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Pro Graphic Designer Approved - For the non-designer, this makes life easy!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how they have some pretty decent looking design templates, backgrounds, patterns and fonts to work with. It is pretty intuitive, you do not have to be a professional designer to work with this program. You can put together graphics in Canva much quicker than doing it in Photoshop or another Pro design program.
What do you dislike about the product?
There can be bugs, every once in awhile it will mess up and does not save a project, this has only happend to me a few times and it was because I had other tabs in my browser doing different things in the background. It can be cumbersome at "first" but once you get the hang of it (20 min?) it is pretty smooth. The main thing that worries me about canva is that it will take away jobs from me! I have several clients who have started to create really decent looking graphics using canva.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to create social media graphics VERY quickly. It does all of the resizing for me, so when I want to take a facebook graphic and turn it into a instagram graphic it can do that for me. They adjust the background and the text to make it fit. As a Pro designer doing it manually in Photoshop is a pain, and does take more time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a go, for the cost it is well worth it's value. You will save money using canva for projects that do not need a professional designer.
Good alternative to Adobe Creative Suite, but still not as good
What do you like best about the product?
There are several things that I really like about Canva that make it a great alternative to using Illustrator and even Photoshop (to some extent). 1) Easy-to-use templates for just about everything you need. The templates come in the standard sizes based on whatever platform you are using or the project: Facebook covers, Twitter covers, Instagram templates, magazines, e-books, invitation, and even labels. Once you select the type of creative project you want to work on, there are several pre-designed layouts for you to use. Great for people with limited time and/or limited creative skills. 2) Drag and drop, easy to crop. The options are not as detailed as Illustrator or PS but you ca get away with just adjusting the contract or saturation on a photo. 3) Free graphics and photos. There is something for everyone ad every project in their free catalog. If you want higher quality graphics/photos, then you have the premium selections wit are only $1 per image to use. 4) Download you project in PNG, JPEG, or PDF. 5)It saves your design even with the free account. Once you download it then it saves if you forgot to do it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fonts are limited. Even with the wide range of free fonts available on the internet, Canva has opted to only include a few. There is a good reason for them to do this from a business perspective. They want you to pay them! Upgrade a free account to a premium paid user (Canva for Work) and you have the option to upload whatever font you want if you upgrade. The photos selections is a pain in the ass to navigate if you are looking for a specific photo. I've found that even with the key word search you have to scroll pass a mix of free and premium photos to get what you want. The upgraded accounts have the ability to create and organize with photos. Another thing that I dislike, is the website seems to freeze up a lot but if you are a free user the you can really complain. I upgraded to premium and it still does the same.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For us, its a easy to use design option for simply projects. Sometimes you don't need all the bells, whistles, buzzers, and flashing lights of opening Adobe. You just to to format a file. Plus, Canva gives you easy access to a catalog of graphics and photos. Saves you time from having to find it online, download and upload. You just drag and drop on Canva. Most of the good photos come form Unsplash, which I regularly use for simple, small projects. Canva for Work (upgraded accounts) allow you to download with transparent backgrounds.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try.
I love canva
What do you like best about the product?
I love how canva is always trying to innovate and create better features for designers
What do you dislike about the product?
I do wish there was a draw type tool to make more specific designs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
creating marketing collateral; have found this to be a very easy and cheap way to do it
I use Canva to create all needed marketing designs
What do you like best about the product?
In Canva I do like best it's "create panel". It is very comfortable to use and great to create any type of design.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would really appreciate if transparent background could be available for free
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I create all kinds of marketing materials for Social Medias, corporate presentations and for website
Canva is perfect for everyone - whether or not you have a design eye.
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about Canva is the ease of use. I have to make a lot of flyers and graphics at work and most of the time I'm on a time-crunch. Canva allows me to make graphics quickly without losing quality. The templates are very helpful when I have designers-block. They have such a great array of free fonts and images.
What do you dislike about the product?
My least favorite thing about Canva is their search feature. There have been so many times when I will see an image or shape that I like, but when I go to search for it at another time, I can't find it again. I would ideally like to be able to save my favorite elements or search words within a specific field.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canva allows me to make graphics quickly with quality. I am able to share designs with my team through their group account feature. My co-workers and I can easily pull from each other's designs and I can crank out a number of graphics in no time at all.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canva is my number one recommendation as far as designing programs are concerned, especially for those who have never designed before or don't have experience with more advance programs. I would absolutely pay for the business account if my workplace allowed it. However, the free version is still amazing.
User-Friendly and Efficient
What do you like best about the product?
Canva is a free website that marketing professionals use to create various marketing collateral. I use it for promotional letters, social media posts, event flyers and social media cover photos.
What do you dislike about the product?
I honestly love everything about Canva. My one previous complaint was that Canva didn't offer a snap guides to help align the design elements in each piece, but the recently made those guides available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canva solves my problem of needing to create attractive marketing pieces in a hurry.
Love this!
What do you like best about the product?
I am not a graphic designer, but Canva has made it easy for me to create infographics that I share on our company's social media platforms, with audiences over 100,000! The infographics have had huge success.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I don't dislike anything. It's a pretty simple product, but it operates great and does exactly as it says.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating visually appealing infographics, images, etc. while not being a graphic designer!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is such an invaluable tool to me. I am not a graphic designer, but have found much success with creating infographics. The software makes it easy and even has suggested templates. The images are super high quality, and the font choices are numerous and professional.
Good for basics
What do you like best about the product?
I like all the different sizes they have predetermined for you. I tend to use the facebook cover feature a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
The templates are nice to use but I can hardly find one that I like that I don't have to buy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having the right sized photos available.
Canva Is easy to use even if you aren't creative
What do you like best about the product?
I love the simplicity of it. All of my designs take less than an hour to complete. I can access my account on my work laptop, personal laptop, ipad, phone -- which makes an awesome experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a dislike, but you do receive better perks if you choose the paid membership (which is super inexpensive compared to other design software).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I create eye catching and influencing documents to share ideas, missions, impact. It is easy to use, allows you to be as creative as you want to be with little effort.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it!
Great web-based design app!
What do you like best about the product?
It's clean, easy to use, and it works well. We have the paid version which is excellent for keeping all the brand colors for our clients easily accessible. It's also nice to be able to peek in at what other people are working on and make modifications without emailing files back and forth a hundred times. Canva has great suggestions, awesome templates, and a nice range of icons, fonts, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search function leaves something to be desired. I wish you could filter by paid/free, illustrations/photos, etc. I also you could search templates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily build and use templates so we're not reinventing the wheel. The "magic resize" feature is pretty... magical as well.
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