Easy-to-use design tool for social media pros & non-designers
October 18, 2018
Easy-to-use design tool for social media pros & non-designers
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Canva
I use Canva myself for smaller design projects, mostly for social media applications. We're a small team, so efficiencies are key. I'm able to quickly create graphics that don't require elaborate work in InDesign from our expert designers. It is also a great tool for cropping images to the right dimensions for social media, and laying in our logo for branding purposes.
- Canva's templates can be a huge time saver for creating graphics. I especially find these helpful when creating motivational quotes or holiday-themed images for social media.
- Canva offers several export options, so whether you need a PNG or a PDF, for digital or for print, you've got it available.
- Included with Canva is a library of stock photos and graphics that are free to use, and additional images that can be purchased. It's a mixed bag, but it's nice to have some assets easily available.
- Canva allows you to save your brand's colors for easy application on future projects!
- Canva has a lot of preset sizes for different applications, but I think they could do a better job of implementing all the proper social media sizes (though who can keep up with them?!)
- A lot of features require a paid plan. Perfectly fine, but may not always fit for all users. This is hardly a criticism, but just something to be aware of based upon your needs.
- The key impact Canva has had is creating efficiencies by enabling me to create many of my own graphics, saving time and energy. Most of my needs can be handled immediately within the platform. It not only saves me time (and eliminates wait time), but also saves our designers time.