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Canva Intermediate

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.

This Canva intermediate course expands on basic Canva skills, introducing more advanced tools such as whiteboards, AI-powered Magic tools, and professional presentation techniques. You'll learn how to create effective presentations, generate imagery and text using AI, and apply video editing skills to your projects. The course also covers website prototyping, along with best practices for building searchable and efficient site content.

Our experienced instructors will guide you through the essential concepts and you'll learn time-saving tips, best practices, and advanced techniques to enhance your productivity and create high-quality graphics efficiently.

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What you’ll learn

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

Use advanced design techniques in Canva
Be proficient in creating whiteboards, presentations, and videos
Utilise AI Magic tools for generating imagery and text
Prototype websites and apply best practices
Optimise projects for both online and print

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Who is the course for?

This intermediate course is aimed at those who want to push their Canva skills to the next level and handle more complex design projects.

Course subjects

Canva Essentials Recap

Working with folders and managing files
Using and modifying templates
Making your own designs from scratch
Implementing a Brand Kit
Designing for print
Designing social media posts and videos
Sharing with others

Develop with Whiteboards

Making and using Whiteboards
Making a moodboard to develop branded campaign style
Elements of design for visual impact and communication
Colour schemes
Compatible font pairings
Text hierarchy
Using the Drawing tools, Sticky notes, and Shapes
Using AI Shape Assist with Drawing tools
Sharing the Moodboard

Presentations

Using your Brand Kit with a presentation template
Effective presentation design for impact and consistency
Slide timing
Slide animation and element animation
Bar graphs, stacked bar graphs
Animated pie charts
Editing graphs and charts to match your brand
Entering precise data for charts
Connecting data from a spreadsheet or CSV file
Presenting on screen in Canva
Downloading PowerPoint slide deck
Issues when converting to PowerPoint

Generate Imagery with AI Magic Tools

Using Magic Design with an image
Editing the generated design
Generate images with AI Text to Image
Effective prompt engineering techniques for images
Using AI Magic Edit
Add to or replace within photographs
Using AI Magic Erase to retouch photos
Background removal
Replacing backgrounds

Video Techniques

Designing a brand forward intro
Animated graphics and text with video
Managing multiple scenes
Video editing, transitions, timing, and pace
Adding stickers and GiPHY to videos
Finding or uploading your own audio
Multi-track audio
Captions and titles
Designing an outro that motivates action

Generate Text with AI Magic Tools

Using Canva Docs
AI Text tools
Effective prompt engineering techniques for text
Generate content for emails, websites, and presentations
Summarise, expand, and rewrite text
Using the AI Translate App
Generate search keywords and tags for socials

Website Prototype

Finding and using website templates
Single scroll vs multi-page sites
Apply Brand Kit styling to a website
Add and remove content
Add and remove site pages
Best practice for efficient, searchable site content
Edit and add hyperlinks
Manage site navigation
Responsive design for different screen sizes
Testing at different device sizes
Tips to control responsive layout
Download the final result
Limitations of Canva for web sites
Making elements for sites vs building sites in Canva

Prerequisites

Students should already have Canva skills at a beginner level and ideally have completed our Canva Essentials 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.