Ready to up your design game? Check out these awesome Canva tips and tricks that
will make designing super efficient and smooth! I’ve got some pretty fresh ones
this time too so even if you're a seasoned Canva user, they may be completely new to you.
Ready? Let's do this!
Hi my lovely people, it’s Natalia and welcome back to my channel where I help you create
better content and grow on social media! Do you know how to resize designs without Canva Pro?
How about instantly finding the perfect elements for your graphic? Even if you already know Canva,
I’m sharing some nifty tricks to eliminate some pesky little issues and make designing a joy!
In this video, I’m showing you 10 new Canva tips and tricks that you probably didn't know about.
If I helped you to find a tip that you liked,
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Let's start off with Tip no. 1...
**TIP 1: Move Freely with CTRL**
Do you know how sometimes, when you have plenty of different elements on a design,
Canva tries to help you position your element correctly and it keeps snapping
to the different boundary lines to align with them? You often end up frustrated because you
can’t get it into place just the way you like. Well, here comes this tip!
TO DO THIS: Select your element, and instead of just dragging it as is, hold CTRL and
you’re gonna be able to freely move around the Canvas with no interruptions. Problem solved!
**TIP 2: Find the Perfect Elements**
It’s not always easy to find the right graphics, photos, or other elements to fit your design
well. The good news is that we now have a personal assistant to help us massively!
Click on our new Magic Assistant here in the bottom right corner, scroll all the way down,
and discover all the suggestions for graphics or photos to match your design
perfectly! You can also tap See All to expand this selection and view this in the left panel,
where you can also use Magic Recommendations even further.
**TIP 3: Resize without Canva Pro**
The Resize button in Canva Pro is definitely a godsend and speeds up
the content creation workflow a lot. But what to do if you’re a free user
and still want to resize your designs quickly and efficiently? I got you!
The first method is to create a new design with the dimensions you want to end up with,
go to the left tab for Projects, look up the design you want to resize,
and just click on it. That’s going to transpose it onto the new canvas at
which point you’d need to slightly adjust the elements to fit the new dimensions.
Another option is to select and copy everything from the first design and just paste it onto
the new one, then again, adjust which should be easy since everything is still selected.
For this method, you’ll also have to change the background yourself because it doesn’t usually
copy unless it’s a photo or a graphic that’s been previously detached from the background.
Both are effective depending on the difference in dimensions that you’re working with!
**TIP 4: Import Instagram Posts**
Have you ever wanted to just grab a post you’ve already published on Instagram and use
it within your new Canva design? In the second installment of my Canva Tips & Tricks video,
I’ve shared a hack where you can embed your social media posts in your designs but how
about just grabbing that image right into the editor? That’s possible too!
Go to Apps in the left panel, scroll down for Instagram, or just search for it. Then,
connect your account, and you’ll see your entire feed right here. The cool part is that you can
also import your videos with sound which not only land in the editor but are also automatically
uploaded to your files, meaning you can reuse them in the future. Of course, that goes for
the graphics or photos from IG too. This is such a neat trick if you want to reference an old post,
reuse a photo or a graphic in other ways, or are planning out your feed visually in Canva.
The only downside is that it only recognizes the cover image for carousels and you won’t be
able to access the other slides from here. That being said, it’s still a pretty cool feature and
reusing parts of old content (like clips from my published Reels) is definitely a time saver.
**TIP 5: Generate Backgrounds**
AI has quickly become ubiquitous and it’s no different here in Canva. I’ve recently
shared two videos about the new Canva features which are full of incredible possibilities for
us created by AI and Text to Image has just gotten much better for us. I want to
share a little tip on how you can use it to generate fun backgrounds for your graphics.
Go to Apps, Text to Image should be the first thing you see in the panel, and start describing
what you’re after. I like to use certain keywords to get these backdrop-worthy images and these
include words like “pattern”, “collage”, “texture” and of course “background” so let’s try something
like “abstract light blue background”. You can then choose a specific style as well. I’ve gotten
great results both with 3D and with watercolor of all things so definitely experiment here.
