STUDENTS
arnold on Sep 15, 2018
***Updated 11/29/2020***
How To Learn Graphic Design Quickly and Free.
If you want create professional looking graphics for your digital and social media properties the easiest program to use and learn is CANVA. With Canva you can make almost any graphic that you can think of: Facebook covers, Instagram images, business cards, stylish resumes and even logos.
Canva is used in the majority of Digital and Social Media Marketing companies so it is an important to tool to learn and have on your resume.
And learning Canva only takes about 30 minutes. The following instructions were written for my students but can be used by anyone to get started.
Instructions To Access The CANVA Tutorials
1) You must first create a CANVA account:
Go to: https://www.canva.com/signup
2) You will then see something similar to this:
If you click the email option you will see this:
3) Fill everything out and click “Get Started”
4) You will then see this:
You can select whichever one is most aligned with what you do. If you are in my class you can choose either student of small business.
There will be a few more options but you can skip those.
4) You need to access the tutorials by clicking the following link:
https://designschool.canva.com/tutorials/
You should see a screen that looks similar to the image below. Click “Getting Started With CANVA”:
Complete all the tutorials in “getting started”. They each take 2 to 3 minutes and there are 13 of them.
When you complete a module just click out of it and go back to the main tutorial screen.
