What Are Canva Templates?
Canva as a design tool has a unique advantage over many other design tools in that it provides many premade and high-quality designs as templates for users to edit. Templates in Canva work similarly to templates in other systems—a premade design that can be easily edited without much effort.
From the homepage, you’re provided with an infinite list of template options. These are premade designs for a variety of uses like presentations, YouTube thumbnails, flyers, or social media posts. Using templates is helpful, stops you from getting into a creative rut, and saves a lot of time and energy if you just want good, fast designs.
How to Create and Publish a Template in Canva
If you know how to create designs in Canva, you’ll find it an easy process to make your own templates. There are only a few extra steps from design to template creation.
Step 1: Subscribe to Canva Pro
To be able to design or create a template for future use in Canva, you need a Canva Pro account. While the designing of a template is the same as other Canva design workflows, the ability to save it as a template is exclusive to Canva Pro users. Once you’ve created your Canva Pro account, log in to your account.
Step 2: Create a Design
Starting on the Canva homepage, select Create a Design on the top right. From the short dropdown menu of options, you can select one of the popular social media sizes, or select Custom Size at the bottom and type in your own dimensions if you know the dimensions of your project.
If you know the media type you want to design for, you can also type that as a search term in the menu’s search bar, then choose the result from the options generated.
Step 3: Design Your Template
You can create your design in Canva’s editor in any way you’d like. Set a background, add images, and write some text. Lay it out the way you want your template design to look.
If you’re making a universal template for multiple purposes, think of how the layout might change or be affected by new images or word lengths in the future.
Step 4: Publish Your Canva Template
When you’ve finished your design, select Share > Brand Template. From here, you can choose a folder to save your template in, and then select Publish or Add to save your template in the folder.
After saving or publishing your template, a link is generated for you to share your template design with others. Copy and paste the link to share.
Step 5: Open and Edit Your Saved Template
Once you’ve made your template, you’ll want to use it in the future. To find it, select Projects on the left-hand menu of the Canva homepage. From the Projects page, you’ll see your recent projects and under that, you’ll find the folders in which you saved your templates.
Navigate to a template and select it to open it in the editing window. Edit the parts of the template you need to and save it like any normal Canva project to use however you wish.