Intermediate Canva: Discover useful features

1. Introduction : Welcome to Intermediate Canva. We're going to discover some really useful features for you to try out. You've probably been using Canva for a little while, but we're going to go through some key things that I think are quite fun and interesting that you probably don't know about or haven't used. So we're going to explore them, some of the things we're going to explore in this course. We're looking at creating brand kits, using animation, designing mock ups, editing videos, magic, right, building a website, and trying something a bit new, which is very exciting. Let's get started. 2. Creating brand kits : Welcome to this lesson on creating a new brand kit. We're just going to show you how to do it. This is what you'll see in your dashboard once you've signed in. If you head over to here where it says Brand Give a click and you'll come into Brand Kit. Well, these are all the ones that I've created over the last couple of years. To create anyone you just need to go up to here, press Add a name, this is what you'll get. A brand kit is basically a collection of everything to do with your brands, your logo, your colors, your fonts, Apse, everything, your graphics, icons, you name it. Everything is included in here. If you go on to each one, this one is logo, you can just add a new one. You can upload, Add Bride Guidelines, and it will just store in here if you go down to here as well. So you can add a new palette. If you click on that, you can have your own custom one, or you could choose a selection of these, or you can just click on here and add new colors. You just need to just play around until you go, Yeah, that's it. You can name it if you choose to. Some people do, some people don't, so that could be your main color. It's probably a good idea to name them, especially if you're working in a team. People know that's the main color, this is the secondary color, and the other one is just another color just in case things clash. That could be a really good idea, but yeah, you just go ahead and click move these, or you can just type in what it is or add what the CMYK is, which is here. It all depends if you've already got these colors, or at least precept, or if you're just playing around. But it's really easy just to go into this once you've set them up and basically just change them if you want to. In color palettes, you can actually do multiple ones. You can name this as test one, but you can also make a copy, then this could be test two. This is quite useful if you've got different projects and things going on at the same time, but you only want to use, say, these two colors in something and then say three or four in a different one. It's quite useful, but you can easily go in and just delete them if you don't want them. But it's really useful just to store all the colors that you do want to use because it's just easier to find. It saves time just clicking on each individual thing, all the time to change color. That's colors. If you go down a bit further, you'll go on to fonts. This really matters because when you're adding new text to anything that you're doing, you can choose title, subtitle, heading, all of these basically, if you've already preset these and you've already clicked on your brand kit, it will go to these cells specifically. It just saves you a lot of time and energy when you're like, oh yeah, it's actually this size. It just adds a bit of consistency throughout everything you're doing, which is really important. If you just click on any of these these little pencils you can see, Go to Choose. We're going to choose this top line actually can in bold. You can see here it says Title. But if you click down and you go, actually I want it to be body. Just click on that. This will shift down to here. The minute this is the size, you can change that bold and italic. You can't see for the specific, sometimes fonts, you can't just add those two qualities to be, this is quite bold. Anyway then you just press Save. If you don't want it, you can always discard it. You can change it again. But it's so easy to come back into this because this is on your main dashboard. Just go back into your brandket and change it whenever you want. You can even do it when you're in a design as well. If you've got a canvas image created or you're in the middle of creating something, you can actually go into Branket and there as well. It does give you a lot of options, to be honest. Yeah, you can do all this. You can also uploaded fonts. You can upload your own fonts as well. There's loads of websites out there that you can download free Vance that you quite like. Canva has a great selection. The problem is sometimes there's things you just want a little bit different. You can upload fonts, which is fantastic, and add them here. If you've already got brand guidelines as well, you might have to have downloaded ones anyway. You can still add them to these brand guidelines. Brand voice is a new thing. I haven't used it much at all. Basically magic, right? Can now sound like you basically voices. Your brand guidelines basically is probably more of a team thing, have a play around with it. It is a new feature that some people are playing with with Canva. You'll, you'll come across the most random things sometimes. But some of the tools on here are really, really good. But you have to play around and look for them basically until you find the photo is quite good. This is to store like generic photos of maybe your team office. Like the main ones that you always need to refer back to. If you're using Aflecial, you name it, it's a good idea to keep them here. You just need to go to add new up blow photos. And I'll pop here or you can just drag them straight from a file, straight across into same graphics. Same with icons. Icons is a really good one as well actually, because a lot of the time you might have your own specific icons you'd like to use. For example, you might use a different style social media icons. This is a good place to store them. It just saves you a lot of time trying to search on camera. But when you've actually already got them saved, there's loads of icon free websites out there too. Have a look at them as well. I would have a look at other sites if there are other graphics icons, fonts that you