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1. Introduction: Being productive with any
graphic design software is just a matter of learning a few keyboard shortcuts
and understanding where to find things if you
don't know where they are. So in this class, I'll show you more
than 50 cool features, tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts to become more productive
with Canva. And to be honest, I'm not special in any way. I'm just a little bit
of a productivity nerd. So over the years, I've watched a ton
of YouTube videos and try to discovering
hidden tricks myself. And so I will just tell
you what features and Shortcuts High know and use
to create faster with Canvas. So if you're still
open-minded about saving time when
creating graphics, logos, banners, presentations,
and videos with Canada. I'll see you in
the first lesson.
2. Class Project: Awesome, welcome to this class. In this lesson, I'll tell
you about the class project, and it's going to
be very simple. By the end of this class, I want you to pick and apply
a single technique that you learned to any image or
object of your choosing. It could be framing and image, turning it into a painting, creating a Canva website or anything that you
didn't know how to do before and then post it
in the project gallery so others can take inspiration and see the progress
you've made. But the main thing I want to
emphasize is that it's very important to try out the new things that
you learn yourself. You see our brains
are not designed for keeping information when
we don't put it to use. And that's why I
encourage you to open Canva and go along with me pausing the class along
the way and trying to keyboard shortcuts and tips
yourself as I showcase them. That way you're going to
improve your chances of actually remembering them when you need to use
them in the future. With that said, I'll see
you in the first lesson where you'll learn about
Canada keyboard shortcuts.
3. Canva Keyboard Shortcuts: Let's start with Canada
keyboard shortcuts. You can quick copy and element by holding Option and dragging, you can show ruler with shift
and R. And you can also drag from your ruler to add guides which elements
will snap to. You can move objects without
them snapping to each other. By holding command, you can
press the backslash key to open the hidden search menu and start searching
for any object, shape, element or anything. You can select the
element that's behind another element by holding
command and clicking. You can group elements
by selecting them and pressing command plus g. When
you group them together, you'll be able to move
and resize all of them at the same time without having to fiddle around with each one. You can, of course, ungroup elements with
Command Shift G. You can duplicate elements
with Command plus D, select all elements
with Command plus a, and de-select an element
by hitting Escape. It's also really useful to
escape out of text boxes. When you finish
writing your text, you can send elements
backward one step with Command
Plus open bracket, or send elements forward one-step with command
and closed bracket, you can send elements to the
back with command option open bracket and
send elements to the front with Command
Option close the bracket. You can insert a simple line to your template with the L key. Add a rectangle with the
archae at a circle with the C key and add a text box
with T when resizing stuff, you can constrain proportions by holding Shift and
dragging on the corners. You can scale
elements relative to its corner point by holding Alt and dragging
the side handles, you can zoom in on your Canva design with
Command and plus, and zoom out with
Command and minus. Or you can hold Command, scroll on your mouse
wheel to zoom in or out. If you want to zoom out to 100%, hit Command Plus zero, you can zoom to fit the screen
with Command Option zero. You can undo an action
with Command plus z or redo an action
with Command Shift Z. You can add a new page
with command and return. You can delete an empty
page with Command, Delete, add a comment with
Command Option M, select multiple elements by holding Shift and
clicking on them. You can move elements
ten pixels at a time by holding Shift and
pressing the arrow keys, you can convert text to all uppercase with
Command plus k, you can increase
or decrease line spacing with Option
plus up or down arrows. You can copy text style
with Command Option C. Of course you can copy it with Command C. Paste with Command V, increase the font size with
command shift period and decrease it with Command
Shift Comma align text in the center with command Shift C aligned
text to the left with Command Shift L aligned text to the right
with Command Shift R, make it bold with Command B, italicize it with Command I and underline it with Command
D. You obviously, all of these shortcuts are
hard to memorize all at once. But the good part is that
they are usually the same across all photo editing apps like Photoshop for instance. So you only have to
learn them once.
