- A brief history of volleyball?
Yes.
Five easy ways to unplug from daily life?
Yes.
Recruitment process?
Yes.
A timeline of beards?
Yes.
Five business mistakes you shouldn't make?
The seven steps of the selling process?
Yes. (fireworks popping)
Wow.
That was stressful.
But I assure you, the rest of this tutorial
will be far more mellow
and hopefully make a lot more sense too.
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Hi, I'm John, a copywriter and editor here at Canva.
I wouldn't call myself the king of infographics,
but I do have a passion for making information
easy to digest.
So for today's tutorial, I'm gonna teach you
how to transform text and data into beautiful infographics.
We'll cover how to select illustrations
to accompany bite-size chunks of info,
along with how to create pictograms and graphs using Canva.
I'll even show you
how to speed up the process using templates
and how to resize designs for different purposes.
Sound good?
If you haven't already subscribed to our channel,
do it now so you don't forget later.
Now, before we dive into Canva,
I wanna explain the two styles of infographic
we'll cover today.
First up, we'll look at how to simplify
and enhance written information
by accompanying each point with a picture.
Then we'll explore how to present data that looks impressive
and is easy to make sense of.
Instead of beginning from scratch,
I recommend finding a template
that aligns with your design goals or industry.
For example, let's say I run a boutique travel agency
and I wanna make an infographic I can send to customers.
By searching travel infographic,
I can see what already exists.
You know what's great about these designs?
They already have real info you could base your ideas off
or even leave as is and so many of them are completely free.
Just keep in mind the ones with the crown symbol
are for Canva for Teams and Pro users only.
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Let me show you how easy it is to customize these ones.
First, I'll delete this graphic to create space
for a company logo.
To upload the logo, I'll head over here,
grab the file, and drag it into position.
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Next, I'll personalize the heading.
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I'll change the font as well so it's a little more serious.
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I'll change the colors like this
so it matches the brand better.
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Now, I want this to be a lot more informative
so I've got a bit of text I prepared earlier.
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It's like magic.
Now, all I need to do is move some of these graphics around.
Write in a call to action
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and add in the contact info at the bottom.
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Once you're happy, there are a couple of ways to share it.
You can create a shareable link by clicking here,
then on this icon.
This will create a link you can add to emails.
This is what they'll see when they click on it.
Or maybe I want to hand these out to people on the street.
If that's the case, click the Print your design button here
and select Infographics.
It may ask you to resize your design.
I love magic resize.
Stick around and I'll show you more
about this amazing feature later.
I just want one page.
Premium paper, gloss finish,
and I'll get 100 copies.
Hit Continue.
And then Canva will run a quick press check
to make sure nothing is going to get missed
during the printing process.
You can even download a PDF proof.
I always do this just to make sure it looks the way I want.
Click Checkout and you'll have 100 leaflets delivered
to your door in no time at all.
It's too easy.
Now, let's take a look at adding some data to a design.
Here's the template I started with
and here's how I've arranged the elements
to create space for data.
First, I'll add a bar chart over here.
Go to elements, type in chart, and select bar chart.
It'll allow you to manually enter your data in here
or import it from Google Sheets.
Just click this button, allow access,
and select the file you're working on.
Now, go into the sheet itself.
Take note of the cell range
and type it in here.
Make sure you use a colon in between or it won't work.
Then hit update and voila.
If you wanna hide the labels or grid lines,
go to settings.
And you can change the colors of the bars over here.
I'll switch each of these so they match the design.
Then resize it to fit.
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It saves so much time.
Next, I'll add a row chart using the same process.
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This time I'll enter the data manually.
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Once that's done, I'll drag it into place.
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Now, a pictogram.
This is excellent for displaying percentages
in a visual format.
I'll search chart.
Then select the icon of the person.
Check out all these options.
I'll use the tree for this design.
Now, I can adjust the total number of items,
the amount filled in, and the spacing between each.
To show 2/3, I'll type 30, fill 20.
Then head up here to change the colors.
That looks great.
I'll just resize it to line up with the text underneath.
All right, lucky last.
This time I'll make a donut chart.
I'll add in the numbers.
These labels don't matter because I won't make them visible.
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Instead, I'll make my own so I can feature it
in the center of the donut like this,
and I think we're done.
I wanna show you one more thing that could come in handy
if you need to print and distribute something like this
on a different size of paper.
Yep, I mentioned it before.
It's magic resize.
A super handy Canva Pro feature
that will save you so much time.
To change this to a letterhead,
I just hit the button here, type in letterhead.
Copy & resize.
Now, this time I'm going to use both sides
of the printed page so I'll need to rearrange the design.
First, I'll create a second page by duplicating this one.
Delete everything I don't need.
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A little bit of resizing and shuffling
to make everything fit.
You don't need to use all the elements that were there,
especially, if it's gonna make your information
look cramped.
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Add in other graphics if you want to.
To find similar images, you can select an image,
hit the info button, and select See more like this.
Oh, nice.
There are lots I could use here.
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And in no time, this is looking ready to print.
Prints come with a happiness guarantee
so you don't need to worry about a thing.
Wow, it feels like we covered a lot
in a short amount of time.
If you have have any questions, pop them in the comments,
along with any thoughts you have about today's tutorial.
Hopefully, I manage to keep my explanations simple
and easy to digest, like a good infographic should be.
I look forward to hearing how you plan to use
what you learned today to make an infographic of your own.
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