Canva

Canva is a powerful graphic design app that offers a lot of awesome resources for creating eye-catching montages and compositions. It is simple to use and enables users to create or edit their visual content easily. Compared to other complex platforms, it makes your creation simple while delivering your desired results within seconds.

The innovative program offers pre-made templates to make your creation quick, and simplifies creating everything from wallpapers to book covers. You can also use the different formats available on the main screen for designing social media Facebook headers, advertising flyers, or icons as well.

What is Canva?

Canva is a freeware app used for simplifying graphic design in different scenarios. It offers a plethora of tools, stock images, fonts, illustrations, and a lot of other such material to make your editing process quick, smooth, and easy. 

The touch-friendly portable utility helps you to create eye-catching designs without waiting for your desktop, select pre-made material, or import images from your device, and edit them in the way you like. 

Canva Features

User-friendly Interface

Simplicity and versatility are the main features of the user-friendly interface, and a properly organized interface allows users to easily access the editing features according to their preferences. You will find a blank page or template in the middle of the screen, and start your editing or creating process while importing from a device, and make changes such as background images, fonts, colors, and so on. Likewise, select a template and personalize it according to your preferences for your brand or style. 

Stunning Layouts

The availability of a plethora of customizable templates and layouts enables users to select the most suitable layout for designing to promote their brand. The app allows you to enhance the visual appearance of your created masterpiece within stunning filters. However, the free version is limited, but you can use the premium version for robust functionality.

Improved Social Media Support

The integration to multiple social media platforms streamlines the workflows more reliably while offering innovative material. It helps users to create awesome posts, images, and videos while using huge collections of fonts, pictures, templates, and other assets. Make your different social media platforms colorful and exciting within your created posts on Canva, and upload them right from the app itself.

AI-Powered Capabilities

The recent updates have introduced a huge series of AI-powered tools for enhancing user experience such as;

• An assistant feature for searching for different elements, accessing various features, and also providing design recommendations. 
• Magic Write works as a copywriting assistant to enable users make their content creation effective and useful, as it offers support for 18 languages.
• Magic Design offers personalized templates that match the uploaded image and selected style.
• Magic Edit offers seamless replacement of elements in an image
• Magic Eraser offers awesome brushes for cleaning unwanted details from the selected areas
• Beat Sync offers pa rofessional touch while matching video footage to a selected soundtrack
• The translate feature, with support for 100 languages, enables users to translate text automatically
• The draw feature offers simple sketching of shapes and refining them into polished designs

Cloud Storage Support

The support for cloud storage allows users to store their designs online and use them later. You can share them with friends, upload them on social media platforms, and download them on different devices as well.

Multi-tasking

The software offers multiple innovative functions to manage your images as well as videos in the way you like, such as;

• Add Audio: it offers a plethora of audio tracks, 25k licensed tracks, and 89k sound effects for narrating your story.
• Add Text: avail a seamless professional flow while adding text overlays and titles within cinematic transitions
• Text Animation: offers seamless recommendations for pairing the most suitable animation, and, within a few clicks, animate any element
• Split and Splice: splitting and splicing the video and arranging it in the way you like
• Cropping Flipping: cropping and resizing the videos or images is also possible, and also flip your footage in the way you like, such as horizontally, vertically, etc
• Trimming and Cutting: Remove unwanted elements while using trimming and cutting
• Speed Controls: It also allows you to speed up or slow down elements of your videos
• Captions: add automatically generated captions for better engagement and accessibility

Real-time Collaboration

The app also allows users to collaborate on their projects and manage their editing process while sharing their projects with others. It also allows commenting as well as assigning actions on different scenes. In addition, you will also find support for multiple file formats, including JPG, PNG, PDF, and MP4 for importing and exporting your content. 

Pros

• Offers touch-friendly editing
• Continue your editing process even offline
• Supports all basic editing features such as rotating, cropping, flipping, resizing, etc
• Integrated with multiple cloud services, including Google Drive, Dropbox, etc
• Seamless collaboration in real-time
• Unlimited editing assets integration

Cons

• Lack of advanced functionality
• The free version has limited features