How to crop with Frames in Canva

Hello. Let's talk about frames. Frames are very similar to cropping,  but they're actually separated out in Canva  into a separate kind of function. So we're gonna put something in a circle. Then we're gonna put an image  inside this kind of brush stroke thing. Let me show you another image.

You can just drag things inside of frames the super useful. I'll also at the end, uh, show you a little bit  of document navigation for those of you  who are maybe a little bit new  to Canva and how it all works. I'll show you easy ways of zooming in  and moving around at the end of this one. But let's get started with frames. Alright, let's make frames work. So what we're gonna do is if you haven't already  noticed, um, watch this.

You can either, there's two  options when you are using elements. Okay? This panel here that we use a lot, okay? If I hover over here, it goes away, comes back. It's up to you whether you like that or not. Okay?

If you click on it, it stays open forever. I'm gonna click on it so it stays open, okay? You can close it down by hitting the cross up to you. So what we're looking for here is an elements. We're looking for frames. Okay?

You can either use these like little shortcuts. These do change, okay? And you can scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, stickers,  photos, videos, audio, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're looking for frames am we're gonna go to show all. Okay? And there's the frames.

They're kind of like cropping,  but in Canva, they've kind of separated them out. So let's do a circle crop first. So first of all, you put in this thing basic shapes. I'm gonna start with a circle. Then  I'm gonna come out of frame. So there's a little arrow here to come out  of frames back into my generic everything elements.

Um, part, I'm gonna go to my photos, see all,  I'm gonna type up the top here. We're looking for coffee. What we're gonna do is we're gonna give away free coffee  as part of the um, a reopening. So look for a paid or a free option in here. I'm gonna go for this one 'cause it's free. I'm gonna click on it and nothing happens.

Basically it's kinda just dumped it on the page. Watch this. If I drag it kind of somewhere in near close to it,  it will jump in and it works very similar to cropping. Watch this. If I double click on it  and you're like, Ooh, I know this, there's the kind  of frosty bit of the outside. So I get to re cropp it, I get to rotate it,  we end up in the same place.

Okay? But you start with framing. That's a bit of a, I don't know, it's a strange one. It's click done. And just remember  to adjust the image inside of it. Double click it, okay?

And to adjust the frame, okay? You start outside like you, you know you're not in here. So come out and then you can adjust the size of it. You can mess around with these as well, okay? If you need an oval, okay, I don't want an oval,  so I'm gonna hit undo. Remember your undo button up here  or command Z on a Mac, controls the on a pc.

Okay? And there you go. That's a frame. I'm gonna kind of put mine in here  and we'll adjust it in a little bit. Let's go crazy and add a border to it. So remember the border width.

I'm gonna add this. A border width. I'm going to go to this color here,  my border color, and I'm gonna pick something,  anything bright again, we'll look at colors  properly a little bit later in the course. There you go. And the next thing I wanna do  is let's do another frame. 'cause frames, we did a boring circle.

There are some really cool frames in here, okay? To add a bit of excitement  to our images rather than just a  rectangle with an image in it. So what we're gonna do is something new. We're gonna add a page. You can duplicate the page  If I want two of them. And let's say I'm gonna make adjustments, I don't want that.

So I'm gonna go to my undo. Again, going back to one page. I just want a blank page, okay? And what we're gonna do is go to our frames. Okay? So let's go here.

Scroll down to frames. Let's click the button frame. It jumps to it in our list. I'm gonna go to see all. And I'm gonna grab one of these up to you. Experiment with a couple.

I'm gonna grab, I like the little scrubby one. Where's the scrubby one? There you go. I like this one. I'm gonna click it. Once it appears out there,  I'm gonna make it nice and big.

I wanna put text over the top of it. A really nice way of just having something quite interesting  in the background whilst having text over the top. Okay, is with it selected? If we close, I'm gonna stop the search for frame. Okay? I'm gonna go back, back, back until I find photos.

Okay? And a really nice search term in photos  is abstract background. We'll just type in abstract, okay? And you'll get interesting things that will be good  for the background, okay? That you can put texts over the top. They're just kind of like supporting graphics.

