Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Want to read a detailed Canva review? Because it’s one of the tools I like to use. I’m also writing my first eBook using canva and will soon publish it on my site and you can download it for free. Let’s start the review.
Canva has a web version and also a mobile app
What is it Canvas?
Canvas It is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, Business cardsflyers, lesson plans, banners, and more with professionally designed templates. You can upload your own images from your computer or Google Drive, and add them to Canva templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It’s like you have a basic version of Photoshop that doesn’t require graphic design knowledge to use. It is best for non-graphic designers.
Who is Canva best suited for?
Canvas It’s a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have time and want to edit quickly.
To create sophisticated graphics, a tool like Photoshop can be ideal. To use it, you’ll need to know its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and ideally have a good background in design as well.
Also, when running the latest version of Photoshop, you need a high-end computer.
So this is where Canva happens, and with Canva you can do it all with drag and drop. It’s also easier to use and free. An affordable paid version is also available for $12.95 per month.
Free vs Pro vs Enterprise pricing plan
The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99 per month per user or $119.99 per year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum of 25 people).
Free plan features
- Over 250,000 free templates
- 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, messages and more)
- Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
- Invite members to your team
- Collaborate and comment in real time
- 5 GB of cloud storage
- He tries Canva Pro Free for 30 days
Professional plan features
- Everything is free, has a plus:
- Over 100 million premium stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
- Over 610,000 premium and free templates with new designs daily
- Access background remover and magic resize
- Create a library of colors, logos and fonts for your brand or campaign with up to 100 branding tool sets
- Remove photo backgrounds instantly with background remover
- Infinitely resize designs with Magic Resize
- Save designs as templates for your team to use
- 100 GB of cloud storage
- Schedule social media content to 8 platforms
Enterprise plan features
- Everything Pro has a plus:
- Create your brand’s visual identity using logos, colors and fonts across multiple brand collections
- Control your team’s access to apps, graphics, logos, colors, and fonts with brand controls
- Built-in workflow to get your designs approved
- Set elements that your team can edit and stay on brand with template lock
- Unlimited storage
- Sign in with single sign-on (SSO) and get access to 24/7 enterprise-level support.
How to use Canva?
To get started using Canva, you’ll need to create an account by providing your email address or Google, Facebook, or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between Student, Teacher, Small Business, Large Business, Non-Profit, or Personal. Depending on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.
You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to see if it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.
Register in Canva
Design with Canva
When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Depending on the type of account you have set up, you will be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: Social Media Posts, Documents, Presentations, Marketing, Events, Announcements, Launching Your Business, Building Your Brand Online, etc.
Start by choosing a template for your post or look for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.
Templates
Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of ready-to-use templates, with customizable images, text, and other elements.
You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template that suits your needs, or working with a blank template.
Canva has plenty to choose from, so start with a specific search. If you want to create a business card, just search for it and you’ll see plenty of templates to choose from
Elements
Within Canva’s designer, the Elements tab gives you access to fonts, shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids. And the search box on the Items tab lets you search everything on Canva.
First off, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to look in the following tabs to see the different items separately:
photo
The Photos tab lets you search and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.
You can replace existing images in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suitable for your industry.
You can find images on other photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or you can simply upload your own.
When you choose an image, Canva’s image editing features allow you to adjust the image’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop it, or move it around.
When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including a background remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any image stored in the library or any image you upload.
text
The Text tab allows you to add headings, plain text, and graphic text to your design.
When you click on text, you’ll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, formatting, spacing, and text effects (such as shadows).
Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts in the Brand Tools group or Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure visual content stays on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.
My voice
Create a gif or video by adding sound to grab user’s attention in social news feeds.
If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the More option.
video
Do you want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock videos. You’ll find videos up to 2 minutes long
You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab.
Once you’ve selected a video, you can use Canva’s editing features to crop, flip, and adjust its transparency.
Backgrounds
In the Background tab, you’ll find free images to use as backgrounds for your designs. Change the background in the template to give it a personal touch.
Patterns
The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just one click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your own branded colors and fonts to ensure your designs stay on brand.
Logos
If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use in your designs.
With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo that has stock content in it.
Publishing with Canva
With Canva, users can freely download and share designs on multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.
Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from a single design. For example, you can start with an Instagram post design, and Canva Magic Resizer can resize it to fit other grids, stories, reels, and other formats.
Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content to eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.
Canva Team
Canva Pro lets you work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created within Canva, then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can provide comments, edits, revisions, and follow through the build history.
Canva printing
When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With a wide range of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall graphics to mugs and t-shirts.
Canva Print is perfect for any business looking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs that people will want to wear, keep and share. Distribute personalized business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers’ minds.
Canva applications
Canva is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Canva has a rating of 4.9 out of five stars from more than 946.3 thousand Apple users and a rating of 4.5 out of five stars from more than 6,996,708 Google users.
In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other online services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content items.
Pros and cons of Canva
Pros:
- Easy to use interface
- Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
- Hundreds of templates, so you never have to start from scratch.
- Wide range of templates to suit multiple uses
- Branding kits to keep your team consistent with brand colors and fonts
- Create visual content on the go
- You can find royalty-free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.
Cons:
- Some professional templates are available for Pro users only
- Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
- Some elements that fall outside the design are difficult to retrieve.
- Features (such as Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
- If you’re a regular user of Adobe products, you may find Canva’s features limited.
- Preferably working with vectors. Especially logos.
- Corporate prices are expensive
conclusion
Overall, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for their projects. If you’re an experienced graphic designer, you’ll find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features — especially vectors. But if you have little design experience, you’ll find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.
