CANVA FEATURES We Cannot Live Without Going Into 2025!✨

are you ready to take your canva design skills to the next level because if you are this video is for you I'm going to be teaching you some of our favorite canva features when it comes to designing and I think I'm going to blow your mind if you're new here my name is Lauren I'm a craft producer here at makers going to learn where we strive to bring you inspiration education and motivation no matter what type of crafting you do so if you love Cana as much as we do and you're ready to take your skills to the next level let's go ahead and get started starting out with the number one most used canva feature period here at makers going to learn is going to be shortcut keys y'all this has absolutely changed my design skill level and has leveled me up so much as a designer to make it so much faster and easier for me to design now I'm going to show you some of our favorites and but there are so many more that you can google and find them all through the canva website or if you are interested in learning more about canva we have a digital design for creatives course where we teach you everything you need to know about canva especially when it comes to crafting and designing so my very favorite one is going to be first we're going to start off with the page that we have on our canvas selected and you can tell that by the purple bounding box box my absolute favorite one is adding a text box so instead of having to go over here to the left hand side find that and add a text box which that isn't very hard to do anyway if you will literally hit the letter t on your keyboard a text box will appear and y'all this is for both Windows and Mac all you have to do is hit the letter T and your text box will appear I mean I can't it it can't get any easier than that the next one that is along those same lines there's three of them that work really well and that is if you want to add a circle it's the letter c boom circle gets added next one is a square now you would think it would be the letter s but it's actually the letter R because it comes in I guess for rectangle um but that one is also one of my favorites the letter R and then one that you wouldn't think I would use the most which this one is when I use more than the circle and the square and that's the letter L can you guess what comes in it's a line I love using this feature especially when designing when I'm adding page breaks or Design Elements I love popping a line in there really quick it's just super super easy now while we're here on the line this isn't necessarily a shortcut key but I did think about this I hate how the lines always snap to a point if you'll just click command for a Mac or control for a Windows go it doesn't snap and that's with all of your elements just FYI it's not like I said it's not necessarily a shortcut key but it's definitely one you need to know about and so things don't snap if you'll just hit command for Mac control for PC you can move it without it snapping to any other elements so you can see here it snaps to other elements and I can't really control it very well so I do like to manipulate that way as well the next shortcut key that I love is going to be select all with a Windows it's going to be control with a Mac it's going to be command but if you do command a or control a you can select everything on your page maybe you have your design ready and you want to group it so it all moves together if you do command G or Control G you can group everything together and then to undo it it is command shift G or control shift G for windows and that ungroup it now another thing we were talking about lines did you know that to underline the text on your page if you click command U or control you it will underline things on your page and then if that's something you don't want to do our next favorite shortcut key is the undo which is command or contrl Z and that undo that undoes exactly what you just did now like I said there are so many more shortcut keys one of them that I do use a lot and I will use I'll change the color so we can use this as an example and we will make this a little bit bigger and then we'll bring our text down here so this is pulling things forward and backwards so for once again Windows is control Mac is command but if if you want to go send stuff to the back it's command or control and then the right facing bracket is going to bring stuff forward and the left so to move stuff as in the position so what I want to do is I want to show you we'll bring in our positions here you can see you can align them do all of that but if we pull in our layers panel let's say we want the text for some reason you want it to go back a layer so it fits in between your circle and your Square you can do that by dragging and pulling here but if you don't want to go to position layers all of that if you hit command or control and then the right bracket it sends it to the front or the left bracket sends it back so left bracket to the back right bracket to the front but you do have to hold down command or control control so those are just a few of our favorite shortcut keys that we use all the time it is one of those that I promise if you start learning them and using them you are going to become such a faster designer also duplicate is Commander controll D that just duplicates your image or whatever you have selected so like I said those are just a few of our favorite shortcut keys that takes our designing to the next level our next favorite feature on canva is going to be the apps now you're going to find your apps if you're over here on your leftand toolbar and you scroll down if you come right here where it says apps we love using these apps to level up our design now there are lots of different apps to choose from so I'm just going to tell you a couple of our favorites when it comes to crafting and creating things so the first one we're going to talk about is the mockup app so we love using mockup images on the C on canva they do have some mockup images that you can use but this mockup app just gives you more and more options so they have video mockups they have apparel they have things that you may be creating to sell in your Etsy store so many different things that you can use mockups for you can also use it for sales Graphics or for marketing things we just absolutely love using these mock Mo up images and with this mockup app I feel like we now have more options as well now the other apps that we love to use especially for Designing some of our favorites are going to be first one is going to be top craft so we have top gradient and we have top craft so this just allows you you can choose a font now there are very specific fonts loaded into this app app that you can use so what you're going to do with this app is you're going to type in your text here you're going to choose your fonts they do have a limited selection of fonts but it's still a pretty big selection so you're going to choose whatever font you want and then you're going to choose your color if you want it outlined if you want unfilled or if you want to outline on it or just want normal and then from there you can manipulate your words to exact what you want and moving these points around so if you wanted like a wavy text you can do that you can make it a wavy text by moving everything down and maybe this side up and we'll move this side down and you can even change where the wave is it's really just dependent on exactly what you want but know that once you move you can't you can reset the shape but it's the element is then on your design so maybe you have that you can add it to your design you can see there it is but then you can come up here and manipulate it if you want to reset the shape do it again possibly add it another one you can update it and you can see you can manipulate it to exactly what you want but we do love using this app now the next one that we love using is font frame and what you can do is you can add a picture to words so what I like to do first before going to font frame is I like coming here to elements and finding a landscape image because I will say a landscape image is going to work so much better with this font frame than an image with someone's face in it so for example this one's beautiful love that now what we need to do is come down here to apps and we're going to top in font frame select that app now what we can do is with this selected we can click use selected image you can come down here and change the words you can leave hello world you can scale the image if you want just like the top portion of it or you can scale it down if you want it all you can move it around if you want the mountains in the background so many different things you can do with that you can even come over here to settings you can change your fonts now this one is selected with fonts that will work with this and those are going to be pretty thick fonts um script fonts just don't work as well they have a few script top fonts but with this one it just works better with a larger font and then you can also select if you want it aligned right aligned Center or aligned left and then you can change your outline thickness as well if you want a thick outline or you want no outline all you can choose that here so I do love that and you can also change your letter spacing so maybe we want our letters a little bit further apart you can do that or if you want them closer together you can do that as well and then you can also manipulate your line spacing as well so I do love that I absolutely love this app and it's one that I think you will love as well the next app is going to be the frame maker app I do love using this one you can add points to this you can start with a different shape and you can move these points around to make it fit exactly what you want I love all of this this is a really good way to make a frame exactly what you want if you don't want to go through the process of creating your own frame you can do so here um so I do love making our own own frames with the frame maker app now the last app that I'm going to talk about that we love although there are plenty of apps on the canva website that you can utilize and that's going to be the top gradient so if we come back over here to apps and we go to top gradient you can see here that I can create a gradients on text that I want same thing put your text in here you can choose your font like I said these are going to be pre-loaded fonts but they have some really good ones in here so they even have some thinner ones if you wanted to you can check your line spacing and then you can also add points so if you want to add more points to your gradients you can do that you can remove points if you want to and then coming up here we can also move which direction our gradients goes if if you want it horizontal you can do it that way or if you want it diagonal you can make it diagonal as well or you can do vertical I truly truly love that and now we can add to design and here it is what will you design today the next thing that I absolutely love is the magic color palette trick and there's a couple different ways that you can do this so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to add this to our design right now it already has a template style here but if you have created a brand kit you can come over here to your brand kit and you can shuffle through the styles on the brand kit that matches your brand and I love that now if you don't have a brand kit yet and you are having trouble picking out your colors one other thing that I highly highly suggest you doing is coming over here to the canva color palette generator so if you'll just go to canva.com SLC colors with an S you can see that they have different things that you can play around with so they give you color palette ideas inspiration they give you the color whe where you can learn about color theory with a very interactive tool that I love they also give you color meaning in so they give you a list of colors and learn about the meanings if you want to really do a deep dive before you choose your brand colors you can do that but my favorite is coming over here to the color palette generator if you find an image and you love the colors in that image so let's just do I just want to type in appalachin Mountains mountain range and we'll go to images like this color palette I'm feeling it I love it so so here what I can do is I can take a quick screenshot of this and I'm going to leave that icon out of the bottom but make sure I get the Rota dendrons in there now I can come back over here to the image upload this I'm dragging and dropping and it's giving me a color palette but then so that color palette it didn't pick up the bright red dendron color I think it picked up the gray clouds more so so I'm going to come back over here and pick up these colors so I am going to just take a quick screenshot not using this as anything else so I'm not really stealing I just really like the colors in this image and back over here to the color palette generator I'm going to drop it here so this is pulling up the Sun and all of this so you can see you can create your own color palette based on an image that you found or you can come down here and explore the color palettes that canva has to offer so what you can now do is if you find one that you like or you generate one that you like you can copy that and then we can come back over here and if you wanted to you could paste it into your you can make a brand kit or you can paste it into the color that you want so so many different things but like I said if you don't have a color palette that you have created for your brand or maybe you just find an element so let's say we add a page let me turn this back to White so I can show you exactly what I mean so we're just going to turn that back to W we're going to come over here to elements let's go to all let's go to Graphics let's just go to these see all Graphics magic recommendation Graphics maybe you're creating something so once you have your color palette kind of figured out you know where you're going maybe you're making a graphic to post on social media possibly and you are adding elements to make it pop and make it look good for your audience so let's just look and see what we got you know this one's pretty cool but once again it's like not matching the colors let me show you in just a second let's add a couple more just so I can show you multiple times how you can do this so so here is another one that honestly y'all this is pretty busy I wouldn't do all of this if it were me but this is just to show you how you can switch some things around to make it fit so if I wanted to duplicate that I'll bring it here we're going to flip it this way and this way bring it here like I said this is a lot but if I wanted to make all of these match this specific style what you can do is come up up here to the top right hand corner where this little paint roller is it says copy style so now I can copy that style and paste it onto these other elements so once again copying the style pasting it here copying the style pasting it onto that element and now everything looks a lot more cohesive than it did before and finally the last thing that I absolutely adore using in canva is going to be for example these three little dots do not Overlook these three little dots on anything that you see take advantage of everything in here especially these elements so if you see an element that you like if you'll hit the three little dots you can see who has created this you can also star this element you can add it to a folder so if you want to you can create a folder over here so let's say we want to add it to folder you can see that we have recent folders here you can create a new folder and we can name it Lauren fave elements so now what I can do is I can move that to a folder and then on top of that if there is more in this if this artist has created more that looks like this element it will show up down here so you can add it to folder you can see more like this and then sometimes they even have collections so let's find one that has a collection that everything fits together here's one it says view collection so if you see one that you love you can click view collection and now you can see all of the things in that collection which I am obsessed with so no matter what your searching whether it be animal so let's do let's just do puppy and you have your graphics we can come here that one doesn't have a collection but maybe this one does nope so this is one that does have a collection and now I can see all of the little puppies that is in this style that this artist has created and now I can choose the ones that I like and I can add them to my folder y'all this has been a lot of information and there's so much more in canva that we would love to teach you so if you are ready to learn more and do a deep dive into canva especially learning about canva and creating designs for crafting whether it be for your Cricut or for your Etsy Shop whatever it is make sure you click that link first link down below to check out digital design for creatives because I promise you're not going to want to miss out if there there is a feature in C that you absolutely love working with that we haven't touched on in this video because y'all there are so many make sure you drop it in the comments down below we love to interact with you guys and see what your favorite features are and maybe it might even be featured in one of our next videos if you've enjoyed this video make sure you hit that Thumbs Up Button subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can be notified every time we get crafty if you thought you learned a lot about canva in this video check out this one here to learn even more