5 CANVA HACKS you didn't know about 🫢 | Canva Tutorial 2024

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Hayes shares five Canva hacks aimed at leveling up digital products. Hack one combines the Wave Generator app with a texture background: she uses the wave slider and shape options to create layered, boho-style wave/hill shapes, adds three waves in different brand colors, sends each behind the previous with Position > Backward, sets a background color, then searches Elements for ’texture’ (or a specific type like grunge), stretches it across the background, sends it behind the waves, and adjusts its color and transparency. Hack two is custom-shaped text using the TypeCraft app: type the phrase (her example is ‘courage dear heart’), pick a font and optional unfilled/outline styles with border and shadow colors, then drag the dots around the text to curve and stretch it into a unique shape before adding it to the design. Hack three is downloading at 300 DPI, which she says printables need to avoid grainy, pixelated prints. With Canva Pro, the size and quality sliders on JPG and PNG downloads achieve this; on the free plan, where a straight JPG defaults to 72 DPI, she downloads as PDF Print — the only option that defaults to 300 DPI on both plans — then converts it to JPG or PNG in the free CloudConvert tool, checking the pixel density setting is 300. Hack four recolors elements uploaded from third-party sites like Creative Fabrica or Creative Market, which have no color option in Canva: select the element, go to Edit Photo > Effects > Duotone, and change the highlight and shadow colors and intensity. Hack five is the pop-out effect using Magic Grab under Edit Photo’s Magic Studio tools, which separates a photo’s subject from its background so the subject can be enlarged and positioned as if popping out of the frame; she also shows matching the background with the eyedropper color picker or downloading as a PNG with a transparent background. She promotes her free 45-minute Digital Product Powerhouse masterclass.

Key takeaways

• Build boho wave designs with the Wave Generator app: layer multiple waves in different colors, use Position > Backward to stack them as hills, then add a searched texture behind them with transparency adjusted
• Use the TypeCraft app to make custom-shaped text — drag the dots around your phrase to curve and stretch it, with optional unfilled/outline styles — so text looks different from standard Canva text options
• Printables need 300 DPI: Canva Pro users can push the JPG/PNG size and quality sliders, while free users should download PDF Print (which defaults to 300 DPI) and convert it in CloudConvert, verifying pixel density is set to 300
• Recolor third-party uploaded elements that lack a Canva color option by applying Edit Photo > Effects > Duotone and changing the highlight/shadow colors and intensity
• Use Magic Grab to separate a subject from its photo background for a pop-out effect, and download as PNG with transparent background if you want the background to show through on other platforms

Episode details: published December 19, 2023 · 16:58 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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