New to Canva? Don't know what the little knobs and flashy buttons do?
This a guide to those buttons, and to those who want to make their covers better than ever before. Including some tips on how to save money - and independantly manufacture your o...
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Go ahead and click on "Create a design" in the top right corner.
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Search "Book Cover" and click on it.
The first one, not the one's that say Book Cover (Background) or similar results.
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It will bring you here.
Now first before we go on further let me explain some things.
1. Templates.
These are basically what they're called. Its like the font you choose for what you write. A style to write your stories.
Templates are just a font, in a manner of speaking.
In this there are HUNDREDS of templates to choose from. Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Horror, Fantasy - any genre you can think of. A canvas for you to paint on.
2. Elements.
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a) Lines and Shapes.
They have the same function as stickers basically. I've never used this feature.
b) Photo's.
I know im going a little out of order - but this is necessary to cover before we reach the other features. Then you will understand them better.
Photo's include THOUSANDS of pictures, which will ultimately become your background. The cover photo that is.
This is a very important thing to be sure about before you move on to anything else. It frames every other element in the cover.
$) Something people dont realise about this feature is that you're not limited to the photos included here. You can open a tab if you dont like any of the pictures, do a google search - find your picture and copy paste it. And you can find the same picture on google if the one you want ON Canva is premium. Which is a term we'll cover later.
c) Graphics.
Graphics is the next most crucial thing into designing a cover.
This is your decor. Your fancy things, to make the cover pretty - to turn it into what you want it to be. You will understand them better once i show you how to use them into designing a cover for this book.
d) Stickers.
Animated Graphics which you must dutifully ignore.
e) Videos.
Videos, ignore this.
f) Audio.
Recordings songs, etc. Ignore.
Some features of Canva are for other things like posters and video presentations and stuff like that. It's like a high tech powerpoint. In designing a cover - ignore the rest of the features as listed below.
g) Charts.
h) Tables.
i) Frames.
j) Grids.
All of the above are for other things. Which wont be addressed in this tutorial. We're focusing only on book covers.
3. Uploads.
In this feature, you can record youself, upload pictures, videos and basically anything you want.
4. Text.
It includes:
a) Heading.
b) Sub-Heading.
c) Little bit of body text.
And, d) Fonts. Hundreds of Thousands of them. Go crazy with them.
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5. More.
Ignore this its practically useless.
IMPORTANT:
Premium:
You really didnt expect everything to be free? Well its not but dont worry, I know you're broke. So am I. And I have loopholes for you to save some money.
Canva offers a premium package with literally everything good included in it.
We're left with poor people features.
We don't do that here.
Backgrounds, graphics, everything has REALLY good stuff you'll love and then further be heartbroken to see how much money it costs.
So, lets go to the next chapter to not land ourselves into further debt.
