11 Canva Pro Features - Everything You Need for Professional Designs
Updated: Apr 3, 2022
Canva is a free forever online graphic design platform. It makes it super easy, super fast and super fun to create professional and beautiful business marketing visuals.
With more than 250,000 free templates, more than 100 various design types (including social media posts, logos, presentations, gift cards, letterheads, and other visual content), hundreds and thousands of free graphics.
It allows Team collaboration in real-time, allowing team members to review and comment on designs. You can create up to 20 free teams each with up to 3000 members.
Freemium users also get 5GB of cloud storage and a lot of free stuff.
Did I mention it’s super easy to use? No need to be a designer or tech-savvy.
Just drag and drop elements to design custom templates and reuse them.
However, if you want to achieve, even more, today, we will discuss the Canva Pro features that set the Pro user apart from the Freemium user.
First of all, for just 48,361USh (USD 12.99)/month, you can invite up to 5 people, you and your team can unlock up to 100+ million premium stock photos, video, audio, graphics, and everything else Pro has to offer.
With more than 200 Companies on Board, a very simple-to-use interface, and priority support, there is no reason you shouldn’t Start your free trial today.
Not only that, but you also get to schedule your content on over 8 platforms by using the Content planner, and you don’t have to worry about a post not fitting a specific platform because there is the Magic Resize tool.
And if you are bothered with a background you don’t like in a photo, the Automatic Background remover is just a click away.
Ready to dive into these Canva Pro features in more detail?
11 Canva Pro Features (Your Superpower for Designs, and Print Marketing materials)
1. Schedule Social Media Content (Content Planner)
The Content planner helps you develop calendar templates and customize them with your team as you refine your content strategy.
Use the content planner to plan, create, and schedule videos and social media posts across your favorite platforms (Facebook groups and pages, Instagram business, LinkedIn Pages, Pinterest, Twitter, Slack, and Tumblr) all from within Canva.
And with the Canva Mobile app available on the Google PlayStore and Apple store, you can easily use the content planner to schedule posts on the go to be automatically shared at the exact time you want.
Why you should use the Content Planner
Edit posts and reschedule them faster
Auto-post, take the hassle out of Social media management
Schedule single-image and videos on Instagram
An affordable way to produce high-quality social media designs
2. Team Collaboration & Communication
Whether you are a Digital Marketing agency in Uganda, South Africa, Germany, or simply a start-up, you sure at some point want to collaborate on a certain project, presentation, or whatever, Canva gives you a platform to do it.
To start collaborating you need to first create a team and invite team members. But you can also share designs with people that are not on your team by just entering their email addresses.
From there, choose what access permissions you would like them to have.
Now collaboration can begin. Your team members can post comments, tag each other, assign tasks, leave feedback, share designs, and resolve suggestions directly in Canva — anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Now you can start creating everything your business needs from internal communications, such as documents and presentations, to professional-quality marketing materials, such as social media posts, infographics, and reports — all in one place.
With Canva Pro, Unlimited members can join and access design templates, and other brand assets like fonts, and logos. Want to try it?
3. Folders to stay Organized
Besides having an unlimited number of folders for Pro users, you can share your folders with unlimited team members and declutter with an easy-to-use Content Management System.
Use folders to organize your designs, projects, and never lose a design again. Canva is everything you need to create, publish, and manage your designs in one place.
Note: You can only share folders with teams you are part of. Read more about how to use folders in Canva Pro.
4. Brand Kit (Upload Custom Brand Fonts and Logos)
If you have been looking for an easy way to create on-brand designs for multiple brands, Canva Pro is your answer. It allows you to create up to 100 Brand Kits. You can add your own brand font from your computer.
Each Brand kit contains assets that are Pre-set, for example, your brand’s fonts, colors, and logo for a unified look across all designs. Brand Kit is your one-stop brand management shop.
Once you’ve uploaded your brand assets, Canva will store them as pre-sets within the editor so you can reuse them in various templates and designs. Anyone in your team can access your pre-set brand assets.
5. Magic Resize (One Design for any Platform)
Magic Resize puts the magic wand tool in your hands. It allows you to resize any design to whatever size or platform you want to post it to. In just a click.
The best part is, you can resize your flyers and Social media posts without stretching or cutting off images so you stay professional with every post.
In just one click, you can magically resize Instagram posts to WhatsApp stories, or a LinkedIn banner to a Twitter header in no time.
By the way, when we talk about Canva Pro features, we also talk about Canva for Enterprise, Canva for Education, and Canva for Nonprofits users too.
6. Transparent Images
Ever wanted to use a design or logo in another project or on a T-shirt but you get distracted by stuff in the way? Canva Pro resolves that by allowing you to download transparent PNG format.
This allows you to place your logo or design on multiple backgrounds thus creating depth and building a strong visual impression.
