Canva is an easy to use graphic design and video editing platform that lets users create, design, and publish original artwork using a simple drag-and-drop editor. The platform comes with thousands of design templates and layouts for numerous projects, including social media posts, presentations, videos, posters, flyers and more.
Canva is also often used as Photo Editing of choice in Marketing and Ecommerce tech stacks.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
With Canva, it is so easy to quickly design any asset you need. From email headers to social posts and presentations Canva has it all. They have great templates and examples of different designs that you have access too. Lots of cool graphics and icons available for your use.
Nothing Canva is great and improving very quickly. Would love to see where it gets in a few years.
Having no graphic design background and only some photoshop experience it is so simple to go in and design an asset with canva.
You can edit or crop photos. You can make infographics and marketing materials from scratch. I use this all the time!
There are some features you must pay for, but with what is available for free, I can't complain!
I'm able to create/edit images for work and personal use, which is super helpful and fun!
Canva is an app used to create social media post for different types of social media accounts. I have been introduced to canva by my friend few years back who is also social media manager. Canva is the bridge between amateurs and professionals and delivers results just as good and is user friendly.
I honestly love using CANVA for creating instagram or FB posts. I don’t dislike anything but i would think it might be good if it’s available also in web version not just an app version.
Instagram posts, stories and fb covers, i also create promotional post by using Canva
This is a wonderful tool to use especially as a business owner. I use it for creating almost everything related to marketing. It is easy to use, great templates and great overall service.
I don't think there is much I dislike about canva.
I am using canva almost daily for marketing, advertising and social media tasks. It is easy to use, quick and reliable. I get more done in less time.
I love how user friendly using Canva is.
Premium is expensive, but potentially worth it.
I use Canva daily. I have been able to submit professional looking design work to high praise.
The ease and functionality of this program.
The app has some quirks like the fonts won't upload or if you download the image you created, it doesn't download as is.
Creating content for social media sites.
Canva has beautiful templates that are just so easy to customize to your brand's specifications and don't require design expertise.
Would love to be able to rotate images that are part of a background.
Canva has made my life as a digital marketer so much easier. Now I can design most of the assets on a daily basis without having to wait for a professional designer. It has saved me time, money, made my marketing org more agile and it's actually fun.
really easy to use a lot of click and drop function
the limited selection of picture if the pro version is not purchased
solved the problems of creative media campaigns. Benefits being that it is really easy to use and outputs high quality pictures
It’s great to create a range of quick marketing content - images to posters!
There’s so features missing and you can’t make great videos.
Making marketing content and being able to mock stuff up super quickly
As an office of one, working smarter is always the goal. With Canva, I am able to easily create attractive graphics for all of our needs in a short amount of time. Whether the project is simple or more complex, I am able to find layouts, graphics, and designs that make me look like a trained graphic designer. It's been a great addition to my work tools.
Some of the graphic options are a bit limiting, in terms of sizing it to your specifications. If you aren't a paid subscription customer, I think all of your options are limited.
I need to be able to create graphics for social media, print, the web, and newsletters. I can do all of that with Canva, in addition to the ability to share it with a team and collaborate on a project in real time.
Love the simplicity and user friendliness of program.
Make searching for templates easier and more robust.
Use canva for free graphic design.
Canva is cheap and incredibly easy to use. I've used it both solo and also in the team feature, always for work purposes. I am by no means a designer. In fact, I'm terrible at it. But you don't always have a designer in-house or easily accessible to do quick projects. Canva is 100% my go-to for making email banners, social post images and quick graphics that look good and can work for B2B marketing. This product makes me look so much better as a marketers. A must-have for small teams.
The quality of the download for print is questionable. I've had some just turn out so grainy. We wanted to use them for our holiday cards and sent the file to a professional printer but it wasn't useable. If you have a ton of print stuff to do, you might not get exactly what you are looking for. Stick to their templates and less of your own uploads for best results there.
Saves so much time. Rather than using our designer on retainer for silly small projects that we just need to get DONE, we can quickly turn them around ourselves, without a professional designer.
I love the templates provided. It makes making a simple graphic quick and easy.
I dislike the lack of capabilities. There are times I find myself wanting to do something specific, and the software not being capable.
Canva makes making simple graphics quick and easy.
Canva is a great, easy to use design app for anyone who wants to create creative material but don’t necessarily have the skills to do so. The layout is very simple, but allows you to do tons with the program and create professional-looking posters.
When you try to make an image wider, it crops out some of the picture. The only way to make it larger is to drag the white dots at the corner of the picture, essentially just making the picture taller. So, if you want to make a picture wiser, be prepared to get rid of some of your image. But at the end of he day, I suppose they do that to save the quality of the picture.
For someone who works in PR, is very useful to have creative skills, such as photoshop or illustrator. Unfortunately i don’t know how to use those programs, but Canva allows me to be able to design. It’s been very useful in social media roles, creating Instagram stories and posts. I’ve realized a lot of PR people know of Canva, so it can be a great thing to mention on a resume or in an interview.
Our Design team is able to provide overarching brand guidelines and templates and our content creators can build out materials quick and easy. It has significantly helped our team come out with new content quicker and the content is even more effective. We just love it! And it is easy to use.
nothing! I like everything about this tool
Time needed to develop collateral, alignment between design and other marketing teams
It's so easy to make edits to graphic. They also have a lot of free cute icons,backgrounds, and other options to use! I also like that they already have templates made for you to use or get inspiration from.
Not all of their backgrounds and icons are free and you need to upgrade to do certain things.
Its easy to go back and look for your previous work. Also, other Canva users can share their work with you so that you are able to edit what they are working on too or leave comments.
Templates make it easy to build off ideas, I creat flyers and logos so fast.
Sizing of images can be distorted and so is the textZ
Creating flyers and social media posts.
The platform offers a lot of great guidance in terms of templates/examples and suggestions. Very easy to use, even if you aren't very tech-savvy. The software offers a lot of stock photos, fonts, and colors to choose from - and sometimes, you can even filter through the different categories to ensure that you're creating content that actually matches the target audience you are trying to market towards.
Sometimes, when you're saving larger items/files, the platform does crash...not too sure why it does that...so you have to make sure that you are saving copies of your work occasionally - I would also suggest saving your work in PDF format to avoid this.
Canva is great if you are trying to create marketing pieces with a team, as your team can work on it simultaneously as you, any time and any where. As a result, this is a lot more time-efficient and convenient for everyone, and allows the company as a whole to meet tight deadlines for deliverable.
I love that I can upload my own graphics and manipulate them within the program
The mobile app is not very user friendly for some of the features
I create designs to share to my social media groups
Canva offers quick templates, designs and visuals that will enhance your social media posts and make it professional.
The least helpful feature of Canva is probably the user interface. A lot of its great features are hard to navigate to.
I am solving my social media needs with the help of Canva. As a food blogger I am able to attract people from around the world to follow me on instagram thanks to Canva.