How To Create Quick Amazing Facebook Photos Using Canva - Micky Oriola - Virtual Professional - Social Media
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This document provides a tutorial on how to use Canva, a free online graphic design tool, to create engaging photos and graphics for social media posts. It outlines the key features of Canva, including templates, images, shapes, and text options. The tutorial then walks through creating a sample Facebook post design about friendship. It demonstrates how to customize a template, add images and text boxes, modify text styles, and export the finalized design. The goal is to help users learn the basics of Canva in order to design beautiful, high-quality visuals for social media engagement.
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How To Create Quick Amazing Facebook Photos Using Canva - Micky Oriola - Virtual Professional - Social Media
- 1. mickyoriola.com HOW TO CREATE QUICK, AMAZING PHOTOS using
- 2. Do you know that Facebook posts get 39% more interaction and engagement? mickyoriola.com
- 3. To be part of this engagement, post amazing photos! mickyoriola.com
- 4. Canva can help create beautiful graphics quickly & easily! mickyoriola.com
- 5. How Canva Works Simply select from an enormous repository of images mickyoriola.com
- 6. OR you can upload your own. It's easy! Let's go! mickyoriola.com
- 7. Open your web browser mickyoriola.com
- 8. In this tutorial, Google Chrome will be the search engine. mickyoriola.com
- 9. Type canva.com on the web address area & press enter mickyoriola.com
- 10. Welcome to the Canva page! mickyoriola.com
- 11. Create an account using Facebook, Google or your email account mickyoriola.com
- 12. Click on the Sign up button when done mickyoriola.com
- 13. Choose from any of the buttons. mickyoriola.com
- 14. Before we proceed, let me take you on a Canva tour mickyoriola.com
- 15. There are 2 elements to Canva: Dashboard & Main Work Area mickyoriola.com
- 16. Dashboard There are several design layouts that you will be given access to. mickyoriola.com
- 17. You may choose a pre-defined template to work on. mickyoriola.com
- 18. Design options range from Social Media to Blog Graphic. mickyoriola.com
- 22. Specific pixel size in mind? Click the Use custom dimensions mickyoriola.com
- 23. Provide the W & H of your design. mickyoriola.com
- 24. Changed your mind? Just click on the Don’t use custom dimensions mickyoriola.com
- 25. and Canva will bring you back to this page. mickyoriola.com
- 26. Main Work Area This is where various elements are placed to create your design. mickyoriola.com
- 27. It consists of the following: B1 Library of graphics, templates & shapes, B2 Main Canvas & B3 Control Options mickyoriola.com B1 B2 B3
- 28. B1 Library of graphics, templates & shapes Your access to the library: SEARCH LAYOUTS ELEMENTS TEXT BACKGROUND UPLOADS mickyoriola.com B1
- 29. SEARCH over 1M perfect images mickyoriola.com
- 30. Type ‘Easter’ on the SEARCH bar, as an example mickyoriola.com
- 31. All images that pertains to ‘Easter’ will be shown to you. mickyoriola.com
- 32. An image tagged with the word FREE denotes that you can use it at no cost. mickyoriola.com
- 33. An image for sale is priced at $1/pc. Charges will apply when you decide to export your design. mickyoriola.com
- 34. Several pre-defined LAYOUTS are available mickyoriola.com
- 35. ELEMENTS Shapes, Frames, Text Illustrations, Icons, etc., can be added to your visual ad mickyoriola.com
- 36. Various fonts & settings are available for TEXT. mickyoriola.com
- 37. BACKGROUND contains various colors, patterns & images. mickyoriola.com
- 38. UPLOAD your own images from the computer or Facebook. mickyoriola.com
- 39. To zoom in or out of your design page, click the + or - button mickyoriola.com
- 40. B2 Main Canvas is where you create your design. mickyoriola.com B2
- 41. B3 The Control buttons will export your image to use in any social media engine or to whatever content it was created for. mickyoriola.com B3
- 42. Share your design using , or send to several email addresses mickyoriola.com
- 43. The Download button allows you to save it using different file types… mickyoriola.com
- 44. …& an option to save all or selected pages. mickyoriola.com
- 45. End of Canva Tour Now, let us create your first design! mickyoriola.com
- 46. Choose Facebook Post for your design. mickyoriola.com
- 47. Canva will then bring you to the LAYOUTS page. mickyoriola.com
- 48. A mix of FREE & FOR SALE templates will be presented to you. mickyoriola.com
- 49. Click on this FREE template. mickyoriola.com
- 50. To personalize this, let us create something about friendship. mickyoriola.com
- 51. Let us get creative! mickyoriola.com
- 52. Replace this picture with a new one. mickyoriola.com
- 53. Click the outer frame. mickyoriola.com
- 55. Your work area will now look like this. mickyoriola.com
- 58. Adjust the size of the image to fit the frame. mickyoriola.com
- 59. It should now look like this. mickyoriola.com
- 60. Next is the text. mickyoriola.com
- 61. Click on the first text box. mickyoriola.com
- 62. Delete using the trash can. mickyoriola.com
- 63. Repeat in the other text boxes. mickyoriola.com
- 64. Delete the texts that are inessential to you. mickyoriola.com
- 67. Use the color code c3c3c. mickyoriola.com
- 68. Next, click the white frame. mickyoriola.com
- 69. Notice that the bottom part of the white frame is on the grey background. mickyoriola.com
- 70. To get a solid background, the order of the white frame needs to be changed. mickyoriola.com
- 71. Press the Back button. mickyoriola.com
- 72. Notice the bottom part of the frame is no longer visible. mickyoriola.com
- 73. Add a text to the grey background. mickyoriola.com
- 74. Go to the TEXT sidebar. mickyoriola.com
- 75. Click on Add subheading. mickyoriola.com
- 76. Drag & drop the text box in the grey background. mickyoriola.com
- 77. Adjust its position in the box. mickyoriola.com
- 78. Type ‘IN LIFE, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THOSE WHO’ mickyoriola.com
- 79. Now, let’s make these text appealing! mickyoriola.com
- 80. Let us modify the properties of the text. mickyoriola.com
- 81. Change the font type to Lato. mickyoriola.com
- 82. Font size to 19. mickyoriola.com
- 83. Font color to white. mickyoriola.com
- 84. mickyoriola.com Click the down button.
- 85. mickyoriola.com Scroll down & click on the Text Spacing.
- 86. mickyoriola.com Adjust Letter spacing to 130.
- 87. Next is to add another heading. mickyoriola.com
- 88. Drag & drop the text box to the grey background. mickyoriola.com
- 89. Position it below the first text box. mickyoriola.com
- 90. Type ‘LIGHT YOUR PATH’ mickyoriola.com
- 91. Modify again the text’s properties. mickyoriola.com
- 92. Change the font type to Aleo Light. mickyoriola.com
- 93. Font size to 72. mickyoriola.com
- 94. Font color code to ecca83. mickyoriola.com
- 95. mickyoriola.com Click the down button.
- 96. mickyoriola.com Scroll down & look for Text Spacing.
- 97. mickyoriola.com Adjust Letter spacing to -10
- 98. mickyoriola.com Re-position the text to complement the image.
- 99. mickyoriola.com This is how the design would look like when finalized.
- 100. mickyoriola.com Click on this to rename the Design title.
- 101. mickyoriola.com Let us rename it to www.mickyoriola.com
- 102. mickyoriola.com Canva will then save your work. It does every few seconds.
- 103. mickyoriola.com Click on this to start posting!
- 104. mickyoriola.com
- 105. End of Canva Tutorial mickyoriola.com