Create Stunning Designs with Canva
Graphic Design ToolCreated by: Roselaine Kudarat
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To start, let me give you a brief information about
Canva.
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What is CANVA?
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Canva is a free graphic design tool website.
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A great alternative to Photoshop
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The company was founded January 1, 2012
in Australia.
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The website rapidly became popular, with more than
750,000 users in its first year.
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Canva has an easy to use drag and drop
interface.
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And provides access to over a million photographs,
graphics, and fonts.
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It is used by non-designers as well as
professionals.
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The tools can be used for both web and print media
design and graphics.
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Do you want to create awesome designs from scratch in as little as a few minutes?
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Here are features of Canva.
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Photo straightener
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Image Cropper
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Add text to photos
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Speech bubble maker
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Transparency tool
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Photo enhancer
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Photo Blur
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Photo vignette
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Design grids
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Free icons
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Photo Frames
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Web wireframe
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Stickers
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Badges
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Photo editor
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Add texture
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Let’s create a FREE Canva account
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Login to Canvahttps://www.canva.com/
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Enter your desired username.
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Enter your desired password.
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Click the Sign up button.
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Congratulations! You now have created
your own Canva account.
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You will be prompted with the beginners challenge
once logged in.
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Scroll down to view the challenge.
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Click on the circle to choose the color that
you want.
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Click on the search icon.
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Type the word “hat” in the search box.
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Add a background to this page.
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If you need clue you can click on the hint icon.
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Now watch the video.
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To add a background, click the background
icon.
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Choose yourdesired background.
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Choose your favorite food and drag into the
frame.
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For me, I choose fried chicken.
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On the search box, I typed in the my favorite
food “fried chicken”.
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Drag the selected picture to the frame.
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Canva also let’s you choose a layout for your
designs.
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You can click on the layout option.
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Drag the chosen layout to the page.
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Congratulations!!! You have completed Beginners Challenge
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Let’s create a sample design.
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In this example, you will create a Goal Board for
yourself.
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First, let’s choose a dimension to use.
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Dimension is the size of the page that you will
create.
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If you know the dimension, you may chose “Use custom dimensions”.
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A prompt will let you choose your desired
dimension.
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But to make your life easy.
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There are prebuilt pages for you.
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Click on +More… to view more designs.
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You may choose from different kind of designs.
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Social Media Posts
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Documents
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Blogging and eBooks
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Marketing Materials
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Social Media and Email Headers
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Click on the desired design.
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In this example, I will use the Magazine page.
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Another window will open.
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Let’s choose a layout.
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Scroll down to view other layout.
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Click on the selected layout.
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The page will be filled with the selected layout.
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Click on the text portion to change the entries.
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High light the texts. Press CTRL+A.
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Type in some texts.Or paste the texts using
CTRL+V.
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Change the font size to fit it on the page.
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Drag the text frame to fit texts on the page.
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On the side bar, click the text icon to add new
texts.
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You may also add new pictures by uploading.
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Click the upload icon to upload a new picture.
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Drag the picture to change background of
your page.
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You may now share the image.
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Click the share button.
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Or download a copy of your design.
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Choose from the options after clicking the download button.
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Wait for the download to finish.
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Save the downloaded file.
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Enjoy creating your amazing designs using
Canva!
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share
ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk to customers and get their feedback and understand their
needs.
-Bill Gates
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