Canva Menu - Essential Tools For Your Design

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Got a design idea? Canva provides a diverse set of tools like - Text effects, shadows, frames, elements in menu and lots of graphics to implement your ideas on the canvas. In this article, you’ll get acquainted with the basic working of Canva Menu.

Let's see what does Canva menu consists of :

Contents

Templates

Canva Templates

Templates are of great help when you are unsure about what kind of design you want to make and which elements would be a good fit for it. It comprises of predesigned posts which can give an idea of how to get started with your design; the elements, text, position of the images etc.

You can search for a particular template by typing the keywords in the search bar. Select the template you like and then you can begin by modifying its elements the way you want.

Elements

Canva offers an extensive range of elements which you're gonna find yourself using a lot.

Canva Lines and Shapes Canva Graphics Canva Frames

Uploads

Canva Upload Files

All your uploaded media is present here. You can add images, videos and audios by clicking on Upload Media button or just drag and drop the files on the Canva screen.

Files can be added through :

Canva also gives an option of recording yourself as well as the screen you are working on. It is helpful if you are doing a recorded presentation.

Photos

Canva Photos

Contains a vast collection of photos which you can choose for your design.

Search for the image you want to use. In addition, you can filter the search results by specifing the :

Text

Canva Text

Canva provides sets of combination of fonts for headings and sub headings. If you want to use a specific font from the combination, just add it on the canvas and delete the fonts which aren’t required.

Text fonts are crucial in conveying the feel of the design. It’s important to use them accordingly.

Styles

Canva Styles

Styles tab consists of the themes you can apply to your design. This comprises of the following :

1. The color theme your design will be based on. To shuffle the colors i.e switching colors between different kind of elements like text, triangle and background, click on the selected color theme repeatedly to get the desired combination.

2. The font for Heading and Sub heading.

Color themes can be chosen separately. You will find both of them combined in one theme, under the All category


Note - For creating your own font style combinations and color palettes, you need to upgrade to PRO version.

Audio

Canva Audio

Audios can be inserted from different categories - Pop, Ambient, Happy, depending on the content. With that, you can choose the part of the audio to be played. These are usually used when you want to give background music to a video.

Filters for audio :

Background

Use the background which suits the best. You can search the backgrounds like - pastel, abstract or geometric from the search bar.

Emojis

Canva Emojis

Choose from hundreds of emojis to give your design a modern and quirky styling.

Draw Beta

Canva Draw Beta

Draw beta contains freehand drawing tools like marker, pen, highlighter and glow pen which can give a candid look to your post.

You can change the color, transparency and size of the brush as per requirement.

More

Canva What's More

Want to experiment more with designing? You can explore more tools like -

Conclusion

Now that have learnt everything about canva menu tools, you can start creating stunning designs using these tools!