do you want an amazing logo for a
business idea or new project without
having to use Photoshop well you're in
the right place my friend in this video
I'm going to show you a step by step how
to make a logo that you can be proud to
use for free and even if you have no
design skills at all
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resources mentioned in this video when
you have a new business idea or project
and you need a logo the name of the game
is to make a logo that looks
professional quickly and easily you have
two options option one is to get someone
to design it for you such as a graphic
designer
option two is to do it yourself I'm
going to walk you through how to create
a logo for free using canva let's go
over to my computer now and I'll show
you how so this is an example of a logo
that I created by myself from scratch
for free using canva and it took me
minutes I'm going to show you exactly
how I did it in canva right now now I'm
assuming that you at the very least have
a Canberra account if you've never used
canva before if you don't have a
Canberra account check out the link in
the description to my how to use canva
tutorial and I step you through
everything you need to get up and
started with can bar this is assuming
that you've already at least watch that
or you know how to use canva a little
bit and I'm going to show you now how to
create a logo so once you've logged into
canvas you're taken to the canva home
page in the search bar type logo and
then where it says create a design
select that logo icon there this then
opens
a canvas where you can start designing
your own logo now on the left hand side
you'll see that there are logo templates
here and on the top they're categorized
by different categories and if you
scroll down you'll see the different
categories and if you keep scrolling for
a little bit you'll come across the
section where it says
all results so that you're able to see
all of the different logo templates that
are in canva for you to modify and
here's where you can have a quick glance
at different logo designs that you can
choose and you can modify to suit your
business and your brand
now with these logo templates you can
see in the bottom right hand corner of
them they say free because that means
that you don't have to pay for anything
we love free so I chose a template which
I could work with and this is the one
that I selected and once you click on it
it will open itself into your canvas now
personally I don't love the pre-built
blocks text blocks that canva typically
does for you so I'm going to create my
own ones so I'm going to start by typing
in text over the section so I selected
the area that I wanted to replace the
text for my logo and this will be the
sewing space and that's huge so I've
selected that and I'm going to bring it
all the way down so that it fits
that's much better and then I'm going to
drag it so that it fits in this space
now this little section here I don't
like where that sits I'm going to delete
that and I'm also going to delete this
element so that it's not that weird text
in a strange format so we're not done
yet
so the sewing space I'm going to get rid
of space and then I'm going to add text
at the bottom so I'm going to
I'm going to add a heading let's call it
a heading I'm going to move that down so
I flicked it and move it down now I'm
going to select it all and write a
little bit large so I'm going to bring
this down to half about half that size
so this is changing before my eyes I'm
going to make this a little bit larger
there we go so we're getting close we're
getting close to the design that you saw
on the Facebook page before this pink I
think we could do better so in terms of
the color I select the shape of it and I
can change it to whatever color I like
so these are brand colors that I've set
up in my brand kid those look nice and
I'm liking this this font is the default
font that the template came with and I'm
like it's okay but I'm going to change
it to be a font that I've used and that
I've uploaded so I'm going to change
this to be this font that I've uploaded
I like that it's really starting to come
together now the thing that I need now
in the logo is an icon of some sort so
that people can identify well people
know what the business or the brand is
about so I go back to elements and
because it's the sewing space and it's a
new hobby of mine
I'm going to look for a sewing machine
and then I'm going to select graphics
because I want an illiterate Illustrated
graphic for the sewing machine now if
you have canva for work you'll see free
with a little crown and that means that
the icon or the image is free for you to
use as a canva for work user that's if
you have the paid version of canva if
you're not a canva for work user you
just a free can be user then you'll see
this button here that has the free icon
this is what looks like for the free
images that you can use so go ahead and
scroll and find the image that you want
to use in your logo I'm going to go
ahead I like the look of this one I'm
going to select that and then I'm going
to resize it and place it just over here
so just tying the edges together little
bit more to the edge and that's not too
bad I don't mind that so just like that
I created a logo using a free template I
changed the image I changed the font and
I changed and I added an element so I
added a graphic to it I could also add a
new page and choose another template and
design another one at the same time so I
can compare the designs to each other
which is pretty cool because it doesn't
cost you anything extra you can design
as you want so I'm pretty happy with
that it's looking pretty identical to
the design that I showed you before then
I want to go ahead and download it so
I'll select the download button here and
then I'm going to go download I want to
save this I can save it as a JPEG a PDF
but I want to save it as a PNG and I
want to make the transparent background
option selected there so then I'm also
just going to choose the first page and
then I'm going to download it and then I
can use this as a logo file in designs
that I do so here's the design and I'll
show you what I mean so this is not so
clear because of the preview that you
get on Macs if you create a Facebook
post and then you upload the image as a
the image file which is your logo you
can then place the logo on your designs
and it's transparent so it hasn't got a
white background and like that you can
start using your logo in your designs
you can add it to your Facebook page you
can add it
your social media images and it was so
simple to make and I really love it I
think it's cute it's reflective of what
I wanted the logo to be and it's done
it's something that I could start using
straightaway so there you have it my
walkthrough tutorial showing you how to
design your own logo now go forth and
make that beautiful logo if you found
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