NEW 2024 Canva Tips and Tricks you NEED this year 🤯 (7 BRAND NEW Canva features)

Summary

This video walks through seven new Canva tips and tricks, including using the Type Gradient app to add colorful gradient text effects, the Enhancer app to upscale low-resolution images with AI, the Canva app to create custom abstract waves, and the Photo Stylist app to transform images into different artistic styles. It also demonstrates how to separate flattened images into editable layers, selectively blur backgrounds using the Blur Brush tool, generate variations of AI-created images in Magic Media, and more. The host shares how these features can help graphic designers level up their Canva skills and create more compelling visual content.

Takeaways

• 😊 Canva is constantly adding new tools and features to help users design graphics
• 🎨 The Type Gradient app allows you to add colorful gradients within text
• 🔬 The Enhancer app uses AI to upscale and enhance low resolution images
• 🌊 The new Canva app allows you to easily add customized waves to designs
• 🖌 The Photo Stylist app transforms images into different artistic styles
• ✂️ Canva can now separate and edit text from flattened images using Grab Text
• 🌫 A Blur Brush allows you to selectively blur parts of an image
• 🎭 Magic Media can now generate more variations of an AI generated image you like
• 🐱 Magic Media lets you generate images based on text prompts in different styles
• 📚 A free masterclass is available to learn strategies for selling digital products

Q & A

What is the Canva tool Type Gradient used for?

The Type Gradient tool in Canva allows you to add a color gradient within text in your designs. You can choose multiple colors to flow from one to the next within the text.

How does the Canva Enhancer app improve image quality?

The Canva Enhancer uses AI to upscale and enhance low resolution images, making them less pixelated, grainy and blurry. It can increase quality by up to 500%.

What creative options does the Canva Waves app provide?

The Canva Waves app allows you to add customized waves with different shapes, colors, gradients, and layer variations to your designs. You can create retro or boho style waves without needing a pre-made graphic.

How can you edit flattened images in Canva that can't normally be edited?

Canva's 'Grab Text' feature allows you to select text in a flattened image and separate it out so you can move, edit or replace it even though the original image can't be edited.

What does the Blur Brush tool allow you to do?

The Blur Brush lets you selectively blur parts of an image while keeping other parts in sharp focus. You can precisely control which areas get blurred and the intensity.

How does the Generate More Like This feature help with AI generated images?

Once Canva's Magic Media generates 4 images, you can select one you like and use Generate More Like This to create 3 additional variations similar to your chosen image.

What is the benefit of using the Canva Pro 30-day free trial?

Some of the newest Canva features are only available with a paid Canva Pro account. The free 30-day affiliate link allows you to test out Pro tools to see if they are useful for your projects.

Where can I access a free masterclass on selling digital products online?

The video creator is offering a free 45-minute Digital Product Powerhouse masterclass that teaches a 4-step system for successfully starting and growing an online digital product business.

What causes facial features to sometimes look less natural when using the Canva Enhancer?

When enhancing faces, the AI sometimes makes small changes that can cause facial features to appear slightly less natural. This is a minor tradeoff for the huge boost in overall image quality.

Why couldn't Canva precisely match a certain font when grabbing text from an image?

When grabbing text to edit, Canva tries to match the original font used. If that font isn't available in Canva's library, it will replace it with the closest match it can find instead.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Using the Type Gradient app to add colorful gradient text

The Type Gradient app allows you to add text with a gradient color effect. You can choose the font, alignment, line height and customize the gradient colors. The preview shows how the gradient flows through the text. You can adjust the direction and positioning of the gradient before adding the text to your design.

05:01

😮‍💨 Enhancing low resolution images with AI

The Enhancer app uses AI to upscale low resolution images, enhancing quality and reducing blurriness and pixelation. It enhanced a low quality photo by 500% in this example, visibly improving crispness and faces. While some facial features looked less natural, the overall quality improved significantly.

