Canva: Bringing Do It Yourself Design To The Masses

Posted by cegeland under Social Media
From http://socialthreesixty.com 3588 days ago
Made Hot by: PMVirtual on June 25, 2014 4:39 am

Looking for an affordable and easy to use tool that can help you create visual that pack a punch? Canva could be your new favourite thing.

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Written by lyceum
3569 days ago

Ti: I will keep my blog banners as they are, as they are created by artists and editorial cartoonists. The artists and I have documented the creative process in blog posts. Here is an example:

http://www.johncoxart.com/2008/01/banner_rough.html

http://www.johncoxart.com/2008/01/step_2_blog_banner_in_progress.html

http://www.johncoxart.com/2008/01/step_3_presto.html

I have seen several new blogs that would improve the general design very much, if they did something about their blog banner. If a blog banner looks blend and a bit tacky, it could be hard to rely on the content.

Have you saved the old versions of your blog banners?

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Written by tiroberts
3578 days ago

OMG this is absolutely phenomenal. This is EXACTLY what I need. I've just recently decided to update my banner on my blog and all of my other social media channels and it's been a total pain! Thanks for sharing this wonderful article and tool with us. I really appreciate it. :)

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Written by lyceum
3578 days ago

Ti: Please share how it goes with updating your banner! :)

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Written by lyceum
3586 days ago

Heather: Thanks for the tip! I will check out the video on Small Business Trends!

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Written by lyceum
3587 days ago

Heather: Thanks for your input! Have you tested Canva?

Do you think that this kind of service will improve the quality level of the visual marketing created by small business owners in general?

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Written by HeatherStone
3586 days ago

Martin,

I haven't tested Canva, but there is a post on Small Business Trends which includes a video demonstration. Take a look! I think it will make some aspects of design more accessible to small businesses with very limited resources.

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Written by lyceum
3587 days ago

I heard so much buzz about Canva now, that I have to test it soon! ;) Could it be Guy Kawasaki's "fault"? ;)

Could you give examples of some premium elements that you could buy?

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Written by tiroberts
3570 days ago

Hi Martin,

Updating my blog banners has gone rather well. I've updated it across all of my social media platforms as well. I try to do updates to my branding graphics and materials about once per year to keep it fresh. I'm loving the new look and my readers seem to as well. :)

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Written by HeatherStone
3586 days ago

Thanks for the added info, Chad.

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Written by cegeland
3587 days ago

Canva really can help you improve your visual marketing and they make it easy to do so. I am not a designer but find creating good looking images straight forward and relatively simple in Canva.

Premium elements all cost a dollar and include everything from clouds (such as in the example image from the article) to flags, tech looking backgrounds and everything in between. The best way to look at the premium elements is to visit Canva and look through or search the image catalogue.

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Written by HeatherStone
3587 days ago

Hi Martin,

We've all heard the buzz, including here on BizSugar. I think some of the premium elements discussed are just generally design elements and images that you might use in your design but that are part of a premium collection (like photos on Shutterstock, for example)

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