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Canva for Beginners - Your Guide to Canva for Graphic Design (Udemy.com)

Learn Canva with this complete beginner's guide to using Canva for graphic design, infographics, social media & more!

Created by: Jeremy Deighan

Last updated November 2018

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What you will learn

  • Create an account with Canva, a free online graphic design software platform.
  • Navigate Canva's many pre-made layouts and templates.
  • Create professional looking graphics that can be used online, in eBooks, and throughout social media.
  • Understand the free and paid for pricing structure on Canva.
  • Share and save designs created with Canva thru email and social media platforms.

How it compares

Against the other 413 rated Udemy courses in Graphic Design on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 6% of them
  • Reviews227#194 of 414 by number of reviews
  • Length0.6 hoursshorter than 97% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2018earlier than 91% of them

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Course Description

Learn Canva for Graphic Design in This New Course!

Are you spending valuable time and money trying to create your own images for your business, brand, or social lifestyle?

Would you like to learn how to gain attention from your audience with stunning graphics in an affordable way?

Do you want to know how experts save precious time by using pre-made layouts and templates?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, than this course is for you!

What this course is about:

Canva for Beginners - Your Guide to Canva for Graphic Design is designed to help any entrepreneur, solopreneur, business owner, marketer, advertiser, or social media expert gain the advantage by using FREE online software, called Canva, to create killer graphics and images. This course teaches you everything you need to know about how to use Canva to launch yourself steps ahead of the competition when it comes to visual media.

What you will learn in this course:

In these lessons, you will learn all of the basics of Canva so that you can get up and running quickly. Within an hour, you will already have all of the tools you will need to create amazing graphic design projects.

These lessons include the following:

  • Creating and setting up your account.

  • Navigation around Canva's interface.

  • Selecting pre-made layouts and templates.

  • Adding artwork, images, text, and backgrounds.

  • Sharing your designs for social media platforms.

  • Downloading and printing your designs.

  • Plus free updates and additions to the course in the future!

What are OTHERS saying about this AMAZING course?

"Excellent course. In debt explanations, easy to follow and easy to understand. Jeremy is an exellent teacher and he knows his topics. The course was very interesting, professional, and I learned a lot from it. Now i just have to apply it in real life."

   5/5 Stars - Eva Szabo

"Well, I had never heard of Canva until I started following entrepreneur legend Guy Kawasaki on Facebook. He links to the site quite often when they have new articles or tutorials.

The course is very well organized. The instructor Jeremy Deighan speaks with a very clear voice. No accent. Audio and video is high quality. Each video lecture is straight to the point. No mindless chatter or distractions. Each section builds on the last. This is really a Dummies Intro course. He has three other courses on Canva. If you already know a bit about Canva you could start off with another one of his courses. I will be taking Deighan's Graphic Design Theory in Social Media Volume 1 next.

The instructor is also very active in the Disucssion area. He even makes his own posts with some examples of great graphic design and what makes them stand out."

   5/5 Stars - Mike Hatch

"I loved this! It was complete and so easy to understand. I've been using Canva for a year and there were a few things I didn't know that Jeremy covered. Great work!"

   5/5 Stars - Brian Knack

Don't hesitate, enroll today!

So whether you are working on your next eBook, creating presentation slides for your next corporate event, providing useful information on social media platforms, or need to create some killer branding material, this course is for you.

Jeremy Deighan

p.s. I am here for my students and I always welcome any feedback, questions, discussions, or reviews on my courses. Please visit my profile to see how you can contact me in the most convenient way for you!

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Instructor Details

Jeremy Deighan

My name is Jeremy Deighan and I am thrilled to be a part of the Udemy team of instructors, helping others achieve their own personal goals. I have had quite a range of skills and hobbies throughout my lifetime. I really enjoy teaching and hope to provide information to others on anything and everything I know how to do. Please take a moment to check out my courses, and if you take any please leave a review and any feedback you have.

Business

Starting my own business in 2015 has led me down some interesting and wonderful paths in my lifetime. I've learned the ins and outs of management, marketing, accounting, sales, and other aspects of a business environment. The skills I've learned through podcasting, blogging, creating videos, and marketing is something I will carry the rest of my life into many other endeavors.

