My Favorite Canva Tips And Tricks

Create more quality content faster.

Valerie
Dare To Be Better

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Canva

Canva is like Photoshop for creatively challenged. Since I’m one of those people, I love Canva for its simplicity and — especially — ready-to-use templates. When Photoshop makes me feel helpless, Canva always comes to the rescue. It allows creating beautiful digital and print graphics, GIFs, and even small videos in a matter of minutes.

When It’s Not Wise To Use Canva

Once you start using Canva on a daily basis, it’s tempting to start using it for everything. Resist the temptation because Canva is not a one-size-fits-all solution. While you can use it to create cool graphics easily, I don’t recommend using Canva for designing logos. Canva is not a vector-based program so the logos won’t be scalable. They will look nice, sure, but as soon as you try to repurpose your logo and resize it for some other website, you’ll see what I’m talking about. For logo design, there are better tools out there like Adobe Illustrator or Figma:

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Valerie
Dare To Be Better

Self-taught software engineer, mom, avid reader, and artist writing about coding, creativity, and everything in between. ✨