Mood Board Design Essentials in Canva

1. Welcome to the course: Hi, and welcome to the course on Moodboard creation using Canva. This is Bangladesh, and I'm your instructor for this course. For the past 22 years, I was working as a professional instructor, teaching various multimedia courses. I'm really excited to have you here. Mood boards are one of the most powerful ways to bring ideas to the life. Whether you are a designer, a marketer, a student, or simply someone who loves organized creative ideas. Mood board helps you to tell stories visually and communicate your vision with clarity. In this course, I will teach you everything you need to know about creating mood boards from scratch. First, we'll explore what are mood boards, why they are important, and how they are used in fashion, branding and creative projects. Then we'll drive into the canva a simple but powerful design tool where you will learn how to use templates, upload and organize your assets, and apply the design principle. Together we'll create practical projects using layouts, grids, typography, colors and textures to make your mood board looks polished and professional. Finally, I'll show you how to export and share your mood boards so you can present them to the clients, team, or even showcase them to social media. By the end of this course, you will have the confident and skills to design stunning mood boards that capture your creative vision. Plus, you'll complete a hands on project that can add to your portfolio or use for your personal professional work. If you are ready to transform your ideas into visuals and bring your creativity to the next level, let's get started. See you inside the course. 2. What is a Moodboard Purpose and Applications: In this lesson, we are going to see what is moodboard and its purpose as well as the applications. So mood board design is a collection of visual elements. We collect all those visual elements to create the overall look and feel of the project what you are creating. For an example, if you are creating advertisement for a core company, we'll collect the core images and all elements including colors, text, and the primary other elements like logos and the models we are going to use with that design work. We'll put all the things in a single design and create the perfect concept to do the design which have right mood. That's why this is called mood board design work. This is an example of this moodboard design work. You can see that they used the images. They used images of the products and the location of where they may have the shop or the particular products. When you want to do a design work for these products, which is available with the images and logo maybe that, you can utilize those colors because we derived all the colors from the respective images. You can see those things. And overall, it creates the very good feel of the same product representation over the design. Instead of these colors, if I used a red or green or something like yellow or blue, the concept will be entirely different and that will not have the proper, the unity and that will not create the proper mood of the design which is relevant to the concept. That's why mood board is highly essential. When we do the moodboard design, that time itself we know what kind of color tone we are going to use and how the overall look will have with the advertisement. Let me give you another example with this. Here I have another example of a mood board design. They have provided with different images as well as you can see that they have d products here. We have a coffee beans and coffee cup, all those products, what they are going to use for their design work, whether it is graphic design work or web design work, whatever it is. Thereafter, we have the same collections here and here also. You can see that they collected all the colors from those images and when you create the overall moodboard design work, you can know what kind of design you are doing, what kind of mode that requires and based on the mode board only, you are going to create the further design, whether it is a graphic design work or web design work, whatever it is, we're going to do that work based on this mode board design only. Why mode board is highly essential for doing any design work, not just for the graphic design work, for a web design, for a greeting card design, for creating interior design was anything, you should create this mode board before you start to do the work. Next we are going to see the role of mood board in design. When you start the design work directly, you may not have the idea about how that design will elevate. When you do the graphic design or any other design works directly, you may not have any other idea other than you started the work and you just want to add some images, whether it was providing the proper feel or the mood for the design or not. But when you have the mood board design, you created the mood board before you start the design work. You'll exactly get that feel of the purpose of the design with this mood board itself and it's easy to carry forward that same feel with your design also. That was a major purpose. Why do we use the mood board design with any concept? And we are going to see the applications of moodboard design. Moodboard have a lot of applications. The major application is it helps us to create the perfect design with the proper mode, which is highly essential because if you design any product or event based designs, that doesn't reflect the concepts. Mode means you cannot reach that content to the audience in easy manner. When the audience provide only a few seconds, like two to 3 seconds or 5 seconds to access your design within that sipulated time, you have to attract them and you have to communicate that information with the audience. That's why mode body is highly essential for the design work. And here we have a few other importance of the mood board design work. It's really highly essential for branding and marketing because that two processes branding and marketing highly required proper mood to reach the audience and this helps you to prepare the better concept development work and execute that concept in a proper way. That's why this is highly essential for any brand marketing or any other design works with any tool, not just with a canva. Any tool is highly essential. In designer point of view, this mood board provides you what kind of colors they used with the design work and what typography you are going to do with that. What will be the size of each element? All those will be synced with the concept and the objectivity of the design. That was the major application of the mood board design with any software. These are the purpose and applications of mood board creation using any tool which is also included with Canva. 3. Types of Moodboards Digital vs Physical: In this lesson, I'm going to show you the different types of moodboard design. Of course, before we use the computers for creating moodboard design, we do have that concept that exists. Let us see what are all the different types of moodboard designs we have to do design works. We have two types of moodboard design works. Generally, we know that the mood board is a collection of visual elements. We put together to create the proper mode for the design work. This moodboard design work have two types. First one is the physical board. We use the physical images, colors and elements to organize and create that mode what we required for any graphic design work. The second thing what we have is digital boards. We use the digital software tools to create the mood board design before we complete any design work. These are the two different category moodboard designs based on the N, we still use both concepts. This is an example for a physical mood board design. It's a simple example. We to add the too many elements of that advertisement or a design based on the need, we add colors, images, we add shapes, all those things with the physical mood board design concept. Here I have the digital mood boards. First one is we have the mood board design. They collected different images, which is relevant to the products material and the used the colors which is creating the proper mood for that product. So they didn't move away from the product concert, which is orange. They used that and apart from that, they used the water color, which is the blue. Overall, it gives you the mood of that orange with the water and they used white as neutral color tone here. It creates that mood and this design itself gives you the idea that what are all the colors, what are all the elements, images you are going to use with your design work. Now this is another example of the digital mood board design. Here they added different models image with the representation of that products. We to have the typography work, the sample work here, and we have the colors which we are going to use to represent these product based advertisement design or graphic design or any other design using this mood board concept. This is how we create moodboard design. This is how we have two different types of moodboard designs. What's the difference? That was an important thing. Let us see what the major difference between this digital and physical in terms of wing mechanism. First one is this digital. The digital mode boards provides instant access to you from anywhere. That's an important thing when you travel somewhere or you are not with your PC, you are not in your home or office, but still wherever you are, if you have the device with you, even a mobile device, which is enough to access and do modifications and creation of the digital mode boards. That makes that as a highly flexible concept to compare the physical one but in terms of tangibility, physical is highly recommended because you see that color of the image, the colors, the text with your hand, and you touch it, you feel it and you create and think in a better way to do moodboard design. That was the biggest advantage of the physical way of preparing moodboard design. Third one is a collaboration tool, of course, the digital moodboard design concept allow you to share with multiple users in terms of how they to think about that mood board. They can share their feedback, which is not easy to get with a physical form. So even we create that moodboard design with Canva, we can share with anyone in the world and you can allow them to give their comments. Even if you can, yes, you can allow them to do modifications with that moodboard concept also. So in terms of collaboration, that digital format plays the better role with comparing physical. As we have seen with the digital mood boards, it really allows you to do editing and sharing again. Through sharing also, you can do the modifications with digital mood board. When physical, it provides you the experience, the life experience of creative exploration. Most of the people who do the mood board design work around 85% of the designers, they preferred digital mood boards over the physical ones nowadays because that two reasons which is we can share everywhere and we can collaborate with the people or the team among them. That saves a lot of time and that doesn't have a boundary. So it clearly makes the sense which is highly using concept is digital moodboard design. So in a moodboard design first, we gather all the elements, the images, the colors, textures, all those things, and we process all those materials to create the moodboard design for doing any design work. After our mood board collections, we put together and we arrange all the items and convert as the desired mood board design. The arrangement of images, not just images, arrangement of colors, arrangement of visual elements, shapes, and the text information, all those things are highly essential. After you created the moodboard design, you present that with the team or, you know, the co workers or the boss. They will provide their own input to you and the feedback to you and you can fine tune those information using this moodboard design. After collected all those feedbacks, you can properly reflect those needs required with the mood board designs and you can do all those things. This is how the mood board works and that's why the moodboard design is highly essential before you do any design work. And this physical and digital forms are the two major forms we have with the moodboard design, and most of the people use the digital concept because it doesn't have any boundary and it was highly essential to share with anyone around the world. 