How to Design With Canva

This Canva tutorial teaches beginners how to use this powerful graphic design platform to create visual content like posters, websites and more. The demand for Canva experts has risen in recent years as more businesses and individuals use the platform to create professional graphic designs and digital art. We begin with an overview of Canva and its interface and features. We show you how to sign up and log in before creating a design. We then explain how to create posters, certificates, thumbnails and social media elements from scratch or by using an existing template.

The course then covers more advanced Canva designs and teaches you how to create new professional-looking logos, resumes and letterheads. We demonstrate how to use existing Canva templates to speed up the production of these designs. We also describe how to design and present slides in Canva (which can be imported into Microsoft Powerpoint and Google Slides) before moving on to photo books, graphs and invoices. Finally, this Canva tutorial discusses how to use the platform to create engaging infographics and PosterMyWall templates to customise your design elements to create unique posters.

The course is ideal for graphic design, digital artists, social media managers, content creators and anyone else who wants to create professional-quality graphics and visual content for personal or business purposes. We provide a strong understanding of design principles and explain how to apply them while using Canva’s accessible tools and features. Sign up to improve your graphic design skills and learn how to harness Canva to create stunning digital art for free.