, neutral colors, how do you create the creative content for your design works? How important the typography works? We already seen here in a single page, you have all those informations about the design and the typography information and the design principles, how the space and alignment was allocated in this design. The rule of third, of course, every artist know about this concept when you need to keep the subject at the center, when you need to keep the subject off center, either on right hand side or left hand side, know all those information through this particular page, which is the combers to understand the design principle. They give you the information about the symmetry. We have seen that previously given you the information about the multi column design, how the containers maintaining the information inside the column for any design. The layout process was completely explained and the symmetry was explained with the graphs, you can see that. How it was implemented in the poster designs, the movie poster, which is on 27 hours, which is directed by Danny Boyle and the lead role was performed by James Franco. This movie got two Oscar nominations for the Best music production and best original song. Then I have the remaining designs which represents all those symmetry. You can see that the transparency concert, how they used that thing in a design. Say all the image blending appearance using the transparency. All those informations provides you about the graphic design principles and the design elements completely here. Go through this and get more ideas to do a graphic design work. 12. Design Size Guide: In this lesson, we are going to see about the design science guide in Canva. Whenever you do the graphic design work, at first, you need to know what will be the dimension of the design. What will be the width and height in terms of centimeter or inches or pixels. First, you need to know about that. Then only you can prepare your design for the particular medium, whether it is a web or print or a presentation, whichever it is, you have to know the exact dimension first. So Canva itself have a lot of different dimensions, and if you want to know the basic ideas about what are all the different dimensions we have by default with Canva, this will help you a lot to you. I just type Canva Design size guide in Google and I just open the very first result which is showing a guide to the design sizes Canva design Wiki. I just click here. When I click this, I will get to that particular page. Here they have given you the four different tabs, all documents, social media, and paper. And when I scroll down, you can see we have the document category, social media, and pepper categories in different ways. If you want to access only the documents, you can go to the document here. I just click Document. Here, the given you the post flyer, brooch, book, all those document works. Example, I choose a poster. When I choose a poster, they shows you the information of the in inches. However, if you want to change the dimensions measurement type, I can choose into centimeter or millimeter, whichever you want, you can choose that option. Now I choose inches, it shows you what was the smallest poster size we can do. And what will be the normal small size poster, what will be the medium and the large and movie poster size an inch. And finally, you have the bustop poster size, which is having 40 inch width and 60 inch height. 40 inch width means it will have around 3.2 feet width and five feet height. That was the dimension of this particular poster design. So you can quickly access and analize what will be the dimension you need. All those design sizes available with Canvas you can prefer which one you want and you can able to implement that using this particular Canva design science guide. I come down here, you have all the different sizes, information of the poster templates, whichever you want, you can directly choose and you can go for the design. Now I choose B. This is a poster, now I come to the book, I choose the book. So in book also, you have the different sizes. It's not like a poster because they have given you the general book dimension, the kindle dimension for you and Wat pad, Cobo in book also, you have a lot of different categories. Based on your need, you can choose which one you want. I come back to the document, and I'm going to choose another one. I choose the business card, let us see. When I choose a business card, I have the different business cards and here I choose Yam so that we have a better idea about how we have the different dimensions of this business card. They have given you the different countries and in those countries they use that particular the business card dimension. Of course, nowadays in digital printout or digital industry, we use different dimension of business cards, but those countries regularly using the standard business card size. Here I have all those information about how the particular, the business card size was used in various countries. Now, again, I come back, I chose the web add. We have the website advertisement dimension also. We have the letterboard and we have large rectangle, all those information about the particular web advertisements here. Now I choose a wedding album, we have that. We have option called photo, choose a photo and we have photo dimension in inches. Of course, we mention those images in inches. The four is six is one of the maximum utilized dimension, which is also called maxisonPhoto size. So we have all those things in a document. I go to the social media. In social media, I have different categories. Like if I choose a YouTube, I have a YouTube thumbnail, YouTube, you know, the banner dimension. I just click YouTube. You can see all those things. See, we have YouTube thumbnail, picture dimension, YouTube banner image dimension. If it is a four K banner, what will be the dimension, the profile picture dimension, banner display, all those information, which is available completely in the form of pixel because since we use all those social media information for digital devices, including a computer or laptop or mobile devices, we'll have all those measurements pixel only, not in centimeter or inches. You can see all those information here. Here we have the dimensions for Facebook, the profile picture and other things. I have Instagram details like profile picture. Most of the we use a square image dimension. Sometimes, we use different image dimension. According to that, Instagram, this is a dad size. We don't need to move away from the standard size. Now I come back, see you have all those social media dimensions. I choose a paper. In a paper, you will have the international paper dimensions, starting with A four, all those information you have for the paper. This will help you a lot before you create the design work using Canva. 13. Canva Blog: In this lesson, I'm going to talk about the Canva block. It's a common platform. To access that, I come to Google and I'm going to type Canva block. I just type Canva blog and press Enter. You have a lot of results. On those results, I'm going to choose the very first link. I choose the very first one which is Canva blog. I just click there. It leads you into this particular page which is learn Canva. This is where you have all the information about the Canva blog, so we can able to access all the information about the help content about the Canva from this page. Previously, this page has the name which is Canva blog and now they renamed that into the learn that is the name of this particular tab. So from this, of course, we can able to learn a lot of things like here, they have given you the information about the brand management. You can get the knowledge about the brand management here using this particular Canva learn. Here, they have given you the file lessons of design process from the terms of use. You can use the team concept using Canva. You don't need to be alone, you can have your own team, you can share the information, you can collaborate and you can do the same design together for the team. You have all those information. We have design based information, photography, wedding photography, and a lot more of information about marketing, branding. Different category information are there. You can able to watch all those things and it can be highly helpful for you if you are doing design or you want to be entrepreneur, you are a freelance artist who you are. This will help you a lot. For you. Effectively use this and if you are a student or teacher, yes, of course, you have a separate category for those informations. You can utilize those things effectively. So this is how this Canva blog now not now. It's a Canva learn page works and help you to get the knowledge about the Canva informations. 