Canva

Canva is an easy-to-use tool for your social media image designs.

Most design image attributes are free, others are only $1 each.

Some of the image-size formats supported:

• Social Media

• Presentation

• Poster

• Real Estate Flyer

• Food & Drink Menu

• Business Card

• Email Header

• LinkedIn

• Facebook 

  • Cover

  • App

  • Post

  • Ad

• Instragram Post

• Twitter 

  • Post

  • Header

• Pinterest Graphic

• YouTube Channel Art

• Blog 

  • Graphic

  • Title

• Kindle Cover

• Album Cover

• Event

  • Card

  • Photo Collage

  • Invitation

• Rectangle Ads

  • Medium

  • Large

  • Leaderboard

  • Wide Skyscraper

Training

Canva Made Easy - Web Tech Czar

Canva Design School Blog

• 10 Tips to Teach Yourself Design & Boost Your Design Skills

  1. Get a design crash course through interactive tutorials

  2. Follow design blogs and read design books

  3. Start using tools like Canva and pair it with SocialPilot

  4. Gather design inspiration and learn the stories behind these artworks

  5. Try to Participate In Design Communities

  6. Get feedback on your work (and don’t be afraid of critique!)

  7. Experiment, Experiment, and Experiment

  8. Remix or remake your favorite designs

  9. Build Own a Fake (demo) Portfolio

  10. Follow and discover designers and photographers on Instagram

• New Layouts

Canva in YouTube

• Canva Design Playlists

Articles

• How to create impactful blog graphics

• Canva: The poster child of DIY graphic design

• 100 Brilliant Color Pallet Combinations: And How to Apply Them to Your Designs

• Canva for Photographers

• 4 Ways to “Automate” Good Design with Canva

• The Power Of Hero Image Design: 35 Striking Case Studies To Inspire Your Own

• 50 Design Techniques That Made These Magazine Covers Awesome [Epic Case Studies]

• 50 Beautiful and Functional Invoice Designs: Examples To Inspire You

Also See

• Design Tools

• Google Chrome Extensions

  • ColorZilla - that allows you to see color information within a web browser window.  Use the Color Picker function to find the best contrasting or complimentary  colors for a call-to-action button or to emulate a peer’s designs.

    • Hex

    • RGB code

    • Official name

    • Eyedropper - copy the color hex code of any pixel on the page

• Google Drawings

• Infographics

• Photography / Images

• Social Media for Business

• Spark by Adobe