Making a Start - I Love Canva

Making a Start - I Love Canva 

Canva is such a fantastic program for all your graphic design needs. I have found it so easy to use, having had no design experience in the past. Whenever I open any Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator), I freak out at how complicated they look and close them down. I have found Canva's stock images to be fantastic and have mainly used them for my blog posts. I also created my freebie within Canva on a template I found in a free subscription I had. So many designers will give away and sell awesome templates for use in Canva. Canva also has so many in-house templates available, which I'm sure I will use more of as I start creating and marketing my products.  

Here are a few tips at the start of your branding journey that I have found helpful. I was able to create a logo from one of the Canva templates quickly and easily and have also played around with a business name banner. I worked on a colour scheme on the www.coolors.co website. I uploaded a photo of a favourite necklace to kick off my palette, and then I played around with the colours in their generator. When I finalised the colours I liked, I saved the colour codes into my Canva brand kit for use in all my designs. Another helpful website for deciding on branding colours is www.uigradients.com, as it can guide decisions for darker and lighter colour variants. I saved the fonts on my logo and business name banner into my Canva brand kit. I also saved a copy of my finalised logo in my brand kit so that it was ready to upload onto my designs.  

Canva is so fun to start playing in. I'm even using it for posters and rewards charts for my kids. I'd love to hear your Canva hints and tips too.