Matt Stevenson – Fundamentals of Canva

Canva Is A Free And Easy To Use Online Design Tool

Beautiful graphics are essential in today’s visual world. Canva offers users a free and easy way to create them. In Fundamentals of Canva, you’ll get to know all aspects of Canva and how to take full advantage of its powerful design features.

You’ll learn how to…

• Decide what project Canva is perfect for
• Customize templates and making them your own
• Collaborate with others
• Combine images and text
• Build graphics for social media
• Share and download projects

You’ll also learn basic design principles and how to create graphics that are as effective as they are beautiful.

The Canva makes it easy for anyone to drag and drop design elements into elegant, professionally-designed templates and this class will help you ensure that every project you create is top-notch.

Canva takes care of tedious work of and empowers designers to get creative. Join Matt Stevenson for Fundamentals of Canva and find out how you can streamline your workflow and get more done with Canva.

What You’ll Learn In Fundamentals of Canva

1. Class Introduction
2. Canva Philosophy
3. Canva Account Set Up
4. The Canva Interface
5. Element Manipulation
6. Demo: Super Simple Starter Design
7. More About Your Account
8. Canva For Work
9. Interface Tips
10. Design Tips
11. Saving Files In Canva
12. Creating A Brand Set From Scratch
13. The Messy Brand
14. Advanced Techniques
15. Demo: Branded Pinterest Photos

About Author

Matt lives to tell stories. He believes that behind every behavior lies an archetype, a hero or villain, and an epic tale waiting to be told. Matt began his career by infiltrating advertising circles in Washington, DC, quickly rising to lead large creative teams on multi-dimensional engagements.

Moving effortlessly between the realms of advertising, marketing, interactive and presentation design, Matt is a creative leader and expert visual communicator. With over 15 years of experience he has carefully cultivated the ability to bring out the best in design teams by giving them the spark needed to produce the highly effective campaigns necessary to propel clients’ brands in today’s media-enriched culture.

Matt is the Creative Director at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He also designs nerdy minimalist posters in his (rare) spare time and can’t wait for his two sons to pick up their first controllers and join him in a round of Smash Brothers. On the internets he is known as DCMJS.

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