10 INSANE Canva Hacks to Turn Your Designs Pro-Level 🤯

About this video

Hayes walks through 10 Canva features she says separate amateur-looking designs from professional-looking ones. She starts with color themes generated from a liked design in the Brand Kit, which tell Canva which colors to use for backgrounds, elements and text, and can then be applied and shuffled across all pages of another design. Other hacks include filtering Elements search results by graphic style (for example comics or watercolor) before searching, generating rotatable 3D elements instead of flat AI graphics, and using the Vectorify app to turn a photo into a vector with adjustable color count. She also demonstrates blending a photo into a background color with a gradient shape whose stops are set to decreasing transparency, adding an outline via Magic Grab to isolate a subject and then Shadows > Outline, generating a background with the Background Decorator from a text prompt, using the relocated Layouts and Styles suggestions for palettes and font pairings, creating a resize bundle of five social media sizes in one click, and splitting a static photo into movable parts with Magic Layers. She notes several tools require Canva Pro and promotes a free cheat sheet of 18 techniques her team uses.

Key takeaways

• Generate a color theme from an existing design in the Brand Kit so Canva assigns theme colors to backgrounds, text and elements, then apply it to all pages of a new design
• Filter Elements searches by style (such as comics or watercolor) before searching to get results that match the intended look faster
• Use Vectorify to convert a photo to a vector, then simplify or add detail with the number-of-colors slider and swap individual colors
• Blend a photo into a solid background by overlaying a gradient shape in the background color with transparency stops progressing from fully transparent over the photo
• Use Magic Grab plus Shadows > Outline to outline an isolated subject, and Magic Layers to split a flat photo into separately movable, resizable layers

Episode details: published June 16, 2026 · 17:22 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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