Did you know that Canva has a new photo editing suite of tools which will make it easier than
ever before to create photographs that look like they've been edited by a pro. You can
easily add pops of colour, create your own brand Duotone, give photos depth by blurring just the
background in one click! And if you've ever taken what you thought was a perfect photograph only
to have it photobombed at the last minute, then Canva has the perfect solution for you!
If you tuned into the Canva conference this month you'll have seen so many exciting new
features rolled out. So I cannot wait to share just a few of them with you today, including
some magical new additions to the photo editing tools. So without further ado let's dive in.
So from your Canva home page I'm going to start by uploading one of my own photos.
So - did you know you can do this - you can start off clicking on the Upload button from
your home page and then upload a photo or a file from your own device? So I am going to do that.
Canva is now asking me whether I want to use this photo in a new
design or add it to a current template. So I'm going to click on "New Design",
and now I need to choose the dimensions for my new design. So as always I'm going to select
presentation because it suits YouTube, but you can choose whichever template size you like.
So with that Canva has now popped that photograph directly into a presentation
template, which is fabulous! And I still have it in the left hand side column here under Uploads.
And now to access all the new beautiful photo editing tools I'm going to select my photograph
go up to the Canva toolbar and select Edit Photo. And on the left hand side I have a
beautiful new menu of photo editing tools. At the top there are three tabs: Effects,
Adjust and Crop, and I'll go through these one by one. So under Effects we have the background
remover tool. This is a Pro feature and I'm sure you've all used this before, but for those of you
who haven't I'm just going to run through it very quickly. So with your photograph selected click on
the background remover tool and wait for Canva to do its magic. And sometimes it is incredibly fast,
just like that! If you have any bits that haven't removed properly click on the thumbnail again
and you have access to a little brush that will allow you to erase those little bits.
To increase and decrease the size of your brush just click on the little button here and slide
it along the slider bar to the right to increase the size and to the left to decrease the size.
So hold your cursor down and just sweep it over the bits that you don't want.
Fantastic! Once done go back and your background has magically been erased.
Incidentally if you haven't tested out Canva Pro and you'd like to do so you can
grab a free 45-day upgrade using the link that I'll leave in the description box underneath.
Next to the background remover tool there are two new additions to the Canva Magic suite of tools,
and I'm going to come onto these in just a moment.
Let me show you the Filters first of all. So underneath you have all the filters you
can scroll through them using the little arrow at the side or to open them all up click on See All.
You have various categories of filters, so Natural, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Soft, Vintage,
Nono and right at the bottom I love these. These are the colour pop filters, and they're great fun.
So you have Heatwave, for example, scrolling through
you have Hibiscus and I love this one, it gives a lovely pinky shade to the photograph.
I also love Aura which comes onto the softer filters. So I'm going to click on that
and for all these filters you can adjust them slightly. You can adjust their intensity by
holding your cursor over this little button here and sliding it along the slider bar.
So the further left you slide the less intense the filter and you can do this for all the filters.
So let me select a fade and then adjust the intensity. Okay so those are all the filters,
you can have great fun with those. Underneath your filters you have Photo Effects,
so there's Duotone. I really love these. You can create some really pretty effects with these
so scroll down and have a look at all the Duotones that you can create.
Click on one to apply it to your photograph. You can customise these duotone colours by changing
the colour of the highlights and shadows. So hover your mouse over the little colour block
and click on it and then move this little button around until you find the colour that you prefer.
Also as before adjust the intensity of each Duotone by sliding the button along the slider
bar, so you can have a really subtle effect or a not so subtle effect. And what I love about
Duotone is that you can create your own brand Duotone by clicking on Custom and then selecting
two of your brand colours for the highlights and the shadows. Of course this is so easy to do if
you have your brand kit set up in Canva Pro or Canva for Teams. Because what you're going to
do is click on the little colour tab, go over to your Brand Kit, select one of your brand colours,
copy the hex code, go back into your photograph and then paste the hex code into this box here.
Again adjust the intensity if you like and then do the same for these Shadows.
Go into your Brand Kit, select another brand colour, copy the hex code,
go back into your photo, paste the hex code and there you have your own brand duotone.
