Great for beginners and easy to use
August 31, 2017
Great for beginners and easy to use
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Canva
I use Canva for my own company as well my client's companies. Canva takes the place of Photoshop when wanting to make quick graphics or for my clients who don't want to pay the monthly fee for Photoshop. It's easy to use and the graphic templates help to make branding marketing material very easy. We mainly use it for marketing material, social media graphics, blog featured images and email images.
- There's a ton of graphic templates and you can customize them any way you see fit. This helps to create graphics quickly and makes it easy to brand your graphics to create a cohesive look.
- The free stock photos are a great feature and the search bar does a great job at finding relevant images. It takes out the need to go searching on different websites for stock photos.
- The interface is extremely easy to use. There really isn't a learning curve and you can get started as soon as you sign up.
- Every so often there's a glitch on the interface that doesn't allow you to download and save the image. The only option is to go back to the homepage and start over. It doesn't happen frequently but it is quite frustrating when it does happen. I'd say I've had it happen once every 2-3 months or so.
- You can add pictures to folders if you'd like but all images remain in the normal dashboard view. I'd prefer if it looked like folders and images do on a computer where you can only see the folders and then any photos that are not in a folder would remain visible.
- I'd love if transparency were an option in the free version but hey, they have to make money!
- It's a great free option for designing graphics and the templates save on having to hire a graphic designer.
- I'm able to easily collaborate with clients on their graphics which is a huge benefit that you can't do on any other platform without sending the graphics back and forth.
Canva is great if you're not interested in learning how to use Photoshop. I had to take a course to understand Photoshop and it costs a monthly fee, which of course you don't have to worry about with Canva. I mainly use Canva for my client's images and Photoshop for my own images. I find that most clients who use Canva have little to no design skills and Canva makes it look they hired someone to do graphics. Any clients who use Photoshop have more intermediate design skills.