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Thanks, I'm glad you found this helpful and happy to hear you've been enjoying the course. If you run into any Canva related questions just let me know! cheers, Greg
Hi Greg, I'm finding your tutorials absolutely great! I'm a newbie to Canva, designing cards, calendars, planners etc. to sell on my website. In addition to creating content from Canva, I'll also be using images of my colour pencil art. Thanks so much for presenting things in such a clear and uncluttered way. 😊 Sandi, Cape Town
Thank you for this interesting and useful video lesson. Especially I liked part of 19:30 - where you explained how to use the grid feature. Firstly I didn't understand but after some time I figured out how to use it... You gave me nice ideas 😃 P.S. For some reason not all texture I could expand on the grid... but in general, it works.
Really really fine information. info on folders and folders that I could never find and now I can because of you and all other fabulous tips and organizing that I have never found anywhere else. Thank you so much for that
Fantastic! Key for any newbie to any software is how to organize and navigate. Too many others jump right into CREATION without giving the basics. I am still a bit in the dark as to just what constitutes a FILE in Canva? As a long time MS Windows person on a PC, folder and file structures are in my brain. I keep overwriting things - I THINK - because they disappear and I only see my last updates. Is there an equivalent to Win SAVE AS where a copy of a base file is created with a new name & if you forget to rename it, you are asked if you want to REPLACE the original. Is the name in the top bar in CANVA left of "Try Pro for 30 Days" and my picture a file name? Do I have to copy my design first and THEN rename it myself? Will watch for more from you. Great presentation. Thanks. Brewster
Two more comments now I finished your whole great video. I was very lost after minute 13 about the new hamburger 3 lines. I went back to minute 1:33 and you already had the 3 lines but not me. Turns out I was on my HOME screen and you were not. It sounds like you have to be inside an actual design and editing it before you see them. At one point you mentioned going back to the HOME screen but it really wasn't the HOME screen - maybe home for the design interface once you are in it! Worth mentioning at the beginning. Also I finally saw you had 10 windows tabs open at once - me only one. Maybe that's why I had problems keeping up. Is that a Windows setting or a Canva one - new tabs? Still very pleased I watched and am already setting up folders. Thanks again.
If you are a Windows user then you're probably familiar with Windows Explorer which lets you navigate your folder structure on Windows. In Canva, the closest equivalent to this is the Projects tab, which you can actually find from the Left Menu on the Home screen or from the left menu within the project interface, although it will work slightly differently following the link from the home screen. In both instances, it lets you navigate your folders, but from the home screen it most closely resembles what you get with Windows Explorer. After visiting the Projects left menu link from the home screen, you then want to look for the "Folders" tab at the top of the screen and that will let you see and navigate through your different Canva folders. When navigating down into subfolders you should get breadcrumb navigation links at the top of the window so if you you went into "Social Media" folder and then into a "Facebook" folder within that folder then at the top of the screen you'd see something like: Projects -> Social Media -> Facebook and you could click on any of those to view that level of your folder hierarchy. Hopefully, that makes sense. : ) Yes, I tend to work with lots of tabs open. This is just a web browser convention where I'm opening up different web browser tabs so I can have different projects open in each tab...and maybe have the Canva Home Screen open in another tab. It just saves time when I find myself jumping between a few different things. Of course, I do have a bad habit of having WAY too many tabs open at the end of a give day. Best of luck! cheers, Greg
Thank you for sharing this very useful information in such a clear and concise way. Just clicked the like, subscribe buttons, and commented. Now I am going to your channel page to start binge watching on all the topics I am having questions about. Really appreciate it in small manageable chunks. :) Francine
another amazing tutorial, it seems Style brush functions the same way as Word's format brush, applying the format on target the same way. I wonder if the format here implies the same(font, size and others).
This was awesome thank you. Question, I’m part of a team and I create all of the graphics. When I create a folder and share the folder will the members see the folder the same way and can they add to it too.