14. New Custom Size Design Creation: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create a new custom size design using Canva. To do that, I come to this place. I choose this option, custom size. I click here. When I choose this place, you can see I can give a new dimension here. So to do that, I'm going to give the value. For example, if I'm going to create the dimension, which is 1080 into 1080 pixels for social media advertisement, I can give tent and 1080 here. When I enter the value, it automatically detects works, what we can do with this dimension using Canva. We can create animated social media or Instagram post or Facebook video using this particular dimension. Since the measurement unit is pixel, it shows all those options. If I want to maintain the same aspect ratio, I can just lock the aspect ratio. And if I change the value like 1,000 pixels, you can see the same change was updated on this height also. And when I enter that particular value, it suggests the document designs, what I can do with this dimension using the Canva, all of the suggestions in the same way I choose 1920, and it will give you the suggestion for that also. Based on you choose to value, it shows all those suggestions. Now after this, I just unlock this aspect ratio, and here in this units, I'm going to choose. And here after the pixels we have inches, millimeter, and centimeter. Now I choose inches. If you want to do any photo design or album design based works, of course, we will measure all those dimensions in inches only. For example, I'm going to choose eight volt eight. Here we have the different suggestions for that particular value. Choose six into four, the width should be six and eight into four. Further also we have those suggestions which we can do with Canva. Now in the same way I have millimeters. If I type the value, I'm going to type width into 88 and the height into 40. I can see the business cord dimension here, which is having 3.5 into two inch dimension. Of course, we can change the unit and the value will be the same and that value will not change until you change the value using the width and height. Now after this, I'm going to give a value 1080 pixels, as I told you, I give a 1080 pixel width and 1080 biixel height. I choose create new design. I can directly click this option, create new design, and you can see I will have a new design white space at the center. This is untitled design. It's a new one. I was created using this Canva. This is how we can create a new design using Canva. You can have all those suggestions on lapan side to create different works like logos, Instagram post and other things. This is how we do the new design creation for any work using Canva. 15. Background Color Controls in Design: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can add background color for the document using Canva. In a previous lesson, we have created a custom design using Canva. This is the design. This is the background. I was selected. By default, it was in a white appearance. When you click the background, it was selected. You can see that purple color outline shows that background was selected now. Now after selected the background, I choose this background color, and when I choose the background color, here I have a lot of default colors. I can pick whichever I want. It has all those exact assemble values, you can see that. Here we have solid colors, whichever you want you can apply. Same time, if you want a gradient color, you can also using this option, which is gradients. I choose this one, it can have the same dual gradient color here. Of course, we can able to edit the gradient color value. We can able to change the color. We can add more colors instead of having only two. Let me show you all those things how to do using this Canva, background colors. I choose this red color, and here at the top, you can see, we have the Document colors option. And if you want to add your brand colors, of course, you can add. Let me show you that option how to use your brand colors in upcoming lessons. Now I'm going to choose this Document colors option. Here we have two options. You can add a new color or you can use this default color which is white. So when I click that option, white, I will have that particular color value. I was already added the white and if I want to change the particular color value, you can see the custom present added color will have the adjustment values. I click there again and you'll have this doc one color option. Here we have the color wheel in a horizontal form. You can choose whichever you want. Access the same value using this add a new color option. Here you can have the same values what we have. Now I have a thought to add a new color, so I come to this place and I'm going to choose the color what I want. Yes, I choose this color. When I choose the color value here, automatically I have the particular color, you can see that. This is how we can add a new solid color. Now in the same way, if you want to add the gradient color value for the background, either you can choose this particular option, which is gradients. Here we have the default preset values, or if you want to add a new color, yes, I can come to the same, add a new color option, and here I have the tab, which is called gradient. At the top, you can see by default, it will be in a solid color. I choose gradient. Choosing the gradient, it shows you the present color what you have used. This is a Sab green. We know that, and it automatically detect another dark color from the same. So it shows you different gradient values here. At first, we have linear gradient in horizontal as well as vertical form, and here also, we have the same linear gradient. But here we have the circular gradient which is also called radial gradient. So based on your need, you can choose which gradient value you want. It was in a horizontal vertical diagonal and circle also. So it's off center value. You can see the this is how you can add the gradient values. Now here, I can see two colors. Here I have the color one. I can choose which color I want in that color one. And here I have a color two. I can pick the color what I required. So this is how you can pick the color values, what you want. And if you want to add another color apart from these two, yes, you can add, you can choose this option, which is add a new gradient color. I click this place. I have the new color here. Now I'm going to change the color value which I was required. I'm going to add a green. You can see that that color value is green. So here we have three colors now orange, red and green. So this is how you can add a new colors as you require. I was adding more colors, which I required based on my requirement, I can add any number of colors. This is how you add multiple colors. And, of course, if you want to change the color value, you're going to click the particular color value setting. And here we have the linear gradient in horizontal and vertical and diagonal and circular and off center values. This is how you can add all those, the different color values, solid colors as well as gradient based on the need for your background design in Canva. 16. Apply Image Background Designs: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can use the image as a background using Canva document. Now, in our previous class, I shows you how you can add a solid and gradient color as a background. Now I choose this background color and I choose this white, and I have a default white for the background now. Now I want to add the picture. To do this work, yes, I have the option called elements in Canva. On your left hand side, I have this option elements by default. If you want to add a picture, yes, I can go to displace elements. In elements, you can see, we have a lot of options, whichever the content you want, of course, you can get it from this option called Canva elements. Now in this Canva elements, I have the recently used shapes and geometrical shapes, graphics, a generator images, stickers, photos, videos, audio, charts, all those things are available here. Now, I'm going to type the board which is called background. If I type the word background access Enter, I have the same result for the backgrounds with different categories. At first, I have option, but I choose the graphics now. When I choose graphics for this particular term background, I have a list of results. Whichever I want, I can utilize there. For example, I have this one, I click here, that particular background was loaded here. Now, I just right and I choose the option called set image as background. I choose option chat image background, it automatically fit with the background. Whatever the dimension, it will be automatically fit with the background. This is how we add the background image for this Camo document. It here again, I can choose the detached image from the background if I want to separate the picture from the background. I come to this photos section after the graphics. In photo section, you have a lot of results based on the need, you can choose which background you want. For example, I'm going to choose this one. You can see this is not a square shape like this particular picture. This picture was having the square shape but not this one. But still, when I click and I choose this option set image background, it automatically fit with the background. If I want to adjust the particular position of the image, I can double click here. When you double click here, it shows you it was perfectly fit with the center postion. But on left hand side, it shows this image has more area on left as well as right hand side. If I want, yes, I can just click and track and I can show which part of the image I want. Now I double click outside, so this is how I can able to adjust the image. Again, I double click inside and I can track and drop like this. This is how I can adjust the picture as a background from inside. I have another way which I just double click again. Now I just hold command or control. I scroll out. Now I can scale the area which is required. Either it is like this or that, whichever you want, yes, I can add it and I double click outside and I come back. In this way also, you can move and you can scale the background image to have the view what you require. This is how we do the change. Now I just select the particular image using right lick option and I choose detached image from the background. You can see I have the complete image, not just the part of the image. Now, if I want to blend the picture with a background, I can do that also. To do that, I choose the background color first and I can choose the color what I require. Here you can see since we have the image inside the particular design, it was picking the colors from the image and it shows five image values. I choose this color, this color was derived from this place and this color was derived from this place. Those color suggestions you can use if you want. Now I'm going to use this one, and now I choose this picture and I choose replace background. I double click inside and drag and drag where I want, and I choose o. After choosing this, we can choose the particular picture at the top, I have an option called transparency. I click there and I reduce the transparency value. Now we have the background color as well as the background image in blended mode. You can see that. If you want to blend both color of the background and the image, of course, you can do in this wing. This is how we use the image as a background using Canva document. 