In this video, I wanted to share with you a tip that I learned recently that makes canva
and affinity designer a super combo. Let's go!!
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hit that subscribe button right there so in this video i wanted to share with you a tip
an insanely good tip i think that i recently found someone talked about it in my comments and i tried
it out and there's so many things that you can do with this tip with canva and affinity designer now
not just affinity designer i believe it would work with illustrator and anything similar to affinity
designer in illustrator but because i use affinity designer that's what i'm going to show you
canva i'm going to use the free canva and affinity designer is not that expensive i have a link in
the description to affinity designer you can go to their website and try it out i believe there's
a free trial as well but using canva and affinity designer these two together are gonna do something
super cool and i'm gonna show you why it's super cool what you can do with it i'm gonna download a
pdf on canva and i'm gonna show you the benefits of downloading the pdf into affinity designer
why that's even better than downloading a png so let's get into canva right now and i'm gonna show
you we're gonna take a look at three different downloads in canva and i'm going to show you
different tips and tricks on how to use it and you can use this with different types of downloads
these are just going to be examples and of course you can use these techniques with different
downloads on camera that's super exciting once you learn how to do these things it's going to
change the game with canva and affinity designer so make sure to stay to the end to see all of this
let's get into canva right now so here we are on canvacanva.com right here you can
see i'm using the free version let's create a design first so i'm going to go create design
and custom size and we're going to use that 4500 by 5400 that merged by amazon t-shirt size let's
just click here and you can see the artboard right here now if you didn't have that size already you
could have typed that in we're going to go to elements and first things first let's look for
something we want to look for something that would be really hard to knock out the png i'm going to
show you why it's better to do it this way than trying to knock out that png you know and preview
like i told you how to do it where you have to uh select all the different backgrounds and then
try and erase that so let's look for some really complex designs i'm gonna go new york i found one
here earlier look at these so look at that that would be super hard to knock out all the intricate
details right so let's go look at some other ones this one would be super hard to knock out
let's do some others uh oh right here look how hard that would be imagine trying to knock out
all these backgrounds right here okay that would be good let's just do let's just do another one
right there just to have it so all of these are kind of sketched out and trying to go in here
and download with a png and then go in here and knock out all these that would be too hard right
so let's do another page i'm going to just add another page here whoops didn't want that okay
the next thing that i want to show you is changing different colors so let's go to vintage sunset
now if i download this with a png you're stuck with these colors but if you download
it as a pdf you can go in here and change the colors i'm going to show you that and
let's add another page right here and let's type in let's type in different shapes so
retro shapes now you can do this with any shapes but i'm going to show you how easy it is this one
let's see this this one no let's do this one instead so this one uh what else we got here
oh this one would be cool that and oh yeah let's let's do these
kind of complicated shapes here let's see another one maybe this one
right cool all these different shapes we're going to be able to select these shapes individually and
move them around in affinity designer which you can do as a png if you downloaded this as a png
this is kind of stuck here you wouldn't be able to move the circle here or move this above there
or move the squares and things like that so let me show you that as well so now we got
there are three examples the shapes the colors and knocking out so when we're done with that
let's just go to download and instead of png we're going to do pdf not the standard but
the print so this is high quality and we're going to be able to do it multi-page document
and you can still do this for free so i'm still on the free canva and hit download and we're going to
open this download this pdf in affinity designer so now we're in affinity designer i brought that
pdf into affinity designer it just goes to your downloads folder drag that download or that pdf
that was downloaded and drag it into affinity designer and it would open up like this page one
page two and page three just like we saw in canva so let's do page one first so originally let's
move this first and i'm gonna zoom in right here so if you've seen my tutorials before
you know that i go in here and preview and knock out the background if i went in here now
and change the background you wouldn't see it yet that's the background but if we remove the white
if we scroll all the way down and remove the white i'm going to have to move me from here you're
going to see down here these two white rectangles i'm going to remove that and that and this one and
there you go that's the background now you can see i can change the background to black and i
can change these to white so if i just change all of these to white they're together and if you want
to separate them all you can ungroup them so go to layer and ungroup and they're all ungrouped
and if you want to group them together just select them all group this and we can name that bridge