4. Canva Interface Overview: In this lesson, you're going to see the user interface of Canva. If you are first time using this app, you better completely watch this video. However, if you already know how to use the Canva, you can directly go to the next lesson. Now, this is the basic user interface of Canva. This is the homepage right now this color indicates were at this homepage. When I choose projects, I will have the previously created project designs on my user interface. I have the template absen to access the various template designs from Canva. You have the option called brand. With the help of this brand, you can set your own brand logo and color values, including the typographical works. Can also use the A feature to do any design work as well as how to create those images using generative AI. These are the options we have with this tool we have with the Canva on left hand side. At the top, you can see that we have the option called Menu. You can click there to access the Menu bar and it shows you the recently created designs from this user. Again I click there at the bottom, you can see that we have the con settings. In this home page at the bottom, I have a recent designs, you can see that and Canva themselves provided what was a recent new elements they have added with the various templates. When the home banner area, we have three categories. We have your designs and we have the templates, then we have Canva AI. All these three will be highly useful for you. If you want to search or open any file from your design, you can directly choose design. You can type the keyword and you can search and you will get those results here. However, if you want to access the templates, you can choose the template. You can type the keyword and you will get all the templates in this place. And you have a Canva AI. So if you want to create any content using this Canva AI concept, you can utilize this and that will provide you the generated content from Canva. Now by default, it will be in a template. If you want, you can change that. Again, I click this home icon. You can see here, I have a search bar. Using that only, I'm going to navigate my own design or templates or egg generated work. Below that, I have the different category of the files. So I have the logos, I have educational, I have sheets, docs, whiteboard presentations, social media, photo editor work, and video, printable works, website. All those things are highly useful links. You can directly click to create any social media work or web design work or But editing work, and you will get the templates as well as the blank document. However, if you want create a customized manner, you can use this custom size and you can create your own proper custom dimension design works in Canva. These are the options we have with the Canva. With the help of these only, we are going to do the further moodboard design in Canva. 5. Exploring Templates for Moodboards: Oh in this lesson, we are going to explore the various templates available with Canva itself. To access that in our home page, we have the banner area. In banner area, I have the navigation bar with three different categories. In previous lesson, I explained to you this in detailed manner. In this, now I'm going to choose this templates category. I click there. After choosing the templates, here I'm going to type and search the element I required on screen. I'm going to type the keyword which is moodboard. And when I type this keyword moodboard and I'm going to have the search, I'll have a lot of categories. You can see that it shows you the moodboard fashion and wedding and moodboard template, all those things are there. I'm going to type the keyword moodboard and just click Moodboard fashion. Let us see. I just click that Moodboard fashion. When I choose moodboard fashion and presenter, I click there that selection, it provides you a lot of results here. See that all those things are the mood board designs. Now let me open one design here. I'm going to use this design. However, this design was the pro user design. I cannot access and I'm going to choose the next one. I just click there and after choosing that, I have a customized option here, I can customize this template if I want. This template is a moodboard design. You can see that. Now, I just scroll down. When I scroll down, I to have a lot more moodboard designs which is relevant to the same category. You can also access those designs from here itself. I can access this design or access next design. It's up to you based on your need only you are going to do all those things. Now I'm going to choose customize this template. When I choose customize this template, I will have the same information, that template in a separate window here. Here you can see I have the primary elements of this concept, which is the images. I have a flows which is having those colors. I have the coffee mic and the book and other all elements which is completely relevant to the concept. The colors, which is derived from all those images, what we have with this page, you can see that what are all the colors we have here, which is also present on those images. This is how we select that moodboard design template and you can customize if you want. Again, I go to my template search page. Here I just close this template because I want to access other designs also. We have a lot of designs here, you can see that all those designs are highly will help me to complete this moodboard design. Later we are going to use that moodboard to create other walks. I'm going to choose this one.This mood board. You can see that this mode board design have the images which provide you that color theme which is highly relevant to that tourism concept and natural based things. The typography, what we have here is to represent the same concept. We do have the color selection here, which is highly represent those images and theme. Look at all those elements, it creates perfect mood of that vacation and nature that feel to, you know, that visitors or the people who want to go for, you know, journey or the tour. So this is how, you know, moodboard creates that feel. Can access any moodboard design which you want to use and you can just click this option which is customize this template. When you click that, you can edit that moodboard design directly. As a beginner, you may use those templates directly. You can just replace those images, can delete it and replace that based on that images colors and the product colors, you can select the background color and the remaining colors, what you are going to use with your designs. This is how we navigate, search, and access the mood board templates from Canva. In our next lesson, I will show you how you can upload your own images, how you can add it inside the design, how you can do those changes which is required, those templates in Canva. 6. Uploading and Organizing Visual Assets: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can just upload your visual assets and manage within a canva. To do that, I just add a new page in my template. Here I'm going to show you how we upload and add inside my page. To upload first within the Canva, I go to my left hand side menu. Here I have options, which is included design, and we have elements, text, brand, upload, tools, projects, apps, and all those things. In those things, I'm going to choose the option called upload. You can see that we have the upload option here. I just click there. When I click there, I have this option which is upload. In upload, I have three options. You have images. When you upload any image, you will hit the image here. After that, I have a video. So if you uploaded a video files, those video files will be here. Then I have folder. You can directly inside a folder, you can upload the folder and you can start to use those elements. Let me show you how we upload the images first. I just click here images, and after that, I choose the option which is upload files. After choosing this upload files, I'm going to choose the image I want to upload. At first, I just select this picture, the very first one, and I choose this option which is open. Here at the bottom, I have option which is open. I have several images. I can upload all those things later. I choose open. When I choose this upload option, you can see here preview of that images getting uploaded, and here also we have a image. So at the bottom of that image, you have seen that navigation bar which shows that image is getting uploaded. This is how we can upload individual image or individual video inside the canva. I just click this image once so that I can load that image inside my design. This is how we upload a picture or video inside the Canva. I just delete this. And now I choose the folders. So if you want to create a separate folder and want to maintain all those things, better you should create this folder icon because here I have the scattered images. It's not easy to go and find the particular picture. I choose the folders and I choose this option, create folder, and here I can mention that option, which is the folder. So I'm going to give the name which is moodboard and I choose Continue. After choosing that, you can see I have that folder, which is moodboard. Now I have the option here to access that same folder, but I can access from here also. And when I come and choose this, the mood board, just not just choose, I just move my mouse over that folder. I can either select that particular folder. I can delete, or I can organize that same folder in other folder in different places. Or I have the menu here. I just choose that I can move to somewhere else. I can share. I can select multiple folders or I can delete. I can also rename that folder using this option. I can do all those options using this. Now I enter inside this moodboard, I just click there. Inside right now I don't have any files. I can upload the files inside this. I choose Upload and I just select upload files and I can choose whatever the files I want to upload. I'm going to choose a multiple files here. I choose six images from this, one, two, three, four, five, six, and I choose open. Now those images are getting uploaded, you can see that. I already uploaded one image. Now I was uploading more images. Here you have the progression, it shows those images are getting uploaded and the progress, the status of the uploading process you can see here. Now, after that, I choose each image like this. And here I have option which is move. I click this option move and I can choose the folder mood board and I can choose move. This is how you can organize those files. Now you can see that all those images are moved inside the folder, which is not present here. I go to the folder here and I can see that all those images are there. Can either individually upload those images or you can directly choose the folder. You can just drag and drop that folder, the entire folder inside this place. So all the elements which is present inside that folder, whether it was a PSD file or GFC image or T file or video files, all those elements will be getting uploaded without any errors. So after upload all those elements, you can just visit and you can see all those elements. You can utilize if you want to use that inside the design. So this is how you can upload and organize all your content for creating mood board design inside Canva. 