The Complete Canva For Beginners

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Graphic Design for beginners - Learn how to create amazing designs with Canva

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Create fantastic
- professional graphic designs
- all for free inside Canva
- Learn core design skills that are transferable to all of your design projects
- Design 9 different fun and engaging projects
- each in a very hand-on
- practical way

What you'll learn

Create fantastic
professional graphic designs
all for free inside Canva
Learn core design skills that are transferable to all of your design projects
Design 9 different fun and engaging projects
each in a very hand-on
practical way
Master all the elements within Canva to produce stunning results every time
Create videos and awesome animations

* Requirements

* Internet connection and either a desktop
* laptop or tablet

Description

In this course you will learn how to create amazing, beautiful, professional graphic designs inside Canva, one of the world’s leading free graphic design applications.

  • Have you tried producing your own graphic designs that just don’t look professional?  

  • Have you been outsourcing your graphic design work, paying a lot of money while not getting designs you’re completely happy with?  

  • Want to get started in graphic design but have no formal design training and don’t know where to start?  

Well this course is for you! I will teach you everything you need to know to be able to produce all of your own designs, quickly and easily. Canva is amazing, and is much easier to learn than other expensive graphic design software. You can achieve excellent results, and because Canva is free to use, you can save huge amounts of money on design outsourcing or software fees. I have used Canva for many design projects, and always come up with fantastic end results!  

The course is split into five parts:   


Part 1 covers all of the core skills you need to use Canva efficiently and effectively. I will teach you how to use all of the tools and elements available to you, and cover topics such as:  

  • Text and Typography  

  • Using shapes and lines  

  • Adding icons and Illustrations  

  • Working with pictures and filters  

  • Adjusting colour, alignment and transparency  

  • Exporting your work  

Plus much more.  

I will also show you the website I use to get all of my stock photography, absolutely free of charge. A huge library of professional stock photography at your fingertips, all for free, with all commercial licences included. This one resource alone will save you hundreds in stock photography costs!  


In part 2, we will apply our new skills to real-world examples, and work on 9 different projects. We will produce:  

  • An album cover  

  • A Youtube video thumbnail  

  • Youtube channel art  

  • A Twitter header  

  • A Facebook cover  

  • A Facebook post  

  • An ebook cover  

  • An A4 document with data charts  

  • Presentation slides  

In each case, I will show you how to apply all of the core skills to each project, and we will produce some high quality examples, which you can then apply to your own work.  


In part 3, we will cover some basic graphic design theory, and I will show you some tips and tricks within Canva to help your work stand out. We will cover areas such as:  

  • Typography and font pairing  

  • Lines and spacing  

  • Shortcuts and quick tricks  

  • Text masking  

  • Basic colour theory  


In part 4, we will go over everything that is included in Canva Pro. This is Canva’s monthly subscription and I’ll cover everything that is included with a Canva Pro subscription. This includes the Brand Kit, Magic Resize, Background Remover, plus more.


Finally, in part 5, we will cover video and animation. Canva has added several upgrades recently and you can now work with video, add music tracks and create animations, all within the app. I’ll show you how to create amazing, professional videos with Canva’s new, easy to use tools.


By the end of this course you will have created some amazing designs for yourself, and you will have mastered the skills necessary to achieve professional results. You will be able to apply these skills to any project you wish, and with over 5 hours of video lessons, you will take your graphic design skills to the next level!

   

There is a 30 Day, 100% Money Back Guarantee, so you can take this course risk-free!  

Enroll now, and I’ll speak to you soon.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to create stunning graphic designs, quickly and easily

Course content

5 sections • 60 lectures

Introduction Preview 09:05

Using templates Preview 05:42

Downloading your work Preview 03:11

Working with text Preview 07:20

Photo backgrounds Preview 06:26

Shapes Preview 05:52

Illustrations, icons and lines Preview 07:22

Finding stock photos for free Preview 08:00

Layouts part 1 Preview 07:19

Layouts part 2, and using frames Preview 05:08

Adding pages to a design Preview 03:07

Paid elements within Canva Preview 03:16

Introduction to Part 2 Preview 01:59

Album cover 1 Preview 04:52

Album cover 2 Preview 03:30

Album cover 3 Preview 02:39

Youtube thumbnail 1 Preview 07:28

Youtube thumbnail 2 Preview 07:29

Youtube channel art Preview 10:20

Youtube channel art 2 Preview 02:37

Facebook cover Preview 09:19

Twitter header Preview 08:47

Facebook post Preview 11:39

Ebook cover 1 Preview 11:19

Ebook cover 2 Preview 07:22

Documents Preview 14:38

Data and charts Preview 06:16

Presentation slides Preview 03:39

Presentation slides 2: Adding themed pages Preview 06:41

Sum up Part 2 Preview 02:02

Typography and font pairing Preview 07:25

Typography 2 Preview 07:24

Using icons effectively Preview 05:09

Organising the dashboard Preview 03:56

Sharing designs Preview 02:36

Adding links Preview 02:39

Upgrading to Canva for Work Preview 03:36

Brand colours Preview 03:26

Custom filter codes Preview 02:55

Colour codes Preview 02:15

Shortcuts 1 Preview 05:33

Shortcuts 2 Preview 05:19

Adding shadows to text Preview 01:45

Text masking Preview 07:18

Complimentary colour scheme Preview 04:44

Analogous colour scheme Preview 02:57

Monochromatic colour scheme Preview 03:46

Brand Kit Preview 06:45

Magic Resize Preview 02:44

Paid Elements Preview 04:52

Folders for Elements Preview 01:56

Background Remover Preview 03:27

Teams, Exporting and Scheduling Preview 05:16

Videos Overview Preview 05:09

Video Grids and Frames Preview 06:39

Using the Video Tools Preview 06:12

Animations Preview 04:50

Animated Presentations Preview 04:31

Adding Music Preview 07:19

Final Thoughts Preview 00:35