Tuesday, December 20, 2016

How to use Canva



Canva is a website that lets the user create presentations that show information with pictures. Once you sign in, you will see a screen that shows different formats you can use to create your presentation. To see more choices of formats, you press the more button. Then, you will a screen with more formats. Select the format you choose. After you choose your format, you can select the "Layouts" button on the right of the screen to select one of many layouts. After you choose your layout, you can also add elements. Some elements are grids, frames, and shapes. You can also add text boxes by pressing the "Text" button the far right. In the text section, you can choose a variety of different fonts to choose from. When you find the font you want, you click on it and the text box appears on your presentation. Another tool is background. In this section, you can select backgrounds for your presentation. The final tool you can use is uploads. Here, you can upload pictures from your computer to your presentation. To do this, you select the uploads button on the far right and then select upload your own images. This will bring up pictures from your computer that you can upload. You select the picture you want, and it will be brought up under the "Upload your own images" button. You click and hold the image and drag it to your presentation.
 Here is an example of a info graphic you can make using Canva.

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