Welcome to final part of Fast start your Canva journey tutorial.
Check previous editions:
Fast start your Canva journey (Part I)
o Starting with new design
o Basic text editing
o Scaling and cropping
Fast start your Canva journey (Part II)
o Intro to frames and grids
o Using Canva videos
o Elements in Canva
Editing Photos
First, start with new design.
Click on Photos tab (button) on the left side menu and add any photo to canvas (drag and drop or click).
Click on photo to select it and top menu appears. You are presented with several options: Effects, Filter, Adjust, Crop, Flip on the left side and Transparency on the right side.
Click on Effects button. Here you can find a lot of advanced effects you can apply to your photo. Effects have many options so make sure to select “See all” and display them all. You can choose between Duotone, Pixelate, BadTV and below are the ones you have to connect with first (by clicking on a button) like Screen, ColorMix, Glitch, Liquify, Slice.
Click on See all button for Pixelate and let’s explore this effect. This is live preview of effects. Every time you click on any of variants like Pixel, Grain, Polar, etc. effect is visible on your photo, but you have to click Apply button if you want to apply the effect.
When you preview one of the options by clicking on the button, it changes to indicate you can enter edit mode.
For Pixel you can change Horizontal Pixels and Vertical Pixels.
On the other hand Filter gives you a set of predefined filters you can choose from like Epic, Retro or Drama. You can set Intensity for every filter. Values are from 0 to 100. Filter are immediately applied.
Adjust option is standard photo editing option found in all photo editing tools. You can edit Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Tint, Blur, X-Process and Vignette.
For scaling and cropping see previous chapters.
Flip option gives you opportunity to flip the image horizontally and vertically.
As you can see there are many things you can do to edit your photo in Canva and in combinations with other features Canva becomes very powerful tool.
How to add music
First, start with new design.
Add any photo as background if you wish.
Click on Music tab (button) on the left side menu.
Click on any song to select it and add it to designer.
You will notice 2 things (besides music playing): Song title in the lower left corner of designer and song track at the top.
When you move your mouse over song track you see transparent rounded rectangle. With a click you can set here which part of the song will be included in your design.
Click outside of the canvas to set duration of your design. In this way you can expand song duration.
Choose download as MP4 and you have produced nice video with music
Using predefined styles
In this tutorial you will learn basics of how to use styles and charts.
First, start with new design.
Add heading and subheading to blank design. See above Text Editing Tutorial on how to do this.
On the left side menu click on Styles tab (button). If this button is not visible you need to enable it. Scroll down to the bottom and click “… More” tab (button). You will see Styles and Charts buttons. Click on Styles to add it to menu.
In this section there are 3 different types of styles: fonts, colors and all. By choosing any style your whole design changes.
Image below shows design with no styling and when squada one predefined style is applied.
You can easily shuffle colors of your design.
Thank you for reading.
If you want whole book in PDF, it's free. Here is the book content:
- Starting with new design
- Basic text editing
- Scaling and cropping
- Intro to Frames and Grids
- Using Canva videos
- Elements in Canva
- Editing photos
- How to add music
- Using predefined styles
- Add and edit charts
- File types in Canva
- Using layers
- Create video slideshow with music
- Multiple drop shadows
- Honeycomb photo frame in Canva
- Neon slice text effect
- Place photo inside text
- Reflection effect
- Shatter effect
- Pixel stretch effect
- Questions and answers
- Canva hidden gems
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