Creating Designs in Canva

Hello. Hey, in this video we have been asked  to do our first project, okay? For our clients. It's gonna be an Instagram post. Now, even if you're not doing social media in Canva, a lot  of us are, but even if you aren't, the skills are the same  that we're going to learn  for doing print ready stuff and video. But I figured Instagram's a good place to get started.

And very excitingly, we're gonna create a  big blank document. I'll show you how to make them and I'll show you  how important it is to kind of pick the format first,  because then Canva gives you relevant suggested templates  that you can start from, plus a tiny bit  of navigating the system. Alright, let's jump in and make a big blank document. Very exciting. Alright, let's make our post. Now I'm on my home tabs here on the top here,  and I've clicked on the little home button as well.

We're kind of like this welcome screen. This will change. Literally last week the created design button was over  there, so yours might be moved around as well. And one of the things that were a little bit confusing  for me when I got started is say I want  to create an Instagram square post. Oh look, there's a button. Yours might not be there.

What happens is they kind  of change it depending on your kind of use case. Let's say we do have it and we click on it, okay? It opens up in a tab  and gives us a blank Instagram square box. Or if I go back to the home screen there  and I go, actually, I wanna create a design this time  and to be under social media  and I want it to be an Instagram square post. You're like, oh, which way is better? It doesn't matter.

You end up at the exact same place. There are so many ways of making a document in Canva,  but they all lead to the same place. Same with this. If I go hit this little plus button  and I go, oh look, Instagram Square Post is that different? Nope, same, same, same, same. There are a couple other ways of doing it,  but we end up in the same kind of finished result part now.

Um, before we get in  and make our own stuff, one  of the first things you're kind of shown is templates. What it does is it looks at the size of the page  that you've made and goes, Hey, you want an Instagram post? Guess what? I got loads of templates that fit that shape  and a kind of suitable for, you know, an Instagram post. So these templates here will change depending  on what you've created. If you said, I wanna make an Instagram post, Hey Presto,  we've got a whole bunch of templates  for Instagram posts if you want something different, okay?

You gotta just be very intentional when you make a new  document and you say, all right, I want a phone wallpaper. It's gonna give you templates based on  what might be a very good phone wallpaper. If you can't see the templates, okay,  if I click on the word design, okay, there is an option  to click on it and close it down. You wanna open it back up, you just hover above it. Or if you click it once it opens for good  and you gotta close it down with a little cross. So if you can't find it, match away at this.

You'll eventually see it. Now to apply a template,  let's go back to one of these first ones I made. Let's go through and let's do a search. Let's do say cafe. Okay? And it's gonna give me templates based on cafe.

So I'm gonna click on this. Ooh, that looks cool. Okay, so I've got my cafe templates. I can now go through, click on it, start changing the text  to okay, our own brand  and we can start making adjustments. Now, while templates are great to get started,  they can be a little bit confusing as well  'cause you don't really know how things are created. So we're gonna go through, make stuff ourselves,  build it all up from scratch so that  You can make your own templates  and so that you can start using other  people's templates like a boss.

Lastly, before we wrap up, let's close down all  of the tabs that we've opened up. You just hit the little cross in the corners here,  or Ctrl W on a Mac, CTRL W on a PC to close 'em all down. And we should only have the Canva tab open. I've brought you back to here because can you see here a  whole bunch of untitled documents? Okay, that's 'cause when I was clicking on Instagram post  the few times it's gonna made a whole  bunch of documents, okay? And they're just called untitled, not very good.

So it's gonna clean everything up by going to,  let's do this first one here is a move  to trash button, okay? And you can do it all for the ones that we just created. If you are following along,  I'm gonna hit the ticks in all the corners to say I want all  of these, these are lots  of things I was messing around with, okay? All of them. Can you see it on the bottom here? I'm gonna hit the trash can so  that all of these go into the trash.

Now we're nice and tidy again, and we can get started. Alright, I'll see you the next video.