Canva For Authors

Canva Tutorial: how to extend an image using Canva’s magic edit tool

| Rhoda Baxter

You know how sometimes, your image is just not tall enough or wide enough for what your need? Here’s what to do if you need to extend it a bit. This uses Canva’s generative AI (based on Dall-E, possibly), so it has all the usual foibles of AI, but it’s improving all the time.

Here’s a step by step guide. I recommend doing the extending in sections, so that the AI had lots of reference material around the area it’s trying to fill. Sometimes the results are hilarious, but most of the time, it’s surprisingly good.

Just hit the big red play button to watch the video in YouTube.

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva tutorial: How to use Canva Colour Edit to change colours

| Rhoda Baxter

As the name suggests, you can use Canva’s new Colour Edit feature to change colours of parts of your photo. It also lets you separate out of the foreground from the background, which is really handy if you just want to make the background a bit darker, for example.

Here’s a tutorial on how to use the Colour Edit feature and a few examples of what you can make with it. This would be a super useful tool to use when making book covers.

Just hit the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube.

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva tutorial: How to animate your book cover

| Rhoda Baxter

Have you ever wanted to make your book cover come alive by animating parts of it? Now you can do that easily in Canva. Most of this is available on Canva free, so there’s nothing stopping you now!

Just hit the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube.

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva tutorial: How to animate your book title #2

| Rhoda Baxter

Continuing on from last week’s tutorial, here’s another step by step tutorial on how to animate your book title. What happens if you have a book where the title is particularly fancy and difficult to separate from the background? That’s where Canva’s AI image features come in. You’ll need Canva Pro for some of it.

Just hit the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva Tutorial: How to animate your book Title #1

| Rhoda Baxter

Adding a little bit of movement to your posts makes them stand out and can stop people from scrolling past. One nifty way to do that is to add a bit of animation to your book cover by animating the title. Here’s one way to do it. I’ll post a second method next week.

Just click on the big red play button to watch the video in YouTube.

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva tutorial: How to make Rotating Text in Canva

| Rhoda Baxter

Sometimes, you just need your text to go round and round and round…

Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to make rotating text in Canva. You can ‘stack’ animation effects so your can make the text fade in and then rotate.

Just click on the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube.

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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Canva Tutorial: How to distort text in Canva

| Rhoda Baxter

Let’s face it, sometimes you want text to do funky things. Now you can distort your text – make it wide at one end and thin at the other, or make it fit into a globe, that sort of thing – using the Typecraft app in Canva.

Here’s a tutorial on exactly how to use it and where you might use it in your book marketing. (Mainly, it’s a nice thing to be able to do on a book cover). Just click on the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube.

How will you use TypeCraft in your designs?

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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How to make transparent gradients in Canva

| Rhoda Baxter

If you make your own book covers, this feature is a game changer. You can now make gradients that fade to clear in Canva. Gradients are useful in themselves because you can get a nice blur going from one colour to another.

Since I know I’ll be using this most often to make book covers, I’ve made an example book cover. You can buy it from my Etsy shop as a pre-made cover. I give you the jpg image with and without text (you’ll have to tell me your book title and author name, obviously) and the link to the Canva template, so that if you want to change anything later, you can do that yourself.

Hit the big red play button to watch the video on YouTube.

If you’ve found this tutorial useful, please share it (and subscribe to my YouTube channel – I’d be very grateful).

If you’d like a free Canva template – sign up to my newsletter here: https://jeevanicharika.com/canva-for-authors/

Join the free Canva for Authors Facebook group: www.facebook/groups/canva4authors

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

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How to use Lottie Stickers in Canva

| Rhoda Baxter

Okay, I’m leaning into my nerd side here. I love Lottie stickers. They are versatile little stickers that you can scale up to huge without losing definition AND you can change the colours to match your branding or your book cover.

The most difficult thing about using Lottie stickers is FINDING them. I spent a whole afternoon ferreting out Lottie sticker collections and adding them to a list. You can get a list of 20 sets of Lottie stickers by signing up to my mailing list here:

Here’s the full video on Lottie stickers, what they are and how to use them. So much fun.

Hit the big red play button to watch on YouTube.

If you’ve found this tutorial useful, please share it (and subscribe to my YouTube channel – I’d be very grateful).

If you’d like a free Canva template – sign up to my newsletter here: https://jeevanicharika.com/canva-for-authors/

Join the free Canva for Authors Facebook group: www.facebook/groups/canva4authors

You can sign up for a free Canva account here: partner.canva.com/Jeev*

If you want to talk to other authors about how to use Canva in your book marketing, come and join the free Canva Tips for Authors Facebook group at facebook.com/canva4authors

* This is an affiliate link. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it gives me some small amount if you get a Pro account.

#Canva #Canvassador