10:02

🌊 Creating custom colorful waves with Canva

The new Canva app generates stylized waves in various styles like solid, gradient or outlined. You can customize the wave type, number of layers, base color, color variation, complexity and height variation. This allows you to create your own unique wavy backgrounds to use in designs.

15:04

🎨 Changing photo styles with the Photo Stylist app

The Photo Stylist app lets you transform a photo's style using presets or custom images. It changed a dog photo into sketch, abstract and autumn styles using presets. By uploading sample images with desired styles, it then generated variations matching those color schemes and textures.

✏️ Editing flattened images in Canva using Grab Text

The new Grab Text feature lets you select and edit text from a flattened image upload. After clicking Grab Text, Canva extracts the text so you can move, resize or edit it. It matches fonts closely and separates all text sections out for editing.

🌫️ Adding selective focus with the Blur Brush

Instead of blurring a whole image, the new Blur Brush lets you selectively brush over areas to blur. You can adjust brush size and blur intensity. It works well for creating blurred backgrounds while keeping subjects in focus. You can also use Erase Blur to fix mistakes.

🔁 Generating AI image variations in Magic Media

Magic Media now allows generating more variations of one of the initial four AI images. By selecting an image and clicking "generate more like this", it keeps that style and generates three additional images. This makes it easier to fine-tune the image generation towards your preferences.

Keywords

💡canva

Canva is an online graphic design platform that provides templates, tools, features and apps to help users create visual content. It is the speaker's favorite platform and she discusses the latest features and capabilities available in Canva.

💡features

Features refer to the different tools, options and capabilities available within the Canva platform. The speaker highlights several new Canva features like the type gradient app, enhancer app, can wve app and blur brush to help users upgrade their graphic design skills.

💡apps

Apps in Canva provide additional functionality beyond the core tools. Apps need to be searched and added to projects separately. The speaker demonstrates multiple Canva apps like type gradient, enhancer, can wve and photo stylist that allow creating stylized text, enhancing image resolution, adding waves and changing photo styles.

💡gradients

Gradients refer to a smooth transition between multiple colors. The type gradient app lets users add gradient color fills within text to make it more visually appealing. The can wve app creates colorful gradient waves that can be customized and added to designs.

💡image resolution

Image resolution refers to the amount of detail and quality within an image. The enhancer app uses AI to upscale low resolution, blurry images into higher resolution and enhanced quality images by over 500% for use in graphic designs.

💡blur brush

The blur brush is a new photo editing tool in Canva that lets users selectively add blur to parts of an image while keeping other parts in sharp focus. This helps draw attention to key elements by blurring the background.

💡grab text

The grab text function allows extracting just the text portions from flattened graphic images uploaded into Canva so that the text can be edited and customized as needed without access to the original working files.

💡magic media

Magic media is a Canva tool that uses AI to auto-generate images and videos based on text prompts provided by the user. It has added new functionality to generate more variations of a particular auto-generated image for more customization options.

💡digital products

The speaker mentions her separate masterclass training on starting an online business selling digital products which includes tips on product research, design tools and selling platforms - contextually relevant but not the video's primary focus.

💡graphic design

Graphic design refers to the overall visual design and layout of media like images, videos, web pages, etc. The video aims to upgrade users' graphic design skills using the latest Canva capabilities.

Highlights

Canva is constantly being developed and adding new tools and features for users

The type gradient app allows you to put gradient colored text in your designs

The enhancer app uses AI to upscale and enhance low resolution images

The can wve app lets you create and customize gradient waves for designs

The photo stylist app lets you change the style of a photo to different presets or custom uploads

Canva can now grab text from flattened images so you can edit it

There is now a blur brush to selectively blur parts of a photo

In Magic Media you can now generate more variations of an AI generated image

Some new features are only available with Canva Pro

There is a free digital product creation masterclass linked in the description

You can add color variation, complexity, and height variation to the can wve waves

