if you want to create beautiful engaging graphics for your social media or business but don't want
to spend too much time learning a complicated app or hiring an expensive designer i got you
in today's video i'm going to teach you how to use canva in around 10 minutes
let's do this hi my lovely people it's natalia and welcome back to my channel where i share super
action ideas on content creation for entrepreneurs and creatives and in today's video i'm sharing
how to use canva in around 10 minutes to start designing your own graphics for social media or
other business purposes if you've not heard about canva it's a free graphic design tool perfect for
creating social media graphics presentations posters or other visual content it's so much
easier than photoshop and many other graphic design apps and gives you tons of beautifully
designed templates to transform your brand image when you watch this video you'll learn all the
basics to start designing by yourself and if you need an in-depth tutorial i've got one published
on my channel already so you can check it out here all right on to canva first let's go to canva.com
and sign up for a free canva account click on this button here and you can sign up with google
facebook or sign up with your email you can also use my link down below to start off with canva pro
to test out some of the amazing features and it's going to give you a free account for 30 days so
this is what the home page looks like you have the top panel with various navigation tabs to showcase
different kind of functionalities and then there's the search bar which you can use to quickly find
what you need and the account settings in here in the left panel you'll find your designs folders
and other personal resources and in the middle you've got multiple canva templates in different
categories like social media events marketing documents etc what i would start off with is
setting up your brand kit with your brand colors fonts logos if you obviously already have them
the brand kit is a kind of a pro option only so if you don't have pro then you have to choose
the right colors and fonts manually each time but it shouldn't be a big problem because canva shows
you the recently used fonts and colors when you're designing and of course it's an extremely useful
feature to make your progress effortless so start off here so once that's set up we'll go ahead and
create our first design so you can either create a design by hitting this button search for a
particular type of graphic in the search bar or click on the ones that canva recommends already
i'm going to go for the button here and you can use custom dimensions or choose a specific project
like an instagram post for example and it will automatically pick the best dimensions for you
so naming your design first is quite a good habit so let's do it now you can just click in here on
the top and start typing whatever you want so i'll start with spring break instagram post and
that's done so as with the home page the editor is quite similar in the layout you've got the top
panel with the different navigation options and the exporting options in here the left panel with
the different functionalities and the main editor which i'll go through while we start designing so
you can start designing by using one of the canva templates created for this dimension specifically
from this panel to the left in here or you can start from scratch which i'm going to do just now
so let's change the background color first i'll select the background go to the top and here and
click background color and then you've got the different options so you've got default colors
proposed by canva you've got the main color palette which is actually my palette which i added
to the brand kit at the very beginning then you've got document colors which displays all the colors
that have been used in this particular design and then you've got the new color option which if you
click on it it shows up this little screen in here and you can play around like this to
choose something that you like or enter a specific hex code i'll go with main color palette in here
and use my baby blue one so let's add some photos to the design first so as you can see when you go
to the photos it displays the different trending ones and when i scroll down i actually don't see
anything that i would like to go for so let's search for something springy because it's a
spring break post let's scroll down and as you can see when you hover over an image it shows you if
it's a pro element or if it's a free one like this one so if you've got a pro element that means that
you'll actually have to pay for it if you don't have a pro account so let's scroll a bit further
and i actually like this image in here so i'm thinking i can actually use it as a background
as well so let's rotate it it shows you the 90 degrees in here let's drag it by the corners
and this now acts as a background just like this
and when you click on it again you see that actually kind of cropped to the background in here
and obviously when it's selected you've got the different top options at the top as well so you've
got the different effects which you can remove the background which wouldn't really apply to this
particular image you've got filters you can adjust the brightness and various different sliders in
here you can crop it or you can flip it as well so i can flip it vertically or horizontally like this
so next let's go and add some text to the design let's click in here in the left panel
and as you can see i've got different fonts added from the brand kit but you can also use the
pre set up font combinations from canva so let's see what i've recently used so let's use this one
i actually really like the way it looks and how it flows with this particular post and as you can see
when i clicked it added a group of different texts with different fonts so let's hit in here ungroup
and that will separate all the different layers so you've got the this one in here with play
for display you've got this one with glacial indifference and then this one with glacial
difference but that's probably a different one so let's say happy spring break and you
can actually make it bigger by dragging it like this or you can just adjust the size in here so
let's select these two like this drag them down just to separate them from this particular one
and i can actually make it more narrow in here and as you can see when i'm trying to
move that particular one let's move this one to the bottom and here and this one in here
i can actually just get rid of that bottom one like this and we can select the two and if you
go to position um you can align elements perfectly using the pre-existing canva line elements so you
can click on middle and that will take it straight to the middle but as you can see i have two
elements selected so that one went to the middle as well so i can just drag it down in here like
this and as you can see this solid line appears in the middle so that means i'm right where i need
to be right centered in the position in here and let's change the color of this particular element
so maybe let's go for this dark blue for my main palette and this one as well in here but this
design lacks something so let's go to elements and find something that we can actually use
so if i go to elements in here you've got the all the different types of elements that canva
offers so you've got frames which you can put photos into you've got shapes we can which can
add a bit of definition and the lines different lines as well so let's maybe start with a line
so i've added this line in here first off again let's change the color let's drag it down here
and as you can see you've got different options for the line so you've got line
weight in here let's make it thinner maybe not as thin but c3 and you've
got the different types of lines in here so you can make it dash you can make it dot it
you can make the ends of it a bit more rounded and you've got a classic line in here
maybe let's put it at the top and here and you can just drag the ends of it
to make it look a bit like this but actually i don't love this particular one so let's search
for a different element so let's type in race to maybe find something like a sunshine something
to add a bit more to the design but still keep it on theme and i actually really like this one
so let's click on it it's got the completely wrong color so let's change the color and here
you can make this nice blue in here but obviously it's a circular option so you can click crop and
i can just make it half and this way i'll have a nice element like this to add on top of my design
so let's put it in here like this and as you can see when i dragged it it actually kind of
grabbed it and put it with this dashed line which means it's aligned with the element below which
is the happy spring break text so this is how you would navigate in canva it's really intuitive and
canva helps you out to align different elements photos perfectly let's play around with the colors
i like to keep it quite monochromatic so let's stick with that particular one and you can select
these two to maybe drag them a bit lower like this so let's say we want to make this design a bit
more interesting so we can actually animate it so let's add animation if you click on animated here
you see all the different types of animations that it can actually give you so you've got fade
pan rise tumble drift all the different ones and some of them are only available for pro so let's
choose fade for this one and if you click on here you can actually adjust how long you want
this animation to last so i'll pick 10 seconds and you can view it like this in here i'm happy
with this one so let's close it now and i'm ready to actually export it so if you want to export it
as a regular post you can go to png this would be my go-to format to actually do it and you can just
hit download and it will start start downloading in the bottom in here and if you want to export
it so it shows the animation you would have to choose the mp4 video or maybe a gif but let's
go for the suggested one in here let's download it and again you can see the mp4 video rendering
and then you'll be able to download it brilliant so that's me done i've got the two different
designs i've got one png file which is a simple graphic or i can use the little video to maybe
add a bit of oomph to my blog post if you want to know more about canva check out this comprehensive
tutorial here and if you'd like to learn some of my top tips and tricks watch this video
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