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How to Put a Link into a Canva Design
Sometimes a tool or shell can make you forget the basics. Meaning, while Canva is an amazing tool that offers all sorts of design capabilities, it merely “houses” a lot of things you can create […]
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How to Make an Animated Graphic in Canva
Canva made the words “graphic design” less scary. The problem was, if you wanted to make an animated graphic like a GIF, there were still plenty of reasons to be anxious (and not, it wasn’t […]
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How to Make a Checklist with Checkboxes in Canva
You know when kids do something wrong, repeatedly, and then you choose that one that to really get upset about, just to make an example? If you stacked up everything you could have gotten mad at, […]
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Animated Text Words in Canva: an Introduction
I won’t go as far as calling animated words in Canva the design tool’s best kept secret, because lets face it, I might just be late to the party, while everyone else has been reaping […]
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How to Create a Favicon in Canva [Tutorial]
When creating your own website and blog, it’s amazing how many things you just don’t think about, or, that the things you have thought about turn out to be more difficult than they should or […]
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Circular Crop in Canva—Put Faces & Square Images Into Circles [Tutorial]
Circles seem to be all the rage now, right? Think back to the early days of Facebook, with your profile picture stuck inside a standard square. Today’s Facebook profile pic? Circle. It’s just one example […]
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Custom Basketball Card Template—Download or Create Your Own
One of the coolest things about kids growing up is celebrating the milestones. What are their “stats,” how far have they progressed, and so on? In doing so, though, we are constantly looking for new […]
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Backstage Pass Templates: Customize & Download Your Own
As kids get older, among friends and family, I’ve become the go-to graphic design helper for all things invitations, save the dates, holiday cards, etc. I’m not a designer, as a reminder, but I have […]
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Creating & Using Canva Text Effects
August 2020 update! New “out of the box” text effects are rolling out to Canva accounts as we speak. I walk through what’s available here. (Spoiler, there still isn’t a Canva strikethrough text button, but […]
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How to Make a Transparent Background in Canva
Image transparency and backgrounds seem to be the always-present, never-ending thorns in the sides of anyone trying to do graphic design without Photoshop, am I right? You work and work, tweak, work some more and […]
