Hey! I'm Anastasia of AnastasiaBlogger.com. And I'll be teaching you in
this video how to create beautiful and click-worthy images which will help you
get a ton of traffic from Pinterest. The tool we're going to use for pin design
is free and it's very easy. It's called Canva. I will switch now to my screen to
show you how you can do it. Last week I showed you all the elements
that help you make your pin graphics stand out on Pinterest and get a lot of
engagement red pins and click-throughs. And if you missed that video, check the
info icon on the top right corner of the screen. Or when you finish watching this
video, check the link to my last week's Pinterest tutorial in the description
below the video. I recommend using Canva because it's free and it's very flexible
even compared to some competitor tools and it's very user-friendly and
intuitive. You will see it for yourself by the end of this video, you'll be able
to quickly create beautiful pin graphics like a pro so you need to go to
Canva.com and create a free account if you don't have one yet and now you can
start typing here Pinterest to see a template for pin graphic what this
template gives you is just the size of the image this image has an aspect ratio
of 2 to 3 which is recommended by Pinterest. But what if you wanted to
create a pin image of another size or of another aspect ratio? I mentioned in a
previous video that for me pins of the aspect ratio 1 to 2 actually work better
and this is the maximum height after which Pinterest is cutting off the pins
and I also showed you that interests official guide for printer fucking
creators and it has a recommended pin size of a thousand by 1500 pixels which
tells me that Pinterest might prefer images of much higher resolution than
just 600 900 pixels or even the size that canva
suggests here. So if you want to create a pin of another size, click here on custom
dimensions and define the pin size the old people as a newbie you might want to
you to use some of the templates suggested by Canva. But I honestly do not
recommend you doing this for a couple of reasons. First, if you don't change this
template significantly and you just add your own text overlay chances are that
after you publish the up in Pinterest visual search engine will be showing
multiple other images created with the same template this might potentially
screw up your rankings for the keyword which you're trying to target with a
pin because Pinterest might relate your pin to those other pins saved with the
same template earlier, based on the template and not on the keywords you added
to your pin description. And the second reason why I don't recommend
using this template is because it's often very limiting but you only have
this much space to add your own text overlay. Everything is defined by
the template, and if you start changing this then you will end up wasting a lot
more time to redo and ungroup elements in the template to make it look the way
you want it to. So, this is our canvas. Now we are looking for background images and
if you are registered in any stock sites, download an image from there and upload
it here. So I'm showing you how to do it. Click on
uploads, then upload an image by simply dragging and dropping it here don't
upload images of low resolution or small size because they will look pixelated
when they're stretched over the pin size left click on the background image and
it will automatically show up in your canvas now you just stretch it to the
size of your pin now we need to create a text of the lay for our pin but to make
sure that the text is not lost on the background image we need
to create a frame of a contrasting color that will make our text pop up on the
pin. So let's click on the elements and then look for shapes so we select this
square shape with an outline color by left clicking on it. To resize the
shape I will drag it by left clicking on one of the corners because I want to
keep it square. But if you would like to have it taller you can drag the top line.
Now we need to change the colors of the shape in the top left corner. You will
find the colors, and the left one is the main color of the shape but the right
one is the outline. Now we will change them :)
Now we are ready to add some text overlay to our pin. And to do this, click
on the text tab and you will see here a lot of preset text templates but I don't
use them because they don't always fit what I need to write on my pin. So let's
click on the first text font as you can see it shows up on the canvas already.
And now we can write our text. Let's change the font. I don't recommend
using script phones by the way because they are hard to read when a user is
scrolling down the feed on Pinterest. Now on top left corner you will find a
variety of fonts to choose from.
Let's move our text by left-clicking and dragging. Let's create a new text line
and use a different font color and size to emphasize this part of the text.
To change the size we can go here and select one of the suggested sizes or
simply type the number and click enter. To change the color, just click on this
icon and select one of the default colors or maybe click on the plus and
select any color you want here. Let's move our text by left clicking and
dragging since we want to use exactly the same
style for the next line of text we just copy and paste it by clicking here now
just drag it down and change the text.
Okay it looks like it's too big for this frame we need to change the size anyway
and I actually don't really like this phone let me think about another font
here okay looks like looks like the phone that I I'll keep it here now I
want to add a call to action to this pin image so I will use the same font as in
the top text I will copy and paste this text and drag it down and now I will
just change the text to something like this it looks like it's too big for this
frame I will play around with the sizes
now I want to resize the shape because we still have a lot of space left you
need to add either a logo or the main name to protect your image and I
recommend using a domain name because logos usually take a lot more space on
your pin so go back to text and select the smallest font type in your domain
name
and decide where you want to keep it here or maybe at the bottom if you put
it at the bottom you need to change the size and maybe the color great let's
move to the next step now we need to give a name to our image and to do this
we can go to the top right corner and click here and save it with a different
name by the way while you work on on your pin canva will save changes
automatically but if you want to force save at any time click on that file and
then save so I promised we will create multiple versions of a pin really
quickly so let me show you how we do this click on copy page icon and it
creates a full copy of your pin in the same tab now let's change something for
example in this case we can change the background image now we need to remove
the old background by clicking on the image and pressing delete on your
keyboard keyboard let's drag and drop the new image we need to reshape it to
fit the size of the pin and then we need to go to the top right corner to change
the position of the image let's click to back books button this is a completely
new pin for Pinterest now let's create a new one just by copying this one and
changing some text overlay so let's write 10 amazing vegan dinners to try
with your family in the next copy of the pin will be changing the text overlay
color the background shape and the background image
you
now let's duplicate and create pin version number five and I will quickly
change the text overlay the color and the image background image I'll change
the colors of the frame and of the text
now I wanted to show you something cool it's transparency feature you click on
the shape and then you go to the right corner right top corner and change the
transparency of your black background for the text hopefully so you start
seeing the image a little bit better now to save all our pin versions we can go
here and select download let's change the file type which back because PNG
will be too heavy to upload to upload to our site and we can select all pages to
download all pins at once or if you want you can save them one by one to your
computer so this way you can create pins of your own or if you want to use some
professionally designed canva tablets I have a pack of 10 fully customizable
templates and I will give you a link to them in the description of this video if
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