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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

The Background Remover tool

The Background Remover tool has got to be, hands down, the most popular feature of Canva Pro; it always comes up as a favorite. It allows you to remove the background of any image within your designs. It also gives you the option to add or remove parts that have been missed in the background removal process.

It can be found in the Edit image section, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.16 – The Background Remover tool

Figure 4.16 – The Background Remover tool

As seen in the following example, it takes everything out of the background, leaving your main focal point:

Figure 4.17 – An image with the background removed

Figure 4.17 – An image with the background removed

Sometimes, if the background colors are similar to the main subject, parts can get left in or removed in error, so you have the Erase and Restore tools, which give you an adjustable brush size to paint back or remove parts of your image, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.18 – Background Remover Restore and Erase brushes
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