7. Color Psychology and Palettes: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how do we use colors in Canva? And what are the basic color principles, color combinations? Color psychology we have in designing process. This process, the color selection and color combination, and that color theory, color psychology, all those things are universal concept. You can apply the same principle for any kind of design, not just for the mood board design. Canva itself shows you how we can utilize the colors, how to understand the colors and other concepts based on the colors. To access that facilities, I just go to Google. And here I'm going to type Canva colors. It just type Canva color. You don't need to type Canvas color theory, something like that. You type Canva color and colors, you can see that at very first, I have the website link which is having calva.com and colors. I just click there. When I click there, I will get this page. Here, it provides a lot of facilities to Nance and get the knowledge about the colors and usage here. Here I have four options. You can see that I have color palette generator, which helps you to generate the color from the respective image you have uploaded or used inside the design. I have color palette ideas, which provides you the different color combinations which is better for any do design work. Then you have color wheel. It gives you the basic knowledge from the primary colors to tertiary colors and how we have different combination of colors, what are all the different headimal values we have for each color. And finally, we have color meaning, which provides the color psychology and where we can use which color. So let us start with this color wheel. Then only you can understand all the options. I choose this option, which is color wheel. So when I choose this option and I come down, it clearly shows that the history of the color wheel and how the Isaac Newton was first invented this color wheel at 16 66. Of course, he's the first person created this official color wheel with three colors, which is called red, yellow, and blue. These colors are primary colors, not RGP or CMOK. Don't forget that this knowledgeable answer, which is the primary color is red, blue, yellow shows that you have a professional knowledge, and if you are saying that RGB or CMOK is primary color, you are out of the industry. This is the primary color, red, blue and yellow. Colors are also called pure colors because you cannot create these colors by combine other colors. That's why these colors are called primary colors. Here you can see that we have the different colors here. We have the color combinations and before color combinations, you can see that we have a color wheel here. When I have this red blue and yellow. Here, the order was in a different manner, but generally this color wheel will not have this appearance. In Canva, they have provided in a different way. I'll have the color wheel in a different format. Let me show you the orthodox sketchbook and how those colors are formed. Now to explain these concepts, color wheel, let me use this presentation. Here I have the primary colors. Those colors are called red, blue, yellow. Those colors are pure colors, which means, you know, they didn't made by any other color combination. After that, when I blend two primary colors like a blend red and blue or red and yellow or yellow and blue, I will have another color which is called secondary color. Here you can see that when I blend red and blue, I will have purple and when I blend red and yellow, I will have orange and when I blend blue and yellow, I will have green. The green, orange, purple, all these three colors are called secondary colors, which is formed by the combination of each primary color. These three colors added with the color wheel which create six color combinations. You can see that along all the sides, I have one primary color and one secondary color. In the same way here also, I have one primary color and one secondary color. So these color combinations creates other six colors in each place, which creates tertiary colors. Here you can see that the purple and red creates the light purple color and the green and the yellow, which is green is secondary color and yellow is primary color, which create the sap green or light green in that way, it creates six more colors are called tertiary colors. So six plus three plus three, which is primary three colors, secondary three colors, and tertiary six colors, creates 12 colors, which is the color wheel with 12 colors. You can see that this is called color wheel, which is made by primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Now I come here, you can see that we have the color wheel which is having two segments. We divide this color wheel into two segments. On the other side, I have the purple, blue, the dark green, the dark purple. All those colors are called cool colors, which creates the cool feel when you see those colors on any place like in a trees or in a house, interior design or outer design, you will feel cool. You have those colors on the product or design or clothes. And other side, we have the colors called warm colors, which creates the energetic feel for our brain. So based on our brine sense, we divide this color wheel into two equal parts, warm colors and cold colors. So after the creation of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, we have a combination of colors which is called color harmony, which means how we are going to utilize those 12 colors for our design. The combination of multiple colors are called color combinations or color harmony. Here at first, I have option called complimentary colors, which means in color wheel, I choose any two colors present on opposite direction of each color. That two color combination is called complimentary color. So this is how we have the color selection for complimentary colors, and we have monochromatic, which means we use only one pure color, and from that pure color, we are going to use light and dark shades, which is called monochromatic. Next I have analogous color scheme, which means I'm going to use three continuous colors of this color wheel from anywhere, not just that presently shown a blue color combinations. If I used red, orange and yellow, that too comes under this analogous or yellow, green, and light green also comes under this analogous. If I use that color selection for my design, that is called analogous color scheme, and I have triatic, which means I'm going to choose the three colors from the color wheel which is having the triangle shape, which is called a triatic. You can clearly see here I choose three colors with proper three color distances. I can see that. That's why this is called a triatic. Then I have tetratic. I choose any four colors, which is having that square like appearance, which is called tetratic, which means four colors. You can see that. For this also, you can choose any three colors, not just a single color. Here they provided you but that order was in a different position. This is not the right the color combination. This yellow should be here, not on display. Okay. So they to provided you warm colors, cold colors, that's it. And here I shows you that monochromatic color theme, which means this is the pure color. You have light and dark values, right? That concept is explained here. We have the option called tint shade and tone. What is tint, share and tone? I had the pure color, either it is a red or yellow or whatever it is, I was adding white with that step by step ten, ten percentage or 2020 percentage that color will be diluted slowly and this kind of color creation or color selection process is tint, which means adding white with pure color step by step. Now I have an option called shad, which means adding dark color, which means black with the pure color step by step. So it can be any pure color, either red or yellow or blue, whatever it is. I was adding black with that color step by step, which is called Shad. If I add the gray value with that pure color step by step that is called tone. These three concepts widely used in a design, and we do have the concept called hue, saturation and luminance, which means hue means we know that colors. We are mentioning about the variety of colors and saturation means we just enance or adding more colors that, desaturation means removing the colors and when we see about the image editing process, I will show you how it works. Luminance means we are adding more light with that color. That's how it works. This is how we have the basic information about color with the Canva page. As I told you, the color wheel is entirely different from these color wheels, but the color combinations, you can use this concept from the canva. The most important part with this color wheel is on right hand side, you can see that I have the color wheel which is working in a live manner. Let me show you how we use that. Here at this place, I have the option called pick a color. So I can pick a color from this particular position. Whatever the color I choose, I can choose. And here also, I can click and select the color which I require. Here it shows you the hexa decimal value of that color. The first two letters represents red color value from 0255. The second two colors represent the green color, a decimal value from 022 55 and the last two colors represents the blue color value. Based on the need, you are going to select which color you want. Remember here, have the two dots, you are going to select which one, the color selection point. So that point indicates with a bigger stroke, you can see that. When you choose that, after this picking the color, we have the option called choose a color combination. Here right now I have option called complimentary color. When I choose this complimentary color, the color will automatically detect the direct opposite color on the color wheel as we have seen here. That's why this particular color wheel represents different color combinations. After the combinations, this complimentary, I have monochromatic. You can see both colors are selected from nearby places. And I have analogs, we select three colors, the continuous colors from the design. It can be either light and dark values, based on the need you are going to choose. That I have triatic which pick three colors from the color wheel. You can see that it creates different color pattern for your design, which is perfectly matched for that color combination. After triatic I have tetratic. I choose the tetra. I can select four colors for white design. Based on the number of colors you required in a design, you can use this option and you'll perfectly get the colors what you required. You can also choose the light and dark values of those colors. This is how you can use this color wheel option in Canva. So after choosing this color selection, you can choose a creative graphic and the designs and templates, which is available based on the color combinations will be displayed to you. This is how it works the color wheel option in Canva. Now, again, I choose colors, so I was getting back to my home page of colors. After this, I have the option called Color Palette generator. I choose color palette generator and I need to upload image. Here they have provided you the sample. When they have uploaded the image, it picks four colors from that image which is suitable for creating designs with Camera. You can directly use those colors in your moodboard design. I'm going to check it whether it works properly or not. I choose upload an image and I'm going to upload on picture. I'm going to choose this picture. Let us see how it provides you the result or this picture I choose and I choose open so here it picks the colors from the picture. You can see that these four colors are generated from this image. So you can upload any image, and it will generate the color palette which is required for you. So you can directly use this color palette in a design. It too provides you the color name as well as the color exact resemble value. You can directly utilize those colors and those colors are perfectly matched with designing process, whatever the design, not just mood board design. Whatever the design you do, it will help you lot to pick the right color combinations. You can use either four colors or only three colors from the design or only two colors. Based on the need of that color design, you can utilize how you need it. After this, I come to these colors again and here I have color palette ideas. I click Color Palette ideas. Here default provide a lot of color combinations. Here you can see that we have analogous color combinations and here we have tetratic color combinations. Based on the need, you can directly utilize those color combinations. You can see we have 19 plus color combinations. You can just come here and you can check which color combination is required for your design and you can utilize directly from that. Here also you can type the keyword about the particular color. Based on that also you will get the combinations. For example, just type red and press Enter. Now I press Enter after adding the red, I have the red color combinations here. I can directly pick it from here. This is how these color palettes, the default color palette they have provided for you and you can directly use. Now I come back to these colors again. At the end, I have the option called color meanings. I click color meanings here. So I have a lot of colors here by default. I can click any one color, and I will get the meaning on this particular page alone. Like, I just click here Amber, and they provided the default information about that particular color. It's a warm color. You can see that and where they most of the time use. And what does that mean that color, the history of that color, when they used that color for the first time. And what are all the colors you can combine with that color? So all those information are provided here in detail no one else can provide those information like Canva. That was the best part with this color meanings. Again, I come here, I'm going to choose this one and here they have provided all the information about that particular color. They have the proper combination colors here. You can also choose those colors and the meaning of that color and what are other colors you can combine and use. Remember on many the soda cans and what else, they utilize these color combinations only to generate the perfect design and the product. This is how these color options are working with the Canva. First, go through this color wheel, then you go for color palette, color palette ideas, and finally, just visit and have the detailed information about color meanings, all those things are provided by Canva. 