Canva Design Essentials (Bring Your Own Laptop)
- Course audio
- Course audio: English
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 27 lessons · 2.3 hours
What you'll be able to do
- Work from a design brief to a finished design
- Use colour, text, frames and alignment well
- Export designs for social media and print
About this course
A structured Canva course from Bring Your Own Laptop: 27 chapters, about 2.5 hours, built around a design brief and four class projects. It covers images, cropping and frames, uploads and free image sources, workspaces, exporting JPGs and PNGs, choosing colours, text and text effects, grouping, locking and aligning, shapes and graphics, and the background remover. A more thorough English-language companion to the quick Urdu Canva course.
Before you start: A free Canva account
Syllabus
27 lessons · 2:20:06 in total
- 1Introduction to Canva Design Essentials2:16
- 2Getting started with Canva Design Essentials3:41
- 3Your Canva Design Brief1:50
- 4Creating Designs in Canva3:52
- 5Working with Images in Canva9:51
- 6Cropping Images in Canva4:54
- 7Using Frames in Canva8:43
- 8Naming & Saving in Canva4:27
- 9Uploading your own Images in Canva2:06
- 10Where to get Free Images for Canva3:59
- 11Workspaces in Canva5:52
- 12Squares, Circles, Layers & Positions in Canva5:11
- 13Exporting JPG's & PNG's from Canva1:28
- 14Class Project 1 - Images in Shapes4:12
- 15Creating great colors in Canva7:15
- 16Styles & Color Palettes in Canva6:03
- 17Working with text in Canva8:44
- 18Class Project 2 - Reopening Quote5:10
- 19Text Effects in Canva6:04
- 20Curving text in Canva4:08
- 21Grouping, Locking & Aligning in Canva5:16
- 22Making Lines in Canva7:37
- 23Making Shapes in Canva3:18
- 24Graphics in Canva8:29
- 25Class Project 3 - Instagram Post from Canva4:13
- 26Background Remover in Canva7:21
- 27Class Project 4 - Background Remover in Canva4:06
What to take next
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Lessons last checked Oct 2026. Course summary and lesson structure by Sabaq.
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