Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features

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Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload photos from your computer or Google Drive and then add them to Canva’s templates via a drag-and-drop interface. It’s similar to Photoshop’s basic version, but without the need for Graphic designing knowledge. It’s ideal for non-graphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. You will need to familiarize yourself with the software and its hundreds of features. It is also important to have a solid background in design.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easy to use and is free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12. 95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12. 99/month per user or $119. 99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000 free templates
• 100 design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100 million premium and stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000 premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
• Create a library of your brand or campaign’s colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand’s visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team’s access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. The next step is to choose between student, teacher or large business. Templates will be suggested to you based on your account type.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. You can choose from different types of templates depending on which type of account you have. These include social media posts, documents and presentations, marketing, advertising, building your online brand, and launching your business.

Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. To see a list all post types on each social network, search by name.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. There are hundreds of ready-made templates available, including customizable photos and text.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. Be specific in your search query to find them. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can make the template more relevant to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. You can crop, animate, and crop the image.

When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you remove the background from any stock image in your library or upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on text, you’ll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows).

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content stays on-brand no matter how many people are working on the project.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? You can choose from thousands of stock videos. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab.

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. To give your template a personal touch, you can change the background.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. You can also upload your brand’s custom fonts and colors to ensure that designs stay consistent with your Canva Pro subscription.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. You can upload multiple versions of your brand logo here to use in your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. You cannot trademark a logo that has stock content.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. You can create an Instagram post by simply starting to design it. Canva’s Magic Resizer will resize it for different networks, Stories, Reels and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Canva allows you to create designs and send them to your team for approval. You can all make comments, edits, or revisions and keep track of your work via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. Canva Print offers a wide range of printing options that can transform your designs into everything from banners and wall art, to mugs, and t-shirts.

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Inspiring designs will be shared, worn, and kept by people. Give out business cards that make a lasting impression.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you’ll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva’s features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Logos are a favorite.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. Canva’s platform is not for experienced graphic designers. Canva lacks customization and advanced features, especially vectors. For most projects, Canva will be easier to use than more advanced graphic design tools such as Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. I’d love to hear from you in the comments section if you have any questions.