Day 4: Efficient Canva Design Techniques: Copying, Locking, Positioning, Exporting

Copying Across Different Designs And Tabs

It may not be exciting to copy and paste, but it will change your graphic design projects. Select the elements you want, then press Copy to copy and paste from one design to another in Canva. 

Go to another Canva design, press the paste button. You will copy and paste elements that you have copied from your previous Canva Design into the new Canva design.

Locking Elements To Prevent Selection

You can select an element and click on the Lock option in the toolbar to lock the position of the element. In addition, they can choose to lock the element’s position only to partially lock it and still allow editing. It can be useful for you who wants to move other elements around without accidentally moving a locked element.

Positioning Elements The Right Way

Arrangement of elements in Canva involves grouping, layering, and aligning elements. You can combine elements so that they are grouped together, layer elements to configure their order and coordinate them in such a way as to be positioned correctly. 

Choose the elements you want aligned by pressing Shift and clicking on each element, so that they will be aligned. Then, select the alignment option you want by clicking on the align button at the top toolbar. Canva offers a number of alignment options, such as left align, right align, middle align, top align, bottom align and distributed vertically or horizontally.

Exporting Multiple Pages Based On Your Need

While Canva’s multi page design feature is useful for creating multi paragraph documents, you may find that you only need to save or share a single page from your document, and you can simply copy and paste the elements from the page into a new, single paragraph document. 

Alternatively, in order to extract a single page that’s needed, you can export your entire multi page layout as a PDF and then use an Adobe PDF Editor.