The New Canva | Getting Started with Canva in 2025

1. Introduction: I learn what you can do with Canva in 2024. You are watching the right class. Canva is quickly becoming the go to design platforms for creatives of poor skill levels and backgrounds. Thanks to its vast template library, anyone can now produce professional quality designs without spending hours struggling with the tools. There's so much you can do with Canva. It's not just about making visuals for social media. You can create videos, powerful presentations, edit your photos, design visual docs, or even build websites. Hi, I'm Ronnie Hermosa. I am a Canva verified expert, and together with my wife, Diana, we manage one of the largest YouTube channels dedicated to Canva. Oh, also, I worked at Canva for two full years with the design education team back at their headquarters in Sydney, Australia. Today's class is all about teaching you the fundamentals of Canva. We'll start the class by introducing you to the platform and its interface before moving on to all you can do with Canva and the different mechanics of how to use it. Now, this is not a master class, nor will we dive into specific design projects? I just want to give you the basics. We will be using the latest version of Canva to date. That is the glow up version with the lighter streamlined interface and all the AI features. Now, this is how Canva looks today, and depending on when you're watching this class, there might be some newer features or slightly different interfaces. So this class will teach you the basics, help you get familiar with the home page and the editor. Get a good feel of what you can do with Canva, and also help you choose the right Canva plan for you. Let's do this. 2. Discover the Canva Homepage: Even though Canva is very intuitive, when you first open it as a complete beginner, it can feel a little bit overwhelming. But don't worry. This lesson was designed, so after watching it, you feel empowered to navigate Canvas homepage with this. I'll give you a tool so you get to know the structure, the different buttons and features that are there to help you be more productive and organized. If you have been using Canva for a while, I still suggest you watch this lesson until the end because there could be a couple of features that you might have missed since the last big Canvas update at the end of May 2024. It's also important to mention that since Canva is a platform that is constantly evolving, the arrangement of some of the elements might change with time. If you notice that a tool has disappeared, or on the contrary, there is a new tool that you didn't see on this lesson, don't worry. In this case, make sure to watch the last section of this course with all of the latest tools, features, and updates. First thing I would like to show you here is that this page is divided into three. The menu on the left. Then the column next to it is what I like to call the sub menu, and then we'll see the working area. The menu on the left and these five other elements will be fixed on the screen no matter in which section you are in the homepage. On the home page, you'll be able to create a new design by clicking on this button that says, create a design or by clicking on any of these icons. You can also create custom sized designs by clicking on this one, and upload your own files. You can upload images, videos, Fis. You can also find your recent designs on the home page. You can find them on the main working area or in the sub menu. The sub menu that you see on the home page is the same one you will see under projects, and this section right here is actually customizable. You probably won't see these different folders that I have in here. These have been personalized and I will show you how to create them later. Under projects, you'll be able to find all of the folders you have created. You can create new folders by clicking on this button that says at new and then click folder. Can type here the name of your folder. You can share it with people in your team and then hit continue. Under the project section, you'll be able to find your folders, designs, ran templates, images, and videos. Now let's go to templates. From here, you can search from the thousands of templates available in the cavalry by using this search bar on top of the screen, or you can also use this menu right here to see a particular type of template. Let's go to templates, social media, and let's say TikTok videos. Now see on the main area a search result of TikTok video templates. Now, let me go back. I'm going to close this menu right here to quickly show you that we have some other sections under templates. We have Workds, which is a new section. I do recommend you go and browse this page right here to learn more about war kids. We have then the photo library in Cava. You can explore the photo library from here. You have also the icons library, the creators you follow, and the start content will take you back to the projects section. Let's go to the brand section. This one will be available if you have a CVA pro account. I can go to branches and see all the different brand kits in this account, or we can view the brand templates. Lastly, we have apps, so we can filter the apps by workplace essentials, AI powered. Productivity, the sign essentials, which, by the way, if you scroll down, you will see our app called Rondi Tutorials. You can see that we are inside CVA, which is pretty exciting, and then you have a share and publish apps. You also have Apps for teams, so you can filter by marketing, creative, HR and sales. Lastly, we have the content planner, which is a CVA P tool. You can have access to it under the app section. We have product photos and MCPs. We have these two buttons here, which we haven't talked about. The bell icon will have a little red dot if you have new notifications. If you want to see all of your notifications, simply click on the bell to see them all. Next tow, you will have a drop down menu. From here, you can switch from teams accounts. You can invite members to your team and then you will have some other sections that will help you learn more about CPA. And you can also sign out from here. Now, let me show you quickly how to create a new design from the homepage. I'm going to create a social media design. Let's say that I want to create an Instagram story. I'm going to select a template from here. I'm not going to edit it. I just want to close on this design to show you where you can find this design later. Going to refresh my page, you will see that your new design will appear under your recent design. If you need to go back to this design to keep editing, you're going to click on this thumbnail and then click on any of these elements to open the editor. You can do your changes and close your design if you want to. Your design will remain here on the homepage. Before moving on to the next lesson, I want to show you how to personalize this sub menu that we see on the Hump page and projects. Remember that this sub menu will remain the same, even if we are on the Hump page or under the projects section. If you want to have a quick access to any of your designs on this sub menu, you are going to hover on your design and then click on this Star. This will automatically bring your design to this left. N. I'm going to do the same for this one. I'm clicking on the Star and you will see that it appears automatically here, and let's do it for this one as well. Now, let me show you how to create a section so you can organize all of these designs that you have editing here. You're going to click on this icon. When you hover, it should say Create section. This is going to create an untitled section, so let me rename this one by plates. You can also add an MOG from here so you can click on this MI face and select an MOG for this section, and that's it. You have a new section. You can start bringing your designs to this section. At the moment, all of the sections are closed, so you cannot see the designs in here, and this is going to make a cleaner look on your home page. If you still want to have a quick access to your designs, you can simply leave this section open and you will see your designs from here. You can keep other sections open or you can collapse them once you are done. 3. An Overview of the Canva Editor: In this lesson, you'll discover the editor. This is the place where you'll create your designs, animations, videos, and more. After watching this lesson, you'll know where the tools are located, how to access or activate them, so you feel ready to start designing. Let's get to it. Let's discover the editor. For this, we are going to create a new document. I'm going to click on social media, and then I'm going to select in Stagram story. I do suggest all of us select the same option, so we see exactly the same on the screen. Default, we will see that the design tab is open, but we're going to click on any other section on your page so we can close it. Like this, we will be able to preview the structure of the editor. In here, I see four different sections. We see the navigation bar on top, the menu on the left, the menu at the bottom of the screen, and then we see the page where we are going to be designing. Let's start by discovering the navigation bar on top. Let's go to the left. From here, we see the open menu button. When you click here, you will have access to the menu and the sub menu that we saw on the Hump page. If you want to close this menu right here, simply click on this x that says Close menu, and this will take you back to the edit. Then we have file in which we will see a menu with different tools related to our document. From here, there is the settings menu, which I personally use a lot. This will allow us to show rulers and guides, add guides, show margins, and so on. Then we have this CVA pro button that says resize and magic switch. When you click here, you will be able to either translate, transform into document or resize your documents. Then we have this little drop down menu. From here, we are by default in the editing mode because we are creating a design. If you just want to add comments to provide feedback, you're going to activate this mode right here, or if you want to only view the document, you're going to click here. Go back to the editing mode and continue with the navigation bar. In here, we have the undo and redo buttons. We then have this little cloud that says all changes saved, and we usually see this check mark if we are connected to the Internet. If you are offline, you will see that the cloud looks different and next to it, it says offline. When you're back online, you will see the check mark inside the cloud. Then we have the name of our documents at the moment is untitled because we haven't renamed these documents. Click in here if you want to rename your document, And here enter when you are done. Next to, you will see your profile picture, and if you are collaborating with other people in the same design, you will see their profile pictures in here. You can provide access to other people by clicking on this plus icon. You have access to insights to the comments, and then if you are using a CVA pro count, you will see this button that says publish as brand template. If you are using a CVA proc count, you won't see this button, but instead, you will see a button around this section that says, try Canva pro for free. Then have this very important button that says share. From here, you'll be able to download your design, or you can also share it in so many other different ways, but we will show you how to do this later in the course. Finally, we have this x that will allow us to close this document and go back to the home page. Coming back to the editor, now let's discover the menu on the left side of the screen. The first thing you have to know is that when you hover your mouse on any of these icons, you will see a little window When you move your mouse to your page, this window will disappear. But you can fix this window if you want. You're going to hover on any of these icons and then click one time. You will see that these icons and the window are not floating anymore and they have a continuous white You can close this window from here and go back to the previous version of this menu in which we see the icons floating, and when we move the mouse away, it disappears. Now, let's click on the sign, and let's keep this window fixed. From here, we see a bar that will allow us to search for different templates, or you can simply scroll down to discover templates in the library. Let's go back Because in here we are under templates, but you also have another tab called styles. From here, if you have a Canva Pro account, and you have set up a branchet or several branchets, you will be able to access them from here. In here, you also see combinations of color palettes with different font combinations. You have different color palettes, font sets, and also reason design styles. Let's go to elements. We have, again here a search bar. Right below the search bar, you will have some keywords that you can click to find the front elements. Let me clear the search bar and then show you that below, we have the recently used elements. I have this section here because I have used this account before. I have recently used elements. But if you are using Camba for the first time, you might not see this recently used section. You should see shapes and the other categories, we will see down below. For every section, you will see a Col, which is going to open that category. In this case, let's open shapes. I'm going to click on COL, and you will see all of the shapes available in here. Let me go back. You will see that elements is actually pretty useful. You will use it all the time when designing in Campa. In here, you will find shapes, graphics, and AI image generator. You will see stickers which are these animated elements. You will see photos with and without a background. You will see videos, audio, That means music and sound effects, charts that you can fully customize. For example, let me show you this one. You can change the colors, phones, and so on. You can also create tables, add frames, grades, mockups, and you also have collections of elements. Let me go up and add a couple of elements. So I'm going to add A square shape here. Let me go to graphics because under graphics, we also have different categories. So let me add an element here. Let's go to stickers and add this milly animated face. Let me go back and back again. This time, I'm going to add a photo. Scroll down, add a video. A chart. A frame. And a mockup. I'm not trying to create a designing here, but I want to show you what happens every time that we select any of these elements right here. At the moment, I have this mockup selected, and then we have the toolbar appearing on top of our page. But this toolbar will change or will adopt depending on the element that we are selecting. L et's select a video this time. You will see that we have a different menu than the one in the mockup. The one in the video has different options and these are related to editing. What happens now if I select a photo or a shape or an animation, it will look different depending on the element that you select. Let me show you how these frames and more cups work. If you want to crop a photo or a video, you can use these frames. Let's say that you want to crop this photo as a circle. You're going to drag your photo on the frame, and your photo has a circular shape. Let me go back and this time add a video here. You will see that the video now has this shape. Can do the same with a mockup. At the moment, when I'm filming this lesson, we can only work with photos and elements. Let's drag this photo inside this mockup, and when you double click, you'll be able to adjust the way the image looks on your mockup. Now let's try this mockup with this element right here. Let's continue with the menu on the left, and let's discover the text section. Here, you can also search for fonts and combinations. You can add a textboox. As you can see, every time you select a text boox, you will have this toolpar appearing on top and F here, you'll be able to change the color of your text, the font, size, and so on. If you have a brand kit setup, you will see your branded fonts in here and down below, you will see different font combinations. Here are the different font combinations that I have used recently. From here, these combinations are pretty cool because many of them have effects applied. Let's say, for example, this one right here, I'm going to apply it to the design. Let me delete here a couple of elements, so we can see clearly what we are doing in the textbox. All you have to do to customize this text box is to double click and start typing your own text. It is a some that you can customize these textboxes and still have the text effect applied. Let's move on to bran kit. This section is obviously more useful if you are using a CVA pro account. You will see here your different bran kits and be able to access them if you click on this little rob. Scroll down and you will see all of the elements in your Branke. You don't have uploads. Remember that you can upload images, videos, and audio to CVA. You can upload them from here. You can search for your content with the search bar, and you can also record yourself in CVA by using this button. If you didn't know, you can also draw in Cava. You have this tool here, three different brushes to work with. An eraser, an arrow that will allow you to move your element on the page. You'll be able to select the color on your marker and the line weight and transparency. Let me close this window because when you draw in Cava, you can select your element and then change the color from here. You don't have projects, which is exactly the same section we saw on the home page. You will have access to your designs, folders, images, and videos. Lastly, you have access to the apps section in the editor. Can also search for different apps. You can scroll down to discover more Canva apps. If we go up, you will see that we are under the discovered tab, but there is another one called your Apps. You will find in here the apps that you have used with your account. Moving on to the menu at the bottom of the screen, we see on the left hand side this button that says note. This one is pretty useful if you want your notes to be displayed in the presenter view when you are presenting this design. You're going to add your notes here, you can close at this window. You can start working on your design. You can add more pages to your design and pay attention because in every single page, you will have different notes. So I'm located on page number three, and when I go to notes, I don't have any notes in here. The notes that I have added, they were placed in page number one. So when I go to page one, you will see the note that I just created here. X T notes, we have duration. This one, it's pretty useful if you are working on an animation or a video. Let me click here and pay attention to the three different pages. At the moment, we don't see any duration here, but when I click duration, we can see the duration of each page in here, so each page lasts 5 seconds, and we can adjust the duration for the pages and still see it here. And you can activate and deactivate this duration view whenever you need it. Now on the right hand side, we see this button that says go to page. This one it's pretty useful if you are working on a document with a lot of pages. Let's say that you have 500 different pages. You will see here a number that means the number of the page where you are located and here we see the amount of pages in that document. Let's say that you want to go to page number one. You click here, you type your number and hit enter. Now you see that we are located on page one. Let me type now three, it enter, and you see that we are now located on page three. We have a slider to zoom out or zoom in on your design. We have a button right next to the slider that does exactly the same. You can increase or decrease the size of your page. You can fit the page to your design. Next, we have a different view of the design, so you can see this design as a scroll view. When you click here, all of the sudden, you can scroll down through all of the pages, and when you click back, it will say thumbnail view. You click here, you will see the view that we were seeing before with a little thumbnail of each page at the bottom. Next, we have the grid view. You're going to click here to preview your design as a grid. This one again, it's pretty useful if you have a document with several pages and you want to see them all at the same time in a grid view. Let me close this view to see now the present screen. When you click here, you will see your design full screen, and when you click back on these arrows, you can close the full screen view. Finally, you have this question mark icon where you can ask Canva for any idea, advice, or any question. Now let's talk about the page where you are going to be designing. When you click on the background of your page, you will see a menu appearing at the top of the page. When you right click on your page, you will see another set of tools and Right below the page, you will see this little thumbs. When you click on any of these three dots, another menu with more options will appear. With this plus icon, you can add a new page and in this case, in this particular document, it is a video document. That's why we have this play button right here. Just to show you the difference with a presentation document this time, in this one, we don't see the play button. 