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Canva

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What is Canva?

Canva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

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Honest Canva Review

9 out of 10
March 30, 2023
With Canva, we can create high-quality designs with minimal effort and time. Moreover, Canva offers a collaborative feature that enables …
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I'm Not Happy with the Service

1 out of 10
March 15, 2023
Was looking for a way to easily create social media posts for LinkedIn. In my experience Canva is impressive for creating graphics, but …
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Canva - For Everyone

9 out of 10
August 25, 2022
Canva is an excellent online graphic design tool for those who don't have any experience with graphic design. You can design anything like …
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Megha Burman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Megha Burman
Graphic Designer
CoinCRED (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Maureen Rice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Maureen Rice
Customer Marketing Manager
ChurnZero (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
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$12.95

Cloud
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Enterprise

$30.00

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Per Month Per User

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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How to Use Canva in 2022 Beginner Friendly Guide + Live Demo

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Full Demo of Kittl - Design Like A Pro...Thousands of Examples FREE No Graphic Experience Needed.

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What is Canva?

Canva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

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Canva Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Canva is a versatile design tool that has been widely adopted by individuals and businesses for various use cases. Users have found Canva helpful in creating social media graphics, resumes, infographics, eBooks, and more. The platform offers limitless built-in templates and media options, making it easy for users to create cohesive and professional external marketing materials.

One of the key use cases of Canva is its ability to help businesses solidify their brand and expand their outreach. Sole proprietors and small businesses use Canva to create images for social media posts, e-mail headers, e-book designs, and PowerPoint slides. It is also used across different departments, including sales, executive offices, and marketing teams, to create content for announcements, event invitations, and community engagement opportunities.

Canva enables businesses to create high-quality designs without outsourcing, reducing costs for lean marketing teams. It is recommended to clients who don't have in-house graphic design capabilities. For example, restaurants use Canva to design menus, event posters, and print marketing materials. Businesses also rely on Canva to create marketing materials such as business Instagram and Facebook posts, logos, banners, and business cards.

Another prominent use case of Canva is in the creation of visual content for ministries and book projects. It allows users to present and promote their content in fun, vibrant, and high-quality visual formats. Canva is used to design blog banners, Amazon A+ banners, web banners, and social media images for book projects.

In addition to these use cases, Canva finds its application in designing ad mockups, graphs, infographics, handouts, flyers, social media visuals, email banners, and more. Its drag-and-drop editor along with various graphics options makes it easy for non-designers within an organization to create innovative presentations or promotional materials.

Overall, Canva's wide range of features and user-friendly interface make it a valuable tool for individuals and businesses alike, helping them create professional-looking designs without the need for extensive design skills or outsourcing.

Users commonly recommend upgrading to the pro option of Canva for social media managers and teams looking to ensure consistent branding across the Internet. Canva Pro is considered a cost-effective alternative to Adobe products, especially for smaller businesses with a lower budget. It is also suggested to try Canva for free to create custom designs and stay on brand. Canva is seen as an ideal tool for basic design work, logo creation, and creating social media graphics and web designs. Users suggest utilizing Canva to quickly generate images for digital campaigns and regain control over branding. Canva is recommended as the ultimate solution for companies without a graphic design department or individuals who want to create images quickly without relying on Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. For teams and companies that are not design-heavy, Canva Pro is recognized as an inexpensive and user-friendly option. Canva for Work is suggested for centralizing brand guidelines and creating social media posts or graphics. Users recommend accessing the tutorials provided by Canva for learning how to effectively use the platform and advise checking the license agreement for $1.00 stock photos before usage. While Canva cannot replace more advanced design software like Photoshop, it is still considered a valuable tool for those with basic graphic design skills. Lastly, users recommend ensuring that the team knows the appropriate colors and fonts to use and uploading logos in PNG format for easy integration.

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January 28, 2022

Canva | An innovative Online Design tool

Augastin K Lazar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Augastin K Lazar
Content Creator
Self Employed (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is well suited for 1)Content Creation- Canva's commercial usage of licensed material will assist content producers of all types, from bloggers who want to build their own banners to ebook writers who want to make their own book covers from scratch. 2)Marketing Tools- Canva's simple beginner-friendly style makes it easy for marketing teams with minimal graphic design skills (and limited outsourced budgets) to develop advertising and social media images. 3)Social media posts- Canva allows creating visuals for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and many more platforms. 5)Graphic designs- Without prior training or expertise, entrepreneurs and small company owners may handle their own graphic design (for a cheap price). 6)For making Short videos and Animations and Ad creation.
January 22, 2022

Game Changer

Ginger Clay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ginger Clay
Marketing Architect
IgniteRM (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a marketing professional but not a graphic designer - this is an amazing tool If you are not a marketing professional and need to create design/presentations/graphics - this is an amazing tool If you need ideas for logos, presentations, graphics, etc. - this is an amazing tool
December 23, 2021

OBSESSED with how easy this was to use!

