How to Group Lock & Aligning things in Canva

Hello. We are going to group stuff, ungroup stuff, lock stuff,  align stuff, shift, click, do all sorts of weird stuff. Sounds boring, useful stuff. There'll be a couple of things in here  that you'll be like, oh, there you go. Didn't know that. And as boring  as the title sounds is the kind  of thing you do all day every day.

Grouping, locking, aligning, selecting, get on with it. Dan. Let's get going. Alright, so I'm gonna zoom in on my uh,  little badge that we've made by just dragging this sideways. Uh, you can use this little up  and down slider to kind of get it where you need to be. And let's do some kind of selecting grouping.

Aligning stuff. So there's a, there's lots  of different combinations. So let's say that I want to select both this  and this text at the bottom here at the same time. And I want to change both the font  and the size of them together. So I don't wanna group them,  I just wanna select both of them. You do that by selecting one of them, hold shift  and grab the second one of them.

You can kind of see I've done this, like it's kind  of a group just temporary. Okay? I can move 'em around together, which is handy. But what's useful here is I can say you're multiple fonts. I'm like, no, I want you to be both quicksand. I both want you to be, let's say we are using 26,  so you get them perfect, actually might need to be smaller.

So that's a good way of selecting two things at once. A little bit bigger. There we go. The other thing I wanna do  with these two is click them both. So hold shift is I want to go to not fonts. Hit the little arrow over here if you can't see it  and come down to position.

I want these guys to be aligned kind of together. And then what I wanna do is I want to group these guys. Okay? Group is more like a permanent group, okay? These guys, I don't have to shift,  click them both now they just kinda  move around together forever. I can go inside of them and do small changes so I don't have  to ungroup them to go through  and say, all right, we're not doing popcorn.

Popcorn is too messy, we're gonna do coffee. Okay? And go through and change it there. So you can do small changes if you need  to ungroup them, okay? You can hit ungroup. There is a shortcut.

Command G is to group them. That's Ctrl G on a pc. Ungroup them is command shift. G on a mac control shift, G on a pc. All right? So I've ungrouped them or you can hit the  button or you can right click them.

There's lots of ways of grouping. Where is it? Group? There it is there group. Right click. Ungroup easy.

Now aligning these up, these two are gonna be easy, okay? I've just shift clicked them both. So I've got 'em both selected. You can tell they're off. I made them off by on purpose. And I'm gonna say I want you to be middle  and center, like right in the middle of each other,  these two here, okay?

I'm gonna group them together  because together, if I shift click you, you and you. So I've got these guys and I go middle, middle. They should all line up nicely. If they were ungrouped and I did the same thing. So shift, click you, you, you, you and I try  and go middle, middle. It's not quite what I want, right?

If they're grayed out and you're like, Hey,  mine's grayed out, why is mine grayed out? It's 'cause they're already centered. I dunno why they just just have it clickable. But anyway, I'm going to group these two. Okay? Command G, control GNA pc, select all of these guys  and I'm gonna go settle center.

They're both grayed outs 'cause I've already done it  and now it's probably handy to go  through and group these guys. If yours like, mine disappeared. What do you think happened? Didn't  Actually have that bit selected. I'm gonna undo shift, click. So what you, you, oh  but I haven't got this bit.

It's hard to select that guy  'cause he's behind everything in there. What do I do? There's the right way of doing it. And then there's the way that I'd probably end up doing it. I'll show you both. So the right way is I'm gonna select it,  I'm gonna go position, I'm gonna go to layers.

I'm gonna say you best just be underneath this. Then I can go slick. You hold shift, grab the text and then grab this. Then group them. They're all together. It's one unit and you're like,  what was the way he was gonna do?

I normally do this and instead of messing around  with the layers, what I tend to do is,  especially when I'm working a document,  there's this thing here, I don't wanna move it. It's a good segue to locking things  like this thing stop moving. 'cause it gets in a way of selecting, right? 'cause I could drag a box around all of  that if this stuff wasn't in the way. So what I tend to do is once I've got this  and this kind of sorted, I select everything. Okay?

So I just dragged a box from this  edge here going image. And you, you could shift click them both. Okay? And I was gonna say, you my friend are gonna be locked. How do I do it? Right?

Click it and say lock. And all it means is I can't really select it anymore. Okay, won't move. I can right click it and unlock it. That's totally cool. But  what it means is now is I can work on this  and select all of these guys.

Can you see? I can group them? Wow, that was a long way of doing it. What do you think? That's what I end up doing is I end up getting  frustrated by the background box. I'm like, hey, stop moving background image.

Stop moving, lock 'em. And then you can kind of do all sorts of cool stuff  by slicking everything on the page,  but it's not gonna click those background elements. And you can say, all right, I just wanna move  you around a little bit. Get the idea. So groups are good. It allows you to move 'em around as one unit  and do small changes.

I can say free coffee is now bold. Okay, the top and this bottom one. Now I'm gonna select it all and pick a different font. Close it down, click off in the background. Nice. One last thing I wanna do just to remind you is that  what happens if I drag this all the way off?

Oh, still there? Nope. Gone. Okay, just wanna remind you if things disappear, it's  'cause you drag them off into this kind  of like pay sport area and camera  doesn't like that and just deletes them. Alright, my friends, uh, that is selecting,  aligning, locking grouping. Ungrouping, we did lots.

Is everybody sick of this down here? Every time I look up this thing's doing something,  it's kind of distracting you. You're probably doing the same. Gotta be  off elements, go away. Weird dog sticker. And I don't know who's using these.

Anyway, let's close 'em down and let's finish up. Deep breath and done. I'll see you in the next video.