The photo stylist presets don't always match the style name perfectly

The grab text feature matched fonts closely but not always exactly

You can adjust blur brush size, intensity and erase blur

The new Magic Media feature keeps your selected image and generates variations

Transcripts

canva is constantly being developed

further and adding new tools and

features for users it's one reason why

canva is my favorite graphic design

platform but it can be easy to get left

behind pretty quickly and not even

realize what new capabilities are right

there at your fingertips there have been

so many great additions recently so I

wanted to walk you through some that

I've been absolutely loving so that you

can get started and level up your canva

game today there are seven specific

canva tips and tricks that I'm going to

be showing you but it's important to

note that some of these whether they be

tools or apps are free to use and others

are only available to use if you have

the paid canva Pro Plan I do have my

free 30-day canva Pro affiliate link

below so if you think some of these

tools might be useful for you then feel

free to click over with that and try it

out for free for 30 days all right let's

jump into our canva editor all right so

I've started a new project inside of

canva and the first thing I want to show

you is called type gradient and this is

an app inside of canva so if you come to

your leand side and click where it says

apps we're going to type in type

gradient and this is the app we're going

to click on and this app is is going to

allow us to put some text in that we

want to be colored with a gradient so if

you're not familiar with what a gradient

is it's basically choosing more than one

color that you want to flow within your

design from one to the next so this is

going to be a gradient that's actually

within our actual text so the first

thing we're going to do is input

whatever text we want so let's say for

our design we want it to say question

and answer so we can see whatever we

type in reflected here in our design and

we're going to continue with our options

here so it gives us the option to choose

from a lot of different fonts so we can

have a lot of fun with this so for this

design I'm going to just choose a fun

one like this Ambry Garden 123 and we

can continue to see what our design

looks like here we can choose our

alignment whether we want our text left

aligned centered or right this comes

especially in handy when you've got

multiple lines so if I was to bring

these words down to a separate line in

my original box here then I could choose

some different alignments there I could

also choose the line height with this

slider so I could add more space in

between each line or bring that down and

then here's the fun part where I get to

my gradient so this is where I can

choose all the different colors that I

want to be included in this gradient so

what I'll do is just click on one of

these circles and I can choose from this

color spectrum or I can input a specific

hex code here if I know what exact color

I'd like so if I wanted to use one of my

brand colors I could put that in and

then continue clicking on each of these

dots to bring it to the right color that

I want as part of the gradient so there

I've got three colors that I've chosen

but if I wanted more than three I could

always add another color by just

clicking on this gradient area and I can

add as many colors as I'd like I can

also delete colors so let's say I'm

happy with those colors now I can come

down to the preview and I can actually

click on these little dots to adjust how

the gradient is moving through the text

and where the colors are coming from so

you'll see as I click on this and drag

it around the colors are changing in

which direction they're coming from

giving it a different appearance with

whichever way I pull this I can do this

with the bottom Circle as well and just

experiment with this until I get it to

where I really like the positioning and

once I'm happy with it the way it is I

can click add to design and that'll add

it to my project here which then I can

work with to increase the size move it

around and do whatever further editing I

need to do with this this is just a

super fun way to customize your text and

your designs even more and add a lot of

fun colors all right the next one we're

going to talk about is also an app it's

found in the app section called the

enhancer so let's go ahead and type in

enhancer and this is the one right here

so we're going to click on that and this

is where we can actually use canva AI to

upscale an image and enhance the quality

from low resolution to high resolution

so say I have a photo like this that I

really like and I want to use but it's

low resolution we can tell because if I

zoom in we can see how blurry and

pixelated and grainy it appears so we're

going to want to upscale this and

increase the quality so I put the

original photo here just so we can see

the before and after and if I come to my

enhancer and I click choose file I can

choose the one I want and it brings it

up here with the original image and then

I have the option to enhance enance the

face so I would only want to turn this

on if there are people in my picture

that I want it to specifically be aware

of the faces involved if it's something

without people I can leave that

unchecked but for this picture I am

going to choose enhance face and then

I'm going to choose enhance image so

this will take a minute to apply the

changes and once it's done it'll show us

the upscaled image okay so it says it's

finished the image was upscaled by 500%

so I'm going to click to add this to the

design and I just want to kind of bring

this over to the side so I can compare

what these look like next to each other

so if I zoom in here I can see the

difference here in the way that our

faces look and really just the crispness

and quality of the photo itself it

definitely looks a lot less grainy and

pixelated than that original photo now

of course with anything AI related you

may see some interesting changes that it

made like for instance with some of

these hairs that are flying away in the

background it kind of made that look a

little less natural and some of the

facial features just from knowing what

we look like in our faces specifically

made us look a little less like

ourselves but I don't think it's enough

to take away from the quality that it

did add to this photo so in general I

think this is a great tool to use if you

have a low resolution photo that you

really just need to look less pixelated

and more quality for your designs now

we're about to move on to our third

canva tip which is one of my absolute

favorites but first I wanted to let you

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or if you're someone who's looking to

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in the market you have to know some

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Online all right so this next app is one