would like even look at colors before thinking of using Canva, just because it adds a different feel to whatever you're creating. Anyway, Canva has a lot of stock images, but you can tell the stock images. It's always worth just having a look on other sites, let's say. But yeah, this is brand guidelines. If you go back to brand, you can see our test is here is really show for just click on that. You can either duplicate Add Brand Kit to a folder or just delete it if you like. No, I don't actually want it. We're going to click delete. It's going to tell me it's going to delete this. Do that and the brandie, as easy as that. Then I'll go into this one, show you. This one's got a couple of logos, color palettes, these types of colors. It's only got one subheading font and it hasn't got any icons. But the main things for this is its logos and colors. So that is brand kits. Hopefully that was nice and easy for you, they're very easy to find. Once you go into a design, you go do you go to the left, scroll down, find brankets, and you can access them from any design that you're on. 3. Using animations : Let's look at animation. Animation is one of those features. It's great just to make something a little bit more interesting and mainly people use it on social media. I've just grabbed an example from one of the design drafts over here just to show you what it can do. First of all, if you click on, we'll just click on the text. This is where animation will appear. This button here, if you go ahead and click on that, you'll get all of these options here. You've got a bit of everything. You've got writing, you've got basics, but this will basically animate whatever I've selected. However, if you click on Page Animation, this will do the entire page. Whatever is on this page will be animated. Sometimes that's really good. If you think everything would be really useful being animated. There's like maybe loads of text or something like that. Like this actually worked really well, for example. That's really quite nice. But sometimes you just want something just to come in on its own. You just want the heading to be the main focus. That's the good thing about animation. If you click on a couple of things, go to animation again and say if we click on this, what you'll see is it gives you a couple of options. You can do a few things with animation. You can animate both. I'm showing you two things selected for a reason. Because when I show you one, you don't tend to use the both. You don't see them both coming in at the same time. This is a good thing to show you. You can get both come in both on, both exit. As you can see exit, it disappears, it comes in and both time in quite well. There's a lot playing around when it comes to using highlighting. Two particular things. Anyway, you need to play around with the entry of it. Usually stick to both enter, enter the speed if you want it to come quite slowly. Yeah, like that. That works really well because it comes in a nice speed that you just, oh, there it is. Rather it's coming in and you're like, oh, what happened? But you can also choose direction as well. You can choose it to come from the opposite direction. It depends on the style of your design. For this one, it's probably better to come in from the right. You can do that. It reverses the exit animation. Basically, it will come in and then it'll come out again. It all depends on what you want to animate. It's entirely up to you what you're doing. But every time you select a new style, just click on this one. It will give you different options. Sometimes this one, as you can see, all we can come up from the top and the bottom. This one is just in and out. You can see there's different options depending on the style because they're all a little bit different. The intensity on this one is a little bit different. Everything's a little bit about playing around when it comes to it. If you've been playing around, you think, actually I really don't want animation. If you go to the bottom where it says clear animation just al, it will basically clear anything you've animated which is really useful. Page animation is a bit same. Basically you can click on basically the page itself, animate. It will just the same thing. Click on it and it gives you a few options on this one. It basically limits it to entry on you. Keep going down. There's a few more options for this one in particular. They're all very different, I would say. Just play around with it as much as you can until you like it. Sometimes you just need to change something just a little bit for it to act. For example, that's actually quite good that one zooms out, have a play around. But it's very straightforward. So you either select the page, or you select the text, or even the image. The image as well as you can see as well. If it is already animated or it's already been selected to animate, it will say what it is up here. You might not see the word Anime anywhere, but if you click on Highlight It, it says animate below. Don't get confused. If you're like, I can't actually see animate. I can see this weird name. All of a sudden that's basically what the animation style is. It's these little circles that you're looking for. Click on that, you can play around with that as well. Have a play. It is really fun to add a little bit of animation. If you've got something like this, this with a lot of text, I tend to go with a page animation because it works really well and putting everything on the page in a nice order. If you've got something with a big title that you want to make stand out, then use just the text, one. Or you can also do images as well. If you feel like the text you don't want moving but image is quite interesting, then choose that. All depends on what you want to highlight, but have a play and hopefully enjoy it. 4. Designing mockups: Let's look at designing mock ups. There are two ways to do this. The first way I'm just going to show you is say for example, you have an image on your board. You're like, yeah, that would be great. In a mock up, what you would do is you'd click on the image and you go to Edit Photo, And you'd scroll down and you're looking for this app called Mock Ups. This will then come up with some really great options. Basically, Canva introduced this a while ago before it had its own little