These days, we deal with a lot of different types of media files. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, MOV, SVG, and yes, PDF. If you know and love Canva the way that I do, you’ll be happy to know that you can upload PDFs to the platform and use them for your designs. To upload a PDF …
You’re working on a design when, suddenly, Canva crashes. Or, you’re just about to open a new design, when Canva freezes. I am a huge fan of Canva, but I’ve been in those crashing and freezing shoes. Software isn’t perfect and, every once in a while, it glitches. So, what should you do if Canva …
There’s nothing worse than slaving over a design just to realize it’s low resolution and won’t print very well. Or, even worse, sell it to someone and have them send you a nasty message about how pixelated and blurry the printed version of your design ended up. What went wrong? Most likely, it was the …
There’s no doubt that Canva is taking the digital design world by massive storm. It’s easy to use, powerful, and downright beautiful. I started out as a free user of Canva and was really impressed with everything it could do. Once I was hooked, I decided to give the 30 day free trial of Canva …
Canva is a powerful program for designing cards, banners, infographics, social media posts, and more. One feature that people often forget though is Canva’s ability to make beautiful presentations. With tons of premade templates, Canva makes it easy to spice up even the most boring of topics. Once you’re done, Canva has its own presentation …
Whether you’re a seasoned graphic designer or not, curving text is something that most of us will need to do at some point in our design lives. Just look around and see how often it’s incorporated into the designs we see around us. Luckily, Canva DOES have a text curving option! There’s also a way …
Transparent overlays can add a lot of style and class to a design. They can be customized to match a brand’s color scheme, can tone down images so that words or elements pop, and let designers have more control over the colors that their designs highlight. In Canva, you can make a transparent overlay by …
The free version of Canva has a lot of capabilities. It’s an amazing, easy to use, free choice for designers. That said, one of the biggest features you lose by going with the free version as opposed to the Pro is being able to resize images. With the free version, you cannot change the size …
If you’re neurotic like I am, you like for everything to be perfectly aligned and straight. And, if it’s not, you want it to be intentionally crooked, perfectly crooked. This is why gridlines are so important. If you use Canva for your graphic design, you can use the power of gridlines to help you make …