7. Premium Video
If you have been looking to add a video to your marketing strategy, Simply browse hundreds of editable, high-quality video templates, customize using the various editing tools available in Canva, add graphics and render in MP4.
No video editing experience is required for the free Canva video editor. And no expensive equipment or software is needed. In fact, you don’t need an Nvidia Graphics card PC or AMD Ryzen powered laptop to do it. Simply create high-quality videos using the simple drag-and-drop video editor and save time.
With access to an entire library of stock photography, videos, and more. It’s true, anyone can create visually-stunning videos on Canva.
Fact: 73% of consumers claim that they have been influenced by a brand’s social media video presence when making a purchasing decision
8. Animation (Instant Presets)
I used to have a text file in notepad with a bounce script. Every time I jumped into Adobe trying to animate text, I could reference it. Not any more.
Now, if I want the text to bounce or slide across the screen, I just click on Bounce or Slide, and just like that, I make visuals bounce thanks to Canva Pro.
Right now, It’s all about making visuals pop, or in this case, making visuals bounce, slide, fade, block, and more animation presets.
Canva Pro offers over 14 premium animation styles that will add motion to your text but also has other animation styles for shapes, graphics, photos, and other different parts of your design.
It’s a time saver and a lifesaver. I don’t see a reason you shouldn’t give it a try.
Don’t be intimidated by the term “Animation”. You don’t actually need to learn animation to create beautiful and professional text animation in Canva Pro.
Your bouncy text is just a preset away.
9. Custom Templates
When you create a design in Canva, you can convert it to templates with just a click of a button then share it with your team same time.
If you don’t know how to create a Canva design, Please refer to the Canva Pro Series to learn more. In that free course, you will learn how to use most of the Canva Pro features including the Brand Kit.
Some of the Templates you can Create and Share:
Event Flyer Templates, Posters, Presentation templates
Business, Marketing, Real Estate
Infographics
Canva’s drag and drop feature makes design customization super fast and easy with just a few clicks.
10. Background Remover
My favorite tool in Canva is the Background Remover tool. I call it the Automagic Background remover tool because, with just a click, it cleans the background from any photo so you can use it for your own stuff.
This is very useful in case you have an eCommerce store and you want to clean up your product photos, create a headshot passport photo, and more.
I mean you can replace the background with your own graphics or brand colors. No additional software is required, not even the eraser tool.
Well, if you want to refine it, you could apply the use of the eraser tool to do it.
Don’t know how this actually works? Watch the video above.
11. Premium Content (Access full Library of Audio, Video & Graphics)
One of the most common questions you might also have about Canva Pro is How to know if your Canva is premium?
Well, first of all, you will notice the small text “Pro” on Premium templates and designs if you are a Freemium user and a small text “Free” on all the premium designs and templates if you are a Premium user.
So, how do you get a Canva Pro Premium subscription Free?
Well, you can get a Free Trial for 30 days to start with.
With the Free Trial, you can get to enjoy everything that Canva Free has to offer, plus Premium features like:
100+ million premium stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
Up to 100 Brand Kits to easily save and apply your brand or campaign’s colors, logos, and fonts.
Automatic Instant Background Remover
Magic Resize Tool to instantly Resize designs infinitely
Save designs as templates for your team to re-use
100GB of cloud storage
Schedule social media content to 8 platforms
If you still have questions about Canva pricing, Canva Pro is 446,718USh (USD 119.99) when paid annually or 48,361USh (USD 12.99) paid monthly, for up to 5 people. Any additional team member is 223,377USh (USD 60.00)/year on a yearly plan or 26,061USh (USD 7.00)/month on a monthly plan.
So as you can see, no matter how large your team, start-up, or organization, you can boost your productivity and take Canva to the next level with time-saving features.
Forget about the hassle of cropping and resizing your designs thanks to the Magic Resize, stay organized thanks to folders, and save your brand logo, colors, and fonts thanks to the Brand Kit.
Conclusion
You are my witness today that it’s true, anyone can create professional and visually-stunning videos using Canva.
Right now, you should be able to find time to practice in Canva, whether it’s for your personal projects, Social media marketing visuals, or it’s to help you boost your team’s creativity and supercharge your productivity with Canva Pro.
To recap, we have covered 11 Canva Pro features that will help you get familiar with Canva or up your game with one of these tools that you probably haven’t been using enough or just didn’t know about before.
We also talked about the massive photos and video library, Animation, using the Magic resize to infinitely resize designs, Automatic background remover tool, Unlimited folders, Animation Pro, and more.
Just so you may know, there are some other Canva features we haven’t talked about today because we cannot put everything here. But I hope this was helpful in terms of showing the power of this free Graphic design platform.
If you want to learn more about Canva Pro, check out my Free Canva Pro course.
What Canva tips or tricks would you like to share with fellow Canva creators?
