A few years ago I was surfing the internet to search for an online logo designer websites when I came across Canva for the first time. I found it interesting at first and I recommended it to a couple of my friends who needed designs and graphics for their website.
I found out that Canva was easy to use and it had a lot of options to make graphics, flyers, posters, videos, logos, and much more. You don’t even need to be a skilled graphic designer in order to use Canva. It was user friendly as well as gave you abundant options to create posts for your social media as well as visuals, presentations, business cards, resumes, newsletters, white boards etc.
Canva’s Outstanding Features
What makes Canva stand out among other graphic designing tools is not just the long list of options it gives for graphic designing, it is much more than that. Here are a few amazing features Canva offers to its users.
- Canva can be used both on desktop and on mobile devices through Canva App.
- With Canva, you do not need to have prior knowledge of video editing or photo editing. Canva provides you with all required tools to craft photos and videos.
- You can design simple posts to professionally designed resume, business cards, flyers, invoices, recipe cards, Social Media Backgrounds, Thumbnails, banners etc.
- Canva has 500,000 templates to choose from.
- Canva offers free video Lessons for its users in its “Design School”.
- Canva’s images, videos and design animations can be downloaded in various formats.
- Canva’s element section features thousands of elements including graphics, pictures, gifs, videos backgrounds, 3d images and much more.
- There is a long list of fonts available in Canva, both free and paid.
- Canva’s free version has a lot of options, although the paid version is also worth the price.
- You can also share your Canva account with other users and thus make a team.
- Canva has a host of designing features for teachers such as worksheets, creatives, lesson plans, checklists, newsletters, etc.
Making Money on Canva
Yes, you can make money with Canva besides using it to design posts for your social media or websites.First, you can sell your Canva templates on Etsy, CreativeMarket and so on. One template sells from $12-16 on these platforms.
Secondly, many people are offering their designing services on Fiverr, Upwork and Freelancer.com by simple using Canva as their tool.
Canva, in fact, is a great tool. It is beginners friendly and can be used effectively to promote small businesses.
Let me know in the comment section what is your experience of Canva if you use it. Thanks for reading!😀
