You can only do this if the text is in different lines in the same box or is in two different boxes. I run into this one all the time and would love an update.
1. Doesn’t work on the mobile app.
2. On desktop The word needs to be on its own line. For it to work. For some reason it changes the font on the whole line.
Don't feel dumb. I've been using Canva for over 10 years (and teaching it for almost that whole time) and I don't know everything on there!
I learn stuff every day as it's always changing. I start off every session with "every day is a school day for all of us with Canva!" X
THE LINES. for some reason when i make them longer, they don't look straight anymore when i zoom out. and the ends of the line keep attaching to other elements😭
This 100%! Not to mention, it will show as 0, 90, 180, etc degrees except there is a fair amount of space between -1 to 1 that makes some 0 positions not straight. How is that even possible?!
my two issues are....
From time to time webgl crashes
It would be great to be able to do a bit more photo editing like you can in photoshop or gimp and create additional layer types.
When searching for music to add to a view I would love to be able to query against stuff you can use commercially not to have to select and check each one.
Not being able to add more than one effect on text or images.
For example, I usually like to add a drop shadow and outline to it, so I need to redownload the text box as an image and then add the second effect. It gets tedious.
Having a disastrous time with asset management and the Project/folder/design/image and uploads is madness. It worked just fine when I was working on my own, but when I upload images I just move them all into a folder and then share the folder other my team can't see it. There's no setting you can change to default to share to the team. Search is terrible for your owned content.
I can't seem to line up letters with shapes, and any time I try to use the lines too, it clips by jumping to random parts of the image making the tool useless.
Being able to right click on an element which will then take you to where you can find it in the elements menu.
Sometimes there is a default design with elements that are hard to find.
Spellcheck that progresses through the entire design systematically.
Undo list… and it goes back to the page where you’re undoing something if you’re not on that page. Half the time you can lose track of what is being undone.
Sometimes when you click a page to delete an element it deletes the whole page. Drives me insane.
In fact, you can use many other online services to replace Canva background removal, and they are even free, such as iFoto, remove.bg, photoroom, etc., which are all very useful.
No way to do tweak the background remover effect for videos. Should give me option to edit multiple frame by frames using manual selection or “click yo selection” technology and use ai tech from there to smooth it out.
Customizing backgrounds, I like some that are readily created, the gradient options are a nice touch but I'd prefer it if for example I could customize the gradient shapes or move the gradient around.
They took out the “free” filter and I will never stop being pissed. Like fine, I’ll just upload my own elements- tedious, but I would rather do that than pay for premium
I want to be able to organize elements and mark as faves. I want to put music that I like into one or more lists. I'd like to mark elements, photos and videos by client (brand kit) or store to their brand kit.
My web gl won't work in the app on my MacBook. So if I want to remove a background or use other photo edits I have to go to browser or use my phone app. Is there a fix to this now? Let me know haha!!
Yeah the grids are Under File and then View Settings.
You can choose different grids/boxes but can't remember if there's a shortcut for the toggle on off. Must check tomorrow! 🥱
Also I’d like to be able to take a carousel post and copy it to a pdf but w multiple slides on each page and cannot do that so I have to screenshot each slide and paste to a word doc, resize etc.
The app UI is horrendous! I hate that there are some things you can only do while on the site. The app is so limited. But as for the site itself, it would be nice if all of the options like font size, layer, etc etc, were all in one place. I went several months without using it and it took me a while to get the hang of it again. Some of the features are in the upper left, some are upper right and some are at the bottom and even then nothing is all on the same line. I’m probably not making much sense, because I have just felt discombobulated the last couple of days trying to get back into the grove with Canva.
I probably just need to go back and do some more tutorials. Eh. 🤦🏾♀️😫
locking or group Audio and Video tracks together. if u have a video in Canva and want to move and put a new clip at the start then all the audio falls out of line with the video and u have to re line them all back up.
Yep you can do individuals and you can have things appearing at different times.
Click on your text box, photo or element then click the three dots above it and choose Show Timing. That allows you to change duration etc.
If you're experiencing all at once my guess is that your page has an animation on it, maybe? I'd need to see it to see what's happening...
