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Canva for Bloggers: The Perfect Design Tool to Enhance Images for Your Blog
March 28, 2023

As a blogger, one of the most important aspects of your blog is the images. Not only do they need to be high quality, but they also need to be well designed and engaging. Canva is the perfect design tool to help you enhance your images for your blog. With Canva, you can easily create beautiful designs that will make your blog stand out.

At this point, even your grandparents have probably heard of Canva. Canva is beloved by bloggers and content creators because of its easy-to-use platform and thousands of plug-and-play templates, which makes it ideal for non-designers and can be used by pretty much anyone who needs to create visuals for social media platforms.

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What is Canva?

Canva is a user-friendly graphic design tool that is perfect for creating images for your blog. Canva is more than a quote graphic tool, this design software allows you to easily create professional-looking images without any prior design experience. Canva offers a wide variety of templates and tools that makes it easy to customize your images. Canva can be used to create infographics, covers, and other types of visuals for your blog.

What’s the difference between free Canva and Canva Pro Plan?

The main difference between free Canva’s free plan and the Canva Pro plan is that Canva Pro offers more features like the magic resize tool or the background image remover than free Canva. With Canva Pro, you have access to premium templates, fonts, font combinations, free images and more design elements. You can also create custom dimensions for your designs, and save your designs as shareable templates for future use or to sell in your blog shop. If you’re serious about blogging and want to have access to more professional design tools, then Canva Pro is definitely the way to go if you’re a blogger or solopreneur that what’s to level up visual marketing and create gorgeous images using a simple online design tool.

Why Should you Use Canva as a blogger?

Canva is a great design tool for bloggers because it is extremely user-friendly and has a wide range of features that can be used to enhance images for your blog. Additionally, Canva is a free online service, so it is very cost-effective for bloggers who are working with a tight budget. Overall, Canva is an excellent design tool for bloggers who want to enhance their images and make their blog look more professional. Canva’s drag-and-drop tool makes it easy to create graphics and images for your blog or website. You can create your social media graphics on the fly using Canva’s mobile app too.

Related Post: How To Create The Perfect Logo Design In Canva

HERE ARE SOME WAYS ON HOW TO USE CANVA AS A BLOGGER

1. Use Canva for Blog Images & Featured Images

If you’re looking for high-quality blog post images and featured images, Canva is a great option and lets you create images for everywhere on your blog or website. With its easy-to-use pre-made templates and wide range of options, you can create beautiful graphics that represent your brand well. You can also upload your own logo or photos, and resize them to fit your needs. If you’re not a Photoshop expert, don’t worry – Canva is a great way to create stunning graphics without complex photo editing software. Plus, with its library of gorgeous photos and graphics, you can find the perfect image to complement your content.

2. Create Useful Infographics

Infographics are a great way to communicate information in a visually appealing way. They can be used to convey data, or simply to present information in an easy-to-understand format. If you want to create an infographic that will be both useful and visually appealing, Canva is the perfect design tool for you. With its easy-to-use interface and wide variety of templates and illustrations, you can create an infographic that will grab your reader’s attention and convey information in an engaging way.

3. Create Captivating Pinterest Pins

Canva is perfect for social media content like Pinterest. With Canva, you can easily create beautiful pins for your blog posts or other blog content. When you make your design you can choose from a wide variety of layouts and formats, so you can create the perfect pin to match your branding. Within the Canva drag and drop editor, you can change the font and colours, and adding your logo to ensure your pins stand out from the crowd and add stock images from Canva our use your own styled stock photo websites like Hautestock. You can make the Pinterest templates to match your own branding.

I recommend creating a few different pin styles that are on brand, this will allow you to stick to a similar design and just replacing images and text for each pin you create for your blog post.

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4: Create YouTube Thumbnails that Stand Out

If YouTube is your thing… Did you know that you can also create your YouTube thumbnails using Canva? To create a YouTube thumbnail that stands out, start by searching YouTube Thumbnail within Canva. You can decide on starting with a blank canvas design or use one of Canva’s pre-made Youtube thumbnail templates that you can easily customize. I highly recommend adding your brand colours and fonts in your Canva Brand Kit this way you can access all your brand assets within Canva. You can also add text overlay on your thumbnails to grab the attention of your audience.

5. Create Freebies or Lead Magnets

Need to create a freebie or lead magnet? Canva can help you with that too! Whether you’re thinking of creating social media templates, an ebook or planner. Canva has a tone of templates to get you going. People love free stuff so giving your audience a free download in exchange for their email address will help you capture email subscribers and grow your email list.

6. Create In Post Call-To-Action Banners

Now that you have your freebie or lead magnet created you can create call to action banners that you can insert within relating blog posts. This is also known as a content upgrade! You can like these cta’s to any link like your shop, affiliate links, a resource library or your email opt in landing page. These can all be created in Canva!

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 In summary, Canva is the perfect companion for bloggers! It’s a great tool for creating simple, accurate, and fun images for blogs. With its easy drag-and-drop interface and the ability to resize and crop photos, create collages, add fonts, and other text elements, it’s the perfect tool for beginners. Canva makes creating images for your blog as easy as 1-2-3. Want to learn how to use Canva? We have a tone of Canva tips and tricks on the blog to help you get the most our of Canva.

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WANNA READ MORE?

  • Learn how to create stunning reels in Canva here.
  • Find out how you can get the most out of your Canva Pro subscription here.
  • Learn more here on how you can enhance your images for your blog.

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  1. Ashley

    Canva is an amazing resource and I use is almost daily! I don’t currently have the pro version but have tried it off and on a ton of times and it truly is worth it!! So many awesome features and pretty stock photos.

    Hope you’re having a great week, Candice! 🙂

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