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CANVA: Design Beautiful Blog
Graphics for Optimum Social
Media Metrics
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What is Canva?
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Canva is a photo editor that:
allows users to design photos
stunningly.
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Canva is an great tool that:
makes graphic design amazingly
simple for everyone.
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The Canva plugin
integrates seamlessly with WordPress,
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giving you access to the Web’s most
powerful design platform.
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Canva
is used by bloggers everywhere.
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Canva also has a
drag and drop design tool
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with a library of more than 1 million
stock photographs,
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graphic elements and fonts.
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With Canva you can edit photos
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Using preset filters
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or get advanced with photo editing
tools
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like brightness, contrast, saturation,
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tint, blur, x-process and vignette.
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Here’s what users say about Canva:
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Let’s start doing stunning photos!
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Ready?
Click on your browser.
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Go to www.canva.com
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You’ll be directed to this page.
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You can create a design for Social Media,
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Presentation, Poster, Facebook Cover,
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Facebook Post, Blog Graphic, A4,
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Card, Email Header and much +More.
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Click here for more stunning designs.
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Social Media Posts and Documents
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Blogging & Ebooks, Marketing Materials
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Social Media & Email Headers, Events,
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and Ads of course.
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You can also use custom dimensions.
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What is your design’s width?
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Height?
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Is it in pixel, millimeter or inch?
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Click design to use a customized
dimension.
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Here’s the 480 x 820 px.
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To start designing, log in to your FB
account, or
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Sign-in with Google+
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or sign-up. Type your email address.
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Choose a password.
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and click sign-up.
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If you already have a Canva account,
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Just log-
in.
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You’ve
successfully
log-in.
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That’s
me
smiling!
Click here for Notifications.
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Tutorials are here to help you. Click it!
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You’ll be directed to this page.
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Start your FREE tutorial.
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Get familiar with the basic Canva Tools.
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Learn choosing the right fonts and colors.
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Enhance images and create strong
backgrounds.
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Learn to use Elements and Composition.
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Building a Brand and Save Time
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Are you up for the challenge?
Let’s start!
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Challenge #1:
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This will show after clicking the circle.
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Click here to change the color.
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It is now green.
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Challenge #2:
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Click on Search Icon and type “hat”
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Choose among the available options.
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Drag the hat and put it on the monkey.
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Challenge #3:
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Click on Background Icon.
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This will show. Click on it.
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Background has been changed.
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Challenge #4:
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Click on Search Icon and type pizza.
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Choose your pizza.
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Drag it.
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Challenge #5:
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Click on Layout Icon.
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Choose among the beautiful layouts.
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I chose this.
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You can also upload your own image.
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Click here.
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Tadaaa!
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Good job! Easy peasy, huh?
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You can also click here for design
inspiration.
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Now, let’s apply what we learned.
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First let’s select a design.
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Click on Social Media.
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Upload an image.
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Once uploaded, click on it.
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Click on Text Icon.
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Add a heading.
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Text box will appear on the image.
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Choose Font type.
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Choose Font size.
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Choose text color.
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Select desired font color.
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Click for more options like Bold, Italic, etc.
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Click on Text Icon again.
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Click on Add subheading.
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Type text on the text box.
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Like this.
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Drag text to desired position.
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I chose the same color for both text.
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Click here for image’s transparency.
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Select transparency’s intensity.
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With a little bit of transparency.
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Can also edit text’s transparency.
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Create a big difference in an image just
by using transparency.
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Remember to Share it!
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You can also download your designs.
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Use Canva Now!
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