Hi all:
On Tuesdays I bring you…who knows? Whatever comes to my mind, novelties about what I’m doing, things that have happened, reflections, and sometimes I try to bring you something possibly useful.
A little while back I share with you the video (sort of) that I created (with plenty of help from You Tube) for my new romance, I Love Your Cupcakes. I’m not an image person at all, and I decided to try and keep it simple. Thankfully, through another post I discovered something called Canva. You’ve probably already heard about it, but just in case…
Canva offers you the option of using their templates to create all kinds of things, from covers for CDs, cards, invitations, Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook posts (so you don’t need to worry about the different sizes of images required), banners, blog posts…
Like this one I prepared earlier.
You can change colours, letter sizes and types, upload and use your own images, crop, use filters, etc. They have a fair amount of free resources and quite a large amount of paying ones (it’s $1 per image or paying template or element). Then whatever you make you can download as image or PDF. And it also saves it there.
And the best thing about it is that it offers you a variety of design tutorials where you can learn how to use the different features. And those are short and practical (it gives you 5 or 6 exercises to do that take only a few minutes and you have the option of watching a very brief video if you don’t know how to do it).
Having tried a few of the programmes for manipulating images and being quite clumsy with images, I find this one easy to move around. Do give it a go. I used it to create the slides that I put together in the video (that and images Lourdes Vidal, the designer and I had considered for the cover of the book).
And talking about images, I had promised you to share a few more of the images my friend Christelle took in Florence, as both her camera and her skills are much better than mine.
So here….
Thanks to you all for reading, to Canva for being, to my friend Christelle for her pictures and…
22 replies on “Are you bad with images? Try Canva. And other bits and bobs.”
These are fabulous! 🙂
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Thanks so much! My friend is a great photographer. I’ll pass the comments on! So far she doesn’t have a blog but I’m trying to convince her…
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Love your video, photos of Florence and thanks for information about Canva!
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Thanks so much. I wasn’t sure if the information would be of much use, but as I hadn’t come across until recently I thought somebody else might not have either. My friend is great at taking photos. I just look around in awe!
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I’m off to check out Canva. After trying a couple of paid programs, I knew there had to be a cheaper and easier way to do things. Thank you.
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Thanks Dena. I tend to go for either their watermarked ones or the free images, but even if you decide to use one of their paid ones is a dollar each (the ones I used in the post were all free). The funny thing is I have tried some expensive programmes and they take so long to learn that I don’t have time to use them. This is pretty straight forward.
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Thank you Olga. I will try Canva to see if it’s something I can cope with. I love the images of Florence. xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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Thanks David! And thanks for the wonderful interview! I’ll pass the comments on to Christelle. I might convince her to have her own blog, although I know she’s a very busy lady! I’m sure you’ll manage Canva. I’ve seen what you can do with your pictures…:)
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I will check this out…thank you so much. Have a lovely Tuesday:)
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Thanks Janet. Have a great Tuesday too. I’m sure Canva will be far too simple for you, but it’s about the right level for me…:)
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Great stuff!
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Thanks Billy Ray!
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Reblogged this on theowlladyblog.
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Sounds like an interesting resource. Thanks for sharing it with us! 🙂
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Thanks Lorna. I only started using it pretty recently and have so far survived and not thrown the computer out of the window, so it must be pretty easy!
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That IS a good sign! 🙂
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Thanks Olga — i had not heard of Canva. Truly useful post. (Plus the beautiful pictures!) Hugs.
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Thanks Teagan. I know you’re far more skilled with images but in my case it encourages me to try to use images a bit more as it seems pretty straight forward. And Christelle has confirmed she’s happy for me to show as many of her pictures as I like, so I’ll keep finding new jewels…NaNoWriMo is nearly here!
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Thanks Lorna. By the way, you’re my guest this Friday!
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[…] The inspiration comes with thanks from Olga NM at Just Olga. See her experience of Canva (and other web-based thingummies) at this link: Are you bad with images? Try Canva. And other bits and bobs. […]
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Thanks so much and I hope it is helpful. I think if you’re skilled you could manage to do great things but I thought most people might find it helpful.
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