17. Update Color Palette in Canva: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can update the color palette of Canva document. Now, in our previous lessons, I show you how you can add the solid and gradient colors and images as a background. And here, let us see how we can update the color palette for the Canva. To do that, I just click the document. I can able to access the background color option using this bar. I click here. We know all those things we have seen in our previous classes. Now in this, I have an option called brand kit. Using brand kit, I can add the set of colors which is required for my own brand. Imagine I'm going to add four colors here. I choose add your background, the brand color. Here I'm going to add a new color. You just imagine this is one of my brand color value and here I'm going to have another color, just white, and here I'm going to have more color which is completely about my brand color. Now I'm going to choose the next option. I'm going to add a third color since we have a white. But I cannot add that because I need to upgrade myself as a pro user. I just need only three colors right now. And if I want another color, yes, I can choose this white and I can pick which one I want. These are the three colors I can use. This is how you can update your color palette for any design using Canva. Now I'm going to create a new document. You see here going to create the dimension, which is 1920 1080. I click this Create New design. It was loading. Now, after loading this document, I'm going to choose this background and I'm going to choose the background color. I click this center portion and I choose this background color. You can see the same color value I have here also. But here, you can see, we have the difference. In this place, we have the all used colors of this particular document and the picture color which is available from this document. But here you can see we don't have anything like that. We have default colors of solid and gradient, but this brand kit the custom colors, which is always available with every design. This is how you can able to upgrade your color palette in Canva for creating any designing work. 18. Lines and Arrows in Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can add elements like line and arrows. To add that, I come to the elements. In these elements, I have the option called arrow and line. By default, if you don't type anything on the top like background, or if you have the text, just lay it and come to this elements area, you can see the option called arrow and line. Now if you want to add the line or arrow using the shapes also you can do. I just click this arrow directly. In the design area, I have that arrow, the same way, I can click this line and I can get the same. This is how we add the lines and arrows. Now, if you want to do the quick access using the shortcut key, you can do using the option called LL. Now I press L in a keyboard. When I press, I have the line in this particular design. When I choose a line, I have the line properties at the top. I can modify the line appearance. I have the two points at the beginning and end. When I move the mouse over the point, it turn into purple, you can see that. I just click the line and move and you can see how I can modify the line either in horizontal or vertical form. Now when I adjust this, if I first shift the key, I can adjust the value in degrees. You can see the difference. Let me show you this from the center. Now this particular line have the zero degree value, which is default. And here 15 after the 15, it turned to 30. Since I was presshold the shift key, it changed the value for every 15 degrees. You can see that. But if you release the shift key, I just release shift key, you can do all the degree values rotation how you want. So based on the need, you can adjust how do you want to adjust this stroke? You can also move using this transform control. You can rotate without touching those two points using this rotate option. These are the values by default you have. Now, I just adjust this and keep in straight line. Now when I choose this line and other properties bar, you can see the line color. I can choose which color I want. I have the line style. I choose a line style. I have the line weight here, I can increase the line weight. I have the dashes for the line. If you want, you can convert that as a dash, a small dots. Based on the need, you can choose how do you want those dots? If you want that rounded end point, you can enable this. See this, the lines have the rounded. If you have a single or the double or the daughter line in any form, if you choose this option round end point, you'll have the end like that otherwise, we have this narrow end. I choose the line again. Now I come to this place after this line style. I have linett and line end point. I choose the lines start point. By default, it will be flat. If I want, I can add the stroke like this or a arrow like this, the filled arrow, the circle, the filled circle. Whichever you want, you can convert that point for the sorting. Now, I just turn this like this and I'm going to choose the line end, how I want. For example, if I choose the beginning like this, I can choose the end like this. Based on your need, of course, you can turn that into anything what you want. So this is how we use these options. We have line style also. If you want the state line, of course, you have a state line by default, just make that stroke into normal. And if you want to adjust, I can choose this option one style, I choose this boot. Here I can adjust how do I want? I can see how I can able to adjust the particular stroke. Here I have another option which is curve. I can able to create the curve appearance of the stroke, how I can use the stroke using this option called line type, we have animation and potion options. In upcoming lessons, we'll see all those things. This is how we use lines in Canva, we can able to add using the direct elements, shapes, and also you can use shortcut key, which is L to add the line and you can process using all the options, what you have the properties bar. This is how we do work with lines and arrows in Canva. 19. Magic Recommendations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you what is Canva magic recommendation? Using this, you can access a lot of elements to create graphic design and all other design works. Let me show you how to use magic recommendations in Canva. To use that magic recommendation in Canva, you have to press the key which is slash. I press the key which is slash in my keyboard. When I press the slash in my keyboard, I can able to see this particular window, which is magic recommendation in Canva. It cars the magnifier which is shining and here it shows the default values what you can add. It shows you you can use the option called magic eraser, magic edit, background removal, and you have a lot more. I just click here, Show More option. It shows you magic crap, crap text, grab all text, crop transparency, adjustment field shadow blur and you can use the flip horizontal as well as vertical, all those things using the single particular key which is slash. I just press that button and you can see, I can able to access all those shortcuts using this slash. After that, we to have the recommended actions from Canva. It has the magic write option. It's a generated Binstrom write option. If you want to generate the text content, we can use this option, which is magic write. As you can add the text box directly using this magic recommendation. Then I have the share with the help of share, I can share this design or video to someone else who is using the Canva or I can share it through the social media also. I have the option which is show more I click there. You to have the options to download this design, print the design layers, draw axes, translate from one language to another language, resize the design bulk creation using the data and data auto field process, all those shifts, all those things are available with the other options. Then we do have the graphics which is suggestions from the Canva magic recommendation to those features. When I choose that you can see, I can able to access all those things. Those things are derived based on the colors and design what we have on our background. Again I press this slash to access magic recommendation. You do have the photos matching our design. I choose see all Ig here, see that, all those photos which is matching with our design. Right now we have only the stroke, which is the line and the background color and the background image. Based on that, it shows all the results. Here also you can see that it shows you the magic recommendations. This is how you can access in quick manner those tools and other all elements using this option, magic recommendations in Canva. 