Canva

Canva

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Canva is a design application that enables users to create and design beautiful images, montages, thumbnails, and so much more. Anything you want to design for your social media, it will help you achieve that quickly and efficiently. With premade templates for your YouTube thumbnails, a built-in logo maker, and a video maker, Canva makes a convincing case as the go-to app for many content creators.

An easy substitute for Photoshop

Canva is a really easy app to recommend. For people who do not want to dive into the complexities of other applications and learn everything from scratch to create something, Canva saves the day by providing a platform where everything is premade and all the user has to do is drag and drop the desired options and then edit them as required.

Caters all social media needs

Canva provides you with an unlimited number of features, templates, and options for your content. The best feature of the application is the support for different kinds of content and respective templates that you will find here. Here are a few types of designs that you can create:

• Documents
• Whiteboards
• Presentations
• Social Media
• Videos
• Websites

Yes, you can create designs for your Websites using Canva. Furthermore, social media posts have amazing support as well. For Facebook, you can get access to hundreds of templates to create engaging posts whether they are for normal size or cover photo size. For Instagram, you can create different types of content such as Stories, Reels, and normal Instagram posts.

YouTube thumbnails

For upcoming and current YouTubers, thumbnails are one of the most important aspects of their content. Canva makes creating YouTube thumbnails incredibly easy, with premade templates, and text styles. All you have to do is select the template, insert your desired photo(s), select the text style, add it, and you are done. All you need is creativity, and the tools will be provided by Canva.

Free and Premium

Canva has both free and premium versions. The free version provides you access to limited templates and features, while the premium version provides you unlimited templates, features, storage, and high-quality content. For example, with the free version, you can only create YouTube thumbnails of a resolution of up to 1280x720, but the premium version allows you to get much higher resolutions.

Conclusion

Canva is a great application for content creators and enthusiast designers who want to keep things simple and lightweight. While it may not be suitable for extreme professionals as they would prefer expertise and control, Canva provides a great platform for social media and amateur YouTube content creators.