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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

Adding elements into the mix

Elements in Canva are the individual items that you use to create a design; they can be shapes, icons, animations, text, images, and video. Each one of these options has its place within your design. In this section, we are going to look at how you find and use these within Canva.

Let’s look at static elements; these are elements that don’t move. However, the following also applies to animated elements and stickers; you can’t change the colors on these.

Once you have your template size open, head over to the Elements section in the top-left corner, and here you will see a search bar and lots of different sections below – Recently used, Lines & Shapes, Graphics, Photos, Frames, Grids, and so on:

Figure 3.1 – A close-up of the Elements section

Figure 3.1 – A close-up of the Elements section

In the search bar, we are going to search for the keyword blob. This brings up a large selection of elements that are brilliant to use as borders...

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