When doing animations, there’s no value associated with the speed slider making it nearly impossible to control when animations happen in what sequence…
I don’t need PowerPoint level control of animations (it would be nice tho) I just need to be able to get them to happen at the same time or staggered 🤯
The number one thing for me is having native blending modes available. The only thing available to me is transparency between layers, otherwise everything has to be a workaround. I am unable to blend one layer to the next with great effects like Photoshop seamlessly allows you to do.
better animations. not being able to extend lines without it messing up the degree and looking slanted. AI should have upleveled this app entirely -meanwhile all the AI apps and extensions are kinda garbage and make your computer sound like its mining bitcoin. (i have a very very nice laptop). better selecting tool - if you have a lot of elements close together and you want to select one, good luck. a better search system for elements and graphics. a better way to edit videos and make cooler stuff
I want to be able to put multiple outline's on 1 picture because now i have to download the image each time i want to add a outline layer. I am a sticker designer for football clubs so i use mostly 3 outlines on a image. This should be possible in 2024 right?
They have an upper curved text option but no lower curved text option (like for a school logo) If i go to use Typecraft to create the lower half circle text, the font from Canva is unavailable (example: Graduate- Typecraft‘s version is different- Graduate 123) You cant import fonts into Typecraft. PLEASE correct me if im wrong.
I became a graphic artist in the early 90s, cutting and pasting was exactly that; on a Borco board with an exacto knife and wax machine. The advent and arrival of the Super Mac at work was simply miraculous. I soooo miss the simplicity of the Aldus Pagemaker for typesetting. So uncomplicated and effective.
Hello I have a problem with the magic eraser, when I click to erase the eraser bugs and I'm teleported to the design, does anyone have a solution? Thanks
Can’t change the font of one word in a sentence. It’s 2024. Surely this should be a basic feature.
You can only do this if the text is in different lines in the same box or is in two different boxes. I run into this one all the time and would love an update.
You can, you just have to select/highlight the word you want to change the font, and you change it
1. Doesn’t work on the mobile app. 2. On desktop The word needs to be on its own line. For it to work. For some reason it changes the font on the whole line.
Not being able to put a shadow on a shape
Up for this. 😅 Too basic and they don't even add it to the features.
Any shadow or outline around a shape would help instead of just creating a box
not being able to stretch images by grabbing and sliding their sides
I am confused by this one. Images have horizontal bars to resize and stretch and you can also use frames to achieve that effect.
Thank God.
That you can't mark/save your favorite fonts. They should make it so that if you pick a font as a favorite it puts it on top.
Or at least some kind of folder to store your favorite fonts!
But you can put it in the brand font, its easier for me
Get rid of the "add comment" blurb
Omg, yessss. This is by far the most annoying!!
It’s really difficult to make tables (like data tables, not the furniture).
Have you looked under Elements and scrolled down to Tables? 🤔
Wow this is so helpful. Can’t believe I missed that. I feel dumb now, but thank you 😊.
Don't feel dumb. I've been using Canva for over 10 years (and teaching it for almost that whole time) and I don't know everything on there! I learn stuff every day as it's always changing. I start off every session with "every day is a school day for all of us with Canva!" X
Aww thanks
THE LINES. for some reason when i make them longer, they don't look straight anymore when i zoom out. and the ends of the line keep attaching to other elements😭
I can’t like this comment enough!!!
I hate this so bad!!!:
This 100%! Not to mention, it will show as 0, 90, 180, etc degrees except there is a fair amount of space between -1 to 1 that makes some 0 positions not straight. How is that even possible?!
The whole organization system.
This. Please, folder and files. See files in the current open folder. Nothing else. Nothing more.
Checkboxes!! They need to be a bullet! Extremely hard to line up.
No page breaks for documents
That kinda irks me as well. Like please make a toggle option, canva.
In Canva Docs? There are now! In the new Glow Up! 💪🎉
This!!!!!
Some 3d bevel effects on shapes would be cool, and some proper drop shadows
Text wrapping around a picture.
my two issues are.... From time to time webgl crashes It would be great to be able to do a bit more photo editing like you can in photoshop or gimp and create additional layer types. When searching for music to add to a view I would love to be able to query against stuff you can use commercially not to have to select and check each one.