8. Typography and Font Pairing in Canva: In this lesson, I'm going to show you the typography and font pairing with Canva. So this typographic concept is highly essential for create any design. During the mood board creation process itself, we will decide what are all the different font families and what are the different font phases we require. Now, before you go for selecting those things, you need the clear knowledge with the typography and the font pairing for any design work. Now, Canva to teach you that concept with the representation of example images. Let me show you how you can access those informations. How do you get those informations for our design work. So to do that, I come to this, Google, and I'm going to type typography in Canva. I don't want to type typography in Canva. Then I just type the keyword Canva. It will provide you the better page to understand the typography and Canva. I just go to this link which is your ultimate guide to understand typography. After visiting this page, you can have a lot of information about how the typography looks and what are all the other information you need to know about those typography. Before you access all those informations, you to need to know how the typography, the structure have the look. To access that, I come to this place typography and it will show you the basic pages which is having the information about typography in Canva. All those informations directly provide for you to understand typography. Now I come to the second page. And it shows you the beautiful information about the typography. I click here, which is having the caption, which is a beautifully illustrated glossary of typographic terms for you. I just click here and clearly it shows this image shows what is typography. Let me show you each segment what they marked with a different colors. Without this knowledge, you cannot utilize the proper typography work for design works. Now by scroll down, it clearly shows what are all those marks you have here. Each information was prepared by the Canva itself. First, I just click here, I can see there, we have the option called stroke, stem, swash, foot. All those information are provided with different colors here. You can see here they have marked all those colors and here also they marked all those colors. At first, they have the option called typography basics. Here they provided you the first concept which is font or type phase, which means what kind of font file you are going to use. Here we have different categories. You can see that different font type or type phases. The second one is the character. You can see here the characters. What we have with each and every font file is letters, numbers, and the symbols. The combination comes under this category characters. The third one is the alternate characters of each text that two provided with each file. And the font will have two categories. Basically, all the fonts will come with these two categories. First one is Serif, which will have the sharp edges on those text lines. Those also called extensions. Another one is SNSeri which is not having any extensions at the edge. From the beginning to end, that font will have the same thickness almost and doesn't have any other extensions. Based on this two only will have all the font styles in a computer. Then I have the font style which is having italic and I have the option called baseline. For each text here, you can see every typograph you work in a computer or design, which have the line here called baseline. The text information will be directly sitting over that line only which is called baseline. We have a cap line which shows where the capital letters ends at the top. In between the baseline and caps line, we have the capital letters and small letters, all the extensions, and we have the X height. So this shows how the small letters have the edge or the top end point for each letters. Then we have the term called tracking, which means the space between each letter. Here you can see, I have a proper information space between each characters. Here we have the tight space. You can see that, and here we have more space, which is called loose. Based on the need, you are going to choose whether we need more space or normal or tight space for that texting. Then we have the kerning. Kerning is that space between each letter which is having the extension like this. We have leading, which is line space, the space between the two lines, and we have the option called stroke. That shows what liner which is present inside this text. We have the stem. Stem represents the filler of that particular character. You can see all those the arcs and the stem on the stroke with this typography structure. You can see here this is, you know, called that stem. But that stem will be upper part of this baseline. This is actually a stroke. This is how we have the typography work on typographical terms with any kind of design not just with a canva design. It's a common concept. We have a arc which is having that curve below the baseline and we have a foot which is having uh with the letters will have over that baseline. And we have a descender, which is the extension below the baseline, and we have ascender, which is above the line of that middle X height. Then we have the joints, which is having the join with stem or the stroke, and we have apex which is the structure of this value. And we have a vertex which is having the same structure at the baseline and crotch, which is having the structure with those Ws and voice, all those things. In the same way we have a lot more the structures here, you can see that all those mentioned, how do we have the basic typographical information inside each character, not just with the particular special characters. Each characters having all those informations, which is highly required to know with that typographical designs. Go through the complete page which is highly required to know the basic typographical information and other details. After learning all those things, again, I come to this canva, and here I'm going to type font p. So I just try so I just typed font pairing in Canva. So they provided very big list with proper examples of the typographical work. So I choose this ultimate guide of font pairing. This page gives you 100% information about what are all the different font styles you can combine and utilize for what kind of design and what kind of colors, background, contrast you may have for those font designs. I just scroll down. They provided the anatomy of the text as I shared in the previous page. It has the baseline, you can see here and we have the X height, which is the cap height, and we have all information here and we have the typographic glossary, which is showing Serif, which is having thick and thin edges, Sserif, script font, and other font details. I come here. Here you have different font pairings. They provided what kind of point you have with this particular the font style. Here they provided directly the font name and here they provided the font name too. But here you can see that we have the same font name without Italic and less font size. The body country will always have 12 or 13 point. This subheading has 27 font point, and here I have 57 with upper case. These two font combinations, leakage poten and libri bascrll which is best combination we use with the Canva or any other concept. I come down here, they perfectly added that two combinations with the example. This is how they provide each and every font combinations. The details as well as with the example I come here, it shows this template has that combinations, how it was utilized. Now, the same way, I have the next two hon styles. You can see how it works and size and they're used here for the resuming. Then the third one having the letters and that example design. In the same way, they have provided a lot of font combinations and where you can utilize, which is showing the proper readability and that message conversion process. And here it shows you how it works. So with the different occasions, we use the different font styles based on the need. We are not going to use the same styles for all the places. So when we required the emotions, when we required the solid information sharing, we use the different farm style. We didn't use the same kind of styles. We use the dark and light combinations. For dark background, we use different farm styles. For light background, we use different font styles. So here we have huge amount of list. Visit and get all the information. This is how you can get that the typographical information, the anatomy structure, and different typographical terms, font pairing, which is highly required to create moodboard and other doll designs in Canva. 9. Layouts, Grids, and Balance: I In this section, I'm going to show you how we should create moodboard design using Canva. To do that, first, we are going to create the new moodboard design document. So to create moodboard design, I come to this banner area. Below, I have quick icons to access that most usable elements. Here I don't have moodboard. Of course, we have mood word in more, so I choose more and see all. Here I'm going to type the keyword which is moodboard. So when I type the keyword moodboard, it shows you moodboard for photo collage and moodboard and a whiteboard for video collage or for Instagram iteration. So you can choose whichever you want. Maybe I can choose this, the moodboard whiteboard will provide you wide amount of space. There you can create your moodboard design. However, if you want to create your custom size design or the mood board size document, you can go for this option, which is custom size. Here you can mention what was the exact dimension required for moodboard design. Either it was in the form of pixels, inches, M or centimeter. If you are going to make the printout using the moodboard design, you may choose inches or centimeter, you can mention the exact values. You are going to create the mood board in digital form only for visual purpose, you definitely go for pixels. Here you can mention the width and height in pixels. Remember, first you have to choose the unit. Then you can mention the dimension. Otherwise, if you have the different units and you have added different dimensions like this, then it's not possible to switch over that. It will change the values. So it shows you the limitations. So first you choose what kind of the units you require, then you are going to mention the exact dimension. I'm going to choose this 1,200 pixels width and the height should be if it is a landscape, you can provide the height according to that, or if it is a portray, you can provide the dimension according to that. Now I need that square dimension design, which is having Ous one ratio with that exact dimension I required. I choose create a new design. Here you have that 1,200 pixels width and height with a new document. This is how you can create your own new document for the exact dimension required. Now, after this, you can see I have the background which is having the white space. If I want to add the proper grade lines, I can add. To do that, I go to the file menu. In file menu, I have options called settings. In settings, you have all those options. At first, I have option which is show rulers and guides. You can see that the shortcut keys shift. I click this option, Show Rulers and guides. When I click that, you can see on left hand side and right hand side, I have the rulers, which is showing the different positions of grid view. You can see that 100 is 100 pixel count from left to this place and 200 pixels 300 t thousand 200 we have here, this is the starting point in the same way for Y axis, this is the starting point. You can see that here I have the zero and from that we have 100 200 and till that 1,200 pixels, we have the dimension here. When I zoom out using Control plus scrolling, you can see exactly