Secret's take about Canva
My design skills are limited. I’ve been drawing the same picture since I was 6 years old: a stickman. Until Canva, that is 🤷
Canva is a graphic design software that you can use to create posts for social media, presentations, videos, GIFs, posters and so much more 🎨 Create your own designs or use ready-made templates provided by Canva for that perfect visual, no design skills required 💪
Canva is a great tool to design, edit and animate your creations, quick and simple. The ready-made templates are easily adapted to your company’s brand and image so you & your team can deliver quality content to your audience 🚀
Canva Free gives you access to over 250,000+ free templates to get started 👀 Canva Pro is the perfect plan for individuals and freelance designers with 610,000+ templates available for $12 per month (not including Secret’s offer for 2 months free, of course) 🙌
- More details about Canva's pricingsThere are many great Canva alternatives available, especially those offering a free plan to get you started. Adobe Spark, Visme, Crello and Stencil are among those most suitable 🧐
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Mary O'Brien
Customer Success Manager
General information about Canva
Whether you need to make business cards, presentations, or visuals for your social media, your business needs a consistent brand image, Canva is the solution you need.
With this tool you will save money while you efficiently deliver quality content. Its interface is very easy to use, and within everyone's reach.
Canva will make it possible for your whole team to collaborate on different designs, and manage and publish content directly on your social media through their platform, thanks to its various integrations.
Canva pricing
Enterprise
$29
/ user / month
25 people minimum
Unlimited storage
Multiple Brand Kits
Single sign on (SSO)
Pro
$49
/ month
Up to 10 people
610,000+ premium and free templates
100GB cloud storage
Social media content scheduling for 8 platforms
Canva features
Canva allows you to create beautiful designs with your team
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Animate your creations
Make dynamic creations with the many different features available. You can make your text evaporate or slide, or animate any other element from your design in just one click.
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Add text and adjust its shape to your heart's content
Transforming any word and sentence into a circle shape so it combines with the other elements of your design becomes a piece of cake.
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Available sticker and frames
Access plenty of stickers and frames to customize your pictures and designs in no time.
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Edit your pictures
Add different textures and effects, remove the background or just resize and crop the images.
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Design grids
Create structured content with the different design grids available: make sure everything is right where it should be or create some awesome photo collages.
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Collaborate with your whole team
Create different teams and assign them different projects; you can then work in the different projects with separate teams.
Canva: Pros & Cons
Pros
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Ergonomics of the tool: The graphic design solution allows anyone to design impactful visuals
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Cost-effective platform: Canva’s pricing plans are inexpensive
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Customization features: There are many templates to choose from and it’s easy to adapt the design to your needs
Cons
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Color space: Documents are exported in RGB. The rendering can therefore be different once printed
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Intellectual property: You do not have the intellectual property of the logos designed
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Generic designs: The images and logos created have a generic visual appearance
Why is Canva better than other Marketing software?
Canva has more features than Abyssale: 68 vs 21
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Nicky Pasquier teaches small business owners how to increase brand visibility online, attract their target audience and make more sales using branded Canva graphics. Nicky is a Certified Canva Creative and Canva Creator, meaning she designs templates for the Canva platform. She is totally self-taught and hopes her experience will encourage other brands to start creating their own unique visual content.
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