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2020-12-23 01:42:05
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

This course includes:

  • 4 hours on-demand video
  • 1 downloadable resource
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
Design Graphic Design & Illustration Social Media Management

Social Media Graphic Design for Beginners

Using completely free online tools like Canva, you'll learn to design incredible graphics for social media marketing.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (432 ratings)
2,306 students
Created by Maggie Stara
Last updated 12/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Create eye-catching designs for Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram (and other platforms) that help you get noticed online
  • Save time and money by designing your own (mobile-friendly) graphics using completely free online tools
  • Learn advanced skills like creating moving GIFs, designing vector graphics and creating eBooks
  • Master Canva and other free design tools

Requirements

  • Access to both a computer and smartphone would be beneficial!
  • And a great attitude!

Description

The truth is, most of the incredible, eye-catching graphics you see online aren't created with expensive software by professional designers.

They're created by people just like you and me, using free tools that are simple and ridiculously fun to learn.

Now it's your turn. 


Whether you're a beginner looking for some guidance on basic graphic creation, or an expert looking to pick up some new tricks - this course is for you! 


What can you expect? 

This course is packed full of exciting, valuable lessons that teach you exactly how to create beautiful graphics that will help turn your online presence into something truly remarkable. It's taught using follow-along screenshare videos so you can create your projects at your own pace as you watch! Plus, I'll provide you with my custom, downloadable, mobile-friendly templates (to 2020 specifications) to ensure that each graphic you create is going to look fabulous on mobile too. 


Why is this course special?

Using a popular tool like Canva, it would be easy to simply teach you how each of the tools work so you can take one of their pre-loaded templates and customise it to suit your own needs. But if you want to truly enhance your social media, your business or your website's online presence - you'll need to learn a few tricks that other courses don't cover.

Inside this course, we'll master the basics together, and you'll become confident using Canva and other free online tools. That means no more relying on expensive graphic designers or costly and confusing design software! 

As a freelancer, business-owner and best selling course creator, I know exactly what it takes to create a lasting impact online. 


By the end of this course, you'll be able to make your own:

  • Canva graphics to use anywhere online and offline for print

  • Instagram inspirational quote graphics, multi-post images and moving GIFs for Insta Stories

  • Facebook graphics, cover photos and Facebook ad graphics

  • Pinterest pins and board covers

  • YouTube channel art, video thumbnails and image cut-outs

  • Business eBooks, mockups and compressed images to ensure your website stays super fast!


I've cut out all the fluff and filler from this course... in less than 4 hours, you'll be able to create everything you see above! 

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvellous." - Bill Moyers

Are you ready to create something remarkable today?

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn how to design amazing graphics for their social media platforms, their website or their business
  • Business owners who want to learn how to design their own logos, business cards and eBooks
  • Freelancers who want to take their design skills up a notch without needing to learn expensive software
  • Anyone who wants to learn some awesome Canva design hacks!

Featured review

Opal McKnight-Kleinsasser
Opal McKnight-Kleinsasser
13 courses
5 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 56 months ago
I learnt so much from this course as a beginner such as creating a drop shadow. Many of the things that I wondered how they were done were shown. Most importantly, there are tools given with which I can practice.

Course content

5 sections • 28 lectures • 3h 49m total length

  • Preview01:50
  • Preview04:12
  • Hex Codes and Colour Palettes
    04:30
  • Understanding Licenses
    04:17
  • How to Find Free Images and Videos
    09:07
  • Terminology and Design Dos and Don'ts
    11:03

  • Instagram and Facebook Overview
    00:50
  • Get to Know Canva
    05:02
  • Create an Instagram Story
    16:19
  • Optimise Your Instagram Story
    09:01
  • Design an Inspirational Quote Graphic
    11:26
  • Preview13:10
  • Create an Epic Facebook Page Cover
    13:18
  • Design an Impactful Facebook Ad
    12:17
  • Preview07:38

  • Pinterest and YouTube Overview
    00:52
  • Create Pin Templates
    11:54
  • Customise Your Pin Templates and Tall Pins
    09:00
  • Create Pinterest Board Covers
    07:14
  • Create an Image Cut-Out
    08:00
  • Create YouTube Channel Art
    12:14
  • Create a YouTube Video Thumbnail
    10:22
  • Preview19:50

  • Additional Business and Web Materials Overview
    00:38
  • Design a Stunning eBook
    11:51
  • Learn to Resize Your PDFs and Images
    07:46
  • Preview05:28

  • A Final Thank You!
    00:46

Instructor

Maggie Stara
Digital Marketing Strategist
Maggie Stara
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,259 Reviews
  • 9,579 Students
  • 3 Courses

Hey you, I’m Maggie.

A Canadian freelancer, creative digital marketing blogger and your marketing and design teacher.

Just like you, I started out interested in working online but struggling with the lack of quality information out there for beginners. So after learning the ropes the hard way and becoming a successful freelancer, I set out to help make things easier for creative overachievers like myself.

So, I went ahead and created everything with you in mind.

My courses aren't made by someone with decades of experience who has forgotten what it was like to be a newbie and learned digital marketing and design in the era of Myspace and Microsoft Paint. They're made by someone who knows exactly what it's like to be trying to master 20 tools at once and stay on top of constant updates with each of them.

As a location independent freelancer, I have travelled all over while working from my laptop. My online skills have led to working with an exciting range of talented people, from sole traders to multi-million dollar businesses. Some of my freelance clients have been featured in The Huffington Post, ProBlogger, The Sydney Morning Herald and Cosmopolitan, just to name a few. 

My teaching style is conversational, incredibly hands-on, and focused on accommodating different learning styles.

And finally, my ultimate goal is for you to feel empowered and excited about your future having learned the skills within my course(s)!

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