4. Access Thousands of Free Templates: In this lecture, I want to show you what to me is the real strength of Canva. It's amazing template library. Templates are your secret weapon to creating stunning designs, even if you're not a great designer. Some of these templates have been created by professional designers, including people at Canva, and others were made by designers of the Canva Creator program, which I'll come back to later in this lecture. The bottom line is that they look great. Easy to customize and will avoid you the trauma of starting from a blank page. There are a few different ways you can access the Canva templates. The first one being the search bar which is on top of your screen. When you do know exactly what you need to design, like, let's say an Instagram story, I would recommend you use the search bar on top of the home page. When you search for templates in the library, you will get a mix of different results. Free templates are the ones that don't have any icon on them in the lower right corner of their preview. But when you see a yellow crown that says pro when you hover over it, that means that the template is a pro template. If you try to use it with a Canva free account, Canva will prompt you to upgrade your account to Canva Pro. In the template search results, you might also come across templates that have a little euro or dollar icon on them and say paid when you hover over that Now, these templates can be used by all users, but they contain some premium elements in them. You recognize these premium elements if you are a free user by the watermark they have on them. If you are a free user and want to use these templates, the paid templates, you will either have to pay for the premium elements before downloading the template or have to swap the premium elements for other free ones if you don't wish to pay anything before using the templates. Back to our IG story templates here. You will have all your templates displayed right here. In order to find what you are looking for, I suggest you use the filters. You have all your filters right here. You have category filters, business, social media, et cetera, your style, your themes, your features, some of them have animation, some of them have videos, some of them have audio. The great that is if you are working with educational ma ter real, subject topic, even color. You could filter by color. If you want templates that are in the yellow tones, you can select the yellow color and apply that filter. You see the results of your IG story templates have been filtered to show you only the yellow ones. That's pretty cool. Now, let's say you are interested. In one of these templates. You can simply click on them. And from here, you'd have access to different functionalities as well. So first, you'd have the title of this template, Food Promotion Instagram story. You'd have the name of the creator who designed this template. Here it is Pobleens. Okay. So you can directly follow this creator, if you want, with this button right here. You could click on the name of the creator. Let me open that in a new link. So I'll show you, so this is balance creator profile. From here, you can see all of the templates that particular creator has published on Canva. Not only templates. If he or she has published other things like photos. No, there is no photos or graphics, no graphics, only templates for this particular creator. Let me come back to my template information page right here. That's what you see from there. If you want to start using template. Right here, it's a pro template, but I'm using my Canva pro account, so I could just click on Customized this template to open the template directly in the editor. From where I can start customizing it. Now back to the template info page. If I continue to scroll down, I see more like this. These are templates that are similar to the one I originally clicked on. You see a few of these templates right here that are similar. All the way to the bottom on this page, you will have your explore more section with a bunch of different tags right here. These are key words that will lead you to similar looking templates. For example, food or menu. Let's click on one Instagram Story. I would come back to my main search about Instagram story, which has a bunch of different templates right here. You can clear the filters you have applied to your template search by simply going to all filters right here, clear the filter apply to come back to the main search. The Instagram story search with over 350,000 templates available. Now, let me show you another way to access the Canva templates. Let's say I want to create a design for social media. I' going to start by using this icon button here that says social media. If you're looking for a template, you shouldn't click on these icons right here that represents the document types. Because if you do what it does, that it creates a blank document like this one right here. You don't have access to the templates, you need to go Find the template right here in your design tab. This is not what we want. Let me come back to the social media section right here, icon. Instead of clicking on these tiles, use the tabs. Instagram, Facebook, or Linked in, let's say you are looking for Facebook design, scroll down a little bit and then you'll see your Facebook post templates. You can see them all right here, your Facebook cover. Templates. Again, see them all right here, Facebook ads Facebook event covers. If you are searching for a Facebook cover, for example, click on C O, and now you should be looking at all of the Facebook cover templates. Indeed, you'll have over 3,400 templates for Facebook covers, which is great. From here, you have access to the same options as before. You have the possibility to customize the template from here. You have your more like this and explore more with the different tags. Here. Okay. So if I come back here, I can also use the side menu right here to navigate the categories. So I'm here in the Facebook covers. So let's say if I change my mind and I no longer need a Facebook cover, but instead I need an Instagram post, then I could just click on Instagram post right here, like, change the category and now see all of the Instagram post templates right here. Okay. So use this side menu to navigate between the different categories of templates. When you are on the home page, you can also access the templates via the template tab. Once I click here, I have the full library of my templates. From here, I have much more options to really search deep for these templates. You'll see a section about the work kits, which is a relatively new thing in Canva that has been rolled out at Canva Create 2024. Wkits are basically a set of different tools, including a lot of templates, a lot of very cool templates that are organized into I would say categories of work. You have your marketing, work kits, your sales human resources and your creative Wkits. Let me quickly open the creative workkit so you can see what's inside them. First, you'll have a bunch of templates. These are very cool templates that creative, like free ancers or graphic designers, or really any kind of creative person might need So you have your creative briefs, you have your creative productions, project management templates, you have creative ideation with different whiteboards and stuff like that, mood boards. All of this is really cool, brands, strategy, thoughts, starters. All of these are templates. All the way to Apps, when you start seeing a section about Apps, it means you've gone past template se. So these are work kits, come back to your template tabra here. Then you will have all of your I would say famous document types. You're recommended. Then you have presentation templates. You classic presentations in 16 by nine, your mobile first presentation, your iPad format presentation four by three, your brainstorm documents, brainstorm presentation, and game presentations. You keep scrolling down, you might see different sections here. Canva is currently showing me selection of Facebook covers because I recently searched for a Facebook covers, but you probably will see something different here and they are often experimenting with the sections that you see on specific landing pages. Right here we are on the template landing page. Don't be surprised if you see something else. Some stuff you may like. They're trying to personalize the recommendations, and then you start with your, I would say most commonly used document types and some templates for these Facebook post, Instagram post, Instagram stories. This may depend on your latest search as well. But that's pretty much what you have here under template. You can obviously search for templates from the search bar, or you can just navigate the different menus here. You have all of your tips for your presentation, social media, videos, print product, click on more, you have your less conventional stuff like magazine covers. Don't forget you can use a little arrows to keep scrolling to the right here. You have many more document types that you can explore and discover. Let's say you want comic strips, which is not a very common kind of template. Click here and you should see a bunch of different comic strips. There you go. That's the template library. If you don't know what to design or where to start, I would invite you to take a peek at this template button right here. It's a very well furnished section of the Canva home page of the Canva website. Nic it's time I tell you about the Canva creators. Creators or Canva creators is a program by Canva that rewards designers and photographers in the community to create content and make it available for the Canva library. If you're good at designing, you can apply to become a Canva creator. Design a bunch of templates and submit them to Canva to put them in the template library. If they are accepted, you'll then earn royalties every time users use your templates. Canva creators can submit templates, elements, but also photos to the Canva library. Let me show you. If I search, for example, for productivity tips and just use a search bar it enter, and I want to search for Canva templates. This should show me Canva templates with productivity tips. I want to show you, for example, this one right here. Quick tips, I'm going to click on it, and you see that the creator of this template is actually Diana Minos. Oh, what a coincidence. Dan Minos is actually a Canva creator. When I click on Diana's name right here, we access her creator profile. So you see I'm already following her. I'm going to do something very crazy here. I'm going to unfollow Diana. I hope she's not going to hate me for this. But the reason why I unfollow Diana is because I want to show you you can easily follow the creators you like. For that, just hit the big purple button that says follow feel better now. You can follow the creators you enjoy. Once you click on their profile, you should see all of the templates, but also the elements and the photos they have contributed to the Canva library. I know that Diana has published a lot of things here, so you can see if you scroll down a bit, over 15,000 templates have been published by Dana come back up to show you a few other things. Next to the follow button, you have a share button. You can quickly share a link to DNAs profile with all of your friend, which I highly recommend you do so that DNAs follower account will keep going up right here. You also have a three little dot. If you judge that the content is inappropriate, you can report the creator profile to Canva. That's if you come across inappropriate content for some reason. So You keep looking down here on this page. I'm just following the flow here of the page. By default, you are on content, which shows you some featured template and then some collections of different templates that the creator might have created. Here, Dana has created several collections of templates, planners, sellers, productivity tips, et cetera. But you have your about section. The about section tells you a little bit about the creator. You can read their description, templates for small businesses, entrepreneurs and content. Caters. You can add link to your social. For example, you see here, Diana has a link to her Instagram. Another link right here to a link tree, if I'm not mistaken. You have the number of views on Diana's template, over 239,000 views, and then the location of where the creator is located. Let's come back to the content stab because I want to show you once you scroll down a bit more, you should see a search box to search content from this particular creator. If I am looking for a Carroll, for example, here, I just type in carrousel, and then I don't even hit Enter. Canva is going to filter all of the carousels from Diana's template. All you see here is just Diana or that particular creator's template. So you can also decide to search for photos or graphics, or you can use the categories. For example, you want templates with video, Facebook video. She doesn't have any, maybe Instagram video, let's say YouTube video, mobile video. No she doesn't have much template with video. But if we scroll for social media, Instagram post, so there you go, you have all the Instagram post templates that Dana has published. Canva creators is pretty cool. In my opinion, you can follow the creators and obviously, once you have followed your creators, you have a place in Canva to see a feed of everything that your, your favorite creators have published. In order to find it, let me show you from the home page. From the homepage, you will go to templates, and from templates, you should see an item right here on this secondary menu that says creators, you follow. Creators you follow is your creators hub on Canva, where you will see the templates of all the creators you've decided to follow. Here because I'm on my Canva Glow account, I don't follow many creators. Only one, you see one following and that one is Diana. But Kanva will suggest me to follow other creators. I'm going to follow my friend Roger rez right here, my social designer. He has also some pretty cool templates, so you should also follow him. Definitely. Let me come back and find a few other ones that I might recommend. So those, I don't really know them. But definitely the Canva creative studio. You should also follow this one. This is Canvas main, I would say template collection. This one is curated by Canva has some very cool stuff as well. If you are yourself interested in becoming a Canva creator, I would recommend you head back to this landing page right here, where you can become a creator. I will have a link for you in this lectures description. Believe this gives you a good overview of where to find the Canva template. You'll see that these templates can also be accessed directly via the Canva editor. But I'll show you that in a different lecture. Now, let's take a quick break. 5. Canva's AI Revolution: In this lecture, I want to give you a glimpse into how Canva leverages artificial intelligence to empower creativity and innovation. Since its founding in 2013, Canvas mission has been to empower everyone to design, regardless of their skill level or background. Now, this vision revolves around democratizing design, making it accessible and intuitive for everyone from beginners to professionals. Now, fast forward, 11 years, and Canva now has almost 200 million users worldwide, helping them transform their creative ideas into reality with ease. At the heart of Canvas vision is a commitment to innovation. And this translates into their continuous efforts to enhance the platforms capabilities and the user experience. By integrating AI, Canva takes a significant leap in fulfilling its mission. Indeed, AI enables more intuitive design processes. It automates mundane task and introduces powerful features that were once only accessible to those with advanced kills, like removing the background of a photo, for example. This not only makes design more accessible, it significantly amplifies the creative potential of all users, AKA, empowering everyone to design Canvas moto. Now, let's take a trip down memory lane and see how Canvas AI journey began with several key innovations. In 2019, Canva adds AI background removal via the Remove Dot BG app built by Calido. This tool simplified the design process by removing backgrounds from images with a single click. Background remover is the evolution of the removed dot BG website by Calido. Turn into a native Canva feature. And one that we make millions of users want to upgrade to Canva Pro. In 2021, Canva acquires aldo to deepen their research and development in the AI design space, paving the way for more powerful tools and seamless integration of AI into their visual suite. In August 2022, generative AI models like Stable diffusion and DL E become available for public use, and the Canva team begins experimenting. Shortly after September 2022, Kanba launches its first NAI product called text to image that transforms text descriptions into visual content. Now, this opens up a whole array of possibilities. Then, end of 2022, six weeks after OpenAI's CA GPT is made public, Kanba launches GPT powered Magic right to all users in Kanba Docs. And then in March 2023, C Kanba introduces Magic Studio, a suite of AI powered features that would transform the way we design. The suite includes features for translating and summarizing documents, editing, and transforming images, and converting brainstorm whiteboards into fully fledged presentations. Since its launch, Magic Studio has been used over 7 billion times, demonstrating its significant impact. E year later, Canva doubles down on Magic Studio at Canva Create 2024 and introduces more AI powered features like Magic Design, video, background remover, bulk create and more. In July 2024 Canva acquired Leonardo AI, a generative AI platform, renowned for its advanced image and video generation capabilities. And while this acquisition is significant, it's just one piece of Canvas broader AI strategy. Leonardo excels at producing hyper realistic photos and videos, and it will gradually be integrated into Canvas Magic Studio. This integration promises to deliver even more powerful tools, further enhancing the creative process for. By the way I sit with this acquisition, Canva reaffirms its commitment to AI and innovation. Of course, for us users, all of this means some shiny new features are on the horizon, promising to brill our minds and further enhance what we can do with Canva. Yeah, exciting times. 6. How to Search for Things in Canva? (and find them!): In this lecture, I'm going to show you how to search for the design ingredients in Canva, K A, all the things you need to create a design, to create a video, to create a website, et cetera. And you will see that there is always a few different ways you can go about finding particular elements in Canva. Let's dive into it. All right. Let's start from the Canva homepage. I want to show you how you can search for things from here and find them. So we are going to use the search bar on top of your screen right here. This is where you want to go to search for things. Let's type in Instagram. And before I hit enter, we can see a couple of different things here. I see two types. I can search for Canva templates right here. Or I can search for all my content, or I can search for both. By default, both of these tiles will be visible, meaning you are actually searching and you are being given a mix of different things here. So this is important to understand that you can search for templates or you can search for your own content. Let's start with my own content. So if I click on all your content, I will see all the documents here, I believe there are seven documents that I created that either contain the word Instagram in their title, or in the content of the document itself. So Canva has the ability to scan through what's inside your documents to find keywords. You will be served anything that contains the keyword Instagram that is part of your content. That is searching or your content. If I come back to the original search Instagram, you can also search for templates. If I click on templates, I should start seeing templates right here. Templates for Instagram. That's interesting to understand. I haven't hit Enter yet. If I hit Enter here, what I'm going to go to is to the search result for Instagram template. You see here 20,000 templates for Instagram. If I scroll down, this will be a mix of Instagram posts, squared, stories, and anything really related to Instagram because I didn't specify what kind of Instagram post, what kind of Instagram template. So this is how search work. If I clear that, and search again for Instagram. If I just type in Instagram and Lung, I will have a mix of results, starting by my own designs. You see the seven designs that contain the word Instagram, either on the title or inside of them, and then my Canva templates. Important to realize when you search for something, you either searching for templates in the Canva library or you're searching your own content. Make sure you understand this difference. Now, I want to show you something else. Let's come back one step in search again for let's try another one. Let's try Facebook. I'm just type Facebook. If I look at the different results that are presented to me here, I can see different things. The first one is a magnifier icon, search for Facebook, and then you have other ones like other magnifiers. These are suggested searches. Canvas suggests that maybe you'd like some business Facebook covers or maybe you'd like a collage Facebook covers. Maybe you don't need a template, but you need a document type. Specific Facebook related document type. Canva is going to suggest a few here, Facebook ad, Facebook app ad. Or maybe you are searching your own content because it doesn't know at this stage. I didn't click on any tile yet. Out of the box, I'm being served a mixed bag of results here. Now, there's something else I want to show you. I want to click on the templates right here. You see when you use template, when you search in templates, you have this other kind of magnifier, the magnifier with a little spark in it. This is the magic design feature. Magic design is an AI assistant that will create a custom template for you, based on what you search for, what you prompted in your search. Canva gives us two examples here, a beautiful Facebook cover image of a nighttime city scape. I imagine. Or create a Facebook cover image of vibrant graffiti art. These, let me click on one to show you what they are. These are magic designs. Canva will be using its AIC, it's being generated here. So cover image of vibrant graffiti art. Basically, Canva is going to mix and match different things like different templates they have in their library and the AI will generate the text for you, colorful graffiti art for you, and it will also generate the image, or it will search the Canva library for some graffiti. There you go. We have a few Facebook covers that feature vibrant graffiti art. This is pretty cool. It's called Magic Design. It's a pro feature. You see the little crown right here, and it says beta, and though it's a pro feature, I am in my free account right here. You see Ronnie free. I believe this is a pro feature, but it's a free. Feature. Meaning you will be able as a free user to try this feature for a few times before they lock you in and they tell you, Okay, we cannot use that feature again. We need to upgrade to a pro account. But for now, it works with my free account. Now, this is very cool, and I will come back to Magic design later into the course when I talk about the Magic studio, there will be a dedicated section of the course only for the AI assisted features. Great. Now, let's come back to the home page. So these are the different features that you have when you search from the home page. Now that we know how to search from the home page, it's time to take a look at how to search from within the Canva editor K A, the design area. All right. We are now in the editor AKA the Design area in Canva, and I want to show you similarly how to search for things from here and find these things. The way you will typically start a search is from your elements tab right here. I'm going to click on it, and I can search for elements. So let's search for rubber duck. I love my little rubber ducks. When you search for rubber ducks and hit Enter, this is what you will see. Basically, this is a mixed bag of results between different kind of elements, Design ingredients, if you first have your graphics. Graphics are either illustrations, either like three D renders of rubber ducts drawings or sort of graphics. They will have different properties, but basically these are your graphics or illustrations. Next, you'll have photos. You'll have photos of rubber ducks with or without background, free or pro. Remember to see the little crown right here to receive the indication of whether a design ingredient is free or Next, you'll have your videos. So you see videos of rubber ducks in different situations. You have plenty of video results right here, and then you'll have your audio clips. Rubber duck squeak. Let's try this. Yeah. Pretty cool. Basically, these are sound effects. What you see here is all