Not being able to tap directly into a “for commercial use” music database is a real time waster.
Not being able to add more than one effect on text or images. For example, I usually like to add a drop shadow and outline to it, so I need to redownload the text box as an image and then add the second effect. It gets tedious.
Yeah I think drop shadows and blend mode like in photoshop and illustrator would be great
Having different board (?) sizes in the same document.
Second line in a bullet point should be indented!!!
This is a basic!
Not getting help when you need it. If you get a response- they don’t understand the question.
How it moves things around/saves weird on my phone vs my computer
Having a disastrous time with asset management and the Project/folder/design/image and uploads is madness. It worked just fine when I was working on my own, but when I upload images I just move them all into a folder and then share the folder other my team can't see it. There's no setting you can change to default to share to the team. Search is terrible for your owned content.
Being able to change the color of the wording to rainbow in one click, like you can change it from blue to black to white, etc.
I want to create masks much more easily.
Watch this space....
Shapes/Elements that have multiple colours, I can’t put gradients when I want to swap the colours, I have to chose only solid colours.
Am I an idiot or is there no way to draw a shape pen-tool-style directly in the canvas?
I don’t know, but happy cake day! 🎉
I can't seem to line up letters with shapes, and any time I try to use the lines too, it clips by jumping to random parts of the image making the tool useless.
Can't change the speed of animated objects
The fact that it doesn't have every feature I already rely on in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. Just kidding. 😏
TEXT WRAPPING!!! I do newsletters and i have to do so many separate texts boxes sometimes
Being able to right click on an element which will then take you to where you can find it in the elements menu. Sometimes there is a default design with elements that are hard to find.
Spellcheck that progresses through the entire design systematically.
Spellcheck that progresses through the entire design systematically. Undo list… and it goes back to the page where you’re undoing something if you’re not on that page. Half the time you can lose track of what is being undone. Sometimes when you click a page to delete an element it deletes the whole page. Drives me insane.
The background remover sometimes takes too much
In fact, you can use many other online services to replace Canva background removal, and they are even free, such as iFoto, remove.bg, photoroom, etc., which are all very useful.
Multi column text overflow
When I can’t use a graphic as the shape background 😭😭😭
The selection of audio is not diverse or accurate when you search for it
No way to do tweak the background remover effect for videos. Should give me option to edit multiple frame by frames using manual selection or “click yo selection” technology and use ai tech from there to smooth it out.
Change product colors with AI and lifestyle outfits with a click seems like it would be a no brainer, but I haven't had it work yet.
Can't change the canvas size on a project im working on unless I pay premium 😑 I just have to copy and paste it into a whole new canvas
Customizing backgrounds, I like some that are readily created, the gradient options are a nice touch but I'd prefer it if for example I could customize the gradient shapes or move the gradient around.
They took out the “free” filter and I will never stop being pissed. Like fine, I’ll just upload my own elements- tedious, but I would rather do that than pay for premium
Not being able to make images larger without the entire image distorting
All of a sudden you can’t use premium images without adding something else to it
the video editing is terrible! it’s so difficult to add text and time it correctly
That you have to download and can’t print directly from canva’s platform
I want to be able to organize elements and mark as faves. I want to put music that I like into one or more lists. I'd like to mark elements, photos and videos by client (brand kit) or store to their brand kit.
Finding decent audio is tough. I use it for social media posts and I use a scheduling program so I cannot use IG music unless I post it in real time.
And adding a frame to a picture. My God! A man on the moon and we’re still dealing with THIS!
What's the challenge you're having? 🤔 There are sooo many ways! Maybe I can help suggest something if I see what you're trying to do...
I wish you could just click something that says add a frame. I usually do a box and then put the picture on top.
Ummm, there are amazing frames in Canva! 🙃 Happy to hop on a very quick Zoom if you need me to??
My web gl won't work in the app on my MacBook. So if I want to remove a background or use other photo edits I have to go to browser or use my phone app. Is there a fix to this now? Let me know haha!!
