This is the transcript of the 'Design with templates and styles' video.
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In this video, we'll be diving into the design space and taking a closer look at the sidebar from within the Canva editing screen. We will explore the design tab and look at how templates and styles can save us time.
Once you have opened a design for editing, either a blank design, a template, or an existing file you have uploaded, we need to understand how to add content to our design. This is done using the sidebar. Everything from styles to images and text to drawing is done here.
You'll find the design tab in the top left corner at the top of the sidebar. It is split into three subsections, templates, layouts, and styles. Templates, accessed from within a design, use the same library as when searching from the homepage.
The benefit of using templates here is you can mix and match various templates and easily add them to a single design. Simply use the search bar to find the idea you are looking for. You can hover your mouse over a template to quickly skim some of the pages. Then click to start adding pages. You can either add each page individually or add all pages of the template at once. If you choose to add the whole template at once, you'll need to confirm that it will replace all existing pages in your design. When adding each page individually, it's best to add a new slide for each template page you want to add to your design. This avoids accidentally replacing a page you may need.
Once you've added some template pages to your design, you may find they all have different colour and font styles. That's where the style section comes in. Within styles, you can either utilise a full style set or just a colour or font set and easily apply it to your page.
Scrolling down the styles section, you'll notice you can apply a brand kit. This will include any colour palettes and font sets created within your school's brand kit and is accessible to all team members once set up.
Combination styles
This is both a colour and matching font style that will apply to all editable elements and text boxes within your design.
Colour palettes
This is a selection of curated colour palettes. Simply click one to apply it to your design. If you don't like the way it applies the colours, you can continue to click the same palette and it will shuffle where the colours are applied until you find the one that you like.
Font sets
These will only change the fonts within your design, but can be applied to every page and every text box with a single click.
And lastly, image palettes
This will show you all of the images within your design and allow you to apply a colour palette drawn from that image. A great example of this is adding a school logo or emblem to a design and using its colour palette to add the school's colours to your design, again, using the shuffle option to find just the right combination.
Once you have applied the style you like, you have the option to apply it to every page in your design by clicking the purple apply to every page button down the bottom.
To learn more about other parts of the sidebar, look for the next video, Canva for Education Foundations: Exploring the Sidebar, where we will explore other features of the sidebar like elements, text, draw tools, and much more.
Canva for education. What will you design today?
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