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How to use Canva to design eye-catching graphics for your website and social media posts

Would you like to know how you can improve your social media posts by using eye-catching graphics and images using Canva?  Would you like to be able to design your own graphics for your website?

This training course will explain how to use Canva (the free version) to: 

• Design your images from scratch covering how to crop, add text, animate the text, add your logo, create branded backgrounds, using shapes, frames and effects.
• Also how to adapt the thousands of professionally designed templates for your marketing.

Who is this course suitable for?

Beginners.  You don’t need to have any experience of editing images.  However, you must be comfortable using a laptop and also using mobile apps.

What we will cover

How to design graphics starting with a blank canvas

• How to resize and crop your images and add your logo
• How to add very professional looking text and how to animate the text
• How to remove and replace  the background from your product or staff images even if you don’t have the pro version of Canva
• How to create backgrounds that match your brand colour
• How to design images that are square, portrait 9:16  (for stories and reels) and  16:9 video thumbnails
• How to add images and videos to frames

How to adapt Canva Templates

• How to search for and find Templates and how to filter
• How to adapt Templates with your images and text

How to use the latest AI features in Canva

• Demo of lots of the latest AI features Canva have introduced to make designing your graphics easier

This programme is not for digital marketing trainers/consultants or website designers.