Creating Your First Image in Canva

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Okay, so now I'm going to take you through, and we're just going to do a quick edit of a template. So that way you kind of see how easy it is inside of Canva. to basically point click, go and save. So what we're going to do is just kind of scroll through here. This is, again, another infinite scroll. Basically, where you once you hit the bottom, it'll load some more, at the bottom even more, and you're gonna see most of these have a little free on the bottom.

If they have $1 sign, that means it's basically $1. Now, the thing about this is, is really, you don't need to use this too often. Most the time, a lot of the backgrounds will naturally work for you. If they don't, then the best thing that you can do is just go to google.com. And of course, look up some backgrounds that you're looking for. For example, I love these.

I'm not sure what the flowers Name is, but again, we can just go ahead and type in pink flowers background that's going to give us a larger image. And we'll have different things to choose from, of course, the more that you know about what type of flower that you wanted, for example, maybe that was a Magnolia, I'm not quite sure. Um, then you're just gonna go ahead and type that in pink Magnolia. And here we are, you just go ahead and plop that in. And we can get going with a similar design without having to pay that $1. So I'm just gonna go ahead and choose a free one here.

And it looks like a good one. So all I'm going to do is just put in whatever we need. This is again, a Twitter post, as you can see right up here. So I'm going to say And all you do is your point, you click, and you'll be able to edit any one of these pieces of text. Once you click on it, I'll say take a break. And you saw how that went a little bit further than it should have, all you got to do is drag this over.

If you don't want that to be as big. Again, you can change the font type right here. You can change the font size right here. So I'm going to put it 56. That's still a little small. So we'll go in between 72 that looks a lot better.

Now all you got to do is click right there where you see that for all four arrows, Northwest southeast, and you're just going to click and drag and there you go, if you want so you can overlap it a little but I'm going to keep it there. Take a break. It's the weekend. I'm going to say take a break and play Relaxing game. And I'll go ahead and spin that over. And there we go.

So let's imagine that we're doing this for maybe an iOS app or an Android app, where basically it's just something like maybe knockoff Candy Crush, it's a take a break, relax, play a game. And then this can just be an image that you're obviously redirecting people on Twitter, to take action and visit your app or your website, or whatever it is. So again, you're just going to think about your own branding. Or if you're doing this for someone else, they're going to tell you what exactly they want said or done. So when you're done with all of that, you're going to come over here, and you'll see you can either share it and that sends it to obviously an email address. So people can take a look at it, see how it's updated, and they'll always be able to come back.

It's basically like being able to see this URL right here. So you can take updates and you can kind of get feedback, especially If it's a more high profile type of purchase, where someone's maybe paying you 100 $200 to edit some graphical design, being able to take this and edit it and do graphics, and share, it obviously keeps the client up on what's occurring. One of my favorite ways, of course to do you This is usually to embed it inside of your website. So you can have a separate page just for them. And it has, you know, all of these images inside of it so they can see their entire portfolio. And there's a page that's maybe password protected just for them.

So again, that's what you do for really top tier high end clients. But if they're just paying 20 $50 for a simple little graphic, then you can share it inside of Canva. And just like that you're done. When you're ready. If you don't want to send that off, you know, they don't need proofs. Then you're just going to download it, you can choose your file type.

Most of the time again, you want PNG because what that does, saves the pixels. It has a high fidelity rate which means it's going to be a larger image. But that's what you want to work from you want to work from a larger, more high quality image, let them downgrade it and optimize it if they want to, you want to give them the biggest and best that they can get of quality. So we're going to go ahead and download that. It's going to obviously take a few seconds there just basically processing the image and making this an actual graphic from its normal user interface that you see here. And just like that, there we go, take a break and play a relaxing game.

There's our graphic all set. So once you're done with that, what you want to do is then go back into your designs over here. Alright, and if you're going to be creating a new graphic, you want to probably keep a you know, create a new post because what happens is and this is just a quick tip, you'll learn this naturally yourself. You do it a couple times. If you can Click over something else, say like that. Then what I just did was I overrode that image that I just saved.

So if I were to exit out of this and come back into my, all my designs right here, then this post right here is going to be saved. Instead of, you could just come right back over here and click Undo this graphic right here. So this is also a nice little help, too. If you ever have anything that you do wrong, undo redo. You can of course upload files here, you can change dimensions, resize it, make a copy of it, if there's something that, you know, it's you want to do something very similar to it, but just slightly different. That's what you do here.

And I'll be teaching a few other hacks where if you're creating you know, YouTube's what to do, and kind of a few different graphical critiques that are usually best inside of most niches. They like a clean cut. design. Of course, if you have more of like a female, I'm sorry, a female employer, then you're going to end up usually using cursive fonts and a little bit more frills in the sense of branding. But as you see here, it's generally in the preview. But this is because it's in flux right now that it's not going to do anything if I exit out.

That's usually what loads because that was the last thing that ended up occurring. Now, the one thing that I do like about Canva is that again, if you end up making a mistake, things are pretty easy to undo and redo right here. But once you've exited it out of the window, it does save all of the changes that you previously made when you exit it out. So you can't undo it Now, unfortunately. So again, that image would be lost. So you'd probably have to basically redesign it.

So instead of doing that, again, always make sure you come back you create an new design, or you come back to this page right here and you choose a different one, because you don't want to overwrite with a new graphic, because you want to try and keep all of your graphics in a specific area for your client or yourself. So that's kind of the basic designs, I'm going to go through a few more different tips and really dive in, you know, uploading changing backgrounds, which text often works best and things like that. So that way you can make some of your own designs. And really, some of these designs can be as simple as just point, click download, and that is part of your portfolio. It's that simple to really get started with Canva. That's the fun thing about it is it doesn't take a lot of time, you can instantly have a portfolio by just pointing and clicking and downloading over the next five or 10 minutes on your account.

And you now have a portfolio that people can judge you from and again, a lot of these are naturally clean cut. Very good looking. These are the types of things that people love. To really buy and get into is just like, Oh, these quotes on a dark, you know, a darkened, smoky background with maybe something nature in the background. So you can find that stuff even online if you wanted to switch out your backgrounds as well. There's a lot that you can do with this.

And the fun thing is that when you do uploads, again, you can even choose your own folder of your own uploads that you've done. As you can see right here, I have a bunch of uploads. And all these are obviously for different reasons. You know, maybe I want to point towards a title. Maybe I'm talking about, you know, the strongest sales funnels you can have in your business today. You know, Digi, no QA, there's all types of stuff.

So again, you get to keep all of your images in here. And you can reuse them once you've uploaded them once. So if you start collecting kind of other images that are in line with this, they're in background images, then this is just kind of something to be able to choose from. So it's giving you more of a portfolio to We'll just point click and create these things. And that's the fun of Canva pretty cool, isn't it?

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