20. Starred Content in Canva: And in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use starred content in Canva. In Canva, we have a lot of design templates, design elements. When you like our particular template design, of course, you can add a star for it so that it's easy to show those star templates in Canva design. Let me show you that. I opened the very first design here. I just want to make sure I need this design for the future reference. To do that, yes, I just come to the particular design and I come to the menu of the design. In this menu, you can see, I have the details about the design, it shows me the styles, what I have used with the design and the categories, all those things. Now I choose this star option here. When I choose star option, you can see it was added with the data which is stored. Now I come to this place, I to star this. It was added with the stared category. If I want to search a design, I can search here, for example, I'm going to type product. You can see all those product designs are available here and I'm going to choose on product design. I'm going to choose this pair of shoes, and I'm going to choose one more design from this. I choose this chair design. Now when I add that as a star content, it was added here in the separate category. When I choose this view button with the stared, you can see all those stored content are available here. I can see that, how it was added in our project. We have the separate folder for it, which is stored. Inside, you can see we have those designs. I not yet confirmed these designs are pro designs. That's why it was not available there. Let me choose two more stared content with normal design, which is not available with pro content. I'm going to choose this one, a choose star, choose view now. Now you can see all those starred contents are here. In this way, you can save all those designs with this category and you can use this for future design creation process using Canva. 21. Basic Shapes in Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use the basic shapes in elements using Canva. Now, to use the basic shapes, I come to the elements. In elements, you can see we have the option called shapes. I click this CO in shapes. You can see we have all those information, what we required with Canva shapes. At first, we have the lines. We have a flat arrow and daughter lines. You can directly add those lines by click displace and we can drag and drop. Everything will be available with Canva. So in this way, you can add the lines. We have seen how to use the lines and arrows in our previous class. In the same way, I can drag and drop those shapes, what I require. Here we have different shapes. We have square, we have rounded corner square, circle, triangle, star, and other shapes. Now, to add this square, I'm going to use the shortcut called R. R means rectangle here. I just press R, I can change the shape here. How do I want? I can also change the color and other details as we did previously. So this is how we can able to add the shapes and we have a round corner shape. We can see this. How do we have the rounded corner square and we can convert that into rounded rectangle, how do we want? We can do all those things. You do have a circle. So to access the circle, I'm going to use the shortcut which is C. So when I press C, I will get the circle here. I can just place where I want. I can change the color what I require. I can increase the height to get the vowel shape and ellipse and other things. This is how we add those you know, the shapes from the canva. We had too many shapes here. We have, you know, the triangle here and we have polygon. We have star. We have arrows, which has the big shapes. So all those shapes we have here, we have heart shape and the capsule. So you can add basically any shape here and you can adjust the height and width. Only for Canva shapes, we can able to adjust both height and width, not for all the shapes. In this we have all the shapes which can able to upgrade it's unable to 80, which able to modify in X and Oxs. This is how we use these Canva shapes. We can add, we can modify and we can use anywhere where we require in graphic design work. 22. Photos and Graphics in Elements: And in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use photos and graphic elements from Canva elements. To use the graphic elements and photos, I visit elements in Canva. In elements, we have recently used and shaves which are basic. At the beginning, we have these two options. Then third, we have the option called graphics. By default, you will have the latest added graphics on the list. You can see what are all those graphics we have in this list. Now I want to add some graphics on the screen, so I want to search the graphic, which is called Contact. When I type contact, I will get all the details and information about the contact in the form of graphics. If I want to use, yes, I can aces and I can use it. For example, I use this graphic. I just click there and I access it and I can add all those information where I want these graphics. I can add this one and I can place where I want. I just drag and draw where I want the particular icon. I to have a graphics here, you can see this. And drag and drop here. It's not a normal element. You can see that it's a pro element. I was added, of course, still, you can utilize or else you can go for few free elements. Scroll down and you can see a lot of elements here. Based on your new, you can choose which element you want. A few of them are free. You can see that most of them have with this pro element category, but some of them are free. You can utilize it as required. I place it here and I want to add the trials here in this particular area. Now after that, I'm going to use other graphics elements, I just want a logo. I just type logo and you can see I have a lot of logo based elements here. You can use all those graphics. Most of the time the graphics are vector shapes. I just add here and you can see, I can able to fill and fill a stroke curve as well as the field color, and I add another shape here, yes here also. I can change the color, but it's a pro element. Still, of course, it's irritable version. But for some, we cannot able to change the color, and you can see here this is the graphic element, but we cannot change the color. You can see that we cannot change the color. So few of them like this we have just imagine this is a logo of my brand and I was placed the logo here. In this way, you can just place the graphics, whichever you want, you can search and you can add where you require. You can search all kind of graphics, buttons, icons using this graphics option. In the same way, I come to the elements again. I to have the option called Photos. You can see here I have a option which is called photos. I just click C all here I can find the photo which is required to add inside the design. I'm going to choose the advertisement model here, so I just type model. I will get a lot of the model images here. You can see how do I have those model images. Now I'm going to add one model picture to this place, just click this model, and it's a pro element. Let me show another one, which is free element. I don't want to use this pro element here. Yeah, I can use this and I can place, how do I want? I'll just drag and drop here. I can send it back using Control and open square play. I go to this AI option. In this, I have a lot more options. I simply going to select one option here, which is I'm going to choose this BG removal. Of course, it's a pro version. I cannot use right now. But if you have the pro version of C, of course, you can use it, and I'm going to have another picture or a transparent background image which have a model. So just type model transparent. I have a model with transparent background, but I have limitations. I just change the position of the word. Yes. Still, we have only two images with transfers, what type transparent goal. Yeah, I have more, you can see that, but still all those things are pro images, not free images. I'm going to add one picture here. Yes, it's a pro image, but I just add here and I send it back. I just select it. I'm going to choose this layer I can send to back or step by step, send to backward. I'm going to use Control and open square jacket. I can send it back like this. This is how you can add the picture what you required behind where you want. We can add any image. We have already seen how to add the background image using the elements and we added this particular element. Here I'm going to add one food item, yes. Here I'm going to add a graphics, I'm going to choose the graphics. I just type food, we to have a lot of icons based on the food. I type food off. I'm going to add this element here. We can add all the elements based on or even need. How do you want to add inside this design? This is how you can add the images, the graphics in Canva. Most of them, you can use the free elements. And if you want to use the pro element, yes, you need to add the Pacor. Then you can utilize all those things for free purpose. This is how we use the graphics and images in Canva design process. A 23. Gradient Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to use gradient element in Canva. We already know how to add gradient color for a rectangle or any other shape. Let us see how to use gradient element in Canva. To access gradient element, I come to the elements and here I'm going to type the text which is gradient. You type the gradient and presenter. When I type