How to modify shapes in Canva

Hello. Hey, in this video we're gonna look at the handy things  to know about shapes inside of Canva. And if you hang to the end,  I'll also give you some super sweet navigation shortcuts  that you'll find are super useful now  that you are getting a little bit better in Canva. Alright, let's go. Alright,  so shapes are easy, they're right elements. Um, we looked at it a second ago.

Under shapes, there's a bunch of pre-made ones. Okay, let's just add something else. Let's go to anyone. Okay, you've got a little bit of control, but not much. Okay? So if you are thinking, Ooh,  how do I add one more star point to this, you can't.

What you can do is you can say, all right,  in here I can say the corners, I can round them. So there's very little you can do, okay? But there are some things you could do like  adding a border to it, okay? If we're on the outside and you can decide, uh,  how rounded the corners are. The other interesting thing about shapes is  that you can change them. Like this here was a circle shape.

Hey, I can go into here and say, Hey, you changed  to now this kinda more like, I don't know,  award winning wine foils sticker thing. So that's cool. You're not kind of like forced  to keep it the way it was. Same with this rectangle here. I'm not sure what we'd want to, but you could go through  and say, all right, I want it to be, well,  I can see you want it to be this. You can adjust them obviously slightly.

You can make this thing, uh, you know, it could be,  uh, elongated. Okay, and squished and rotated,  but there's not too much control about  what you could do other than rounding the corners. But it's good to know you can change them. I'm gonna use my undo key, okay? Remember, command or control z, I'm gonna leave  that as a nice little star. I'm gonna get rid of you.

One last thing about shapes, um,  is frames are quite similar to shapes, right? They look the same, um, but obviously they crop images. You don't have the ability to go through  and uh, change a lot  of these options like you can do with the shape. So they're kind of the same kind of different. That's one thing I keep trying to do is like, all right,  I want you to be a square or a star. Now you can't do that.

You'd have to go  through and detach the image. So that's separated, add a star. So we're gonna use our super sweet shortcut,  the forward slash key, and I'm gonna type in star. Okay, star frame, hit enter. Okay, so it does a search. I'm gonna say which one?

Uh, I dunno that one. Okay? And I'm going to then go you and try and drag it in. And it's a long way. It'd be great if you could just change  the shape, but you can't. And that's something to know.

And we got  to practice our super sweet shortcut. I'm gonna go undo, undo, undo. So I'm back to where it was  and I promised you at the beginning a couple  of other little shortcuts  that are just quite handy when you are using Canberra a lot. We've been using uh, this kind  of page scroll way of working. KY have been, at least sometimes when you're doing posts,  sometimes it's easy just  to work in this kind of, uh, what do they call it? So scroll view versus thumb now view.

And then you can just kind of like cycle through these  or use your page up, page down. Okay, we'll cycle through them makes more sense maybe  for our Instagram post. The other one is I do a lot  of zooming in like when we were working in here,  remember zoom in as command plus, okay? Or control plus on a pc. And I'm in there working on my  lines and then I wanna zoom out. Often the best option is to go you and go to Fit, okay?

But there's no shortcut for it  and at least it doesn't say there is one. So I'm gonna zoom in, okay? The shortcut is command option  and zero Ctrl Alt zero on your pc. I'll make sure that's in the shortcut sheet, but I use that  A lot, lot. It's just a  great way of getting to a nice view. Bit of a weird one though.

Command option zero on a Mac,  CTRL Alt Zero on a PC  and the zero is the one along the  top of your keyboard, okay? With all the numbers. Zero. They know what zero is Dan. Alright? That is shapes the things you can  and can't do with them, plus some sweet navigation tricks.

Alright, I'll see you the next video.