In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to add a photo to a frame in Canva, how to then edit
the photo, crop it, split it, flip it and then access all the beautiful photo editing features
in Canva. Adding a video to a frame is just as easy so I'll show you how to do that as well.
And by way of a bonus tip I'm going to show you how to create one of those 3D
photo pop-out effects that you've probably seen on Instagram; it is so easy when you know how.
Welcome and welcome back to my channel, I'm Nicky Pasquier and my channel is
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to know when I upload a new video. So if you're ready to get started let's hop over to Canva.
From your Canva homepage click on whichever template you want to use,
so I'm going to click on the Instagram post just for a change. So I now have a blank instagram
template on my Canva desktop. To find photo frames go over to the left hand side toolbar and click on
the Elements tab, then scroll down until you find the Frames category. Click on it to open it up.
There are so many wonderful frames, Canva is constantly adding new frames to this category
so scroll right down and see if you can find a frame that you want to work with.
I like working with polaroid frames so I'm going to click on this one to bring it up
onto my desktop. Now let's start by adding a photo to this frame, and there are two ways you can do
this. As I'm sure you already know go to the left hand side toolbar again and you can either select
a photograph from the Canva library by clicking on the photo tab and then choosing a photograph
that suits your project. Alternatively (and this is what I'm going to do)
I'm going to go to the Uploads tab and I'm going to select one of my own photographs.
And I'm going to scroll down and I'm going to use this beautiful photograph of my friend Sophie
Pittaway. Sophie is a friend of mine and was a Thai kickboxing champion and now runs her own
holistic training program. So do look her up; she has an incredible online training program.
So I've just clicked on the photograph once to bring it up onto my Canva desktop.
Now to add a photograph to your frame all you need to do is hold it down with your cursor
and then drag it directly into the frame. It couldn't be easier. Now let me show you how to
edit a photograph within a frame. What you're going to do is double-click the photograph
and from here you can probably see that your cursor has turned into a four-sided arrow.
You'll probably also be able to see that there are some handy guidelines now
within the photograph and these will help you line your photograph up correctly within the frame.
So holding the cursor down over your photograph you can now reposition it within the frame.
To confirm your changes go up to the top left hand corner of your toolbar
and click on Done. Perfect! You can also resize a photograph by again double-clicking on it,
hover your cursor over the corner buttons, hold your cursor down
until you see a double-sided arrow, now pull on the buttons to resize the photograph.
I'm happy with that so I'm just going to click on Done to confirm my changes.
You can make further photo edits by clicking on the photograph once, going up to the top left
hand corner of your toolbar and clicking on Edit Image. From here you'll be able to access all the
beautiful photo editing tools. Again you can crop the photograph by clicking on crop
and you can also flip the photograph horizontally
and vertically. You can also add a professional animation to the photograph by clicking on
animate. If you're looking for a very subtle effect you might want to consider photo zoom...
Or even the breathe animation.
I'm just going to change the background colour slightly so that the frame stands out a little
bit more. Let me show you those animations once more. That's breathe. If you want to make a
bigger splash and a bigger impact choose one of the animations under the Exaggerate category.
Adding a video to a photo frame in Canva works in exactly the same way. As I'm sure you already know
to remove a photograph from a frame click on it once and then just hit Delete, and you're left
with the frame. Now I'm going to add my own video to this frame so I'm going to go back to Uploads
and click on the videos tab. And I've already got a couple of video clips uploaded to Canva.
To add a video clip to your frame click on it once with your mouse and as you did with a
photograph drag it into the frame. To reposition your video within the frame double-click on it
and drag it into position. Resize it by grabbing hold of one of the corner buttons.
You can also access some further video editing tools by going up to the top left
hand corner of the Canva toolbar, clicking on the scissors icon to crop the video.
To flip it and even to animate it
once on your Canva desktop. You can always resize the frame by clicking on it once, holding your
cursor down over one of these corner buttons and increasing the size or decreasing the size.
You can also reposition the frame by holding your cursor down and dragging it into place.
And now for my bonus tip! I'm going to show you exactly how to create one of those 3D
photo pop-out effects that you've probably seen on Instagram. First of all I'm going to go back
to the images section within the uploads tab and I'm going to choose this fabulous photograph
here of my friend Sophie. The first step you'll need to take is to make a duplicate copy of this
photograph, so go up to the top right hand corner of your Canva toolbar and click on the Duplicate
icon. So I have two copies now. And I'm just going to move one copy out of the way slightly and I'm
going to drag the first copy into the frame. I'm now going to resize the photograph like I showed
you by double-clicking on it and dragging on one of the corner buttons to make it larger.
And I'll show you why in a second. I'm also going to reposition it
so that i've got Sophie in the centre of the photograph.
Fabulous. Let me just move the frame out of the way slightly so I can work on the
second photograph. And what I'm going to do now is I'm going to select it once,
go up to the top left hand corner of my Canva toolbar and click on Edit Image.
And now I'm going to use the background remover tool and this is a Canva Pro tool
so if you'd like to use Canva Pro for a FREE 45-day trial rather than the standard 30-day
trial make a note of the link below and type it into your browser. I'll also leave this link in
the description box underneath the video. So I'm going to click on background remover
which is rather magical because it's just going to completely remove the background of my photo.
It's done a great job so I'm just going to click on Apply to confirm those changes.
Let's move this frame back down again a little bit. Now I'm going to crop out
the sections of this photograph that I don't want, so I've selected it once with my cursor
and you can probably see I've got some corner buttons and some sidebars. I'm going to
crop the photograph by grabbing hold of the sidebar and dragging it up so it effectively
deletes part of my photograph. And I'm going to take it right up to about here I think. Great,
I'm now going to drag the photograph by holding my cursor over it
and I'm going to drag it over the top of the original in the frame. And you might have to
do a little bit of resizing here so that it matches exactly the photograph in the frame
so be patient
Yeah I think that matches. And now you can see it looks like Sophie is actually popping out of the
polaroid frame. All I need to do now is reposition everything to the centre of my template.
And that's all there is to creating a 3D photo effect.
And now if you want to have a bit of fun add a few animations to your picture.
Finally you might want to take a look at Canva's magical new feature which was only
released a couple of weeks ago; you'll find the link to that just here. It will help you
create branded social media templates in just five easy steps. And if you're interested in watching
an entire playlist of Canva tutorials you'll find the link right here (sorry about my finger guys!)
Thank you so much for watching and for your time as always; I will see you in the next video.