Uploading your own images into Canva

Hello. In this video we are going to upload our own images. Rather than relying on the ones built into  Canva, we're gonna upload them. I'm gonna show you the official way  and then I'm gonna show you the easy way that everyone does. Let's jump in. Alright, uploading your own images.

There's a bar here. Okay, so click on uploads  and at the top here it says, upload your files. Okay? And if you've downloaded the exercise files, go  and find the one called popcorn. Okay? It's in your exercise files.

Let's click open and you'll see it kind of little bar there. You'll see this like little upload graphic. It's pretty cool. Okay? And then you just drag it on. You can't drag it into no man's land  'cause it doesn't like stuff out here.

When you drag it into the document,  it often replaces the document. I'm just hitting undo, undo again. I'm gonna drag it so it's kind of like down,  even though I don't want it down here. It really like images coming into Canva. It really wants to try and think for you, okay? That there is saying, I'll be the background.

You're like, oh, I don't want you to be the background. Undo. I want you to just click it once  and it'll just appear in the middle. Now undo that again,  and let's use the little dotted lines  to delete them if you do need to move them. And what you'll find is there is the  official way using the uploads. I'm gonna close down uploads.

What you tend to do is I just open it up in the finder. Whether you are in a Mac  or pc, I don't really need  to add all three, but let's show you. I'm gonna drag all three of them into my document. What will happen is, can you see? They just appear. They appear.

You can see they're uploading there. They go the official way,  but it's easy just to drag them into the file. Okay? So I'm gonna get rid of all of them except this,  and I wanna switch out you for that one there. Oh, okay. Coffee now is gonna be a free popcorn day  'cause popcorn is cheaper for the reopening.

We've worked out, we've got a cafe quote  in and it's really expensive. I'm gonna double click on it and I'm gonna say, you,  you, there you go. It's my popcorn. You'll notice I can't kind of move it in  because there's not enough edge on the side here. We'll look at expand later on, which you can kind  of fake some background, but for the moment, that'll, Lou,  there used to be limits on uploading  images in the free account. That seems to have gone away.

That might come back. It was pretty hefty though, so it was fine. Alright, that's it. Uploading your own images,  do it the official way or do what everyone else does  and just drag 'em onto your document. Either way, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.