(upbeat jingle)
- Hi everyone, my name's Dylan.
And today I'm gonna show you
how to create a unique design from a blank canvas
in GoDaddy Studio.
Now, of course,
there are a thousand different ways you could take this,
but in today's example
we're gonna touch on most of the tools
and the content libraries at your disposal,
and that should hopefully set you up to go crazy
and try things out for yourself.
So, let's get started with a blank canvas.
Today, I'm gonna use a square format.
And I'm just going to start adding things one at a time
and we'll slowly start to see how it all comes together.
So, I'll begin with an image
at the bottom left is my Image button, and if I tap that
it will give me access to the Unsplash library.
I can, of course, also access images on my device
or in my GoDaddy Websites + Marketing library.
But for today, I'm going to search Unsplash
because they just have so many
incredible royalty free images to use.
And we'll use this one of women on a skateboard.
Now, as soon as your image is on your canvas,
you'll see that beneath the canvas,
there are a range of editing tools
that become available to you.
You could, for example, put on a photo filter,
which can very quickly give you a unique look and feel
for your image.
But beneath that there are some more tools for fine tuning.
If you select Adjust,
you can start to play with the contrast and saturation
and things like that.
Then of course, you can crop the image.
You can change the size, add shadows, adjust the opacity,
and so on.
There's a whole range of editing tools at your disposal.
A couple more we'll touch on later in this tutorial.
But for now, I'm going to leave it like that.
Don't forget, there's also the Remove Image Background tool,
which is a brand new addition to GoDaddy Studio.
And with a single tap,
you can remove the background from your image,
and that could be useful for a range of applications,
but not today.
In fact, this is a good point to show you
how to undo something.
Right at the top of your screen,
you'll notice there's that arrow,
tap on that to undo.
And that can just take you back in time
in case you made any errors.
Holding down will also call up the Redo button
so you can take a step forward.
All right.
So we have our image in place.
I think what I'd like to do now is add a graphic
that is going to add a particular effect to our image.
So, in my collections,
I have saved these Light Leak Overlays,
and what these can do is create a really cool
sort of retro film static to your images.
So, what'd you do is you place it over the image,
and I know that doesn't look like much,
but if you see in a layer stack up here,
I now have the Light Leak above that image.
And in order to make this effect really work,
navigate all the way to the bottom menu
and go all the way to the far right
where you'll find the Blend tool.
And then you can scroll through the Blend tool
to get a range of different applications
of how it can merge that Light Leak with your image.
I think with something like this screen works really well,
and you see how that adds a quite a realistic,
old school, film photograph technique to this image.
All right.
So that's one type of graphic
that you could add to your design.
I'm going to show you another one now
by tapping on Graphics again,
and once more saved in my personal collection.
I've saved one of these Psychedelic frames
from a recent collection we've added,
and I'm just going to add that around the edges.
And that looks really cool.
So you can see already
there's two very different types of graphics.
Some of them add texture to your images.
Some of them are just really playful, fun,
almost illustrative elements for your design,
and then some, like the next one I'm going to add,
can actually be quite functional.
So, once again, I've saved this in my collections.
We have these retro funk graphics,
and included in this pack, are some LINK IN BIO buttons,
which are pretty sure I saw a little bit earlier.
Yeah, here we go.
So I can maybe pick one of these,
and this is quite functional as a graphic
because instead of having to type this out
and create a button,
I can simply add that to the bottom
and create my call to action for my post.
Okay.
So, let's move on and look at Text next
cause that's a really cool, exciting part
of the design process.
So at the bottom again, in my menu,
I'll tap on Text, and I'll start with something simple,
like a SALE,
and I'm just going to add that straightaway to the canvas.
Now, fonts.
Fonts are a lot of fun to play with
and to find the perfect ones
for your personal style, for your brand,
and you'll notice that underneath the canvas,
we now have our Font tray available to us,
and you'll see that just by scrolling through,
you can start to see
what all of these different fonts look like on your canvas.
Now, bear in mind, there are more than 600 different fonts
to choose from in GoDaddy Studio.
So, if you're looking to find more,
you can navigate all the way
to the left-hand side of this tray and tap that up arrow,
which will take you into our full library,
and then you can search to your heart's content
for the perfect font for you.
I think in this example,
I've already worked out the one I'd like to use,
it's called HORIZON.
And I'm just going to put that in position.
And I'm going to show you a little trick now,
something that might come in useful down the line.
I know that HORIZON has two different variations.
And I can now duplicate that text layer,
so we see now I have two of those layers,
but the second layer, I'm going to change the font
and I'm going to use the outline version of HORIZON
and perhaps change the color.
Let's just change that.
And you'll see now, if I slightly misalign it,
it creates this really cool effect
where you have solid font and outline font
on top of each other.
Now, the next thing I'm gonna do
is add a second line of texts
because one of the really creative things you can do
with text is start to pair your fonts.
So, this is going to be a summer sale.
Now, I'm going to have to select a different font
that's going to pair nicely with my existing HORIZON font.
There we go.
That's hiding right at the end.
I think that's going to work really well.
It would be cool
as if 'summer' was in the exact same orange color
as my frame.
And I know exactly how to do that.
If you navigate to the Color selector,
I can now, not only pick
from the colors that are available in my palette,
I can select a color if I go all the way over,
I can now start to pick a color from the image.
And if I put it on that orange color,
it'll select that exact color.
If I tap Plus, I now add that particular color
to my color palette.
Everything is really starting to fall in place.
There's only one thing that's bugging me now.
And it's that the SALE is covering the woman's face.
So I think I'd like to try something
where I make it feel as though she is in front
of those letters.
And I know exactly how to do that.
And for that, we're going to use the Mask tool.
What I need to first do is just reduce the opacity
so I can see the layer underneath.
And then with the Mask tool, I can zoom in
and I can start to erase those parts of the letter
that are obscuring the woman's face and head.
It doesn't take too long just to erase those elements.
And I just need to do the same thing on that outline layer.
Now, I can bring the opacity back up.
And voila!
We now create the impression of depth
where feels as though just the woman
and not the entire photograph is not in front
of that word SALE.
So, this is coming together quite nicely.
The final thing I'd like to show you
is my new favorite tool in GoDaddy Studio.
It works like magic and it's called the Themes tool.
On the far right of My Menu, you'll see Theme,
if I tap on that, I now have the option
of selecting a particular color palette
for this entire design.
So, I think this is,
this brand that I'm creating here is a rather sporty.
So, let's go, let's see.
I think they have Sporty as an option.
Now look what happens if I just tap that button.
Every time I tap it,
it presents a completely different color combination
based on a sporty color palette.
So, trying to pick the right colors for your design
can be quite tricky sometimes,
especially when you're trying to match them together.
What this does is it just takes away that guesswork for you.
I think that looks pretty cool for now.
So I'm going to leave it there.
Only took a matter of minutes.
Of course, you can make some final tweaks as you go.
But I think that really illustrates how easy it is
to start a design from scratch in GoDaddy Studio.
Hopefully that's enough to inspire you
to start creating beautiful visual content for your brand.
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