If you are looking for an online resource to start practicing your design skills, Canva may be what you're looking for. This is an online graphic design website developed by Australian's designers in 2012. It's a creative tool used by designers as well as professional graphic designers because it has a huge library of media and web options. These are basically templates that have a drag and drop feature as well as access to numerous fonts graphics and photos but you can also create your own template. They also have a printing option that you can use to get your piece professionally printed and mailed to you or you can print it yourself. So for instance, if you'll notice here, Create a design, they've got cards, flyers, presentations, posters, even Instagram, Facebook postings, blog, banners, lots of stuff you can use for online resources as well. I'm going to actually play over your little bit with one of these invitations or cards, excuse me. I want to show you a couple of things in these cards that we've gone over in class already. First of all, you can scroll through over here on the left screen and you can see the one that are free and the ones that cost a little bit more and have an upgrade to them. So for instance, if I start clicking on some of these, you'll notice we've got a Serif and San Serif font going on here. Here again, serif and San Serif font. If I click on some of these fonts, I can actually tell that this one is Open Sans and I bet this one down here, yeah, also Open Sans but in light. Then in here, I've got a different Serif font going on. There's another example that mixes two different types, one type of Serif from one type of San Serif. But let's play around a little bit with this one and I want to show you some of the features that we've basically gone over in our class so far, couple more that we will go over later on in other modules, but for right now I want to talk a little bit just about some text stuff going on here. So right now they've set this up, looks pretty nice, got some spacing going on between here, but I want to show you a couple of other things over here and this far left menu especially this text one right here. If I click on text, notice it says, add a heading, add a sub heading, add a little bit of body texts. This is that three level hierarchy that we talked about before. So if I want to add a heading, it's going to make it a little bit bigger than if I say, add a subhead, add a little bit of body, notice they're all different sizes going on here, much like what we talked about earlier. In this case, all of these are the same the same fonts, but if you wanted this Remo font, but if you wanted to go in, you could go in and change those fonts or you could stick with the ones that they've already got for you. But remember, if you're going to go in and change them, don't make them too exciting like don't. If you're going to go with a decorative font for your heading, you might not want to do that in your body texts. A couple other things I want to show you going on in this top menu when I click in a text box here, we've got a couple of things going on. First of all, here's the type of font that you're using. Then we've got the size of the font which I could make it bigger or smaller if I wanted to. Maybe I go up to 64 or go up to 56, play around with it a little bit. Over here is a different color features that you've got, right now they've got some set in here, but you could definitely change it to different ones if you wanted to for whatever various reasons. Now, if you'll notice something in this fonts over here especially this one, this Vidaloka font, it does not heavily a bold and it does not have a bold and it does not have italics. That is not the same for all of the fonts because if I click on this one, that's open sans, it is in bold and I can unbold it, or if I wanted to go down here and make maybe the Anderson's in italics. by clicking on it, I could make that one italics because that allows me to do that. However, in some fonts that they've got in Canva do not allow you to go in and do bold so you just have to notice that before you even go in. Now let's click over here a little bit more and keep going through our menu up here. Obviously these is our alignment that we've talked about with our with our text, and instead of showing you the different alignments you just click through them. So right there, I've got flush right, center, flush left, and then center, kind of play around with that. This one right here makes it either all uppercase or sentenced case depending on how you've typed the letters in for the lowercase one because it makes that T still capitalized. Here you've got some bullets or listing of things that's sort of limited in that you can only do for the free version of Canva, you can only do bullet points. But I want to talk a little bit right now about this spacing thing because we've talked a lot about letting your lines, cunning your characters and tracking your type. So if I click on this, notice it says letter spacing. This is actually, this is the track, this tracking. They've given you what they think should be the best thing, but notice how the letters, they move the same amount no matter how far or how close I put them and it's on that baseline track. It is not cunning because if I go in there and tried, let's say I want to make a space right in between here, between this y and this o then it looks a little bit further apart. Then let's say this o over here and I maybe you want to make it just a little bit tighter. In Canva, unfortunately this is just tracking. It is not cunning. Cunning remember is in-between each individual character, whereas tracking is between the entire text on that tracks on that baseline. Another thing that you can do is this line height and this is letting. Letting is between your lines. So I could make it bigger or smaller. And if you notice, my little cursors is moving up and down based on how big or small I make the line height. That is pretty much it when it comes to- well there's one more thing too, I told you you could change the color. If you do that, love this one. Undo, edit, undo, love it. Takes it back to where I wish we had that in life. But again, if you want to change the color of the font, you are limited somewhat to these different colors. You can start typing in some different colors up here and different versions of blue will show up. They've done a pretty good job of saying these because remember I added that orange. These are the ones that tend, that they meant for this design to have and that these default colors would probably go pretty well with it. Another interesting thing too is if I click on this image right here, I can go in and, maybe I want to make that the orange like I did for my thank you, I can go in and do that too. And then your last thing is if you want it, you can either, like I told you earlier, you can either print this on your own, meaning at your own home, your own personal printer, or you can send it off. And there are different options that they will allow you to print it and different pricing and things like that that if you're interested in. So that is Canva in a nutshell there