The Canva Master Course for 2024 and Beyond!

Are you ready to create better designs in less time?

Students in this course will not only learn how to create great designs with Canva, but they will learn a smart workflow and templating approach that will continually save them time and help them streamline their content marketing.

We'll start with the basics:  setting up your Canva account, understanding the differences between the free and Pro versions of Canva,  and figuring out what version is right for you.

Next, as you're up and running we'll immediately set you up for success by going over all the foundational elements of Canva that are going to speed up your workflow and keep you from pulling your hair out.

Then, with a strong foundation in place, you'll solidify your Canva mastery by working through lots of real-world projects and working with some of the newest elements of Canva like animations and video.

From creating Instagram stories to creating media kits to creating e-books to creating presentations, we'll cover it all in this course. And if there's a design project we don't cover, you'll still absolutely emerge from this course with the foundation and Canva-know-how to tackle it on your own.

So if you're tired of:

-the steep learning curve of other software

-staring at a blank page

-creating designs that leave you disappointed

And you're ready to start creating better designs faster. Then, absolutely, this is the course for you.

My name is Greg and I'll be youre instructor on this journey. Besides being a husband and a father of 3, I have a Masters Certificate in Graphic Design and I've spent the last 20 years of my life making my living through programming, web design, graphic design, photography, and entrepreneurship.

So, I absolutely understand the struggle of learning new software. The struggle of creating quality design assets and staying on top of your content marketing. And, of course, the biggest challenge of all, just finding enough time for all these things in a given day. So, let's learn Canva together. The smart way!

cheers,

Greg

This lesson goes over the course outline to help you figure out how to get the most out of this course.

In this lesson, we'll review the easy process of setting up your Canva account.

Need help deciding whether you should be using Free or Pro Canva? We've got you covered! In this video, we'll go over the pricing, talk about all the differences between the two versions, and help you figure out the right place to start.

In this lesson we'll review the Canva Home screen and go over the basics of launching new projects.

In this video we'll take a look at how you add different elements of various types (graphics, pictures, video, etc.) to your design.

Easily find elements and get to just about anything in Canva quickly with the new Canva Assistant.

Understand the difference between free and premium elements.

Learn how to select and move design elements around within a Canva project.

Canva now has layers! Managing your layers and keeping your designs organized has never been easier.

Learn how to use rulers and guides can be used as design aids when creating a new design.

Learn how to resize and crop different design elements.

Learn lots of techniques for positioning and spacing elements within your design in relation to one another and in relation to the page.

Learn strategies for precisely aligning text.

Learn how to group and ungroup elements within your design.

Learn how you can lock elements to make sure their position within your design doesn't accidentally get changed.

Learn about grids and frames and how they can be a useful part of your designs, especially when creating templates that will contain content placeholders updated with new content in future iterations of the design.

Learn how to use folders to organize your work so that it's easy to find in the future.

Smart templating should be a cornerstone of your Canva workflow. In this lesson, we'll introduce the idea and talk about how it can save you time. 

What are official "brand templates" and how do template strategies vary for free and pro users.

This lesson teaches you all about the new Canva background remover (a pro feature) and how you can use it to the fullest to increase the variety of design assets you have for your design projects.

Canva's new PDF Import feature takes the headache out of editing PDFs and now makes it easy to repurpose existing PDFs into new content, all within the Canva interface.

View the solutions to the challenge exercises.

An introduction to this section of the course all about the Canva Project Interface.

Learn how to quickly find and launch templates from the Design tab that make great starting points for your own designs.

Learn how the "Styles" option under the Design Tab is a great way to very quickly update the colors or fonts within a given project.

The Canva project interface can actually look a little different depending on what type of project you launch. In this lesson we'll learn about these differences and learn how to easily navigate between these different project interface views.

The Elements Tab is probably the tab you'll visit most often while working on designs in Canva so in this lesson we'll cover everything there is to know about the Elements Tab.

Learn how you can use the search filter options to find the elements you're looking for even quicker.