mock version, which was very limited to be honest. But this is great because this gives you loads of choices. You can pick and choose what you want. For this one, let's say if I like this particular style, I'll click on it, it will go onto my board. Then it actually tells you how to do it says here, insert your image to drag and drop any image onto the markup. Basically, if I have this image, I'll just grab it. As you can see a blue box is coming. That basically says that I've actually positioned it. It's it's going to put it into the mock up for me. There you go. Easy as that. It's easy to do and you can basically resize it. You've got this as well. This option over here is just basically a few little things just to smart app. So you've got Phil. Yeah, if you want to apply that apply changes, it will fill that entire image is actually look much better to be honest, than what it was before. It does give you a few little things that you can tweak around. Once it's in the mock up, you can flip it. It even gives you a preview appear, which is fantastic. If you want to play around with, then you're like, oh actually I think it looks better that way. Just apply changes then it will do to your image. If for example you don't like that at all, you just go to clear mock up and it will come off and then you can start again with a different image which you can use from your uploads. You can even go to your uploads, drag an image into it as well. Or you can use an element, for example. That's where I've got mine from, so we could drag this one, and I've got a big blue square and it will drag it in as well. Exactly the same as before basically. And there you go, basically you've got that option, that's option one. Option two for a mock up. Say you haven't got your made yet, but you just want to have a look through the mock ups to see if any of them are really good. If you head over to your too, if you go down to apps, you'll get thrown onto this page. Usually discover, but this is where you're looking is your apps, which is mine, is actually already got mock ups in. If you can't find this, type it in here and it will pop up for you. But this is basically what you're looking for. It's an app, it's an add on to Canva, if you click on that. Basically this will show exactly what we just shown a few minutes ago. Basically all of the options and you pick and choose. This is another way of finding it if you're not really sure or if you're doing quite a few and all your images are upload. Rather than just popping an image onto the board and then dragging on find the mock up first and then drag it on. I'm just going to quickly show you a natural photo. If we try, just click this one. We're going to go back up and we're going to use this ring photo again, drag it on, it's just rendering it. It takes a little while and then as you can see, it's popped on. The good thing with the markups, you're fine, is you can actually resize them to how you want. I could actually do it like that if I wanted. It looks pretty good. It's tied to you how you want to do it. But yeah, that is mock ups have a play with it. If you're into something like jewelry or anything that needs promoting or you want something to be shown on a phone or anything like this, use mock ups. Mock ups are really good. As you can see, it actually did it quite quickly. It doesn't take that long to actually render the image onto it. Some sites you'll find take apps at ages and you're just waiting around or sometimes it errors out. This has actually got a lot, lot faster over the last few years since this new app has been added on Give it a Play and see how you get. 5. Editing video in Canva: In this lesson, we're going to look at Ed scene videos. It's really straightforward. In Canva, you'll find it's not complicated. There are a few great options I'm going to show you now. I'm just going to borrow a video from Canva itself. I obviously found a cat video, there's plenty of them, and some really cute cats. We're going to pick this little guy here, when I drag that in, you can do it, same from uploads or any of your folders, you can just drag it onto it and you get the option to move it about entirely up to you. When I did that, you probably noticed that some of these options appeared. These three in particular, these are your video editing options. If you go to edit video, this is basically where you will adjust the color, all the effects, all the filters You're basically adding color or changing color on here. That's basically what this is. If you want to change the color, if it looks a bit dull, you can add a bit more warmth to it. It's entirely up to you, but this is basically where you'll do it. The next one is you can see a parasissors if you click on that. This is basically, tell me that this video is 35.4 seconds, which is really, really long. First of all, to basically shorten a video, you need to click on this. As you can see it, double ended arrows and you just drag it to where you want it to start. You might want to start here because it's quite cute. Same with this bit. If you just pull it back in and say, if I want to bring it down to 5 seconds, you can see it's now 5 seconds here. Another thing you can do with this is if you say, I want it 5 seconds, but actually I want this snippet. This bit always gets tongue out. You can use this, basically highlight this, you'll get 2 hours. If you highlight the actual middle part, you'll get a little hand Ron. This is where you can basically move it up and down to suit you basically. Once you've decided what you want, you press the last one you'll see is playback. This is where your video speed, you can change, it could be faster. If it is, as you can see, it changes the length of the videoing. Or you can change it back. You can play and repeat. Or you can play automatically. Most of the time you would want to play automatically. So you don't really change anything. That's basically a video to see it. You can either click on it, which is rendering a minute, or you can go up to here. You can view your video by clicking on There they go. There's a little snippet just there. If you think, oh, that's fantastic, then you can go straight to download. You don't need to go back into that page to download it. You can do it from here. Basically, you would basically do it as an