gradient and presenter, you can see I have graphics category gradients, photos, and frames also which has multiple color variation gradients. Then we to have video results. Now, I'm going to choose this graphics category gradient because the photo category gradient will have the stable color which you cannot able to change. But here it's entirely different. I'm going to choose a second gradient first, so I choose the second gradient. You can see how we have that gradient color. It's easy to utilize this gradient. At the same time, you can change the color here. You can see at the top, we have the three color variation. I can change the colors, I'm going to choose the orange. So instead of pink, we have the orange and I have the white. So instead of white, I can choose some other color. You can see how it was giving the impact and I choose the third color and I chose the color which I required. This is how you can customize the entire gradient color using this gradient element. Now I move it this side and I'm going to choose the elements again. In this, I'm going to choose the same keyword again which is gradient. Now I choose the very first gradient. I just click here and you can see I can able to load it. This is a different thing. You can see here. We have two colors. One is the solid color. We can choose it here. Another one is white. At the same time it was transparent. You can see that. Right now I choose this color and I'm going to change that into red. You can see I was turning that into red and instead of white, I can choose some other color or I can choose the same red. So this is a transparent gradient. We can add how do you want the transparent gradient in our design. Whenever you require that transparent gradient, you can just come to this elements and you can type the gradient and you can choose the gradient what you want. Now, again, I come to this graphics. I choose C. I have a lot of gradient values here. You can see that. I have a black here, I choose it, and here also I can change if I want and I add this gradient. The first two is completely customized and the rest of the things have the static color. Based on the need, you can choose which gradient you want to add in your design with Canva. 24. Various Icons for Design: Updated their UA completely. They added a lot of new features with the UI. I'll cover all those things in our upcoming lessons. Right now, I just see the glue so that I can watch the video here and they show the information about what they have upgraded to have skip icon here, watch this graphics animation. And you'll be there in the home page. This is where we are right now. They have updated the user interface. You can see how good the user interface is. On the left hand side, you can see we have the tabs, which is project template, brand and apps, all those things are the default one. From this screen itself, you can able to access all those details here also they have given you the new changes what they have upgraded. And they have given the db or dog update template apps and what are all the new things they have added with the new updates? All those informations are available here. Here we have the recent designs, what we did during our last class and previous lessons also. And you can see here I have the option, which is see what's new, can click here and I can watch all those new updates, what we have right now with Canva in this time. They have given you all those things. You can scroll down and they given the new way of the team work, how can you do with the team in Canva. And they have added a lot of new facilities to do text workork, graphics, and other things. We'll see all those things in our upcoming lesson. In this lesson, let me show you how you can able to use the icons in Canva. Let us see. To access the icon, I just want to create a new document first. I'm going to choose a blank document right now, I come to this place that the band access area and here I see more option. I to have a lot more design dimensions here. You can see that. How good are those preset values. I'm going to time. Flyer. When I take flyer, I will have all the different dimensions of flyer with this, choose the very first one. This has the AFO size. It's international paper size which is AFO, I just imagine I was creating a design here, the design which has the information about a lot of things and this one. I just use this template directly and you just imagine this is not just the design and here this gap we just imagine they're going to contact the cam about the particular the hospitality service. I'm going to mention the date and time and venue here. I'm going to use the text tool and I'm going to add the text here. I just have the alignment to left and I'm going to mention the time to 10:00 A.M. The day will be like 2542025. Okay, I just add a dot here. I do need a venue. So it will be time square, imagine we are going to have other event there and I'm going to add the icons for each information. When I type the date and time and in the form of text, anyone can read those things. But if I have the visual information, the form of icons, will be easy to understand all those things. To access that, yes, I come to the elements. In elements, I come to this place type date icon. And I press Enter. When I type date, I can press Enter, I have a lot of icons here. You can see that in the form of graphics, photos, frames, and all things. I choose see all, I can able to access all those icons here. In this, I'm going to choose the app one. I'm going to choose this one. You can see this is completely free and I'm going to place it here for the date. I have more space here, so I just move here. I'm going to increase the size more. This is where I'm going to have the date. I need a time, of course, I just type here time. It gives you a lot of result. You can choose the app one what you want. I'm choosing this one. I just reduce the size. I'm going to have the same dimension. I'll show you how you can do that. I'm going to mention when icon. So you have the icon for the venue, I can choose and it can utilize those icons. Here we have so many icons. I can see that and I'm going to use one free icon. We have free icons for this venue in limited form. Going to use this one. I can change the color. I just I place here, that's it. Change the color of the blue into red here I'm going to mention the color of that clock the same red and the date should be the same. I'm going to change the stroke color here, I don't want to add the same red, but I add this red and I'm going to change the value of that red. This is how I was added icons. This is how YouTube can add the icons as you required, not any icon. I just select all the three and choose position and I align that intercen as I require. This is how we use icons in Canva. We can use any icon as you require. We have animals icons. You can see we have so many animals icon here and the result. As you require, you can access any icon using this graphics. You can add there and you can utilize as you required for your graphics and using Canva. A 25. Discover Icons: In our previous lessons, I shows you how to use icons in Canva. We used the graphics icons and we changed the color for that. Now I'm going to show you we have another new concept which is Discover Option. Let me show you how you can access and utilize to add any element including icon. Now, let me show you that. Now I was opened this design from my homepage. Can see we have a lot of homepage content. And if you click any one of the design, I'm going to choose this design, you will have a preview of the design in this camera page itself. But if you want to edit that and if you need to do any change, you have to choose this icon which is open in a new tab. That's what I'm going to do. See, I just choose my homepage and I just click refresh button. I just want to refresh my screen because the previous project was not there. So it was refreshing and you can see this is the home page, what we have. I do have that service camp poster. We used that to add the icon. Now I click that and that design was open here and I need this. I just want to add some icons here. I choose this option which is open in New Tab. When I choose open in New tab, you can have the same design in a new tab. Now you can do the editing and modification works without any problem. I opened this. I have that design now. If you want more icons apart from the elements, what we search and we got the results, we have another option which is apps. In apps, we have a lot of new things. I just come to this place apps, I just roll over my mouse and here we have an option called discover. In this discover, I can search any content, which is if I need a different font style like this or if I need some new graphics, anything I can search here, you will get that here. Here I'm going to type icon. I just press Enter. When I just type the keyword icon or press Enter, you have so many options here. I choose this app icon crafter. When I choose that, it asked me the permission and I just choose open I was granting permission to that and it was getting permission from my account here I'm going to give the information about icon. I will get that same icon in my design. For example, I'm going to give icon description here. Here you can see you can utilize ten credits, so it was left for you. Based on the need, you can utilize this ten credits as you require. Again, I go to the apps and I go to this icon. Here I have icon whiz shows the icon whiz and shows you how you can able to create icon. It has some screenshots of how that app works. You can generate the icon again using this app and I to have another option, which is