10 MIND-BLOWING Canva hacks to turn your designs PRO level 🤯

About this video

The creator demonstrates 10 Canva hacks to make designs look more polished, noting some work on the free plan and some require Canva Pro. 1) Brand kits: create multiple kits for different aesthetics; uploading a color-palette image under logos auto-adds its colors instead of entering hex codes individually. 2) Pixelify app: turn a photo into a pixelated design, adjusting pixel size. 3) Frames as shapes: drag an externally sourced texture (from sources she names like Creative Market or Unsplash) into a frame shape such as torn paper. 4) Layering/masking: duplicate a photo, remove the background from the copy, place text between the original and the cut-out so text appears behind the subject. 5) Gradients: apply them to backgrounds and shapes via the color picker, and to text via the Type Gradient app. 6) BrandFetch app: pull real brand logos, colors/hex codes instead of searching Elements. 7) Transparency: duplicate text and progressively lower transparency (her example uses steps like 100 to 75, 58, 35, 17) for a disappearing effect. 8) Apply colors to page: right-click a photo placed over a design to shuffle its colors onto the page. 9) Tidy Up under Space Evenly to auto-align elements. 10) Stroke effect: use text Effects > Outline, adjust weight and letter spacing, optionally adding Curve.

Key takeaways

• Upload a palette image into a brand kit to auto-populate its colors instead of entering each hex code manually
• Create a masking effect by duplicating a photo, removing the background from the copy, and sending text behind that top layer but above the original
• Use gradients in backgrounds, shapes and text, with the Type Gradient app for gradient lettering
• BrandFetch supplies actual brand logos and hex codes, and Pixelify creates a pixelated look with an adjustable pixel size
• Tidy Up auto-aligns selected elements, and the text Outline effect plus letter spacing can mimic a Photoshop-style stroke

Episode details: published April 9, 2024 · 18:22 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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