what's up guys in this video i'm going
to show you how you can create curved
text in canva so i had previously done a
tutorial
on how to curve your text in photoshop
but i know not everybody is in photoshop
it's probably
seen as more complicated of a
graphic design program than canva and i
know a lot of people favor the
simplicity of canvas so
if you're not on canva by the way i'll
put a link in the description it is a
web browser-based
graphic design application so the fact
that it runs in your web browser makes
it very quick easy
to use and there's also a desktop
application i think you can download and
install it but i don't use that
anyways if you're interested in seeing
how to curve text in canva
then stay tuned
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right let's jump into canva and i'll
show you how to get this done
so quick reminder i put a link in the
description if you guys aren't canva
members you can actually join for free
but to unlock the full functionality you
have to join canva pro
so just wanted to mention that also just
wanted to let you know i created the
thumbnail for this video
in canva you can actually go into the
search bar and like search for things i
typed in youtube and you see they have
youtube channel art youtube display ad
youtube icon youtube thumbnail
youtube video ad etc etc they have a ton
of templates for everything in canva you
can do
a lot of stuff with like facebook
instagram as well so
just wanted to make you guys aware of
that here's the template i used to do
the thumbnail in canva
and this is what i did as my video
preparation i was experimenting
beforehand and i was thinking like let's
make
biden harris valentine's day how can we
get creative and
implement curved text ultimately this is
what i came up with
i'm going to show you how i did it if
you guys are interested again just stay
tuned i'm going to jump right in so
first things first uh this image i ended
up just pulling it off of google images
so in reality like i wouldn't go
uploading this myself
um this is really just done for tutorial
purposes i found an image of them kind
of gray scaled it i did this in
photoshop actually
so kind of breaking away from canva for
two seconds because i don't think i can
do the
image manipulation of the colors uh in
canva but
went to photoshop played around with the
the hue and the saturation
and got that little bit of a reddish
slant to it because i envisioned
this being a valentine's day shirt so i
want to set the background color to red
to represent a red t-shirt so all you
have to do is click the background and
then the
color selector shows up in the top left
uh click that and then i'm just going to
select the color
red so there we go now we need some text
so i'll click text in the sidebar
typically what i do is i'll just take
where it says add a heading and i just
click that drag
and drop it into the canvas it'll be
black by default so then i go up to the
letter a with the colors underneath
that's text color picker click that and
i'm gonna switch it to white
alright i like that and the font that i
chose to use
is one that you guys know i like it's
called league gothic so you can just
click in there type
league and then you'll see it at the top
league gothic
also i like to do all caps so you'll see
it says add a heading
what i do is i select all and then where
it says like uppercase and there's a
lowercase a uppercase a in the
toolbar there just click that and now it
is switched
to uh uppercase right and then
i didn't even really do any niche
research i'm just kind of doing this as
a tutorial so
i just typed in like biden and then i
launched the emoji keyboard which you
can actually do on windows by holding
the windows key and then hitting the
semicolon button so
windows key semicolon boom got my emojis
click the heart there so i did biden
heart
harris just you know needed some text
that fit the bill between biden harris
valentine's day etc
that'll do we'll play with the font size
in a second but i just want to show you
now how to curve the text
so click effects there on the toolbar on
the rightmost
spot and you'll notice down here bottom
right it says curve
click curve now you can
play around with the slider and see the
various curve
levels now if you go to negative 100 it
curves
upwards if you go to zero
it's even horizontal if you go to
plus 100 it becomes slanted to the
bottom
so when it slants to the bottom one
thing i noticed though is that the
letters
get kind of consolidated they get
tightly stacked on top of each other so
what i like to do is uh
select it and then where you see the
three lines and the up down arrows it
says spacing click that in the toolbar
and where it says letter spacing you can
drag this slider to the right
and it will increase horizontal spacing
between letters
also known as kerning so let's check
that out i think that looks pretty good
we can always play with it later though
so i'll probably increase the font size
a bit
as well let's just go for 400
we can be flexible here so that's how
you curve the text i mean it's really
pretty simple nothing too crazy going on
and don't forget you can curve up you
can curve down
so pretty cool that we can play around
like that now
here's what i want to do i want to with
my text selected
do you see when it's selected there's
that icon underneath
with the two arrows kind of looking like
a rotation
so when you mouse over that you'll see
your cursor changes
i'm going to click that and i'm going to
drag it to the left and this will be
the left side of the heart you know we
can play around with the
sizing of everything the ratios of
everything
after we kind of get everything set up
i've only done this once in canva
honestly in preparation for this video
so
i mean if there's a better way let me
know in the comments below but i know
this works so
now that i've got that set up about so
i'm going to do 55 degrees
now all i have to do is click that text
layer copy
paste so i'm just going to do control c
control v
and you'll notice that it just created a
copy and on this copy i'm going to
rotate it
55 degrees the other way all right how
about that
now can we get that lined up to look
like a heart that's the next challenge
maybe we have to rotate it a little bit
more
all right wait i had to go back to the
drawing board so i lied league gothic
is not the font we're going to use we're
going to go to the font that i was using
in my demo and that is open
sans which is a very popular font in web
development i've used that a lot
building websites
font size 300 we'll switch the font to
bold
all right and then you'll notice the
curve is a little bit too curved so what
i'll do is i will go into effects
i believe i used about 80 and
that is looking a little bit better can
play around with the
rotation here 55 degrees let's use that
for now i'm gonna delete the other side
and i will just clone this one that we
just made
and i will rotate it to 55
and boom that looks a little bit better
here so your font selection is going to
matter
based on how the font looks maybe what
i'll do is i'll rotate this
and open a little bit of a gap in the
middle so what did i end up rotating
that too just make sure you match the
rotation on both sides so that's equal
all right i think that looks pretty good
one thing the graphic i used is over to
the right a little bit more on joe
biden's side so maybe i'll off center it
a little bit and then one other thing
you can do is um
you know i probably just actually rather
than use the canva graphics i'll just
duplicate this text layer and use the
exact same
heart that we have in this
arial font the heart emoji became that
white
heart right there so that way it's the
same size and everything and i'll just
drop it right there in the middle
of the two text layers
let me see if i can eyeball that to make
it look a little bit more centered yeah
i think that looks pretty good right
there so
that's it for i think everything i
wanted to show you so i didn't just show
you how to curve the text but i showed
you
a way that you can do it to make kind of
a heart design from here all you have to
do is go up to the top right corner
click download leave it as png it looks
like i forget to
i forgot to set my canvas size to 4 500
by 5400 but normally that's the
dimensions i would use which are the
standard dimensions
for amazon merch 4500 by 5400
and that works for me on all the other
platforms as well the other thing i
would do is i would check the box for
transparent background
and then i'll click download this will
download the file to your computer
then all you have to do is upload it to
all the other platforms that you want to
sell on that's all i wanted to show you
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