
Graphic designer?? Who me?! Gone are the days of needing extensive training and expensive software to create beautiful, timeless designs. Non-designers, rejoice! Canva has made graphic designing accessible to everyday professionals like you and me.
One of our favorite aspects of the Canva platform is its incredibly user-friendly interface (especially compared to its design software counterparts like InDesign and Photoshop). Even more, the platform consistently releases new updates to expand its design capabilities and always heeds to their customer feedback for new features to develop.
Is it obvious that we love Canva?!
Read on for a few of our favorite Canva hacks for Real Estate Pros that will save you time and have you designing like a pro in no time.
BONUS: Stick around for a bonus video at the end of this article: Canva How-To: Make text pop when you snap using the animate effect.
01 Background Remover
Looking to remove the background from an image (see example in the clip above)? Click “Effects” on an image then select background remover and watch the background dissapear!
02 Quick Keystrokes
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- Use keystroke “R” to insert a rectangular or square shape
- Use keystroke “C” to insert a circle shape
- Use keystroke “L” to insert a line
- Use keystroke “T” to insert a text box
03 Text Effects
04 Lock Element
05 Position
06 Duplicate
07 Grab a template from “All your Designs”
08 Change all colors with one-click
09 Customize a template to match your brand (Canva Pro Users)
To take it a step further, you can easily pull your own branding elements (fonts AND color palette) whenever you’re designing a template. To get started, refer to the Styles tab on the left sidebar menu and click on your color palette or fonts. Canva will then incorporate these elements into the template. Bonus: Click on “Apply to all pages” and watch the magic unfold before you. Woohoo!
10 Magic Resize (Canva Pro Users)
11 Share design as a full screen website
With this feature, you can create a design (listing presentation, anyone?!) in Canva and then share it to a client as a fullscreen website. That’s right… a website!
Navigate to the cluster of three dots in the top right corner, under the Share heading choose “Website” and select from website style available: Presentation, Scrolling, Classic Navigation, or Standard.
Bonus How-to: Make text POP with the snap of a finger

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written by
Claudia Bell
Claudia is C&C's Marketing Director with a background in retail, commercial, hotel and residential real estate.
A Florida Native, Claudia loves being outdoors and on the water. Find her exploring homes in historic neighborhoods, squeezing a lime on something, or planning a trip somewhere off the beaten path.
Simple pleasures: a made bed and a hot baguette.
Great post Claudia!