of the design ingredients that correspond to your rubber duck search that I just conducted right here. Now, it is possible to go deeper on any of these categories of outputs, and you can use the tabs right here on top of your screen. By default, you will see all of them mixed in this search result right here. But you can filter only your graphics, and then you have all of your graphics. You might find some prompts if you are using Canva free account to upgrade so that you have access to more premium graphics, all of the pro ones they show them to you, but they are not all available. You will not be able to export, for example, your design if you use a pro element on it. It has a watermark. It won't let you add it to your design unless you pay for it. This is something you might see prompts like this one right here in the graphics. Now, for photos, we see similar results, rubber ducks. When you search for photos, you might bump into a prompt like this one, looking for rubber duck, watch your words transform into one of a kind AI image. Powered by AI. So basically, you can generate an image right here by using magic media. We'll cover these features later in the course when we talk about all of the AI features. Just know that this feature exists. It's available for pro and free. So that's pretty cool. But otherwise, you will see under the photo tab right here, or the results for your rubber duck photos. All right. You can filter by video. You can filter by shapes. There is no shape audio. We saw that there are a few rubber duck sound effects, frames, mockups, and then what is this one? Charts. So you have all of your types of assets right here. So this is what searching under element gives you right here. Now, I'm going to give you a protip. If you don't want to use the filters right here the tabs to filter between your different categories of acts, I would say. You could also search under the apps right here, the apps button. If you scroll down a little bit and you locate the section that says more from Canva, you should see a few different icons that will allow you to open a new section underneath this separator right here. Searching only for videos, only for audios, or only for photos. You see photos right here if I can click on photo. The icon, the tab will be pinned right here in my app section right here. I had magic media. And so everything that's underneath this separator can be pinned or unpinned by hovering over the icon and by using the little x here. I can close it. So let's close Magic media. So what I was showing you is that you can pin a tab for photos, which I just did, can pin another one for video, and you can pin another one for audio. Now, if you search for a photo, you know that what you're searching for is a photo, get in here to your photo tab right here and search for whatever you need. Like, for example, a green lake. Let's come back to our rubber duck search right here. Be I want to show you the filters. When you search for keyword under elements, you can use the filters right here. Let's click on that little filter icon. Are a few different types of filters. The first one is color. L et's say you want to find a rubber duck that is not yellow, but instead let's say green. You can select that filter for the color. Then if I come back to my results here or the results, I see only green kind of photos and icons, graphics. You see? I have only green colored ones right here because I selected the filter green. Now I could have selected purple. Then I would have the same thing like rubber duck related results in different kind of media, graphics, photos, videos. But this time, everything is purple. The color filter is very useful. You cannot find this anywhere else, and I really like it because it can really keep your design on brand. So that's the first filter. Let me remove this filter by clicking on Clear All right here because I want to show you the other ones. The second filter is the orientation. That is if you are searching for a squared, vertical or horizontal type of image. This works best with photos I imagine. Searching for a horizontal like a landscape photo. I'm going to select that and search for my photos of Robber Ducks right here. You see, now they are all in the landscape mode right here, horizontal mode. Every single result that I'm being presented here. If I didn't get this filter, I get rid of it, for example, clearing it. Come back here, I will see some portrait like this one, for example. It's not a landscape photo, this one either, this one, for example. You get the point. What else do I have in terms of filter? Also, you can combine different filters. You can go yellow and then square, and then you will only get yellow and square rubber duck related photos because I am now on the photo tab right here. Just like that, you can add your filters. Let's clear them animated versus static. This is also a pretty cool filter. Let's say, you want some animated rubber ducks. Under my graphics because the animated icons or the animated stickers, they're all under graphics. There's no animated photos. You can see right here, this little guy is an animated rubber duck graphic. Another one right here. Another one here, not a duck per se, but I mean, close enough. This is animated versus static. Then you have a last one right here, which is cut out. Maybe you want a rubber duck without a background in your photos, for example. Let's use this page right here. I'm going to change the color to black, so you can see what's going on here. I'm using the filter cut out. Most of the result will be pro ones. You might find a few free ones in there, but it's not going to be that easy. Let's see. This one right here indeed doesn't have a background. That's what Canva calls the cut out only. You go, these are all the different filters you can use when you search from within the editor. All right, I have a few more tips for you guys before I wrap up this lecture. Let's say you find a rubber duck that you like. No this one, not that cool, but this one. This one is super cool because it has some nice, swaggy sunglasses.'s pro rubber duck, but it's fine. I don't need to download it for now. What I want to show you when you find graphic or photo or something that you like in the library, in your search result, you can use a three little dots by hovering over your element. You should see this menu right here. Three little dots, click on that. From here, you have a bunch of different information about your asset about your design ingredient. The title, it's called three D rubber duck wearing sunglasses, the creator more by KW Studio from KW Studio. You can see it's one design use for one Euro, that's if you want to purchase this element while downloading your design. Then you have a few keywords, and you can see the whole list of keywords. That is if you want to search for similar ones, these are clickable, I believe, so you could click on them and it will run a different search for that specific keyword. You can start that rubber deck. You can see more like this one, which is really interesting. In my opinion, this is a very powerful feature to create consistency in your documents. Add it to a folder, you can report it or you can view collection. Now, not all of the graphics will be part of collections. But what Canva calls a collection is a set of graphics. Collections are only for graphics as of now as far as I know, so it doesn't work for photos. But you see here, they're all three D inflatable items. They all have the same style. Basically, it's a set of graphics that has been created by the same creator that Canva qualifies as a set a collection. It has a specific unique name. If you search for this exact name, you will land on that collection. Also, be aware that not all graphics are part of a collection. Though this one with those three D rubber duck wearing sunglasses is part of the collection, you can see view collection. This one right here called Blue rubber duck, you see it's not part of a collection. So it's not going to be automatic. It's not going to be a given that your specific elements are part of a collection. The way you do find collections is just by having a little bit of Also, with some training, you will have that feeling, this is probably part of a collection. This pixelated rubber duck, I would bet that it is part of a collection because there's probably more than just this one. If I get here, y, you see Bingo, it's part of a collection, and there you go like a pixel art collection of different items right here. So my advice is when you do find a graphic that you like, see if it's part of a collection. If it is, it's much better for you. It will add that consistency between your different visual elements in a specific document. So try to stick to the elements of a specific set right here. Now, if you see an item that you like, let's come back to my rubber duck search right here, graphic. If you see an item that you like like this blue rubber duck, it's not part of a collection. Still use the S more like this button. See more like this, and there you go. You will see more of this rubber duck in different colors. It's interesting that it's not part of a collection because they have all of these different colors for this same rubber duck. Again, click on the three little dots, see if it's part of a collection, if it's not, you can always create your own collections by adding similar looking elements into a folder or starring them really up to you. Then the last thing, the last tip I'm going to give you to wrap up this lecture is you can click on the three little dots and not focus on this lower part, but on the upper part. You can view more of the same contributor or the same Canva creator. If I like this style, maybe I find more of the same designer. You see view more by C N. If I click here, now, what I'll see here is the account of C N z. I can search from here. I can see only the graphics, and I can see this person has some pretty cool illustrations. These are probably part of a set a collection. No, it's not. Sometimes contributors don't take the time to organize their assets into sets into collections, but they are pretty cool. They are pretty cute as well. You can follow this creator. You can click on the name at CN UI. From here. So I feel that being able to search more from the same contributor can lead you to some pleasant finds, like some really cool finds. You can discover new types of illustration, like graphic artists that have consistent style. You see, this is clearly inspired by the Japanese kind of drawings, like, cute little animals, like cats, like dogs, ducks, all of this stuff. So it makes me think of the Kawai kind of style. So yeah, you can really go and search deep. In the Canva library. And all of this started from one single graphic that I found interesting. I don't remember if it was this one or another one, but basically, you can go and search kind of deep dive into a specific contributor. And I believe this is a great way to discover content. Now, I wish Canva would let us easily search for contributors from the home page, from the template library or somewhere, but they don't at the moment. Okay? So you see the profile picture here, Bessie Kalsi. There's no way I can get to that person's contributor profile. Yet. I really do hope Canva changes that in the future. Right, guys, I'm going to leave it here for this lecture about finding things. In the next one, we are going to look at how to work with text. 7. Working with Text: Working with text in Canva is one of my favorite things to do. But I have to admit finding or mixing and matching the right fonts in Canva, among the thousands of different options that are available to me, could be a bit of a finding Wardo moment for a Canva beginning. So in this lecture, I'm going to give you some tips for finding the right fonts in the library and how to best work with text in Canva. When you are in the Canva editor and want to add text to your design, you can do so by clicking on the text tab. I'm going to do so right now. From here, there are two different ways you can actually add text to your design. The first one is to add a textbox. You see this purple button and Canva made it purple for a reason because this is the actual simplest way to add a text to your design. Click here to create a textbox. I believe it is the last font you have used the last font plus attribute you've used while working with text being created. Or if you are a pro user, you will have the font that you set as your main font in your Canva Branket as the default text box. I would say configuration. But here, I'm using my free account. When I create a text box, it comes in the form of the latest font I use. There you go. This is how you create a textbox. There is a shortcut, a keyboard shortcut to this. I'm going to delete this one. The keyboard shortcut is simply the letter T. If I hit the T key on my keyboard, it's the same thing as going to the text tab and hitting this purple button right here. It's the same thing. All right. Now that we have our text boxes, it is time to make them look great to build our design. Obviously, you will need to click on them in order to bring on a set of features right here, on the floating menu that you see here on top. The first thing you should see is Magic R. Magic writ is the Ca gPT of Canva. I will talk about this in the dedicated AI section of the course. The second thing you can do here is to change the font. If you click on that font name, Public Suns, which is this font name, you should open a menu on the right side of your screen with a bunch of different font names right here. So this will be divided into different sections, and also you will have a mix of free and pro fonts. If they have a little crown next to them, this means they are pro font. You see this one, this one, all of the ones with a little crown icon are pro fonts. Obviously, by now, you know all of this, a little crown means paid. Name of the fonts. This section is divided into your document funds because I have a second page right here. This is like where I want to get. This page is inside this document. I will see my document funds right here, Pissans and public sans. Pisans is the big gold letter that you'll see here. You will have that section first, your document funds, which is useful because if you have a 50 page document, you will want to use the same fund from page to page. Next, you have a section of recommended funds. This is just what Canva believes would pair well with these existing document funds that you see right here. You can try them on. Next, you have your recently used funds, which is also useful because we tend as designers to keep using the same funds. Me, I use Montserrat a lot, as you can see. Then you have your brand kit funds. If you are a pro user and have set up your brand kit, they will show up here. Then you have popular funds. These are rising funds that Canva believe are popular funds are trendy funds. Long list of them. And I believe that's it at the very bottom here, you have upload a font button, which is a pro feature. Okay, this gives you the possibility to upload your own font and add that font to the Canva font library, but this is a pro feature. All right. So let's try to change this second line of text here for my piece sons. Piece sans. There you go. I have my textbox updated with the latest font with Piece son. You can see the name here as well. Now, to change the size of this phone to make it bigger or smaller, you also have a few different options. You need to click on it. That's non negotiable. You need to click on your text box. Then you can look at this number right here, 27.1 and use the plus or minus buttons. That's the basic way I would say of using this. Another way to get there is to simply s. You can double click here to select all of the numbers or you could select part of it to select that number and type in the new one. So let's say 50, hit enter, and then your text box has been resized to size 50. There is one last way you could do so to resize your text is to simply grab one of the corners of your textbook and then either make it smaller or bigger by stretching it. These are all the different ways you can actually resize your text. The most precise one is to enter the value manually. Let's say you want 55, there you go. You type in 55 hit enter, and then you know your font is at size 55. That is the most precise one. That is the one I use most of the Let's come back to the name of the font. L et's click on that. Bring up the menu here. I want to show you how to search for fonts. Either you know the name of the font you're searching for. For example, if I'm searching for Montserrat, I can start typing Montserrat, and when I see it, can click on it to change the font. But sometimes you don't know the name of a font, but you do know the type of vibe you want to communicate with your font. Let's say maybe you want a fun font. You can try typing key words like fun. Example. So if you hit enter, you would see a bunch of different fun fonts here, like ten moonlight. This is a quite fun font. Hit cut, also quite of a fun font, bow, also kind of fun. So there's other things like you could type bold, for example. Bold for title, for example. So you have a bunch of bolder font right here, these kind of things that would work for headlines. You see bold kind of fonts. So Canva recognizes the keyword that you use here. You can use keywords like cute, elegant, quirky, or you can try different keywords. If you don't know, or if you're not inspired, you could look at these ties right here. So you have your handwriting, you have corporate display. Now, what in design, we call a display font is usually a fantasy font or a fun type of font, some sort of a different type of font that you would use sparingly to add a touch of craziness to your design. Okay, so these are the display font. You headings. So Canva makes it easy for you by using these tires. Don't forget you have a little arrow, sometimes it's a bit hidden. You don't really see them well, but there are arrows left and right here that you can use to go through these different keywords, which are very useful, like the retropont, you see, something like this retro that's also use the filters. Once you search for funds. Language, for example, you could search for funds in a specific language, for example, if I type Tai, the Tai alphabet is different, so you could apply this and find some fund that are compatible with the Tai alphabet right here. That's language. Now, another filter you can use is the price filter. So you can filter only the pro or only the free fonts, which could be very useful if you are a free user, and you're tired of seeing all of these pro fonts that you cannot use anyway. So in that case, you can filter by ticking the free box, and applied. Now Canva will only show me free fonts, which is a blessing, I believe, for free users. So these are simply the filters, two types of filters, language, and price. We're going to clear them thing else I want to show you when working with fonts is that some of them are part of font families. And you will recognize a font family with the little arrow that you see in front of the fonts name. Like, for example, here, public sans, if I click on that arrow, I can see different font weight. Let me show you by actually clicking on it. This is public sans thin. Then you have your regular, medium, bold or black. Now, these different weights of fonts are really useful if you want to create contrast in a specific paragraph, for example. You could have a headline in the same font. So you're still using public sounds, but you want your headline to pop out. So you will use a font like the public sounds black, for example. And then your text would be public sounds regular. Okay okay? Let me show you what I mean by that. So this would be your headline, in public suns black. And then you will have your public songs regular right here for this other textbox. So you can create a hierarchy in your design working with text by simply playing around with the different font weight. I would recommend you explore these font families. You see Montserrat here has a bunch of different weight to it. The more popular the font, the more weight they will have. This one gives us a large range of weight to play For example, let's have our headline in Monsat Extra bold and our text body in Monsat light. For example, let's align this to the left, and there you go. You have your headline and your text body. This is how you use font family very useful for creating contrast, for creating hierarchy between your different paragraphs and layouts when you work Text, and also stay consistent because basically you will keep working with the same font, so it will look nice consistent and all but you still have some flexibility to highlight specific parts. You could also highlight a specific word by changing its color. You can change the color with this text color button right here. Could make this, let's say You could board. So you have all your classic, like bold, italic, underline. This button right here. Very interesting. Let me unbold everything here. You could uppercase. Some of these features will just consider the entire text box like uppercase. Color doesn't work like this. You can highlight a specific word in a sentence. Same with board. But the uppercase will put all of your sentence in uppercase. That's a bit of a bummer, but that's how it works. So some fonts will not have all of these attributes. Some fonts might not have the bold and italic and underlying options. That's just depends on the nature of the font. Next, you have your alignment settings. You can align your text to the left, center, to the right, or paste knee. Can create bullet lists, numbered list. You can play around with the letter spacing. Two types of settings here. The space between your letters, that's letter spacing. And let me show you if I can create more space. Also, I will align this to the center, so we can see that better. More space between letters and less space between letters becomes almost unreadable. The default is always going to be zero. Play with this if you know what you're doing. Then you have your line space, which is, in my opinion, more useful. Creates more space between the lines. So that is also something you can play around with. The default here is at 1.4 correct. There you go. This is your different text options right here. Then you have effects animate and the double arrow right here that gives you access to even more features. Now, let me show you some other ways you can use to style your text. From here you can access the text effects. Create shadows. Each of the effects will have their own settings. You can create different kind of shadows like lift. You can make that word hollow, supplies, outline. Outline is interesting. Outline, let me show you some options here. You can select the color of the outline. Let's go for something like white, and you see now everything here has a white. Outline. You can also upgrade the sickness of that outline, which is interesting. If you want to create T shirts or fun graphics with typography on them. That is your outline. I use this effect all the time. Echo glitch neon. I'll let you explore the background is one that I use all the time as well. It creates a background behind your text, and you can also change the color from here directly. If you don't see the color that you like, you can create it. For example, you want some highlighting