Canva is a free online graphic design platform that allows both designers and non-designers to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content. It offers many design templates and tools to build with as well as the ability to upload your own images. The tutorial walks through creating a Facebook post design on Canva, including adding text, images and downloading the finished product. Canva for Work is the paid professional version that offers additional features like custom templates and branding capabilities for teams.

1. GETTING STARTED WITH
CANVA
BY GRACE A. SANGIL

2. Canva is an
online graphic
design platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canva

3. It is a free
powerful design
tool made for non-
designers

4. It offers access to
many design tools
and options

5. There is a free
standard version
and the newer
Canva for Work

6. Canva for Work
is the paid
professional version
of Canva

7. In this tutorial we
will explore both
free Canva and
Canva for Work

8. Let us begin with
the standard free
version of Canva

9. Let us connect
to the internet

10. From your desktop
or laptop screen,
click your browser

11. Let us use the
browser Mozilla
for this tutorial

12. Click your browser

13. Type www.canva.com in the
address box

14. Let us now
create your free
account with
Canva

15. You have 3
Options when
signing up with
Canva

16. You can either
sign up with
your facebook
account

17. Or your google
account

18. Or your Email
Account

19. Let us click Sign up with Email

20. Fill in your Full Name

21. Fill in your Full Name

22. Fill in your Email

23. Fill in Email again to confirm

24. Fill in your Password

25. Click Sign Up

26. Sign up Complete

27. Let us choose and click Personal

28. Let us click Show me
how it is done

29. It will show you how to use it the

30. The sidebar
Let us begin with
the Elements

31. Scroll down to begin

32. Click on the circle
to change the color

33. Pick a Color

34. Choose the color that you want

35. The red circle is now replaced with
your choice color

36. The red circle is now replaced with
your choice color

37. Scroll down to get to the next
exercise

38. Let us play around this image using
available images

39. Type hat in the search box

40. Choose a free hat, drag it and put it
on this monkey

41. There you go
the monkey now has a hat

42. Click on the background to get on
the background templates

43. Choose a free color and click

44. The new background is now added
to the page

45. Let us explore the
Search on the sidebar

46. Type fruit in the search box and
click

47. Drag a free fruit image into the
frame

48. Choosing a Layout

49. Click Layout on the sidebar

50. Choose a free Layout design
and click

51. Your choice layout design
is now on the frame

52. How to upload
your own image

53. Click UPLOADS

54. Click Upload your own image

55. It will bring you to your files

56. Click your pictures

57. Click the chrysanthemum picture

58. Click Open

59. The picture is now uploaded to your
Canva interface

60. Let us go back to your pictures
library and upload all photos

61. All the photos are now uploaded

62. Let us create a design
for facebook post

63. Click Facebook Post

64. You are now given
access to many designs

65. Choose among the free designs

66. Let us change the text

67. Type your text, can be a quote from
your favorite author

68. Choose your preferred font style

69. Choose your preferred font size

70. Choose your preferred font color

71. Let us retain the word Sunset

72. Let us add more texts below

73. Choose font style, size and color

74. We have to add the name of the
author of the quote

75. Click text and type in the name of
the author and book

76. You now have the finished design

77. Let us click the Download button

78. Let us click Image for Web

79. The program is now
saving your design

80. You can now post your design

81. Let us check our design which we
downloaded

82. Choose Save File then click Ok

83. Double click the downloaded file

84. Click File and make copy

85. Save it to your pictures library

87. Log in to your facebook account

88. Click Photo/Video

89. Choose the newly designed
facebook post

90. Click Open

91. Wait for the design to upload

92. You are now ready to post

93. You have just posted on facebook
your newly designed image

94. You have just
seen how to
design a
facebook post
using Canva.

95. What is
Canva for
Work?

96. Canva for Work is indeed
dream

97. The free Canva
and Canva for
Work is pretty
much the same

98. The only big
difference

99. In Canva for Work,
you can create your
own templates
customized for your
brand

100. tab

101. Your brand tab
can create
templates for
common
projects

102. Your Team
stream tab lets
you see what
your team has
been creating

103. It has a Magic Resize
capability that you
can use to take one
design and duplicate
it across multiple
formats in a single
click

104. Canva for Work is
not called every
social media
for nothing

105. If you are
willing to pay a
premium, get
Canva for Work

106. If you still want to
explore the standard
free version of Canva,
go ahead and just be
perfectly happy with
it.

107. intelligence
-Albert Einstein

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