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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.



What is CANVA?



Canva is a free graphic design tool website.



A great alternative to Photoshop



The company was founded January 1, 2012 in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canva



The website rapidly became popular, with more than

750,000 users in its first year.



Canva has an easy to use drag and drop

interface.



And provides access to over a million photographs,

graphics, and fonts.



It is used by non-designers as well as

professionals.



The tools can be used for both web and print media

design and graphics.



Do you want to create awesome designs from scratch

in as little as a few minutes?



Here are features of Canva.



Photo straightener



Image Cropper



Add text to photos



Speech bubble maker



Transparency tool



Photo enhancer



Photo Blur



Photo vignette



Design grids



Free icons



Photo Frames



Web wireframe



Stickers



Badges



Photo editor



Add texture



Let’s create a FREE Canva account



Login to Canvahttps://www.canva.com/



Enter your desired username.



Enter your desired password.



Click the Sign up button.



Congratulations! You now have created

your own Canva account.



You will be prompted with the beginners challenge

once logged in.



Scroll down to view the challenge.



Click on the circle to choose the color that

you want.



Click on the search icon.



Type the word “hat” in the search box.



Add a background to this page.



If you need clue you can

click on the hint icon.



Now watch the video.



To add a background, click the background

icon.



Choose yourdesired background.



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Choose your favorite food and drag into the

frame.



For me, I choose fried chicken.



On the search box, I typed in the my favorite

food “fried chicken”.



Drag the selected picture to the frame.



Canva also let’s you choose a layout for your

designs.



You can click on the layout option.



Drag the chosen layout to the page.



Congratulations!!! You have completed Beginners Challenge



Let’s create a sample design.



In this example, you will create a Goal Board for

yourself.



First, let’s choose a dimension to use.



Dimension is the size of the page that you will

create.



If you know the dimension, you may chose “Use custom dimensions”.



A prompt will let you choose your desired

dimension.



But to make your life easy.



There are prebuilt pages for you.



Click on +More… to view more designs.



You may choose from different kind of

designs.



Social Media Posts



Documents



Blogging and eBooks



Marketing Materials



Social Media and Email Headers



Ads



Click on the desired design.



In this example, I will use the Magazine page.



Another window will open.



Let’s choose a layout.



Scroll down to view other layout.



Click on the selected layout.



The page will be filled with the selected

layout.



Click on the text portion to change the entries.



High light the texts. Press CTRL+A.



Type in some texts.Or paste the texts using

CTRL+V.



Change the font size to fit it on the page.



Drag the text frame to fit texts on the page.



On the side bar, click the text icon to add

new texts.



You may also add new pictures by uploading.



Click the upload icon to upload a new picture.



Drag the picture to change background of

your page.



You may now share the image.



Click the share button.



Or download a copy of your design.



Choose from the options after clicking the download button.



Wait for the download to finish.



Save the downloaded file.



Enjoy creating your amazing designs using

Canva!



Thank you for reading this tutorial.



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Please feel free to leave a comment or suggestion.



I would LOVE to hear from you!



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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