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Canva Essentials

  • Length 1 day
  • Price  $590 inc GST
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Why study this course

Canva is a versatile, user-friendly design platform that empowers individuals and businesses to create stunning visuals effortlessly. With its vast library of templates, intuitive interface, and powerful tools for editing images, designing presentations, and creating social media content, Canva is a must-have in today's digital world of website design, marketing, and eCommerce.

Whether you're in marketing, education, or running a small business, learning how to use Canva will help you streamline the creation of professional-quality marketing materials, making it easier to communicate visually and stand out online.

The Canva beginners course is perfect for those just starting out, offering an introduction to Canva's core features. Learn how to navigate the interface, customise the editor, and manage files effectively. You’ll work on practical projects such as flyers, Facebook posts, and branded Instagram content. The course focuses on utilising and customising templates, applying text styling, and basic image editing. You’ll also learn how to share projects, design for print, and personalise documents, making this the perfect course to start your Canva journey.

Our experienced instructors will guide you through the essential concepts, ensuring you build a strong foundation in using Canva. You'll use hands-on exercises and real-world examples to help you apply your new knowledge immediately.

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Nexacu is part of the Lumify Group, offering you the largest public schedule of end user applications and professional development training in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. You can now access the schedule of courses and book, by clicking on the button below.

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What you’ll learn

At the completion of this course you should be able to:

  • Confidently navigate Canva’s tools and features

  • Create and customise a range of design projects, including flyers and social media posts

  • Proficiently use templates, apply text styling, and edit images

  • Produce professional-quality designs


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Canva at Lumify Work

Canva is a versatile, user-friendly design platform that empowers individuals and businesses to create stunning visuals effortlessly. With its vast library of templates, intuitive interface, and powerful tools for editing images, designing presentations, and creating social media content, Canva is a must-have in today's digital world of website design, marketing, and eCommerce.
Nexacu, part of the Lumify Group, delivers our Canva training courses.


Who is the course for?

This introductory course is aimed at those those just starting out with using Canva.


Course subjects

Introduction to Canva

  • What is Canva?

  • Online or download

  • Navigating and searching the interface

  • Customising the editor

  • Managing files and folders

  • Efficient workflow and good organisation

Quickstart

  • Project 1 - Making a flyer

  • Using and modifying Canva templates

  • Fonts and text styling

  • Colours and shapes

  • Alignment, position, size, transparency

  • Using the Elements panel

  • Switching graphics

  • Understanding print settings

  • Download your design ready for print

Editing Photos

  • Project 2 - Facebook post

  • Using the Canva preset documents

  • Standard sizes and aspect ratios for social media

  • Uploading your own photographs

  • Cropping, positioning, rotating

  • Editing brightness, contrast, and colour

  • Applying effects to photographs

  • Adding animated stickers

  • Correct file formats to use for image posts

  • Share directly to Facebook and/or download final artwork

Canva Brand Kit

  • Project 3 - Branded Instagram post

  • Design fundamentals - how to capture attention

  • Devise a brand style and set up a Canva Brand Kit

  • Uploading brand elements

  • Implementing your brand style in a project

  • Using your logo, fonts, styles, and colours

  • Using and tweaking brand illustrations and photos

  • Layout and design for effective communication

  • Choosing the right file format

  • Post straight to Instagram and/or download

Customising

  • Project 4 - Header banner for email newsletters

  • Making Canva documents from scratch

  • Custom document sizes

  • Some recommended sizes for email marketing EDMs

  • Layers, guides, margins

  • Arranging elements front to back

  • Setting an image as the background

  • Download correct image file types for EDMs

  • Connecting a MailChimp account

  • Image optimisation ready for email marketing

Design for Print

  • Project 5 - Business Card

  • Business card standard sizes

  • Modifying a template

  • Applying choices from Layouts and Styles

  • Pages for card front and back

  • Margins, text safe areas, and bleed settings

  • Readable text sizes and colours

  • Download high quality PDF ready for print

Product Design Mockups

  • Project 6 - T-shirt

  • Product design presets

  • Download and upload technique

  • Smart Mockups

  • Using Apps within Effects

  • Making variations

  • Download selected items only

  • The role of the mockup

Introduction to Video and Animation

  • Project 7 - Instagram Story

  • Social media video requirements

  • Effective, efficient video content

  • Video size, aspect ratio, and duration

  • Finding and using Canva stock video

  • Sequencing video clips

  • Overlay text on video

  • Text animation

  • Download MP4 video and/or post directly to Instagram

  • Add transitions between video segments

  • Upload audio

  • Add audio track to video

  • Fade audio in and out

  • Animate Graphic element (the logo)

Image Effects

  • Editing and applying effects to different kinds of images

  • Adjusting white balance, light, colour, and texture settings

  • Applying effects to images with transparent backgrounds

  • Making adjustments to photographs

  • Editing vector graphics settings

  • Applying filters to videos

Basic Presentation

  • An introduction to fast and easy presentations

  • Timing and slide animation

  • Applying brand styling to a presentation

  • Setting transitions between slides

  • Adding different kinds of content to slides (text, photos, vectors)

  • Timing and autoplay

  • Present on screen in Canva

  • Download as PDF


Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is required for this course.


Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.


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Nexacu Public Schedule

Nexacu is part of the Lumify Group, offering you the largest public schedule of end user applications and professional development training in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. You can now access the schedule of courses and book, by clicking on the button below.




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