Left Menu getting cluttered? In this lesson we'll talk about how you can manage the left menu appearance and hide certain items when you're not using them.

Learn all about the Uploads tab and best practices for uploading new assets into Canva

Learn how to use the Apps Tab to integrate Canva with other applications to add even more power to your Canva workflow

Learn even more about working with text inside of Canva

Learn how to use folders inside of Canva as a smart workflow that allows you to stay organized and save loads of time.

Understanding what backgrounds are and how to work with them

Understanding the File Menu and some of the interesting/helpful items that live there like Version History and Find and Replace.

Understanding the Magic Resize option for pro users and workarounds that exist for free Canva users.

Understand the image processing options that exist under the adjust menu and also the limitations of editing images in Canva.

View the solutions to the challenge exercises.

This section will introduce all the new Canva features announced in March of 2023 at the Canva Create event.

Describe what you want and let Canva's new Text to Image AI create it.

Pro Canva users can now create up to 300 brand kits to easily manage brand identity across different brands.

Creating animation on a path is now as easy as dragging your finger

Make objects disappear and even replace them with new objects -- it's like magic!

Making your audio track and video clips play nicely together just got a whole lot easier.

Instantly translate text from just about any language to any other language

Use the new Canva draw tool (with shape assist) to easily communicate idea while brainstorming or to add a quick custom doodle to your next design.

The new Magic Write tool can help you quickly move beyond the blank page and it's now available anywhere in Canva.

Quickly go from idea to Presentation using this new AI driven tool.

Start with just an image and let Canva build several designs and style options based off of that image.

Custom Gradients in Canva just became a lot easier.

The new suggested layouts feature might be a game changer -- it takes the elements in your designs and builds a number of design layouts for you to choose from.

Save tons of time by using Canva's new Bulk Create tool.

In this lesson, we'll review the basics of layout and composition.

In this lesson, we'll go over the true power of Canva grids and see how they are a vital tool for adding structure to your layouts.

In this lesson, we'll review the basics of typography.

In this lesson, we'll go over some strategies and resources that will help you find great fonts for your design projects and organize those fonts for easy access on future projects.

In this lesson, we'll review the Canva Design Size Guide.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to build your brand kit within Canva.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to create a brand style guide.

In this lesson, we'll talk about organizing your assets with folders.

In this lesson, we'll review how you can quickly incorporate things from your brand kit, style guide, and folders into your Canva projects.

A look at navigating around the Canva home screen on mobile devices.

Understand how to Navigate the top menu bar within the project interface on mobile devices and understand the different project view options.

Learn tips for working within and navigating around within projects on Canva mobile.

In this video, we go over how to change all instances of a color at one time and review how to protect colors that we don't want to change.

Color can be an important part of your design so in this lesson we'll go over a few color resources that can be very helpful when choosing colors for your designs.

In this lesson, we'll cover how to use Canva's search filters to find the Canva design assets we're looking for even faster.

Time to test your skills with a poster redesign challenge.

Watch the solution to the poster redesign challenge.

In this lesson, we'll build a Facebook cover, show you how easy it is to create alternate designs that maintain the same branding, and talk about the importance of theming your templates and assets to match your needs.

In this lesson, we'll build out a resume and work through the process of adapting a Canva template to meet your needs.

In this lesson, we'll create a graphic for Instagram and look at some smart strategies you'll want to employ when  building templates for repetitive design projects.

In this lesson, we'll create a Pinterest pin and continue to review best practices for building out design templates.

In this lesson, we'll work through the process of creating custom collages and planning for future collages which might involve a different number of images.

This lesson is the first of 2 on building a recipe book with Canva. We start in this lesson by building out the initial template, covering all the things you might want to consider along the way. In the next lesson, we'll see how you then use the template to build out your larger final document.

This lesson is the second of 2 on building a recipe book with Canva. We built our template in the first lesson, now we'll outline the process for using that template to create the final book.

This lesson takes you from start to finish through the whole process of creating a media kit with Canva.