HOW TO USE CANVA TO CREATE

QUICK FACEBOOK PHOTOS

BY ALLAN T. AGUIRRE

Canva is a free graphic-design tool website

To start, open your browser

Canva works best using Google Chrome

Enter www.canva.com

Enter www.canva.com

This is Canva’s log-in page

To create account, let’s sign up

Sign up using your Facebook account

Or your Google account

Or sign up using your email account

For this tutorial, let’s use Facebook

Click Sign up with Facebook

Facebook log in window will appear

Enter your email address or phone number

Enter your password

Click Log In

Click Continue

This is Canva’s homepage

Let’s choose a design

Click More to view other designs

See other designs

Scroll down to see more designs

Click the design to select

Let’s try Facebook Post

You will be directed to a new tab

Select your layout

Scroll down to view more layouts

You can also search your layout

Type your key words here

Click the selected layout

Preview of your design on the right

Click Elements to add elements

Options for additional elements

Click Free Photos to add photos

You will see selection of free photos

Scroll down to view more photos

Drag the selected photo to your layout

Selected photo is now on your layout

You can change the color of the text

Click on the text

You can see options for text editing

You can change the font

You can change the font size

You can change the font color

Now let’s change the font color

Font color changes

You can make the font Bold…

..or Italic

You can arrange it in the center

You can also make the font all uppercase

Or in a list or bullet

Click spacing to edit spacing

Click Letter spacing to adjust letter spaces

Increasing the spacing moves the letters apart

Click Line height to adjust space between lines

Increasing the height increases the textbox space

Click Copy to duplicate the text

Click Arrange to change the text position

Click Forward to put it on top of the image

Click Back to put it at the back of the image

Click Transparency to adjust clearness of text

Drag it to the left to make it paler

Click the bin to delete the text

Click the text again to edit the smaller text

Click the box surrounding the text

Drag it down

Click the smaller text

Again you will see options for text editing

Re-position again the texts

Now, click on the photo to play around it

You will see options for editing

Click Filter to adjust the quality

You can choose what filter to use

Scroll to the right for more filter

Example of Grayscale

Example of Whimsical

You can also adjust Brightness and Contrast

Click Advanced Options for more options

Play around with these options

For example, adjust Blur to focus more on text

See the result

Click Crop to re-size the photo

Pull or drag the corners to adjust size

Click the Check (√) after re-sizing

Click the Cross (x) to cancel

Click Flip to flip the image

Click Flip Horizontally to flip sideways

Observe the difference in the image

Click Flip Vertically to flip vertically

See what happens

Click Spacing to adjust spacing of the image

You can change the spaces around the photo

Click Copy to produce exact picture

You now have two photos

You can use the copy to new page

Click Add a new page to add page

A new page is created

Drag the other photo to the next page

You now have a duplicate photo

Going back to your first photo

Click Forward to bring photo over text

Or click Back to bring photo under text

Click Transparency to adjust clearness of photo

Drag to the left to make the photo paler

Click the bin to delete the photo

You can also add your own photo to the layout

Click Uploads

You can upload picture from your computer

Or from purchased pictures

Or from your Facebook

Let’s try uploading from computer

Click Upload your own image

Click your photo

Click Open

Your photo is being uploaded

Photo has been uploaded and ready for use

Drag your photo to the layout

Until the image is changed

You can once again edit the text

Or edit the photo

Click Text to add text to your design

Select from the variations of fonts

Click or drag the text you prefer

Move and re-size the text to your desire

Click the text to edit content

Again, there’s the text editing options

Click outside of the design

Click design title to re-name your design

Put your new title

Click Done

To share your design with Facebook, click Share

Your options for sharing

Share your design via Facebook or Twitter

Click Facebook for sharing in FB

You can write caption for your design

Click Share now

Sharing in progress

Sharing is successful

You’re beautiful design in Facebook

Ready to be liked and shared!

“Art consists of limitations. The most

beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton