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Designing Eye-Catching Graphics through Useful Features

Canva has many great features, but some of the best are the simple ones that you may miss when creating your graphics. They help with consistency, saving time, resizing quickly, and positioning your elements correctly. Many of them are along the top bar of a template, so in this chapter, we’re going to look at each one in more detail.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Grouping elements
  • Align and spacing text
  • Rulers and margins for print
  • Locking elements
  • Changing the transparency
  • Resizing your designs
  • Positioning elements front to back
  • The Background Remover tool

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use all of the template features, understand ...

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