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How to Design Featured Images for Blog Posts _ Canva Tutorial
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Jan 27, 2024
In the video titled "How to Design Featured Images for Blog Posts | Canva Tutorial," viewers will be guided through the process of designing eye-catching featured images for their blog posts using Canva. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on leveraging Canva's design tools to create visually appealing and professional-looking featured images. Whether you're a blogger looking to enhance the visual appeal of your blog or someone interested in improving graphic design skills using Canva, this video offers practical insights into the creation of engaging featured images. Follow along to learn how to design captivating visuals that attract and inform your audience effectively.
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Hello everyone, welcome to Key to Blogging and in this video I will show you how you can create a
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thumbnail or create a feature image using the Canva. So let me just open the Canva
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So you can go to Canva.com and create a account. And let me just create a design
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So I will click on here and I can create a custom size image
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So here I will type like 1920 into 1080p. So make sure to keep it in pixel and let me just create new design
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Okay, now a blank canvas is added. I can start with a template or start from the scratch
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So let me just select this or I can select this and I can also delete all the element here
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and I can use the background color or I can select this and I can change the background color here
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So I can change the background color using this or I can simply search for sky like that
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And I can use different color like sky blue or I can simply search for red
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And here I will get a different color combination like this. So let me just revert it back to the original color
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And I can also add a text. So to add the text, I can use the text column and I can simply drag the heading or I can
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use a shortcut like just click on T on the keyboard and it will add a text block here and I can
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change the text like what is SEO and I can select this and I can increase the font
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So let me just increase the font to around 104 or 120 and I can simply
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select and drag it here and I can change the font so I can change the font like
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this or these are the fonts that I mostly used open sans or Bebas Neui or
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Monster rate so let me just set it to Seribri Bold and some fonts are premium
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and some fonts are free so if you are using the free version of Canva then you can
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use the free fonts. So I can select this and I can also select a individual word and change the color So let me just change it to something like yellow And now I can select this and I can click on effect And I can select the shadow effect and I can change the shadow background color to black
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or gray color like this. And I can change the offset a little bit. Okay
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Now let me just select this. and I can capitalize or I can make it to smaller case
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And let me just position it to the bottom or I can set it to the bottom left
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And as you can see, it will show a line to make it perfectly center
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Or I can use this option so I can select the position and I can change it to middle or I can
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change it to top or bottom or left or right. So in this way you can change the position or you can simply drag it and make it to the center
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Like that. Now I can search for an image. So for this I will go to the element section and I can simply search for SEO
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And it will show all the images. So I will click on graphics or I can also use a image here
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So if you want to add a image as a background then you can do that simply just drag it and
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leap it like that and I can add another element like this
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So let me just add a shapes from here and I can simply drag the element
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and cover it and I can change the color to black and I can then set the transparency
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like that or I can change the transparency to a little bit dark so in this way
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you can use a image as a background but I don't want that I can set it to a
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plain background and let me just search for SEO again and here I will use a graphics
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so here you can see a lot of graphics so let me just drag this image like that
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and I can increase the image size and I can just drag the text here and I can just make it
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to two lines like that. Or you can make it to something like that
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And here you can adjust the line height, just click on here spacing and here you can
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adjust the line hide using this tool and you can also use different anchor text box
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and here you can also reduce the letter spacing and line spacing
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Okay now let me just select T and I can make a branding so I can type like key to
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blogging and I can reduce the font size to around 14 or something like
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21 and I can drag the text to the top right corner and I can change the color to white
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And I can change the text font like this and let me just increase the font size a little bit, 32
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So you can easily change the style like this. Okay, now our thumbnail is created and I can also add different thumbnails
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So if I want to use a screenshot in place of this text then I can simply upload
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the screenshot here. Suppose I want to use this image as a screenshot and then I can simply draft it and I can adjust
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the image size and let me just copy the text and paste it here
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I can just select this image and I can click on Edit Image and here I can adjust the brightness
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or contrast or I can add a shadow effect like this and I will select the drop shadow effect
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And here I will click on the options and I can change the shadow background color to white
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or black or I can change it to blue something like that
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So this is looking good and I can adjust the all. offset a little bit and I will click on apply
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Now the image is added to our canvas and you can simply duplicate it and try different design or let me just make it to center So further I will click on here
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I will reduce the image size a little bit and I can set the position to middle and center
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Now I can drag this text like this and I can drop it in the bottom
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Or you can also further increase the screenshot like this and let me just delete this
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text like what is a CO and I will keep it simple SEO and I can adjust the position
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And I can add one more text so I will click on T and I will type like word each
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And let me just change the text color to white and let me just adjust it a little bit
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And I will click on here and I can drag the text and keep it in the center
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And I can select the whole text and I can simply click on the group button and I can then
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drag the text like this. So in this way you can group different text and you can change the
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position or increase the font size and I can just select this text like this and I can make
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it bold and I can change the text size a little bit like this. So I hope you got the idea
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how to use the Canva to create your thumbnails and you can also copy the designs. So if you
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If you want to change the design from here, then I can simply select this and I will select
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this option, copy style. And I can simply just click on here and it will copy the style from this text
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And here you can add adjust the font size like this and as you can see, the styling is copied
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from the text to this text. So in this way you can fast track your design process
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And if you want me to make a dedicated tutorial on Canva, then you can ask me in the comment section
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And if this video is helpful to you, then hit the like button and do subscribe to blogging
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for more upcoming videos like this. Thank you
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