Canva Tutorial: Create Beautiful Graphics Quickly, Easily, and for Free!

For today’s lesson I’m going to walk you through creating a sample slide advertising an upcoming family campout sponsored by a local church. As I create the slide, you’ll learn how to set up your project, add a background image, create and resize text as well as choose text colors and even line spacing. You’ll also learn how to duplicate an item, move things around on the canvas, and then how to save and download your finished project.

Today’s class is just to get you started with the basics, but Canva can do much more, so go create an account and check it out. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below.

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1:00 Overview of various design options
2:19 Entering custom dimensions for your project
3:03 Zooming in and out
3:15 Adding a background image
4:45 Adding the main text on top of the image
5:37 Changing the color of a font
6:05 Changing the font, font size, alignment and line spacing
9:20 Copying elements
12:15 Downloading/saving your completed graphic

[lezaguy]

David your classes are a must and a master!!!!

[DrDSahdev]

Its always a pleasure watching David's tutorials. Many Thanks for all the good work that you always do.Keep it up.

[monamorsy]

Love your tutorial. so easy to understand. Good Job

[angelasims]

Man, thanks so much for this quick tutorial David. I have been creating flyers from scratch in pwpt and word for ever!!

[JoanFernz]

Thanks you for helping us to know this and keep teaching.

[lalithsriram]

Thank you fellas!! I've been living my dark ages of using Adobe photoshop...!, Canva is a good choice, a good class by the way

[camilamedrano]

Thanks for the great work. I loved this

[mrockstarchrist]

Awesome tutorial you just have another subscriber. It was so educational. Thanks alot

[ivanhoe]

Great application and really easy to use! All be using it a lot! Thanks!

[Onewebstreet]

I like to use Canva too! It is an awesome tool! Great explanation and graphic demonstration.

[aureliagould]

Thank you for introducing us to this great site! Just what I needed! I've signed up and am very satisfied! Such variety of templates and fonts to choose from. I am already advertising it to my friends.

[gregoriussudaryono]

That's good information. Thanks a lot, Bro.

[LindaNicholas]

this is excellent! I am looking forward to having some fun creating all sorts of stuff with Canva! thanks so much for sharing this how to.

[Mswoodsj]

Thanks so much. This is an awesome tool!

[mangoleafinternetradio]

Thank you for this tutorial it did help with other videos for my project

[womenwhorockwithsuccess-in]

What an awesome and detailed tutorial. I learned a lot from this. Just subscribed!!!!

[LearnIrish]

Absolutely fantastic tutorial thank you.

[masterphotog]

As always, thanks for a great video, keep up the good work!

[thehateman]

Thank you for sharing, defiantly going to be using this.

[RVingLiveTheDream]

I recently discovered Canvas. Thank you 4 sharing.