[NEW] Canva Course: Design Like a Pro – Even as a Beginner

Explore Canva as a free design tool to create and edit designs, pictures, and videos with templates and AI features, with a pro version, accessible via browser or smartphone.

Create a free Canva account by signing up with Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, or an email and password, then answer why you want to use Canva.

Explore the Canva interface, from home to templates and custom sizes. Preview Canva Pro features and the Dream Lab text-to-image AI while learning to search, organize designs, and name projects.

Organize your Canva workspace by renaming documents, creating folders, and moving designs into named folders to improve findability and collaboration.

Understand Canva copyright and ownership regulations, including personal versus commercial use, required template modifications, and how licenses and AI tools affect your designs.

Create diagrams in Canva using interactive charts such as progress bars, bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. Enter numbers or import data to drive chart generation and customize settings.

Use Canva's brand tool to save and apply logos, colors, fonts, brand voice, and graphics for consistent designs across business, school, or work. This feature will be revisited after upgrading.

Explore Canva's drawing tool to create custom sketches, highlight elements, and add shapes, text, borders, and tables with adjustable pen weight and transparency.

Discover how Canva's apps expand design capability by integrating external and AI tools, backgrounds, data autofill, and more to enhance creativity and workflow.

Explore how to add appealing backgrounds in Canva by using the background app, choosing solid colors, gradients, and stock photos, and learn to replace a background to match your design.

Learn to download finished Canva designs by selecting file type (png, jpg, pdf), adjusting quality and size, choosing pages (including current page), and saving download settings.

Share your Canva designs by inviting people with access and setting permissions, such as can edit, can comment, or can view, and generate a copy link for templates.

Explore how left and right click work in the Canva editor, including copying, pasting, adding pages, duplicating pages, locking backgrounds, and applying colors.

Explore font selection, size adjustments, and rich formatting to customize text in Canva, including bold, italics, underline, uppercase, alignment, bullets, spacing, typography, color, and borders.

Learn to apply text effects and animations in Canva, adjusting offset, blur, color, and curves. Compare free and paid options to tailor visuals for presentations and interactive designs.

Learn to manage position and layers in Canva, arranging elements by sending them backward or to back, setting the background last, and resizing or centering with alignment aids.

Select an element and click the copy style icon to copy its color for the new page background. Copying a text element also copies font, size, effects, and animations.

Learn how to adjust transparency across text, shapes, and photos in Canva by selecting an element, using the transparency control, and entering a value to blend layers.

Learn to lock entire pages or individual elements in Canva to prevent accidental edits. Use lock, unlock, and duplicate options to manage elements and protect your work.

Explore Canva keyboard shortcuts, including undo and redo on Mac and Windows, creating text with T, adding a line with L, and bolding with command+B.

Discover Canva Pro benefits, including background removal, more templates and premium content, AI tools, plus scheduling social posts and resizing designs with magic switch.

Switch to Canva Pro to explore a 30-day free trial, compare monthly versus yearly pricing, and learn how to cancel anytime if you decide not to subscribe.

Unlock Canva's resize and magic switch to convert a single design into multiple sizes, translate text, and generate outlines or marketing content.

Learn how to remove backgrounds in Canva Pro, whether with a green screen or regular photos, and export images as PNGs with transparent backgrounds for flexible design.

Explore Canva Pro branding to set up your brand kit with logos, colors, fonts, and voice, then create templates with custom sizes for consistent YouTube thumbnails.

Explore Canva Pro's Magic Studio tools, including AI-generated images, background removal, background generation, magic eraser, magic edit, text extraction, and element removal, to decide if upgrading suits your design needs.

Edit images in Canva with filters and color adjustments to customize foregrounds and backgrounds. Adjust brightness, temperature, tint, contrast, and texture to achieve the desired look.

Learn to use Canva's auto adjust to quickly enhance your image by selecting the area, choosing intensity, and adjusting brightness and contrast, with step-by-step checks to compare results.

Explore Canva filters and effects to craft a new look, adjust intensity, and apply options like autofocus, blur, skin smoothing, color effects, and shadows.

Explore Canva's eight absolute no-go's for image editing, including overusing filters, stretching images, and cluttered text. Ensure high-resolution visuals, balanced alignment, harmonious colors, concise messaging, and mobile-friendly layouts.

Use Canva video templates to edit videos, from scratch or with pro templates, and manage timelines, pages, durations, overlays, and transitions.

Learn to edit the video track in Canva by applying effects, animations, background changes, and elements, while adjusting timing, speed, and page content to craft a polished video.

Add smooth transitions between video clips in Canva, with hover previews. Choose dissolve, slide, circle wipe, flow, or stack, and customize duration, direction, and branding colors.

Learn to insert text, images, and elements into video clips, edit text and graphics, add audio, animations, effects, and use Canva Pro features like background remover.

Learn to extract audio from a video in Canva, manage audio and video tracks, apply fade in/out, and add or edit voiceovers.

Adjust element timing in your Canva design by using show element timing, timelines, and split pages to reveal graphics and text for short intervals.

Discover Canva's Magic Studio AI tools, including Magic Right for text, background generator, and quiz features, and learn to craft course descriptions and branded content inside Canva.

Explore Canva's Dream Lab for text-to-image generation, using prompts to create, edit, and refine ai images with styles, aspect ratios, and editor tools.

Learn to remove elements from photos using Canva's Magic Eraser, leveraging brush and click detection to erase glasses or shadows while refining edits for clean images.

Learn to extract elements from images with Canva's magic grep in Magic Studio, then edit size, transparency, or duplicates, creating reusable assets for your designs.

Learn to use Canva's text extraction tool to grab text from images, choose specific versus all elements, and reuse or remove extracted text.

Discover Canva's background generator in Magic Studio to replace image backgrounds with ai. Describe the scene, mood, and lighting, generate results, and iterate to achieve seamless ai backgrounds.

Explore Canva's magic expand AI tool to enlarge images by adding new details and elements. Evaluate four generated results and decide when expansion fits the page, noting varying outcomes.

Explore the ai tools in Canva's Magic Studio, learn to use tools like image upscaler, DALL-E sketch to life, and coloring by Neon Artist, and create example designs.

select a black-and-white image, use Clarifai in Canva to generate a colored version, preview results, manage two daily credits, and if unsatisfied, try Dall-E or ChatGPT.

Create a unique avatar from your own image using the avatar five ai tool, adjusting effect strength to control creativity, and integrate the avatar into your Canva designs.

Create neon-style art with the Neon Artist AI tool, crafting prompts and selecting aspect ratios (square, portrait, landscape) to generate images, and compare this text-to-image approach with Dall-E.

Explore how to create diagrams and charts in Canva with the AI Diagram Maker. Craft detailed prompts (using ChatGPT) within two credits to generate varied diagrams and designs.

Join a discussion phase to share ideas for more Canva design videos and express your opinions on how AI tools can support future design work.

Use Canva to design cohesive CVs and cover letters by selecting templates and customizing personal details. Align branding across both documents and tailor templates to language and employer preferences.

Design appealing infographics in Canva by choosing templates or editing content to fit your message. Use targeted keywords like sales infographics and customize text, layout, and timelines for effective visuals.

Create interactive Canva presentations by using templates or starting from scratch, add pages, transitions, animations, and record and present with presenter view and Canva Live.

Learn to design professional book covers for ebooks and paperbacks using Canva, starting with the right canvas size and templates, then editing titles, subtitles, and author names.

Design personalized Instagram story highlight icons with Canva, using templates, color edits, and branding to quickly craft shareable icons in under 30 seconds.