How to Use Canva: Your Reliable Graphic Design Administrator

How

to Use

1 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

What

is

Canva? 2 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva


Canva is an online

graphic design

platform.

It offers free access

to a wide variety of


design tools and

selections, as well

as


as options for

paying customers.


How

to Install

Canva?


Open your web browser


Look here in the

address bar


Click inside the

bar


Type in https://www.canva.com

and press Enter


The home page appears


You can Sign in using your


Facebook account


Or Google+ account


Or Sign up for an account


For this tutorial

we will

create

an account


Enter your Email Address


Choose your Password


Click on Sign up button


This window appears


This Create a design

window


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


For Slide Presentation,

it’s 1024px x 768px


There is also for

Poster


For Facebook Cover


For Facebook Post


For Blog Graphic


And many other

items to choose here


You can also

use the custom

dimension

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

Just click on Use

custom dimensions


Enter your required

width and height


Then click on

Design button


Let’s now

create our

own design.


We will

generate an

Instagram

Post. 40 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

Click on More button


Under Social Media Posts


Click on Instagram Post


This page will appear


Your workspace is

shown here


The different tabs

are shown here


You have the Layouts


The Elements


The Text


The Background


The Uploads tab for

getting your own image


This search box is the

Canva Image Library

where you


or

can find 1,000,000

images. Just type in

the word here,


or

press Enter and the

images will come out


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


or

Scroll down to see

more layouts


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


What will you

do if you

need to

modify the

. 65 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

layout, text

or background

of your

image? 66 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva

To edit the layout, click image

and toolbars will appear


or You can Filter the image


or Or click here to Crop


or Or pick the Color here



or Or if you want to delete

the layout, click here

For text, click the word and

modify using this toolbars


or Click to change Font here


or Click here to alter Font Size


or Choose your color here


or Click here to delete text


or Click here to see more

text edit options


For this

tutorial

I will use

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

or Click on Uploads tab


There are two

ways you can

get your own

image. 80 © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva


It’s either you

upload the

image from your

computer or


drag it directly

from your

desktop to your

Canva account.

Click here to upload the

image from the computer


This window will pop up


Let’s select this image


Click Open button


The uploaded image will

come out here



Drag the image to

the canvas


Click and drag the corner

circles to adjust the size


This is what the image

will look like


Click here to select

a background


To make this as a

backdrop, click here


It will appear at the

back of the image


Now let’s add some text,

click here


Click on

Add subheading


This will appear


Write down your content

and drag it here


Let’s modify the Font,

click here


Select

Open Sans Extra Bold


Choose your required

Font Size or enter here


Click here to change

Text Spacing

1

2


Let’s adjust Line Height,

move this either left or right


Click here to change

text color


To save your work,

click on File button


Then click Save


How to

Download

Your Design?


Click on

Download button


Select for the format

of your image here


Let’s choose

Image: for Web (JPG)


This window will pop up


You have

options where

to download

your creation


Either on Facebook


Or Twitter


Or Email


Let’s email the design,

click here


Enter Email Address

here


Then click Send button


You need to

open your

Email

account


in order

to check the

sent image

there


Yes! The image is in the

Email Account


How to

Share

Your Design?


Click on Share

button


You can share your design

through Facebook


Or using Twitter


Or share to friends and

colleagues via Email


Let’s send the image

to Twitter, click here


This window will appear


Click on Share it now

button


This will pop up


Enter Username


Enter Password


Click on Log in and Tweet


Open your

Twitter account

to confirm

sent image


Yeah! The image is in

Twitter


Now it’s your

turn to use

Canva and

discover how


you’ll be

transformed

into an

awesome

graphic artist!

The future depends on what we

do in the present.

- Mahatma Gandhi © Flor Angeles – How to Use Canva 137


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