How to use Canva to design eye-catching graphics for your website and social media posts (including Christmas designs)

Are your social media posts not getting the attention they deserve? Join our course and learn how to create eye-catching graphics and images that will make your content stand out!

Would you like to know how you can improve your social media posts by using eye-catching graphics and images? And 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:

1. 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.

2. Also how to adapt the thousands of professionally designed templates for your marketing.

Who is this course suitable for?

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

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

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
• Plus in this pre-Christmas course we will look at how to create festive designs

How to adapt Canva Templates

• How to search for and find Templates. 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

Course Methodology:

This is a 3-hour LIVE online course which you can attend from your home or office using a PC / MAC / Smartphone or tablet (you will need to be able to hear sound either through speakers or headphones but you do not need a webcam).  Please note that the larger the screen you use the better the experience will be.

This course will be delivered by Evan Mangan of The Marketing Crowd

Businesses who book on who are not based in Westmeath may be removed if the place is required by a Westmeath-based business