Hi, Julie. Personally, I do not currently have a teams account, but, yes, I believe that is how it should work. When the team leader shares a folder then the other team members should be able to see it, add to it, and work with folder designs/elements....but, the team leader usually has some level of administrative control in terms of folder permissions (what team members can and can not do) so just make sure you review sharing settings. Also of note, Canva did just recently announce a pricing change for teams account. This is probably something you are aware of already, but if you need to get up to speed with the upcoming teams pricing change...I just posted a new video to this channel a few days ago. Best of luck! cheers, Greg
Hi Greg. Been creating folders for a lot of things as per your guidance. Great so far. One thing keeps happening that I can't figure out. Most of my designs are single pages - thumbnails for my RUclips channel. After changing one, the checkmark appears to indicate SAVED and I even do a file save again. Now if I click on a different one page design inn the left panel to make changes to it, it always asks "Add template as new page? with Replace current page / Add as new page buttons. I don't want either. I want the exiting design in the interface to just go away and bring in the second one. They are all only one page. What is going on? Driving me nuts. Thanks Bruce
You're welcome! For the font pairings I just googled something like "great font pairings" and then I looked into some of the result pages and found font pairings I liked which used fonts I could find in Canva. I then built on my Canva file, create a page with a simple/clean layout that utilized a headline, subheading, and a paragraph of body text. I used the name of the font I was using as my heading/subheading so it would make it a super easy visual reference. I also started the body text with the name of the font I was using for that and then added another paragraph of dummy text (just search for "lorem ipsum generator") just so visually I'd get the full picture. Once I had one set of font pairing complete, I just duplicate the page anytime I have a new set of font combinations that I enjoy so this file just makes a really easy reference anytime I'm working on a new project and I'm thinking on what fonts I might want to use. Hope this helps! cheers, Greg
Thanks so much, one question, when moving images, and say you have a lot, they don't move away, I know it is now moved, but its still showing, and when you have a lot to sort through you wont know what images has been moved to a folder, thats for uploaded images or the Ai generated images? Cause sy you don't have that much time to move them all right now, and the next day, you won't know where you have stopped. Oh, and if you delete images, will your designs with that image, will that design loose that image? Hope this makes sense 😂
Hmmm, when I move items to folders they seem to disappear from the old location and show in the new folder. Perhaps, I'm not totally understanding what you're experiencing. If you can provide more specifics then I'll help if I can. When you add an image to a design, I'm pretty sure it becomes and embedded part of that design and you wouldn't loose it from that design if you deleted the image from the root folder, but I'll have to test this to confirm for sure. cheers, Greg
Thanks for this video. The thing I don't like is after moving everything to folders, Canva still shows the same images, videos, etc. outside of the folders which looks very cluttered.
You're welcome. Yes, I think Canva can still improve their UI, but I think what's probably most important for users is is to set up and utilize a folder/organization structure that makes sense for their workflow and then if they really stick to that they will have all their design assets at their fingertips from within a Canva design project and they can end up saving a lot of time. cheers, Greg
Good question. I think this is something Canva could definitely improve, but making more filter options under the Projects tab. But right now, if you go to the Projects tab from the Canva Home screen then you'll see a list of all your Canva assets. When viewing your list of assets, anything that's in a folder will show the name of the folder. It's not super "in your face obvious", but it's there. If you're in viewing things in "grid view" then the folder name shows below the image on the bottom right. In list view, the folder names shows in the Name column, below the name of the items. This is for desktop at least and in both case, grid view and list view view, the folder name shows with gray background behind it. Hope this helps. And hopefully, they improve this in the future...it would be nice to just be able to easier filter to a view of all your items that were in your Canva root directory and not in a subfolder. cheers, Greg
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Wow this is really useful. Thank you for taking the time to share this. As well your Udemy class is fantastic.
Thanks, I'm glad you found this helpful and happy to hear you've been enjoying the course. If you run into any Canva related questions just let me know! cheers, Greg
Hi Greg, I'm finding your tutorials absolutely great! I'm a newbie to Canva, designing cards, calendars, planners etc. to sell on my website. In addition to creating content from Canva, I'll also be using images of my colour pencil art. Thanks so much for presenting things in such a clear and uncluttered way. 😊 Sandi, Cape Town
Hi Sandi,
Happy to hear you are finding my tutorials helpful! Just let me know if you have any Canva questions. cheers, Greg
Thank you for this interesting and useful video lesson.