Next to Duotone we have Auto Focus and this is going to help you blur out various aspects of your
photo and give your photo depth. So you can see Canva has automatically blurred the background of
my photo. I've got two tools to use. I can adjust the blur intensity by dragging the button along
the slider bar so go left if you want to have less of a blurred background and then go right if you
want a very blurred background. Now I absolutely love this feature, underneath is Focus Position,
so with this tool I can select what I want to remain in focus in my photograph and what I want
to slightly blur out. So if I click on this little button here with my cursor you'll see that I'm
covered in a sort of purple wash. Now this purple wash is what will be in focus in the photograph
and that can be adjusted either way by sliding it to the right, so you can see the purple wash
covers the background. Now if I let go of the button the background is now in focus
and I've become blurred. On the other hand if I slide the button to the left
so that it covers me again and let go of the button then I'm now in sharper focus
and the background is blurred. So you can get some really interesting effects with this.
Let's go back and have a look at blur now, and this is very simple. It will simply blur the
entire photograph but you can adjust the intensity by sliding the button along the slider bar.
Okay moving on to the Adjust tab, which is next door to the Effects, I'm going to click on it
and you'll already be familiar with so many of these tools already. So adjust the brightness,
contrast, you've got tools to adjust the vibrance, saturation of your photograph.
So I'm not going to spend too long on explaining these because you'll be familiar with them already
but what you won't be familiar with is this tool right at the top where you can select
the area that you want to edit. So you can now select whether to change the entire image
or whether to change the foreground or just the background. And I absolutely love this.
So say for instance if I click the background tool, the background has been selected,
I can now adjust the brightness of just the background by sliding this little button along the
slider bar. And that helps put me in the spotlight and removes distractions in the background.
I can also remove the colour from the background
which is equally effective. So I'll let you have a little play with those tools, they really are
very exciting. And of course if you want Canva to magically transform your image you always have the
Auto Adjust tool. Moving on to the Crop tab again this is all fairly self-explanatory. You can slide
this little button here along the slider bar to rotate your image if that's what you want to do.
Or there are some hidden tools which you can only access if you detach an image
from the background. So I'm going to right click, select Detach Image from Background,
now I can use these tools underneath to change the aspect ratio. So I have some really handy presets
which will help me crop my image for social media. I have a square which is handy for Instagram.
I have 16:9 which is perfect for YouTube and presentations.
Scrolling through I also have 4:5 which is handy for Instagram portrait images, and so on. And once
you've selected the new ratio make sure you click on Done and that will crop your image.
Now let's finally have a look at those magical canva photo editing tools which I skipped over,
because I can't wait to share them with you. Now let's have a look at the first one.
And that is Magic Eraser! So I'm going to swap this photo for another one, it's not a brilliant
photograph but it's perfect for what I want to show you because sometimes there are things in
a photograph that you really wish weren't there. And I'm sure you've all experienced this before.
So on the left hand side of my head I have a very ugly light switch, so I want to get rid
of that. And that's really easy to do with the Magic Eraser. So just click on the thumbnail.
and as with the background remover tool you have kind of a brush and you can see
it here it's not really a brush at all it's like a circle over the top of my photograph
and you can increase or decrease the size increase by sliding it to the
right of the slider bar and decrease the size by sliding it to the left.
Now all I need to do to get rid of this pesky light switch is just hold my cursor down
and paint it over the light switch like that so that's all covered. And now - are you watching
because it's very exciting? - I'm going to let go of my cursor and wait for Canva to do its magic.
And bingo! Goodbye light switch! It's no longer there and that is so so exciting,
I'm going to try that once more. So I'm going to decrease the size of my
brush because I want to get rid of my necklace, so I changed my mind, I don't
like it and I'm just going to paint it over my necklace and let go and see what happens.
It's left a little bit behind so I'm just going to paint over that bit.
That's it, goodbye necklace! And that is absolutely perfect. I'm really amazed at
how good this is so not only can you edit out little mistakes from your photograph
you can also remove anything or anyone who has photo bombed your photograph.
Okay so now let's go back and have a look at the final magical photo editing tool.
Actually I'm gonna wait until next time, I'm going to make you wait until next time when I'm
going to reveal this final addition to the photo editing tools. I have saved the best until last.
Don't forget to come back soon when I'll be sharing the second of those magical photo
editing tools with you, I cannot wait. Meantime if you're having a lot of fun
with Chat GPT at the moment you can forget about it because Canva has its own AI text
generator and I'll show you exactly how to use it in the video coming up in just a few
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