how it was and I just scroll app, you can see how it was initiated with the position zero. So this is the blank document. It shows you that, you know, the rulers. From the rulers, you can create the guidelines as we create guidelines in Autobi Photoshop and Illustrator in design also. So here, you see on left hand side on right hand side, I just want to create a Mx. So I just click and track from that ruler. You can see that I just click and track from that ruler. So I got one purple line. I can place where I want. You can see here, I just place where I want. In the same way, I can create another one and I can place what will be the work area for me. For this Xaxis also, I can add. Within this space, I'm going to add my elements, including the images, shapes, texts and colors. However, you can adjust, for example, I just create one more, and here I'm going to mention the images with different dimensions. And in this phase, I'm going to add the colors, and in this phase, I'm going to add the typography work and other elements representation. In this way, you can just create your own guideline to prepare better layout for mood board design. Based on the need, you can add it. Now if you want to adjust the proper margins with this page without the help of those guidelines, you can also do that with the options here. To access that, I go to the file again settings. Here I have the option option called add guides. I have option called show margins. When I add guides, I will get the new guidelines. I can adjust like this. Here, I have option called show margins. I click that. It shows you the margin here where we have the proper space of left, right, top and bottom. Now you can go to this file and setting again and it shows you the other options also show print plead and that will be available when you export the document for the print and I to come here file and settings if you have the guidelines and if you want to clear that, you have the options here to clear that which is clear guides. All the guides are gone. Also I can disable that margins by disable that show margin and I can disable that show print Bleed also. So based on the need, you are going to use those options. And when I add the guidelines as required, after that, if I'm going to add my elements and if I don't need to disturb those guidelines, I can lock that guideline also. Lock those guidelines, I just add that as I required. Then after that, I come to the file menu settings, and I have option called log guides. I can lock it so that the guidelines will not disturb me. If I want to edit those guides, I had to come to this file settings. Again, I choose this log guides so that I can adjust those guidelines. This is how you can simply use those margins and guidelines for creating mode board design. Remember that you need to use the proper principles of design to create a moodboard, particularly, you have to follow the balance principle to add and create perfect mode board design. Reason is that design should have proper horizontal OLS vertical balance, which gives you the proper balanced view to the customer or your hierarchy. That's why the proper balance is highly sential. To do that, you can create where you want to add that elements like images, shapes and typography to place all those elements like images, text and other things. You can just add up placeholders help of placeholders, you can properly balance those designs. I'm just adding a placeholder using the elements. I come to the shapes. Here I have the default shape like rectangle. I can add these rectangles and I can decide what will be the image dimension and I can change the color into gray because that gray color indicates here I'm going to add the picture. I just duplicate that rectangle. I just add where else I need to add those images. Dear. After that, I want to place the other pictures positions and here I want to add multiple image. In this way, we can create a simple placeholders where we need to place the images here also I can use, so I just select all those elements and I can expand up to this. In this space, I'm going to use the colors. I just add a rectangle again and I just adjust according to my need. So it's a square actually, not a rectangle. I can duplicate this by br holding the Al tiki, click that mouse tag and release the mouse first, then you can just deselect that Altiki. In this way, you can just duplicate and you can place all the colors what you are going to use inside the design, and I can also reduce that dimension if I want. I was reducing more because I want to add one more color. I just reduced and I can expand up to how I want. In this way, you can just create proper balanced design. And here I'm going to mention the typography fonts, and here I can add other elements. I can just add the placeholders for the other elements also here. I'm going to add one element like this, and the remaining elements I'm going to mention here. So this properly balanced layout preparation is required. This is why we lock the guides. It clearly disturbs us. You can see that I just choose lock guides. Now I will not face any issue and I can create multiple objects as I require. Here I want to create three objects. And I adjust according to my need. This is how we do the work creating the layouts with proper horizontal and vertical balance with placeholders. You to have other ways to add the placeholders. In next lesson, I will show you how do we add the direct placeholders to inside the graphics and images in Canva. 10. Brand Kit usage in Canva: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can add the proper guideline using the Canva. When you enable that the rulers at the top and left hand side, after that, you are going to add a guidelines. Now I need proper distance between each guideline. So I just need 50 pixels on left hand side, right, top and bottom. So to do that, I just add a guideline. When you add a guideline, it clearly shows you that right now where we are on the page. So here we have a value in minus after the zero, I just move and I can place where exactly I need a guideline. In a 50 pixels, I just release my guideline, the same way I want to add the guideline for right hand side, that should be 150. Here, just move and place. The same way I just add at the top, it should be 50 and at the bottom, I'm going to add thousand 150. This is how I deside and add those guidelines. After adding the guidelines, I want to add the placeholder. Not like previous lesson, we used rectangle shapes. In graphic design with the help of software, generally, we add those gray rectangle shapes to add the placeholders. But in Canva, we have a special options called frames. I just type the keyword frames and press Enter using the elements. I type frames and presenter. Here I have option called frames. I just see all the pictures, frames here. Here I can choose whichever the frame are required. You can see that I have the square shape frame to create rectangle and square frames for placeholders. I just click there and add that frame here. I can place where I need, I can adjust. I can scale as rectangle or square based on my need. Now, I choose this frame and I choose this position option in the toolbar. Here it shows you the exact dimension what you can mention. I want to mention that 200 pixel width and 300 pixel height. I can mention that and I can press Enter. I got the exact value here. You can also lock the aspect ratio if you want, so that I mentioned the 300, that height also increased based on the aspect ratio. If you want, you can just enable or you can just adjust yourself. If you want the co edges, you can use this corner rounding. We can adjust that and we'll get the round edges on those places. And if you don't want, you can ensure it should be zero. Now, again, it come to these elements and I just use the concept frames again, and I have all the frames here. I just see all those various frames are plasm here. Based on the need, you can choose which one you want. Most of them will use this square frame only if you want to create a rectangle or square, whatever it is. I just add the frame as required, and here I am going to add the frames in different format. If I want to create the layout in a different way. Based on the layout creation process only you are going to decide how do you want to add those frames? I was added like this to place my images. After placing the images, I too can add the space for typography and other works. I may just remove this and here I add multiple small frames. If I want to add more images, I can just upload on those places. This is how I just add a few frames. This is also the way we can create the placeholders and here I can add the typography information and here I can mention the colors, what I'm going to use. This is how we create the placeholder for the images and graphics in Canva. And after adding those informations, I can create the remaining works. First, I'm going to create that option called branding. What is branding? With the help of this concept brand, you can mention the list of colors, what you required for the theme of the design and you can select the colors based on the images, what you are going to use. So right now I'm going to pick one picture from my uploaded images. So I come to the upload and I choose folder, and here I have option called moodboard. I have few images here. I'm going to add one image. And before that, if I want to upload, I can upload another image. I go to the upload option and I choose one product image from this. I use this picture. So it was getting uploaded. You can see that you don't need to wait until it was uploading. I just click that, that design or the image will be loaded here. Now, I just want to add this product inside this was added. How I add the picture inside the place holder, see here, just click and drag the picture so that it shows you the preview of how that picture was fitting with that frame. You don't need to do anything else, just drag over the frame and release it. It fit, it doesn't stretch. That's the best part of the canvas. You want to extract the image from the place holder, you can just right click over the place and you can choose the option called detach image. So this is how we just extract the picture from that. Again, I just drag and place inside. Now, if you want to scale the picture inside the container, just double click and you can get the editable more. I can adjust and you can scale it and you can double click outside or you can choose done. So this is how we add the image inside. Now, from this image, I'm going to select the color. In our previous lessons, I shows you how we can generate the color palette using this picture. Now I'm going to directly get the color from this picture. Let me show you how do we build the brand colors using this? Do the branding concept, I come here on this left hand side panel. Here I have option called brand. I just click the brand, and this is available only for that people who have the Pro account. However, you can directly use those colors that doesn't have any problems. So I just choose the option edit. So here I have three colors I was previously used. I'm going to change those colors, which is required for this moodboard creation. I choose the first color, and I choose the first color, it has that solid color as well as the gradient, but I need only solid color. I choose solid color. Here I'm going to choose the color I require. I do have eye dropper, so I choose this color picker and I come to the screen. Here I can choose which color I want. I have light color as well as the dark color, so I choose dark color. Here I got it. Now I choose a second color, I just click again to get this pick a color. And here I'm going to select another color from this, and I need to choose one light color. I can choose this from the background. I got three colors. Remember, for this branding concept, you can use only three free colors. If you want to add, you need to upgrade for the pro account. However, I have another idea to do that. So what is that? Let me show you. I just save this before I get back. And it will be stored with my brand color value. Now I come to this place. I just choose my background. After choosing the background, I choose this background color. When I choose the background color, it shows you the document colors, which is right now the document used those colors. And in this place, you can see that we have a brand color also you can directly use those colors. Since I was selected the background previously, I can directly use those colors and it to have the photo colors option which shows what are all the different