Everything You Need To Know About Canva Pro

 You can use the free version, and it's great, BUT the Canva Pro version has many great benefits and is very affordable. If you're a blogger, entrepreneur, or small business owner, Canva Pro will save you time and money. Let's look at some of the features and benefits.

Here are some of my favorite benefits of a Canva Pro account:

• Brand Kit management
• Magic Resize
• Design and Photo folders
• Download designs with transparent backgrounds
• Canva Animator
• Remove backgrounds from images
• And a massive library of images and videos is included in the Canva Pro plan!

One of the best new features is working with a team and adding different levels for people: administrators, template designers, and members. This is great for large and small businesses or for working with a designer. This allows people to add templates for you without emailing links back and forth.

Online whiteboard templates

Canva's free online whiteboard templates are perfect for brainstorming with collaborators from anywhere. These templates are easy to use and interactive, making it simple to gather ideas virtually. 

Design Amazing Presentation Slides Easily with Canva’s Free Alternative to PowerPoint

As a speaker, your slides can make or break you. Consider all the presentations you need to sit where the speaker repeatedly uses unreadable or boring slides with the same tired design. We have a term for this: death from PowerPoint. Microsoft's presentation software has long been the standard, but if you want to impress your audience, you need to break the stereotype.

The Canva presenter creator looks good and is easy to use. There is no need to download inflated software since it is completely online. The best of all is that it is completely free. Thanks to its drag-and-drop features and ready-to-use professional-quality templates, the design is a breeze. Everything you need to become a visual communicator is at your fingertips – an epic library of images, stunning graphics, and a one-click presentation mode.

Another update to Canva Pro is their Content Planner! You can now design your social media posts and schedule them right in Canva – it even includes scheduling Instagram posts!

Whether scheduling posts weeks in advance or at times when engagement is high, Canva’s Content Planner will automatically post to Instagram, Facebook, or any other platform, according to the date and time you’ve set. If you need to make a change to your schedule, no worries. Simply pause the scheduled post and edit the design directly, without downloading or re-uploading the file. There’s no need to stress about version control either as you can make edits on the fly. This frees up your time and keeps you in control.

What can you do in Canva Pro?

Once you have Canva in your workflow, you'll use it for everything!

Create presentations for workshops

Record a presentation for a video tutorial

Create blog post graphics

Design social media posts using thousands of templates

Make business cards, postcards, and other collateral for your small business

Print on demand — amazing quality on print jobs from posters to business cards

Upload your own photos and save them in folders

Use hundred of thousands of photos included in the Canva Pro plan

Upload your custom brand fonts and use them in all your designs

Make videos and GIFs

Develop custom reports with graphics and charts

Create Engaging Videos without Hassle

With Canva, you can make high-quality videos without being a professional video editor. You’ll find it easy (and fun) — to make videos every day. The simple drag-and-drop tool lets you make compelling short videos using Canva’s library of pre-made templates in minutes.

Create versatile videos with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Choose from a variety of templates and formats for all occasions.

Browse through thousands of customizable templates for industries ranging from fashion, food, and fitness to real estate. Find the perfect match for any project with pre-sized formats for social media videos, YouTube intros, advertisements, and more.

• Easy editing and real-time collaboration on the go.
• Experience seamless editing and collaboration with Canva's video editor, which works on any mobile device, browser window, online or offline, across the globe.
• In-app recording features for convenience.

Utilize Canva's recording studio to record voiceovers, yourself or your screen without leaving the app. With everything in one place, it's effortless to create the perfect video by inserting the recorded materials into your timeline.

You can use Canva Pro for almost any work task where you can improve communication by adding visual impact.

Canva Pro includes everything in Canva, plus:

Unlimited folders for your designs

Team functionalities

Unlimited storage for photos and assets

Upload your own images

75+ million premium stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics free-to-use – included in your Canva Pro membership

Magically resize your designs

Upload custom fonts for your brand

Set color palettes for your brand

Save templates for you and your team

Organize your photos with folders

Easily find your designs with search

Resize designs into custom dimensions

Download designs with transparent background

Export designs as animated GIFs

Priority support

Images Pro gives you unlimited access to millions of photos, icons, and graphics from a premium collection to use and publish on any design in Canva as many times as you like. This is subject to the continued payment of your Canva Pro subscription fees and compliance with Canva’s Terms of Use, including Canva’s license terms. This is a huge time and money saver because you don't have to buy a separate stock photo and head into Canva to create something. You can search right inside Canva from a massive selection of photos. 75 million! Wow.