MP four video and download. You can also do it from here as well. I don't know why it's done this freeze frame but it start rendering properly. But yeah, you can do it from here as well. We share download MP four and download again. Have a little player with videos. See what you can do. 6. Magic write: Welcome to the magic of magic, right? This is a really interesting tool, especially if you're writing long pieces of content or you need some ideas. It's a little bit like at GBT, in a way. It's a simpler version, but it's really useful. If you go onto your camera, click on Doc, and this is what appears. This is like a normal document like you would a Google Doc, basically style. There are two different ways you can use magic, right? First of all, you use this symbol over here where it says, Add on that you go to magic, right? This is basically where you are prompted to do something. For example, you might say, right me five interview questions and generate, this is where you'd ask it to basically do something for you. As you can see, it's green and it's highlighted. It's basically saying, I'm basically the answers for your query. Basically, you might think, okay, I actually don't like any of those. This is where you've got a few options. If I highlight that again, you'll notice this has just appeared the responses that you get for something. If you highlight it, it will give you this option if you click on here. And these are the options you've got to continue writing, summarize, rewrite, more fun, more formal. Sprinkle fairy does is a bit of a weird one. Basically it adds like a bit of a wording around a Chantan magical and that energy into your writing that might not suit what you're looking for and thick spelling for now, we're going to ask it to rewrite itself because we don't really like them. What it's done is it will now hop down to the bottom. These green responses are the new ones. This is basically the changing of this. Every time you ask it to do something new, what it will do is it will pop it to the bottom. The response from, if I highlight this again, if I was to ask it to do something again, it will pop it underneath and this will get pushed, but it gives you a lot of options to do loads of things, which is really, really fun. You can change the tone or however you want to do it, but it's worth having a play with this. The second way of doing it, however, is for example, say if you've got text and you're like they go, I don't like this. Go to magic write Again, when you highlight text or anything, it does give you the option of this. Let's click on that again. I want it to continue writing this time. As you can see below, it's continued writing. It's added more information to what I've basically asked it to rewrite, add more information about. You can do so many things with this. The list is endless, basically have a play around with it. You can pretty much ask anything. It will figure out certain things. It might require a bit more information. But whatever you're doing, make sure that you're clear on what you want. If you're prompting it to do something, be clear and give it a bit of information of what you want. Basically, if you're highlighting text like this, it's really, really useful. It's a great way just to change your text to suit what you need. For example, let's see if this will summarize this. This is adding it, it's not doing it in a minute. But yeah, it's really useful tool for absolutely everything. It can be slow at times just because it's trying to figure out what it's doing. It might not be as quick as everything else, depending on what you've asked it to do. It might be struggling with this purely for the fact that this is quite short as well. It doesn't really understand it. It is all about trial and error with it is, however, really useful. If you do want, for example, ten headlines about something specific, it can give you them. But you might be like, I'll win six wires or something. But try and be specific if you can. So that is magic, right? 7. Build a website: In this lesson, we're just going to cover off how to build a quick website. Basically, you'll just go on to camera and find website and you can create whatever website you want. I selected a portfolio just to show you basically what it can do and the benefits of it. This is basically what we'll see like every other Cama board, it offers templates like every other Canva thing, which is fantastic to help you get started. Sometimes when you create a website just there's too much choice. I'm just going to show you what you can do. Let's select this one. All you need to do is quick and it will add it to your page. Then you just need to add another page. We'll add that one, add another one, and we'll add. What I've effectively done is I've added sections to my website. But what you've noticed now is that these seem to be seamlessly attached, a bit like a website page. That's how quickly you can create a web page, basically. Basically, there are a lot of options on here that you can play around with. I'm just going to show you a few. Now that I've created a really, really basic site, you can basically play around layouts. For example, you are only able to show, I think, seven on the key ones, but there are additional ones. These are basically the template templates that you can use that are in this style. You can add these at any points. I'm just going to grab this and select it, and you can see it's purple, purply blue color. It's basically added in, obviously add other bits in and stuff like that. But you can also do things like this. You can expand pages and stuff like this if you think that just needs moving about. There are a lot of features you can do with this. Two can play around, but you can see how quickly that was basically generating it. You can obviously add everything that you normally do. You can add videos, you can add photos, you can add links, all sorts of things to other sources. When it comes to the style of this as well, it's the same as anything else. You just click on something. If you change it, it will change it across everything. Also styles is quite handy to know as well where you can change the style to match your brand guidelines. Brandts that we create a lay run. You can basically choose like for example, click on this one and it will