Class Project 02 - Reopening Quote

Hello. It's class project time. Uh, we're gonna put some of our, uh, skills into action  that we've learned over the last few videos. Okay? We're gonna create this. It's a quote.

Um, so we've been asked by the client to say, Hey,  we want some Instagram square posts with, uh,  quotes from our reopening. They're made up for a practice. Obviously in real life you'd have to use real ones,  but for the moment we've got some practice ones  and here are the requirements. So, uh, reopening quote,  make sure it's Instagram square post size. That's what we've been doing so far. And the post must include, um,  make sure you've got a frame in the background  with an abstract image in it, something  that's good in contrast against the text.

So this is quite light compared to the dark text I picked. Another one doesn't read as well. I'll show you tricks of fixing that later on. But fix something that has a quite dark, so  that light text can go over the top. So you might have to go back and check  out frames earlier on. Put an image in it.

Okay? So do that. Uh, use the customer quote and the customer name. I've got some examples down here. You can use them. You can create your own one.

It's up to you. I just want you to experiment with colors and fonts  and kind of get something like this going. Okay? And then I want you to do an option B. So basically just duplicate the page. Like I've done, I've made a second version  and what I've done is I've experimented  with, uh, a couple of things.

The main one I want you to experiment  with is the design styles. Remember we did kind of like this section in here. So I'm gonna wreck my nana. So I'm gonna click on it. I'm gonna go into design, I'm gonna go into styles. And remember there's the combinations.

Okay? So it's gonna go change all the colors and the fonts,  or I can go through color palettes and fonts separately,  or I can pull them from the image. I want you to just experiment with a second version. Okay? So you've got two of them that are quite distinct. I wanna undo mine 'cause I quite liked my original one.

Undo, undo, undo. Anyway, so you've got two options  to go back to the client with. The other thing that I've got in there is  to experiment with Magic W, right? So I've got the same quote. See, kudos on the redesign. I can clear on this.

Um, now at the moment,  this is free for everybody. You might want to check. This might be  a pro version Later on. Um, magic writes quite useful. I can click on this and say, actually I want you to, uh,  rewrite it, make it more formal, more fun, okay? It's gonna try and match it similarly in terms of length,  but it's going to change the kind of tone of it.

You don't have to use this. It's a nice easy way to kind  of experiment with some ai, some artificial intelligence. Obviously we couldn't really use this  'cause it's not the actual quote from the client,  but we're just experimenting and working with  and just have a little write with. I really like rewrite. Often, like what I'll do is I'll type something out. My English and grammar you've probably already noticed  in this course isn't great.

So often I'll just type in something  that I feels like it's right, might be heading,  might be a paragraph, and then I had magic write  and go rewrite and it just cracks it more formal, more fun. I can shorten it a little bit. It's pretty amazing what it can do. This will change a little bit. They keep, it's quite new feature,  so they'll keep changing the way it looks. But have a little experiment with magic Write.

If you're on the pro account,  it's not essential in this one. I just want you to have, you know, more than one,  just something that they look different. You might have to resize your text box. And there you go. So do the first option, duplicate it. I called mine option two.

So I've got two option twos. I got option two A and option two B. So I'm gonna  Go to the client with both of them  and say, which one do you like? And then I want you  to upload a screenshot of your two options. So taking a screenshot  of two of them is a little bit tricky. I'm on this, um, not scroll view,  I'm on thumbnail view, I'm on scroll view.

Okay, so click it. So you've got, um, as you can scroll up  and down and then you can just lower this down, okay. Until you can see both of them. And then take a screenshot  and upload that to the class projects. So on a Mac it's command shift four. Okay?

And I can just drag a box around it  and it ends up on my desktop. That's command shift M four on a pc,  hold down the Windows key and then hit your print screen. Some older versions of Windows, you might have  to double check what version you're using. If it's new, it might have a new version. Okay? Uh, I'm using Mac in this,  but you'll notice that if you're using pc,  the software looks mostly the same  except screenshots are different.

And a pc, I'm pretty sure it's Windows  key and the hit print screen. And you should end up with that screenshot  inside your pictures folder in a folder called  Screenshots on a Mac. It ends up on the desktop. Big messy desktop. And I want you to upload that. Is that it on the class projects?

Uh, yeah. And for this one, we're gonna do it slightly different. I want you to share on social media as well. We've got a bit of customization going on. Yours doesn't look like mine. I'd love to see your two options.

So share on social media. Uh, here's my Instagram, here's my Twitter,  here's the Facebook group or LinkedIn group. It doesn't matter. It could be all of the places. It could be just one of the places. It could be none of the places, okay?

If you're like never sharing anything, ever,  you can do that, that's fine. But I do love to see people's stuff  and it is really handy, especially  'cause of the, there's lots of people doing this course. So they'll be able to see your stuff. You'll be able to ask for a lot of feedback. You can tell 'em just getting started in the Canva course. Here's the thing, what do you think?

Alright, it kind of feels like a lob,  but really I just want you to make, uh, a design, okay? And experiment with fonts and color. Then do a second one  and start playing around with the design styles just  to get a sense of how those work and then share it. One last thing, as I left an example,  you'll see they don't really fit on the same page. I kind of leave the, what I would like you to make, just  so you can see it, you'll see this one up here. Hey, that's the last one.

And this is this one here. It doesn't quite fit on the page, but you get the idea. I'll put little examples as we go through, so you kind  of get a sense of like, is am I doing it right? I don't want to look like mine,  but it's the same kind of structure  and it'll have the content that I'm asking  for in the words up the top here. You get the idea. All right?

I will see you in the next video.