Create the designs you need for all your marketing campaigns – easily.
Design with Canva!
As a solo – entrepreneur you will have needs for graphics. I love graphics and can get caught up for hours (needlessly) creating designs. If you are into graphics or not, Canva is a tool that will help you throughout your business.
Designs made EASY!
Canva is empowering the world to design! From your business flyers to your social media headers, business cards, everyone can design with Canva.
Canva Features
- Photo Editor
- Free Icons
- Design Grid
- Stickers
- Textures
- Photo Straightener
- Text to Photos
- Photo Blur
- Badges
- Vignette
- Speech Bubble
- Crop Your Images
- Transparent Images
Canva Design Templates
- Cards
- Posters
- Resumes
- Postcards
- Photo Collages
- album Covers
- Social Graphic
- Letterheads
- Magazine Covers
- Flyers
- banners
- Brochures
- Infographics
- Book Covers
- Presentations
- Business Cards
- Gift Certificates
How Canva got Started
The idea for Canva came about when Melanie Perkins was teaching graphic design programs at university and found students struggled to learn the basics. Partnering with co-founder Cliff Obrecht, the pair launched Fusion Books, an online design tool that made it easy for students and teachers to create their own yearbooks. They soon realized that the technology they’d developed could be used much more broadly. After searching far and wide, they launched Canva with tech co-founder Cameron Adams. Via Canva About Page
Getting Started
Sign up to Canva www.canva.com
Canva is free! There is an option to use Canva for Work which cost $9.95 per month. Canva for work account offers extra features perfect for teams of professional designers and content creators, such as the ability to create a brand kit with consistent colors and fonts, customizable templates, shareable photo folders, resizable designs, and more.
Sign into Canva – Canva
Choose your design layout. Either use a custom dimension or find a template. Canva has so many templates already available, you just might find yourself creating new projects just for the fun of it. : ) Card – Poster – Resumes – Postcards – Photo Collages – Album Covers – Social Graphic – Letterheads – Magazine Covers – Flyers – Banners – Brochures – Infographics – Book Covers – Presentations – Business Cards – Gift Certificates.
Canva -Layouts
After you have chosen your design dimension needs you can choose one of 1,000’s of already created layouts.
Canva offers many elements that can be added to your design. Choose a few and have fun!
Highlight your design with the right text. Canva gives you so many already created text options that you can use or even re-design! My tip – give yourself a time limit because the possibilities are endless! Learn more on pairing text from Canva.
Your backgrounds are as endless as the sky!
Choose already created backgrounds or upload your own images to use there is no end to the possibilities! Learn easy techniques to create brilliant backgrounds using images, shapes and other fun design elements in Canva.
Canva for Work
Canva for Work makes it easy to create beautiful on-brand marketing materials, presentations and social media graphics for every organization.
Canva has great tutorials! Check out Canva Design School Tutorials – Learn from Canva