Hello everybody in today's video I'm going to show you how to use Canva's brand new
animation features so that you can design incredibly professional looking templates.
I was scrolling through Facebook the other day and I noticed a promotional post from a very
well-known UK high street brand. It probably cost them hundreds if not thousands of pounds to create
but I knew that I could recreate it easily in Canva
at a fraction of the cost. And I'm going to show you exactly how.
Welcome and welcome back to my channel my name is Nicky Pasquier and I help small business owners
and entrepreneurs successfully market their brands online using the exact same strategies
that I use. So if this is something you want to learn you might consider subscribing to my channel
and clicking that little bell notification so you don't miss a single video. So this is the animated
post I created in Canva. Just one word of warning I don't recommend that you copy any content because
it might land you in a lot of trouble but I wanted to use this as an example to show you
just what you can achieve in Canva. Some animation features are free to use and others are for Canva
Pro account holders only. But if you stick around I will give you the chance to upgrade to Canva Pro
for free for 45 days rather than the standard 30-day period. Okay so if you're ready to start
learning follow me over to Canva. So from your Canva homepage select the template that you want
to work with. You can use whatever template you want so you can choose an Instagram post,
a video, a presentation, a Facebook post even but for the purpose of this video tutorial I'm going
to use the example that I showed you earlier. So I'm just going to click on this one to open it up.
Okay and you can see from the thumbnails underneath that I've got multiple pages,
I've got four pages underneath. And I have to say that these new animations really do work best
when you do work with multiple pages and I'll show you why in just a minute.
So let me just reduce this so that we have a nice clean space to work on.
Okay so there are three different ways that you can use animations in a Canva template. First
of all you can animate the entire page and to do that what I normally do is select the background,
then you go up to the Canva toolbar and select the Animate button.
And this brings up a menu of animations for your page. And really helpfully and this is
a fairly recent development Canva has grouped the animations into different categories so you have
Combination animations, Basic, Scale, Exaggerate, Photo movement and Slide in and Slide out.
So it's worth taking just a few minutes to have a look and see what's underneath each category.
You can use these side arrows to scroll through and take a look.
I'm not going to use the entire page animations because I want to animate individual elements.
So I'm going to start off by animating the photos in my template. To do that all I need to do is
click on a photo to select it and this will bring up my photo animations. And just as Canva did with
page animations they've grouped all the photo animations in handy categories. Here's a quick
tip for you: when selecting an animation in Canva make sure it suits the subject of your template.
So this particular template I'm working in is very clean and elegant so I don't think any
of the animations in the Exaggerate category is going to be suitable for this particular template.
Instead I'm going to have a look at the animations under the Basic and the Scale categories. One of
my favourite photo animations is the Breathe animation so I'm just going to click on it once
to see what it does. Once you've clicked on the animation you'll see underneath that you can
customise the animation even further. And in this instance I can control the scale of the animation
by holding my cursor over this little button here holding my cursor down and sliding it
along the slider bar. If I slide it to the left the animation becomes very subtle but if I slide
it to the far right the animation becomes more exaggerated. And I'm going to stick with the
middle point I think. Underneath you can customise the animation even further by selecting In or Out.
Have a look and see what effect they have on the photos on my page. That's In and that is Out.
I quite like the Out animation so I'm going to select that.
You will notice that there is a little tiny crown icon next to the scale button and this
means that this particular feature is only available to Canva Pro users. But do stay
watching because as I mentioned earlier I will be giving you a link to a free 45-day
Canva Pro upgrade. Next I'm going to animate my second photograph. So I'm going to click on it
select it and then I'm going to test out the photo Zoom animation. So I'm going to click on it once
and just as I had with the Breathe animation I have a slider button to adjust the scale of
the animation. So if you look on the right hand side you'll see what effect it has...
And then I can adjust the animation further by clicking In or Out, and I'm going to select Out.
Do take the time to have a look at the other animations available because each one behaves
slightly differently. So for example if I take a look at the Pan animation and click on it to
select it you'll see I have three additional ways to customise the animation further.
The first option will allow me to select WHEN I want the animation to appear on my page,
and if you're familiar with powerpoint you will know exactly what this means. So you
can build an animation in as the page appears or out as the page transitions to the next one.
Underneath I have a slider bar to help me adjust the SPEED of the animation, so if I move it to the
left hand side that slows the animation down, but if I move to the far right hand side that
will speed up the animation. This feature is for Pro users only. I can also adjust the DIRECTION in
which the animation will appear, so I can make my photo appear from right to left or left to right.
And as you can see I haven't actually clicked on these buttons, I've just hovered my mouse
over them just to have looked to see what effect it has on my photograph. You can also have an
awful lot of fun by reversing the animation by toggling this button to the 'on' position.
Right so that's photo animations; now I'm going to show you how to animate the text. So to do that
I'm going to select the text I want to animate and that brings up a menu of new text animations
in the left hand side column, and there are lots to choose from. You can have so much fun with the
text animations and there's a lot of new changes so let me just walk you through just a couple of
my favourites. Again Canva has given you so much more control over how text appears on your page.
You can now control the speed, the direction and even the intensity of an animation.
Just as I did with photo animations I want to find a text animation which suits the overall
style of my template which is clean, fresh and elegant. So I'm going to have a look at the Basic
and the Simple writing animations right at the top. If I click on the Rise animation
underneath I can see I can customise the animation in three different ways.
Use these options to control when you want the animation to take effect on your page.
As I mentioned before if you're familiar with powerpoint you'll know exactly how this works.
So 'On enter' is exactly the same as building an animation in; and 'On exit' is exactly the same
as building an animation out. You can select both but for now I'm just going to click on 'On enter'.
I can control the speed at which the animation appears by holding my cursor down and dragging
the little button along the slider bar. I can also select whether I want the text to appear from
bottom to top, or top to bottom. So I'm going to go through that once more with this text...
Fabulous! And that's all I want to animate. I'm going to stop talking
now and let you just sit back and watch what I do with the rest of this template
because as I mentioned before all the animations behave slightly differently
Now I'll just stop here because you'll see that I have some new
options here which I haven't covered before.
With the Shift option for text I can control whether to apply the animation to each letter,
to a word or an entire line of text. So I'm going to select Character to apply it to each letter as
it appears. And I can also control the direction in which each letter appears on the screen.
Now the final slide I want to add a little bit more emphasis because it should contain a call
to action so I'm going to try out some of the text animations in the Exaggerate category.
So that's all done with my animations, I'm going to go up to the top right hand corner
of my Canva toolbar and click on the play button to see how that looks all together.
I mentioned at the start of this video that I would give you a free upgrade to Canva Pro
so all you need to do to benefit from a 45 day trial period is type this URL into your browsers.
I'll also leave the link to that in the description box underneath this video. If you're
a YouTuber you might want to learn how to create an animated subscribe button in Canva. If so I
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link to that right here. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.