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Love this product! It's easy to design without having any knowledge of graphic designing.
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to use. Having stock photos right at your fingertips. Some are free but the ones that are for purchasing (the license) are only $1. They also have various vector designs to choose from to use for free or to purchase (the license). They have an array of fonts to choose from and the templates for the typography are easy to customize.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that you do have to purchase the membership in order to download a design with a transparent background. Other than that it's great all around.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to create social media images to post to ad a bit a creativity to our companies' social media accounts. It instead of being too corporate, we can express our creative side too.
Wonderful program for creating graphics
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, lots of free elements, lots of templates
What do you dislike about the product?
Not the best selection of available fonts, can't manipulate the shape of words.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easy creation of graphics for promotions in a minimum amount of time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely a user-friendly program. Easy to create professional looking graphics. Loads of free shapes, frames, elements.
Easy to use, beautiful product
What do you like best about the product?
Canva makes designing simple infographics easy, and it's handy to have almost every element of Canva be customizable. I also find all the graphic and font templates really helpful. It's definitely our go-to when we need to create simple client-facing graphics because it's fun to play around in Canva.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything I need to use it for right now (very basic graphics) works well. It would be nice to have more free images, but I understand why there aren't. There really isn't much that Canva doesn't fulfill for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a fast and easy solution for us when we need to whip up a graphic. We've realized it's a great way to address the visual learner among us. We first came across Canva when we needed to quickly create social media content (infographics) without requiring the help of our designer, and Canva was the perfect tool for the job.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The custom size canvas is really helpful! Canva is really great for visual learners. We've made many graphics by taking text and turning them into Canva presentations with great results!
So many bugs while designing
What do you like best about the product?
Everyone in the team has access to the design, because Canva is an online design platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Canva has a lot of bugs, which can be very annoying and time-consuming. Some of the bugs I FREQUENTLY face with include: suddenly unable to change text's color (despite my efforts to refresh the page many times), texts suddenly getting cramped for no reason (again, I have to refresh the page many times in vain), texts suddenly get dispersed and out of your background page, texts of the same size but look smaller/bigger than each other (for instance, when I type "Hello" of size 12pts, and make a copy of the text "Hello", there will be two texts "Hello" of the same size 12pts; however, one actually is bigger than the other and you will notice this when you juxtapose them together, or lay them over each other). In short, there are so many bugs that I don't remember them all. The only reason I'm still using Canva is because my boss wants everyone in the team has access to what I design, and thus all of us can plug information in the design.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We create social media graphics, e-vites, and fliers on Canva. A good thing about Canva is that it has basic design tools (such as add photos, add texts, add shapes, change colors and opacity, etc) for free. These tools are very easy to use, which can be helpful to non-designers. However, like I said earlier, using Canva can be very time-consuming because of many bugs coming in the way. Sometimes you will have to refresh the page for ten times to get the right text/color/size.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use Canva only when you don't have any designers in your team, or when you don't know how to design at all. Canva is very easy to use. It offers many free tools, illustrations and backgrounds. However it also has many limitations including bugs (which can slow down your design process), and a lack of some essential functionalities such as gradient.
Canva--A great free basic graphic design app that lacks some features
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use is the best part about Canva. The user interface is simple and intuitive, and the built-in collection of free shapes, illustrations, photos, text templates, and layouts are a big plus, along with the ability to upload your own. There is also a pretty good selection of editing options: text spacing, size, and alignment, photo and shape transparency, brightness/contrast/other photo attributes, a small collection of filters, and you can even change the colors of some of the free vectors. I use this for any graphic design project--book covers, social media posts, website graphics.
The autosave feature is also amazing.
The autosave feature is also amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Canva is great, but there are certain limitations with the free plan. The inability to upload your own fonts is the big one. The built-in font selection is decent, but still limited, but if you want true control you'll have to shell out for the business plan, which also includes transparent background and resizing.
Also, while there are free images/vectors that are easy to find via browsing, the search feature is very poor. Usually the only results that turn up are premium (paid) files, and you have to scroll for a while
It occasionally has some glitches, such as elements shifting in the final downloaded document. This occurs sporadically, and I have yet to find a solution, but in my experience this occurred only when a photo was filtered. Your results may vary.
Also, while there are free images/vectors that are easy to find via browsing, the search feature is very poor. Usually the only results that turn up are premium (paid) files, and you have to scroll for a while
It occasionally has some glitches, such as elements shifting in the final downloaded document. This occurs sporadically, and I have yet to find a solution, but in my experience this occurred only when a photo was filtered. Your results may vary.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool is absolutely wonderful for book covers, especially for people who don't have any experience with graphic design. This is incredibly easy to use, and one can usually get a decent looking product with very little work.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canva is great for basic uses, but for more advanced features you'll have to shell out for the paid plan, or Photoshop.
Marketing/Promotion Materials
What do you like best about the product?
The designs are modern and put together well. The finished products make us look like graphic designers when our abilities are nowhere near that of a graphic designer.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does get a little bogged down/loading which probably just comes with so many images/graphics. I also wonder how much of this has to do with my actual computer/network/etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All of our promotions for events now look professional and we do not have to wait for the Graphic Design team for smaller events as they are extremely busy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check to see what size you want to use (i.e. FB post or poster) so that it can fit the screen exact. It is a great feature so utilize it.
Simple to use, impressive results. Great for social media and websites!
What do you like best about the product?
Canva is very easy to use, providing templates, shapes, ideas for content... In a jiffy you can have a very nice design for any digital work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dont love is the way of organizing the images you upload. Sometimes it gets to messy. Maybe it would be good to be able to have different client 'templates' so that you can customize each font and colors for each of them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Perfect for generating images for social media, blog posts and infographics. We have been using this for all of our social media accounts, our webpage and even for your clients!
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Simple online interface. If you need ideas for templates and color combinations this is it. It helps you create wonderful compositions.
I actively use this site for presentations, invites, and resumes.
What do you like best about the product?
I think the options are fantastic. The end product always looks professionally designed. The program is also easy to understand and use for someone without tech skills.
What do you dislike about the product?
The program can often run very slow if you have multiple products you're working on. Additionally, it can take awhile to go through all the different page layouts. It would be helpful if you could type in a prototype of what you're looking for and have options pop up (i.e. page with three circles, or simple heading with 4 boxes, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It reduces the need to outsource design projects because they end up looking professional through this program.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a fantastic easy program to use -- even if you don't have design skills!
Perfect for newly-minted artists
What do you like best about the product?
Great for content marketers that are not artistically inclined, Canva let's you get things done.
The product is free, all you pay for are the premium images you might want, and unlike other tiered-plan apps, you don't have to worry about limitations like file formats for downloads.
Easy and intuitive!
The product is free, all you pay for are the premium images you might want, and unlike other tiered-plan apps, you don't have to worry about limitations like file formats for downloads.
Easy and intuitive!
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much - my only request would be an auto-snap grid to align infographie elements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canva allows me to get artwork done for our website, social media cards, and page banners with ease
It helped me get past the paralysis associated with trying to produce quality graphics without a formal background in graphic arts.
It helped me get past the paralysis associated with trying to produce quality graphics without a formal background in graphic arts.
Canva is a life saver!
What do you like best about the product?
I always recommend Canva. I love that I can get a near-photoshop experience all the while creating custom graphics and images as needed. Not only do myself and my team use it daily for business, but my husband and I even used it to create our wedding invitations!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish I could add custom fonts on my own, and save each Canva created image into its own folder on Canva itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to be able to create stellar graphics but not so heavy duty that it required a photo shop purchase. Canva fit right in!
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