Art and Design

I have an extensive background in different forms of art and design. I have an Associate's Degree in Computer Animation and I've worked with various production houses to create awesome content. Adobe Photoshop has been a staple of my arsenal since I was 16 and I still use it faithfully to this day.

I also have a history in live visual arts, specifically lighting design for music events, festivals, theaters, and corporate gigs. My passion for the visual arts has helped me become a master in understanding lighting, color theory, and composition.

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Reviews

4.1

227 ratings on Udemy

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By Elisabeth Cooper on 7/8/2026

This is an old course and not really relevant! Do not buy this! It was last updated in 2018, 8 years ago and I don't believe it should still be available since the course screen and instructions is based on a version of Canvas that no longer exists. What a disappointment.

By Oscar Quintana Gonzalez on 5/1/2024

I recently completed the design course "Canva for Beginners," which was an excellent learning experience. The course's structured approach and Canvas' intuitive tools enabled me to unlock my creative potential effortlessly. The lessons were engaging and helped me apply design principles in real-time. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to learn the basics of Canva effectively.

By Roxi Stella on 10/7/2020

The tone / voice is quite dull, it makes you fall asleep. It appears you get what yo pay for. so it is ok for the price I paid. There is huge amount of difference between TEACHING and SHOWING how to do something. These clearly appear latter one. The speaker appear to be bored , hence I do not find it interesting. But I will have to listen it 2-3 times in order to learn. It just does not make me motivated to learn. I am just signing for four new courses, somewhere else. The cost is £1380. But I know that I will learn there. I already have done some courses at their centre two years ago. These course is ok. I have looked at some other courses on here where the speaker has very strong Indian accent. I found it too difficult to follow. As per me I train people too, but when i do, my main goal is that they remember maximum from the start to finish. No wonder there are things as "very good schools". and "ok" ones.

By Shaun on 5/1/2017

Good course.Concise and to the point on how to use Canva to potentially help you produce great graphics for all your social media needs.Explanations are clear,through the instructors knowledge and ability to produced engaging content.Practice with canva (free),as you follow the course. Video and audio are also of a very high standard

By John Chitaley on 4/19/2017

This course is short and sweet. I had heard that Canva was very approachable, however I was skeptical of the claim. Jermey convinced me that it really is. I was toying on whether to invest a lot of time learning InDesign to create graphics for mailers, my website, and blog posts. Now onwards to the next course "Canva for Entrepreneurs"

By Christine VanWert on 2/6/2017

I know nothing about Canva but, the instructor is presenting material so I can easily understand and retain information. It is also broken down into small bites so I can easily find a place that I wish to repeat so I can remember what he said about how to use Canva. I am excited to begin to use Canva knowing what I want to do with a blank page.

By Courtney Kenney on 10/19/2015

This course is great for first time users to Canva. If you are brand new to Canva and want to know how it works, I recommend this course. I finished in less than 1 hour. If you're more advanced, this many be too basic. I was expecting some discussion on design principles since I have no background in graphic design. That would be a good add for this course. What makes a design stand out? Color contrast? What should you avoid in design? Maybe that's a whole new class.

By Sally Apokedak on 9/2/2015

I really enjoyed this course. Jeremy is a great instructor--his directions were crystal clear. I am going to be making some designs for my social media pages now. Excited about that. I've used Canva several times, for basic things. I had no idea that there was so much I could do with it. And it's all very easy to do, once someone shows you how. This course made it easy for me, and saved me so much time.

By Sarah Eckert on 6/11/2015

I have been using Canva for about a year now to build my personal brand images. Many folks have asked how I create such crisp and clean images on a variety of social networking platforms. My response is always "Canva" and now I can add in this course URL! The course creator does a wonderful job of explaining the basics to get you up and running on Canva, as well as some of the advanced functions. I would recommend this course for Canva beginners and as a refresher to experienced users!

By Scott Redmond on 5/29/2015

This course gives a comprehensive introduction to using Canva. I had used Canva half a dozen times already, but there were quite a few tips and tricks that I learned from this course that will help me use Canva more effectively in the future. I really like that there are some graphic design tips scattered through the course as well, since I'm definitely one of those people with No Graphic Design Experience!

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