Ok, we’re halfway through the video, I hope you’re enjoying yourself - if so, leave me a thumbs up,
it really makes me smile and also helps a ton! - but if you want to become super confident in Canva
and use it to accelerate your business and social media, make sure you sign up on the waitlist for
my upcoming Canva course! The link is in the description box! And let’s move on to tip no. 6
**TIP 6: Blur Photo Background**
We all love a bit of an artistic bokeh in photos but it’s not always possible to get it,
especially when you’re using existing photos from the library. Well, you can
blur your background ever so slightly to get this kind of effect in Canva.
First, select an image with a clear subject like a person or an animal, or just something
that stands out distinctly in the foreground and is at some distance from the background. Then,
go to Edit Photo at the top, switch to the new editor if you haven’t already,
and select the second tab, Adjust. From the drop-down menu, choose Background,
wait a second for it to process, and then scroll all the way down to the Texture section
and reduce the Sharpness on the slider. Make sure to work gently for a more natural effect,
but there are photos where you’ll be able to go all the way down.
Now, if it’s not enough of a blur for you, you can duplicate the photo, drop
the transparency and align it perfectly to the previous one, then return the transparency to
100%. Next, click Edit Photo again, remove the background, and select the photo underneath with
the background remaining. Go to Edit Photo, this time choose Blur and move the slider
EVER SO SLIGHTLY. I wouldn’t go above 10 because the subject then blurs too much outside of the
boundaries that are covered by our cutout so for a more natural effect, just stick to the lower end.
This should give you a nice enough blur in the background!
**TIP 7: Bulk Edit Product Photos**
Displaying your products online just got so much easier! Now,
you can bulk upload your product photos and Canva will AUTOMATICALLY prepare them
for you so that you can use them on your website or anywhere else.
TO DO THIS: Go to the Canva Homepage, click Apps from the left panel,
and then choose Product Photos. Then click Choose Photos, upload up to 10 images of your products,
and hit Next. Here, you can choose the style you want, I’ll go for this one. Let Canva do
its thing and in a moment, you have a pack ready to use on your website or your designs.
Random side note, you can also choose automotive styles from this tab right here which works for
cars I suppose so if you’re a used car dealer, Canva got you covered apparently!
**TIP 8: Change Colors with Duotone**
Duotone is such a slept-on feature of Canva as it really allows you to get some interesting
effects with it. I want to show you how you can change the color of your backgrounds or
textures to match the style of your design or just go with your branding.
I’ve got this background here and it’s definitely… clashing. I can just select it,
go to Edit Photo, and select Duotone. From here, we’ve got plenty of presets already,
I’m going to scroll down and maybe go for the classic BUT that’s not the end, I can change
the color of the highlight and the shadow to my brand colors so that I keep it consistent. It’s
a great tip for those moments when the image is perfect but the colors are just not giving.
**TIP 9: Fix Your Frames**
Frames are so helpful when you design especially when you’re trying to add more visual interest to
your graphics. However, when they’re rotated like this tablet frame right here or this
abstract frame there, the images pop are facing the wrong direction. This is how you fix it!
Instead of dragging your image into the frame, first, add it to your canvas by simply clicking
on it, and then rotate it in the opposite direction. Then, drag it into the frame,
and voila, it’s sitting there correctly. You may need to rotate your image in different directions
depending on how the frame was rotated, but it’s definitely a very simple trick!
**TIP 10: Replace Text**
If you ever had to change something on multiple pages of your design, you know it can be a pain,
especially with those really big designs. It can be things like your name, website,
a date for an event or on a presentation, or an Instagram handle like here on these
30 designs I generated with Canva Bulk Create. By the way, check out this video
next to learn how to automatically create multiple designs in just a few clicks!
Well, there’s a simple trick that will help you change text super fast!
Go to File and then Find and Replace Text or simply hit CTRL + F, type what you want to
swap in Find, and what you want to replace it within the second box, and simply hit Replace
All. Now all my IG handles are sorted and I don't have to do it manually for each and every one!
Have you been aware of these tips already? Drop me a comment down below and if you’ve
discovered something new today, I’d love to hear which one of these tricks you’ll
be trying on first! Now, that’s just 10 Canva tips I’ve shared with you today,
but I have many many more in my previous videos so check them out in the description
box or just watch this playlist right here to learn a ton of useful skills in Canva!
If you’ve enjoyed this video, make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe because there’s
so much I have in store for you! Thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you… next time.