: Laura Goodsell 
: Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva A beginner's guide to producing professional branding, marketing, and social content for businesses
: Packt Publishing
: 9781800562585
: 1
: CHF 25.60
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: Sonstiges
: English
: 298
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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If you're constantly frustrated by how long it takes to create a design in Canva, then you've come to the right place. This book will get you up and running quickly with creating professional branded graphics in Canva.
You'll learn how to set up a Canva account, both free and pro and create a brand kit while understanding the importance of branding. Next, you'll discover all the features and tools as well as how to put everything together to build a brand you love and graphics that work for your business. As you progress, the chapters will show you how to organize your account, create presentations, use videos and animation within your marketing materials and more.
By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of what Canva is and what it does and be able to confidently and easily create a branded design from scratch.

1


Setting Up Canva on Desktop and Mobile


Canva is a fantastic platform that is available to everyone and is, in particular, ideal for small business owners. In this chapter, you will be introduced to Canva as well as how to set up your account, and we will go through the main differences between Free and Pro, so you can decide which is best for you. You will also have the chance to look at both mobile and desktop platforms, as there are some slight differences, and we will look at the Content Planner, which is Canva’s social mediascheduling tool.

In this chapter we are going to cover the followingmain topics:

  • Whatis Canva?
  • Free versus Pro – what’sthe difference?
  • Setting up yourCanva account
  • Using the mobile versionof Canva
  • Scheduling content with theContent Planner
  • Setting up foldersfor organization

By the end of this chapter, you will have set up your Canva account, created folders to organize your designs, understood the difference between the two different accounts as well as the desktop and mobile