How to use Canva to design eye-catching graphics for your website and social media posts (including Christmas designs)

Venue:
Online
 
Date:
05/11/2024
 
Note:
Tuesday, 5th November
 
Time:
9:30am to 12:30pm
 
Category:
Social Media
 

Would you like to know how you can improve your social media posts by using eye-catching graphics and images? And would you like to be able to design your own graphics for your website in the run up to Christmas? **Not for digital marketing trainers/consultants or website designers. Priority will be given to Longford Businesses and Individuals.**

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How to use Canva to design eye-catching graphics for your website and social media posts (including Christmas designs)

Would you like to know how you can improve your social media posts by using eye-catching graphics and images? And would you like to be able to design your own graphics for your website? This training course will explain how to use Canva (the free version) to:

  1. Design your images from scratch covering how to crop, add text, animate the text, add your logo, create branded backgrounds, using shapes, frames and effects.
  2. Also how to adapt the thousands of professionally designed templates for your marketing.

What we will cover 

How to design graphics starting with a blank canvas

  • How to resize and crop your images and add your logo
  • How to add very professional looking text and how to animate the text
  • How to remove and replace  the background from your product or staff images even if you don’t have the pro version of Canva
  • How to create backgrounds that match your brand colour
  • How to design images that are square, portrait 9:16  (for stories and reels) and  16:9 video thumbnails
  • How to add images and videos to frames
  • Plus in this pre-Christmas course we will look at how to create festive designs

How to adapt Canva Templates

  • How to search for and find Templates. How to filter.
  • How to adapt Templates with your images and text.

How to use the latest AI features in Canva

  • Demo of lots of the latest AI features Canva have introduced to make designing your graphics easier

    This course is not for digital marketing trainers/consultants or website designers