HeyJaredCanva Tips for Authors
Teaching authors how to use Canva to make marketing images and videos.
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How to make an interactive maze carousel (opens the original)
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The summer holidays are over and the youngest is back at school, so now I can get back to doing things again. So here’s a fun, interactive carousel for you to make. I’ve seen this done with various things, so I made it bookish by using it on a three book series. You could use it as ‘choose your trope’, ‘choose your hero’, ‘choose your heroine’ or just about anything, really.Subscribe nowWhy is this good? The puzzle aspect makes it fun and temp
Why the Canva image you made from scratch is being tagged as AI (opens the original)
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Last week there was some kerfuffle about Meta (and, possibly also Kickstarter) flagging images made in Canva as ‘made with AI’. The trouble is, the people who made the images didn’t think they WERE using AI. In fact, some of them had gone to some lengths to avoid AI and were very surprised. So, what’s that all about?It seems that images made using Canva’s Background Remover tool (which predates the AI madness by several years) are being flagged. I’m not sure why this is. It is entirely possible
How to make a vintage travel poster in Canva (opens the original)
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I love those old British Rail travel posters - with posterised photos of different towns and ‘see Britain by Rail’ underneath them. There’s something wonderfully bucolic about the style. I am currently releasing my romantic women’s fiction books that are set in a heritage steam railway and these vintage poster images seemed like the ideal way to make marketing graphics. So I investigated how to do it.It turns out that Photoshop has a handy ‘posterise’ filter. But I don’t have Photoshop. Eventual
How to make a snowy cover reveal (opens the original)
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The UK in in the middle of a heatwave as I write this, so looking at pictures of snow and ice really appealed to me today. Canva has now added a load of new (AI generated) video templates. They are designed for people who have physical products to sell or for fashion influencers - but there are a few templates which will be useful for authors. These give you a very quick and easy way to make fun little video clips like this one: Isn’t that cool (see what I did there?)<div class="preamble
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