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Shapes

Shapes - Canva Tutorial

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Shapes

- [Narrator] When creating a compelling graphic, I recommend using shapes to add dimension to your design. In this demonstration, you'll learn how to access and use Canva's huge database of free shapes to use so that your designs can really pop. So to start, I'm going to choose a background image that we can use as our base, and then we will play around with some of the shapes. So, just for fun, let's look at this one. That's a pretty rainbow. We'll drag it into the frame, so that it fills up the whole space. And now what I'm going to do is go back to Elements, and we're going to look at shapes. So there's lots to choose from, and what you can do here is choose any kind of shape. There's even themed ones for holidays or occasions, and you can add the shape so that you can really make that image pop, or you can add a frame to it, you can change the colors and positioning of the shape, you can input text inside of that shape, so that it really emphasizes what kind of message you're…

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