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

0. Introduction

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

1. Create and Manage a Design Project

04 - Create a new design
05 - Create a design using a template
06 - Automatically generate a design using Magic Design
07 - Open and manage existing designs
08 - Export or publish finished projects

2. Core Design Tools

09 - Add graphic elements and text to a design
10 - Use stock photos and graphics
11 - Add your own pictures and graphics
12 - Edit pictures in a design
13 - Change the layer order of objects
14 - Resize a design project

3. Artificial Intelligence Features for Making Great Designs

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

4. Work on Designs in a Team

19 - Share and collaborate on a design
20 - Set up a team
21 - Share designs with a team

5. Manage Your Brand

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

6. Create Specific Types of Designs

26 - Design a graphic or logo
27 - Create animated or video designs
28 - Publish a social media post
29 - Create a document
30 - Import and edit a PDF
31 - Create print products
32 - Design a presentation
33 - Build and publish a website
34 - Collaborate with a whiteboard

7. Use the Canva Mobile App

35 - Work on a design project on mobile
36 - Publish to social media on mobile

Conclusion

37 - Next steps