9 NEW Canva UPDATES _ Product Photo App, Gradients, Translate... _ What's HOT in Canva 🔥 [Ep. 34]

It is that time of the month where we talk about the new Canva features

In this video, I have nine new features to talk about. I will review them

I will show you where you can find them. And we are starting right now

Hey, what's up guys? Ronnie here. Welcome back to our channel. You are definitely in the right place if you want to learn everything that is new with Canva

This is our playlist What's Hot in Canva, Episode 34, already, where we review every new feature

So before we get started, I have an announcement. We are ready with a brand new membership offer

You'll find it by clicking on that join button that is right there underneath the video

next to the subscribe button. We've hired a new person in the team, Kia, who will help us with this membership

like managing it, but also developing and growing it. Through that membership, we want to bring our members some extra value

And that value will be articulated around three different perks. The first one is access to our courses

We plan on publishing all our new courses on YouTube first. That will give us the flexibility to publish faster

because our courses are usually quite long and take up to five, six, seven months to fully produce

So by publishing them, section one, section two on one month, we can push that on YouTube and give you access faster

So that is the first perk of the membership, access to the courses right here on YouTube

Second perk will be to give you access to us and we plan on doing this through organizing youtube live sessions, Q&A sessions, at least once a month

where you guys can hang out with us and ask us all your questions. And perk number three will be

to develop and give you access to exclusive tools. The first one we have in mind, and I'm sure

we'll come up with some new ones in the future, is to give our members access to all of our

chat gpt prompts. We are planning to do this by sharing all our chat GPT

chats meaning that with a single link you can directly access our conversation and start leveraging

the work that we've done the prompts that we've built for your own business for your own personal brand

so that's what we have in store for you in our membership if you want to check it out it is that

join button right here underneath the video next to the subscribe button now let's dive into

these nine new canva features the first new feature will be super useful

for anyone dealing with physical product. It's called Product Photo App and it will allow you to

quickly bulk edit your product photos. And the feature is going to be available for all Canva users

meaning even if you are a free user, but only on desktop. So via the desktop browser or the desktop app

Now, let me show you how to use it. We are going to start from the Canva homepage and look at the

left menu right here. What we are looking for is this item in the menu that says

apps. Okay, so click here. So you should see a new menu and the last item of this menu is called

product photos. So that is the feature. Let's click on it. So product photos still in beta

magically bulk edit photos to get your products ready for sale. Simply upload photos or folders

and we'll perfect them for you. So great. That sounds like a great time saver. We can see here

different things like photos that are being taken like so. And then the final result here we have

kind of like photos in a professional studio or setting being displayed

So I'm very curious about this. Let's upload some photos by using this button right here that says

choose photos. I'm going to click here. You can select from your uploads or upload new images

and you can upload up to 10 images for the bulk edit to work. So I'm going to upload some new

images. I have a folder right here that I will open like so and you see one, two, three, four, five

Let me quickly show you some of these photos. So these photos are some photos I took back in the days already like 2012, I think, when I was

in Kenya working with this cooperative recycling all sorts of different materials

So I'm mostly jewelry earrings made out of recycle soda cans like so

So I have these photos here. I'm going to upload all of them straight into Canva

So there you go. The photos are uploaded. So I can move on to step number two

Okay, by clicking on next. Select a style for your photo. So you can have white background, 3D shadow, white table, platinum, powder blue, wisteria

So you have different kinds of backdrops, okay, so color backdrops, no backdrops

You can have showcase like this, wooden table, or all sorts of different backgrounds

Okay, I'm going to go with something simple. Let's try the first one, white background

Okay, I'm going to click on apply. And Canva is going to prepare my photos

So I believe a couple of things are being done here. They're going to improve the quality of the photos, like try to enhance the quality resolution of the photos

They're going to maybe get rid of the background, maybe detour them with the background remover

They're going to enhance the colors and present these maybe with some added shadows so they look realistic

All right, so I can see white background six photos. I have this new tab right here that I can click to see all of my different photos

And I really like the result here. So let's click on the first one and see what it looks like

I would like to bring up the original here. So I'm going to use that in a design, okay, in a presentation

Because I want to show you the before and after. So there you go

I have set up a little before and after slide here. So you can appreciate the difference of what has been actually worked with Canva

So I can see I've been completely cleared out. I have a white background right here

