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How To Create Engaging Posters
Fast Using Canva
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Open your browser
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Type Canva URL in the address bar
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Press Enter
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You will get a prompt to create an account
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Create An Account
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Or if you already have an account
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You have to log in
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Let’s create an account
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You can connect with Facebook
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You can connect with Google
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You can create by your email address
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Type Email
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Type password
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Now you have an account.
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Let’s get to work
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This is Canva inside
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The good thing about Canva…
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is that it offers a lot of design templates
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You just have to choose according to your application
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Click More
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To see other design templates
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You can also customize your
canvas size
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Click Use custom dimensions
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Input your desired size here
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Enter Width
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Enter Height
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Select the Unit of Dimensions
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It can be in pixel (px)
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Or millimeter (mm)
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Or Inches (in)
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Click Don't use custom dimensions
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To go back to design selections
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In this tutorial, we will create a Facebook post
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Click this
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You will be directed here
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Let’s get familiar with the Canva tools
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This is a PAGE of your design
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This number represents
Page #
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This is to duplicate the page
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This is to delete the page
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To add a page, click
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SEARCH enables you to find items quickly inside Canva
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Type here a keyword for your search
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LAYOUT is used for your design layout
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Canva has a variety of layouts to choose from
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ELEMENTS
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ELEMENTS is used to add different items in your canvas
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Like GRIDS
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FRAMES
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SHAPES
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LINES
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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ICONS
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PHOTOS
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CHARTS
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CANVA GRAPHICS
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TEXT is used to add text in your poster
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You can add simple text
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Or Texts with Text Holders
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BACKGROUND is where you select a
background for poster
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You can select a Color background
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Or Texture/Pattern background
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UPLOADS is where you
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upload your own image
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Zoom IN or out your page here
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There you have it!
Let’s try some tools!
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Let’s start creating our
attractive poster.
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In this tutorial, we will use our own uploaded
image
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Click Uploads
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Shortcut: You can drag
an image
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From the folder in your device
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Directly to Canva window
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To upload it
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Let's do the other way
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Click Upload your own images
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A new window will pop out
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To get the image
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Saved in your device
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Click the image filename
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Click Open
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Wait until uploading is finished
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There is the
uploaded image
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To add the uploaded image in the canvas
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Click the image
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This is now on your canvas
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You can resize it to cover the whole canvas
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Just stretch the image in or out
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Until it covers the whole canvas
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Click filter to add filter to the image
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You can crop
it
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Click the ✔ sign when done
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Or ✘ to cancel
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You can Copy the image
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Move it forward
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Or at the back of another object on your canvas
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You can delete this also
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Click the down⬇arrow
to see other options
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Let's add text
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Click Text
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Click Add headline
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You will see this
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You can change the font type
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The font size
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And even the font color
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Click the down⬇arrow
to see other options
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Type your headline (text) here
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To make it more readable
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Add a textoverlay
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Overlay is simply a thing (usually a shape)
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Put under text to make it
more readable
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It comes in a solid
color
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Or a little bit
transparent
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To add overlay,
click Elements
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Click Shapes
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Choose a
rectangle
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Resize the shape
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By stretching it in or out
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An important property of overlay is the color
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Select a color of your overlay
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From one of the colors of image in the poster
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✍It is best to use minimal colors in the
poster
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✍Choose colors that are complimentary with each other
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✍Use Eyedropper to get the exact color from existing image.
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What is an eyedropper or Color picker?
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Eyedropper is a Chrome
extension to pick color from web.
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In your Chrome browser
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Click this
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Click More Tools
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Then Extensions
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New tab will open this
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Scroll down
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And click Get more extensions
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New tab will open to this
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Search for the
Eyedropper
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Type Eyedropper
here
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The Eyedropper is here
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Click Add To Chrome
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You will see this when the eyedropper is already added
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BACK TO OUR CANVAS
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Click the Eyedropper icon
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Click Pick color from the web page
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Click the color in the image to pick it
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Click the eyedropper tool again
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Get the color ID here
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Highlight and copy it (Press Ctrl+C or COMMAND+C)
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Go back to our canvas
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Click the rectangle
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Click this to change color
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You can see color suggestions
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We do not want that
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Click this
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Paste the color ID here
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It chooses your picked color
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The color of the overlay is already changed
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Just click outside the canvas to continue.
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Drag the overlay to the text
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Click it
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And Click Back
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You can now see your text
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✍Use a dark font color to a
light background and vise versa
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Click the text
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Click this
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Select from font
types
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Resize the font
size here
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Choose your
desired size
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Change the text color
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Click the down⬇arrow
to see other options
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Like text alignment ,
making it BOLD or Italic
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You can also change the
order of items in canvas
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Click Forward to get it in front
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Click Back to get it behind
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We’re almost finished👏
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How To Use Frames
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Click Elements
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Click Frames
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Choose the frame you
want
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Scroll down to
see other
options
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Click your
desired frame
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It's now in your canvas
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To put a picture inside
a frame
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Simply drag an image inside it
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You can add your
Company logo
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As an example...
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You have your logo uploaded
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Remember how to
upload?
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Go to to Uploads
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Select the image
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Drag the logo image inside the frame
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You can put a
filter to image
inside the frame
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Click Filter
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Choose a filter
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And see the effect to your image
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Double click the frame
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To resize the image inside it
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Or reposition the image inside the
frame
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Click the ✔ sign if done
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Or ✘ to cancel
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You can resize the frame itself
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Just stretch the corner in or out
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And finally
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Drag the frame
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In your desired position in the poster
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Wait…
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Let's save our
masterpiece
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Every changes we
made
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Is saved by Canva
AUTOMATIC
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But if you want to
rename the file
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Just click here
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Type the file name
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Click Done
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Download the poster
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Click Download
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Choose the format here
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Click Options to see more
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Click the PNG image format
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Wait to finish download
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You can now use your masterpiece
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams