This tutorial shows how to add more than one effect to Canva text by duplicating and precisely layering text boxes. After finishing the design, you can use ConvertMarkz to continue the workflow in Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher or QuarkXPress.
The following Markzware video walks you through the process of how to add more than one text effect, on canva.com. On the Canva design platform, you can make all kinds of cool designs, really quickly and easily. There is some really neat stuff you can do. You can even do multi-page things, such as add an effect, and much more. Once you finish your Canva design, you can export it to many formats, via Markzware’s Canva App, ConvertMarkz:
ConvertMarkz Features
Through the flexible ConvertMarkz app in the Canva’s Apps marketplace:
• Convert Canva PDFs to Affinity Publisher, Adobe InDesign, & QuarkXPress.
• Share, collaborate, and edit your designs with ease.
• Connect to Markzware’s MarkzPortal, to extract stylized text and images for use in your designs, plus import previews of layouts previously exported to MarkzPortal.
Video: Canva How to Add Multiple Text Effects
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Canva Multiple Text Effects Video Transcript
Hi, everybody! David Dilling for Markzware, here. And, today, we’re going to show you how, on canva.com, you can add more than one text effect. Now, let’s check this out.
Let’s go jump into Canva, here. You can … Canva is really cool! You can make all kinds of cool designs, really quickly and easily. And some really neat stuff you can do. You can even do multi-page things, etc. But let’s say you want to add … we want to add an effect. And let’s say we want to make it outlined. We just want a little bit of outline. And make the color red, just so you can see it. Not a perfect design, but you’ll get the idea.
So, now we have that effect now. And you can move it around or do whatever you want to do. But, if you go back to that text box, you can’t add two effects. It just, if you go to “Shadow”, it just switches to Shadow. And, then, your outline goes away, and it’s a bummer, because, if you go back to outline, it doesn’t remember the state.
Luckily, you can go like this and go back and get it like that, just by hitting the “Undo” button, or Command-C. Right. So, here we are. We got one state. How can we duplicate that? How can we make a second set of effects on the same series of texts? Well, you just click out. Click, again, on your text box. Command-C and then Command-V on the Mac. And I get a duplicate, or a copy-and-paste.
So, I get a duplicate of this text. And, now, what I can do, and particularly if I zoom in, here, I can position that, just right. Something like that. I can go to Position and I can go backward. And there we go. Now, I can go up to Effects. I can change from Outline to Shadow, for instance. And I can change the Shadow to Black. I can now make that as big as I want it.
With a little bit of adjusting, you can get that effect. So, now, I’ve added two effects to the text box with that little workaround, just by duplicating the text box and being creative. Being creative in the way you position it. So, that’s a little trick to get your Canva files and to give two effects to any text box.
The same could apply to images but that’s a lot more trickier, of course. So, hopefully Canva could add the ability to add more duplicate effects to any given text or image box. Just before we go, you see, at Markzware, what we do is we make products to help you convert files to and from Canva to and from Adobe InDesign, etc. And, in this case, we can go and use our ConvertMarkz.
Export Canva Designs for Professional Editing
And, if we click on ConvertMarkz, which is an app inside of Canva, we can actually export this design right to Adobe InDesign. And that might be needed, in some cases where you want to add three or four text effects or you need to do more professional things to your documents. That’s where professional designers can get Canva work from their clients. Or, even sometimes, I’ve heard many designers creating in Canva, itself, but, at a certain point, they need to get it in InDesign, either for their boss, or for their client, or whatever it might be. And you can now do that with Markzware.
Export Canva Designs with ConvertMarkz
With a few clicks, you can get it right into our ConvertMarkz, which leads you to MarkzPortal, which will then give you another preview of that file and allow you to convert that right into Adobe InDesign. Download that. There you go. We have a new thing, preflighting of your Canva files, right in MarkzPortal.
So, you can now click, with a couple clicks, get a full Preflight Report on your Canva file. And make sure that the resolution is okay, and everything’s fine for professional printing. Isn’t that just amazing! Check it out, today, over on markzware.com or, more specifically, in Canva. Search for ConvertMarkz or just go to MarkzPortal.Markzware.com. Alright, everybody. David Dilling, for Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day! Take care!
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Markzware’s ConvertMarkz app in the Canva Apps marketplace allows designers to preview, convert, and open Canva design files in Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and QuarkXPress layout applications for desktop publishing. ConvertMarkz gives you a head-start on Canva file conversion.
ConvertMarkz helps designers convert Canva designs for continued editing in Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher and QuarkXPress. This provides a practical starting point for professional layout editing and production.
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