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8 Must know Canva tips and tricks for beginners

8 Must know Canva tips and tricks for beginners-vbh
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Author: Lavisha Sharma
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Canva is a free realistic planning stage for making welcomes, expertly planned layouts, Instagram posts, business cards, zoom foundations, example plans, etc. Canva has more than Fifty thousand layouts to look over, and it doesn't need broad photograph altering information to utilize.

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This free adaptation is pretty much like photoshop, though it cannot be compared. Bloggers love utilizing Canva because it allows them to make smooth, custom illustrations that can be handily designed with only a few snaps. If you are new to motion graphics, you can start here.

The following is a thorough analysis of the most valuable Canva tips and tricks. Many experienced Canva designers don't know about these, so assuming that you begin carrying out even 50% of the information on this rundown, your Canva plans will be more appealing and call for undeniably less investment.

So, I have jotted down a few tips while using Canva which might help the new users.

Must know Canva tips and tricks

Selecting multiple layers

People come across many challenges while working with multiple layers. Sometimes they find it hard to select a single layer as they are pretty close together. So, the people using Mac must hold the command key while others using Windows must hold the ctrl key; holding down your command key now, you will click on your mouse button and then select the next layer behind it.

If you click again, that will select the layer behind that. And now, as you can see, that layer is set, and you can do whatever you want to; it's like changing color.

Design a beautiful e-book cover or product mockup

One of the best attributes of Canva is that they have a wide range of book covers or e-book covers. When you look up e-book covers, you will find a great range of these e-book covers templates right here.

You can also edit the book uploaded by you and do whatever you want; however, the issue then is that you are stuck with this 2d flat-looking book cover to make it look more realistic than an actual book cover.

Shadow effect

My following observation or trick for you would be adding a Shadow effect. You need to select the text in this option and then go back to the impact and select shadow from the shadow option. By doing this, you can make finer adjustments, such as the color of the shadow.

With this option, you can also change the angle and direction of the shadow and its transparency.

Moving elements

This feature of Canva of moving certain elements is quite fundamental and will be handy no matter what you design. Use the arrows on your keyboard to fine-tune the aspects of your design. I prefer using up and down; you can do left and right.

Now, that will only move it one pixel at a time. You can't hold the shift key on your keyboard and move it to move 10px at a time like this.

Adding a gradient background

To add a gradient to the background of any image, go to elements and search for the gradient. What you want to look for is the square. You need to select that and apply it to your design.

You have to drag it from the corner from here; you can change the colors by looking at the top left and changing the first color. You can change it to yellow and the secondary color too, and you can see how we have got the gradient effect.

You can also make the gradient start the other way, so you can adjust by clicking on the flip.

Easily add new text

You can add new text by hitting that T button on your keyboard. There is no need to add text instead of going to text and then choosing from there. You can also change the size and do whatever you want.

Save time with your favorite colors

If you use specific colors regularly, it is wise to use their brand kit. All you need to do is that if you are on the design, you can click on add another palette or from the homepage, or if you want to change the color of the text, then go to the color, and now you can see the new color palette added.

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Now you can select whatever colors you want based on those colors. For instance, assuming we are searching for a blue smiley face, we would initially enter the hunt term "smile," Afterward, we would choose the blue color filter.

Upload images faster

For this tip, I would like to let you know that instead of uploading your files to your uploads and clicking upload an image or video, all you need to do is open your folder.

I have mine here, intuitive it, and that is better. This is an intuitive method of doing it, and it will save a lot of time.

In a nutshell

We know that Canva is one of the most amazing graphic designing tools through this article. I regularly recommend these Canva tips and tricks, which have helped me save time and create beautiful logos.

I would highly recommend you try this free version of Canva. I hope you found this series of Canva tips and tricks helpful! To read more blogs, visit www.webdew.com. 

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