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Outline your Photos like a Pro [Canva Tutorial 2023]
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Jan 14, 2024
This video serves as a Canva tutorial for 2023, demonstrating how to outline photos professionally. It likely provides step-by-step instructions on using Canva's features to create effective and polished outlines around images. The tutorial aims to guide users through the process, offering insights and tips to achieve a professional look when outlining photos within the Canva platform.
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In this video, I'm going to show you step by step how to add an outline to a photo
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so you can go from a simple photo like this one to a photo like this
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that you can use on any social media design. Or you can also have an outcome like this
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in case that you want to add a creative touch to any photo and still keep the background
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So if you guys are interested in this tutorial, let's go to my computer
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For this project, we are going to use Canva.com. This is the homepage and you can start with any Canva document
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I'm going to go for a social media one, so I'm going to this category
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and then I'm going to use an Instagram post that is square
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I'm going to click on Create Blank. Now, from here, we are going to upload our photos
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so we are going to the Uploads section, and from here, we are going to click on this button that says Upload Files
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This is the photo that I want to upload to Canva, so you just simply select the photo, or you can also select multiple photos
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and then click Open. Canva is going to upload the photo to the platform
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and after you see that the loading bar has disappeared, you can start working with it
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If you want to use the free version of Canva during this whole process
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I do recommend that you upload your photo with the background and also without
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So you will do this on this step, but I'm going to show you how to remove the background inside Canva
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The background remover feature is available only for Canva Pro users, that means the paid users in Canva
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If you have a Canva free account and would love to try this background remover feature
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I have a 45-day free trial in the description of this video
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Let me show you how to remove the background in Canva, so then we can later on add this outline to the subject of our photo
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So to bring this photo into my empty Canva, I just click one time on the photo
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and I have now the photo on my design. By having the photo selected, we are going to the white toolbar
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and search for the button that says edit photo. From here, we have access to the background remover or BG remover
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As I mentioned, this is a pro feature in Canva, and all we have to do is click on this thumbnail
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and Canva is going to do its magic and it's going to remove the background on the photo
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Canva did an amazing job on this photo. It took just a couple of seconds for Canva to remove the background
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and it did a fantastic job. If it happens that in your case the background remover forgot a section of the background
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or maybe removed a part of your body, you can click again on this thumbnail to access the erase and restore brush
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So with the erase brush, you can delete a section of the background that you want to remove
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or you can restore parts of the subject that Canva removed accidentally
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My photo is looking perfect, so I'm going to leave it as it is
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And now let's add an outline to my subject or my subjects
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I'm going to continue on the edit photo section. So this is the same window where we find the background remover
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but this time we are going to use shadows that is under the effects category
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So let's click on this thumbnail and we have here three different options
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I'm going to select the outlined option. Here we have a couple of settings that we can adjust to achieve a different style on our outline
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We can increase the size of the outline. We can add a blur effect
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We can also change the angle on our outline, but if we move it from here, we won't be able to see a difference on the outline
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But that is because we haven't added a distance to this effect
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But once you add a distance to your outline, you can then play around with the angle of the outline
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You can also adjust the intensity in case that you want to add some transparency
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to the outline and you can finally change the color. I'm going to leave the settings as they were
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So I'm going to click on none to reset all these changes that I have done
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and then click again on outline. These are the settings that I'm going to work with and I just need to change the color to white
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So I'm going to click on top of this black square and I'm going to move this slider to white
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I'm going to select the background and I'm going to change the color for any color
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So you can now see the white outline on my photo. So we can use this photo on any kind of design
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You can change the position of the element or the photo. You can crop your photo if you want
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You can make it smaller. You can also rotate it and then you can play around with all the settings
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that you have available in Canva. You can add text to your design by clicking or hitting the key T on your keyboard
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and then add your text to your design. If you don't know how to use Canva, I have the right tutorial for you
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I'm going to leave the link in the description. That is a complete tutorial on how to use Canva
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For the moment, let me show you the steps that you need to follow
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to add back the background to your photo so you can end up with a photo like this one
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You're going to follow exactly the same steps that I just showed you
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and then you are going to add one more time the same photo that you uploaded with the background
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So by clicking on the photo, I'm bringing this image again to my design
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I'm going to select the photo and then go to Position and go to Back
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We now have the photo with the outline on top of the original photo
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and we just need to position our subjects on top of the photo with the background
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and then we may need to stretch back the photo a little bit
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If you want to remove some sections of the white outline in the corners
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you can just crop the photo with these anchors on the lateral of the image
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and then stretch your photo a tiny bit. I think this photo is looking great at the moment
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And now let me show you how to download these images in case that you want to use them in another platform
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I have on page number one the photo without the background and on the second page I have the photo with the background
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So let's download first page number one. Let's say that you just want to download this photo with the outline
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but without the background. We want to have a transparent background. We're going to use the menu on the top of the screen and click on Share
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From here select Download. From here we are going to leave the file type as PNG
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and then we are going to select Transparent Background. This option has the crown that means that this is available only for Canva Pro users
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After we are going to select the page where you have the image without the background
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Going to select Done. In this case because I have two pages I need to select the page that I need
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After you have all of these settings right you are going to click Download
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To download page number two or the photo with the background you can leave it as it is with a color in the background
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Like in this case I have the purple color or you can select both images
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group them and then increase the size of your image. So it covers the entire page and then we are going to download this image
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So same process go to Share then Download. And in this case we don't need the transparent background option
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because we are going to download a solid image. I'm going to select page number two then select Done and Download
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Which style of photo do you think you'll be using more often
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This one without the background or this one with the background? In our case we mostly use photos without the background
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because we can apply them to almost any design. But let me know which one do you think you'll be using the most
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If you want to see the latest and more updated Canva tips
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I have a video in here that you are going to love. Also if you want to take advantage of our 45-day free trial of Canva Pro
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I'm gonna leave that link in here. I guess this is it for today. I really hope that you enjoyed this tutorial and hope to see you in the next one. Bye
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