Raise your hand if you found my channel looking for a canva tutorial. I know many of you have,
it's one of my most popular videos on my channel. Canva themselves reached out to me and they loved it.
Even LinkedIn hired me and flew me out to California to film a course for them and today I'm
giving you an updated tutorial on the platform. Because it's changed since my last tutorial.
In this video, I'm going to be sharing with you all the things you might not have even known that you
can use canva for. I'll tell you everything that you get in the free version of the canva account
and if it's worth the extra bucks to upgrade to the pro version. Then i'll show you why canva
is a great option to design anything you need whether it's youtube thumbnails, social media posts,
PDFs, presentations, you name it. Because at some point in your career you're gonna need those, right?
And stick around until the end because one of the most common questions on my last canvas
tutorial was, how do I remove the background from my pictures? Well at the time, that functionality
wasn't available now it is, I'm going to show you how. So as I mentioned my canva video that I made
back in 2016 is one of the most popular videos on my youtube channel. But of course, things have
changed since then, so I'm really excited to give you an update on all the things that canva has
added to the platform. We'll turn our attention over to the computer now and I'll show you some
of these updates. As you can see, canva has so many design templates everything available
at your fingertips. Anything from social media posts, marketing, documents, things that you can
get printed for yourself. Videos, things that you might need for school, your business, for personal.
And as you can see as you scroll through the dashboard you can see all the templates
and you can see all of my previous designs. So that I can easily find anything that I've ever created.
That's one of the things that I love about canva is all my designs are right here.
With other graphic design software that maybe you have to install into your computer
you're stuck to needing to use that computer. With canva, it's a cloud-based software so I can be on
any computer, anywhere in the world, and access my designs. I have the pro version of canva but
for the longest time, I only use the free version. There's some different functionality that you can
use with the pro version like maybe you want to have teams where more people have access to your account.
They can have their own logins, you all share the same branding, and the same templates,
and have access to all of your designs. The other thing that was really important to me and why I
decided to sign up for the pro account was because. Remember how I mentioned before about being able
to remove backgrounds from pictures or be able to download pictures with a transparent background.
That was one of the things that I needed in my business all the time, so that might be a
deciding factor for you too. What I love about canva is like I mentioned there's
so many different templates. If I want social media templates I can just scroll down and find
for Instagram, for Facebook, different logos. I can go into different categories like maybe if I need
some documents made there's all these different templates, or maybe if I need a letterhead,
or a report or a resume. And what's so great is I can actually go right into the resume template
and they have ones that are pre-made that all I have to do is customize and add in my own information.
So if I click on the resume template, I can actually go in and find previous ones that
are already pre-made with these templates that all I have to do is go in and change out their
information with mine. And you'll see in the templates they give you so many different options,
so many different looks that you can just all you do is change them out. You can pick one,
you can change the pictures, the colors, the fonts, the branding, and make it your own. Speaking of branding
included in your canva dashboard is a brand kit. You can click on brand kit in the navigation here
and you'll see where you can upload any logos that you want to use that you can easily access at any time.
You can have specific color palettes so that anytime you're in a design which I'll show you an
example for right now. Let's say if I wanted to change the background of this resume to one of
my specific brand colors. I'll click on the color here and you'll see that they're all right here
in the branding kit just as I created these color palettes. Same thing with fonts you can upload
specific fonts that canva might not have preloaded. Now, when you're in a canva design, let's see if
I want to change the font of this. You'll see many options that canva has uploaded themselves
and here's my uploaded fonts. Now, I've uploaded a ton and here are the popular fonts that canva has included.
Notice that you see this little crown next to this font, that's only for people who
have a canva pro account. So that's another benefit of having the pro account, you'll have
access to specific fonts and stock photos that the free accounts don't get. Let's go back
into the templates, when I click on templates from the navigation here at the top I can see
all the templates that canva has to offer and I can actually search for specifically what I want.
If I'm scrolling through here and I can't find exactly what I need. Let's say if I'm going to make
a YouTube thumbnail, I can just type it in here and YouTube shows up kind of let's actually look
at what it shows up when I even type in Y, I noticed something interesting. Yearbooks is
an option isn't that interesting, I didn't even know that you could design yearbooks with canva.
YouTube channel art, YouTube display ads, all these different graphics that you can design through canva.
Anything you need to design here is at your fingertips. So let's say, that I want to design a
YouTube thumbnail, look how it shows me all these YouTube templates that I can be using I can pick
one and then all I have to do is change out the text, and the images, or the colors for my own brand.
