Hey, in this video, I'm going to show you how you can place text behind an object or
any image using Canva pro.
This is by far the easiest, quickest, and best-looking way to achieve this effect.
And we're getting started right now.
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Okay, let's get it.
So here we are on my homepage of CANVA Pro, and I'm going to start by simply going to
create design and I'm going to create a YouTube thumbnail.
So I click on YouTube thumbnail and if you're new to Canva, it's so easy to get started.
You just have to create a design or choose a type of design.
And then they have all these templates that will pop up where you can easily change the
colors, drag and drop your own photos in based off of any of these templates.
And some of these are really good looking.
You too.
Thumbnails are really good place to start, especially if you're new to graphic design.
But to start with that effect, what I'm going to do is I'm going to come down here along
the left-hand side.
I think of this as my toolbar in Canva, and I'm going to select uploads and from uploads,
I have some photos of Veronica here, and we will use these to put some texts behind her.
Let's go ahead and use this one.
Now this is so easy to do by using an effect.
In Canva called the background remover in the background remover effect is by far my
favorite effect in Canva.
It is worth the camper pro monthly subscription costs alone.
So before we do that, however, I'm going to copy and paste this picture.
So there's two of them.
I'm going to copy it and paste it.
So now I have two of these pictures and the one on top, this is the one I'm going to remove
the background from.
So I'll just say edit image and from editing.
There is this background or mover effect here, and it only takes a matter of seconds.
And now I have the background removed from the image.
We can kind of move it over here to see how it did at that.
You could see it did a really good job.
There's a little area right here that looks a little bit.
But this is going to be perfect.
Now this is something that you can also do in Photoshop.
And I did it for years in Photoshop before I discovered this effecting canvas and this
effect changed my life, especially when it comes to the hair.
It does such a good job at removing the background with subjects, with hair.
And that's something that is so difficult and tedious and time consuming to do in Photoshop.
Okay.
So now I have these two images and this one you'll notice we'll just.
And it kind of clicks into place, which is really fun.
But now what I can do is I can add text again, go over to the left side toolbar here.
I add texts.
I'm going to pick this font right here.
This is small font.
So I can just come up here along the top, where you can adjust anything, any layer that
you're clicked on.
You'll see an additional tool bar up here up top.
Once you're clicked on a layer with all of the options you have to adjust for that layer.
So here I'm just going to type in here 100, just to make.
Nice and big so I can see it.
And now I have this font layer I can drag up here.
Let's go ahead and change it to a white or an off-white color here.
I might also change it to a different font.
So right now it's this Josephine sands.
I'm going to change it to the Josephine sands, bold to make it even bolder.
And then I'm going to do all caps.
I'm going to type in.
Podcasting.
And you'll see on top of this image is just on top and totally covering the image.
Now I do this.
If I want to, I can even add effects to this font to make it stand out even more.
If you go to the effects here, this lift effect is one of my favorites.
You can play with the intensity of it.
This just kind of gives it a lift, separates it from the background even more.
So I'll do that.
I think that looks really nice.
And now I simply drag this over the top.
The text is still ahead or still in front of this picture.
So I'm going to teach you a quick key that will really help you get fast in CAMBA.
And that is command on an apple or control on a PC it's command.
And then the bracket to the left or to the right is going to move your layers back.
And frontwards.
So here, if I put this here and I want to move this layer to the front, it's the layer
that's selected.
So I could press command bracket to the right.
And now that layer comes to the front.
You can also find that quick key.
Or if you forget that quick, you can come here to position and you notice how it says
forward and backward.
And then right next to it, it gives you that quick key.
So backwards would send her behind the text and forward would bring her above the text.
And there you go.
As simple as.
Now, finally, what we need to do is to group all of these together so that we can move
them and resize them over the entirety of this YouTube thumbnail canvas.
So there's a bunch of different ways to do this in CAMBA.
And the most intuitive way is just to click drag and hold until you get this marquee type
of a thing and you can click drag and hold.
All of the layers selected.
Then you come up here to these three dots that say more and you select group, and that
will group them all together.
The other way you can do it is to press command a or control a on a PC that stands for select
all, and that will select everything in your chemist.
And then again, these three dots.
The other thing is really cool to know in canvas, if you ever need to access a layer
and it won't let you click on the layer, you can hold down the commander, the control button,
and it will start selecting the layers behind it.
So right now it's only going to select this top layer of Veronica.
And that's a little bit annoying, cause I want to be able to adjust the font.
So if I hold down the command.
And click on my mouse.
Now I have that layer selected, which is cool.
So now this looks really good.
Podcasting is behind her and it's as simple as that.
I'm just going to go ahead and press command a and group these.
And now you can see that I can resize these altogether as if they're one piece.
So I'm just going to resize these, make these take up the entirety of the canvas.
Here and then I'll slide it down.
And while I, there is my fancy YouTube thumbnail, and I want to show you that this also works
in Canva with designs or with objects.
It doesn't have to be a portrait.
So I'm just going to borrow a photo again from the toolbar here to the left, and I'm
going to type in why don't we say.
And let's see if we can do this effect with the car.
We can try this one right here and maybe have a big font where some of it's cut out.
So let's see how this does on the background remover effect on this car.
I'll say command C for copy or control C for copy on a PC and then command or control V
as in Victor for paste.
Now I have this one selected, I'll say edit right?
And select the same background and remover effect.
Boom.
And there is.
So now let's go ahead and go to the text and why don't we say slug bug and maybe you have
a really cool YouTube vlogging style video about your awesome orange slug bug.
And you can adjust the font in lots of different ways.
Again, by your toolbar up here, I'm going to come up here to where it says spacing,
and I'm going to do the letter space.
And squeeze it together a little bit more like that so that I can make it even bigger.
I really want to be able to see it behind the car as much as possible.
And then we'll go to effects and from effects.
Let's do that lift effect again.
I really like this, like lift effect.
Now we just slide this one on top of it.
And again, I can press command right bracket and I'll bring that forward.
Now I can press command a select, all hit these three dots press group.
And now I've got this.
I can group.
And make nice and big by simply dragging it.
The corners sliding it around until it's just right.
And now I've got a really cool.
Effect.
So you can do this with objects.
You can do this with people and some images are going to work better than others.
One final tip when it comes to taking photos for this background, remover effect is to
be at a good distance from your background that will help the background remover technology
to work better.
Also, if you do.
A single colored wall behind you, then it will work really well.
It doesn't have to be a green screen.
It could be any color of a wall.
So there you go.
Are you in love with the background remover effect as much as I am get in there and play
around with it, and then let me know in the comments below or come hit me up on Twitter
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