Top 15 Canva Tips for Productivity!
About this video
Jeff Su shares 15 Canva tips for creatives, students, and working professionals. He opens with extracting colors from an image: copy and paste an image or logo into a Canva design and its colors appear automatically under photo colors, then copy the hex code for use elsewhere, e.g., in Google Slides. For design polish, he shows blurring a clashing background (Transparency to 90, Edit image > Adjust > Blur around 5) and making an element pop with Edit image > Shadows > Glow (white color, blur 1-2, transparency 100). He explains his Thanos disintegration thumbnail effect using splatter elements from the Elements tab and links the design. For efficiency he covers Command/Control+D or Option/Alt-drag to duplicate, double-click to crop, Command/Control+G to group, rulers/guides and Position > Center, R for rectangle, toggling layers, locking a finished layer, and shortcuts C for Circle, L for Line, T for Text. For presentations he recommends Smartmockups or frame elements to make screenshots look natural, and dragging entire PDFs into Canva to make them editable. He advises students to make a business card (with a free template he links), not print it, but download it as PNG/JPG for follow-ups, optionally adding a QR code to a portfolio. He credits Canva’s free font-pairing guide and color wheel tool for his choices, and highlights three Canva Pro features: background remover, transparent-background download, and the color eyedropper tool.
Key takeaways
- Paste an image or logo into Canva to auto-detect its photo colors, then copy the hex code to reuse that palette in other tools like Google Slides.
- Separate foreground from background by setting transparency to 90 and blurring to about 5, and add a white Glow shadow to make key elements pop.
- Work faster with shortcuts: Command/Control+D to duplicate, R for rectangle, C for circle, L for line, T for text, and lock layers once finished.
- Drag entire PDFs into Canva to make them editable, and use Smartmockups or frames to make screenshots and product mockups look natural in presentations.
- Students should send a digital business card (PNG/JPG, optionally with a QR code to a portfolio) in follow-up messages rather than printing physical cards.
Episode details: published December 21, 2021 · 8:25 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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