So this is much more appropriate for. or uploading this product on a website, for example

than the original one Now I want to go back to my folder right here my product photo So going back to apps product photos I like that Canva will just keep all of my folders right here

I have my white background right here. I want to show you another product, this one right here, to show you how clean this has

been isolated from the background. So this is pretty cool. Let me show you one more way

I would like to try again, like I'm going to go back and choose some photos

So I'm going to upload them. So I'm going to choose something different this time. Let's see these 3D shadows

Okay, I believe Canva will create the shadow. So this image is the object. They will create this

realistic shadow right here. So let's try that. I'm going to apply. Canva is going to process the

photos one more time. So there you go. My folder with the shadows is ready

Curious to see what they look like. So let's see the first one. All right. So this is what it looks

like some subtle shadows have been created. Yeah, and I believe that's not too bad. Let's check another

product. This one, for example. This one looks great. Like, this is very realistic. All right

let's check one last one. This one, for example, we see the shadow. It's not perfect. I mean

the shadow could be a bit better, but I believe this is still work in progress. That's why it's

still in beta. But yeah, that was the first feature I wanted to show you guys. I think this is very

useful if you need to process large quantities of photos for your e-commerce website

So yeah, it's called Product Photo App and you will find it right here under your apps on the Canva homepage

Moving on to the second new feature, this one has to do with the way we share links, public links in Canva

So you have a design and you want to share that design with someone you create a public share link

So they don't have to be in your team to actually see that design. And the feature has got this long

name, it's called simplified and revocable public view link sharing. Now, that's a bit of a mouthful

but the feature is actually a nice little improvement. And by the way, this feature will be available

to all Canva users, so free and pro on all devices. So this is how it works. Let's say I have this

design right here. Okay, so it's just a little animated social media post 13 seconds. I want to

share that publicly. So I can click the share button and you see you can create a public

view link. So that's not new. You could already do that before. But the novelty is the way these

links look and the fact that you can actually delete them if you don't want to use them anymore

So first, I'm going to create it. Okay. So there you go. Now, I can see my public view link is live

So that's part of the new UI. Canva will indicate that this link is actually live. And I also have

this button right here at the bottom that says delete the public view link. That's also part

of the novelty. So if I want to delete the link, you can just click here. I will have this pop-up

window asking me if I'm sure if I confirm that I want to delete this link, it cannot be

undone, blah blah, blah. So yeah, delete the public view link. You get the message that it has been

deleted and it's not live anymore. So I can create a new one if I wanted to. So yeah, this is quite

useful. It will work with the new link that you will be generating in a first time. So they will

not roll it back to older links. At least not when they launched the

feature might come later. Now, this link sharing redesign and new experience is not only available

for public view link, but also for two other types of sharing mechanisms. The first one is the

template link and the second one is the present and record sharing system. Right. So I'm quickly

going to show you the template link. I'm not going to do a present and record, but it's pretty

much the same thing. So let's say this time I don't want to share this as a view link, but as a template. I

want people to be able to use this as a template. Anyone

So again, click on the share button. This time I need to find the template link by clicking on more here

And I should see the template link somewhere here. Yeah, it is here. So template link

Click on that button. All right. So you can create your template link

There you go. Link copied to clipboard. And now you see the template link is live

You can copy the link from here. And similarly, I have a button here that allows me to delete that template link

so I can just cancel the link at any time by simply deleting it with this button

which I'm going to do right now. There you go. So that is a novelty. That is a new feature

And I'm not going to repeat that feature's name. All right. Moving on with the new features, guys

I have two features that are related to the Canva Creator profiles

I love that Canva is giving more love to the Canva creators and making our lives as users

searchers of templates easier. So in order to demonstrate these features that are relatively small changes but do make quite a bit of different

I'm going to use Diana's creator profile. The first feature consists of showing the complete template count on any creator profile

In order to find that template count, you will have to scroll down a bit to here where you see all items

and you should see a number 13,644 templates. So what's the big deal here, Ronnie, showing the number of templates

of templates, well, previously, you need to understand where we are coming from to actually

see the value of this feature. Previously, if a creator had published over a hundred template, the number here would only

say 100 plus. So you would have no further indication of it's like 101 templates or a million templates