another icon generator, which is icon Scout. Icon Scout is one of the famous icon generating app. You are not going to generate actually, we are going to utilize it. I just choose open. You can see I need to give access to this particular app using my email da. I was giving access to that. After I was giving access to that, you can see I have so many different folders here to load the icons. There was an icon Scout page, can see that. I can load any icon, what I want here. I'm going to choose this one. And this icon will be available with my design area. You can see that. This is a cool thing. I do have the different icons here to choose this default logos and other all icons category. Inside also, I have a line based icons, so many things you can see that. This is highly useful for you cannot access the basic elements icons using this Canva cont. Here you have a lot of icons. You have three assets of a different shape. You can see that. You search here, search the particular icon, what you want. You can get the same icon. You can utilize it in your design. This is how you can able to access and you can able to utilize this disco facility using this apps. In This apps, you have all the help of this discover facility you can access. In this disco facility, you have all those options. Just go to the apps. I just close this and just close this icon also. This is how you have all those access of the apps using the discover feature, you can load icons and other all elements as you required in camera. 26. Graphics in Canva: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can use graphics in Canva. To access graphics to add new graphics in Canva, you can use this option, which is elements. As we told you, we have so many options in this in that I'm going to choose this option which is graphics. I click here and I load all those pre added graphics, what you have for usage. Now I have a flyer in this, I want to add a food based graphic using this elements. So to choose that, I just type the keyboard food in this. You can see we have so many food items. We have pro images, which is graphics as well as the free images. I prefer the free images. I add those free images, what we have. You to have free as paid images here. You can prefer according to the need. What I do here is very simple. I just come to the elements, choose graphics category. I add the keyword and I got a list of results. You can choose whichever you want. When you choose element, the graphic element, it shows you it has more the same element like whatever you choose. If you want to choose, you can choose it using this magic recommendation option. You just click C it shows you all those images. I is recommended by the camera elements. I feel I have too many better images here, I choose this one. You can see all those things are completely free. This is how I can add the element, what I need and I can place where I want, how do I want? I go back using this button to have all the thetas what you have searched and you have all those things here. Now I choose this one. No, we don't need that here anyway. I'm going to choose this pizza. I'm going to praise it here and I can just bring this front. I can also bring this front. I send it back. Based on the need you are going to give a keyboard, you can see we have so many elements here, both free as well as pro elements. You can choose free elements. If you satisfy with that, that itself has a lot of values. I send it back. This is how you can actually use those graphics in Canva. You can see we have all those free as well as pit, which means pro graphics. When you choose this graphics and type the key four, you do have free options and paid options here. We want to list only the three elements, we can come to the filters. If you want to filter the list of results, I can come to this filters option. I can filter the images based on the color and orientation. Now I choose the blue and I can get all the images, which is having a blue color, rare in food. Choose red, which is common in food, orange, green, those things will have a lot of food items. You can see that. This is how you can use this graphics in Canva to complete your design. 27. Animated Graphic Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can add animated graphics inside Canva design. Yes, you do have animated options in Canva. Let me show you how you can add it. Now I come to the same graphics. In graphics, I choose the keyword which is animation. When I type animation and press enter, it load all the animated graphics what you have with Canva. Can see here how we have all those animated elements. Now imagine I need animated food item for this design. I'm going to make it as animated content. What I'm going to do here, I'm going to add the animated food here. I just duplicate this page. You can see I have two pages now. I come to the top one and I remove those content and I modify this according to the need. Now I'm going to add animated elements here. I just type the keyword, food animation. So when I type the keyword food animation, you can see, we do have food animation as well as the other animated elements. Here I'm going to choose this one. I choose the popcorn with red San class animation, and I have a pizza, not pizza. It's a burger. I do have a pizza elements here. You can see that. I have the magic recommendations. I will have the same elements here in search content that I can access from that magic recommendations here. I have all the animated content here. I choose this pizza and reduce the size. I just bring this into front, I send it back. I reduce the size. Here I can add one more element if I want. So I'm going to add this bul. Is it has some food item, and this color is not matched with this, I chose this bul, but it has the problem that stream was went out there, so I cannot use it. Fine. I can use this alone. You can see this when I add this, to have a lot of other magical recommendations. I can choose another animated graphics. So I choose those French fries. This is how you can utilize this Canva magic recommendations of the animations. Whenever you need animated content, you can use the keyword of the particular element and the keyword which is animation. Now I just need some animal based animations, just type animal animation. You can see we have a lot of animal based animations here, and I need a background animation. Just type background I type animation. You can see we have some background based animation here. If you want, you can use. I type the keyword celebration. When I use the keyword celebration animation, here I have a lot of celebration based animations like crackers, fireworks, blast. You can choose whichever you want. I just click here, you see here, how it works. If you convert this design as a video using Canva, this will have the impact with the video. The same way I have so many other video elements like these kind of celebration based elements. You can see that how it creates that impact with the design. The animated elements always create better impact with the designs as you see in this. We have huge amount of animated content in Canva. Based on your need, you can utilize how it requires for your project. 28. Canva Video Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can add video elements in Canva. Yes, we can use Video element in Canva for any design, whether it is a print design or web design or video or website. For all those things, we can use this category, which is Video element. Let me show you how we can use it in camera. To access that I'm going to duplicate the same page again, and I just delete this food items here I'm going to add the video content based on the theme food. Now to access that, I comp the elements. I just go back from the graphics. In these elements, I can see we have different category elements here. In the elements, I'm going to choose this option called video. I just click C all and it shows list of trend based video elements. I'm going to type the keyword which is called food. When I type the food and press enter, you can see we have so many food based videos in free as well as the pro element category. Now I choose this one and you can see that videos added here. And I can use how I need that video here. Now, I want to add another video. I come to the elements again, two has so many other food based elements here. You can see that and I'm going to choose the one which is required. I need this one, so I prefer this and I'm going to use this. Now, I don't need to use the entire video. I just need to crop it based on my need. You can see this is how I need that video for my design. I just place this and in the same way I crop this how I want. I don't need the entire video from that. And here I just adjust the alignment, how do I want? I want to add another video, so I come to the elements again and I want to choose one more video here. I just choose another food. Choose this one. This looks good. But it's a pro element. I just delete that when I use the free element, I come to the beginning type the keyword burger. Yes, you have so many burgers here. You can also add any other element which required the food. I'm going to use the chicken fry. I have a lot of results here. You can see that. I'm going to choose one from this. I can use this video. Crop the bottom and top according to my need. Please where I want. This is how we place the video elements, what we required. I was given some space and if I want to add another video as a background, I can add that. I come back again and I choose the keyword fd. I just want to choose a vertical video. I choose vertical, and you see we have a lot of vertical food based elements. I can choose this one, I choose this, and I scale it according to my need. You can see how do I scale? I just crop some areas. I want to focus the entire thing. I just scale it and I send it back using the option which is sent to back and after that, I just reduce the transparency. Now we'll have a video like this. I just want to make the preview. We come to this place to make the preview. You can also use the shortcut Control A to B. Just click here and it shows the faster design, and this is the video content what we have created. This is how we can use the video element Canva. Most of the time, it simplifies your work and you can add rich video content inside using video elements. 