and you can see i can change this bridge to any color i want right and it works
so very easy if i want to use something detailed like that and you can do this with
any of these right here knocking out the background is super easy you can use it right
here and then when you want to export it from affinity designer just take away the background
right and then export it as a well you go here hit export when you have your design all ready
for your t-shirt export here selection only export and it's ready right okay next one let's change
the background back to black or a dark color so you can see now you saw me change the color here
the next thing i want to show you is this so this is the vintage sunset
and you can select each one of these colors now so if you just downloaded the png you wouldn't
be able to do that but because this is a pdf a high-res pdf i can change the background again
so you can see there's still that white back here um i'm gonna select this and delete it just look
for that white background in the layers so like this and then delete it and you can see like
that so if you wanted to make this lighter for example just come in here and make it lighter
right if you wanted to make this one super dark just come in here and make it darker if you want
just easy like that so you can literally come up with so many different vintage sunsets when you
download the free ones and just change the colors up whatever color you want okay that's how easy
it is you want this black or whatever isn't that cool this just changes everything so instead of
downloading one vintage sunset now you can make as many as you want with different colors
just by going in here and coloring it so look for color palettes that are really great and just
color it different colors you can select those all right i think that's really cool too very powerful
not just vintage sunsets you can do anything change any color right like we showed here here
so if you have different things that don't work or you want it to be a different color easy to do
that so last thing here all these different shapes now so we know we can change color and we can move
things around but each of these individual shapes now can move isn't that cool so same thing let's
knock out the background so let's click on the page scroll all the way down you can see sometimes
there's one sometimes there's two backgrounds so let's delete this one and delete this one
and if i change the background again look at that i can change it to any color background i can
change this to white sometimes it's ungrouped so you can select all of these well one way you can
do it is just go like this there we go make sure to group that together now this could be white
boom and each of these i believe is the same right you can move these around look at that nice and
you can turn it too so not just move it but turn it look at that and even in these two right here
they're separated so let's go here move this around we can group it and when you open these
two you know we don't need that circle we could click here and maybe make this pink let's do that
and then make that white look at that i mean that's not white but
there we go and you can make it bigger or smaller hold down shift
do this put that up here so now you have this nice 90s background thing that you can use
right so for this for the star here let's select all of these and group that
right look at that so cool right let's see let's hold down shift
move things around like that you could even move these in the front and back
just like you would do in illustrator so super easy and distort the points like if you want the
the these points to be different this could be a triangle right whoops
look at that you can make it's a vector it's a total vector that you can use to change now so
not only can you change the color you can change the shape you can rotate it anything you want
from canva so you have so many different vectors now in canva that you can reuse
and change so look at that so now this has totally changed the game instead of um using the default
things from canva you can come in here with affinity designer and change things up knock out
the background easily change the colors easily change the shape and colors move things around
all with affinity designer and i think that's going to make your designs just a little bit
better because it can make yours different than what's already on canva that's the difference so
a lot of people that don't have affinity designer will download these things and just use it
like it is but you can come in here and change the colors and move things around really cool
so hopefully this was really helpful for you i'm not showing you everything with all the designs
but just showing you these three things right here hopefully has opened your eyes on what you can
do with canva which is free and affinity designer which is not free but it's really low cost vector
program and you can use it together to just make so many designs and hopefully this tips that i'm
showing you are helping you with print on demand so you can make more and more designs for 2022
so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully this video was super helpful
for you and this is a tip that you can use if it is very valuable make sure to give it a thumbs up
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before i leave i wanted to ask you a question of the day and the question of the day is this
what are some other canva tips and tricks that you know about that you think would help other
people let me know in the comments so i can make a video about it to help everyone else and tell
them what they what you can use and what they can use to help them in their print-on-demand journey
thanks again for watching this video and if you want to see more canva tips make sure to click
on these videos right here keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye