How to Use Canva: Your Reliable Graphic Design Administrator

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How

to Use

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What

is

Canva? 2 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

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Canva is an online

graphic design

platform.

It offers free access

to a wide variety of

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design tools and

selections, as well

as

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as options for

paying customers.

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How

to Install

Canva?

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Open your web browser

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Look here in the

address bar

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Click inside the

bar

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Type in https://www.canva.com

and press Enter

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The home page appears

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You can Sign in using your

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Facebook account

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Or Google+ account

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Or Sign up for an account

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For this tutorial

we will

create

an account

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Enter your Email Address

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Choose your Password

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Click on Sign up button

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This window appears

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This Create a design

window

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lets you find

out what

kind of

design 23 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

are you going

to create.

This will set

up your 24 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

canvas or

workspace in

the right

pixel dimension 25 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

for whatever

you are

trying to

construct. 26 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

For example,

a Social

Media item

is set to a 27 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

pixel dimension of

800px x 800px

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For Slide Presentation,

it’s 1024px x 768px

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There is also for

Poster

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For Facebook Cover

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For Facebook Post

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For Blog Graphic

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And many other

items to choose here

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You can also

use the custom

dimension

for your design 35 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Just click on Use

custom dimensions

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Enter your required

width and height

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Then click on

Design button

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Let’s now

create our

own design.

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We will

generate an

Instagram

Post. 40 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Click on More button

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Under Social Media Posts

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Click on Instagram Post

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This page will appear

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Your workspace is

shown here

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The different tabs

are shown here

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You have the Layouts

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The Elements

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The Text

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The Background

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The Uploads tab for

getting your own image

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This search box is the

Canva Image Library

where you

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or

can find 1,000,000

images. Just type in

the word here,

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or

press Enter and the

images will come out

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There are

images you

can use for

free and 55 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Canva also

charge $1 USD

each for

some images. 56 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

That sounds

amazing!

Yihaaaa!! 57 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Let’s now

start our

Instagram

Post 58 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Choose your layout here

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or

Scroll down to see

more layouts

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To transfer

the image

into your

workspace, 61 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

just click the

image

of your

choice or 62 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

hold,

drag-and-drop

the image to

your workspace 63 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

or This is what will happen

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What will you

do if you

need to

modify the

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layout, text

or background

of your

image? 66 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

To edit the layout, click image

and toolbars will appear

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or You can Filter the image

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or Or click here to Crop

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or Or pick the Color here

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or Or if you want to delete

the layout, click here

For text, click the word and

modify using this toolbars

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or Click to change Font here

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or Click here to alter Font Size

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or Choose your color here

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or Click here to delete text

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or Click here to see more

text edit options

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For this

tutorial

I will use

my own image 78 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

or Click on Uploads tab

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There are two

ways you can

get your own

image. 80 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

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It’s either you

upload the

image from your

computer or

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drag it directly

from your

desktop to your

Canva account.

Click here to upload the

image from the computer

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This window will pop up

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Let’s select this image

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Click Open button

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The uploaded image will

come out here

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Drag the image to

the canvas

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Click and drag the corner

circles to adjust the size

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This is what the image

will look like

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Click here to select

a background

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To make this as a

backdrop, click here

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It will appear at the

back of the image

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Now let’s add some text,

click here

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Click on

Add subheading

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This will appear

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Write down your content

and drag it here

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Let’s modify the Font,

click here

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Select

Open Sans Extra Bold

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Choose your required

Font Size or enter here

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Click here to change

Text Spacing

1

2

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Let’s adjust Line Height,

move this either left or right

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Click here to change

text color

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To save your work,

click on File button

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Then click Save

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How to

Download

Your Design?

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Click on

Download button

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Select for the format

of your image here

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Let’s choose

Image: for Web (JPG)

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This window will pop up

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You have

options where

to download

your creation

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Either on Facebook

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Or Twitter

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Or Email

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Let’s email the design,

click here

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Enter Email Address

here

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Then click Send button

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You need to

open your

Email

account

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in order

to check the

sent image

there

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Yes! The image is in the

Email Account

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How to

Share

Your Design?

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Click on Share

button

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You can share your design

through Facebook

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Or using Twitter

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Or share to friends and

colleagues via Email

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Let’s send the image

to Twitter, click here

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This window will appear

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Click on Share it now

button

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This will pop up

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Enter Username

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Enter Password

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Click on Log in and Tweet

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Open your

Twitter account

to confirm

sent image

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Yeah! The image is in

Twitter

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Now it’s your

turn to use

Canva and

discover how

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you’ll be

transformed

into an

awesome

graphic artist!

The future depends on what we

do in the present.

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