HOW TO USE

THE QUICKEST WAY TO

CREATE BEAUTIFUL

DESIGN.

Type “canva” tosearch then enter.

Click http://www.canva.com

This is Canva homepage

First, signup in threeup in threedifferent

ways.

Sign upusing yourFacebookaccount.

Sign upusing your

Gmailaccount.

Or sign upwith your

EmailEmailaccount.

To sign up viaTo sign up viaEmail account,just fill in theinformation.

Type yourEmail here.

Retype yourEmail here.

Give aPassword

here.Password

here.

Click“Sign up”.“Sign up”.

If you sign up with yourEmail account, next time

use this are to log-in

Now this your Canva dashboard

Let’s say wewant tocreate acreate a

simple design

Click “Create a design” and seetemplates available.

The “Popular design types”templates.

Templates for “Social MediaPosts”.

Templates for “Documents” use.

Templates for” Blogging andeBooks”.

Templates for “MarketingMaterials”.

This is for “Social Media & EmailHeaders”.

Templates for “Events”.

Templates for different “Ads”.

Click “Use customdimensions” for other sizes.

Now let’sselect aselect a

template.

Let’s choose Facebook Cover.

A new tab will be open, this isyour dashboard.

We have Menus on top for file.

Left menus are for differentcategories needed on your design.

This area displays available datayou can use for your design.

For example, choosing LAYOUTSdisplays shows different options.

For ELEMENTS, we have ninemore sub menus to choose from

Choosingeach willdisplaydisplay

hundredsof options

Free Photosfor free

photos youphotos youcan use in

your design.

Gridsdividedivideyour

canvas.

Frames arefor images

you want toyou want tobe placed in

frames.

Shapesdisplays

shapes youcan resize andcan resize and

change itscolor if you

like.

Lines isanother itemanother itemyou can add

to yourdesign.

Illustrationsare images

you can alsoyou can alsoadd as

needed inyour design.

We also haveIcons, as the

word denotesword denotesare available

icons that youmight need inyour design.

Charts arealso madealso madeready for

designs thatrequire them.

Lastly, I Canvais for canvaready madeready made

logos for you touse when you

want.

TEXT comes with different typeand templates.

BACKGROUND for background color.

UPLOADS displays our stored images

Now let’sdesign a cover

page for apage for aFacebook

Creating adesign can

begin in twoways.

First, let’s tryusing layoutsavailable foravailable forthe template

we chose.

Select a layout template hereand modify some items to make

it personal.

Let’s select one item to seewhat we can do with that.

For the image we selected,we have these menus.

Filter menus for predefined colormode.

Click “ADVANCEOPTIONS” to

makeOPTIONS” to

makemanual

adjustments bymoving the dot

on each category.

Pre-set variations are alsoailable.

Click “EPIC” and see the difference.

See how your design changeas you Change the pre-set.

BEFORE

AFTER

Click “Crop” and see theoriginal image and to make

adjustments.

Drag the image downward orupward to make changes.

Click “check” mark to confirmchanges, otherwise “x” to

cancel action.

Click here to changebackground color.

Click here to choose othercolours.

Take note that you can always“Undo” and “Redo” actions here.

Click here to deletethe image.

Click here to flip your image;• Flip Horizontally

• Flip Vertically

Copy command copyselected items.

Copycommand wasused to makeused to make

multiplesmiley on this

example.

Adjust images Forward orBackward to make it visible or

according to your design.

On thisexample,

itemselected is

itemselected is

the redrectangle.

Click “Back”and the redrectangle isrectangle isnow under

thebackground

image.

Click“Forward”and the redrectangle is

nownowcovering thetext and thebackground

.

Click here to see 2 moreoptions.

Link is use only when you wantto remember a link.

Transparency adjust visibilityof the chosen item.

Selecting text on the otherhand, have different set of

menus.

Click hereClick hereto changefont style.

Click hereClick hereto modifythe text

size.

Click here to change thetext colour.

Click hereto havemore

to havemorecolour

options.

Full down menus will giveyou more options for text.

This part is for textappearance and alignment.

This part is for Text Spacingand for different thing you

can do with your text.

Applying text options cangive you something like

this.

Also, click this icon to seepreview of your design in

full screen.

Manage your viewing formore precise designing

using these menus.

Another wayto design isthe designthe design

from scratch.

From this blank template,this time let’s add elements

and text manually.

We can add image from FreePhotos to our background.

Move and resize the imageto come up like this.

Let’s add shape, changeit’s colour and adjust

transparency.

Pick some trees fromIllustrations, move and resize as

such.

We add line design andstretch it outward.

Choose a text template andchange its color.

Now this is our finishedFacebook cover design.

When your done renameyour file here.

Retype the name here.Then click Done.

You can also share yourdesign in three ways;

Share your design onFacebook.

Share your design onTwitter.

Or share your design onEmail just add your email

and click send.

Click here if you wish to shareeditable design as needed.

You can also download yourdesign in four ways by clicking

here.

You can download file inJPG format.

You can download file inPNG format.

Download file in PDFstandard format.

Download file in PDF forprint format.

For design with multiplepages inside, click Options.

Here, you can choose todownload All pages.

Here, you can choose todownload Specific page or

pages.

You can publish yourdesign with crop marks &

bleed etc.

Click here to proceed withdownloading.

Under file menu,

You can resize yourdesign here.

Save your file

Or Make a copy

Now yourready toready to

create yourown.

By the way,I made this

presentationpresentationslides using

Canva

I also useCanva all of

my social mediamy social mediapostings &

other graphicsdesign.

On your dashboard, selectAll your designs.

See your previousdesigns here.

Collaborate with otherdesigner and see other

designs here.

Make new folders toorganize your data.

You can also see designsyou deleted before here.

Hope youdid enjoyand learnand learnfrom thistutorial.

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