4. Canva Tips and Tricks: Let's continue with
Canva tips and tricks. You can use Canada
keywords to search for cool things when looking for elements in your design type. Gradient, doodle,
blob, splatter, neon, washi tape, aesthetic, watercolor, and so on. If you want to edit a PDF, you can just drag
it into Canva and the entire text of the
PDF becomes editable, then you can read, download it to your PC. It's also possible to turn
photos into paintings, select a photo, choose
Edit Image tab, and scroll down to Prisma. Select, Use. Pick from any of these styles to turn your
image into a painting. If you accidentally grab onto the background elements
in your design, you can select them and
click the lock icon, which will log that
element in place. And you won't be
able to move it on some template that the
designs Canada won't let you download files
with bigger resolutions or increase the resolution once you've finished
your design. So if you want to use a
certain bigger resolution, you can click Create, Design, Select Custom Size, and enter in your
preferred resolution, which you'll be able to download
without any constraints. However, speaking of templates, Canada has a ton of them. You can either search for them
in the search bar, e.g. a. Cover letter, a
YouTube thumbnail, or an Instagram post, or from the homepage, go to templates
and browse them by subject trending new and so on. If you have Canva pro, you can remove the
background from any image by selecting it in the uploads tab and choosing background remover. Now sometimes all that are designed
needs are great colors. And Canada released a
separate colors website where you can generate
color palettes, get ideas, see what
different colors mean. And most importantly,
use the color wheel, which lets you find which
colors look great together. If you're importing
an image into Canva, you don't have to save
it to your computer. Simply copy it and paste
it into your design. You can also drag
and drop images in frames that you can find
through the search bar. You can even frame interesting
designs into letters to create a letter frame effect
to find specific letters. Search for a letter than
the letter itself frame. If you select something, you can choose crop at the menu bar and trim
parts of your elements. Or even better, double-click on the element to start
cropping faster. If you want your texts to
curve around the circle, you can select it, go to Effects and then
choose curve if you click on your icon on the Canvas homepage and then account settings, you can scroll down and change
Canva to dark mode or in the email preferences
unsubscribed from Canada emails also, you can de-select
the privacy slider, and Canada will not collect your personal data from
third party providers. When you highlight an element, you can rotate it or move it around with the two buttons
that appear below it. Now something that could bring your texts to life is adding a drop shadow in the effects panel here you can also make your text hollow, add a glitch effect, or make it neon. If you're having trouble
aligning your elements, you can select all of them in the position tab
and choose tidy up, which will do that for you. If you're creating a PDF, you can add hyperlinks to any element or text within it by right-clicking and choosing
link or pressing command plus k and then pasting the link when changing
colors of elements, you can use the eyedropper tool by clicking Plus and
then eyedropper, which will let you
extract colors from other places that you can
then use in your design. If you add moving
elements to your design or add animations to
stationary objects, you can go to Share, download, and then select
the GIF to create an animated GIF
with your design. What's also useful
is that you can create a whole simple
website with Canva, search for website
in the homepage, and then pick a
template that you like. Once you've customized
your site, click, Publish as Website, continue, enter any word in
the sub-domain, click Continue and then publish. Now, anyone who visits this
customer link will be able to view your Canva website
when picking an element, you can search for
any specific color in the filtering options
and the results will show elements
with similar colors. In the Edit Image section, you can select the blur
tool and blur parts of your image to make the main
elements pop out a bit more. This tip, it is also useful in designs like this to separate the background from
the foreground to make it even more effective, click on the background and
lower the transparency slider just a bit for a better looking separation
effect, if you want, you can easily copy and
paste pages and elements from one Canva design to another without having
to search for them. Again, it's also possible
to insert a QR Code through the search bar by
searching for QR and then selecting use app-based
thing in your URL, and then generating QR code if you found an element
that you really like, but it's not quite right. You can select it, click the info icon at
the top and choose, see more like this. This will find elements that
are similar in some ways, the one you selected, if you click on
your profile image, you can also download Canva as a separate standalone app
to use on your laptop. You can also make and record a presentation as a screen
recording with Canva. When you've made
your presentation, click Present and under Type selected,
present, and record. Choose Next and go
to recording studio. Once you set up access to your
microphone and or camera, you can press, Start recording
and start presenting. Once you finish, you'll
be given a link to share your recording or
you can download it to your device by
clicking download, you can also copy the
style of some elements. If you select an element, click the Format roller
icon and then click with it again on the element
that you want to paste. The style too.
5. Conclusion: You've reached the end
of this class is big. Congratulations for me. And I hope there's at least
one keyboard shortcut or trick that you'll take away from it and use in your own
creative projects. Of course, the best
thing when trying to learn new things is
to put them to use. Because if you know
a trick exists, there's a very high
chance you'll forget it if you don't
use it over time. That's why I encourage
you to share at least one technique or
effect from this course that you applied to any image or object of your choosing
in the project gallery. And just one more thing. Could you do me a
favor and helped me improve by leaving a
review for this course, I want to know what
you thought about it. I hope that you enjoyed and
gain some knowledge from it. Thank you once again, good luck and I'll see
you in a future course.
Thaomaoh, Learn Creatorpreneur Skills
