Canva For Everybody

Canva is primarily a web-based tool:

- which means that when you visit the site, you will be asked to sign up (if you don’t have an account yet) or log in, if you have an account already

- if you don’t have an account, click on sign up and you will be able to create an account via your Facebook, Google, Apple, email or other account.

Once you’ve set up your account, go ahead and log in.

Learn how to use Canva's user interface

Canva lets you create using predefined templates, which speed up the creative process.

Every template will come with some text so it's essential to know how to customize it.

Every template will come with some images so it's important to know how to customize it.

The easiest way to quickly create a design is to reuse an existing Canva template.

Let's start with creating an Instagram post from a predefined template.

Once your project is created, we need to learn how to save and share it.

Facebook is still one of the most popular social media platforms, so it's a good idea to know how to create visually engaging posts for it.

Here we will finish designing our Facebook post.

Whether you are a designer or you are a part of a team where you are responsible for your social media, creating an engaging Facebook page cover will definitely be one of your tasks.

Here we'll add the text and social media links to our design.

Newsletters are one pf the most popular forms of internal communications in various companies. Here, you will learn how to create visually engaging and readable neswletters

Let's start adding the first elements of the newsletter.

Our newsletter is going to have two pages and here we will finish the first one.

Here we will add the second page and finish the newsletter

In the following three videos, we will create a business card, but first, let's get ourselves familiar with the basics of business card design.

Let's start designing the first page of the business card

Let's add the second page of the business card and finish the design.

In the next few videos we will create a trifold brochure project for a travel agency offering a trip to Italy.

Let's start creating the front page of the brochure

This might seem a bit counterintuitive, but when designing trifold brochures, it's a good idea to design the last page right after you design the first one.

Let's add the inner content of the brochure.

Let's add the finishing touches to our brochure.

Let's start creating the Instagram carousel project and, along the way, learn how to create design systems in Canva.

An Instagram carousel is a series of posts on one theme. Here' let's start creating the first post.

Let's finish the Instagram carousel post

Now that you know how to use Canva to create various design projects, you still might be wondering: Ok, but how do I make sure that my design simply looks good?

That’s a legitimate question, especially if you don’t have that inborn artistic feeling inside you, I mean you cannot just let your eye judge what looks good what doesn’t.

But don’t worry if that’s the case: you can still learn some basics of graphic design that will help you in making your designs at least neat, if not simply visually beautiful.

So, let’s take a look at a few rules and guidelines that will help you in making all your design projects look great. And let’s start with the composition.

Learning about colors can be a real journey of its own. There’s so much to discover in terms of history, terminology, tools etc. that it can get a bit discouraging at some point.

Luckily you don’t have to spend countless hours trying to “learn” the colors in order to successfully use them in your own graphic design projects. Here’s a few tips and guidelines that will help you to always find the right color scheme.

The last part of good graphic design is typography. Just like with color, if you start digging into this subject, you will find yourself jumping through a rabbit hole over and over again.

So, I’ve decided to keep things simple and share with you only the things you must absolutely be aware of to always be right about your font choice.

Thank you for making it all the way to this stage of the course. I hope you enjoyed learning Canva by creating practical designs. Let’s quickly recap what we’ve covered here.

We will create the first Christmas card and we will add the pattern background. If you want to preview the original design, copy this Canva link and paste it in your browser https://www.canva.com/design/DAFUQCH49bU/F43DYH_G_mXKJDvOKTpd_w/view?utm_content=DAFUQCH49bU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Let's take a look at what we are going to be designing and add the right column.

If you want, you can preview the project inside Canva following this link: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFUKCko7CE/Id3p8U2guDRNXhU74OvKUw/view?utm_content=DAFUKCko7CE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Here we will add the portrait photo and the long shadow effect.

Now we can add the first lines of text and the links

Here we will add the main sections on the right.

Now we will add the second page and the finishing touchces

Let's star the design first by exploring its core elements.

If you want to rpeview the project, follow this Canva link https://www.canva.com/design/DAFUoWY7bhE/PvYssmc6CAnITuJlTUu5pQ/view?utm_content=DAFUoWY7bhE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Let's star with adding the background and the main foreground photo

Let's add the neon effects to our main text

Let's use a workaround to add the neon frame around the text

Let's add the remaining text and finish the project

Let's understand what we are going to design here. Ifyu want to preview the project, follow this link https://www.canva.com/design/DAFUuUmHL9Y/FGlT-x_HyHcwa8Xj36ljlw/watch?utm_content=DAFUuUmHL9Y&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Let's add the logo and the graphic elements first.

Here you will learn how to use animations in Canva

Now we are going to see how to add a video background and how to quickly edit it.

Now we need to add the overlay text

Now let's add the cut out illustration story

Let's sum up what we've learnt