29. Audio in Canva Elements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can add audio elements inside the design or video editing work using Canva. You to have audio elements. You can add that for the background score. You can add as a dialogue. So how you need that audio based on your need, you can add using Canva. To add audio in Canva, I come to the elements and in elements, I have the option which is audio below this video category, you can see that audios, I click CO and I'm going to type the keyword which is required, the particular audio category. I just type the keyword which is fun. When I type fun and it shows you a lot of results and most of them are pro elements, but just scroll down, you to have a lot of free elements here. And you can have the preview here and we have the name of the particular audio track and it shows you what the audio element it is and the duration. You can also utilize this particular menu to access what kind of audio it is, whether it is a free or it is a royalty based one. This one is completely free for commercial usage, which is allowed, A it shows you what category it belongs. Now I come to this place I just want to have the preview it has a preview. You can see that. Here also I can have the keywords, what I have with that. Now I just want to add this audio just double click there. When you double click there, I can add that audio here. It will add in a separate category here. You can see that. It was added as a separate track. I can adjust that and I can extend that how I want. But unfortunately, we don't have the duration of the particular slide longer. I just select the background and delete that video. I just extend the duration. So you can see since I have the video element in this as a bande, I'm not able to extend that duration of the particular clip, but now I can see that I deleted that clip and I was extender, I can able to use this audio element completely. See here. So let me show you how you can manage all those audio element. How can you add that fade and how can you reduce the base? All those things in detailed lesson upcoming chapters. But this is how you can add audio tracks, whichever you want, you can come to the elements. You have a lot of free elements here. You can see that. You can just give the keyword and you can track and draw or I can just double here to add that separate track in Canva design. This is how we add audio in Canva design. 30. Project – Facebook Post Design: Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Project three. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can create Facebook post design using Canva. We're going to create the Facebook post design for the cloth advertisement design. Let me show you how we can do that. Through that Facebook post design, I'm going to choose this category in this Canva, which is social media. I click here. Here I'm going to choose the option which is Facebook post landscape. Of course, you can change the scale later if you want. This is the default dimension of the Facebook post design. I click this Facebook post Design Landscape. I load that data. You can see I got the blank document. That most looks like square, but it's not square. You can see that. I go to this option which is file and when I go to the file, it shows you what was the dimension we have here. The width is 940 pixels and the height is 788 pixels. This is the exact dimension what we have here. Here I'm going to type the keyword which is shop name maybe trans doubler, not a single layers, and I'm going to give an iPhone and I'm going to t Facebook post. Here I need a post. I'm going to create it from the scratch and for that, I'm going to use the elements from the Canva. Now, I was already given a content for this lesson. This is the content what we are going to use in our design. What I'm doing is I just select all the content, copy and here I just create another document. I just paste here and I got all those content here. I just make left alignment. These are the content I'm going to use in my design. Now, here I'm going to create my design. At first, I want to create the layout. When I come to this design tab on the left hand side, you can see we have lot of templates here based on this Facebook post dimensions. Of course, we know how to use those templates in our previous charter itself. Now, you're not going to use this, we are going to create it from the scratch. First, you need to know how you are going to have the layout for this design. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to have the primary elements here in this design, which is I'm going to have a model in this design will have the very good dress and going to give the design elements will show the list of the positive things and the details about the informations of discount, other things and the contact details also. So to add all those things, I want to create a layout here first. So to do that, I come to the elements, and here I type frame. I just type frame and depress center. So here we have a lot of different frames based on the need you are going to use, which frame you want. If you want to create a rectangle shape based frame for the picture and you can use this rectangle shape. You can add the model here. I'm going to add a two model so I can add two frames here in this way. I can add one model here and one model here. This is how we can manipulate the images, or I can use only one to add only one model. I can place the image like this to have the details or I can place like this. It's up to you based on, you need the creativity, the plan, what you have before you created started the design. You can do that. And if you need to use that rectangular the rounder rectangular object, you can also use that. You can see this is how it looks that rounded rectangle. Now, I'm going to use this round rectangular frame. I do have so many other frames here you can see that now I'm going to use only one image here. I don't want to dump this design with multiple images, so I'm going to have only one image prime here. Thereafter I need to add the graphics. You can see we are going to add different elements here. I'm going to have this text. I just want to add the text here and I'm going to add the text. So what I do here is I just choose a graphics. I don't need the keyword frames. Here I'm going to choose this line. I can use this line tool and I can add what I want in this design. I just reduce that line thickness into one. This is enough for this frame. I just expand like this. I just want to divide the content in this way. I just want to add more information about these so I can bullet here, I can add the free shipping in order to over $50. I just want to add that detail here. Come to this place. Just type the keyboard. Free shipping. When I type keyboard free shipping and presenter, here you can see a lot of details of graphics. I can use whichever you want. Here I'm going to use this one free delivery. Can see that, how it looks. I'm going to use this here and we don't need to add everything. Here I just copy this information. Going to paste it here and I'm going to reduce the size. I'm going to add this element here. Further, we'll do the alignment other things. In this way, I'm going to place everything what I need and I'm going to add those small small elements what I need to add in this here I'm going to add some shapes. We have a lot of shapes here, you can see that. Just type the keyword. Trouble shape trist shape, so I can get all those informations. I want to add a rounder corner rectangle. I was added, and here I want to add some information. I just make it as gray. Whenever you add some element, I want to build the layout, you can use this gray for a film. And I have a lot of other elements. After this, deciding how to add those elements on those places, I can separate the text elements. So I just remove this and just cut it and I come to this place, here I paste it using Control V. We know how to cut Control X and Control V, and here they have given the information. I just want to add that information here, not at the top of the design. It should be in a left alignment. It can be justify alignment. I want to add details and just delete those unwanted saves. And here I want to paste that align and do the correction work later. I just places all those things here I have those information which is shop, no one I enjoy, don't need that. Limited time discounts, special traps. I'm going to move this below, going to add those information here. Now, we have the keywords to provide information, motivation to the buyers and going to add the final elements. I was added all those elements in the design. Now I don't want this, I just delete that. Here I'm going to add all those elements. Of course, I can change the arrangement later. Now I want to add the image here. To add the image, I come to the elements and I'm going to choose the images. I come to this photo and here I want to type the keyword which is model. Have a lot of model images. You