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Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva

You're reading from   Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva A beginner's guide to producing professional branding, marketing, and social content for businesses

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569331
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Laura Goodsell  Laura Goodsell 
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started, Templates, and Features
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Canva on Desktop and Mobile FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Discovering and Editing Templates 4. Chapter 3: Tools and Features for Using Elements and Images 5. Chapter 4: Designing Eye-Catching Graphics through Useful Features 6. Part 2: Creating Your Brand and Design Tips
7. Chapter 5: Exploring the Awesome Creative Tools for Branding 8. Chapter 6: Expert Hacks to Create Your Own Professional-Looking Designs 9. Chapter 7: Five Graphic Design Principles You Need to Know 10. Part 3: Let’s Get Creating
11. Chapter 8: Creating Your Perfect Logo 12. Chapter 9: Making Social Media Graphics with Canva 13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Video and Animation within Your Business Marketing 14. Chapter 11: Downloading and Sharing Your Designs 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks for Printing 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a Facebook banner

Facebook banners are a great way to advertise your business; it’s the space at the top of your group, page, or personal profile and it is free to populate with an image. However, there are often sizing issues with banners. I get asked a lot about them and how to size them correctly.

If you use the sizing in Canva for Facebook banners, then when uploaded, it will look slightly blurry. This is because Facebook compresses all images, even though you’ve used the correctly sized template according to Canva and Facebook.

How do you overcome this?

You will need to create a custom-sized template for your page or group banner. We will look at this in a moment, but first, I’d like to mention profile banners, as these are slightly different:

Figure 9.7 – Current mobile profile frame with a circular profile image on the left

Figure 9.7 – Current mobile profile frame with a circular profile image on the left

One thing to be aware of when creating your personal profile banner for Facebook...

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