WEBVTT 00:00.360 --> 00:07.020 If you're looking to create graphics for your web site for social media really for whatever Kanva dot 00:07.020 --> 00:11.810 com is a great way to do it because it's completely free to start out. 00:12.030 --> 00:14.950 So go ahead and sign up at Kanva dot com. 00:15.000 --> 00:19.260 You can connect it with your Facebook account Google account or just sign up with an email and then 00:19.260 --> 00:22.620 I'm going to walk through how you use Kanva. 00:22.620 --> 00:28.260 Here I am logged in and I have already created a number of designs and Kanva And once you start creating 00:28.260 --> 00:33.660 a lot of designs they show up as soon as you log into Kanva down below where you can actually go and 00:33.960 --> 00:39.960 edit them continue working on a project duplicate them for a different type of project make it copy 00:40.290 --> 00:43.470 all kinds of stuff right within Canada and it's all online. 00:43.470 --> 00:49.620 So what I love about it is that I can work on it here at home or if I'm out at a coffee shop I can pick 00:49.620 --> 00:55.990 up right where I left off and start making graphics from there to create a brand new design though. 00:56.070 --> 00:59.930 You have these different templates that are here at the top of the page. 00:59.940 --> 01:05.520 These are some of the most popular templates if you click this plus more button over on the right hand 01:05.520 --> 01:09.730 side you get a lot more different templates that you can use. 01:09.770 --> 01:16.940 They are categorized into categories like documents blogging marketing materials social media. 01:16.950 --> 01:24.780 This is really where I go down and the cool thing about Kanva too is that they update the size of the 01:24.960 --> 01:30.600 different social media graphics because you know if you've been on Facebook for a while you know that 01:30.930 --> 01:37.190 the group can't top header image for groups or pages has changed over the years. 01:37.320 --> 01:40.370 So you can always get the most up to date here. 01:40.740 --> 01:44.330 So say we want to create a let's just pick one of these. 01:44.340 --> 01:49.250 This YouTube thumbnail and graphic what you do is click it. 01:49.320 --> 01:53.200 It opens up the workspace where you can actually create the project. 01:53.220 --> 01:55.840 So it starts out just with a blank canvas. 01:55.920 --> 02:04.350 That is the size of the YouTube thumbnail on the left hand side you have different tabs for layouts 02:04.620 --> 02:08.050 elements text background and uploads. 02:08.310 --> 02:13.530 First let's pick a template or a layout because that's where I think camera is great you can just use 02:13.530 --> 02:15.190 a template customize it. 02:15.270 --> 02:20.340 You can build it from scratch if you want but there's lots of cool ones here so you can scroll down 02:20.700 --> 02:22.850 some many of them are free. 02:22.850 --> 02:23.440 Some are. 02:23.490 --> 02:26.370 You have to pay for that's how Canada makes money. 02:26.370 --> 02:32.310 But say you find one that you like leches picks the summer party one click it and it opens up on the 02:32.310 --> 02:34.020 right hand side. 02:34.050 --> 02:39.330 From here we can just go in and click around these different shapes or the images to see what types 02:39.330 --> 02:45.510 of layers we have and then change it change then if we want so say we want to change this text we just 02:45.510 --> 02:55.170 click on the text highlight it change it video school online we can adjust the size or the position 02:55.200 --> 02:56.850 by clicking the edge of this. 02:56.880 --> 03:02.550 So we want this actually at the top or something we can do that if we move our mouse around to the edge 03:02.550 --> 03:03.760 of this text layer. 03:03.840 --> 03:09.190 We get the sort of the crosshairs mouse where we can move this. 03:09.210 --> 03:11.470 You can click down below to rotate it. 03:11.520 --> 03:15.960 You also have all of your other text options up at the top like changing the font. 03:16.020 --> 03:18.660 We want a different font or the size. 03:18.660 --> 03:21.280 Now if I choose a dimmer size you can see that it will shrink. 