What you'll learn

Canva will become your new best friend. Learn how to navigate the interface and utilize Canva's core features like a professional designer.

Build your graphic design foundations by learning fundamental graphic design principles such as: colour, text, hierarchy, size + scale, and composition.

Develop a trained design eye that can determine the difference between premium and amateur graphic designs.

Learn how to achieve the best-kept design techniques and tricks to create specific design effects and elements that you see the worlds' biggest brands using.

Use all of your knowledge to create your very own business, brand, project or personal assets such as branding, moodboards, stationery, social posts and more.

Requirements

You need to understand how to navigate your way around a desktop or laptop effectively. You should be at least generally tech-savvy.

You will need a Canva Pro account.

Description

A fully comprehensive, practical, all-in-one online design course that will equip you with the graphic design theory and practical skills you need to start creating premium designs that convert your audience into paying customers.- Spend less time creating MORE designs that actually convert!- Say goodbye to outsourcing your design needs to expensive designers.- Invest in the designer who GETS your business and future vision…YOU!- Be shown by experts how to create show-stopping designs that mesmerise!This course has everything! Over 12 self-paced modules, we’ll cover:Canva navigation - learn Canva onlineLearn everything Canva, including navigation and powerful, premium design features. You will leave this course confident in using Canva for your very own business’s designs. We will practice using Canva through our exercises and Master Projects – even if you’ve been using Canva for years you will leave with AWESOME hacks and tricks.Colour Psychology and UseDiscover how colour affects your viewer and your customer. Make more engaging creations that urge your clients to shop and spend with on-message colours that make a deliberate impact.Font Choices and FunctionalityUnlock the power of not just what you say but how what you say looks. Learn proper typography terminology and explore font combinations and styles before building out your brand’s font palette!Premium Graphic DesignUncover how to make your designs high-end with deliberate and intentional alignment choices, hierarchical management, correct scaling and much more! This graphic design Canva course has it all.Master ProjectsFor the main event, you’ll learn exactly how to design your very own email signature, price list or service menu, social media banners, profile pictures, and social media posts – including everything from carousels to GIFs to reels and full-length videos.Training Your Design EyeGo from amateur creative to pro designer by familiarising yourself with design identification techniques. Improve your own business’s designs by strengthening your creative skills with these practice sessions.File Formats and ExportingProtect your designs and ensure that they are posted to their intended platform without becoming blurry. Learn what different file formats mean and which ones are best for which purposes.If you're a business owner looking to DIY your designs professionally and quickly, this is for you!We know just how tough it is to run your very own business and how many tasks and costs pop up, again and again, just like in whack-a-mole. As you’ve ticked one thing off of the to-do-list, another thing pops up. Just as you’ve paid to have a designer put together a gorgeous service menu for potential clients, your prices change and you need to PAY your designer to update it for you.As designers, we’ve had the awesome secret weapon of being able to design our business’s own materials, packaging, resources, presentations (the list goes on and on and on…). We’ve saved HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS because of this super power.And now we want to give it to you too.Let us teach you, step by step, how to design professional, effective designs that will save you time, hassle and yes, MONEY, going forwards.