If you're looking to create graphics for your web site for social media really for whatever Kanva dot
com is a great way to do it because it's completely free to start out.
So go ahead and sign up at Kanva dot com.
You can connect it with your Facebook account Google account or just sign up with an email and then
I'm going to walk through how you use Kanva.
Here I am logged in and I have already created a number of designs and Kanva And once you start creating
a lot of designs they show up as soon as you log into Kanva down below where you can actually go and
edit them continue working on a project duplicate them for a different type of project make it copy
all kinds of stuff right within Canada and it's all online.
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
up right where I left off and start making graphics from there to create a brand new design though.
You have these different templates that are here at the top of the page.
These are some of the most popular templates if you click this plus more button over on the right hand
side you get a lot more different templates that you can use.
They are categorized into categories like documents blogging marketing materials social media.
This is really where I go down and the cool thing about Kanva too is that they update the size of the
different social media graphics because you know if you've been on Facebook for a while you know that
the group can't top header image for groups or pages has changed over the years.
So you can always get the most up to date here.
So say we want to create a let's just pick one of these.
This YouTube thumbnail and graphic what you do is click it.
It opens up the workspace where you can actually create the project.
So it starts out just with a blank canvas.
That is the size of the YouTube thumbnail on the left hand side you have different tabs for layouts
elements text background and uploads.
First let's pick a template or a layout because that's where I think camera is great you can just use
a template customize it.
You can build it from scratch if you want but there's lots of cool ones here so you can scroll down
some many of them are free.
Some are.
You have to pay for that's how Canada makes money.
But say you find one that you like leches picks the summer party one click it and it opens up on the
right hand side.
From here we can just go in and click around these different shapes or the images to see what types
of layers we have and then change it change then if we want so say we want to change this text we just
click on the text highlight it change it video school online we can adjust the size or the position
by clicking the edge of this.
So we want this actually at the top or something we can do that if we move our mouse around to the edge
of this text layer.
We get the sort of the crosshairs mouse where we can move this.
You can click down below to rotate it.
You also have all of your other text options up at the top like changing the font.
We want a different font or the size.
Now if I choose a dimmer size you can see that it will shrink.
If we highlight this text we can see that there's also different options in terms of the spacing if
you have two lines you can add bullet point list you can change the font color all kinds of depending
on what the fight is you can Boulder I-talian size it as well.
If I click over here for this back round image or this layer the shape layer I can reshape this mood
around as well because I would want this to cover beneath the entire text of videos online.
Now I would want to actually change this photo or move it around to fill up this whole thumbnail.
But that gives us a great opportunity to go over to the search panel over here.
So if I search for something let's just say I source search for computer press enter to bring up our
results.
You'll see that some of these you have to have a pro account but if you scroll down eventually you might
find an image that you like.
So if I find this computer keyboard I can drag it onto my project if I drag it over an image that's
already there.
I can let go and it will actually replace it.
I can undo just like normal pressing commands on a Mac Control-C on a PC.
So I just want to add this image and still have this orange slice image.
I can drag it onto my project but not on top of that image.
So just drag it over here and then I can just resize it say I want to put it over here.
If you drag it over the oranges it still will replace it.
Let's just actually delete that orange slice image so we don't have to worry about that.
Select it press the trash can appear or delete on your keyboard if you press the leak on your keyboard
you see that this image sort of frame is still there.
So let's trash that as well.
Delete element Tonalist make this computer image the full size of our thumbnail.
So that works.
And it's put it behind our video online text
if we want to change the layering of different objects.
We can choose any of the layers choose arr. and then bring it either forward or backwards and that puts
it behind or in front of the different elements.
With photos there's different types of effects you can add like the filters you can crop you can flip
it all kinds of cool stuff that you can play around with over here we have more elements I just want
to show you if you click on the elements you can get directly to free photos.
You have grids if you want to kind of create a layout in your frame or in your project you have actual
frames that you can frame photos with.
So let's just scroll down let's just drag one of these.
How about this computer right here.
So we have this image frame.
So it's the sort of image icon let me delete this image that we've added and then let's find a free
photo click free photo.
You can search has my previous search here or just find any of these other ones and leches.
Is cool motel 1 and drag into that image frame.
And there you have it in that little icon that computer icon that we added.
So these are all elements that you can play around with really really awesome.
Next is text the easiest way is just to click one of these three options up here heading subheading
or body text.
Drag it over here to the right hand side start editing it and then change the settings up here or in
the trash.
This you can use sort of preset template or stylized hex.
So here they have for example a date in a subject sort of tie title you've got some that have names.
Here's this cool one.
The farm to table stablished 1955.
So if we increase the size of this we can go in here and just you know say established in 2011 whatever
you want.
Customize that text.
Cool.
So let's delete that layer delete the group background if we want to add a background color back on
texture we can click one of these textures to add a background color.
So you have an upload an image on your computer that you want to upload just click upload click upload
your image or you can actually bring in any of your images from your computer or from Facebook.
Even so if I do that pops up here you can see all the other photos that I've uploaded in the past or
if you want to connect with Facebook you can organize them in folders all kinds of cool stuff.
So here's this Flowers photo that I just added.
So say I want to add that to that image sort of template down here with a computer strap right there.
Cool.
Now saying this is the perfect YouTube thumbnail it's a little wacky but you can see all the kind of
cool stuff that you can do with Kanva if you want to quickly make another copier another version of
this.
So you come up with a template which I think is a great idea for you YouTube thumbnails or just any
of your brain graphics.
You can just click this little duplicate button copy and you see down here we have this copy.
So net now say we made another video how to prune flowers whatever it is and then you can just make
that copy.
Awesome.
How do we actually save these so that we can put them on social media or use them as a youtube thumbnail.
Click this download button up here you have your different file types.
PNB J peg PBF they recommend DNG because that is going to be the highest quality.
Jay Pegg's typically are going to be fine too especially for just uploading online images down below
you see that we have options for what pages to export.
And that's because we created a separate copy of this.
We have two versions.
So if we want to download both of them we can or we can just download that second one just by selecting
that little box right there and putting in the number to click download.
It's going to save it for us.
And then it's going to allow us to choose where we want to save it on our computer.
So here let's put it on our desktop.
Summer Party.
Open it up and now we have that summer party graphic that we can use on our YouTube video awesome.
I'm going to let you play around with camera because it's super awesome.
You can see here they have an iPhone and Android app which is awesome to use.
They have so many cool things.
So now if we go back to Kanva we can see that they are generating the preview but we have that template
that we've created down here or that project that we've created down here that we can go back to awesome
I hope you enjoy Kanva as much as I do.
There's lots of other tools kind of similar to it but Kanva is the one that I've found to be the best
and easiest to use and they've got so many cool templates that make so creating a high quality social
media graphic so easy.
Thanks so much for watching.
If you have any questions let me know otherwise we'll see you in the next lesson or video that you watch.