that you go, can create create it like That is background, and then you have your curved text. Let me reset that text color because it became a bit funky here. I'm just using my control Z button, and I'm going to stretch that a little bit, so we do have an entire line right here. You know what? I'm going to make that shorter. Earth is counting. I'm going to select this textbox. Use the copy style button right here, which will copy the style of this textbox, and I can paste it on this one. With the first one selected, I'm going to use my copy style. Click here to paste my style. I'm just doing this to show you how to use the copy style button, and now you delete that. Now I want to show you the last of the effects right here. I'm going to click on see all the curve text. These first categories of effects modify the style. But then we have one effect that modifies the shape of your text, and that is the curve text right here. If I click text will be curved and then I have control over that curve. Can curve it negatively. Can am create a circle, which is pretty cool. If I do this and make my text a bit bigger and add some texts, Earth is counting backwards. Now you see that creates a full circle. Obviously, I need to curve a little bit less, but I could make these two touch I could add a dot at the end of the sentence. So it almost creates a full circle right here. A cool little design here would be to find a graphic of the Earth and place that right here in the middle of your text effect like so. There you go. Now you have created an interesting design based on typography, text effects, et cetera. And let me wrap up this lecture by giving you a few tips on how to pair fonts or how to combine fonts in Canvas. The most important thing in my opinion is to look for contrast when combining funds. The first way to create that contrast. In my opinion, the easiest way is to combine a bold font, like the one you see here with the thin font, the one underneath. This one, the bold one is null, and the light one or the thin one is code. All right. In order to find them, I did something very easy. I just went to the font menu and typed in bold. Canva gives me a bunch of bolder font. Similarly, for the other one, you can search for keyword like thin. But combining bold and thin font will always give you that contrast and always create that, that effect of highlighting of hierarchy. Yeah. For me, that is the easiest way to create contrast when pairing font. Okay. Moving on to the second way of creating that contrast is to use a toll font and a short font. So here we see knowledge is power with tech Tall Arabic. Then we have this other one right here, Roboto condensed. Anything that is condensed will be like a shorter font. Tall versus short also creates that great contrast and in my opinion, is also a very easy way to get way is to use serif versus San serifont. This implies that you understand what cerifs are. The cerifs are the little legs that you see at the end or the edges of the letters here. You see that this font right here called Orelaga one is a Serif font because it has these little legs attached to the letters. While this one right here, red hat display doesn't have the legs. You see the F R E, there's no legs like there is on this other one. Combining a Serif with a Sanser font is also a popular way to create contrast. Yet another way to create contrast. Guys, this is not an exhaustive list by all means. There are plenty of ways you can create contrast when working with fonts in Canva. The next way is to use a display font or fund font and combine it with a more serious font. Like I did here on this example. I have this one right here, Rubi Vanil nine by nine. I'm not sure how to pronounce the word. It is a display fund. You can clearly see this is a fantasy fund, it's a fund fund, not very serious. I would not use this if I was to create my business website, for example. Then you have the counterpart, the serious font, which is Monsat, which is your serious, your clean. I would say your corporate kind of fund that in this example, combines very well, creates that contrast, between the fund, the display fund and the second line right here, which is more serious. Sure, there is plenty of other combinations that could be thought of. This is not an exhaustive list on how to create contrasts with fonts. I'm sure there is many other ways to do so. But this is just like my quick wins, my tips, my easy tips for you guys to start creating that contrast. All right. Moving on. There is something else I would like to show you about creating font combinations. NDA actually gives us free resources that we can leverage in order to create cool font combinations. Let me show you where you can find this font combo preset. You'll have to head over your text tab right here. And if you scroll down a bit, you should see font combination. You'll see here a bunch of preset font combinations. Some of them will have some effects, some of them are some of them are free. But what I recommend you do is to keep scrolling. See this list is pretty long. Keep scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Until you start seeing some black and white ones, like this one right here. You see? This one is a nice font combination between bold and thin font, keep scrolling. You should see some more fancy font with a classic type of font works well as well. Big and small you see for this combo, this one right here with a handwritten and kind of straight kind of font. The more you scroll, the more you should see preset font combination. All of the black and white should be free. On top of being nice, they are free. So make sure you explore these I would say preset font combination that Canva designed for you and gracefully placed right here under the text tab. Need to keep scrolling in order to find some more combinations because there is an infinite scroll almost here. Look at this all of this scrolling. My head is spinning. These obviously are editable. You click. Yeah. Let me show you, let me delete all of this and keep only this one right here. I put it in the middle of my page. When I click on it, I see a button that prompts me to ungroup. Why is that? Well, Because these are actually two different text boxes. You see once it's ungrouped, you can see each of the text boxes. The first one, this one, the fantasy font, is called chewy and then we have the second one, Legs Parton Caps. Obviously, they are both editable. So for example, I can type my own message. Thanks for purchasing purchasing this course. There you go. Thanks for purchasing this course, and you have used that fund combination and basically customize the text to your personal use. So that is pretty cool. There is one more thing I want to show you, another asset that anbi is giving us to combine funds. I have here a template that I just imported from the template library. If I click on the design tab right here, this is a template. You see? It's come from this one. I just changed my name and the date. I want to show you another cool way you can style your fonts in Canva. That's a lesser known way of pairing of combining your different fonts so that they match so that they create specific sense in your design. For that, you will want to click on the design tab right here. Instead of going to templates, you are going to go to your styles. Go to styles and then scroll down a bit and you should see a section dedicated to font set. Font set right here. Click on CO. Now what you see here is similar to the font presets that I showed you just a few seconds ago. But they are all right here under my styles. These font set right here, they are the same thing. If I click on any of these, it will change all of the fonts on my specific page that I have selected right here, page number eight for this combination of fonts. Let's try with one, that is pretty different from this so this point right here. Mom. You click here and now you have your font right here, that is Montie. Yes, I was trying to read it from here, Montie then you have glacial indifference as your second font. Basically, just with the click of a button, you change all of the font in your document. So basically what you're doing here, you are using set fonts or set font combinations in the style button to change everything on your design with a single click. Okay. Every single textbox will be updated to match these fonts right here. Usually, they will give you two fonts per style, which is more than enough and you see right here, again, so everything has been thought of, everything has been designed by designers, so you can pretty much trust all of these font combinations right here. They are very, very useful. I think we are going to leave it here for this section about working with text. In the next one, I'll show you how to work with photos. 8. Working with Photos: Canva has over 100 million stock photos in its media library. In this lecture, we are going to discover them and see how to best work with them. There are several ways to search for photos in Canva. Let's start by searching from the home page. The way to access the photo library from the home page is simply to head over your template stab, so click on templates. I know it might not seem like the place where you will find your photos, but photos are indeed located here under the template. You should see on the left side menu icon with the title that says photos. Click here. And you will land on the Canva photo library, which is an amazing resource for you to find any photo you like. Okay? So I'm going to give you a quick tour starting from the top and going down this page. So here, you will have a header that will change kind of regularly in Canva. They will always update this with some new stuff, some new collections they want you to discover. Then you have a series of ties with tags. So you have beach, sky, food, coffee, anything right here. You can use that to start searching for categories of photos. For example, if you click on House, you should see photos of houses. If you work in real estate, for example, this could be very useful. This tag right here that says House, coming back. You have all of your tags. Don't forget, you have your little arrows right here to navigate further left or to the right. So you have these little arrows that are not always visible. Then if we continue to scroll down, explore photos. We can see first drop down menu to filter the free from the pro content. If you click here, you can filter, for example, here, I'm using my Ronnie free account, so I could filter only the free content, and you will see 2.162 million photos right here. Now, let me put pro and free. So you see 83.6 million photos. The pro library gives you access to much 80 million more photos than the free account. This is really something to consider when it comes to deciding whether or not you need to upgrade to Canva Pro. The amount of media that you get with the pro subscription is significantly higher than with the free subscription. We just saw that with photos. That's pretty much what there is to it. There's a big search box right here, obviously. If I search for a blue banana, for example, a blue banana, does Canva have a blue banana in store? Yes, it has. Look, there's a nice blue banana right here. The rest is some bananas with some blue color on that same photo, but I could find a few photos of blue bananas, which is amazing. As always, when you see a little crown, that means that this particular photo is part of Canva P. You won't have access to it with a If you don't see anything, it means the photo is actually free. Here, as you can see, there is one right here, Blue Banana, free. Let me click on it and give you a little bit more explanation of what you see once you click on one of these photos. The first thing you should see is the name of the photo, the name of that particular media, Blue Banana on the yellow surface. This is keyword optimized. Then you see the name of the photographer, Mihael Nov, from Pexels. Mihael Nov is a photographer contributor to Pexels. Form. And both of these names Mihalv and Pexels are actually clickable. If I click on Michel Love, I'm going to head straight to Michel's profile on Pixel, as you can see here. Now I'm going to go back to Canva. That's one thing you can do. Click on the photographer's name. Second thing you can do, use this photo in a design. If I click here, Kanva will suggest me a series of documents that I can start. This photo will be uploaded in. If I want a Facebook post, for example, in landscape mode, and just click here and Canva will bring up my photo of my blue banana in a Facebook post in landscape mode. Doesn't quite fit the entire photo, but I can stretch it and make it fit very easily like. This is something you can do very easily. You can use the photo that you see in the library directly in your desired document type, your desired design type What else? You can start your photo. It will then show in your start content right here. We are still in templates and then start content. And start for now. You can click on the three little dots. You can report the content if you believe or if you judge it's offensive, or you can add it to a folder, which is very convenient. Now, even free users can create a multitude of folders. You can create as many folders as you need. And you can store, you can start organizing photo collections, if you want. You can start resizing your photos for different social media platforms. We'll talk about all of this when we cover the lecture about social media. That's what we see on this part of this Here. Let's continue scrolling down to focus on what's below the photo. A couple of tags, banana, fruit, conceptual studio shoot. Then we see a color palette of five colors that are taken directly from the photo. You see this first one, this amber color, then we have a slightly darker orange right here, the black of the shadow, the blue of the banana and some darker blue for some other parts of the banana. These are the five dominant colors taken from this exact photo. Then you see more like this, Canva recommendations of other photos of blue. So that's pretty much how you search for photos from the Canva library, which is for me, the best way to look for photos on Canvas. The way I usually use it is I come to the home page and I either start for a specific search that I need a photo of something specific, and I will type my keyword right here, or we just simply scroll down, see what's in here, and try to see something that catches my eye. The way you search for photos from within the editor is via the elements tab. Or if you have opened your tab if you have pinned the photo tab and quick reminder through the Apps tab, you could find photos right here. If you click on it, it will be pinned here until you close it with the little X mark. Similarly, you can just search from here. Let's say I need diverse people working. No diverse diverse people work want to showcase the diversity of my workplace, I will need to try to avoid cheesy stock photos like this, for example, this is really cheesy, I don't want that. I'm looking for something like this. These are good photos, but I want to find them in the library right here. I need to make sure they're not too cheesy. One is right here, this one right here. I can click on it. Once you find something, you can click on it. If you have frames on your design like here, you could by moving the photo towards the frame, make them snap into these frames. If you don't want them to snap, you need to hold your command or your shift key, I believe. On a MAC is a command key on a PC, I believe it's the shift or Ault key. Hold it down, and then the photo won't snap into the frames. Once you find a photo you like, let's say you like this one right here, you can actually click on the three little dots to find more information about this particular photo. People of Indonesia, young men working outdoors. It's a photo by Satrio Ramadan from Studio Indonesia. So this is cool. I could probably try to see more of this photographer. You see, now I'm accessing the entire library or photo library of that specific artist. It's labeled artist by Canvas Satrio Ramadan. This is cool. Let's see what also here. Yeah. It's the set of photos. Once I have this, now I have a bunch of photos from Indonesia that are consistent because taken by the same photographer. But I only have Indonesia. So that is just one way of working. You've seen how I did something similar to what I did previously from the photo library, just using the information about the name of the photographer to find more of the same. But you could also have a look at the keywords that are being used here and see if you see one that is particularly original or particularly unique. I would say probably Canva, ID, working Indonesia. I think this one is probably the most unique in everything. If I click it, yes, this will probably bring me to my entire set Now, there is a third way. The first way is via the element tab, the second way is via the photo tab, if it's open. The third way is via the Canva assistant, the magic assistant. The magic assistant is always here, the quick action guide. For those of you who are in English speaking country, you can also use the slash key. Slash will open that same menu. From here, you could type photo of, I don't know, photo of Muslim people working. So you type this, you should see a bunch of photos of Muslim people working. So click on CO, and then your side menu here will be populated with all of these photos. So here, again, I believe this is another photo from Indonesia. Is this the same person? No. It's not the same contributor. Again, if I want to access the specific set. There is a set, let's see if there is a unique tag. I don't see a unique tag here, like all of these are pretty generic. What I'll try to do is to click on the contributor's name. Now I can find more photos from Indonesia that look the same. Pretty much the same. It will be a mix of results, but I do have more photos of Muslim people from So that is the third way just by using the quick action. If you are in a English language country, you can try the slash key on your keyboard. This will bring up the same menu. And by the way, you can search for anything from here, not only photos, search for graphics, you can search for a line, for example. You can search for really anything with this quick action button. All right, you find that one great photo you like in the Canva library. But how can you find more of the same style? Or even maybe from the same photographer? Keep watching. All right. Let's see this photo I really like is this one right here. So I see young Indian woman with tinted colored hair. So I like that. I think this is both modern and traditional at the same I want to find more of this. I want to see if the Canva library has more of these same photos. How can I go about this? I can see it's by core lens. So if I click here, I will be brought to the main I would say page of core lens, which has over 35,000 photos. So this is not really helpful. I'm going to go back one step to my photo. Woman wearing traditional attire for Dev. Okay. So here are some tags. I static Jerry, South Asian women Bauty Festival. Do I see a very specific tag here? Not really. So how can I go about finding, let's see the three lire dots, no free to? These are the terms and conditions for using this? I'm going to give you a tip on how you can get more information about this photo than what you actually see here and how you can actually try to get to the actual photographer, the actual set. You'll see is a two step process. What I'm going to do is to start the photo from here. All right? Now, I'm going to go back to my Canva home page. Open a document doesn't matter which one. Open the document. There you go. Now I'm going to head over my projects right here and look for my start folder. There you go. Here is my photo. I'm going to add a page right here and bring this photo right here on page number two. Though it doesn't really matter if we see the photo here or not. I just want to show you, now I'm working in the editor. I'm right here in my Start folder. I'm going to hover over the three little dots. Click here and now see more information here. Woman wearing traditional attire for Diwali, that's the same title, but instead of Core lans as the contributor, I have a name more by Daniel Adams from Core lens. And if I have a look at the keyword right here and show all Festival general, aesthetic beauty, Bollywood, Canva, urban Diwali. Now, that keyword sounds pretty unique to me. If I click here, Canva rban Diwali, and now I access the actual set. You see, this is the set I was looking for, because it's a consistent set of young Indians dressed for Diwali, which is the festival in India. Yeah it has more of the same person. Look, this is the same lady, the same hair, the same tire, the same outfit, so this is perfect. This is exactly what I was looking for Again, I'm going to sum up what I did to get here. But I just wanted to show you this way of working with photos in Kanva that not many people know about this. If you use these tack almost, you will be ahead of the curve, you will be way more advanced than 95% of Kanva users. Yeah, you're welcome, guys. This is my little contribution to the Kanva community to show you deep searches Canvas. Now instead of starting this photo, I could simply have added it to a folder. So that would be another way to go about this, or I could click on the creator profile and start following this account. In this case, core lens is not so much particular photographer. This is a platform or agglomerate of photographers that are just all working together for core lens. So I don't think it's very interesting to follow accounts like core lens, but let's say I want. Let's say I do. So let's follow this account. Now following Core lens as a photographer as a contributor to the Canva library. I can find this information like the media that Cre lens publishes under this tab right here. I'm still under templates, Creators, you follow. I click here, I should see core lens being added here. So yes, it's right here. You see core lens, and these are all the latest photos from Cre lens. Again, it's not ideal to follow big accounts like core lens because it's a big account. I prefer to follow smaller independent photographers or people who really experience emotions when I looked at their photos, like the set I showed you before. So I'm going to unfollow for now, but I just wanted to show you how you can follow contributors and then where you can find these media that contributor has actually published. It's obviously also possible to upload your own photos in Canvas. Actually, you can do that in a couple of different ways. Let me show you these different ways. The first one is to start from the homepage. The Canva homepage has an upload button, also subtitled Ad Media, which is located right here near the other icons. Locate that upload button. You do, you will get this choose files button, which lets you access the files on your computer. Me, I have a bunch of photos right here on my computer. These are all photos from the time where I was working with my nonprofit Fair trade connection. I will talk about fair trade connection a lot during this course because this represents about ten years of my life where I traveled around the world and worked with the fair trade producers and fair trade organizations. My job was to document the impact of fair trade. I