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Welcome to EdTechHustle. Today we're going to use some Canva magic again. This
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time I'm going to be showing you a new AI app called Canva Magic Expand. Let's
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go ahead and get started. So I've been playing around with a brand new tool
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inside Canva and that is called Magic Expand. What that will do is it will
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allow you to take a photo like this, which is a square, and using AI you can
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expand this photo to fill the entire slide. So we can essentially convert this
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photo from a square into a rectangle. So it's kind of interesting. So what I'm
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going to do is select the photo. We're going to go to edit and here is one of
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the new features. It's called Magic Expand. I'm going to select that. Okay
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And you can see that it starts out in this expand mode. There's this option
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which is freeform that allows you to just select how big you want that area
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to be filled with this with this new feature. The other one is this option
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This is the whole page. So I'm just going to select that whole page and I'm going
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to select Magic Expand. In a few moments you should see Canva Magic doing its
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work. Okay. Here we go. You can see to the left there's four different results for
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this. Go ahead and take a look at this. You can see that Canva was able to kind
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of recreate the skyline, which is exactly what I was going for. Now if you
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look kind of closely you can see some images that are a little
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bit irregular that don't quite look right. But again if this is just
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something that you're using in the background of a video or in the background of a slide, if you look quickly, if you glance at it fast, you
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won't really be able to tell. Here's another option. It looks a little bit
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different. A few others as well. So not bad. I kind of think I like this first
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option the best. I think it works really well with these type of images. Let's try
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this again. Here's another way that you can use this tool. This is an image of a
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teacher, but as you can see his arm is kind of cut off and if I wanted a little
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bit more of his body underneath where this tie is, I have no way of really
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doing that. But you can use Magic Expand and let's see what's going to happen. I'm
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just going to select Magic Expand again. I'm going to fill the whole page and
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let's see what Canva Magic is able to create. So here are our results. You can
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see that Magic Expand was able to not only expand the background of this
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chalkboard, but it even recreated the bottom of our model right over here. You
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can see it finished up the sports coat. It tried to extend his tie, give him a
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nice matching pair of pants, as well as an elbow and shoulder which wasn't there
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before. So again, if you look closely you can kind of see the lines where Magic
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Expand kind of did its thing. But if you're looking at this closely, or if
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you're looking at this quickly I should say, you won't be able to tell. Let's see a few other options. Here's a little bit of a different pair of pants. I think the
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tie might look better. Pants look a little bit wrinkled. There's a line at
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the bottom right over here as well. Let's go ahead and take a look at this one. Not
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really too bad. It kind of looks like he's bending his knee a little bit, posing for that photo. And this one, not really so good. But I do think that this
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looks pretty cool. Let me show you one final example. I have a photo here of a
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car and you can see it's almost a rectangular 16 by 9 ratio. What happens
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if I want to take this and maybe post it on Instagram? That's really that square
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one-to-one format. So I typically can't do this without sacrificing some of the
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space on the car. I'd have to cut that car out or leave a lot of space at the top
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or the bottom. Well with Magic Expand I can expand that to this one-to-one ratio
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right over here. Now when I select expand, go ahead and take a look at this
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option. I think this looks pretty good. Some other options as well. I think I
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like this first one the best. I'm just going to select done. Now when I kind of
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scale it down a little bit I have an image that I can post on Instagram
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that's going to preserve the car in this one photo. So here's what my photo look
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like before. Here is Magic Expand kind of doing its thing. Especially know that
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there's a number of different ratios that you can use aside from one-to-one. That Canva will automatically resize by using this new feature Magic Expand. So
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I hope this video has been helpful for you. If you don't have Magic Expand in
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your Canva account, you will very soon. Thank you so much for watching and if
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you have questions, you know what to do. Leave them in the comment section below
