How would you like to be able to create presentations in Canva that people talk
about for days if not weeks afterwards? If you're able to do that then your clients or your bosses
will love you for it. You don't need to be an expert designer; just learn how to use some of
Canva's animation features that will help you transform your slides from mediocre to amazing!
So last week if you remember I showed you how to add some of Canva's new slide transitions
to your presentations. If you missed out I will leave a link to that tutorial in the end screen.
This week I'm going to show you four different ways you can animate
text and elements in Canva presentations for an extra professional touch. And as a bonus I'll be
sharing another one of my Nicky Ninja tips. So if you're ready let's hop over to Canva.
Start off as usual on the Canva homepage. If you've already got a presentation you're
working on bring that up onto your desktop. If not choose from one of Canva's presentation templates
so you can have a play around with these animations. I'm using the same presentation
template that I used in my last tutorial since I just love these travel photographs so much.
So let me show you the first way we're going to start animating this presentation. First of all
let's talk about Canva page animations. To animate an entire page just click on the background,
go to the top LH corner of your Canva desktop and click on the 'Animate' tab.
And on the left hand side that brings up an animation menu.
There are currently 9 animations available for free Canva users and a further 7 animations for
Canva Pro account holders. If you'd like to test these Pro animations out you can get an exclusive
free 45-day upgrade with my Canva Certified Creative affiliate link, so just type this URL
into your browsers and have a bit of fun. If you don't know how each of these animations works just
hover your mouse over each animation thumbnail and watch to see what happens on your page
Some are quite subtle and some of them are not so subtle.
I think Scrapbook at the bottom is great fun to use
but if you're looking for something slightly more subtle you might want to choose breathe...
To apply the animations to your page all you need to do is click on the thumbnail image.
And here's a Canva power tool alert! I want to draw your attention to the bottom of the
section here to this little tiny box that says 'Apply to all pages'. It's a huge time saving
trick and it will as indicated apply your chosen animation to all the pages in your presentation,
so think very carefully before you put a tick in this box. If you change your mind or you make
a mistake don't worry you can untick it just as easily. Next let's have a look at Text animation.
If you're looking for something a little bit more subtle and you want to draw your audience's
attention to a title for example you can choose to animate the text only. You can animate as
much or as little text as you like. Just click on the text you want to animate to select it,
select the Animate tab and your text animations appear on the LH side.
You can still access the Page animations by clicking on the tab next to it. Since this
slide is introducing a new holiday destination I want to emphasize the words French Polynesia.
So I'm going to select the words with my cursor, go to the Animate tab at the top and click on it.
And then I'm going to select my chosen animation which in this case will be Ascend
I think I'm going to animate Location 1 as well
Perfect! And finally let's look at how to animate elements or photos in Canva presentations.
As well as animating text you can add movement to your slides by animating photos or elements.
Just as you did with the text select which element or photo you want to animate,
click on the Animate tab and select your chosen animation.
And for photographs there aren't as many animations as they were with text but they're
still absolutely beautiful. I'm going to choose the Breathe animation because it's so gentle
I'm also going to animate these little boxes here as well by selecting them once with my cursor
and then I'm going to add the Drift animation
I'll do exactly the same to the other box
like that. Perfect! Incidentally last week I showed you how to create a zoom animation with
one of canva's new presentation transitions. So do make sure you check it out because it's very
effective. Of course one of the most obvious ways to add animation to a Canva presentation is to use
a Canva feature which is already animated. What am I talking about? I'm talking about Canva stickers!
As you probably know to find your stickers go to the side menu,
click on Elements, find Graphics and click on it and underneath you will find your stickers.
Just one word of caution, if you're presenting slides to a corporate client
use stickers sparingly because they might not appreciate stickers as much as a younger
audience. So if you're a teacher then use as many stickers as you like because kids will love them
And now for my Nicky Ninja tip. Many of you have got in touch with me to ask me how to add
animations to a Canva presentation 'on click' in exactly the same way as you would do a PowerPoint
presentation. You can absolutely do this in a Canva presentation but in a slightly different
way, so I'm going to show you how. So here's what you do. Using these three bullet points as an
example you're going to create a separate page for each bullet point, so you'll need three separate
pages. So as I showed you last week you're going to hold your mouse over the thumbnail image of
your page, click on the three little dots and click on Duplicate. And do that one more time so
that you end up with three pages. Now starting on the first page delete the second and third bullet
points so you're left with just the one. Now you might want to group the box and the text together
so they appear at the same time when you add an animation. So to do that select them with your
cursor and then click on the Group tab. Now click on the Animate tab and select your animation. And
I'm going to use the Pan animation so it looks as if the bullet point is sliding in from the side.
Once you've done that select the second page that you created. Now delete the final bullet point
so that you're left with the first and the second bullet point.
I'm going to do exactly the same as you did do before by grouping your box and text together
clicking on the Animate tab and selecting
Pan. Perfect. Now do exactly the same steps for the final page
Now we're going to test out that sequence of bullet points by
going back a few slides, clicking on the Present tab as I showed you in last week's tutorial,
making sure that the Type is set to Standard and clicking on Present
Perfect! Now you know how to make elements appear on Canva slides on click.
If you missed last week's tutorial and you'd like to learn how to use Canva's exciting new
transitions I will leave a link for you right here. And you can also dive into my whole
playlist of Canva presentation tips and tricks by clicking on this link just here. Thank you
so much for watching as always and thank you very much for your support. I will see you next time.