of my absolute favorites and it's

relatively new at the time of filming

and it's called can wve so we're going

to come to apps and type in can wve and

this is it right here we're going to

click on this and if you've heard me

talk about the app wave generator before

this is sort of similar but it has some

different options which I love so with

the can wve app we can add waves to our

design that look like this so you may

have seen some fun retro or boho designs

with these sort of gradient waves in

them and with this app we can actually

create our own and customize them for

our design as opposed to just using a

graphic element that someone else has

already created so the first thing we're

going to choose here is wave type we can

choose solid we can choose gradient or

we can see the color gradient moving

from one color to another here or we can

choose an outline so let's just go with

our solid option here so we've got

different solid color waves that are

layered on top of each other and then we

can choose the shape if we want curved

or pointy so pointy is going to be a

little bit more sharp and this is more

what curved would look like so let's go

with curved and next we choose our

number of layers so we can add more

layers if we want it to have a lot we

can take away layers so let's say we

want four layers and now we're going to

choose a color to base this on so again

I can just choose by clicking around on

the color spectrum or I can input a

specific hex code if I have a specific

color I know I want to use or I can use

one of these recommended colors so let's

say I like this teal color I'm going to

choose that and then I'm going to come

down and further customize this with

color variation complexity and height

variation so with this color variation

slider if I bring it to the left it's

going to be less and less of a variation

between the different shades of that

teal color and if I bring it to the

right it's going to vary them more and

more making the bottom color darker and

the top color lighter so I've got more

of a difference between each shade here

and then if I come down to the

complexity slider again I can be

changing this from left to right and as

I slide it it gives me either more

complex waves with l lots of up and

downs or if I take it to the left it's

more simple and less of those curves up

and down so I can play around with this

until I like the look of what I'm seeing

in this preview box and then the last

thing I need to choose is the height

variation so again using the slider if I

come to the left is going to kind of

make everything a little bit more

balanced and even all the way across and

if I move to the right it's going to

give a lot more variation between the

different heights of the waves that I'm

seeing so I'm going to just play around

with this until I'm happy with one that

I see and then once I'm happy with it I

can click to either generate again or

add to the design so here I'm going to

add it to my design and this is where I

can again size it up or down and then

once it's added to my design I can

actually see each individual color up

here in the top so if I don't like one

of these Shades and I want to change it

out for something different I can do

that easily here in the color menu at

the top I can then further customize my

design of course by adding something

like text and even clicking to change

this background color if I didn't want

it to be white I can just play around

with this until I'm totally happy with

my design here all right we're going to

talk about one last app here and then

we're going to move on to some that are

not apps but they're just different

features that have recently been added

but let's come back to our apps and

we're going to type in photo stylist

this is the one called photo stylist and

this is a really fun app where you can

actually choose a photo an image to

input here and you can change the style

of that photo to a totally different

style either based on one of these

presets that they have or by uploading

another one of your own images to model

it after so I'm going to choose this

little dog photo that I want to change

into a different style so this is the

photo I'm working with now I can go with

some of these presets they have a sketch

style an abstract style and an Autumn

style so if I choose sketch and then

click generate image it's going to

change that dog picture into something

that looks like a sketch so there is the

final product of my dog sketch image

which I think actually looks really neat

I think it did a great job with that now

I want to see what it looks like with

this abstract style so let's choose that

and generate image and here it is in the

abstract style so this doesn't look

totally abstract to me but it's

definitely interesting and definitely

different than the sketch so this might

be something that could fit into a

design and let's try this Autumn one as

