I'll save you HOURS of work in 17 minutes with these insane Canva shortcuts

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Kate Hayes — who says she has made seven figures selling digital products — walks through 15 Canva shortcuts her team uses daily. Brand kits come first: storing logos, photos, brand colors, fonts, icons and frequently used templates in one place gives one-click branding inside any design, and Canva AI can apply a brand kit to a generated design in one click. Multiple kits are a Canva Pro feature; free users are limited to three brand colors. The Styles tab shuffles a design through brand-kit or preset font/color pairings, useful for keeping products in a bundle cohesive. Two AI style tools follow: a paint-roller ‘copy art style’ that restyles one element to match another (her demo turns a sketch coffee cup watercolor to match an apple), and Style Match, which converts an element into styles such as cartoon, doodle, pixel art, pop art, 3D or clay. Magic Animate animates an entire presentation in a chosen tone (professional, bold, elegant, energetic), and changing a font offers a ‘change all’ option applying it across every page, though sizes may need adjusting. For photos, the Pro-only Background Remover isolates a subject in one click, and Background Generator replaces the backdrop from a text description, offering four options to pick from or regenerate. Magic Write can rewrite, shorten, continue, fix spelling or change the tone of selected text, refined further, e.g. toward a Gen Z audience. She also covers duplicating a page instead of rebuilding a similar layout, using right-click ‘space evenly / tidy up’ to align multiple elements perfectly before grouping them, and the Pro Magic Resize tool, which copies a design into another size — turning a 5x7 invitation into a 4x6 version — useful for selling wall-art or invitation size bundles. Finally, designs can be shared directly to connected social platforms (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest) from the Share menu instead of downloading and re-uploading, Canva’s template library should be the starting point rather than a blank page, and her favorite, Smart Mockups under Edit > Apps > Mockups, places a design onto a realistic object such as a computer screen, automatically accounting for angle and shadows.

Key takeaways

• Build a brand kit with logos, colors, fonts, photos, icons and go-to templates so branding is one click inside any design; multiple kits require Canva Pro, while free accounts get only three brand colors.
• Use the Styles tab to shuffle a design through brand or preset font/color pairings — especially useful for keeping all the products in a bundle visually cohesive.
• Copy Art Style and Style Match restyle existing elements (watercolor, cartoon, 3D, clay and more) in seconds instead of hunting the elements library for a matching asset.
• Magic Resize copies a finished design into any preset or custom size, making it fast to offer size variations — for example 5x7 and 4x6 — of invitations or printable wall art.
• Smart Mockups automatically place a design onto a realistic object, handling angle and shadows, producing professional product and marketing images without manual layering.

Episode details: published January 27, 2026 · 17:17 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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