do you want to promote an upcoming event
whether it's for a business or personal
event creating a flyer can help create
interest especially if you are targeting
a small local audience in this video
we'll show you how to quickly create a
flyer in canva that will catch people's
attention and then we'll guide you
through some important decisions about
printing your design if you're new to
canva you can create a free account at
canva calm now it's time to create our
flyer design in caneva we'll go ahead
and click the flyer icon to begin in
this case we'd like to create a flyer
for an open house for a veterinarian's
office you can try searching by various
keywords but in this case I've already
searched a few times for templates
related to veterinarians and I found
that Health returned some good template
options
this one seems like a great option and
it already has open house in the title
so let's go ahead and open this one this
template includes designs for both sides
of the page but we'll keep it simple and
just use the front side now it's time to
tailor the flyer template to suit your
audience let's start by changing the
title we'll go ahead and change clinic
to veterinary and we'll keep the open
house part
if the text doesn't fit don't worry we
could either decrease the font size or
change the font to something narrower in
our case we'll choose a new font let's
go ahead and highlight the title text
then we'll open the font menu to see our
options this template has a clean modern
design and not all these fonts will work
with it
you may need to try out a few fonts
before finding the one that works best
with the rest of the text this narrow
font looks like a good choice we'll go
ahead and click the font to apply it
now let's personalize the text and
graphic at the top this template has the
business's name broken up into a couple
of parts but this bottom part is hard to
read so we'll go ahead and increase the
font size to 14
then I'll type Concorde in this field
and to add veterinary hospital below it
keep in mind that you can feel free to
use these fields in any way that works
best for your event this template has a
medical symbol but we can change it to a
more pet related graphic first we'll
select it
and click the trash icon in the menu bar
now we just want to delete the graphic
and keep the text so we'll click delete
element now let's go to elements to
search for a new one
we'll try looking for a pawprint since
the original graphic was a simple icon
let's look for something with a similar
style the color is less important
because canva actually gives you the
option to change the color for many of
these graphics let's click this paw to
add it to the design if you see a color
box in the menu bar you can click it to
change the color of the graphic for this
one we'll choose this blue so that it
matches the template now we can resize
it and position it in the same spot as
the previous image and you can keep
adjusting it until it looks right
now you can go ahead and continue
working through the template to edit the
text for your specific event next let's
talk about options for printing your
flyers you have three options for
printing you can go ahead and print the
Flyers on your home printer you could
have canva professionally print them for
you or you can download your design and
send it to a third party professional
printing service such as Vista Print or
next day flyers printing it on a home
printer will use a lot of ink and the
colors will likely not look as good if
you want to go with this option you may
want to convert your design to a simple
black and white flyer and delete any
large color blocks like this gradient
printing can be a little expensive
you're going to get better results but
be aware that the colors on the screen
will be a bit different when printed out
so we suggest ordering a single copy to
make sure you like the colors before
printing a larger order now let's reopen
the print menu and click print flyers
and take a look at a few of the options
canva gives you for finalizing your
design for printing and keep in mind
that you'll see a similar process with
other printing services professional
printing is a bit different than
printing a typical document at home a
printing service may print the designs
on large sheets of paper and cut them
down to size along this dotted line so
they need a margin of error in case they
don't cut the paper in exactly the right
spot for graphics that go up to this
dotted line like this gradient we want
to move it beyond the dotted line to
ensure that there's no white space
between the graphic and the edge of the
paper
canva will also have you checked the
danger zone anything that appears in
this red area has the risk of being cut
off so you may need to adjust your text
and graphics in this step if you go with
a different printing service you'll have
similar options but they may have
different names for example this to
print we'll use the term safety line
instead of a danger zone but it's
basically the same thing
although canva makes it convenient to
print your Flyers you may want to shop
around to different printing services to
find one that fits your budget now that
you know how to create Flyers in canva
and have some options for printing them
we hope you'll start on your own design
and get people excited about your next
event
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