Canva Essential Training

Course details

When it comes to creating your own designs, Canva is an easy way—without any graphic design experience—to create professional, eye-catching graphics for just about any business or social need. Canva’s branding tools and customizable templates also allow experienced designers to support the non-designers on their team. From presentations, social media, and newsletters to lesson plans, business cards, flyers, and more, Canva outpaces many of its industry competitors, delivering great results at a fraction of the price. In this course, LinkedIn Learning instructor Nick Brazzi gives you an overview of the basic skills required to create and manage your own graphic design projects using powerful, built-in Canva tools. Along the way, Nick shows you how to work on designs with a team, leverage enhanced AI features, manage your brand, create logos and video designs, publish social media posts, edit graphics within the Canva mobile app, and build a whiteboard for collaborative brainstorming.

Concepts

Introduction

Create professional designs with Canva
Set up and start using Canva
Choose between the free and pro versions

Create and Manage a Design Project

Create a new design
Create a design using a template
Automatically generate a design using Magic Design
Open and manage existing designs
Export or publish finished projects

Core Design Tools

Add graphic elements and text to a design
Use stock photos and graphics
Add your own pictures and graphics
Edit pictures in a design
Change the layer order of objects
Resize a design project

Artificial Intelligence Features for Making Great Designs

Generate pictures using artificial intelligence
Remove the background from a picture
Use Magic Edit to edit a picture
Translate a design to another language

Work on Designs in a Team

Share and collaborate on a design
Set up a team
Share designs with a team

Manage Your Brand

Create your brand kit
Set up brand templates
Control how brand elements are used in a team
Replace branded graphics in existing designs

Create Specific Types of Designs

Design a graphic or logo
Create animated or video designs
Publish a social media post
Create a document
Import and edit a PDF
Create print products
Design a presentation
Build and publish a website
Collaborate with a whiteboard

Use the Canva Mobile App

Work on a design project on mobile
Publish to social media on mobile

Conclusion

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