Kevin McLennan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kevin McLennan
Digital Communications Professional
Anhesuer Busch InBev (Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is suited towards how experienced the user is and what it's needed for. If you're looking to make quick and easy assets that's great! But if you're looking for more complex designs, it'll help you out too. The more you learn the software the more it'll be able to give you!
December 03, 2021

Canva for the WIN!

Verified User
Strategist in Social Media
Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva has become so versatile that you can use it for virtually anything related to graphic design. It allows you to get creative in customizing your content yet also provides thousands of eye-catching templates to work off of and get ideas from. I haven't yet found a time where Canva wasn't suited for something I was specifically trying to do.
December 01, 2021

Canva makes my brain happy

Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Professional Services
Real Estate Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The only thing I can't use Canva for is creating transparent backgrounds. But maybe that's just the free version. The free version has a ton of capabilities and is completely usable. You don't need the pro version to get a LOT out of it.
November 29, 2021

Create appealing and creative ads through this software

Rekha Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rekha Singh
Social Media Marketing Manager
Tender IT Solution (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva's mobile compatibility is one of its best features. Our organization uses Canva to create creative ads to promote our client's products as well as our business services. While Canva is well suited to promote through static ads like banners, flyers, and posts, it falls short when it comes to vector design.
November 10, 2021

Customize your designs with Canva

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is well suited for people who have no or less idea about graphic designing. It makes the work easy and improves our designing skills. Though it is well suited for beginners and easy work, it is not very ideal for logo designing as the elements or pictures have a limit of scalability.
August 20, 2021

Quick and efficient creation of social media, ad creatives and more

Alex Chaidaroglou | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alex Chaidaroglou
Director & Co-Founder
Altosight (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is ideal for both big and small businesses as graphic designers' time is usually limited. Any person working in marketing or an SMB owner who wants to quickly create aesthetically appealing images for ads, social media or otherwise can do it quickly.

If you want some nitty-gritty changes to the image or if you have tight specs you would need to use other tools like Photoshop.
August 11, 2021

A review from a true Canva lover since 2014

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is suited for:
  • Entrepreneurs that can't pay for a designer
  • Social Media agencies for easy management
  • Content creation such as books, infographics, cards, social images, etc.
  • People that want to manage their personal brand with style but don't know how to design
  • Speakers that need a place where they can manage multiple presentations
July 30, 2021

Canva is a simple, beautiful, powerful design and marketing creation tool

Andrea Janda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrea Janda
Office/Project Manager
Portland State University Department of History (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is great for flyer design, email campaign components, and social media content creation. It is easy to resize images and text, even entire designs to fit the intended media. Even seasoned design professionals using the Adobe CC Suite may find the simplicity and scalability a nice change to a more stripped-down design panel.
July 23, 2021

Canva Can Produce for Smaller Businesses!

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a small team or a small budget, Canva is the wallet-friendly choice to keep everyone on brand and still have some beautiful designs to use. Everyone can see previous designs and make sure that only the Brand Colors and assets are used. The guidance for social posts to be professional and inviting is excellent. Even the free version of Canva is fantastic for small businesses or start ups. If you have a larger business with an actual design team then it may be too rudimentary for you.
July 12, 2021

Canva makes creating custom images simple and fast with no graphic design experience required.

JH
Jake Hundley
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Evergrow Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is really suited for applications that are relatively simple, such as adding CTAs to images or providing quick things needed to post on social media. It's typically not ideal for icon or logo creation or anything that has more complicated requirements. Such as angled cutouts to images or unique font styling.
July 09, 2021

Effective & Easy to Use Graphic Designing Platform

Pratik Goyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pratik Goyani
Internet Marketing Coordinator
Trust In Dreams (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
[There is] nothing about Canva I don't like. But it [would] be wonderful, if you can also add text to the speech function. If you have any queries about an individual that likes Canva, please feel free to contact me! Canva is my number one go-to service, I have been playing with other premium services and hands down.
June 23, 2021

Give your design a real feel

Verified User
Employee in Sales
E-Learning Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is best suited for designing social media posts because it has some pre-designed template where you can edit according to need and create it ASAP, whereas if you want to design large poster where you need large effort then I would you to use another software instead of Canva.
June 23, 2021

Canva is a pleasure to work with and has few drawbacks

Peggi Wolfe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Peggi Wolfe
Global Programs Specialist
Alcorn State University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is very well suited for designing a number of different publications, such as posters, flyers, brochures, newsletters, etc. It is an easy program to work with and doesn't take very long to become comfortable with the program. As far as scenarios that Canva is less useful, you have to use the elements, such as lines, frames, icons, shapes, and stickers, supplied by Canva. You can't create custom shapes on the fly. You could create a shape in something like PhotoShop and upload it, but you can't create them in Canva. Also, photo editing capabilities are limited in Canva and are best done using PhotoShop or similar digital editing program.
June 22, 2021

Click. Create. Convert.