It would just say 100 plus. Now we have a precise number of templates, 13,644, which indicate how prolific is that specific

specific Canva Creator. 13,000 templates? That's a lot of template, Ronnie. Well, yes, it is

And that why you should definitely follow Diana on her Canva creator profile link in the description because you too could be benefiting from all of these beautiful templates that she is publishing So that is the first new feature It free It available to all users meaning all users will see that template count

Now, I told you, I had two features related to the Canva creators

The second one is called creator profile text search. Now, this one is actually much more useful

Let me show you what it is. Well, you see this search box right here that says search templates by Diana Munoz

Well, previously there was no such search box right here. The only thing you could do is simply filter the Canva Creator's assets by using this little

drop-down menu. So you could only see the templates, the photos or the graphics, but now you can search

Which is great because with 13,000 plus template, how do you find what you're looking for

Well, you can use a search box and you can use the search box just like any other canvas

search or template search would work. For example, you can search by color, type in pink

For example, enter and you will see a bunch of Diana's templates that use the pink color

You could search for theme, for example, and type in yoga. You would see a bunch of Canva templates that Diana has made about yoga

Or you could do something different and search for a specific document type

type presentation and you should see a bunch of presentation designed by Diana

So there you go. This little search box right here will save us as users

a searcher of template a bunch of times. So there you go. I love that Canva is frequently adding new features to the Canva Creator profiles

making the overall experience easier and more comfortable for users. So big thumbs up for that

I do believe the Canva Creator program is a great program. The way Canva is leveraging its community of designers to just create all of these

additional templates that would resonate with a bunch of different audiences. It's just a brilliant idea

It's just that the way profiles are built were not optimum so far

So it seems that Canva is trying to fix that and I think this is a great news

Now, moving on to the next feature. For the next feature, we are coming back to the Canva Editor and this one will make a lot of you guys happy

Now, this feature is called Gradients on lines and borders. So let me show you what I mean by that

So gradient on lines and borders. So we do need a line and probably a shape as well

So I just hit the L key on my keyboard to create a line

So there you go. We have our line and we have our line options right here

I'm going to click on the line style first to make that line a little bit thicker like this

Could change the style of the line. Okay, let's do like little dashes like that

I could add extremities to my line, which I'm not going to do

But the novelty is that if you click on the line color, the first button right here and

add a new color, you can now add a gradient. So that is the novelty. Before, you could only add a plain color, but now we can create gradient lines

So just like any other gradient, you can create multiple color gradient. You're not limited to two

So let's create one. So I'm going to click on the first color, use the color picker, use our custom pink, click on the second color and use our custom blue right here

And now we have a nice gradient in that line that I can stretch and the gradient will adapt, which is wonderful

So there you go. Nice gradient line. And again, like you can play with straight lines and you can add little bullets or arrows at the extremities of this line. This will also adopt the gradient color. All right. So that is for lines. Let me delete that. And let me show you how you can do the same thing for borders. So for borders, obviously we need a shape. So let's grab this shape right here. Let's make that the size of the save zone right here. So up to here. All right. I have my shape. If I click on it

you can see border style so let's click on border style it has no borders so far so let's go for

this type of border okay it's currently black i'm going to change the color of the shape to transparent

so we can focus on the border all right and again click on the plus button to create your gradient

i'm going to click on gradient select the first color this time we could go for a yellow and

green gradient so let's see something that let's pick crazy and add a third color. Okay. So let's go for orange. All right. So what is this looking

like? All right. So this is not bad. I'm going to make that thicker so you can fully appreciate

my beautiful gradient border. So there you go, a neat little design feature. This is available for

all Canva users on all devices. The next feature I would like to talk about is related to the

model photo editor and it's got to do with background remover. Canva is bringing the

adjustment brushes so that erase and restore brushes of background remover to the model photo

editor. Now let me unpack this title and all of these jargon for those of you who don't know

what the heck I'm talking about. I'm going to show you. So first what is the model photo editor

Well the model photo editor if you click on projects from your homepage this gives you the ability

to browse your assets in canvas. So if you filter by your images and let's say we click on key

Kiyah's photo right here. KIA is our new membership manager who is going to provide all of this value in the membership

that you can try and check out with the join button right here. So let's try this feature on Kiyah's photo

So this is a pro feature because it's linked to the background remover, which is a pro feature