colors which is automatically generated from the canva. That's another beauty. Whatever the image you have uploaded, not just this image. If you have uploaded multiple images, it to show all those colors. Let me show you another example. I go to the uploads and I go to the folder, we uploaded a few colors already, sorry, images. I'm going to upload one more image from that. I'm going to choose this picture. So it was getting uploaded. As I told you, you don't need to wait, just click and you can load it. And I add this picture here. So after adding this, I double click and I just scale it and I place how I need it because the product based photo I'm going to use. And again, I come to this background. I just click the background, not just for the background, for any shape or text, you can use the color. Here it shows that picture also. So that image, whatever you uploaded, it extract the color from that image and you can utilize that for the design. That's photo colors future. They provide default colors from different shades. You can see that you have gradient colors if you want, you can use. So if you need, you can go for gradient. Since they provided the gradient doesn't mean you need to use those options. So based on that you can utilize. This is how we have all the colors. However, I used only one color here. I just add this option, add a new color, or I can click this and I just need a whi now. I just click this option, add a new color. Now I can choose the color from the picture. You can choose from the skin tone or you can choose from this lipstick. That color will be added with the document colors. In the same way, I can add any number of colors which is required for my document. Now I'm going to add one more new color. Again, I choose this and I choose the color I want. Based on the need, you can just add new color as required, and that color will be available here. This is how you can also generate multiple colors and utilize with the Canva document that should require the reason and you can directly add those colors. This is how we use the brand kit value and colors inside the Canva design work. 11. Images and Typography in Moodboard: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how we can add more images inside our moodboard design, and how do we add those typography work inside this mood board design? So first, you have to upload all the elements, then you are going to select the colors, and you are going to apply for those colors with a layout. That's how we create the mood board design, and it will generate the mode which is required for design any work. We can create either a poster design or advertisement design. All the designs, this mood board is the source. That's why creating the mood board is highly essential. I was added only two images. I want to add the remaining images. So to do that, I go to my images uploading process, and I'm going to choose this upload file. Here I just want to filter all those selections, or I can select multiple and I can upload all those images. Here I have choosing few images which is required for the design. I was selecting that based on my need. I was choosing the images by bras holding the control. When I choose the continuous images, I may use a Shiftiki. But here I'm going to select the images which is required, not in the continuous form. I was just press hold the control. I was selecting the images I required. Based on the need only, I'm going to pick those images. So after choosing those images I acquired the background support, I was choosing this option which is open. All those products will be uploaded. Here you can see that all those products are getting uploaded. When this is my product, I need to use the colors based on the product only. I cannot use, all the colors. But as we have seen in our previous classes, if you want to go for the different color combinations like analogous color combination or complimentary color combination, you can go for that, you don't have any issue with those things. Now I'm going to choose the other images which were acquired for my design. That image was not suited and here I'm going to choose this one and I just increase the picture size Okay, I just lock my guides. That really disturbs me. Here I'm going to adjust that based on the need you are going to mention. You may use any photo which is required for your design. I just use in a way that picture is need, and I adjust those edges so for this product, yeah, of course, this picture is enough. But if I use this product, yeah, this picture will be the useful one. So based on the need, you are going to choose which product you are going to use, and based on that only you are going to select the colors. So I was using other images like this. And but that girl doesn't have proper lipstick or something. So if I want, I need to use that picture as it requires. I just expand that frame, and if you want, I can use that and I just upload more pictures I need. I just come here. I choose this theme picture and I just add it here. And I'm going to use that anyway. And here, if I want, I can also upload those pictures which is required to provide the support for the design. I can use this one and I just add it here and I'm going to add another element. I choose this here I want to add because I'm not going to use that product which is having different color and here I want to add only an image, so I'm going to choose the image which is required that I may use this one or this one. It will rearrange all the things. We just create the mode board, you just select and add and we can change it later if it doesn't properly add or it doesn't fit for the design. Since we used the placeholders, we have one of the biggest advantage which is we can choose all the placeholders and we can adjust the frame so that the image will not affected, you can expand or you can reduce those informations. That's really vital and here also, I can adjust as I required like this. See here, how do I adjust the images, which is having inside the placeholders. This is how this is a vital process creating those things. Now here I can choose the background. I just adjust the frames first as I acquired here also, I provide enough space and I place the remaining things. I can zoom it and I can add it in a perfect manner. Now, I just scale as I required. Here also I adjust that grid helps me a lot and I can adjust how do I want. Now here, after adding all those images, I can select the color I required for the background. As I told you, I choose the color, I choose the color from the product itself. I can utilize directly. If you want the proper contrast with the background, you can use the light color like this or you can also use the image based colors like this. You can add more light colors from that also, which is also called tint. We can use the tint and you can use that color for the background also. You too can go for the dark colors. That's not at all an issue, but you need a proper contrast for the text information as well as the image. If you're going to use those colors also, you can use that's not at all issue for you. So here I'm just adding this light color for the background, and I'm going to add the remaining elements. After adding this, I'm going to pick, uh, the proper text information. So to select the proper typography, I choose this option which is text. I choose text here I have a lot of options. You can see that. They to provide a lot of configuration with the different combinations and I too have adding blank text boxes. I just click here, you can see that we got the blank text box and I just click here and I just can copy or paste. I can do whatever I want to do with the text. If I press delete button, I can delete that also. Have three default styles here, one for headline, one for subgline and for the body text. It was pre set values. Here you can see the heading and subding and the body content. All the three have the Canvas on thanks, you can see here and default different sizes. I just presold the shifti and select multiple texts and I arches and I can expand all the things you can do with this. I choose this add a heading and I just delete the remaining text except the heading. And I just place here, reduce the size a little bit. After adding this, I can either duplicate and I can reduce the size, I can adjust the style like bold italic. Now after that, I can also adjust the italic or underline if I want. I'm going to use this style for the heading. I can use this style for subbedding work with a little bit bold font. If you want more extra bold, you can go for other font also. Like we have seen, I can use this leakage spotter and if I want all the text in a capital letters I'm going to use in a design, I can also choose uppercase. So it's purely based on the need, you are going to do all those things. After adding these two different font styles, I'm going to have the body content. I can choose just duplicate that and I just reduce that bolt into normal. I can set that font for the body content into below 20, which is enough for adding the body content text. Now, I'm just adding that type of work. And here I have a lot of preset values with the combinations. You can see that. You can also directly pick that and you can use here. Since it's a fashion based product, I can directly get it from here. I just click there, so that combination was added here. You can see that and I can ungroup using this option. You can right click also, and you can choose this ungroup option here and you can just separate that information from that group. So right now I was selected the below item, and I just move using that keyboard also. You can use either a mouse or keyboard. Using that you can do. You can just press down arrow or up arrow to move one pixels. If you want to move ten pixels, you can press Shift key and press the arrows. It will move ten pixels by ten pixels. So you can also utilize those combinations, preset values, which is highly recommended because that combination was already created, which is perfectly sync with that designs in Canva. That's why these combinations also you can utilize and that to have the different font effects will show you that in our upcoming lesson. After adding those on font, which is required for the design, you can add the body content also. You can see we have a huge combinations. We have the free as well as the pro content. Based on the need, you can choose whichever you want, and I'm going to add textbox here. This contains that font which I was last time used. But by default, it will be the Canvas sans, choosing that. If you want to add some dummy text information here, I just make that 18, and I just need a paragraph text here for the dummi text. So if you want to add that, I can go to this new tab and I'm going to add the keyword, which is called that Laura MIP the help of Laura Mpsum I can generate the dummy content. You do have the magic write here. You can see that. I added the text to frame and I have a magic write. I can choose that and I can choose this rewrite. And here I can add some a text information like I'm going to add um, you know, the content here and right now, it was just an empty. I just delete all the information and here I'm going to generate that. So I just press slash on my keyboard. When I choose slash, I got this information, and here I can choose all the information which is required for the text, including AirTrax and I can also rewrite the information here. So I just magic write, and we have a lot of options here. I'm going to continue writing. Here, I can generate the paragraph text about the product or whatever it is. I just add this. I'm going to use this for the dummy text only. So whatever the text I have, it's fine, and I'm going to delete the unwanted portion. I don't need all those informations. And here you can see that I have the center alignment. At the top after all the caps, we have alignment. I choose left, and if I press again, I will have the center alignment and justification alignments. So all the things are present inside. So based on the need, you can choose what kind of alignment it required, and I just select this picture. I just expand till where I need. And here just a little bit. And here I'm going to mention my colors, what I'm going to use. So this is how you can insert the images. You can also pick the text to color directly from that, you know, the brand cat and you can also pick that from the image. Both things are fine. To have new images here, I can also derive from those images directly because here we have some colors, but if you are not satisfied with them, you can select the color from the images directly. After that, I just had the red color from the image, and here I can choose the blue which is having with the product. When you do the same kind of process, you create the mood which is required for the product, you are not going away from the theme. That's why this process of, you know, the mode board creation is highly essential to do any design work. In next lesson, we are going to see how do we prepare color for this mode board design? 12. Color, Patterns, Icons and Textures on Moodboard: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how do we add colors and textures which is required for the mood board design using Canva. First, I'm going to add the colors which is required for the Canva design. So to do that, I just press R or I can go to the elements and I can choose this and the option and just delete the text, and I choose option shapes. So when I choose shapes and add this rectangle, I'll get the rectangle. I just reduce the size by press holding the shiftky and I place here. Based on the need, I can just decide the size of that rectangle shape. You can also use the rounder rectangle or circle to select the colors and here, not adjust the rectangle alone. Based on the need you are going to choose, here, I'm going to choose a circle, you can see that and I'm going to mention the color I'm going to use. But when I choose the rectangle, I just press Control Z. When you have the rectangle, I can mention the value here, the exodimal value here. That's another advantage. I just press all the Altkey and duplicate that shape and here I just reduce the height. Here I can mention the reassemble value of the color. Now I select this shape again and I choose the white as a background. If you have a white background for the design, you may change that into gray. I'm going to choose the background color now and I'm going to choose that into white. When you choose in this way, you can choose this rectangle shape. Here I mention little bit gray value. I need three colors or four colors. You just need to duplicate this for three times and I can just select both things. I can expand and I can reduce the height as required. And here I just duplicate multiple times, so I just duplicate it second, and now I just want two more for that. I just press Control D, the repetation process will be happened. I don't need to drag and place everything. I got four colors here. Now I choose the first color, and here I want to pick the color for my design. Remember, we should not use the colors in a random manner. Have to use the brand value colors. If that brand logo have the red, you can use the red as a primary color and other colors. And you may also collect the color from your images, and that's why the color selection process is highly essential. Now I select all that and just move a little bit down and choose the first shape. Here I'm going to choose the color, and I can directly choose that from this picker color and from the product or that lipstick I was having. I'm going to choose from this lift this place. This will be my first color. I choose a second color. I'm going to choose this color picker and before that, I just want to mention the color value. I come back here and I choose this add a new color option. We have the color option here and we do have the color value here, which is D 22 63 D. I want to mention that here. I come to this below box and we know that that to can serve as a text box. I just tablet over there and I can type the text information inside and just zoom it for the enough amount. That was transferred as a normal text box. I just come to this text and I chose this at a text field. I just want to mention that has, which represent I'm going to type the hexa semble color value. Again, I choose that and D 21 63 D, that's a color code. I was added that a decimal value. Now I want to reduce the font size. I select everything. I just reduce the font size, which required to fit within that jet. I was added here and I was adjusted. This is how you can mention the color value. I to duplicate those information. I just press Control D to duplicate in all those places. Here I choose the second color. I choose this color picker and going to choose speaker color, and I can choose from the product only because that's the better way and here I want to choose the color value. I just come here, this is the color value, 6s68c. Here a tie 686 e8c. That's a color value here. Then I'm going to choose the next color. I choose the picker color and here I can choose this Kintun because if I need to add some contrast information, I can use this or use from this picture. However, you can use the light gray also for your usage that's based on the need. So I can also use that I again want to choose the color from this. So I choose it and I'm going to choose that color picker. You can see I was used multiple colors in this document colors, and here I choose the color pick value. After choosing that and I come to this space, I can choose which gray I want for the design, either this one or this one. Both things are gray highly valuable for our design. I choose the last color tone. Before that, I just need a decimal value of the color, DE zero ED. Remember that XR decimal value will have the alphabets of A, B, CDEF, not other than that because 0-9, we have ten characters. After that, for the 11, we have A for, we have B in the same way after F, we have the 16 values. So don't think it was O, not a zero that's wrong. We have till that F only. And finally, I choose this box and I'm going to choose the color. So I can choose either the tone from this or this. So it's up to you based on the need you are going to select, it should be the light value, because alar have the two dark values, I select the light value here. Now I can select all those things. I can arches and I can reduce the width if I want because it looks like this was dominating the whole design process. Now I choose all those boxes and I'm going to adjust the height also. If you want, you can adjust. This is how we do selecting the colors and we add the aimble values. Here also I need to add the headymbl value. Forget that FE, DEC, This is how you create, um, the colors which is required for the design. Now I need to add the textures which is required for doing design work. The textures provide a huge support for the background creation with the design and it provides you to fill the plain backgrounds with the theme of the design. The textures we can, you know, collect from the elements. You have two ways to collect that. You can collect in the form of graphics or collect in the form of photos. So I come to the elements. Here, I'm going to type the keyword, which is called, you know, the fashion. And press Enter. When I type fashion and press Enter, I have the graphics and photos. Now I choose this graphics C all. I have all the fashion based icons here. You can see that. If I click any one element, I can load that inside my design. Here you see, I have a doodle. I click here, I can load inside my design. I can just scale it and I can place where I want. How it was added inside. And if I want to add that in a separate frame, also, I can add it. So we need to add one new frame, or I just dubligate this frame and I just detach that image and I just reduce or I can also rescale and I can also bring this information, the frame into front. So I just rightly go over that. I can choose layers, and I can choose bring to front or bring to forward or send to back or send to backward. So I choose bring to forward and I can just drag and drop inside this. Since it's a graphic with a transparent background, we have this structure like appearance. I just adjust this area a little bit and I don't want to disturb this. But here I just adjust the picture a little bit and here I adjust the dural going to place here. If you want some texture like this, you can load it to have the photos here, which is having the fashion, and I'm going to use that if I want for the background. I can also mention that fashion background the keyword will provide you the backgrounds for the fashion based products. So most of the time here we have the photoshoot based background, you can see that. And if you want something like this for the design, here it all are free. You can see that it was not comes under the paid, and I can also mention the color if I want. Like, I just add fashion red background. So I'll have the red backgrounds here I can utilize for the design. So most of the time, based on the need you can choose whichever you want, I'm going to use this pecture just added here. I can also expand, how do I want that for the background? Based on the need, you are going to do all those things. I come to the graphics again and if I want to add some graphics for this particular design, I can add. Here it shows you a lot of backgrounds for this and we have a lot of graphics. You can see that we do have a lot of graphics. So based on that need, you can add all those graphics if you want for the design. You don't need to neglect anything. You don't need to, you know, add everything. Just add. And if you don't think like it was, you know, required for the design to mention the particular product, or you want to highlight something, you can use it or you can just remove it. So don't neglect anything. You just add and you can remove it later if it doesn't require. So just again, search with the keyword fashion. And I can also use the keyword if stick. So here I have a lot of lipstick paste, you know, the elements. You have lips icons, which is having, you know, the illustrations, and you can also use that if you want to have, you know, the hot and lipstick product based illustrations and the shapes, which contains the line art of all those things. So basically, you can utilize all those information if you want, and later you can remove from the mood board if you don't need. This is how you add the more elements inside the mood board apart from the colors. Those textures will be highly useful when we do the design work inside Canva or any other software. 13. Final Finishing Enhancements: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how do we do the final finishing enhancements for this moodboard design. We already added the images, text, and how do we create that feel for making this product, you know, the design. So that's why it's called moodboard design. We used images, text, and the colors, which is highly recorded for any design using this moodboard design. Now let me show you how do we do the improvement and final finishing enhancements for this design work. First, we have created with the thousand 200 pixels width and height. Now I want to do a little bit betterment. To do that, I just want to add a new page here, but I not want to add the same dimension because when you choose add new page, you'll have a new page with the same dimension. You can see that. But I just with a different dimensions. So I just click here and I just choose tell it page. And here I come to this place, I add a page type. Come to this place, I choose this more. And here I want to mention the custom size. I just want a little bit more height. So I just want to mention that height into 1,000 601,200 pixels with sorry, height. I choose Create new page. So here you can see that. Okay, I was mangy added. I just delete that page again. I mentioned I was adding this more, and I'm going to choose the custom size. The width should be thousand 200, the height should be 1,600. It's not square anymore. I have a rectangle shape appearance, and I just want to copy all the information I have here. I just press Control C or I can right link and I can choose copy. Come to this place, here, I just choose paste. So all the information we cut here. Now we have that tight appearance here, and I just want to adjust this grades. So I just unlock the grade. I just remove that or I can add, the grade in the bottom. So it should be 1550. Okay. Okay. I just fine. I was not exactly, but I was added and I just placed everything as I required. Now I have more space. I can rearrange my design. So I just bring that colors in this bottom if I want so that it will be, easy to mention all the colors the same place. It will not occupy any space from other places. Here I mentioned that I also pick this this looks better to place the colors I move the picture here on right hand side. I can place, how do I want that picture information. So I have more space to, you know, add more information. I just move those textures at the top and I can mention those graphics which are required. I can order that. And here I can expand the image area for my main