The Most Useful Canva Shortcuts and Hacks

The most useful Canva shortcuts and hacks ⭐️

A thread:

• Favorite Shortcuts:

R - Rectangle
C - Circle
T - Text
L - Line
CMD+B - Bold text
CMD+I - Italics
CMD+D - Duplicate
CMD+Z - Undo

• Transparent backgrounds for images

How to: Select image -> Effects -> Background remover -> Apply

• Outline effect

How to: Select image -> Effects -> Shadow -> Glow -> Edit -> Adjust to preference

Use cases: YouTube thumbails, marketing material, etc.

• Shadows

Purpose: Looks cleaner/more realistic

How to: Select image -> Effects -> Shadow -> Drop -> Adjust to preference

• Quickly zoom in & out

How to: Hold CMD + (+ or -)

• Lock background elements

Purpose: Move and edit other elements w/out accidentally clicking on or affecting the locked element

• Display Frames

Product frames
Circle frames
Text frames

• Creating hyperlinks on PDFs

Purpose: If creating biz docs, can link to scheduler, website, etc.

• GIF creation

How to: Use the 'animate' feature on desired element -> export to GIF

Or can take an existing .MP4 and turn into GIF

(used Canva to create all GIFs in this thread)

• Ctrl-click to quickly reorder layers

OR

CMD + [ (bring element forward)
CMD + ] (send element backward)

• Brand kit (Canva Pro)

Benefit: Saved brand fonts, logos, colors for easy use, can upload your own fonts

That's all I got

What are some of your favorite Canva hacks?

• Canva Font Combinations

Purpose: Help decide on brand fonts, what fonts go together, inspiration, etc.