Canva Review

I’m going to go over all the major pros and cons of Canva, a tool that is becoming more and more popular for creating visual content, in this review. Is it appropriate for your company? Should you instead continue using a specialized desktop application like Adobe Photoshop?

What is Canva?

With the help of the graphic design tool Canva, you may create visual content without having substantial graphic design knowledge. The application is typically used to generate social media graphics, short films, presentations, slides, posters, and other visual assets. To make this process as simple as possible for users, a broad selection of editable templates and royalty-free pictures are offered.

Canva’s learning curve is intended to be very gentle, in contrast to more conventional graphic design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. This means that while its pricing is significantly less than that of these “pro” options, its feature set is more rudimentary.

How does Canva work?

The Canva app can be downloaded or used in a web browser (for Mac, PC, Chromebook, iOS, or Android).

Canva also lets you make custom templates and offers controls for altering the typefaces and colors used in a template.

Selecting a template, adding information, making a few adjustments, and exporting your design for usage online or as a printed item is the idea.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Small business owners, internet business owners, and marketers who need to design things rapidly are best served by Canva. A tool like Photoshop is perfect for creating complex images. However, learning all of its numerous capabilities and becoming comfortable with the software can take a lot of time, and it’s best to have a strong foundation in design.

Photoshop is also a powerful program. You might need to spend more money on a better PC.
Additionally, Photoshop isn’t the best program for creating multi-page publications for print and the web; instead, you should use InDesign. You will spend more time and expenses because that is also a complicated tool.

Canva Review of free features

Canva’s free version is extremely quick and simple to use. I’ve recommended it to a number of friends who own small businesses and require quick but professional social media posts, banners, cover photos, and so on. With Canva’s free version, you simply choose a template to work with – say, a Facebook cover image – and then drag and drop your own elements onto a pre-done and pre-sized design. It’s quick, simple, and convenient.

Canva has a plethora of features. Canva’s extensive capabilities are easily accessible to users. Some of the most notable are as follows:

• Cropping an image
• Images with text titles and speech bubbles
• Image enhancement, transparency, and angle correction
• A plethora of Canva Templates for a wide range of applications. From a Facebook status update to a greeting card.
• Image grid for quick and clean editing.
• Picture frames in various styles.

Canva’s free version allows you to work with thousands of templates for everything from cards to social media cover photos and presentations, but it does not allow you to create bespoke designs. And, as previously stated.

The primary issue I have with Canva’s free version and I highly doubt I’m the only one who feels this way is that all the designs you like (i.e., the better ones) are always paid for or available for free on the Pro plan.

Therefore, while Canva’s free edition is interesting to consider for quick designs for friends, marketers, bloggers, and the like, it’s simply too limited and basic for creative professionals. Fair enough, however, it’s more than likely that creative people are currently utilizing other programs. Therefore, Canva Pro targets the medium market.

Canva Review | Pricing

We have examined all of Canva’s key attributes up to this point, but not its price. Now let’s get started on it.

There are three primary Canva versions to take into account:

• Canva Free — 0 dollars each month
• $12.99 a month for Canva Pro (for one user)
• Canva for Teams: Variable pricing (for a maximum of 5 users, it starts at $14.99 per month)

A 16% discount is offered if you pay for your Canva plan on an annual basis. Educational institutions can use Canva for free, and non-profit organizations can use it with a discounted or free plan after going through a verification process.

You can have access to a variety of design tools and graphic resources that enable you to produce incredibly professional results very rapidly for a reasonably low monthly fee.

Not just you, necessarily; a $14.99 “Canva for Teams” account comes with 5 seats by default. By any measure, this is an excellent deal, especially for small business owners with tight budgets.

This sense of value for money is even more apparent when you take into account that a monthly price of $12.99 to $14.99 is frequently less than what you’d pay for just one stock image from Getty or iStock while providing access to millions of stock images and videos.

Should I buy Canva Pro? 

Canva Pro definitely outperformed the free version in our opinion, and we were quite impressed. But ought you buy it? That ultimately depends on the type of creative you are and how skilled you are at graphic design.

A graphic designer won’t struggle to create their own designs for the variety of items Canva Pro offers without the template element and won’t have much use for the shortcuts like the background removal tool available in Canva Pro. However, someone who wants to grow their business without having to learn complex software, like a printmaker, will be thrilled with the outcomes they can get using Canva Pro.

Canva Review: final thoughts

Overall, Canva is a great tool that is simple to use and loaded with features that make creating visual assets quick and easy. Although it cannot always be used in place of a professional graphic design tool or video editing program, it is far simpler to use and in many cases will perform the same function (and more cheaply, too).

Canva’s output formats are constrained, there is no means to backup projects, and email is the only form of support, which are its biggest drawbacks. The export formats problem is the most serious of those three issues since it restricts your ability to begin a design in Canva and have it finalized by a professional designer in another software. However, given how inexpensive Canva is, it’s difficult to be overly irritated by these omissions.