So it will not work if you are a free user. So the novelty is that when you do remove the background, you now have access to the brushes

the erase and restore brushes right here from the model photo editor

It's called model because you can use it as an individual module, a standalone module, instead

of right inside the Canva editor So these brushes you already know them probably So erase and restore erase for example in this photo background remover didn do a great job at deleting the table right here and the towel so I should probably do that

manually which I'm not gonna do right now because it's kind of like precision work

oops sorry Kiya just erase a part of your arm right here so yeah erase and

restore if you want to restore you could restore Kiyya's arm like so but yeah

The brushes are now available here in the model photo editor. That is the new feature

And Kia, if you're watching, sorry for erasing your arm. I promise we are going to retouch your photos in a more professional way

Maybe just not live while shooting a video. The next new feature is called Translate for Canva Docs

Canva is bringing their AI translator to their Canva Docs. So let's see how it works

So I have this Canva Doc right here, which I didn't create

This is a template from their library. I want to show you how you can start using the translate app on this document

So in order to translate this document, you will need to go to your apps button right here

So click on apps and then locate the translate app right here

So from here you'll have to select the language you want to translate to

So I want to translate into French. There you go. And the text, you can simply, I believe, select it here

Yes, you can select on the document itself. So let's get started

Let's translate that. Comanson. Yeah, commons is let's get started or commen say, commons

They both work. All right, so this works fine. You can translate part of your document titles or the entire thing

For example, let's translate these two bullet points. French, yeah, why not

Let's try another language. Let's try, I don't know. Something that I understand otherwise doesn't make much sense

Oh, you know what? We have a lot of Indian viewers. on the channel. So I'm going to translate that into Hindi. Okay. And you guys can let me know

in the comment section if it's correctly translated. So I will have no idea. So I will count on

you. Yeah, there you go. Hindi translation. Let me know if this is properly translated in the

comment section below. And this is a great opportunity for me to thank our Indian audience

which I know you guys are the second largest viewership of this channel. Okay. So yeah, thank you for your

support we appreciate you cannot wait actually diana and i to go back to india all right so this

was translate and our little love moment for india let's move on to the next feature which also has to

do with translation the next feature is called translate in the contextual menu it is available to all

users so pro free on all platforms and all devices and it is a nice user experience improvement

that consists of giving us the translate app right in the contextual menu so we

what does Canva mean when they refer to the contextual menu. It is that menu that you can call by right clicking on stuff

Like you right click on this element or this element, you have a menu right here

So the novelty, the new feature is that you now have a translate text option right here

So if I want to translate this text, I can do so from the contextual menu

So it will bring up this menu right here. And from here, I can decide to translate into a specific language

Okay. So from here, I see I have to. have two different tabs. Let's start from the top of this new menu that popped up right here

So let's explore settings first. I see reduce font size to fit because when you translate text

into another language, it is possible that the translation will be longer or shorter because some

languages are just longer or shorter than others. So this option right here will just resize my

font size to fit the actual design, which I believe is a good feature to have turned on. And then

Duplicate page when translating will simply, instead of replacing the text in the current page you are working on

it will create, duplicate the page and offer you a translated version of that page, which I also believe is a good feature to have turned on

Right, back to translate. Let's select what we want to translate. Let's say we want to select everything. Maybe not the website

Okay, so website is here. I'm going to deselect the website and translate that into

Spanish. See how it goes. All right. Translate. So what Canva is going to do is to create an extra page

So there you go. Page number three, Spanish. Interesado in Travajar with us. Yeah. Or to work with us

That's good. The name of the company, contactinos. See? Designador, Gerente, Creado. Okay. So this has been properly translated and it was super easy for me to do so

Before I would have had to head over the apps button right here, go to translate

in order to access this menu. All right. So now I can simply right click, translate, and I have access to the same menu right here

So here again, Canva is making our lives as users easier by reducing the number of clicks

I'm all for that. And the last new feature for today is a new page limit increase in your Canva documents

Previously, we could go up to 300 pages. Now you can go up to 350

So that's 50 more pages. So Canva is just giving us more pages in every document type, which is great

So in order to verify this, you could simply get into this grid view and just duplicate pages

until you get to 350. I'm not going to do so because this would simply be a waste of time for everyone

But trust me, you can now have 350 pages on your Canva documents

And that's it, guys. These were the nine new Canva features for this month

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