Would you like to create your own graphic designs for free? Maybe you have the idea in your head, but you can’t work out how to turn it into a graphic reality? A new website that can help you is Canva.
So, what is Canva? Well, Canva is a homegrown Aussie website that allows users to choose from hundreds of professionally designed layouts and templates for use in designing such things as PowerPoint presentations, event posters/flyers, infographics, brochures, social media graphics, business cards and much, much more. With Canva, you can even create your own designs from scratch.
Canva’s website also offers a number of awesome free tutorials. In fact, that’s where everyone should start. These tutorials will help you understand how to use the tool and introduce you to some basic design techniques and concepts.
So, how can I use it for Rotary and my club?
The short answer is: you will be using it every day if you wish to stand out from the crowd.
Perhaps you have a fundraising or other club event coming up, and you have been tasked to come up with a flashy design for the promotional poster or invitation. Well, with Canva, you can navigate to a predesigned A4 poster template and replace the template text with your own, and then upload one of thousands of free inbuilt stock images to help add something dynamic to your creation.
Once you get started, you’ll find that you have so many options for backgrounds, textures, images, frames, text and other elements to create high-impact graphics and marketing materials that strengthen not only the professional look of your club’s promotional material, but also your club’s social media content. Having professional-looking graphic content is certainly better than just posting some random image on your club’s Facebook page that might or might not mean anything to anyone.
Canva is great for the amateur, or even professional, who just wants to develop their design skills and use them for Rotary or at home, work, or even just for fun.
It’s the tool that makes it possible to design anything, anywhere.
Article by Evan Burrell