- Ready to learn graphic design for newbies?
Maybe you need to do some basic graphic design,
you don't have the budget to outsource it,
or maybe you don't have the time
or patience to learn Photoshop.
Well, the great news is, in this video
I'm gonna show you how anybody, pretty much,
can be a graphic designer in about 10 minutes.
All right, let's get into it.
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Hey, my name is Jerry Potter and today we're talking about
graphic design made easy
for just about anybody!
So, a lot of people have been asking me,
how do you make your Youtube thumbnails?
Those graphics that show up
when you see my Youtube video in a list.
And a couple of people even said,
Hey, can I hire you to make some for my channel?
And I said, no, no, no, no!
You can do this yourself.
I like, I'm happy to earn some extra money,
but you can totally do this yourself
with a program called Canva.
And I want to show you how to use it today.
These are things I've designed in Canva,
not just for social media but posters,
and all sorts of stuff.
And the great part is Canva is based in a web browser,
so you can do it on any computer anywhere.
On my computer, which is not the fastest in the world,
it takes like 5, 10 minutes just to open Photoshop!
And I could be done with a design
in less than five minutes in Canva!
So, to start, you wanna go to canva.com,
c-a-n-v-a
.com.
And you'll see this page here,
and you do have to create an account for Canva.
But it's totally free and they're not gonna spam you
with a bunch of junk.
This is the first page you'll see right at the top,
it says, What would you like to design?
So, if you've got something in mind,
you can type in,
Instagram,
and it'll give you templates for Instagram posts
or Instagram stories.
Type in cover, it says Etsy Shop Cover, Magazine Cover,
Facebook Cover Photo,
Facebook Event Cover.
So those are all there, pre-sized for you.
You can also browse down here.
So if I click, Browse All, over here on the right,
then you can go through
and you can see all of the
pre-designed sizes that they have
under all these different categories.
And if you already know the exact size that you need,
for example, you read somewhere,
oh, make a graphic this exact size.
Up here in the upper right corner, click Custom Dimensions,
and then you can type in ...
754
by
381.
Maybe it's for your website.
And Create new design. You can also choose
pixels, inches, millimeters or centimeters
when you're doing those custom dimensions.
So, just so you can see all the different options,
I'm gonna start of by choosing
a magazine cover.
So, I click on that, it automatically opens up,
I've got this blank page.
And the first thing you'll see over on the left,
are a bunch of different, free templates.
Tavel magazine cover, Food Magazine Covers,
Teen Magazine Covers, Fashion Magazine Covers.
So, these are all templates that you can now adapt
to whatever you're looking for.
These are all templates Canva has made and provided.
So, let's click on Sports Magazine Covers.
I'm gonna click all, and here's a bunch of different
ones that they chose.
I'm a runner, I'm gonna click on Runner.
These are different templates that they have created
for different pages within your magazine if you were gonna
design a magazine.
And as soon as I click on this cover,
it's gonna fill my design, right here.
As I move my curser around the screen, you can see
a tiny box around these elements, or I can click on them.
And I can click on any of these,
and I can change to say whatever I want.
So, maybe my magazine a little slower
and it's called, Jogger.
And maybe it's not Elite.
Maybe it's Slow Jogger,
will be the name of our magazine here.
So, you can take any template there,
and just start playing around with it
and change it into whatever you want.
That's what makes getting started in Canva so easy and fun.
Let's ditch the magazine, just look at something else.
Like, here's a template for an Instagram story,
if you wanted to make an Instagram story.
So I clicked on that, and look: these are all Instagram
Story templates that are there, ready for you to use.
So, here's one for having a sale,
if you have an online store or something like that.
Click one of these templates,
so this is a stock image from Canva.
You could also replace it with your own image.
So, I click on that,
and I'm gonna come up here to the trash can, hit delete.
Then I'm gonna put in a picture of myself,
'cause I don't have a whole lot else over there.
Drag that into place.
And I'll run through all these settings in a second. But ...
now it's
Jerry's
Mug Sale!
So, that's how easy it is to just grab a template,
and the customize it to what you're looking for.
Sometimes, what I will do, is I'll see a template
and just get inspired, like,
oh I like those colors, or that works well.