product. So I just add here, I just rearrange that and this also I'm going to use as a background. Here I just want to use that girl picture in little bit expanded more. So here I come to this place. I just place here and I want to scale that now I want to adjust this. I adjust that and I adjust the picture which is present inside. Since it's the advertisement moodboard design for lipstick, I don't need the entire picture of the core that product representation is enough for me. I just do that hands and work and if I want to use this picture in a design, I can use and I just rearrange the information. Here also, I just adjust as I do here. Here I also ad as required, and I'm going to use this picture also. But it required the boundary and all those graphics, I'm going to use in a different positions for a background purpose and other purposes. Here also just this. You don't need to every time place in a proper way. You may mention this also and we can just place and you can just say we are going to use those elements. This looks better and I can also use this element if we want. I add multiple and I place where I want. I have four colors here and just select that and I want to place that with the proper distance. I just want to maintain the same distance between each. Here I have 43 between that and I was adjusted according to that. Now I can move it together and I can group it, which is better and I need this element also. I can consider that in my design. I can also use this texture. This two looks good. And I can place that in my design. This is how we can rearrange all those elements as we required. As I said, we can keep on enhance this work because it was having all the elements. You should not miss any element which is required within a design because when you do the graphic design work or web design work based on the mood which is required, we use different elements we need a freedom to create all those designs. We don't need to struck with a simple concept. We need to think in a different way. That's why this mood board creation is highly essential. Now I just come out of this normal page view. Here you see that this looks much better than that moodboard design. We arranged in a proper way and it has all the information for the texture, graphics, colors, and the typography. For all those things, we got that element. This is how you can create that mood board design for any theme, either for food or fashion design, you know, first create a moodboard design. So from this mod board design, you will get that mood for that product here, we use the lipstick. And when you look at all those elements, it creates that same kind of mood. And here I think this texture doesn't provide enough feel for me for that, you know, background. I can replace that with some other background like this or studio background which will provide the better, the background for me to place the model. So you don't need to struck with the same things. You can see most of the elements are paid here. I just go with that background. So here I have a lot of free elements. You can pick the light if you are going to use the light background and you can utilize that for your background. So just move it here on this corner and I can place it. If you want to add a container, you can add the container and you can utilize all those things. Now we just move this right hands a little bit. I want to adjust this and I have this kind of arrangement. This is how you can create your own mood board design and you can share, you can do any kind of design work after that. I come to the bottom here. I choose the background, the rectangle shape of each. Ungroup that and after that, I choose, choose this one first, and I'm going to choose the color. I want a little more light color. So here I choose a little more light color. The white, but a little more light color. Now you can see the difference between this shape and other shapes. Now I choose the first shape. I choose this option called copy style. I click this copy style and choose destination. This is my destination. I can zoom a little bit, so I can select the destination. That style will be operate here. Now, this is my source. I choose that same option again. I want to copy that and I can apply this into this shape. The same way, I can also copy and I can apply that to the fourth color. You too can copy and paste the styles of any shape and text and whatever you want, you can just pick it and you can add inside. This is how you can create the mood board design for any product using Canva. 14. Exporting Moodboards: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how do we export our moodboard design in a different format. So after completing this moodboard design, I just enable this page icon. So I can have the view in the form of pages. If you want to scroll in view, you can choose this. We can switch that view here. Now, I choose this grid view. In a grid view, you'll have all the designs in a thumbnail view. You can change the order by just press, hold, drag, and release where you want that design. Now the final announced design was in the first page. I click there. I can see that the second one is what we have previously created. Now I just want to share. I just need to download that for print or any other purpose. To do that, I come to this share option. In share option, I have option called download. I choose this download. When I choose download, I have the option here, you can see that a default, I have option called PNG. I can save this page as a transparent background PNG or solid background PNG. Here I have the size, which means the dimension. I can increase if I have the pro account. Otherwise, directly, I can use this normal default dimension. If I want to have a transparent background for that also, not just for that for compressed with a low quality or limit the file size, you need pro account. It's okay we have other ways to export with high quality. Here I have the pages. You can either choose Select all by default, it will be Select All, or you can choose the current page which is right now you have selected, or you can also choose all pages. If you want to select yourself, you can choose which page you want. So this is how we have the page selection. I select page one alone and I choose done. Now, by default, this setting will be save. So I click this option which is Download. When I click Download, it shows you you are downloading this and it shows me that I was created that 50 number of designs, so it gives you the kind of certificate. I just click here to visit that, it shows you that page here. So when you are using the Canva regularly, yes, they will provide you these kind of the certificates for 50, hundred, 500,000. You can just add your name and you can download this certificate. I was downloaded that design. I just go back to this and I see here I was downloaded, and I just click that downloader picture. We got the JPECimage with the default the quality. Without any guideline, we have perfect mood board design for this fashion lipstick concept. I close this and I come to this share again, I come to this download and here I'm going to choose this file type. Previously, I didn't open that because I choose the default option. When I click that, you to have jab work at the first. Here I have the default values with quality, but we don't have the transparent background for jab. We know that and I can also save in the form of PDF. So when you have the PDF, you don't have too many restrictions. You can download, you will have a very good quality. Don't worry about the images. Now, I choose PDF standard because this is for email purpose. If you want to create the printout of this moodboard design, you can choose PDF printing. You'll have a better quality. You can see that you don't have any restriction. That's a destipar. You too can change that into RGP and CMO. Am okay, you need a pro accord. It's okay. GB is enough. I just correct Download. It was started the downloading process and it shows you here. Now, after the downloading, I can open it and I can check the quality. It was downloaded and I clicked that. It was getting loaded and you can see the quality of that PDF. I just press the control and I scroll it. It looks really good. You can see the details are really good, fantastic. So this is how Canva was really helpful for you. You can download your design as a PDF file for print and email purpose, which is having a lot of add inches for that. That's why this is highly recommended. And if you want to convert the design as a video, you to have the option here. You can select the multiple files or the single file and you can just press download. This page will be converted as a video for 5 seconds and it will be downloaded. After that, I come to this place. I have the Jif option. I can save this as a G animation also. If I added animation, it will save as a G animation or if I didn't add that just added as a Gf five. Now after that, I have PPTX also, so I can save a Microsoft PowerPoint document or presentation. That two don't have any restriction. All those facilities make sure you are using a Canva without any worries and there is no problem with the platform independency. So this is how we can download any design work we created with the Canva and particularly for moodboard design, you can make the biggest size printout after completing the design by choosing download PDF for print and you can do that. So this is how we do all those the download work using Canva for moodboard design or any other design. 15. Sharing Moodboard with Team and Social media: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how do we share our moodboard design with the team you work and social media. To do that, you just open your file. I was opened it. After that, I come to the share option, and here, apart from this download, you have the option here, which is copy link. So by choosing this copy link, you will get that copy of that design and you can say who can allow to watch this design. If you want a private link, you can choose this copy private link or if you want to allow others, you can choose allow view access. You have the option here. You can see that it shows you the view access and what work that can do. I come to this place first. It shows you anyone with a link. I click here and if you want, only people can access, I can mention, I can choose only you can access and I can mention that. And I have another option which is can view and can edit and can comment. So if you are sharing with the team, they are going to do the improvements with that. You can choose this option and edit. One of the biggest advantage with the Canva is the same document. A number of people can work all the pages. A single team can do the enhancement and work with multiple, um, people within a single document, which is highly advantage for the Canva. One will do the design work of that Canva with layout, one will do the image editing work, one will do the text based work with different people can do the same document work, which is highly advanced concept. You can choose either if you want and you can copy the link and you can share with that. That's how it was functioning. This public view link also work in the same way. You can control if you want. After choosing that, here I come to this place. It shows you the number of visitors visited that link and you can see that through this option itself. Apart from that, you have the print with Canva option. If you want to directly order the printing process with Canva, you can choose print with Canva and you have to mention what kind of dimension required and you can choose and you can resize it if you want and you can mention number of copies, all those informations further with the canva. To provide you the cost and information you can directly pay, and you can mention the address where you require, you will get that product in the form of print. After the print, I to have the option called CA. I choose CA. You can see that you can share that to that different folders. And here I have the options called social media. So there also, I choose CA. So it shows you the Instagram, you know, page and LinkedIn page and profile, Facebook, Pinter, Tumbler on all those places, you can simply share by choosing that account using your login. So this is how Canva is much powerful. You can download, you can share with a team and others. You can also share through social media. That doesn't have any boundary to limit your creativity. This is how you can create the moodboard design in professional manner. You can share with your friends or you can share with your portfolio using Canva.