took a lot of photos, a lot of videos. That's also how a. So there you go. You'll see a lot of this Fair trade connection material in the course. Back to our photos here. Let's say I want to upload this one photo here. So I have it selected. Just click on Open, and it will be uploaded into Canva. But not only will it be uploaded. Canva gives me when I upload from the home page a few different options. I can edit this image. If I click here, I will be directed to a modular photo editor. I'm going to show that to you in a second, but I want to first focus on the two other buttons right here. The The prominent one, the one they chose to put in purple is to use in a new design. Canva wants you to start a design. So if you click on this button, you will have to choose a document type, all the types of documents you can create with Canva. Okay, so you can choose one, and your photo will be placed in it in the right dimension. You can start working on that design immediately. Okay? That's the first option. Or there's another option right here that says add to a template. This is relatively new. Have a look at what's going to happen right here on top of your page. This is this magic design feature again. So basically, Canva is going to pinpoint some templates in its template library and place your photo very smartly inside one of these templates. You have a variety of different document types, YouTube nail, Instagram post, social media, Facebook cover, et cetera, et cetera. You have a few different documents with your photo already inserted in the template. It gives you a good overview of what your design could look like So this is relatively new and pretty interesting. Let me go back one step. I'm back here on the home page. What I want to show you also want to show you this modular photo editor. I'm going to upload another photo because this one has already been uploaded, so I'll show that to you in a second. I'm going to upload the second one from the same day of shooting, same kindergarten, same school in Nepal Katmandu. I'm going to open this one as well and show you the option to edit your image directly from here. This is great because you upload photos and they might not be perfect already. You'll have an assistant giving you two. I'm going to skip the tour for now. Basically, I want to show you that from here, you have access to all of your image editing settings. I'm going to cancel here, this card. What I want to show you is that these two photos that I uploaded via this button right here, they are somewhere kept in the Canva cloud. The way you can find them is to use the project tab right here, click on Then locate the up loads button under your folder. Make sure you are under all folders. A or folders. Let's go to folders, uploads, and there you go. These two photos are right here. From here, you can do more stuff. You can click on the three title dot, you can edit the image, which will open the same editor. You can move that to a folder. You can replace it across different designs, which is interesting. You can download it. You can create tags for your photo, which is interesting, but this is a pro feature. Tagging your photos is a pro feature. I'm going to go back to this later. Yeah, we have our two images right here. Under projects, And since we're here, since we are working with these folders, there is something I want to say here. One thing you will want to do at all costs is to stay organized because one phot two photos, it's fine. It's manageable. But once you start uploading dozens if not hundreds of photos into your Canva account, it's going to get messy. It's going to become difficult to find these photos to remember where they are, to organize your workflows. So what I suggest you do, and the habit I would like you to adopt is to stay organized and to label stuff properly and to put things into folders. Is a wonderful update since the last time I updated this course is that free users can now create infinite folders in Canvas. I used to be different. You used to have a few folders only as a free user, three, four, I don't remember, with a very limited amount of folders. Now you can create as many folders as you need. Use these folders to organize your assets to organize your design ingredients, photos, videos, graphics, logos, anything, really. Just do it. Let me show you how you would proceed. So I'm here under folders. You can see that this account is not an account I use regularly because I don't have a folder structure. I just have folder one, two, 34. This is my Canva free account. I have another one which I use all the time with my team, and this one has a bunch of folders. One thing I would like to do is to show you how to rename a folder or to create a new folder, creating a new folder very easy. Click on the plus add new button folder. You can create a folder folder name, and you can share it. You can mention wherever you want to have this folder. Since I already have four folders here with nothing inside them. You see zero items zero items. I'm just going to use folder one and rename this folder by clicking on the little pencil and call that fair trade photos. Fair trade photos. Now I have this empty folder called fair trade photos. Again, something useful is that you can use the little bread crumbs here. It's called bread crumbs to navigate, come back to the previous folder. So what I'm going to do is to go to my upload, select these two photos. These two fair trade photos. You see this menu popping up at the bottom of my screen, two items selected. I can either delete them, move them to the trash. They will not be completely gone. When you move to trash, the trash is somewhere kept for about 30 days. I think it is that your media will be stored in the trash for 30 days. After that, it will be completely gone. Just parentheses here. What we want to do is to move to a folder. I'm going to click on Move to a folder. Locate my folder. I love that anvana has a recent tab. Otherwise, you will have to navigate through all the menu, but now, with the recent tab, just easily, click on your recently created folder fair trade photos, and I'm going to move the two pictures in here. Now they are gone from my uploads, and if I go back to projects, go to Fairtrade photos, they are right here. Some more stuff you can do. You can rename them. I'm going to leave them as such because it's already carrying a name convention that I chose with Fair Trade Connection. So yeah, that's pretty much how you upload photos from the home page. Something else I want to show you. You can also add photos by clicking on the plus add new button right here. You see, you can upload from here. Let me upload a third photo. This one right here of this little girl studying in her book. When you do that, when you use the add new and then upload, the uploaded media will show up immediately in your upload. It will be right here. Similarly, you'll have to select that and move it to the appropriate folder that is if you want to stay organized. There you go. Something else I want to show you is that you can also upload videos. You see, there is an image and a video tab under load. The way you upload a video is exactly the same way. But instead of selecting a photo right here, you can select a video file and upload it. It's exactly the same way. It will take slightly longer. But then your video be found under the videos tab right here. There is one last thing I want to show you. What you can do. Instead of using the upload button like add new upload from here and then it will be stored under your upload, you can upload directly from the appropriate folder. You see right here, I am in the Fred photo folder, so I can from here add the photos I like. I will use the upload button. Let's say I want to upload all of the other photos I have here. I have about 30 more photos. Will be uploading them directly to the right folder. So this will kind of prevent me from having to move them from one folder to another later. There you go. It's going to be uploading and why it's uploading, I can just live my life. I can just do something else in Canva. There is no problem about that. Everything is going to be nicely organized in my folder. I don't have to worry about it. Okay. So just to show you, you come back to it, going to my projects, and going to my fetit photos and you see 16 photos and it's still going, still uploading. So depending on your Internet connection speed, it will take more or less time. Just a reminder, I am using my free account here, and you've seen that I've uploaded already a bunch of photos. In terms of storage, free Canva users can have up to five gigabyte of Cloud storage. Cloud storage includes everything, photos, videos, design, so all of that needs to stay within the limit of 5 gigabytes. The other hand, if you are a pro user, you will have up to 1 terabyte of cloud storage. So that is significantly more than what free users have. If you have to work with hundreds of thousands of photos and videos, I would highly recommend you upgrade to a Canva pro subscription. All right. Let me show you yet another way to upload your own media into Canva. This time, when you are working inside the Canva editor, the design area. I'm here on the editor, slightly Zoom level here. This is a blank document, nothing in it. I want to show you two different ways. You can upload photos from here. I would say the classic way would be to go to your load tab again, right here, Uploads and then click on Upload Files. Click here. You will be again able to navigate the files on your computer. This time. All of this has already been uploaded to the Fat trade photo folder, so I'm going to find a photo on my desktop, which is this one right here of Diana and NI on Ns Plaza in Barcelona. I'm going to select it and just click Open. I'm going to start load right here. And if you want to use it, you can click on it. It will be displayed on your page right here. Start editing this, working on this as your design. One thing I want to show you, if you hover over the photo, click on the three little dots. You will have access to a few options. First thing I see is that this photo is called Untitled Design four, which is not great. So I'm going to rename that photo for the sake of staying organized. I'm going to call this Diana and Ronnie in Barcelona. There you go. This is much better now when you hover over it, Diana and Ronnie in Barcelona. Move this to a folder. This is interesting. You can move your assets, your photos directly to the right folder from here in the editor. You can download it or you can move it to trash. This is the first way to upload a photo from the editor. I'm going to delete it, and I'm going to delete it from here as well. Actually, I'm going to copy the name. I don't want to keep typing this name again and again. I deleted it. It's not in my you see image move to trash. To show you a second way you can actually upload that image into Canva. I'm going to move my mouse to my second screen here that you don't see, but I have my desktop folder open here. What I'm going to do is to select my file and drag it. You see it's coming here. I'm going to drag this file, which is the image, the four PNG image. I can either drop it right here in the design area or I can drop it right here in the upload area. I'm going to drop it directly to my page so that you see what's going on. The photo is going to be visible on my page and it's going to upload right here under my image upload. You see upload. This is great because you can pick files from your computer and drop them directly into Canva, and you don't even need to be in the uploads button. You could be working on under element and drag that file and just drop it in here, and it will start uploading in the right folder in the upload folder. I don't need two versions of the same photo, so I'm going to move this one to trash, and I'm going to rename this one the proper name, which I kept in my copy paste. There you go. I think that's it. These are the different ways that I know of to upload your own photos into Canva. What if you have a PowerPoint presentation you'd like to open in Canva. What if you have a PowerPoint presentation, you'd love to open in Canva, or maybe a PDF from your company that you'd like to open and edit in Canvas. Can I do that? Absolutely. Let me show you how. Let me show you what kind of files are actually supported by Canvas. When I drop a file right here. Okay, so I'm not going to drop it for now, but I just want to show you this menu right here, this message. Drop files to upload can upload fives of different types. Adobe Illustrator PDF, PSD, which is photoshop, PPT X, which is PowerPoint, Google Doc, Doc X, et cetera et cetera. These are all the types of documents of files you can upload into Canva. Then these are your supported image formats. Images straight from your iPhone camera, gifs, JPEG, PNG, SVG, which is the vector format, so all of this. These are your video file format, AVI, and B four, M, give m4v, M KV, et cetera, et cetera, and all of your audio formats. So what I'm going to try right now is to upload a PDF because I believe this is powerful and you can do different things. But before I do, I want to show you what PDF I'm talking about. This particular PDF is a presentation made by Skill Share, which is the creator guideline and inspiration. These guidelines are for instructors on Skillshare who are actually partnering with Skillshare, so they give instructors a bunch of guidelines on how to work, how to create sponsored videos, et cetera. Right. Let me come back to my Canva interface right here. I'm going to click on loads, and I'm going to simply drop that PDF. You see it coming here, drop it right here. I'm going to upload. You see, Skillshare Summer 2024. Now, I have this document uploading right here. Once it is, you will see the number of pages, so I can click on it. It will take a little bit of time for all of the thumbnails to generate. But I can assure you that these pages are actually right there. I can by clicking on it, adding these pages to my design. Let me refresh to see if the pages load properly now. Yes, they are. Sometimes you just need a little refresh button, but there you go. Now I have all of my pages from this PDF. I can add second page, which is this one. Or I can simply apply all pages to my design. I'm going to do this instead, going to delete these two pages and click on apply all 13 pages. You see Canva is going to populate I click on Grid Vew, all of my 13 pages right here. You remember that it was PDF. Well, the beauty and the power of uploading a file into Canva is that it becomes editable. I can change that. Creator guideline, creator framework, and inspiration. I could totally edit everything in my document. You see this graphic right here, I can make it smaller, flip it. I can probably change the color. If I use an effect, everything becomes editable. Everything is pretty much where it needs to be. See this photo. I can apply some effects on the photo by simply selecting it using the little arrows right here. If I want to change something here, so magic eraser, for example, if I was a kind of a pro user, I could use that tool. So That is the beauty of uploading your files. You could upload a photoshop file, a PowerPoint file and start working on editing whatever is inside that file. I'm going to show you for every single type of document, but I believe this example of the PDF is a very interesting one because we all work with PDF, right? And so Canva makes it super easy to edit these documents. We're not going to go too deep into photo editing in this section of the course. Indeed, we're still reviewing the fundamentals, and I'd like to keep these short and suite. But rest as short, we will go deeper into the various photo editing tools in Section six, for example, the Canva Magic Studio, and we'll also see how to properly edit your photos with Canva in sections like Section seven designing for social media. I'm not going to edit it, but I want to give you a quick overview of where all of the editing features are located in Canva. The first thing is I'm going to need a photo. So I'm going to head over my project tab right here. Go to my folders and fetch it from my Fair trade photos. Here, Let me grab a photo. Let's say this one of this pottery worker in Bangladesh. Now, I have my photo. The way you make the photo editing features options appear, you will need to select that photo. A lot of people forget to select the photo first. Select it by clicking on it, and then use a little double arrow right here to see all of the features, or of the options you have or you can use the edit button. You see like an image icon, and edit, can click on that. This will bring up this menu right here from where you have access to all of the editing options. Again, I'm not going to edit it, but I want to list the things you can do. The first thing is the adjust section, which is not going to be the one open by default. The one open is going to be Magic Studio. If you want to access the adjust setting, just use the little arrow right here. These are all your brightness, contrast, highlight, shadows. The classic Basic, I would say photo editing features. You can have a look at all of that. There is an auto adjust button, which is interesting, which will calculate how to adjust the colors. You see colors adjusted automatically. You can select the whole image, the foreground, the background. I like that, that you can create some special effects by selecting only the foreground or the background of your image. For example, let me quickly show you if I select the background and I desaturate the background. I will have a black and white background and a colored subject right here in the foreground. Can create cool effects like this. This is the first thing, the adjust button. Now if we look at the Magic studio suite of tools right here, we have all our AI powered features like background remover, magic eraser, magic grab, grab text, magic edit, Magic Expand. I talk about all of these features in the Magic studio section of the course because these are very interesting. A lot of them are only for pro users, though, so just be aware of that. These are your magic studio features. Under that, there is the filters. This is more something you should be familiar with. If you use Instagram, if you use Facebook, or if you just simply use the photo app on your smartphone, you should be familiar with all of these effects. Explore them. There are some funky ones at the bottom, color pop and stuff like that, monochromatic. These are just simple filters. Next, you have your effects. Effects are interesting. You can add shadows, duotone, blur part of your picture, auto focus, which will also focus on the person or create a blurry background, and then pace we touch. Again, we'll cover all of these effects. Time. Then you have a couple of apps that are also super useful. You have your mockups. This one not going to demo it now, but places the photo inside of an object, which is really cool. Image ab scaler. If you have a low resolution image, you can use this app image ab scaler to upscale your image. Colize is an interesting effect. Pielfi, bland color. I will let you discover they are more or less useful. Have your basic things like flipping the photo horizontally or vertically. That's very basic. Adding a border to the photo. I like that we can now do that easily. Change the color, for example. Let's say you want a yellow border. You just go about it like so and add a thicker border, for example. You can round that border, which is also cool. Rounding it will be from here, you can add some rounded corners. I also love that you can have a gradient border. That's something very funky that I like to Transparency, et cetera, et. Play around with these settings. You can animate your photo. You have a different set of animation. Some of them will be free, some of them will be pro. That's your animate. Then finally, you have position. That is the exact position of your photo on the page. You can work with layers if you had different ingredients on your page. So That is Nat shell. Again, we'll cover that into details in a more practical way, but I just wanted to show you where these options were located in Canva. Again, if you forgot, click on your image, click on the edit button, and then this menu will show up. Remember that you have different sections. Just use the little navigation options right here. If you are in one of the options, for example, use the back arrow to go back to your main photo menu. One thing I highly recommend you do when working in Canva is to stay organized, especially when working with photos. Let me show you a couple of easy ways to keep your media nice and tidy. So the first way I would start that organizational system is to simply have the appropriate folder hierarchy. So I am here in my pro account, one of my pro accounts. This is the Team Rondi account, the main account where we work with every other team member. 