basically say, actually, let's try this. Oh, there we go. That's better if you keep clicking on this, it swaps between all the colors that are in the palette and then just go to apply to all. As you can see, it's applied to all. Basically what it's doing is taking those colors and mixing them in. There are a lot of different things that you can do to actually see your site. You're probably creating it going, oh, I can't really see what I've created. You can click Preview a bit like every other platform. When you create a website, you get to see what you've created. You can just scroll down nice and easy and everything's there. You can also see it on mobile, which is handy if you scroll down the same thing, you can see all the images. And once you've thought, yeah, that's great, you can close it. Just here. When you are ready to publish your website, it's pretty straightforward. You click publish, you basically choose a free domain. This is basically will have Canva on it. You can use a purchased one if you want an existing domain. You can link domain names to this. It's actually really flexible in that, but if you are just creating a simple page, you can just use the free one. Press continue what the page URL is. This is because it's a website basically, but you wouldn't have this option description and then publish. The good thing about this is you can go back and forth a bit like a website editor like Wicks. But every time you make any changes or anything like that, you have to publish your website. It's basically updating the content. If anyone looks at it, it's updated as much as possible. You don't just leave it and then come out. You have to make sure you publish it. That's just a brief overview of building a website is very shapeward, very easy. If you want to create something, you could probably do it under 30 minutes easily if you had everything to hand have a play with it. If this is something you need to do, then definitely have a play, see what you can make of it. I will be creating another course on this in particular, because there's just so much on here that you can do. It's worth keeping an eye out for that. But yeah, I have a play if you do want to learn more about it, obviously forums and camera has lessons and stuff that you can look into to help your understanding of this. 8. Try something new : This last time, we're just going to look at some new features that Cambra offers. If you go to where it says more, you will see something called Try something New. These are all the new things to try. Infographics is great fun. Forgive a click onto that one. You can try out all of the different styles. This makes life so much easier when you're doing infographics. To be honest. You've got infographics, you've got photo car logs, which is fantastic wallpapers, a graph, unlimited book covers, mind maps. They're brilliant, especially if you're trying to figure things out and the list is endless. You can see that you can do like magazine covers, zoom, virtual backgrounds. The list of things that you can do has actually massively grown. Instead of trying to figure out where it is and stuff like that, you can let you come here and you can find all of the various canvas boards that you can try. Calendars, get click on that one, that's quite fun. One. You can see the various types of calendars that you can set up. Here's an interesting one, Content Ideas, But you can pretty much do anything here when it comes to canvas, anything you want to create, It's got it. If you're looking for something specific, then type it in here. Otherwise, come over here and just try something new section and just discover what you can do. You do have all of these options up here. You've got your documents, you've got your whiteboards. Brainstorming as well here. Flow charts, figuring out how things work. You've got your presentations, the different formats that you can do, social media. These are all the typical ones, videos, these are the ones that basically already preset for those channels. So you've got Instagram reels so you can click around that print products. So anything that you think about you want to print websites. Websites is a fantastic new thing that canva introduced. It makes life so much easier with certain things you could do like a portfolio really easily on these types of websites. I mean, says portfolio website just fantastic. But you can design a website basically, really easy. You don't need to go and find another provider for it. You can create basically a landing page with all the information on here. It is worth trying out some of these. I've used the portfolio one, you can create some really great looking portfolios, very slim line. Not a lot of effort needed into it, but it's great to just try these things out. Then obviously these three level dots will introduce you to anything new. Then here's your infographics. And these are basically everything you see above here is basically seen down here. So you can actually get a little feel for what everything does. You've got your wallpapers, your graphs, here's some good book cover ideas, and it goes on and on. When it comes to Canva, it's always developing, which is absolutely fantastic. A couple of years ago you wouldn't have seen hardly any of these. You probably would have stuck to the means of four or five. But it has expanded. I would recommend if you want to write something like essays. Docs is the way to go. Whiteboards, brainstorming, presentations, pretty standard. Social media is great. Videos is really good, So that links into social media. If you're looking at leaflets, go to print products. If you want to build your portfolio websites and if you just want something different, have a look here. Obviously you can search for it as well. You can see so many advantages of people see when they come to Canva why people stay on here. Because anything you need to create is on here and they've made it so easy for you to use as well have a play around. If there's something specific you want, type it in here. Otherwise, just explore what there is to offer. It's a great inspiration for you if you're not really sure what you want to create, or you might think, oh, actually I do want a new desktop wallpaper. Well, they go, this is how you do it, this is where you'd be able to do it, have a new explore.