Especially I liked part of 19:30 - where you explained how to use the grid feature.
Firstly I didn't understand but after some time I figured out how to use it... You gave me nice ideas 😃
P.S. For some reason not all texture I could expand on the grid... but in general, it works.
Thank you so much for this very informative tutorial ❤
My pleasure! Glad it was helpful. cheers, Greg
very informative and well presented. Thank You!
My pleasure Christine! cheers, Greg
This was so helpful! Thank you.
Sure thing! 👍
Really really fine information. info on folders and folders that I could never find and now I can because of you and all other fabulous tips and organizing that I have never found anywhere else. Thank you so much for that
You're welcome, so glad to hear it was helpful! cheers, Greg
Thank you so much, Greg 🙏🏼
Sure thing, glad it helped. cheers, Greg
Fantastic! Key for any newbie to any software is how to organize and navigate. Too many others jump right into CREATION without giving the basics. I am still a bit in the dark as to just what constitutes a FILE in Canva? As a long time MS Windows person on a PC, folder and file structures are in my brain. I keep overwriting things - I THINK - because they disappear and I only see my last updates. Is there an equivalent to Win SAVE AS where a copy of a base file is created with a new name & if you forget to rename it, you are asked if you want to REPLACE the original. Is the name in the top bar in CANVA left of "Try Pro for 30 Days" and my picture a file name? Do I have to copy my design first and THEN rename it myself?
Will watch for more from you. Great presentation. Thanks.
Brewster
Nicely explained ❤
Hey thanks, glad it was helpful! cheers, Greg
Good news!
Two more comments now I finished your whole great video. I was very lost after minute 13 about the new hamburger 3 lines. I went back to minute 1:33 and you already had the 3 lines but not me. Turns out I was on my HOME screen and you were not. It sounds like you have to be inside an actual design and editing it before you see them. At one point you mentioned going back to the HOME screen but it really wasn't the HOME screen - maybe home for the design interface once you are in it! Worth mentioning at the beginning. Also I finally saw you had 10 windows tabs open at once - me only one. Maybe that's why I had problems keeping up. Is that a Windows setting or a Canva one - new tabs? Still very pleased I watched and am already setting up folders. Thanks again.
If you are a Windows user then you're probably familiar with Windows Explorer which lets you navigate your folder structure on Windows. In Canva, the closest equivalent to this is the Projects tab, which you can actually find from the Left Menu on the Home screen or from the left menu within the project interface, although it will work slightly differently following the link from the home screen. In both instances, it lets you navigate your folders, but from the home screen it most closely resembles what you get with Windows Explorer. After visiting the Projects left menu link from the home screen, you then want to look for the "Folders" tab at the top of the screen and that will let you see and navigate through your different Canva folders. When navigating down into subfolders you should get breadcrumb navigation links at the top of the window so if you you went into "Social Media" folder and then into a "Facebook" folder within that folder then at the top of the screen you'd see something like: Projects -> Social Media -> Facebook and you could click on any of those to view that level of your folder hierarchy. Hopefully, that makes sense. : )
Yes, I tend to work with lots of tabs open. This is just a web browser convention where I'm opening up different web browser tabs so I can have different projects open in each tab...and maybe have the Canva Home Screen open in another tab. It just saves time when I find myself jumping between a few different things. Of course, I do have a bad habit of having WAY too many tabs open at the end of a give day.
Best of luck!
cheers,
Greg
Thanks for such a detailed answer.
@@thebrewsterblock Sure thing, happy to help! cheers, Greg
Thank you for sharing this very useful information in such a clear and concise way. Just clicked the like, subscribe buttons, and commented. Now I am going to your channel page to start binge watching on all the topics I am having questions about. Really appreciate it in small manageable chunks. :) Francine
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! cheers, Greg
another amazing tutorial, it seems Style brush functions the same way as Word's format brush, applying the format on target the same way. I wonder if the format here implies the same(font, size and others).
This was awesome thank you.
Question, I’m part of a team and I create all of the graphics. When I create a folder and share the folder will the members see the folder the same way and can they add to it too.