So you'll notice that there's more templates that you can choose from, maybe another one catches your
eye while you're designing it that you can switch it out. But let's say if I want to customize this
that I have a different video but I like the look of this. All I have to do is change my video title
right here, I can change the size of it by just moving through here, I want to make sure that
it fits. I can change the color, select any of my previous colors that I've used from
my branding templates. I can choose any of my specific fonts, because of course when you're
branding anything no matter what it's for for social media, for a PDF, for an eBook anything.
You want to make sure that's customized to your business. So let's say, I want to change out the
background picture for one of my own and as you can see this is 2 different pictures right here.
So I might want to delete this one and I'm going to go into other photos. So I can look at things
that I've uploaded myself or I can also look at other options that canva gives me. So let's go
into photos right now, let's say that I want to look for something that has to do with winter.
I'm going to type in winter and look at that, how pretty is that let's put, and you'll see
this little note here when it has the crown and says pro that's only available for pro users.
However, there's a setting that you can use right here if you click the little gear there,
that you can select to only see images that are free, and you can also select to see images that
are a specific orientation. If you need them that are specifically square, vertical, or horizontal.
You can also select to see images by specific color which is super convenient if you need to stick to
a specific color palette. So let's look at free and I'll apply that filter awesome let's pick this one
and all you have to do is drag and drop it into place. Now, once I put this here I can also adjust
it from there. I can crop it, I can change it, I can add a filter. So let's say if I want to crop it
I can maybe move it back and forth, maybe I want to put this tree as the center, maybe I want to zoom
in that I see more of that tree, and then I will click done. I can also add some different effects
here, I can pixelate it, I can give it color mixers. All these different things that you can
test out here and play with even filters if I want to give them maybe I want to make it black
and white, maybe I want to make it more festive. Also, play around with flipping it horizontal
or vertically. Another thing that comes in handy, let's say if I want to add more text to this image.
Let's say if I grab some text I'm going to drag and drop it into place. Maybe I want to
put my name on this, so I'm going to put Marley Jaxx. Now obviously, right now you can't really
see it in there so we can change the color of the font or we can also change the background. So let's
first start with changing the color of that maybe we'll make it a blue perfect and then I'm going to
select the picture here. And what I can do is I can of course add some effects or filter it so
that the text is more easily readable, or I can also make the image more transparent, watch this.
Now, with that, I'm going to change the color of my font seeing that makes it a little whiter.
I need to make my text darker. So that's something you can play around with on your images to make
the background more transparent. So maybe the front of the image is going to pop a little bit more.
I'm going to remove everything here and I want to play with a blank canvas right now. So let's
look at what we have to offer here. There's a bunch of templates that I can go through
and select. If I want to be able to use any of these or I can play around from scratch.
You can upload any of your images here. You can drag and drop them in and you'll see that I have
several images that I've used in the past to make different kinds of thumbnails. I can also
make logos which is super convenient, because logo design can be expensive and but you can find tons
of templates here on canva. So I can use any of my photos, I can drag and drop that in, I can resize it,
I can put it into different dimensions or formats, I can look at photos here. And what's really cool
is that canva has different photos and they also have icons that you can use. So again, remember,
I showed you that you can actually search for anything you can need. You can look at what's just
trending, what's popular, and again you can sort by color, by orientation, by availability if you want
something that's free, or something that's included in the pro account. When we look at elements you
can see these fun stickers of course. Who doesn't need a little Christmas llama in one of their
graphics super fun. Lines, shapes, these frames are very convenient, you'll notice that when I had
that thumbnail before there were two different frames to add two different pictures. So if you
have an image and you want to have a specific fun little size image on there. You can add these
different frames, let's show you an example of that right now. There's this one looks kind of fun,
looks like a kodak photo, you can make that the full size if you want and you can just
select any picture to drag and drop into those places. So let's do that now, maybe I'll just grab
2 random ones here. Let's add the salad in place and then some other food there, perfect.
There's even moving stickers if you want to use them for motion graphics or little
videos that canva allows you to create. There's charts, grids, again, if you want to be able to
add different images into one full image and how interesting they also categorize their stickers
and their images by very popular subjects. Like zodiac symbols, camping, flowers, animals.
So really you can search anything you need in here and you're probably likely to find something
close to what you need. Here's all of the text options and this is cool because it gives you
some ideas that you might not have even thought of, like that's a really fun font that you can use.
This one looks like it's shining that there's this glow around it that maybe if you were
searching for just text when you like drag and drop in there. You might not have known what font
to choose, or what kind of settings to choose for it to look like that. So it's nice that they give
you some pre-made examples. The music tab can also be used when you're making any videos
on canva which we'll get to in a bit. Under videos, just like in the photos they have
some stock options for you here which are so cool. Let's even drag and drop this into play and see
what that looks like. So you can see how it plays, how that looks, you can add some text on top of it.