A new update to Canva Pro is the content scheduling for social media. Take your social media game to the next level with Canva's new Content Planner. Plan, design, and schedule eye-catching social media posts in one place, directly from the Canva editor. You can currently schedule to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Pinterest.

Huffington Post and Upworthy use Canva. Here's what they had to say:

“Canva Pro has been incredibly useful for Upworthy's editorial team. The template feature allows anyone on our team to easily create graphics that are aligned with our visual brand — no extensive design training required. It's saved us loads of time, and our graphics look great! The Canva team is also a pleasure to work with — always responsive and eager to help out with our questions and requests.” Megan Kelley, Writer, Upworthy

“We needed a tool that hundreds of people with all ranges of experience could use and one that allowed for brand consistency across the company. It's important that each design, looks specific to the brand and not the individual – yet it allows us to fully customize each design. Since designing with Canva, we've been able to provide a richer experience to our readers, and the response internally has been really positive!” Candy Bigwood Mobile Art Director, Huffington Post

Team members can add designs that show up in your Canva team designs, and you can add comments to each other. They are also remixable! This means when I hit the green REMIX button, a new design opens, and I can create something with the text, change the image, or even hit the magic resize button.

My team member, designer Jeff Sieh of His Designs Online, has the option to send me templates or designs using my color palette and logo which are pre-loaded and saved in my brand kit.

You also can share designs in the team stream so team members can share ideas and comment on designs.

The key features include:

Centralize brand colors, logos, and fonts. Keep your brand guidelines up-to-date and in one place. Enable your entire team to access and use your colors, logos, and fonts in their own designs.

Save branded templates. Create templates for everything from social media graphics to presentations. This ensures consistency and empowers your social media, marketing, and sales teams to create their own on-brand graphics.

Logos are a snap to find now that they have a home in your left sidebar. You click the logo icon, and your pre-loaded logos appear. You can then drag and drop it into your design.

Magically resize designs. Quickly resize a design into all the formats you need. Create a design once, and optimize it for different social media channels, or campaign collateral. Resize is only available for Canva Pro accounts and can only be accessed on desktop browsers.

Once you create a design you like, you hit the magic resign button, and VOILA you have all the sizes you need to promote your blog post using the preset sizes in Canva or your custom dimensions. Can I hear a HOORAY for that feature?

Organize images and assets into folders. Centralize images and assets for your team. Employees will never get stuck searching for the right logo again.

Effortless Content Planning and Scheduling

Invite your team to collaborate. Canva Pro is perfect for organizations of all sizes, whether it’s one person or a team of hundreds. It provides an internal commenting and collaboration system to improve workflow.

Canva for Work

“Canva is extremely popular with individuals who create things like social media graphics, presentations, and business cards. It has saved them time, money, and allowed them to create graphics that look professional without needing to learn the expensive desktop design tools,” said Canva CEO Melanie Perkins.

“Over the past two years, we’ve found that brands often struggle even more with the same issues. Canva Pro takes Canva to the next level, by empowering companies to share design templates, fonts, and digital assets, and to collaborate on the design process.”

Canva Pro will also appeal to professional designers and brand managers, who can provide a greater level of control over an organization’s brand, by setting up their brand assets and custom templates in Canva.

“Too often graphic designers are overstretched and pressured with competing priorities from all corners of an organization. Canva Pro enables them to centralize all their assets, collaborate more easily, and oversee a brand’s image by providing remixable templates, images, and design assets that other teams can use to create on-brand graphics.”

Learn more about Canva Pro here. Canva’s free version service will continue to remain available. I feel like Canva Pro is essential for my work in social media and my blog, it's definitely worth the upgrade!

Team Collaboration Made Easy

Canva for Teams is the all-in-one design tool that helps teams deliver on-brand visual content. With a simple and intuitive interface, Canva for Teams makes it easy to create high-quality visuals.

I hope you enjoy testing out all these fun new tools and using them as much as I do! What feature are you most excited about?

In conclusion, Canva's versatile platform offers an unparalleled experience for creating stunning videos with ease. Boasting an extensive collection of templates, formats, and built-in editing tools, users are sure to find the perfect solution for any project. By empowering individuals and teams to collaborate in real time, Canva ensures maximum creativity and productivity. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, Canva's user-friendly interface and all-in-one recording studio make the video creation process enjoyable and efficient. So why wait? Dive into the world of Canva and explore the endless possibilities its features bring to your video projects.