MM
Megan Murray
Owner
Project M Productions LLC (Wine and Spirits, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Incredibly easy to use. Great for solo business owners as well as large teams. Probably not my first choice of programs to design intricate new design images. Great for building out quick content for social media that is consistent with branding. The publishing feature on social has some issues that I think could be fixed. Would be nice to easily post across platforms the same Canva image/post without having to save each one then post.
June 16, 2021

The best tool for quick & beautiful designs

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
[Canva is] a great tool for smaller design projects, like social media graphics, email banners, cover photos, website images, ad images or banners, but would not be the best choice for designing something major like a website. The best feature of Canva is that once you have a template ready, anyone on the team can take it and adjust to whatever they're doing, without needing to wait on designers to step in. This is a huge time saver in our agency.
June 03, 2021

Canva offers the best approach for social media posts graphic design.

Shawn Hamp, Esq. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shawn Hamp, Esq.
Attorney at Law
The Law Offices of Shawn B. Hamp, P.C. (Law Practice, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is well suited for creating social media posts. It has several sized templates to create posts that can even be directly published online. The service does offer video posts but this is not a fully functional video editing program. It is more suited for static image posts but the video is a great new feature.
May 22, 2021

Creating eye catching social posts quickly with internal sharing for easy review and update

LS
Louis Schietekat
Managing Director
IP Braai (Legal Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Creating eye catching social posts and even infographics are super easy and quick in Canva. You can then share the creative with people in your team to get there input while they can even tweak the creative to show you what they mean in terms of suggested changes. These iterations can happen really quick with very little efforts from the reviewers
May 21, 2021

Creativity served to non-creatives.

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is well suited for non-creatives who had been suffering to innovate and make their presentations/reports meaningful and clever-looking. Canva helps this users by providing simple tools and amazing templates in an interface that's easy to work/edit. Presentations/reports are refreshed, looking way more professional and updated... this can be performed in a short period of time without design skills.
May 13, 2021

Canva is my go-to graphic tool for everything!

KS
Katelyn Silva
Sole Proprietor
The Author Mentor (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I truly believe Canva is the perfect graphic tool for any industry and any graphic need. I have used and recommended it to fellow business owners, marketers for restaurants, personal clients in my own business, and friends and family. It's quite literally appropriate for marketing posts, motivational graphics, advertisements, powerpoint presentations, webinar slides, testimonial graphics, and anything you could think of needing graphics. I know of authors who have even used it for book cover design (though I suppose that's the one area I still recommend hiring a professional designer).
May 11, 2021

Canva Design

Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Other
Philanthropy Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is well suited for flyers, invitations, save the date, and documents. We have created several documents we provide for volunteers and staff use. The templates are well suited as they offer different sizes, colors, fonts, and clip art. It is also nice that you are able to add your own clip art and create business stationary. For my organization the info graphic templates are not suited for my organization but I can see where they would be suited for others.
May 06, 2021

Canva: Usability, Variety and an Unbeatable ROI

Kathleen M Jarchow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kathleen M Jarchow
Online Course Designer and Professor
University of Connecticut (E-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In a word, Canva is awesome! Other than the negatives that I enumerated on the 'improvements' page, there would be very few changes that I would make to the user interface. Here are some scenarios where Canva shines: the myriad export options available and quick export functions. Canva offers downloads of your designs in several formats including .png, .jpeg, .pdf and many other commonly used file extensions. The variety lends itself well to users that are in need of a sharp looking design, made easily and lightning fast and then shareable through ubiquitous user file extensions. Another area where Canva is an industry leader: the multiple templates that are labeled with 'real-world' generic terms that are easily understood by the public writ large. Alongside of the pre-made 'decks' for early career marketing or social media workers is a great variety of other pre-made elements that you can insert onto any canvas in Canva. Where Canva would be less appropriate and/or less suitable is for strict admin work that could easily be completed in another software suite such as Microsoft 365.
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