Canva is one of the most well-known retouching tools, popular for its ease of use and the large number of options it features. In this manual, we explain how to use Canva to edit the banners and images featured in BigBuy, so they can be used in your 360º Dropshipping Shop.

How is Canva used?

First of all, an account needs to be created, either using your email, or by linking Canva to your Facebook or Google account.

Once your account has been created and validated, Canva can be accessed normally. When you enter using the username and password, the following screen is displayed:

From this screen, you can do several things: Edit an already designed BigBuy banner (adding text or logos) or use a predefined Canva design and customize it the way you want. Let’s see how to do these two things:

Editing an already designed BigBuy banner

For example, imagine we want to add a message announcing a specific promotion.

First of all, you need to download the chosen banner from the banner download section on the BigBuy Control Panel. For this example, we are going to download the Ibiza template banner, which measures 1920×1060 px.

Next, we find the Canva option “Use custom dimensions”.

Two fields will be displayed, for writing the size of the image. We will click on “Design”.

A new window opens, in which a blank canvas is shown with the measurements we have specified. Next, we need to add the promotional banner. To do this, click on “Uploaded files” (1) and on the “Upload your own images” button (2). Next, you can choose the banner that you want to edit from the window that opens.

After choosing the image, it becomes available in the gallery, and we can then easily drag it to the blank canvas.

Once the image is on the canvas, you can start editing it. If you wish to add text, we move to the “Text” section of the left menu, which lists all the font types and sizes already suggested. You can easily drag and edit from the list.

In this example, we have dragged the “Add subheading” message onto the image, but you can use any of the possible options. Once on the canvas, you can change the font (1), the size (2), the colour (3), and the format (4)… You can also duplicate the text phrase, adjust the transparency or simply delete it (5).

If for example, we want to add our logo, we can do this too. First of all, we upload it to Canva following the same steps as uploading the image (from the “Uploaded Files” section). Once the logo is added, you can drag it to the canvas and modify the size.

Once our banner is ready, we need to export it. To do this, click “Download” (in the top menu) and then choose your preferred format. Ideally, the JPG format. Next, click on the “Download” button.

The image will download to our computer and we can upload it to our Dropshipping 360º Shop.

How to use the preset Canva templates

Canva is especially useful because it already includes many ready to use image templates, where you can then simply change the image or message.

To use one of the Canva templates, you need to carry out the following steps:

From the Canva home screen, click the “Create a design” button. Clicking this button will display a screen featuring many images with pre-set sizes. In the example, we want to create a post on Facebook about our sunglass promotion. You just click on the specific image for the chosen social network.

When clicking, the Editor will open a blank canvas, already set to the chosen size.

Next, you can choose one of the designs featured by Canva, to modify the message and image. All the designs are already adapted to the chosen size. We can select the one we like the most, and drag it to the editor.

Once in the editor, we need to replace the images and texts with our chosen ones. If we do not want to display any image or text, we can simple remove them by clicking on the delete button that appears in the upper right.

For example, if you want to change the image, click on it and go to the “Uploaded files” section. From here, we can see all the images that have been uploaded to Canva. Once the image to be modified has been selected, we can drag the new one, and it replace the previous image automatically.

Next, we can click on the texts to change them. You can also change the colours of the frame displayed, and choose one that best suits the style of your shop.

Once the image is complete, we can export it normally and it is ready for use.