well so let's go ahead and bring in our

original picture change this to Autumn

and generate so there is our dog picture

in the Autumn styles that basically just

uses really warm almost sepia tones to

give it that Autumn feel so I think all

three of those preset options are

interesting but I want to try a few of

my own so let's go back bring in our

same dog picture and now we're going to

click here to choose a file to bring in

our own image for it to work with so I

chose this image that has a sort of

watercolor design I want to see if it

can take these colors in style of this

watercolor image and generate something

that looks almost watercolor all right

this is what it gave me based on the

image that I input so it definitely is

along the same color scheme with those

light pastels I won't say that this

looks totally watercolor but it

definitely does more than the others did

and there are definitely certain parts

of it that look more waterc colorish

than others all right I want to try this

one last time so I'm going to bring in

my dog photo again and choose one last

of my own image and now I'm uploading

this one which has a lot of vibrant

colors and it's sort of a paintbrush

stroke style so let's generate that and

see what it does all right there it is

so that is definitely using the same

color scheme a very similar vibrant

color scheme that was in that image that

I uploaded and if we look closely it

does seem to appear more like it has

little paint brush Strokes so this is

just really fun to play around with to

experiment with if you have an image

that you'd like to use in a different

way like turning it into a sketch or

something more abstract this is a really

useful app all right so the next feature

we're going to talk about is really

interesting if I have something that

I've uploaded that's let's say a

flattened image which means it's an

image I've uploaded that can't be

further edited so for instance this is a

file that I uploaded if I click on it I

can't change any parts of it all I can

do is move it around as one image but

let's say that I had created this and

lost the original editable file but I

wanted to change out the text here I can

click and select this image and then

come up to edit photo and then under

magic Studio I'm going to click on grab

text when I do this it's going to

actually select the text that's in there

and separate it so that I can then edit

this text so there it is I can now click

on this and move the text around like I

couldn't before and I've got text down

here as well that I can move around and

I can even double click and change what

this says so if I wanted to change that

word to audit I could do that now it's

match the fonts that I originally used

in this design pretty close so I have

this one that it matched and is exactly

the same as the original design my

script font here they actually put into

a different font and I think that's

because the original one that I used was

not a canva font it was one that I

actually purchased on a different

website and uploaded into canva so it

couldn't pull it up because it's not in

the canva library but it did give me the

one that was probably closest to it

which is just slightly different but I

can then also click and change this this

wording out so this is just super

helpful like I said if I have an image

that has text in that I want to change

but I can't find the editable file the

working file where I could just click

and edit this grab text feature makes it

so much easier to just go in there and

change around the fonts and the wording

okay the next one is having to do with

our blur brush if you're familiar with

the editing menu when you select a photo

I've just brought this one over from the

canva library and I click edit photo

we've had this blur tool here under the

effects menu for quite a while but only

recently did they add the blur brush

normally it would have just been able to

add a blur effect to the whole image

which we can still do by clicking whole

image but now we have the ability with

this brush to pick specific parts of

this image that we want to make more

blurry and leave certain parts in Focus

so with the blur brush I can click to

add blur or remove it so I'm going to

stay on ADD blur for right now and we

can see as I move around on top of my

photo the blur brush there if I want

this brush size to be be smaller or

larger I can change that with the brush

size slider so if I bring it down we can

see my circle got a lot smaller if I

bring it to the right it's increasing

the size so this is just depending on

how much area on this photo I want to

cover quickly so for this one let's say

I want to blur out kind of all the areas

around this water bottle in the

background and leave the water bottle in

Focus I would probably bring the size

down to a reasonable size to be able to

like quickly cover this whole background

