How To Use Canva - Monico de Chavez - The Virtual Sagittarian

How to Use
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Start by selecting Google Chrome.
Or any browser that you prefer like:
In the search bar area, type canva.com
Then press the
key.
On this page now?
Good start!
Here, you have 3 options of Signing up.
You can sign up with
Facebook,
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with Google,
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Or with an Email.
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In this tutorial,
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We will sign up with an Email.
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Just click over Sign up with Email.
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Complete the spaces below
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By typing your full name,
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Your Email,
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The Email confirmation,
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And your password.
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Done?
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Now click Sign up.
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Your doing great!
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Now after signing up,
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You will be asked what would you like
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to use Canva for?
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And you will have to choose
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between the 3 options.
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For this tutorial,
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Lets assume that
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were going to use this for
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Personal purposes for example.
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So just click over it.
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Then, you will be directed to this page.
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And you will be given design options.
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Like a design for a presentation,
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A banner for an event,
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A poster,
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A greeting card
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A book cover,
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An invitation for a special occasion,
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a photo collage.
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And many more.
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For this tutorial,
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Lets proceed to
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Play with Canva.
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Go click over it. =)
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Seeing this now?
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Good!
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On the upper part of the page,
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gives you the options to
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create a design.
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Now what it wants to do
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is to find out what kind
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of design you are trying to create.
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And then, its going to create you canvass
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or your work space
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into the right pixel dimension
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for whatever you are trying to make.
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For example
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if you are trying to make a Social Media

item,
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Its probably going to be 800 x 800 pixels.
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Or maybe if you want to make
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a Slide Presentation,
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its going to be 1024 x 768.
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And so on.
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So theres a design for Poster,
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For facebook posts,
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For Blog Graphic,
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For A4 sizes,
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And for cards,
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And if you think that. . .
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theres only 6 options
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Just click more
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and there are lots of other options.
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For you to choose from!
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Just scroll down to view more.
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So, you can pick something
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That theyve already made
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or set up.
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For you to get
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a really great start on it!
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For this tutorial,
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We are going to create a slide
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for a Facebook post
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Ready?
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Just click over the Facebook post design.
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And its going to open up a canvas
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for you to start working on.
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And were going to start here.
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Lets now add a background image
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Here, you have two options
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In adding a background image.
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You can either upload
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if you want to upload a photo
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that you are already on,
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Or you can search from their
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over 1 million images.
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And you could actually buy
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some of their images too!
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So lets say we need
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a camping themed-design.
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Just type camping in the search box
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Then choose your preferred photo.
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From the options.
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Lets pick this one for example.
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Notice that it is FREE
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Now click over it.
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And its going to drop in your canvass area.
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Now drag the corners out
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and make it fill your whole canvass.
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Now, lets add some large text over here.
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Just click over TEXT on the left.
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Then it gives you 3 basic options.
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A header-sized text,
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A subheading-sized text,
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And a body text-sized text.
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Lets add this one.
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Just click over it.
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And it adds this text over your image.
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Drag it up in the area where. . .
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you want to put it.
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Click on it.
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and type something.
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Like this.
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Now lets change the color of our text.
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Just highlight your text
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Then pick a color over here.
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Lets choose color white for example.
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Now lets choose a different font.
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Click over here.
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And choose your font.
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Lets pick this one for example.
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Lets now make your text
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A little larger.
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Just click over here.
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And choose your desired size.
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Lets choose 80 for example.
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Now drag the sides to stretch it.
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Then drag it over a little bit...
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to center it.
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Your doing great!
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Keep on going.
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Now lets add some text
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Underneath your first text.
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Just click Add Subheading.
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And just like before,
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It will be dropped into your image.
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Now do the same thing you did
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In your first text.
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Change its color,
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Change its font type and font size.
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And reposition it
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Based on your preference.
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Done?
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Mine looked like this.
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Now lets try to download our work.
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Just click over Download.
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And choose your desired file format
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by clicking here.
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Lets choose JPG format for example.
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Just click over it.
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Then hit Download.
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Wait for Canva to prepare your design.
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And its already saved!
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And from here,
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if youd like to share your work on Facebook,
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you can post it directly from here.
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Or tweet it out,
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Or send this in email to one of your friends!
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And thats pretty much it.
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I hope you learned how to use
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2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Start by selecting Google Chrome.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Or any browser that you prefer like:

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

In the search bar area, type canva.com

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Then press the

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

On this page now?

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Here, you have 3 options of Signing up.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

You can sign up with

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

We will sign up with an Email.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Just click over Sign up with Email.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Complete the spaces below

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

By typing your full name,

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

The Email confirmation,

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

And your password.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Now click Sign up.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Your doing great!

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Now after signing up,

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

You will be asked what would you like

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

to use Canva for?

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

And you will have to choose

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

between the 3 options.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

For this tutorial,

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Lets assume that

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

were going to use this for

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Personal purposes for example.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

So just click over it.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

Then, you will be directed to this page.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian

And you will be given design options.

2016 monicodechavez.wordpress.com - Virtual Sagittarian