03:21.480 --> 03:26.970 If we highlight this text we can see that there's also different options in terms of the spacing if 03:27.300 --> 03:34.140 you have two lines you can add bullet point list you can change the font color all kinds of depending 03:34.140 --> 03:37.560 on what the fight is you can Boulder I-talian size it as well. 03:38.540 --> 03:44.810 If I click over here for this back round image or this layer the shape layer I can reshape this mood 03:44.810 --> 03:50.900 around as well because I would want this to cover beneath the entire text of videos online. 03:52.860 --> 03:58.350 Now I would want to actually change this photo or move it around to fill up this whole thumbnail. 03:58.530 --> 04:03.780 But that gives us a great opportunity to go over to the search panel over here. 04:03.780 --> 04:12.840 So if I search for something let's just say I source search for computer press enter to bring up our 04:12.840 --> 04:13.590 results. 04:13.740 --> 04:19.230 You'll see that some of these you have to have a pro account but if you scroll down eventually you might 04:19.380 --> 04:21.960 find an image that you like. 04:21.960 --> 04:29.010 So if I find this computer keyboard I can drag it onto my project if I drag it over an image that's 04:29.010 --> 04:30.060 already there. 04:30.180 --> 04:33.180 I can let go and it will actually replace it. 04:33.360 --> 04:38.490 I can undo just like normal pressing commands on a Mac Control-C on a PC. 04:38.550 --> 04:43.120 So I just want to add this image and still have this orange slice image. 04:43.230 --> 04:46.930 I can drag it onto my project but not on top of that image. 04:46.950 --> 04:53.100 So just drag it over here and then I can just resize it say I want to put it over here. 04:54.930 --> 04:57.750 If you drag it over the oranges it still will replace it. 04:57.750 --> 05:02.270 Let's just actually delete that orange slice image so we don't have to worry about that. 05:02.410 --> 05:08.170 Select it press the trash can appear or delete on your keyboard if you press the leak on your keyboard 05:08.180 --> 05:10.990 you see that this image sort of frame is still there. 05:10.990 --> 05:13.240 So let's trash that as well. 05:13.240 --> 05:20.380 Delete element Tonalist make this computer image the full size of our thumbnail. 05:20.640 --> 05:21.940 So that works. 05:22.320 --> 05:26.280 And it's put it behind our video online text 05:29.340 --> 05:32.910 if we want to change the layering of different objects. 05:32.910 --> 05:40.320 We can choose any of the layers choose arr. and then bring it either forward or backwards and that puts 05:40.320 --> 05:42.890 it behind or in front of the different elements. 05:43.080 --> 05:49.200 With photos there's different types of effects you can add like the filters you can crop you can flip 05:49.200 --> 05:55.940 it all kinds of cool stuff that you can play around with over here we have more elements I just want 05:55.940 --> 06:00.470 to show you if you click on the elements you can get directly to free photos. 06:00.650 --> 06:07.430 You have grids if you want to kind of create a layout in your frame or in your project you have actual 06:07.430 --> 06:10.070 frames that you can frame photos with. 06:10.070 --> 06:12.580 So let's just scroll down let's just drag one of these. 06:12.590 --> 06:14.440 How about this computer right here. 06:14.630 --> 06:16.940 So we have this image frame. 06:17.080 --> 06:23.440 So it's the sort of image icon let me delete this image that we've added and then let's find a free 06:23.440 --> 06:27.070 photo click free photo. 06:27.190 --> 06:33.740 You can search has my previous search here or just find any of these other ones and leches. 06:33.840 --> 06:37.480 Is cool motel 1 and drag into that image frame. 06:37.510 --> 06:42.620 And there you have it in that little icon that computer icon that we added. 06:42.640 --> 06:46.800 So these are all elements that you can play around with really really awesome. 06:46.810 --> 06:54.300 Next is text the easiest way is just to click one of these three options up here heading subheading 06:54.330 --> 06:55.600 or body text. 06:55.680 --> 07:02.340 Drag it over here to the right hand side start editing it and then change the settings up here or in 07:02.340 --> 07:02.880 the trash. 07:02.880 --> 07:07.470 This you can use sort of preset template or stylized hex. 07:07.500 --> 07:14.640 So here they have for example a date in a subject sort of tie title you've got some that have names. 