9. Working with Colors: Another key design ingredient that you will use over and over in C anva is color. In this lecture, we'll dive into the basics of working with color. Now make sure to sprinkle in some good tips and resources for you guys. Let's get into it. Your best friend when it comes to working with colors in Canva is the color button. All right. So let's, for example, say, we want to change the color of the background of this Instagram square post. All right, Let me reduce the size of the Zoom a little bit. The way we do that is to simply click on the page, and then we'll see this gradient button right here that reads background color. I'm going to click here. And this will open the color button. Okay. So I'm going to go through the different sections of this color button to kind of explain to you what's in here. So the first thing we see on top of it is the document colors. So right now, we don't have any document colors, but let me add a few pages to this document. Okay, let's say three pages. Going to import a template doesn't really matter. Let's grab one from Diana, page three, grab another one. This one, page four, yet another one. Now I have these three pages. I'm going to come back to page one. Let me close that window and click back on the background color. Now you see the document colors have been populated with all of these different colors. Basically, what you see here in the first section of the color button is every single color that has been used in your document. On the other pages of my document. So that's the first section right here. The second section is the colors of my brand kit. I am here using my Runny free account. I have a very limited bran ket limited to three colors, and these are the three colors of my brand kit. Moving on, scrolling down this color button, we have the default colors. These by default will always be the same. Canva gives us these different colors here to work with if we want to. Then at the bottom of this color button, we have the gradients. Now, let me add one more thing to this document, a photo because let's use this photo that we've previously used previous lecture. Come back here because yeah, I wanted to show you this section right here that will only work if you have photos in your document. This one is called photo Colors. Photo colors basically will extract the five dominant colors of any given photo you've used in your document. Here we have this photo right here, and the colors that have been extracted are this like khaki green. Then we have this forest green, then a darker green maroon or brown color and then this fuctia color. So, yeah, it works like this. Canva will identify the different colors. The different dominant colors on your document. Now, let me try again. You see, I have a second color palette generated from this second photo right here. So that is pretty cool. Helps us really kind of like stay on brand if we want to create consistency in our designs to have this color palette extracted from the photos we use. So in the last section I wanted to show you before I got carried away is the gradients section. This section allows us to create gradients. You see, Let me get rid of the photos. I simply created a gradient by using one of these presets gradients right here. Similarly, you would have a plain color for your background by clicking on that color right here. Now, something else, you might not find the color you need in all of these options. In that case, you'll use the first option. Add a new color. Let's click here to see what's going on. First thing you'll see is this color spectrum right here. It is made out of two sections. The first big rectangle right here that allow us to go from dark black to all the way to white. If I just stay on that vertical right here goes from pure white to pure black. Then I have everything in between on this straight line right here, all the shades of I move towards this direction, I'm moving towards the orange. But I could move the second slider right here to move down the color spectrum from red to another red right here going through your purples, blues, and greens and yellows. That is basically how you can pick a color manually, I would say. But it might very well be that you know the X code of a specific color. If you do know the x code, you can input it from right here. Let me input a color right here that I pasted. This is the green color that I like using in some of my designs. I had the exact hex code, so I pasted it here, and that's also another way of creating a color if you do know the specific hex code. Again, this all started from the add a new color button right here, solid color. I knew the hex code, so I pasted it right here. It might be that you do have this animation on your page. And you like one of the colors. For example, you like this blue right here. You would like to recreate this blue color. Let's say you have this square right here, you want the blue in that square. So how would you do that? First, you select your shape. Then you select the color button, go to add a new color, and you can use the color picker, which would be right here. So you will see a color picker in most cases, if you use most of the traditional browsers, I'm using Google Chrome. I believe it works with a Microsoft edge. It works with Firefox, probably works with Safari. So most of the I would say, renown browser, you will have the color picker. Okay. So click on the Color picker, and then you can basically find the color you wish to replicate on your design by simply moving your cursor. Ma one. Blue right here, I'm going to click on it, and there you go. My blue color from the shirt has been passed onto my square right here. That is creating a color based on the color picker. There is another tab right here under the create your own color button. That's the gradient tab. Here, similarly, you can create gradients, and you can create gradients of as many color as you need. Here by default, you have two colors, so you can change the first color, so you can make that greener green, like so. Second color, you can go towards your yellows and do some and there you go. You have two color gradient. You can also play around with the style of your gradient. You see this second section right here to make the light come from different points on that gradient. Or you can also add a third color to your gradient. You could go towards the blue after the yellow. You can reorder the different colors of your gradient as well to make it to your taste, basically. You can keep adding more colors Personally, I am more of a two color gradient guy. So here I would probably get rid of the blue and keep the nice green and bright yellow gradient, go for something like this. This is actually pretty nice. Okay, that's how you work with gradients. That's pretty much how we use colors in Canva via the color button. But you might be wondering, what can I add color to? Can I change the color of everything I see in Canva? The answer is almost. Well, obviously, the first thing we've already seen that is the page background. So you can change the color of any page background very easily by simply clicking on it. The second thing is all of your elements are most of your elements. So if you click on the Elements tab, There you go Elements tab, you don't have any searches loaded up in your bar right here. The first section you'll see is shapes. So you can have all sorts of shapes. By default, when you create a new shape, it will be in the color in the last color you've used. Okay. So if I change this color to, I would say orange and create another shape, it will be orange as well. And if this is the first shape you create in your document, it will be the first color of your brand kit. Just be aware of that. There is no randomness to this. There is actually a few rules that can follow. So all of your shapes can change colors. You have your graphics. This is where it gets a little bit more complicated, not complicated, but there are some exceptions. There is no straight rules. Not all graphics will be something you can change the color of. So for example, let's search for something. Let's search for a banana icon, Banana icon. So I have this one right here. You can see I can change the color because there is a color button showing up. So if I want blue bananas, I can have that. If I want purple banana, I can have that. Next, let's try another banana icon. This one right here, you see there's no color button. So for these second bunch of banana, I cannot change the color, at least not with the color button. There are ways to actually change the color, and I will show you how in a minute. But what I wanted to show you here is that not all graphics will have the options to change color. Some of them will, like this one, right here, this third banana has actually five color buttons you can play with. So that is kind of like your best case scenario. Oftentimes, this is when this graphic right here is an SVG. Graphic. It's not really you don't have the full detail of that graphic right here and it's a pro element as well. But, this is your best case scenario because you can really play around with all of the elements of your banana. Let's make this banana blue. Changing its color. This can remain green. Yeah. There you go. Blue banana with a purple top. All right. Yeah, Your best case scenario is when you can change all of the colors of a specific graphic. So what else can you do? Let me create some space here on my page. I'm going to delete even the background Shapes we've seen, graphics we've seen. You can change the color of your charts. If you keep scrolling down the elements menu, you will see your charts. For example, this pie chart right here, I can change every color inside the chart. This is very easily done by clicking on the corresponding colors and just adding some new colors to my chart right here. That is charts. Let me delete that. After chart, we can see tables. You can change the color of tables. This one is a little bit different the way you change the colors. First, you need to select it. Once it's selected, you have two different things you can change. You see here it says color. It has no color. This is the inside of the table. For example, if you want that light terracotta color inside of your table, this is where you want to come. The first button right here, it could be transparent as well like no Then you have the borders of your table right here and you can change its color by clicking on this button right here. For example, this dark terracotta color there you go. You can have a colored table as well. That's table. Let me delete that. Then you have your frames. A frame can be colored, no problem. So. You just add a color inside the frame, which is the equivalent of a shape. Let me revert that. But you can also have a color around the border of this frame right here. That border can also be of a specific color. You see? Let me make it thicker so you can really see what's going on here. Let's add something into my frame. Let's add this video. You can add videos into frame. There's no problem with that. And something I love doing as well is to have gradient borders around frames. Frames totally okay with colors as well. Next, you have your grids. They work just like frames. You can color them and you can add borders to them as well. So exactly the same thing as for frames. Next, you have your mockups. Mockups work a little bit differently. You cannot change the color of mockups, or at least not from the color button. That's pretty much what you have right here under your elements stab. We delete that. We'll talk about mockups a bit later in the course. What else do we have We have text. Obviously, you can change the color of any text box very straightforward. You probably already know how to do that. Yeah. This is something less known. You have your draw the little things you can draw with the different pens right here. The color can be also changed on that. Once it's on your design, just click on it to select it, and then yeah, easily change their color. Like this little squiggle that I draw here, I can make it a different color. Let's make this green. So that's pretty much everything you can change the color of, and you see it's almost everything apart from a few graphics that won't let you change their colors. Maybe videos and photos, you won't be able to change the colors of specific photos and videos. You can change the borders around these photos and videos, but not the photos or videos per se. There are some hacks to change the color elements that don't offer you an option to change their color. The first one is the duotone effect. Okay, let me show you first with this logo right here from fair trait connection. So this logo has a color. It's like a dark purple. It's almost black. It's not black's dark purple. You can see when I selected, there is no color option right here. The way the hack I can use to change the color of this design of this logo, even though there is no color button is to use the edit button and to find the duotone Okay. Duo tone right here. I'm going to click on it. This will allow me to select two colors, hence the name duo Tone. I can click on any of these. Okay. Let's click on the first one. This one is basically a mix between this gray and this almost black. Right? I can change each of these colors. So if I want this logo to be red, let's say this like intense, bright red and then four zeros. I will select the first color to be that red and select the second color to be the same red. And since I can input a hex code here, I can pretty much use any color that I want to change the color of any non colorable item in Canva into something in the desired color. So there you go. That is the first hack to change the color of anything in Canva is to use the Duotone app. Another interesting asset to change the color of an element is the Tracer app. And you'll find my full review of this app in the dedicated app section at the end of this course. Alright, folks, when I'm about to show you are three of my best tips. If not best tips ever, at least three of the best tips for working with colors in Canvas. So Buck. This might be the coolest resource I know for using colors in Canva. Okay? This landing page is called canva.com slash Colors, and it is a great mine of resources. It's just a great resource to understand color theory. So to find some inspiration with the color palette ideas. Yeah, and find some nice photos from the library with vibrant colors that will match our design. So let me show you how it works. Okay. So first, let's read the header, find the perfect color tools and resources for any project from color palettes to everything you could ever want to learn about color So there's a few different things. There are four main sections here on this page. The first one is the color palette generator. When you click here, basically, you can upload an image, and Canva will extract four colors from your image. Let's try. I'm going to upload an image. I'm going to come to my downloads, right here, grab an image from this folder with the Fett producers. Let's find one that is colorful enough. C. This one is cool. To upload this, and you see Canva automatically generate a color palette that will match the vibe of this photo right here. Let me try another one. To just take a random one. There you go. Okay. This is an interesting tool. You can have your X code right here, and I like that Canva renames the colors, spicy, mix, night rider, moon Mist, noble. All of this is pretty cool. Roll down, you have some color palettes. You can explore the color combination, which is the second section of the page. I'm going to come back one step back right here. The second one is the color palette ideas. This one is your gold mine of color palette and color palette idea inspiration. You have 99 plus pages of color palettes. So it's just up to you to explore them. You can start by typing the name of a color, so I don't know, like lime, green, all of the color palette kind of like corresponding to this keyword. So yeah, that could be very interesting. You can type keywords like fresh, and you will have some fresh color palettes. You can type some other keywords like seis, and you will have only one serious color palette. Interesting. Pink. You can type like this name of colors, but also emotions, I guess, to match whatever it is that you are searching for. Once you find a color palette that you like, you can click on it and you will have an easy way to copy the hex code of any of these colors. If you like this magenta, this pink right here, click on it. Then you can come back to your design right here, and select the background, for example, go to create a new color, and then paste that hex code right here in the Hex code box and there you go. You have recreated your color pink from this color palette. This is I like that you just have to click to copy the ex code. You see the little checkmark. It means this has been copied to your clipboard. You have related color palettes, you have templates that could match these color palette. All of this is pretty cool. I love that canva also gives you a little photo that goes along with your color palette. That was the second thing. Let's come back to the color home page. My favorite one is probably the color color wheel gives you some theory about colors. So you can grab any color of this color wheel, and it also explains what the color wheel is, how it works. So you have your complimentary colors, you have monochromatic, you have analogous, you have triadic, et cetera, et cetera. So it's a really great way to learn about colors and to understand what the theory behind color is. I highly recommend you spend a little bit of time like reading right here about these color wheels and the different options and the different ways of using the color That was tile number three, your color wheel. If I come back to the color hub, I would say, you have the color meanings. This one is also pretty cool. It's just a bunch of different tiles with a lot of colors right here. If you click on one that you like, for example, the lime one, super fresh color right here, you will have some explanation about this specific color, and you will have some color palette generated with that specific color. You'll have a bit of a history of the color, the meaning, the emotions that it conveys, et cetera, et cetera. This is also very cool. Bunch of resources to play around with, so the color meaning page right here. And type the name of a color. So you say orange, then you will see your orange color. Read more about orange, there you go orange color theory. A whole page for you to discover a bit more about this specific color. Let's come back to the editor, the second resource about colors. That is not that much known in Canva is hidden right here underneath the design tab, and you'll have to switch over the style tab right here. From here, you can see combinations of color palettes plus fonts, or if you scroll down, you'll see color palettes. So if you click on C O, you have an equivalent, I would say of what you had in the color hub with all of the palettes there, but this time, they will be immediately right here inside the editor. The power of this, let me show you by using the second page right here. I'm going to select any of these color palettes, and look what's going to happen. I'm just going to click on the desired palette. Let's say this one right here. You see, it applies the colors to the current page. I can shuffle by keep clicking. I could choose another palette and keep shuffling the colors, and again, another. So this is a great way to create a template. Give that template a completely different look by changing all of their colors based on that specific color palette. Let's try it another page right here. There you go. Very easily change all of the colors in a specific page in a specific template. I love that you can search for keywords like vibrant, colorful, bright, So this is the second resource. It's the color palette under the styles button. This is going to be available for everyone. Again, I'm using my free account right here. So you see exactly the same thing as IC. Similarly, you could choose a combination between a color palette and a font combination. For example. In this case, it will change not only the color of the document, but also the fonts. See? There you go, I've changed everything. I'm going to change everything again, font and colors. You can shuffle. There you go. So that was my second resource. Let's move on to the third one. All right, folks, I kept the best one for the end. I'm that kind of guy when I eat dessert. I keep the best spoon for the end. The last one, the most savory one, the one you remember. This one is called Apply Colors from template. The way it works, select the page on your design. I'm going to select this page right here, page two. I have a bunch of different things that need to be colored here. Next, you will head over your design tab templates and find a template that carries a color palette that you enjoy. You can I can search for vibrant. For example, vibrant. Let's see. That should give me some cool colors. This one really enjoy, but it is a pro template. So this feature is not going to work for me because I'm using my free account. See, I will need to find a template that one carries a color palette that I enjoy. And two is free. Let's find one that is free with some cool colors. This one, this one is not bad. So let's see. The way this works, you will need to click on the three little dots right here, and you will search for apply Colors only. You see? This, let me show you. This is quite amazing. Are you ready? Okay, let's go. This will apply the colors of this template to my current page. All right? You can even apply colors to all the pages of your document. And there you go. Now, you have in one click, like applied a color palette to an entire document, not just one page, the entire document. If I had 100 pages here, all of the pages will be matching this color palette. Again, the way I got there, you select a page or you don't have even to select a page, you just go to your design templates. Find a template that you like, like the colors that you like, for example, this one. Make sure if you're using a free account that you use, you select a free template, the Pro ones one work, let me show you that the Pro ones one work. You see don't have that option. But this one right here is a free one. Again, I can apply colors only, and there you go. You can shuffle them, I guess by simply shuffling the colors. Yeah. You can also apply text only. That will change the font. In this case, not that nice because yeah, the first font was actually better. There you go, folks. If you use these three color hacks, you will definitely manage colors better than 95% of Canvas uses. You are welcome. 