In this video, we will see 17 Canva tips and tricks to save
time and increase your productivity.
The focus is to find tiny improvements here
and there, in addition to listing some useful features.
Let's get started.
You won't need Canva Pro to do these
things and they will work with the Canva free version itself.
So watch till the end to learn some insanely useful Canva
tips and tricks.
Number 17 - Letter Frames.
Canva has some secret letter frames that
aren't easily visible at first sight.
One must know how to search for it.
So the next time you want to design using
Letter frames, just type that here.
Scroll down to see Alphabets as Frames.
You can simply drag an image inside
these frames to create beautiful letter art forms.
Number 16 device mockups - similar to letter frames, here
are device mockups we can create professional looking
mock up for free with these device mockups Number 15
Filtered searches.
If you haven't already used this tiny
and obvious feature, let me tell that this is going to be
your next great find.
With this, you could search for
animated only images or static images.
If you are creating GIF images, these come in
really handy.
No.14 become the bird.
Have you noticed this little icon here to show
pages?
If you know this, just skip to the next tip.
But if you didn't know this, you
could show all your pages by clicking here and quickly
navigating across different design pages easily.
As you can imagine, it gives you a
bird's eye view of all your pages if you are working with
a large document or slides.
This is pure nirvana.
Number 13 duplicate elements.
Here's a quick way to duplicate an
element or image within Canva.
Press the Alt or Option key on your keyboard and drag it to
duplicate the chosen element.
It also gives you measurement guidelines.
Number 12, select hidden elements.
How often do you find placing an element on
top of another one, but when you want to select or click
the element underneath?
You don't find success, right?
We all have been there!
Next time, just hold on to your
control or the command key on your keyboard while clicking
the element to cycle through the layered elements.
And you will be able to easily select
the elements underneath, even if it's completely covered and
buried under other layers.
Number 11 Group Elements Faster - Grouping elements is
a no brainer.
It just sits on top here and easy not to miss
it.
But here's a great way to select multiple elements.
Even the overlapped ones - hold on
to your shift key on the keyboard while clicking on all
the elements you want to group, then simply hit the
group button - control or command G also works as its
keyboard shortcut.
Number 10 - zoom in and out faster.
Want to quickly zoom in or out?
Just use these keyboard shortcuts - control or command
minus or plus, depending on whether you want to zoom in or
out and control alt zero, to zoom and fit and then control
zero, to zoom to actual size works too.
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Canva free version in mind, so check it out - now back to our
video.
Number nine, move elements with precision.
Use a combination of the Control and
the Arrow keys or the Shift and the Arrow keys or even
Control plus Shift and the Arrow keys to find different
ways to adjust the elements directly using the keyboard
without the need of your mouse.
It's actually quite fun to goof around with these if
you have the time, but run out of your creative juices.
Number eight Text Styles.
For the uninitiated, Canva Text
Styles, were not present during its initial days.
Now Canva offers seven different
Text Styles, that can be customized.
Along with a few ideas for changing the shape
and color.
Here's how to customize with Text Styles.
After you added your text to the page, click on it to find
the Text Effects button.
You will find the styles here on
the left side, choose the one you want and then customize it
to make it look as per your design needs.
Here are some ways to customize the text.
Number seven, spacing and alignments.
Of course, unless you figured this out already,
you need not spend those extra seconds designing your text to
be exactly in the middle by point dragging it, simply
select the element and go to position and hit on these two
bad guys middle and center.
Number six, Copy Styles.
Back in the days when Microsoft
Word was the only word processing program being
ubiquitous, college kids loved the format painter.
Care to use it in Canva?
This saves and shaves those few seconds
off your budget.
It's just that it's called Copy Styles
in here and you will find it on the top bar over here.
Number five, help yourself.
Help arrives when you end your search with a question mark,
and you do that by either hitting the question mark icon
on your keyboard or by clicking on this question mark
icon here.
Trust me when I say that you should actually try
this next time you want to do something different in Canva,
instead of searching for a tutorial on the web.
Number four Create Canva presentation
- if you are a business person and not a designer who has
been given Canva and not Keynote or PowerPoint to
present your ideas, apart from tight budget, you really have
some cool bosses over you in your management team, and I'm
pretty sure you would have figured out that you could
present your pages as slides by going to these three dots
and hitting on present to instantly make all your pages
into a slideshow.
Except that you are given three options
here to present - the Standard view - to advance at your own
pace and Autoplay view, to set speed and automatically play
your designs and Presenter view - to view your notes and
do the talking while keeping a watch on your upcoming slides.
And oh, by the way, the keyboard shortcut to quickly
go to presentation mode is Control + Alt + P on Windows -
and the corresponding keys on your Mac, guess it's Control +
Option + P. Number Three.
Now, with the next step, we segue
into a presentation related one.
In fact, a bunch of good to knows here - in this
presentation views you get a highlighted cursor
automatically when you start presenting - Hit anywhere
between zero and nine to start a quick timer, hit "B" to blur
the screen.
And "Q" to ask your audience to be quiet.
"O", the letter "O" to bring out bubbles and a "C", the
letter "C" to celebrate with some confetti.
And finally "D" to bring out a drum roll
effect.
Of course, I assume you already know that hitting
the escape key closes out the presentation view.
Number two.
Create your own green screen graphics - Animations enhance
the messages conveyed.
Did you know that we can create our
own custom green screen animations?
Here's a dedicated video tutorial I created that
explains in detail how to do that so you can create your
own graphics and import them into your own video editing
software.
Number one - QR codes - QR codes are becoming
increasingly useful in different print and digital
products.
Some authors are even using them on their
e-book covers, so people can easily scan them to visit
their websites or landing pages.
Here's how to do that in Canva.
Go to the mode section and click on "QR
code".
Input your URL and click on Generate Code.
It's that simple.
You can then add this QR code image wherever
you want in your designs, Lead magnets and e-book pages.
Now, for the bonus, one of the
most, deepest kept secrets of designers is using the colors
wisely.
Never go wrong again with the best color
combinations on any of your designs.
Unless you're tied to your brand colors, you have
virtually unlimited options to explore different colors
styles - Find them under Styles.
If you don't see it, check it under More, then try
different options.
You can also cycle through the same
set of colors by shuffling around them.
Now that you have watched this video till the
end, thank you and I don't want you to leave empty
handed.
Here's a free sample of my Canva codes PDF.
Just go to
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copy.
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for a small price.
Thanks for watching, I'll see you again
in my another video.
Until then you keep creating because
your success is just around the corner.
Bye.