And I'll create from scratch.
And you can absolutely create from scratch as well.
You don't have to choose a template,
you can just start with a blank slate.
So, what I want to so in this video,
is just take you through, creating one graphic,
just so you can see all the different settings.
So, I'm gonna go ahead, and let's just do,
an Instagram post, a traditional square Instagram post.
Over here, we've gone through, we've seen all of these
different templates that you can see.
So, the other options that you have here in Canva,
is you can then go down to Elements.
This is where you're gonna find most of your stuff.
They have free photos.
These are all free stock images that they have provided.
So you can create with them.
Grids. These are grids to where you can actually
drag photos in, they'll automatically snap to that spot.
So, if I click on this one, now you can see that's there.
Then I can go over to Photos,
and if I drag this photo here,
automatically fills it up.
Drag this one in on the other side,
and it automatically goes there.
So now you've got a way to do a collage really easily.
Once it's in there, you can double-click on it,
and move it back and forth so it's showing
the part that you want.
Next under Elements, you've got Shapes,
if you wanna make something with a shape.
Charts!
These are actually really neat,
so if you're making a chart for a presentation,
you can put this in here.
And then, up here, you'll see, automatically,
different data showed up.
So, you could go through, and say,
if it was a social media report for example,
which is what I deal with,
reach was 10,
Impressions,
was 40.
And then those automatically update over here.
You could also choose a different type of chart.
Maybe you want a row chart, or a pie chart.
You can click on these and change the colors;
all kinds of things that you can do.
More Elements: lines, frames. This is if you wanted
your picture to have a certain shape.
If I put this frame in here,
drag my picture in;
now it's got that specific shape.
Illustrations: all kinds of little designs
if you were doing an infographic, or anything like that.
Below that, is icons, and the neat thing about icons,
is, once you choose one, and it's in here,
you can also go up here and change the color of the icon.
So, Elements is where you're gonna find all kinds of things
you can work with to create you graphics from scratch,
or, to add to a template that you chose at the beginning.
Next up is text.
These are all text templates
that you can click on and use,
they're sort of, fonts that already work together.
I'm gonna, move it.
You can just drag and drop, you can drag the corners
to resize anything in Canva, to the size that you want.
That might be too big, so I drag that back down.
And then I'm gonna click on it,
and I can drag it to where I think the middle is,
and it will give me the lines that I know that it's
right there in the middle.
If you don't text template, you can just click up here,
add a heading, and I can type my text.
Once I have it typed, I can come up here,
I can change the font.
They have hundreds of different fonts.
You can search for fonts too, which is nice.
Then you can change the size, if you want it to be bigger.
You can change the size of the space that it fits in,
just by dragging here.
You can, of course, change the color,
to whatever you want.
Alignments, uppercase, bullet points, spacing;
all can be adjusted there at the top.
If you want a different background, white is the default,
but you can come in here, and you can choose,
up here at the top, click Solid Color.
You can choose whatever color you want.
If you have a specific brand color,
and you know the hex code, that's the hexadecimal code,
it'll be a series of letters and/or numbers.
You can type that in there,
and get a specific color to show up.
It works really, really well.
If you don't want a solid color,
they also provide all these different backgrounds.
Uploads, this is where you can upload some of your own
images to use. Your logos, different things like that.
Folders is where you can store things.
There's a lot more you can do
with Folders in the paid version.
And then, let me load one of their templates,
just to kind of show you the basics.
So, once something is in here on Canva,
you can click on it, and,
all your options for what you can do with that,
are gonna show up here at the top.
So, this is where you can change the color,
if you wanted to crop the image, you would click on that
to do that. If you wanted to flip the image,
you could flip it horizontally or vertically.
All of these snowflakes have been grouped together,
so that if you drag them, they move all at the same time.
If you wanted to ungroup them, you would do that there,
if you wanted to make a copy, so you have more snowflakes
just like it, you can do that.
Position is to move an element forward or backward,
or to align it, a certain spot on the page.
This checker board is the Transparency,
so if you see this, Buy 1 Take 1 Cappuccinos,
if I lighten that,
it makes it more transparent, 'til it disappears.