10. Aligning and Layering Elements: This lecture is going to be short and sweet. It tackles how to align your elements perfectly in Canva and master the art of working with layers. So if you're ready to get your ducks in a row, pun intended, let's dive in. All right. What I have here is a cute rubber duck that I found in the Canva library. For this lecture, I am using my Canva Teams account. I can simply because I wanted some nice rubber ducks and that Canva pro gives me access to some more options for rubber ducks. We'll be using this QT for the sake of this aligning I'm going to show you a couple of things. First of all, you need to click on your element. Next, we are going to locate the position button. When we click here, we have a few different features that we can use for aligning or positioning this element on our page. The first section, the upper section of this menu has to do with arranging your elements in terms of layers. But here, since we only have one rubber duck, one element, this is grade out. We cannot use these features because we need more than one element. I'm going to show you these in a second. To start with this section of the menu, line two page. This rubber duck is right now in the middle, exactly the middle of my document. You see this when you start moving it, you see the intersecting lines, the purple lines indicating this is the middle of and I'm holding my click here if I release it, these lines disappear. If you don't know where your element is, you can always start moving it, holding your click. That's very important on my mouse. I'm holding the click, and I see this line. I'm just staying on the line. It only appears when you are on it. When you are at the middle of your document, you should see the intersecting two lines. Align to page are just some quick action buttons to align an element on a specific position on the page. To be super honest with you guys, I don't really use that too often unless I want to make sure the element is at the middle. If I want it at the center, you click middle center. These two at the middle here. Middle and center are the ones that I use most of the time. If I'm trying to put something in the center middle, I will be using these two. You see here are some specific numbers that you can put in for the width and the height of your duck. If you want the ratio to be respected, for example, you want to bump the width of your duck to, let's say, 400. The ratio, if you lock it, will be respected and then if you hit enter, you will scale that element by this exact number. You don't lock your ratio and you change only one of the numbers here, let's say, for example, 300 and hit Enter. You see what happened here is that my duck has been cropped right here because I didn't lock the ratio. Make sure you lock the ratio. I'm going to go control z, lock that ratio. Then the last line right here are your positioning in the space, the x and the y axis. I could go 900 and move my rarely use these advanced commands here. I prefer to scale the elements like so. But just know that they are available here. They could be useful if you need to work with precision. For example, you want the duct to rotate 45 degrees. You can enter the exact number here instead of going like so and trying to find 45. It's just a simpler, more precise way of working. All right. That's the first thing I wanted to show you. In order to get there, again, select your element and click on the position button. All right. Let me now show you how to work with multiple elements on your page. This is where you will be unlocking all of the features. Similarly. So you can click on your page, not on any particular elements of the page, but click on the page background and use the position button. When you do so, let's say you land on this menu right here. You don't see anything, but if you do click on the page and click on position, you should buy default land on the layers tab. Okay. So the layers tab is to help you manage the different layers on your page. Very useful. It is something relatively new in Canva, and I'm super happy that they added this feature because it allows us a more granular control over the different layers in our design. So for example, let's say I want to work on the black duck right here. I have four regular ducks and I have one black ducky right here. You see, it's hidden in the middle among its yellow brothers. So how do I select it? Well, with the layer option right here. Once you click here, it will be also selected on your design. So I could do one or two things. Since it's selected, I could hover my mouse over Being careful not to select any of the other ducks that is in front of the black one. For example, here I'm safe, but here I'm not safe. I'm touching the duck in front of it. Here I am safe, so I can click and move, and I get the black duck out of the pack of the yellow duck. That's one way of doing so. That's the hard way because you need to make sure you are clicking exactly on the right duck. An easier way to do so would be to select your duck right here, the black duck, and then move that layer to the top of all layers. Now it's super easy to select that duck because it's right here in front of everything. That is really, in my opinion, the power of these layers that you see here. You can reorganize every single layer. Now I put it in front of the first duck, so could be playing with that and progressively make that duck appear again until it comes to the foreground. Now, remember when we were on the arranged button previously, I showed you that these buttons were grade out. Well, these buttons allow you to go backwards or all the way to the back or forward or all the way to the front. So here we are dealing with your selected elements, here the Black duck, it's still selected. I can go all the way to the back with this button right here, you see different layers and an arrow. If I do this, it will be positioned all the way to the back. There you go. I can double check that by clicking on the layer tab and I see it all the way to the back. Back to arrange. Let's bring it back all the way to the front. Now instead of sending it all the way to the back, I'm going to send it backward one layer, and then two layers, and then three, four, five, and now it is all the way to the back. Again, back to the last layer right here. Get to the front. So yeah, this is just a convenient way to work with layers, and you don't need to have, let's say you have your ducks like they don't need to be super aligned like they were before. Let's grab this black duck again, and let's put it right here in the middle. I'm going to push it back once, twice. You see you can play with your composition and organize your ducks. This one would be nice to be all the way to the front. Oh. Like so. You could even flip it vertically and start playing with your composition. Like this one could also be flipped. And there you go. You have a nice little bunch of duckies right here. Remember these features. I think they are super useful. Everything starts with the position button, either from an element position or clicking on the page position to access all of the layers right here. Thing interesting also with the layers, you can select one and delete it. I just hit the delete key on my keyboard. M control Z, bring back the black ducky. You can use the three little dots to have extra options for your layers. Layers, bring forward, bring to the front and back and backwards. You have a few different options when you work from there, and then obviously, you can drag them back and forth on the hierarchy of layers. The only layer you cannot delete is your page, the background layer right here. You cannot change it. That is pretty much what there is to know about the position button. Sometimes you need to work with precision to align elements in your design or to make sure your text is exactly where it needs to be on your page. C Kanda has a secret weapon for that. Let me show you. What I have here is a set of pages from a template. Let me show you full screen. I'm going to go quickly to show you what this template is all about. It's a presentation about mockups, and you see there's a lot of texts, and everything seems to be well aligned everything where it needs to be. So let me show you what that secret weapon is. How do we get all of that text super aligned like this knowing that it could be difficult to have everything right where it needs to be need precision work while working with texts, for example. But it also is the case while working with graphics. You work on a poster or you work on a presentation like this one, and you need your text and text boxes or graphics to be super aligned. I recommend you head over the file button right here. Click here. Locate your settings, settings and then click on Show Rulers and guides. This will do two things. First, it will bring up the rulers. On both the left side of your screen and the top side of your screen. Those are the rulers with the dimension of your document. But what these rulers allow you to do is to pull out guide. I'm going to click on the ruler and drag and see this guide coming up like the purple guide. This is super useful because it will snap to your different elements. You will fit it snap. Maybe without manipulating the mouse yourself, it's going to be a bit difficult to understand that snapping motion, but it does snap. It snaps to a textbook So these guides are super useful. For example, I see here an alignment mistake. You see this and this textbox, they're not super well aligned. Why? Because this text box could be reduced slightly like so, and this one as well. And so when I do so, you see I reduced it slightly, and now it is perfectly aligned. I can zoom in. Let me show you, I am that kind of like an obsessive align person. Like, I need everything to be super aligned. So here it is the same alignment. Let me zoom out. Can create as many guides as I need. All I need to do is to come back to the ruler, click, Hold my click and drag, going to create another guide right here. I can create guides coming from the top, so I'm going to create one right here. Another one right here, another one for these. I want these two obviously to be aligned like point number one and point number three, same for two and four. Obviously, I need another guide for two and four, so let's bring it there you go right here. Boom. When you do so, probably need some guides on the side as well. Here here. Once you have this, like it's almost impossible. Let's say something moved then you like this and, no, everything is moved on my design. Well, no problem. You just get the elements and you start aligning them back to where they belong. Canva will keep assisting you. You see these little dotted lines. It means something is aligned with something. Right here, there you go. I know it's the right s for aligning my element. Here as well, there So the guides are your secret weapon for aligning, textboxes, graphics, videos, photos, anything really that you need to align on your documents. All right, folks, let's stop here. In the next lecture, I'll show you how to share, download, or publish your design. 11. Downloading, Sharing & Publishing your Designs: Hey, guys, welcome back. We have two more things to cover before we wrap up this section of the course that covers the fundamentals of Canva. The first one being what to do when your design is ready. Okay, so I have a design that is ready. This design right here, a square format 11 aspect ratio. I have two pages in my design. Remember our Earth is counting backward with the little planet. This one I'm not going to use because it has a pad. Here. I'm going to focus on Page two only right here, which doesn't contain any premium elements. I'm I'm good to publish this even though I'm using my Canva free account. The way you share download or publish your design, it all starts with the share button right here. I'm going to click here. I want to go through the different options with you guys. The first one that you see on top of this menu is people with access. I can see that I am the only person with access to this design. You see Ronnie Free, I am the owner of this design. The only person with access. I could add people here if I had people in my team. Obviously, free Canva users cannot use teams. I don't have that option here, but I could share with an e mail as well. I could add an e mail of a person, let's say random person@gmail.com. I would send an e mail with a personalized message if I want to and basically invite that person to collaborate with me on that design. That would be free for that person to simply open my design and start working. You can also tick that box and create a team with this person by trying Canva for teams. That is like a subtle way Canvas low keying, trying to sell you Canva teams by using that box here and it will basically prompt the person to try Canva teams, which you will need to pay for that. But if you want to simply share that design, you can do so for free. You can also share a design and a person doesn't need a Canva account to open it and edit it. They can just start editing it from their browser. That is important to When you share, you can decide if that person can edit only comment or only view. These are different access settings that you can set from here. Once you're good to go, you can share and that person will receive that e mail with invite to collaborate. That is one way you can do so. You can click on the plus button, which is similar. It's the same thing as basically adding people from the search box right Now, I want to show you the difference when you work in a Canva Teams account. This is my free account, so we don't see anything here. Let me quickly switch over my Canva team account. I switched to my main Canva account, my Canva Teams account, where we have the entire Randy team here. Share button, it's the same design and just duplicated it. Now, if I click on the box right here, I could share it with the entire team, meaning every single person in the team, or I could create a specific group. Then my team and start adding people from the team in that group, which could be useful if you are a larger organization, or even not a very large organization, but a ten people organization like we are more or less eight to seven people, and then just share this with your designers, for example, or with your marketers or whoever needs access to the social media team. Yeah, you can share it with your entire team. Can view, can comment, can edit same options, or I can search for specific people. I could share this with Diana only. Diana, there you go. I would click on Diana and, can send her a particular message, share and she would receive Also an e mail from Canva, saying that I am inviting her to collaborate on my design. By default, you can also set access to specific folders of designs that you might have. So everything that will be placed, every design that is placed under that folder will be shared with the rest of the team. So that is very convenient. Let me switch back to my free account and I want to continue exploring this share menu. I'm back to my free account. You see, Purple is free. Let's click on that Share button once more. From here, I want to show you yet another way to very simply share your design with someone. First, you need to set your collaborations option right here. Only you can access. Let's click on anyone with the link can access. That way, you are saying to Canva that anyone with the link can edit. Can change that. Can view can comment. Let's say anyone with the link can view. Then you can click on the purple button to copy the link. See link copied to your clipboard. Now I can paste that link in an e mail in a slack message, in SMS, in a whatsapp message, whatever, really. That's an easy way to share the link. You could also create a QR code and use that link for the QR code. These are basically your collaboration option, collaboration links. Just be careful that if you leave it on anyone with the link can Edit. So you are putting yourself kind of a public situation here where you might create a design, share that link, and that link might be shared by some people you don't particularly have control over. But if anyone with the link can edit, it could be somehow risky for you. So be careful what you choose here in terms of who can do what with your designs. Something else you can do obviously, once you have designed a nice, for example, Instagram post like this one, you could download it so that you will be uploading it on your Instagram account. If you want to download, just click on the share button. I was already in that menu and focus on the little arrow right here that says download. I'm going to click on this button. Then this menu will pop up. Depending on what's in your design. Here on that design, I see a five second animation. Let me delete page number one and play that so you can actually see the animation. You see how the text is animated. That is why when I clicked on Share, and download the default file type right here is MP four video because Canva noticed there is an animation in that design, and then by default made it an MP four video. If you want to download this as a straight image, no problem. You can change the file type by clicking on that little arrow right here. Choose JPEG, slight steel image format, PNG, more suited for complex images or illustration, PDF standard. Best for documents, and e mailing, PDF print, best for printing, SVG, best for web design and animation, that's the highest quality of images. NP four video, obviously for your videos, or you can even export this as a gift, so that is short clip, no sound, more for posting online, for example. Going to choose the PNG format. Note that each of the file types will have different options. Some of these options will be pro only. See, for example, JPEG, you could change the size of that document if you were a pro user. Similarly, you could improve the quality or decrease the quality, which will result in a smaller or larger file type. Preferences. You can tick this box if you want to save your download setting so that the next design you download, we'll have these saved settings. Once you are good to go, let me show you another file type, for example, PNG has a different set of pro features. For example, you in PNG format, you can download with a transparent background, which could be very interesting. If you have a logo, for example, can export or download this in PNG with transparent background, and you could then clap your logo on any kind of design, won't have a solid background, which is pretty So I'm going to go for a JPEG right here. Download this. You'll see a little message from Canvas. Once it's ready, it should land in your download. Right here, this is my design. I didn't take the time to properly change the title here, so don't focus on that. But that is my JPEG download of this specific document. So what else is behind this share button right here. You can also share your design on social media directly from Canva, and even with a free account, if you have properly set up and connected your accounts. So in order to do that, the first thing is to click on share, obviously, then I suggest you click on CO to bring up all the different options. You should see section of the menu that says social. The first one is going to be your schedule, your content scheduler, which is a pro feature. We'll talk about this one later. But you can publish directly to different platforms, given that you have connected these platforms with First one is Instagram, and you have your Facebook page, you have your X or Twitter. You have TikTok Facebook Story Pinterest Linkedin profile Linked in page or Tumbler. These are all the platforms that are currently integrated with Canva. I'll show you how to do that in the section of the course about publishing and designing for social media. There will be a lecture dedicated to publishing directly from Canva with and without the content scheduler. But for now, know that you can post directly to your social from Canva. Just click here. You will need to connect your Facebook account to your Canva account, which I'm not going to do right now. Can publish directly, which is a pretty good, I would say, time saver if you are designing in Canva and publishing on Social. That is publishing on social. Let me show you something else that is pretty cool that you can do in most countries while publishing your design. Click on Share. This is always the base, and try to see if you see this icon, print with Canvas. So this is Canvas print on demand. O option. So if you click here, you should see different options of what you can print your design on with Canva from your country. So here I am in Spain, Europe, and therefore, I have a lot of different options. So you see I can print letterheads, banners. Let's say I want to create coaster, but you can scroll down the list is pretty long of what you can print on Apparel. You can print like a stationery, or you can print posters, business cards, there's a horse array of documents and supports calendars that you can print on. Stickers, that's pretty cool. Let's focus on coasters, for example. Let's click on this coaster icon. What Canva will do, it will re open a different design, a coaster design, and bring on your design on it. You see I have the rounded edges of the coasters right here to give me a better understanding of what my coaster would look So print your design on quality coasters, 9.5 by 9.5 centimeters rounded corners. You can see a preview of what the coasters look like with your design, which is pretty cool, so that's the front, then the back with the cor texture. You see it with lifestyle shot with a y more lifestyle shot, so you can really see what your design will look like on the product itself. There you go. Page one of your design, you can decide which one of the different pages, you might have different pages on your design. You could create different coasters. But I believe Canva won't let you mix and match the coasters, you'll have four coasters of the same are a little bit heavy on the price as well like 22 euros for four coasters, that's five euro per coaster. She's not cheap. But hey, I mean, that is your one chance of getting customized coasters, maybe you want to splurge a little bit, or maybe you earn some canva print credit in a contest or something and you want to treat yourself with something unique for your house. So that could be a good idea. There you go. If you are into coasters, you want to create your own coasters, that's one way you could do it. At least if like me, you live in a country where this print product is available. If by non chance, I would say, you don't see this icon to print with Canva, if you don't see many print options, don't take it on me. This is really depending on where you are located and how big of a network Canva has developed already in your area. In terms of suppliers, printers, and print partners, So, yeah, this is Canva print. We do have a bunch of different tutorials on our YouTube channel where I print T shirt, hoodies. But yeah, I would recommend you to check them out if you are into printing or print on demand because they're pretty fun, and the products are of pretty good quality as well. And then you have all the other exporting and sharing options. One last time I'm going to click on Share. Click on the CO button right here. I'm going to go through all of the different buttons. I haven't explained yet because you guys might be curious, and I want this master course to be a master course. So no stone is going to remain unturned here. All right. The first one is the public view Link. If you click here, what Canva will prompt you to do is to generate a public view link. Meaning Canva is going to publish your design online and generate a view only link that anyone can access with the link. The link is right here, I can copy it. If I paste it, there you go, I can see it with the animation, which is pre cool. If you share that link with anyone, they can see that. Doesn't mean they can can only view it. So that is what public view links do. And you will be indicated by Canva if your design actually has a live public view link. So the way you know that, when you go back to share, you will see this button, public view link, will now have a live like green capsule indicating it's live. Actually. So if I delete, you can go back and delete this public viewing, which is very convenient because you might sometimes want to publish somethings and then at some point take them out of the public domain. So you can do that. You can control that with this delete public viewing button, which I'm going to do right now. Click here. Canva will ask you to confirm. Are you sure? You want to delete this public viewing? Red button, it is now deleted. Click on Share. Public view Link. You see there's no live button here. It's not live. That is Public view Link. Instagram, we've talked about this one. This is sharing directly to Instagram from Canva Schedule. That is a content scheduler. Pfeature. We talk about this in the section of the course about designing for social media. Template template link is very interesting. This will allow you to create a template of this design and share that link as a template. So let me show you. First, let's create a template link. It's been created. It's been copied to my clipboard as well. Now, I'm going to come here and past that link. Boom. This is what users will see when you share a template link with them. A template created by Ronnie Free, that's me was shared with you. Start designing now. You give the user the possibility to start editing this template. Do open this template and start making some changes. They change the phone, they change the color, they change everything. It doesn't modify your original design, this one right here because you've not shared the link to this design, you've shared the link to a template created from this design. Basically, Canva makes a copy and makes it editable. The template link is the best way in my opinion to share a specific template that you want to share with your audience without running the risk of your original design being modified. So always think about the template link. It's a free feature. Use it because it's very convenient and it protects your original work as well. That is template links. Again, you will have a live little indication when you do have a template link and you can delete these template links as well, which is again, very convenient. What else do we have under the Share butt? I'm going to click on CO. Public view link template