07:14.670 --> 07:15.630 Here's this cool one. 07:15.630 --> 07:19.060 The farm to table stablished 1955. 07:19.080 --> 07:24.900 So if we increase the size of this we can go in here and just you know say established in 2011 whatever 07:24.900 --> 07:25.380 you want. 07:25.440 --> 07:27.270 Customize that text. 07:27.360 --> 07:28.340 Cool. 07:28.590 --> 07:35.810 So let's delete that layer delete the group background if we want to add a background color back on 07:35.810 --> 07:40.400 texture we can click one of these textures to add a background color. 07:40.400 --> 07:46.310 So you have an upload an image on your computer that you want to upload just click upload click upload 07:46.310 --> 07:55.040 your image or you can actually bring in any of your images from your computer or from Facebook. 07:55.040 --> 08:02.120 Even so if I do that pops up here you can see all the other photos that I've uploaded in the past or 08:02.120 --> 08:06.740 if you want to connect with Facebook you can organize them in folders all kinds of cool stuff. 08:06.740 --> 08:10.000 So here's this Flowers photo that I just added. 08:10.070 --> 08:17.540 So say I want to add that to that image sort of template down here with a computer strap right there. 08:17.600 --> 08:18.230 Cool. 08:18.260 --> 08:24.230 Now saying this is the perfect YouTube thumbnail it's a little wacky but you can see all the kind of 08:24.230 --> 08:29.960 cool stuff that you can do with Kanva if you want to quickly make another copier another version of 08:29.960 --> 08:30.610 this. 08:30.620 --> 08:35.570 So you come up with a template which I think is a great idea for you YouTube thumbnails or just any 08:35.570 --> 08:37.010 of your brain graphics. 08:37.010 --> 08:42.190 You can just click this little duplicate button copy and you see down here we have this copy. 08:42.190 --> 08:49.880 So net now say we made another video how to prune flowers whatever it is and then you can just make 08:49.880 --> 08:51.010 that copy. 08:51.200 --> 08:51.530 Awesome. 08:51.530 --> 08:57.720 How do we actually save these so that we can put them on social media or use them as a youtube thumbnail. 08:57.830 --> 09:02.320 Click this download button up here you have your different file types. 09:02.320 --> 09:08.440 PNB J peg PBF they recommend DNG because that is going to be the highest quality. 09:08.470 --> 09:14.650 Jay Pegg's typically are going to be fine too especially for just uploading online images down below 09:14.650 --> 09:18.030 you see that we have options for what pages to export. 09:18.100 --> 09:20.980 And that's because we created a separate copy of this. 09:20.980 --> 09:22.190 We have two versions. 09:22.270 --> 09:27.190 So if we want to download both of them we can or we can just download that second one just by selecting 09:27.190 --> 09:32.370 that little box right there and putting in the number to click download. 09:32.440 --> 09:34.260 It's going to save it for us. 09:34.390 --> 09:39.280 And then it's going to allow us to choose where we want to save it on our computer. 09:39.310 --> 09:41.800 So here let's put it on our desktop. 09:41.850 --> 09:43.570 Summer Party. 09:44.260 --> 09:51.920 Open it up and now we have that summer party graphic that we can use on our YouTube video awesome. 09:51.940 --> 09:55.120 I'm going to let you play around with camera because it's super awesome. 09:55.210 --> 10:00.270 You can see here they have an iPhone and Android app which is awesome to use. 10:00.310 --> 10:01.500 They have so many cool things. 10:01.500 --> 10:08.630 So now if we go back to Kanva we can see that they are generating the preview but we have that template 10:08.660 --> 10:14.870 that we've created down here or that project that we've created down here that we can go back to awesome 10:14.880 --> 10:17.220 I hope you enjoy Kanva as much as I do. 10:17.220 --> 10:21.630 There's lots of other tools kind of similar to it but Kanva is the one that I've found to be the best 10:21.630 --> 10:27.390 and easiest to use and they've got so many cool templates that make so creating a high quality social 10:27.390 --> 10:28.970 media graphic so easy. 10:28.980 --> 10:29.880 Thanks so much for watching. 10:29.880 --> 10:34.920 If you have any questions let me know otherwise we'll see you in the next lesson or video that you watch.