while still being pretty accurate then I

can also use the intens slider here to

change the intensity of the blur if I

want it to be like super super blurry or

if I don't want it to be quite so blurry

I can change that here as well so now

I'm going to zoom out a little bit so we

can see what we're doing here I'm going

to just quickly with this brush size go

over the majority of this background

here so there you can see I've covered

most of the background and when I

release the brush then it's going to

apply that blur so there's the blur but

you can see the areas I didn't highlight

are not blurred out yet so I left some

space around that was really close to

the water bottle because this brush size

was too big to really be accurate so now

I'm going to bring my brush size down

and make it smaller and come back around

to cover the different areas that I'd

missed before so I can be really

accurate and get right next to the side

of that water bottle okay so I've

covered most of my areas here and then

if I have anywhere in the photo that I

don't really like or maybe I came too

far onto the subject of the photo I can

click over to remove this is basically

an eraser to remove blur in the areas

that I went too far possibly so let me

zoom in here like for instance right

here I think I cut in a little too far

on top of the water bottle so then I

could just take my brush slightly go

over it a little bit to smooth it out

and remove a little bit of that blur

that's not in the right spot so of

course I could continue working with

this until I'm happy with the way it

looks and then use this in a design how

I want so that blur tool is just super

helpful if you're wanting to get that

really blurry background look but you

have a specific part you want to still

be in Focus then this is such a useful

tool for that all right the next thing

we're going to look at is inside the app

called Magic media you might be familiar

with this is where we can use AI to

generate images and videos so we're

going to stay on images here and what we

basically do here I've shown this before

is that we're going to put in a prompt

of what we want it to create for our

image and then we're going to choose the

style that we want that image in and an

aspect ratio so none of this is really

new but I'm going to show you a new part

of this after we generate our first

image so let's just say for instance we

want a lion in the sun on a mountain

let's choose our style and our aspect

ratio and then click generate image and

when it's generating it's going to give

us four initial images that we can

choose from all right so here are the

four Images it gave us so normally we

could only just choose one of these or

click to regenerate and try again but

the new feature here is that we can look

and see which one of these we like the

best so let's say we like this one where

he's kind of standing up more in the sun

it's more from the side and if we want

to see some more variations of this

specific image we can click these little

three dots here and and select the

option that says generate more like this

so once we click that it's keeping that

one image and now the other three are

going to generate as new images that are

closer to this specific style so there

we've got our three new images and the

one we liked so then we just decide

which one we would like to use and we

can add that to our project so the

ability to have variations of one of the

generated images is new and that is a

really helpful feature as well when

you're trying to narrow down and get

some more options for what you like I

want to try this one more time with a

different style so I'm going to say cat

wearing glasses and out of all these

different styles I think I'd like to try

something interesting so let me go with

stained glass I'm going to generate that

image and it's going to give me four

options to start off with and there are

my four Images which are really

interesting I like all of these but

let's say I want to have some variations

of this one I'm going to click generate

more like this it's keeping the one I

liked and it's going to give me three

others that are closer to this style and

there we' see are three other ones that

are definitely closer to that original

Style just changed a little bit in terms

of color and some different specific

details but now I can click one that I

like and use that in my design so there

you go friends those are seven new canva

tips and tricks that you can use this

year I hope some of those will be useful

for you in your graphic design and don't

forget to click over and watch my free

on demand masterclass digital product

Powerhouse that's Linked In the

description box below if you'd like to

learn my in-depth four-step system for

starting and growing a profitable online

digital product shop happy designing

talk

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