I'm gonna find something that's gonna support my camping. Well, I'm gonna use this. I'm gonna drag it in. You see there, we can add some text over the top of it,  but it'll be interesting without it kind  of being overpowering in terms of being able  to read text over the top. So now I'm gonna go to text, I'm gonna go to add text box  and I will add my quote in a minute when we get onto text. But I guess I just wanna show you frames.

And I wanted to show you a little hack. Finding abstract backgrounds. We'll do the same for the background. Background. Another handy one is if I go back to elements  and I go to photos,  or I'm still in photos, okay,  I'm gonna go to another one and go. Texture is another good one.

Texture background. Ooh, texture paper. Let's do this one. So pick any one you like. I'm gonna go you just something simple. And what I'm gonna do is right click it  and say Sit is the background.

Ooh, look at us. Fancy. Another thing about frames is that if you want  to get this image out, you can select on it  and right click it and say Detach image. Okay? And it pops it out. And you've got your oop and you've got your frame  separate from your uh, image.

Okay? One other thing I'll show you while we're here. So I've dragged it back in. If I drag this off,  I'm like, oh, you just stay over here. Just stay over here. Just stay over.

Guess what? That is gone forever. That is one  of the weird things about Canva. You can't work in the Pace board. Hands up. Who and other maybe designed uh, programs,  you end up working all the way out here on the sides.

You can't do that in Canva because they go away. So I'm gonna undo, okay a couple of times til it's back in. One of the weird things is that you can detach an image from  a frame, but, and if you know, if you go inside of a frame,  it looks very much like cropping. Okay? Just like we did before. But this image here, if I right click it,  I can't detach from frame or detach image.

I don't know why, but it's easy to do for frames. And lastly, some basic navigation. If you haven't stumbled across it already,  you can use a sidebar up here. I use my page up, page down on my keyboard. Not all keyboards, uh, have a page up, page down. So you might have to do some scrolling  with your mouse scroll wheel, okay?

Or drag this little slider. Other useful things is down the bottom here. If you've got lots of pages, you can say I wanna go  to page two and hit enter. Okay? And jump down to, I  Dunno, be more interesting. If you've got page 20, you can drag this slider here.

Okay? To zoom out or zoom in, depending on what you need now  to move around in the document. There used to be like a hand tool that's gone away. Okay? So they're assuming a couple of things is,  let's say I zoom in and I want to kind  of go up a little bit. I can use this scroll wheel, okay?

And I can use this one here. What they're assuming is if you're on a laptop,  you can use two fingers on the touch pad to move around. That's what I'm doing. I got a laptop  next to me or on your mouse. You can use the scroll wheel. And if you have a third button on your mouse,  not everyone does, you can click hold and drag it around.

So there's lots of different ways of navigating. There's an option for everybody. The problem is, is not like a universal one. If you have got tips on your specific computer,  that's a bit different than I explained. Leave those in the comments so  that other people can figure out how to move around as well. Um, down the bottom here are probably the most useful one is  if you go to fit, it will fit a whole page on your screen.

You can go to fill and it will try  and make it as wide as possible and fill it all up. Fits really good. Obviously there are  different percentages in here. I'm gonna go to fit. Another way  for zooming in is hold down your command, K, Mac  or Control K pc. Okay?

And hit plus. See along the top there,  there's a plus and there's also a minus. So it's command on a Mac, control on a PC  and use plus or minus. Last little bit of navigation. If you're like, oh, there was a lot in there,  we'll just do it over and over in the course,  but I want to throw it in here. Really?

Can you see down here there's  thumbnail view, grid view. Let's click on thumbnail view. And that gives you a way of moving between the documents. Less of a scrolling, okay. And more linear. Okay.

Left and right up to you, which way you work. I'm gonna leave it as it was  by default in this kinda like scroll option. The other one is you can go to Grid View, okay? And you can just kind of go,  all right, I wanna work on this one. It's handy when you're working through a larger presentation  because it allows you to reorder stuff. I can kind of just drag things around, kind  of PowerPointy es, you go back over there.

I'm gonna go back out of grid view and there you go. A little bonus at the end frames,  plus some basic navigation. Alright, that is it. I will see you in the next video.