link, present. Present is very simple. It is the same thing as these two arrows right here. You get into presenter mode. You have different options. You have your presenter view, present and record, where if you want to talk over your design, presenter view just brings your full screen presenter view with your notes and everything. We talk about this when we talk about presentations. Okay. Let's go back. What else do we have here? Present and record. This is going to be available to most users in the world. Not people in India. If you are a student from India, I am sorry, but this is a decision made by Canva, long time ago already. This feature is not available in India. I believe it's for legal reasons. That's at least what we've been told by Canva, but I don't know the bottom line of this story. Yeah, I'm just warning you that if you are from India, you will not have access to this Next you have copy to clipboard. Copies, I believe, like a screenshot of this to your clipboard. Save two folder will save that specific design to a specific folder. You can send that to your phone by generating a QR code or you can send that via e mail to your phone. If you want to do this for some reason, you can embed this design on a website on a WordPress or you can publish as a website, which is also a cool little feature right here for an Instagram post. I don't really see the point, but if it was a presentation, for example, let me go fetch a presentation instead of this Instagram post. Let's go with this portfolio. Template is template. I didn't create this, but it has six pages. Let's go to share and then website. This is the feature I want you. Publishing a website is quite straightforward. You can tick the box to resize this website so that it fits a mobile phone. I would always suggest you do so to resize on mobile. You can also include a navigation menu if you want. Website URL. You will need to enter a website URL. It could be portfolio. Portfolio, this YL is not available. Portfolio, Ronny, this year is not available. Portfolio, Ronny, team, Ron this should be. Okay. So basically, you have to create a URL, and then it will be complemented by my Canvas site at the end of it. And then your publishing options, you have different ones, right? You can give your website a name, a description, an icon, as well. Then once you have all of that, you can publish the website. Canva will prepare that website and then put it online, publish it. It's as easy as that. You can get a website up and running from a Canva document in literally less than 1 minute. If you want to see the website, click here and there you go. I have a scroll down website with some full width images as well, some clickable buttons if I added links. This looks pretty good to me. Let's come back to the document. Obviously, there will be a section of the course dedicated to website. There we'll see how you can edit your website once it's published, et cetera, et cetera So many things you can do with Canva website. But for now, let's continue to explore that share button because I really want to cover every single button in here before I wrap up the lecture. Let's click on CO one last time. Think I've covered everything from this section. Now let's just continue scrolling down. We've covered the social save. These are your saving options. You can download, download the selection. If you don't want everything on your design, let's say this, what you've selected, share, C O, download the selection. Only what's selected here will be downloaded. That's a pretty cool option. You could publish that to your Google Drive, to your Dropbox, to your Microsoft, One Drive, Microsoft PowerPoint, box. Obviously, you will need to connect these accounts in order to get access to these features. You can also connect your Canva account to e mail, whatsapp message to a bunch of different applications right here. Then as you scroll down, you will see more options with all the different platforms that actually integrate with Canva. If you connected these accounts. You will be able to somehow interact between your Canva design and these platforms. So I'm not going to show you every single one of them kind of useless, but the process is always the same. Once you click on one, you need to connect your account or create an account and then connect it, and then you will be given some options to somehow leverage your Canva design from Canva directly to this platform. And this menu right here, you see it's already super long and it's bound to become longer as Canva develops new partnerships and new integrations with more companies. Right, I believe we've covered the key sharing, downloading and exporting options Canva offers. Now, very important is to keep in mind that this menu is likely to evolve as Canva continues to grow and integrate with new platforms and companies. So it's always a good idea to stay updated on what's new in Canva. Well done, guys, we are almost done with the fundamentals. Now that you're well equipped to create, but also publish or download or share your design. The only thing that we have left on our checklist is which one of the Canva plans is the right one for you. And that's exactly what we'll try to answer in the next lecture. I'll see you there. 12. Choosing the Right Canva Plan: Guys, let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come already. You are almost through Section two, where we tackle the fundamental mechanics of using Canva. Now, seriously, this is a big deal. By now, I hope you're feeling more comfortable using the Canva interface. Before we dive into creating all sort of cool designs, there is one last thing we need to cover. It's a question. I get asked all the time on our YouTube channel, and the way you answer that question will definitely impact the way you use Canva. That question is, is it worth paying for a paid Canva plan? If so, which plan should I go for? Well, just like Michael Jackson, there is no black or white answer to this. No offense. In this last lecture of Section two, I'm going to address these two questions. One, show you the main features of Canva Pro, what you're paying for. Number two, help you figure out if you actually need these features. For that, we'll look at where you're at in your design or entrepreneur journey. Let's dive in. Now, if we look at Canvas plans and pricing, I am here on the URL canva.com slash Pro. This will lend you on this page, and if you hover over plans and pricing, you should see all of Canvas current plans. So let's start by exploring these different plans. First, we have the Canva free plan. Design anything and bring your ideas to life, no cost, just creativity. Canva promised that Canva will always have a free version that isle. Okay? That's the vision of the founders, and I believe this is going to stay unchanged forever. Okay. The second thing you have is Canva Pro. Canva Pro, unlock premium content, more powerful design tools and AI features. Next, we have Canva teams, and I'm going to explain the differences between these different plans in a second. I just want to go over them once. So next two Pro, we have Canva teams. Transform teamwork, grow your brand and simplify workflows. And then you have Canva enterprise empower your organization with an Odin one workplace solution. So these are the different plans. One free plan, and then one, two, three paid And then on this side, we have two other plans right here, education and not for profit. That is part of Canvas Force for Good project. Canva is actually giving away its paid products. So Canva teams or Canva enterprise almost to educational actors and not for profit organizations. If you are falling into one of these two categories, I would recommend you check out these two plans right here because you might be entitled to having Canva teams for free because you are part of one of these organizations. Canva for Education, a powerful free tool for classroom, district and students, and Canva for not for profit, Canva Pro is free for all registered non profits. Apply to I would go even further and say it's not Canva Pro, that is given to not for profit organizations, but Canva teams because it's up to ten seats that are being given for free via this plan, Canva, not for profit. Explore these at your own time. I want to focus on these right here. The difference between P and teams. Let's crawl down a little bit down this landing page. Canva Pro creates stunning designs. I'm going to read all of Canvas marketing right here. But just know that this page has it all. If you want to learn more about Canvas different plans, this is the place to be. Why upgrade to Canva Pro? Design easier, scale your brand, improve workflows and all in one place. All right, I think it's time that I explained the difference between Canva Pro and Canva teams. Let's start with Canva Pro. Canva Pro is the basic paid offer of Canva that works for individual works. So if you are a team of one, see working solo, increase your productivity, manage your brand, and build your business with Canva. Start your free trial today. Canva Pro is basically the bundle of paid features for individual designers. Canva Teams, if I go back to the top of the page here, pans and pricing, if I focus on teams now is basically the same package more or less like roughly the same package of paid features that Canva Pro offers, but this time not for individual workers, but for a team of workers. Much the same features is just that Canva Teams is for an organization that is small to medium sized. If you have a large organization, they have another plan, Canva enterprise. But Canva Teams is pretty much Canva pro for more than one person. If I scroll down to the plans and pricing here of Canva teams, you can see the question, how many people So you can insert the number of people in your team. For example, as we are seven people. If I type in seven, this table will actually refresh and give you the price that you need to pay for these seven people per year. In my case, in our case, 630 euros, which comes down to 90 euro per year per person. Now, be aware that there is a minimum of three seats. So if you decide to go for Canva teams, you will need to pay for at least three people. That's the minimum amount of seats in your team. So Canva Teams gives you these perks right here, which are pretty much the same as Canva Pro. Though the emphasis on the teams feature here, the collaboration features because those are now possible since you work with the team. Remember Canva Pro is for individual workers. But I guess most of you guys will be probably hesitating between the Canva Pro and Canva Teams plan. I'm going to start by describing the Canva Pro plan because teams is pretty much the same. You just have collaboration on top, you just have team templates on top, brand templates, et cetera, et cetera. It's not massive the difference between the two plans. There is a core bundle of features that I want to cover. In order to cover it, Canva gives you some hints on this landing page. Basically, it's about designing faster, scaling your brand, improving workflows, and having all of these tools in one single place. You have tools like the background remover, you have access to all of the premium content. You see a 100 million plus photos, template, graphics, and videos. Have access to the magic features called Magic studio. These are all the AI powered features. You have a little video that shows you here, for example, background remover is one of them. Yeah, Pro gives you all of that magic. You unlock all of the magic or the AI powered features. There's a bunch of them. We'll cover that later in the course we have this table right here that sums up basically the difference between free and pro. Unlimited premium templates, which is interesting, you have access to all of the premium templates. You don't have to select only the ones without the crown. You unlock the full library of content, 100 million plus photos, videos, graphics, audio. You can create and manage up to 1,000 brand kits within your brand. That's quite amazing, creating so many different brand kits. You can pretty much create a new brand kit for every single campaign or every single sub brand you're managing or client you're managing equal quickly resize and translate designs. That is the ability to transform a Facebook post into I don't know, a Linked in Carousel, for example, or YouTube banner. You create ones, and then you use resize to transform your document into another document type with carrying the same design. You can remove background with a single click, boost creativity with 20 plus AI tools, plan and schedule social on content, that is the access to the social scheduler, the social media scheduler, which will cover later You have 1 terabyte of Cloud storage compared to 5 gigabytes if you're a free user. A significant larger amount of cloud space. Cloud space is the ability for you to host all of your photos, videos in Canva, but also your design. The designs you create in Canva have a specific size, and once your Canva account cloud storage is full, you need to delete things if you want to keep us So having a P account gives you much more space to deal with, and it's very convenient because you can really start uploading your assets, your visual assets. Pro also gives you online customer support, which in my opinion is a useful feature. If you need to contact Canva, if you have questions, you can reach them online directly. Now, let's quickly take a look at the teams feature over Pro. If I go back to plans and pricing, if I go to team, Let me get to the table right here at the bottom of the page where they compare the plan pricing. Here, the comparation is not between P and Teams. That would have been nice, but it's between teams free and enterprise. Let me read the bullet points here for teams. Scale of brand and centralized assets. Basically, this is something you can do with Pro as well, that is uploading all of your brands assets into your brand kit. You can do that with Pro as well. But here they focus on that because that's what the team needs. So they have cherry picked the arguments to resonate with a team here versus an individual work. Sue brand consistency with approvals. This is new because in a pro account, you cannot have multiple workers. Approvals is basically you can set roles to the different members of your team. For example, you can have a designer set the role as designer or brand designer to someone in your team, and that person will have Clearance to accept other people's design when they publish it. So that is pretty cool. Edit comment and collaborate in real time. This is indeed a perk of teams. You can leave comments in any design. You can tag people in a design to assign tasks, so that's pretty cool. Generate on brand copy with AI. You can do that with Pro as well. Reports and insight. That is when you create a design, you publish it and you can have insights on who has used or opened or interacted, clicked on a specific design so that could be useful. Pay as you grow, so that what we've seen here, 90 euros per seat at this time of the year could be more in the future. But pay as you grow, it's a per seat of pricing plan. On terabyte of Cloud storage, same as online customer, same as P AI admin Controls. I believe that is the same thing as P and ISO 27 001 certification. This is something pretty much nobody cares about. So these are the main differences, I would say between the plans. Then you have Canva enterprise. Now unless you are a big company, this is not for you. This unlocks a whole array of new features, which I'm not going to cover in this course. This course is more geared at individual workers or small teams. If you are a big corporation, then there are some interesting resources online about Canva enterprise, but I'm not going to cover this in this course. Okay, Ronnie, but what's the verdict here? I appreciate all the explanation about the features and all, but you still haven't answered my question. I upgrade to Canva Pro or to Canva teams as much as my guts want me to say, Hey, yeah, Canva Pro is awesome. Because at the end of the day, that's really what I think. I'm going to play it safe here and go with the good old, it depends. Whether or not you should upgrade to a paid Canva plan depends in my opinion on three different things. First, it depends on the features you really need to accomplish your day to day work. Then second, it depends on your financial situation. And third, it depends on where you are in your entrepreneur journey. Now, let me break all of this down for you. In this section, I've pointed out the major differences between the free and paid versions of Canva. If I were to sum it all up, it will come down to accessing millions of new photos, graphics, videos, and audio clips, enjoying more flexibility when using Canva as a team by doing things like creating your own templates and sharing them with your team or easily collaborating on designs with your teammates, developing a detailed visual identity. Your brand kits, Unlocking all the magic of the AI powered features, being able to remove the background of your photos, but also your videos in a single click, being able to create ones and resize your visuals into a variety of formats easily, downloading PNGs and SVGs with a transparent background, which is very convenient for logos. Example, enjoying more animations, more fonts, and more templates. Finally, having access to the content planner to schedule content to social media straight from Canvas. Now, that is in a nutshell what Canva Pro and Canva teams offer. It's not an exhaustive list, but these are to me the main perks of using a pay plan. So the question really is, do you need these features to achieve your goals? Maybe you need a couple of them. And if so, then how badly do you need these features? Will they help you save time or maybe generate more income? If the answer is yes, then you should consider upgrading. Now, obviously, another factor that will influence your decision of upgrading to a paid plan is your current financial situation. If you can barely make ends meet and you have to scrap pennies each month to feed your family or paid the rent, and signing up for $15 monthly subscription is probably not a good idea. This goes without saying, but I thought I would bring it up. Also, be careful guys here. This is big warning, red flag. Listen carefully. I would strongly recommend you stay away from all the scam out there on the Internet promising you Canva Pro for life for some ridiculous cheap price. Trust me. I've worked at Canva for two years, and I can guarantee you there is no such thing as Canva Pro for life. Anyone trying to sell that to you is either lying. Trying to scam you or doing something illegal that will eventually get shut down. So mark my words. There is no lifetime subscription to pro, to teams, or anything like that that doesn't exist. And it will probably never exist, and it's not in Canvas best interest to do so. So please do not fall for that. All right. This leads me to my third and last question. Where are you in your entrepreneur journey? I said entrepreneur in a designer journey because I see purchasing a subscription to Canva Pro or Teams as an investment in your business or in your career. Are you at that point in your life where you want to invest in any of these? Your business or your career, or are you just doing this for fun and don't really use Canva professionally nor intend to do so. Answering these questions should really help you make up your mind. Also, having been on the road myself for about ten years, trying to stay afloat with my little nonprofit organization, I know what it is to be a broke entrepreneur. I understand the meaning of bootstrapping a business to stretch every dollar and really be careful about what you invest in. In there. If this is you right now, here is my advice to you. And this is something I've learned over the years. You've got to respect and value your time. The number one mistake I made while trying to grow my business was to think that doing everything myself would make me save money. And so I spent hours doing something that could have been outsourced or simply made more quickly if I had been using the right tools. Like spending 45 minutes in photoshop, trying to perfectly get rid of the background of a photo. Yeah, I've done that. Canva Pro or Teams will help you save time. Time that you can then invest in other projects or in other ideas that will help you grow your business bigger. Try to see these $15 a month as an investment in your business, a commitment that you make to become a better designer. Personally, my paid plan has helped me in different ways. It helped me create better videos that got me more views on YouTube. It's helped me design better project proposals that have landed me better paying clients. It has allowed me to speed up my workflow and save me a bunch of time, which I have done dedicated to other projects. Has helped me streamline the way I work with my team, which made outsourcing task easier for me. Then again, save time to allow me to think about the bigger picture. All right, that's all I have for you folks. It's really up to you to decide. If you decide to give Canva Pro a go, I've got a special 30 day free trial Now, there are many free trials, even if you go through the Canva website, but by using my link, you can explore all the pro features for an entire month. You will also be supporting me at no extra cost for you. Please do me a little favor. If you are considering trying Canva Pro, the free trier of Canva Pro for 30 days. Use that link by scanning the QR code. You can also find a clickable link in the lectures description. Thank you for your support. 13. Class Project: Congratulations, guys. You made it to the end of the class. You are now ready to get on board and just start designing with Canva, which is exactly what you will need to do for this class project. The project consists in you creating and sharing or publishing your very first Canva All right. So I'm going to give you a few practical steps. You can follow to do this. The first one is obviously, you need to design your project in Canva. And you can design anything you like, could be a post for social media, a presentation, website, if you're feeling adventurous, anything, really? It's up to you. Think about something that is useful to you, to your business, or if you want to create a gift for someone, you can do that too with Canva. Now, I understand that as a Canva beginner, you might feel overwhelmed when it comes to finding all of the design ingredients in the Canva library. So to help you out with that when you are designing in the editor, my team and I have put together a collection of keywords that will help you source the best graphic collections to understand what font combinations or what fonts work well together. And three, some of our favorite color combinations. You find all of that in a digital product that you can grab from my skill share profile. So no more excuses, guys. Now you have everything you need to start designing with Canva, the knowledge from the class and the digital product with all the cheat codes if you need them. All right. How to share this design with us. Very simple, go back to the section about publishing your designs, see how to create a public view link in Canva, grab that link and paste that in the project section of this class. I will make sure to regularly jump in there and have a look. Happy designing