can see that. You can choose which one is app for your design. I choose this one can use if you want, if it has the feel which is required for your design. Now, I have a lot more images here. You can see we have so many free images as well as paid images. I was looking for the free image since I was creating this design for free. I have only free account, not going to use any paid account here. I choose this one, you can see how it looks. Dragon trap. This is how you can fit that image inside the frame. You can also choose what kind of dress that model should have, the color, all those things based on your selection only. Just select the right one. There are many images which is free, you can see that. You can just have a search, choose and add that inside this. I'm going to use not this one. I need more attractive image which is suitable for that design. Type the keyword model photoshoot. You can see we have so many results here. I can also search the image from royalty free websites like I come to this place, type pexels.com. This is one of the famous website. We have the royalty free images for commercial purpose. I just type the keyword which is model. And you can see, we have a lot of images. Just type model photoshoot. So we'll have list of images which is based on the keyword. You can see that. You can search all those images are free. We're not going to pay any money for that. Tug keyword model because there itself, it shows a lot of images. You can see that here itself, it shows you a lot of model images. You can choose which one you want. Fine. I'm going to use this one. When I choose this picture and I come to this place and here you can see it shows you the option which is editing Canva. They have the connection with the Canva. I directly click this image to include that inside my Canva work area. It will add as a separate file. You can see that it will be added as a separate file. You need to copy that image and you need to paste it inside this design. Have another way option, you can come to this place, we can choose the design and you can choose the type of image what you want. We have different sizes, you can see that. I'm going to choose this large one. I don't need the original one because I'm going to create this design for Facebook post purpose only. Of course, the medium is also enough, but if I want to crap it and scare it, I can use this large, which is better. I choose large and I choose download selected size, so it will be downloaded inside my BC. Now here also, you can see that it was added in my Canva page. It was completely the original dimension image. Okay, I chose this and copy this and I come to this place, here I paste it. This is how you can place this image. Yes. Now, I just kale. And I place how do I want? I just want to change the direction of the image, but I cannot change the direction, cannot flip because you can see there are so many words out there like star, super. What I do here is I just want to change the alignment, just group those elements. I just move, just exchange the positions. I just again. I can also scale the image like this. To have better impact with the design. Whenever you create the Facebook post, try to have the very good picture as a primary element, it will attract the audience and it should convey that image, the theme of the design, what you have built. That is important thing. Now, I just come to this place and group this and I just place this text here, and here I have the keywords. And I just adjust those things. Now, I just move this replace here. No, I don't need that there. I just need it here. And after that, I just line spacing. Here, I just adjust the dimension of the shape. I move here, choose the object here, I can adjust the corner radius. I adjust the corner radius. I place here, how do I want? Here I adjust the line space again. And here I want to add those informations, limited time discount and special holiday it trapping. This is how I need to separate the text content. After that, I'm going to add the remaining things. Move this here and I add this content here in a line. This is how I want to add those elements. Finally, we have the contact details here for a website. And here I want to add the list of things. I just want to make sure that fill is empty and stroke as a one pixel, it should be gray, not the black. This is how I want to play the alignment. Then after that, I want to add a few other elements. Here I chose I just want to add the bullet marks. I just come to the elements again. Type the key bullet point, I come to the graphics. In graphics, you have a lot of bullet point. You can see that how all those bullet points has the appearance. I just need one bullet point. I can duplicate and I can make it as a three. I just click here and I just reduce the size. We not yet went to adjust the color and other properties. We just now added those shapes, graphics, which is required right now, and I just need gift trapping. Just the keyword gira. You can see we have some gift trap based images. And here I want to mention limited time discount. I just want to add image for that or I can directly use these options. I'm going to choose the right one. I come to this place, we have so many pro versions. I do have some free elements here. I can use that like this or I can use these elements like this. It's up to you based on the need you're going to use. Here I'm going to directly use those I can also change the color. I don't need to add too many colors. I will change it later at the end. So we have added all those elements which is required. Now finally, I'm going to do the color adjustments, which is required for this design. Here I choose the text. I just make it bold and here I want to choose the text color from the image. You can see here I have a photocolors. I can choose it from that and I can adjust the color. Now after that, I just need the same style for this text. What I do here is I choose the text, choose the copy style and click here. I just want to choose exact text. I can copy that same style and I can add here also. This is how we added that style here. Here I want to add some different color. I don't need to use the same here also, I just need to use the bool text. It should be in a two line, which is better. Now, I choose this text and I make it as a capital letters, and I chose and I want to choose the green here. Here also I want to choose the green for these elements also, I want to use the green Here I want to choose a different font style. I don't need the normal one. I just need some celebration based font which I can use. I'm not going to use that one. As I'm going to use only the free font. Not that one also. Yeah, I can use this. I think I don't need that stroke anyway. Here I choose those text items. I choose the gray value for it. For this place also, I choose bit dark green. For this orange, I want to choose the color from the picture. I choose it from here and for this also, I'm going to use the same color. That doesn't match. Now, I come to this place for this, I can use that color Those unwanted disturbance paced colors will not be there. Here I need to add some other color. I can also change that into. Again, I just need a change. I look for new things which shows free shipping. Okay, so it's not there with too much amount of rectangle shape. Fine. Now after this, I adjust this just unlock that adjust the distance between this, I increase the font size. I make it left alignment. I think this itself enough for the contact. I'm going to add the keyword which is website icon. It will show you list of website icons. You can choose whichever you want and you can add at the beginning. Here also I'm going to use the same green going to increase the size. I can change the color of this also. So it doesn't disturb the design. Here I'm going to add some elements. I have added the keyword which is shipping and now that doesn't match. I'm going to use this one. Here I just crop this area. You can see how I'm going to use it. Use a line tool, and here use it. The same color. And finally, I can change the background color if I want, it looks good, but I just duplicate this design. I want to change the background color. I add this background color or this one that doesn't look good. I just choose the color from the cloth itself and I reduce the color value. Here I change the background color, just duplicate it again here also I want to change the background color from the skin tone I reduce the values. These are the different tonal values you can use. Again, I duplicate and here I can add any other colors the designs color if you want to add. Let me show you how can you do that? I come to the design and here we have a design. I just come to this place, I chose this menu of this design. Here I have an option called apply colors only. I chose the play colors only. I was applied that color in this design. Again, I just click here to shuffle the colors. You can see how it shuffle the color values. If you want, yes, it can also change the values in this way and just to begin this again, I have so many other designs also. If you want, you can pick that particular designs. This is a pro design, so we cannot lose that and I come back again. Here we have some other colors. See how it changed the color according to that particular design template. This is how you can change the colors in a different way. You can entirely add that color value inside this design. This is how we create the design from the scratch. We can treat every element like picture, shape, text. You can treat all those things together one by one and you'll get the output how you need to have the Facebook post in Canva.