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How to use Canva
to create Facebook
Posts

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What is Canva?

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Canva is a free
graphic-design
tool website,
founded in 2012.

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It has an easy to
use drag-and-drop
interface

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and provides
access to over a
million
photographs,

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graphics, and
fonts.

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It is used by non-
designers as well
as professionals.

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The tools can be
used for both web

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and print media
design and
graphics.

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How to use Canva
to create Facebook
Posts?

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First, open your browser

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On the address bar,

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Type in
www.canva.com

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Press Enter

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Canva homepage will appear

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Choose ways to sign up

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For this presentation, let me sign up
with email

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Check your inbox and confirm Canva
acount

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Upon signing in, Canva dashboard will
appear

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Let’s start using
Canva to create a
Facebook post!

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Click “Create a design” on the upper left
of the homepage

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This will appear

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Click “Facebook Post”

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A new screen appears

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This is your canvas

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Choose your layout from the “LAYOUTS”
section

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Here are some of the layouts you can
choose. Scroll down for more.

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Select the image you chose.

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For this example, I will choose this image.

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The image will appear in the canvas
portion.

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If you are now
satisfied with the
image,

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Then go ahead and
post it on Facebook.

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To do this, click “Share” on the upper right
hand corner of the screen.

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After clicking “Share”, this will appear.

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Now, click “Social”

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This will appear

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Click “f” for Facebook and allow Canva to
access your Facebook account

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Write a caption if you wish

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Then hit “Share now”

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That’s it! You just
used Canva to create a
Facebook post.

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But wait! There’s
more.

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The beauty about
using Canva is that

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You can always edit
your layout using
Canva tools

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The tabs on the left side of Canva screen
will help you edit your posts

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Clicking “ELEMENTS” will make you insert
shapes, lines, charts and more.

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“TEXT” will let you insert new texts with
different fonts

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“BKGROUND” will let you edit the
background of your work

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And “UPLOADS” will let you insert photos
and backgrounds from your own file

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Let’s say I would like
to change the
background of our
previous example

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First thing to do is to select the
background from your canvas

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These options will appear

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Hit the delete icon

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Then click “Delete element”

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The background will be deleted

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Let’s insert a new
background

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Click “BKGROUND”

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Select backgrounds from the list

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The list consists of free and paid
backgrounds

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For this example, I will just choose a free
background

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The canvas was updated upon clicking the
chosen background

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Let’s try changing the
fonts

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First thing, click the original text box

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These options appear

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Click delete

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The original text was deleted

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Now click “TEXT”

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Choose text format from the list

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Select your desired format

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The selected font appears on your canvas

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Edit the text

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And post it on Facebook using the same
steps we have discussed before.

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How to save your post
in your computer?

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Click “Download”

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This will appear

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Choose your desired format

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In my case, I will select JPG

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Click “Download”

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Downloading…

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Download complete

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Open your downloaded file

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This is your downloaded masterpiece

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You can also find it in your “Downloads”
folder in your computer

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By the way, you can also post your
masterpiece in Tweeter

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Just click the “Tweet” button and sign in
to your Tweeter account

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You can also send your masterpiece to
your email account

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Just click the “Email” button as seen
below

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There you have it!

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What we have
demonstrated

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is just one of the
million ways to use
Canva

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to create Facebook
posts.

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However, Canva has
still more to offer

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Like using it to do document covers

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Create beautiful blog designs

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Creating marketing materials

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Using it in other Social Media displays

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And a many more!!!!

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Go ahead and explore
Canva

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and make more artistic
and beautiful
masterpieces.

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Have a great day
ahead!