Sometimes that's fun to adjust over a picture.
Link, if you're creating a PDF file,
or some format that supports links,
you can add a link to something there.
And then if you want to delete an element,
say I wanted to get rid of this row of snowflakes,
I can hit Delete, since it is a bunch grouped together,
we can say, Delete Group, and they're gone!
Down here, again, if you want to change the text,
you click in there.
If you don't want to change the text, you can hit Escape
out of the text.
And then you can see these four arrows pop up,
and you can move this stuff wherever you want.
If it's a picture and you want to resize it,
you can grab the corner of it, resize that way.
Once you have a picture, selected, some other options
that are up here, you still got Crop and Flip.
You can adjust, brightness, contrast,
a bunch of different things.
Or filter, you can go through an add a filter,
just like you would in Instagram.
Once you're done, you can come up here and,
click Share. And this is where you can actually email
your design to somebody else if you wanted to,
to have them at it.
Most of the time though, you're probably going to want to
download it, so you click that.
And click Download.
Now, this picture, this coffee, is a premium image.
They do have a bunch of images in here that you can buy.
They only cost a Dollar and you have 24 hours to edit them,
and consider most stock image sites
start at 10 to 15 dollars an image?
It's pretty cheap.
And the selection's pretty decent too.
So, maybe you want to buy a Dollar image because it's
the perfect image. You can choose the format,
PNG file, JPEG, PDF. Then you hit, Pay and Download.
Now, if I take out this coffee image,
then I go to download, now I can hit Download.
Same options, and just hit Download,
without having to pay a Dollar for a picture of coffee.
That costs more than a cup of coffee, some places!
Sometimes if I have a design the way I like it,
but I want to try something that might mess it up,
I'll click this button here to copy it.
Now there's two of them.
And then I can go through, and maybe try
some different colors on here.
And go, oh yeah, I like pink better,
without messing up my original design.
Now, when I go to Download, you'll see one other option;
You'll see Pages, so I can download all the pages,
or I could just pick on or two of them.
If you choose more than one,
it'll download it as a Zip file.
And with Canva 2.0,
they've added a bunch of other options here too.
I've seen people create entire
PowerPoint presentations in here.
And you can click, Present.
And it will actually become a PowerPoint presentation
that you could show.
So, you can see my first slide with the blue,
and then my second slide where I added the pink.
You can print, you can publish to Facebook groups,
pages, Twitter; all sorts of different things
that they've added in here.
But, that's a basic overview.
I know I went through a lot of it very quickly,
but you can always go back and pause,
and rewind as much as you need to kind of see
the different elements.
If you've got any questions I didn't answer,
by all means, join me in the comments.
I read all the comments and will try and help you out there.
Canva does a really good job keeping their templates
up-to-date on the ideal size for something.
But, personally, through experimentation,
I have found that even though, Instagram says,
you should make you post this size, there are other sizes
that will get you more engagement.
So, if you're interested in the
optimal image sizes for Facebook and Instagram,
I've got videos about that down
in the description of this video.
So, now that you've seen Canva, you might be going,
wait, wait, wait. Why is this free?
Well, there is a paid version,
starting at $9.95 a month.
I just wanted to tell you some of the stuff you get
with the paid version, because it
may be well worth it for you.
You get way more free photos, illustrations and templates
that you can work with.
They have a tool where you can magically
resize your design.
So, if you design something for Twitter,
you can automatically redesigned for Instagram,
and it does a really good job at that.
You can upload custom fonts, so if you have a favorite
font you use that Canva doesn't have,
you can have that in there.
You can download designs with transparent backgrounds,
which is really important when you are using things
in videos, or on other backgrounds.
And finally, they actually have some pretty good apps
for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.
So, you can do design on mobile devices too.
I know, total gush-fest for Canva!
I don't get any money from them, or anything like that.
It just truly is a program that will change your business
and your time on social media.
All right, I know we covered a lot
in a short amount of time.
So, if you need to go back and pause,
rewind to watch something again,
please do that.
If there's anything I didn't cover,
let me know down in the comments, I read every single one.
And I can help you out there.
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