Hello friends. We're gonna draw rectangles. We're gonna draw circles. We're gonna put ticks inside circles. Then we're gonna look at how to adjust layers  and we'll look at the really cool layers panel. Alright, let's jump in.

Before we get started,  I've gotta show you something by accident  because I actually deleted, uh, from the last video. I created a whole bunch of empty documents. I deleted them, closed it down, went had lunch, come back. I'm like, uhoh lost the, lost the thing we were making. Okay? So if you have deleted it by accident, go to home.

Okay? And you can go to trash. And then there it is there. I can go to this and I can say restore. And hopefully now I can go back to home. And there it is.

And I can open it up. Uh, we couldn't save your design. Oh, let's click reload. All right, we're back. Carry on with the video. Okay, so we came here  before we deleted things  to add our rectangle owner circle the  pretty easy under elements.

They're all called shapes. No kidding Dan. Okay? There are lots of shapes. If you go to see all, so elements go  to shapes, there's a bunch of them. Let's add a square or so it can be a rectangle watch.

One of the defaults for all of these shapes is that,  can you see there's a cursor flashing in the middle. Okay. You can put text in the middle of them. You can leave them off. I want them off in this case. Okay, I'm gonna have it off.

I want it kind of manning this area down the bottom here. This is the kind of look I'm going for. Okay? And I want to have this kind of there. Ooh, but that is below. It gives me a really good excuse  to show you the arrange and layering.

Now we need to change that color. Okay? So I'm gonna pick just a lighter color for the moment. We'll do colors properly. Just pick default colors for the moment. White even.

Okay? And default colors. I'm gonna click on this,  click on them picking anything that's gonna go good. Anyway, now we need to look at layering,  'cause this is too far behind that. So we've got a couple of ways of doing it. You can right click something, go to layer  and send it to the back or backwards.

So there's two of them. Okay? They've got shortcuts depending on  how often you're using Canva, okay? I often use this one very often and I don't use that one. Okay? I just smash away at command.

And the square brackets, that'll be control. Square brackets on a PC square brackets are  often on a cordy keyboard. Up next to the P key. Okay? So you can hit backwards. There you go.

And if I go layer again,  backwards again, it's gonna go behind. So I use that quite a bit. I use the shortcut command or control on a PC  and just use the, the two brackets. One moves it forward, one moves it back,  and I can just keep going forward, back, back, back. So I find that super helpful. Let's do a circle.

Okay? Oh, click on a circle. It gets added. Pick a color. Any color, as long as it's from the solid colors. And same with the circle.

If you don't add text, you can add it later  on by just double clicking in it. And we're gonna go May 1st is going  to be when we're gonna do this opening. Okay? We're gonna put that in there. I'm gonna pick a big font. Don't worry too much about the font style at the moment.

We're gonna do a big section on how  to pick good fonts for our design. For the moment, just picking that,  I'm gonna rotate it a little bit, okay? 'cause I want the text to be rotated. And what I want it to do is I want it to pop  underneath this, okay? But  Above the image, I could use the shortcut,  but I wanna show you this position. So I'm gonna click position.

I'm gonna go to this one called layers. So a range is kind of like what we did before. Move it forward, move it to the back. Okay, I wanna go to layers. 'cause it's quite visual. Can you see it saying, all right, that's at the tippy top.

You can tell it's at the tippy top. 'cause it's above everything. So you imagine you're a bird  looking down, you see reopening first. Then this is on top of that. Then the May 1st is on top of this image,  which is on top of the rectangle. You get the idea, okay, so if I want this, okay, to be  below the rectangle, I can click hold and drag it.

And you can see it kind of smooshes around  and you're like, oh, wanna go in there? And there you go. You get in the right position. Okay? Sometimes that's more visual. It's really useful when things are a  little bit more confusing.

This is pretty easy layout, so not terribly hard to go  through and use that shortcut to move it back and forth. But there'll be lots of times where you're like, oh,  I just wanna drag it in the right place. So where we do it is have nothing selected  or something selected. It doesn't matter. Oh, you can't have nothing selected. Have something selected.

Find position. Okay? And if you can't see position, that's a good point. My screen is really big. So I can see quite a few of these, uh,  adjustments along the top here. But if you have a really small laptop  look, position goes away.

How do we find all the extra stuff that's not up there? You remember hit that little double arrow, okay? And you're like, all right, there's position. Then we can go from a range to layers. So there's a couple of ways to get there. You might see it if your screen is big enough  and it just has position there.

Otherwise, hit the double arrow. Give yourself some more space. If you are dealing with a small screen  and you're like, all right, this is not fun, it is tiny. Just make sure that is also closed and it the cross. So you can kind of work on this. And when you're finished with this, close it down.

You get all the screen real estate. I'm gonna go to my big version. I'm gonna scroll up a little bit. There you go. That's how to add rectangles and circles. But text in them, rotate them and play around with layers.

Remember that shortcut sheet that's in your exercise files? Print that out. It has things like  the layer heights in there. It has things like the move forward, move back  with the different layers that shortcut we looked at,  which is command square bracket  or control square bracket on a pc. Or you might find just right clicking stuff  and going to layer and moving it back and forward. Ooh, you can jump to show layers.

There you go. Alright, I'm just gonna reorder mine a little bit  and then I will see you in the next video.