You can add some other graphics to this and make it useful for whatever project you're working on.
And under background, this is where you can select as it says the background of your photo. This is a
nice looking kind of gradient one, different landscapes you can choose, patterns, abstract,
even food. Now let's say, I'm going to make a social media post that I want to be able to
put on all my social media platforms. I'm going to show you this magic tool that can show you how to
resize everything in just a couple clicks. From the dashboard, I'm going to click on social media
so I can find a Facebook template for myself. I'm going to scroll down, I'm going to find a Facebook
post that I want. Maybe I scroll through here and I want to see more, so I can see all the templates
that they have to offer. Let's pick something that just looks nice. So while this is loading, did you
know that you can do all this on canvas? Have you used canva before? What are your favorite things
to use it for? Let me know in the comments below. So let's say, that this is the post that we want
to be able to post on all of our social media platforms. What I'll do is I'll click on resize
and see how I can select different custom sizes or I can scroll down and all I do is check these off.
So I'm going to make a Facebook ad, a Facebook post, maybe I'm going to make an Instagram story.
Let's start there for now, I'm gonna click copy and resize watch what happens, tada. You'll see
that it has magically resized it into all of those options I selected. Now, you can also go in and you
can change things around a little bit, you'll see that this is an Instagram story option that maybe
with this extra space that it's created. Maybe you want to add some text in there, maybe you want to
have a little call to action click the link in my bio or swipe up. So anytime, that you use that
magic resize option just make sure you take a look at it and make sure that you're still utilizing
the best use of space. Now, here's where this gets really fun is you can just straight download this
to your computer just like any other thing. You can select the file type if you want it in a specific
jpeg or a png. You just click download but here's where this is all so fun is you can
publish it directly to your Facebook account. If you integrate your canva account with your
social media platforms you can actually use canva to schedule. Now, you'll notice these 3 dots
next to the publish button where it gives you some more options that you can use. You can send
it right to your Facebook page, you can download it you can give a share link to someone else if
you want to give them this template, and you can schedule it to your social media as I mentioned.
You can integrate it with other platforms if you want to share it to your Facebook group,
Twitter, Pinterest, etc... Now, the other fun thing is YouTube is partnered with a printing company,
that you can use these templates to print t-shirts, business cards, canvases.
So, it's almost like a one-stop-shop. You can create this and get it turned into physical materials.
Now I also mentioned that canva has a video option and this is a fairly new option for the platform.
You can use it to make Facebook ads, animated social media posts, even some swipe up Instagram stories,
and I specifically love to use it for Facebook video ads. So take a look play around with that
it's going to be the same way that you would make an image just like I showed you but playing
around with moving images. Now, before I wrap up this video answering the most popular question
from my last canva video. Make sure that you hit that button and subscribe to this channel.
In my last canva video from 2016 people asked all the time, how do I remove the backgrounds
from my images? Well, at that time, I had to give you a third-party tool to be able to use because canva
didn't have that functionality. But it sounds like you asked and they listened I'm going to show you how.
For this purpose, I'm actually going to create a custom design, let's click this create a design
from the corner here. It's great that you can use any of these templates. I'm going to grab a custom
size maybe just for fun, I'll choose this 1280 by 720 that's one I used recently. So I'm going to
grab one of my photos that I want to remove the background for. I've already uploaded it previously,
so I'm going to take this picture put it into the frame. So when you're clicked on the image you'll
be able to see this effects button. When you click on effects, "tada" there it is that background
remover tool. Remove the background of your image with one click. So all you do click on that it's
going to load for a second, it's going to kind of trace around the subject of the image, there we go.
That's the image that I wanted so I can resize it, I can save it, I can use it on other images. So I'm
going to put into place here and now I'm going to download it with a transparent background.
That's a functionality that you need the pro version of the canva account to do. I'm going to name
my image here Marley transparent background. I'm going to click download, I'm going to select a png
and transparent background, and I'm going to hit download. So now, here's what I can do with
this transparent background. Now, I'm going to go find a photo maybe I find something like
this one, I'm gonna put it in the background
of my image here. Now see, I put it on in front so all I have to do is click position, hit backward.
Now it's in the back and that image of me that I just removed the background form, is right on top.
I can go in and maybe I want to add some text or some icons to this image, voila. Alright, that's it.
Did you guys know that you could do all of this on canva? It is my favorite graphic design software to use,
like I mentioned I love that it's web-based. So that I can use it from any computer anywhere
in the world. Be able to access all of my designs, even bring team members on so that they can use
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