Bet Ya Didn’t Know You Could Do This In CANVA!

let's talk about the design software that everyone is going crazy over and that is canva now we get tons of questions around here at Maker's going to learn on how do you use Cana what's it good for I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret there are so many things that I bet you didn't know you could do in canva let's get right into it so canva is a free design software if you didn't already know that but it has a pro access subscription so you can use it for free and there are lots of great things in canva that are great with the free version but if you are a business owner or if you are in social media honestly if you work with your Cricut a lot I would suggest getting the canva pro account it's really good because it has lots more options and I'll say that if you are a teacher or a student they do offer discounts which is amazing so you may not have already known that and that's going to be my first little tidbit so as as you can see up here on this plans and pricing dropdown menu you can see that they offer the free tool for classrooms districts as well as students and for nonprofits this is amazing because I know a lot of people that are into crafts are usually teachers and if you're a student and you're just into crafting and you want to learn more about canva you're going to be able to get access to it for free so it's pretty helpful you can click on these and it will want to verify you if you're a teacher if you're trying to get it for your entire School obviously you can reach out to canva and do it that way and then there's some resources over here for the students so that is very helpful if you're wanting to get access to canva but you don't necessarily want to use your own money or if you don't have the funds for it right now and you fit into one of these categories you're going to be able to use it to its fullest potential so I've got over 10 more tips for you all make sure to stay tuned and watch this video all the way through so you can learn all the things that you did not already know about canva now the next thing I want to talk about is creating your own custom siiz designs so I've got this little icon right here when we SE select the create a design option you can make your own size documents now obviously there are some suggested sizes these are very helpful if you're trying to make something you don't know the size that you need but if you do know how big you want your image to be and it's specific document size you can just select that we're going to change this to inches if you type in your size and then change this it will mess things up so if I were to type in 10 by 10 and it was still set on pixels and then I change it to inches it automatically adjusts it to whatever that would be in inches from pixels does that Mak sense so you want to change it to inches first and then type in your size so so we're just going to do a 10x10 document and we're going to hit create new design now I'm going to do lots of beginner friendly tips in this video but I also want to show some more detailed in-depth tips but one of the basic things that a lot of people don't know is that you can actually upload your own images and your own fonts to canva so if we wanted to upload our own image we can go over here to uploads and then upload files you can use any of the makers going to learn images and pull them into canva this way and I'm going to show you exactly how so we've got a couple here that we could use you can click and drag them right into here and it'll just pop onto your page or you can just hit upload and then go to your downloads and open the file and it'll just pop over here now if you want to add your own text let me show you how to do this so we're going to go ahead and add a text box you can just just type in whatever word that you want with that word selected we're going to go to the font drop-down menu now you can see there's tons of fonts in here that canva already has but if I want to use one of our makers going to learn fonts because those are my favorites I'm going to upload a font right down here on the bottom of that dropdown menu and then you can see it pulls up our recent downloads so you just have to find the font that you are wanting to use you can search for the name if you don't find it directly in your downloads and then you're just going to click on thatf file type and we're going to open then it's going to say please confirm the following by uploading my own custom font I acknowledge I own that font or have the right to use it for my intended purposes and then we're going to select yes upload anyways and it's going to pop right into Cana fun fact if you become a maker going to learn member you automat automatically get commercial access use all of our fonts as well as our images meaning if you wanted to take our images take our fonts and create door signs or cards or anything like that and sell them you have creative freedom to use those and then sell them for money for yourself so that's pretty cool a lot of people don't know that about us and a lot of times whenever you're purchasing fonts and files from other places you have to purchase individual commercial license for every single image and font and it can get really really expensive but you get access to that commercial license through the membership with the cost of our monthly or yearly subscription fee so it's all included makes it super easy for you all to become craft Sellers and then you can see over here our font is in canva how easy is that you all I will say that uploading fonts is a canva pro feature feure and that's why I recommend getting canva Pro if you're going to plan on using it a lot it's so helpful even just for everyday life if you like to design your own invitations or your Christmas cards or flyers or anything like that there's just so many things that you can do in canva that really really allow you to get creative while you have to be a pro member to upload fonts you do have the ability to upload images as a standard canva user next I want to show you all how to take a skinny delicate and beautiful font and make it a little bit thicker so that it shows up better for your designs so what you're going to do is select your text box we're going to go to effects up here on the top and then you can see all these effects pop up now if you didn't know these existed these are awesome for so many different reasons but right now I want to talk about this outline function because this is what allows us to thicken our fonts now you can see when I select it it adds this gray almost like an offset if you're familiar with Cricut design space it's very similar to that but I'm just wanting to make this a little bit thicker I want my font just to stand out more so what I'm going to do I can even manually top in the amount of thickness I want I feel like the nine was about where I want it and then I'm going to change it to the same exact color can you all see the difference whenever I click that over how much Bolder it makes it it does kind of make the inside of the E disappear so I'm going to go down just a little bit but this allows us to make Bolder fonts with any font that we want so you can add this effect to pretty much any skinny font that you are using I want to click through these fonts just to show you some cool different effects that you can add to your text the outline is one of my favorites just for making it thicker there's so many different effects that you can add and then down here this is one that we love to use and it's the curve function so you can see if I select that I'm going to have the ability to curve it less or more or even curve it up if I want to this is just another effect we can add to our Arsenal another really neat text feature that I love is under our apps so let's click on apps and we're going to go to typ Ty craft so when you select that you're going to see this little icon we're just going to click it and then you can see here that this is going to allow us to warp our text in canvas so you can type out exactly what you want okay so if we wanted to Tope out the word lovely and then we wanted to select a font now the fonts are limited over here so you don't necessarily have access to all the fonts that you've got downloaded and things like that but they do have quite a good selction ction so let's just find one that we like let's say this is kind of groovy we could do that so you can see down here it's got all these little dots what you're going to be able to do is move these dots to warp your text how cool is that so you can make it like a big bubble you could do it like a wave and it takes a little bit of getting used to um but once you mastered this I feel like it would be such a cool feature to use especially if you wanted to make some type of groovy style design or something like that and if for some reason you don't like it you can reset it and then just adjust accordingly so let's just stretch this out here how we want it and then once you've got it how you want it you can add your element to your design and it just pops it right over here and you can use it for whatever you want now if you you wanted to do something with an outline you can select that outline option you can change the thickness of your border and even change the color of your border so let's just say we wanted to have an orange border and then you can go in here we can change the word to lovely again and then we can adjust accordingly so lots of fun things you can do with this feature and then you can just add it to your design now canva has a wide array of different Graphics so if you were ever looking over here in the canva graphics you can select see all and then you can see it has your recently used up here it's got featured you can even just search for things like flowers and then if you see one that's kind of the style that you're wanting say you wanted these watercolor Wild wild flowers if you want to see more of that you can hover over the image and then see these three dots we're going to select those and then it's going to give you all of these keywords so we can hit show all keywords it's got six different ones here and you can select watercolor if you wanted to see more of those watercolor images and it's going to pop up all of these watercolors and then if you just for some reason wanted watercolor florals you can just add in florals at the end of that and it's going to give you all these different options too so this is super helpful if you're trying to find a very specific type of image the search function just helps a ton especially using those keywords if you're on the Maker's going to learn website and you see a watercolor image over here that you want to use we have tons of different options you can always tap in watercolor up here in the search bar and it's going to give you all of these options how cute are these so we could just download one and I'm going to show you how how to pull an image in let's just use this floral watercolor right here it's going to pop into a zip folder we're going to click on that and then we can click and drag this into our canva template beautiful so we have this beautiful floral watercolor here that we can use for our design and I love the colors in this so let's say we wanted to pull the color scheme off of this image so let me show you what you can do let's add a text box so let's say that you are making a wedding shower for someone and you want all of the colors from the image to be cohesive throughout your design what you can do is select your image and then go to these three dots right here and we're going to hit apply colors to page now it's automatically going to give us this burgundy color if if you're not satisfied with that you can go back and you can hit it again and it's going to give you some more options so this is really helpful in choosing a color palette if you're not comfortable doing that you can just go in here and canva will do it for you I love this feature and you can always change it like if you love this background you're like I don't really think those words are popping off the page good you can come over here and change just the color of the text if you wanted to and then if you're still not happy you can select that image again and hit apply colors to page and it's just going to continue to give you new options not only does this work for SVG and PNG images but you can use actual photos of people and make a color palette based off of an actual photo so let's just say that you're using this for Branding for example you can use this actual image and go to apply colors to page and it's going to adjust the images that you've added to match the colors in the photo so that makes it really nice now this image right here is obviously a PNG image so it's not going to allow us to change the colors um but I can show you how to tell whether one of these images is an SVG versus a PNG but for now if you're wanting to customize the background or the text or an SVG image this function is going to allow you to do that and obviously you can just go in here and click and change until you were satisfied now I want to talk about how to tell the difference between an SVG image and a PNG image now I've got the watercolor flowers that we were using earlier if you look up here there is no place for me to change the colors if I have it selected now if I go down and select this howdy look right here I have all of these colors that is letting me know that this is an SVG image and meaning it has multiple layers a PNG image is a flattened image meaning all the layers have been vectorized down into one layer and SVG is going to have the separate layers and it's going to allow us to change the colors okay so this image we cannot edit we have very limited editing access I should say this one we can totally change any of the colors if we wanted them to match our brand we can totally just change all of these to Maker's going to learn colors easy peasy you just go in here and click them and just like that they are down to our branded colors so that's an easy way for you to tell if you're working with an SVG versus a PNG and you can see we'll use that tip that I just taught you all about applying the colors to the page if you wanted to change the colors of these SVG letters it's going to automatically change whenever we select that apply colors to page so any SVG images that you have on your canvas whenever you're using that function it's going to automatically adjust those to match whatever image you're selecting another thing to note about using pngs versus svgs is that with if I wanted to scale up this image as an SVG the quality is going to remain the same when you're working with a PNG the bigger I stretch this image the fuzzier it's going to get now you may not be able to notice it here but if I get this bigger and bigger and bigger whenever I go to print it it's going to be very fuzzy and our howdy is going to remain sharp so that's the really big difference between a PNG image versus an SVG image now while you can't adjust PNG images necessarily like the way that we did with this SVG down here there are a couple options so you can go to edit photo after you have your image selected obviously there are filters down here and then there's even this effects area you can go to the duo tone and this will give you kind of like a two-toned image look so if you're wanting to change it to black and white or if you wanted to add one of these cool effects you can do that but you're not going to have nearly as much accessibility as you would if it were an SVG you can go in here and change the color of the highlights and things like that as well as the Shadows but like I said you just don't have as much opportunity to customize your colors as you would with an SV G okay now let's say that you're wanting to put multiple SVG images on this canvas but you're wanting to make sure that they are evenly spaced what you can do is Select them all and then we're going to go to position and you can space evenly vertically as well as horizontally and you can also tidy them up so it will clean them up so they're evenly spaced now right here they're overlapping obviously um but it puts them right in a row rather than just aligning them to Center and things like that so you have all of these align functions that you can use which are super super helpful in making sure that all of your design is precise then if you move it just a little bit and you're kind of playing around with it you can select it resize it and go back to position and tidy it up again now if we wanted to save this three flower image as an SVG we have the ability to do that in canva which is super cool so what you're going to need to do is go to share and then we're going to go to download and then under file toop we're going to select SVG I'm going to give this a transparent background so we don't need this blue we're just wanting the three flowers I'm going to select transparent background we're going to hit download and that's going to go straight into our downloads folder so we're going to open up design space and I'm I'm just going to show you how you can pull this SVG into Cricut design space open up a new project we're going to go to upload upload image and then we can go to recents we can go to downloads and then there's our lovely 30 by3 SVG image it's going to pop in over here and we're going to select upload and add to Canvas and then you can use this this design to cut out on your Cricut or you could just print it out and use it for sublimation projects lots of options here all right how fun is it to work in canva I feel like there's so many things to learn I don't even feel like I've touched on everything these are just a few things that I've learned over the years that a lot of people don't know about and I thought that you all could use in your upcoming design so let let me know in the comments which one was your favorite and which one that you loved and are going to start using in your designs now thank you for watching this video make sure to subscribe below and hit the Bell so you're notified every time that we post if you liked what you saw today make sure to sign up for that 7-Day free trial that we are running for makers going to learn you all are going to get unlimited access to our website meaning you get 20 downloads to keep forever so make sure you get that while the deal is going on we would love to have you as a part of our community and we will see you in the next video bye guys