Canva Tips

• Positioning
• Layers
• Alignment
• Animations
• Moving elements

Positioning (Arrange)

• Click on any element in Canva
• At the top editor bar, click on "Position"
• This is helpful for layering elements or aligning them

Layers

• This is helpful when you can't click on an element that's behind another
• You can also drag and drop layers into the order that you want

Shift Click to select multiple items for alignment

• You can shift click multiple items in "Layers"
• You can shift click multiple items directly on your Canvas
• Grouping items to become one giant element is also helpful (click on "Group" above the highlighted elements)

Use the "Align elements" and the "Space Evenly" tools

Animations for Elements

• Click on any element you want to animate
• You can toggle animations through clicking
  • Useful for presenting when you want your audience to follow along
• You can decide if they animate when you enter or exit the frame (or both)

Moving elements

• Duplicate a slide with elements on it
  • Click on the three dots setting for the individual slide to select duplicate
  • Or hit Cmd/Ctrl + D

Duplicating slides makes the elements on slide A and B have the same IDs

• Copy/pasting elements to next slides DO NOT result in elements having the same ID

Moving elements

• In between your duplicated slides, click on the animation transition icon
  • Choose "Match & Move"
• On the second slide, you can move and resize the duplicated elements
• The transition "Match & Move" will make those elements move!