Hi, Julie. Personally, I do not currently have a teams account, but, yes, I believe that is how it should work. When the team leader shares a folder then the other team members should be able to see it, add to it, and work with folder designs/elements....but, the team leader usually has some level of administrative control in terms of folder permissions (what team members can and can not do) so just make sure you review sharing settings. Also of note, Canva did just recently announce a pricing change for teams account. This is probably something you are aware of already, but if you need to get up to speed with the upcoming teams pricing change...I just posted a new video to this channel a few days ago. Best of luck! cheers, Greg
Hi Greg. Been creating folders for a lot of things as per your guidance. Great so far. One thing keeps happening that I can't figure out. Most of my designs are single pages - thumbnails for my RUclips channel. After changing one, the checkmark appears to indicate SAVED and I even do a file save again. Now if I click on a different one page design inn the left panel to make changes to it, it always asks "Add template as new page? with Replace current page / Add as new page buttons. I don't want either. I want the exiting design in the interface to just go away and bring in the second one. They are all only one page. What is going on? Driving me nuts.
Thanks Bruce
Where did you get the font pairing pictures? Those are great!
I just organized some of my mess inside Canva!!! 6 months of craziness in there!!! Thank you.
You're welcome! For the font pairings I just googled something like "great font pairings" and then I looked into some of the result pages and found font pairings I liked which used fonts I could find in Canva. I then built on my Canva file, create a page with a simple/clean layout that utilized a headline, subheading, and a paragraph of body text. I used the name of the font I was using as my heading/subheading so it would make it a super easy visual reference. I also started the body text with the name of the font I was using for that and then added another paragraph of dummy text (just search for "lorem ipsum generator") just so visually I'd get the full picture. Once I had one set of font pairing complete, I just duplicate the page anytime I have a new set of font combinations that I enjoy so this file just makes a really easy reference anytime I'm working on a new project and I'm thinking on what fonts I might want to use. Hope this helps! cheers, Greg
Thanks so much, one question, when moving images, and say you have a lot, they don't move away, I know it is now moved, but its still showing, and when you have a lot to sort through you wont know what images has been moved to a folder, thats for uploaded images or the Ai generated images? Cause sy you don't have that much time to move them all right now, and the next day, you won't know where you have stopped. Oh, and if you delete images, will your designs with that image, will that design loose that image? Hope this makes sense 😂
Hmmm, when I move items to folders they seem to disappear from the old location and show in the new folder. Perhaps, I'm not totally understanding what you're experiencing. If you can provide more specifics then I'll help if I can. When you add an image to a design, I'm pretty sure it becomes and embedded part of that design and you wouldn't loose it from that design if you deleted the image from the root folder, but I'll have to test this to confirm for sure. cheers, Greg
Thanks for this video. The thing I don't like is after moving everything to folders, Canva still shows the same images, videos, etc. outside of the folders which looks very cluttered.
You're welcome. Yes, I think Canva can still improve their UI, but I think what's probably most important for users is is to set up and utilize a folder/organization structure that makes sense for their workflow and then if they really stick to that they will have all their design assets at their fingertips from within a Canva design project and they can end up saving a lot of time. cheers, Greg
I may have missed this, is there a way to view all your designs that aren't in folders? (so that you can then put them in a folder haha) Thanks!
Good question. I think this is something Canva could definitely improve, but making more filter options under the Projects tab. But right now, if you go to the Projects tab from the Canva Home screen then you'll see a list of all your Canva assets. When viewing your list of assets, anything that's in a folder will show the name of the folder. It's not super "in your face obvious", but it's there. If you're in viewing things in "grid view" then the folder name shows below the image on the bottom right. In list view, the folder names shows in the Name column, below the name of the items. This is for desktop at least and in both case, grid view and list view view, the folder name shows with gray background behind it. Hope this helps. And hopefully, they improve this in the future...it would be nice to just be able to easier filter to a view of all your items that were in your Canva root directory and not in a subfolder. cheers,
Greg
Great explanation
I’m off to make beaucoup folders😉
Yes, getting organized in Canva can definitely end up saving you time! : ) cheers, Greg
This was so helpful!! Thank you!!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 👍