Selecting a template that fits your needs is the first step in changing a pre-designed design. When designing an Instagram post, for instance, you can use keywords like "Instagram post," "holiday sale," or "motivational quotes" to find templates. Canva also lets you sort templates by certain dimensions, themes, or groups. This function keeps you from having to start from scratch, which saves time. You can open a template right in the Canva editor after choosing it. This is the magic spot for customizing.
Changing the text is one of the easiest and most useful ways to change a template. The templates on Canva have sample text that you can change to see how the style will look with real text. You just need to click on the text boxes and type your own words where the sample text is. You can put in details about an event, business names, quotes, or anything else that fits with your design. You can change the text in Canva by changing its font, size, color, alignment, and space, as well as replacing it. Canva has a large font library with everything from fancy styles to big display fonts. You can share your own fonts or use fonts that match your brand if you're working on a brand project. To change the text, just drag and resize the text boxes to make them fit better in the plan. You can even make the text stand out by adding shadows, outlines, or background colors.
Colors are an important part of making your design look good. It's easy to change the colors of text, backgrounds, and other design features in Canva. You can use specific hex codes to keep things consistent if you're working with a brand theme. You can also play around with the color wheel to find colors that go well together. You can choose from more than one tone of color. You have a lot of artistic freedom with Canva because you can add gradients, transparency effects, or textured backgrounds. If the template you choose comes with a color scheme that you don't like, you can change it all by clicking "Change All." This changes everything in the template immediately to match the new color scheme you picked.
Templates often have pictures or drawings that you can use as placeholders to show how your design might look. You can change these pictures to your own or look through Canva's huge collection of free and paid stock photos. There are two easy ways to add your own photos: drag and drop them into the Canva editor, or click the "Upload" button. You can change the images to fit the template's placeholders after you've put them. You can crop, resize, and move pictures around in Canva's editing tools. For a more unique touch, you can also add overlays, use filters, and change the brightness, contrast, and saturation. Canva has effects, like duotones and pixelation, that you can use to change the way your pictures look and give them a unique look.
Canva templates can be changed in any way you want, so you're not limited to the style that came with the template. You can change the parts as needed if you think some are too crowded or if you want to draw attention to a certain part of the design. With a simple drag-and-drop move, you can resize, spin, or move things like text boxes, images, and icons. If you want to add more parts, you can do so without any problems with Canva. To improve the design, for example, you can add more text, icons, or decorative shapes. On the other hand, if you think a template has too many parts, you can get rid of the ones you don't need to make the design simpler.
Canva also has more complicated tools that you can use to make your changes even more accurate. As an example:
You can use any of the thousands of free and paid graphics and icons in Canva's library in your design. You can search for these images and change their size, color, and placement so they fit perfectly in your template. If you're making a business flyer, for example, you can add items like a phone or a location marker to make it more useful.
Once you're happy with the changes you've made, Canva gives you a number of ways to finish your design. It can be downloaded in different types of files, like PNG, JPG, or PDF. If you're making a movie or animation, you can save it as an MP4. You don't have to leave Canva to share your design on social media or email it to someone; you can do that right from the app.
It will be easy for you to make your own templates if you know how to use Canva to make designs. From design to making a template, there are only a few more steps.
Step 1: Subscribe to Canva Pro
You need a Canva Pro account to design something or make a template that you can use again. You can design a template in the same way as any other Canva design workflow, but only Canva Pro users can save it as a template. After making your Canva Pro account, you'll need to log in.
Step 2: Create a Design
On Canva's home page, go to the top right corner and click on Create a Design. From the small dropdown menu, you can choose one of the common social media sizes. If you know the exact size of your project, you can also choose Custom Size at the bottom and type in your own measurements.

You can also use the search bar in the menu to type in the type of media you want to design for. Then, pick the result from the list that comes up.
Step 3: Design Your Template

The editor in Canva lets you make your design in any way you like. Add pictures, writing, and a background. Set it up the way you want your template design to look. When you make a template that can be used for many things, you should think about how the style might change if new images or word lengths come out in the future.
Step 4: Publish Your Canva Template

Select Share > Brand Template when you're done with your design. Here is where you can pick a folder to save your template. Then, click Publish or Add to save the template in the folder. When you save or post your template, a link is made that lets other people see your template design. To share, copy and paste the link.
Step 5: Open and Edit Your Saved Template

It's important to save your template so you can use it again. To get to it, go to the Canva home page and click on the menu on the left. On the Projects page, you can see your most recent projects. Below those, you'll see where you saved your templates. Find a template and click on it to open it in the editing box. You can change what you need to in the template and then save it like any other Canva project. Then you can use it however you like.
You can get most of the same Canva tools on your phone or tablet as you can on your computer. In a few similar steps, you can make Canva templates on your phone or tablet.

You can bring in PDF, AI, and PSD files that were made somewhere else. You can't change individual parts in Canva when you import PSD or AI files, though, so these can't be used for editable Canva templates. There is good news: Canva lets you change PDFs. This means you can save your designs made in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign as PDFs and use them as templates. You can import individual parts that you've made elsewhere to make templates in Canva instead of PSDs or other formats that you can't change. You can use Canva's template-making feature by adding all of your own design elements. Your template designs will be different from those made by other Canva users who use Canva's given elements.
Using ready-made template designs for a range of reasons is what Canva does for a living. You can start from scratch when you use Canva, but making your own template makes starting from scratch easier when you need to make a lot of designs that are all the same. You can save time in the future by using Canva Pro to make templates. Your designs can even make you money if someone buys them and doesn't want to make their own.