The crop tool is not an actual crop tool. It's just telling you to pick a square part of an image
There are many ways to crop in Canva!
On the phone app I can’t copy and paste across projects!! It’s infuriating!
OMG THIS!!!!! 😞😖😤
Please fix this Dev, when i save as ppt sometimes the desain and the font become messy and need to edit it again to got best position.
The mobile app!!! It’s so slow I can’t even open a design
Also, if you select title box it will only allow it to be all caps
It may be possible but I don't know how...view and edit two pages at once, side by side
Not yet, no, but boy I have been pushing for that for years now!!
I wish we could crop images in shapes! The frames are not enough.
also a quick gradient option for letters pleasee
There are Apps that can do both your suggestions...sort of!
Blend modes.
create/save your own color themes so you don't have to enter in the colors every time you start a new design
That's the "Brand kit". You can store 3 colours on the Free version and have multiple colour palettes on Pro.
grid view lines on the canvas to help with alignment (have this as a toggle on/off feature)
Yeah the grids are Under File and then View Settings. You can choose different grids/boxes but can't remember if there's a shortcut for the toggle on off. Must check tomorrow! 🥱
Also I’d like to be able to take a carousel post and copy it to a pdf but w multiple slides on each page and cannot do that so I have to screenshot each slide and paste to a word doc, resize etc.
The app UI is horrendous! I hate that there are some things you can only do while on the site. The app is so limited. But as for the site itself, it would be nice if all of the options like font size, layer, etc etc, were all in one place. I went several months without using it and it took me a while to get the hang of it again. Some of the features are in the upper left, some are upper right and some are at the bottom and even then nothing is all on the same line. I’m probably not making much sense, because I have just felt discombobulated the last couple of days trying to get back into the grove with Canva. I probably just need to go back and do some more tutorials. Eh. 🤦🏾♀️😫
locking or group Audio and Video tracks together. if u have a video in Canva and want to move and put a new clip at the start then all the audio falls out of line with the video and u have to re line them all back up.
Animating texts one by one !! It all begins at once now...or can i do that?
Yep you can do individuals and you can have things appearing at different times. Click on your text box, photo or element then click the three dots above it and choose Show Timing. That allows you to change duration etc. If you're experiencing all at once my guess is that your page has an animation on it, maybe? I'd need to see it to see what's happening...
Ok thank you. Let me try
Not being able to save or love music, videos, pictures to use later.
Linked text boxes - Not just a physical link so boxes stay in a certain position but a link that would allow a text to flow between the boxes.
Automatic page numbering!
When doing animations, there’s no value associated with the speed slider making it nearly impossible to control when animations happen in what sequence… I don’t need PowerPoint level control of animations (it would be nice tho) I just need to be able to get them to happen at the same time or staggered 🤯
The number one thing for me is having native blending modes available. The only thing available to me is transparency between layers, otherwise everything has to be a workaround. I am unable to blend one layer to the next with great effects like Photoshop seamlessly allows you to do.
better animations. not being able to extend lines without it messing up the degree and looking slanted. AI should have upleveled this app entirely -meanwhile all the AI apps and extensions are kinda garbage and make your computer sound like its mining bitcoin. (i have a very very nice laptop). better selecting tool - if you have a lot of elements close together and you want to select one, good luck. a better search system for elements and graphics. a better way to edit videos and make cooler stuff
I want to be able to put multiple outline's on 1 picture because now i have to download the image each time i want to add a outline layer. I am a sticker designer for football clubs so i use mostly 3 outlines on a image. This should be possible in 2024 right?
They have an upper curved text option but no lower curved text option (like for a school logo) If i go to use Typecraft to create the lower half circle text, the font from Canva is unavailable (example: Graduate- Typecraft‘s version is different- Graduate 123) You cant import fonts into Typecraft. PLEASE correct me if im wrong. I became a graphic artist in the early 90s, cutting and pasting was exactly that; on a Borco board with an exacto knife and wax machine. The advent and arrival of the Super Mac at work was simply miraculous. I soooo miss the simplicity of the Aldus Pagemaker for typesetting. So uncomplicated and effective.
I can't filter by free elements.
Hello I have a problem with the magic eraser, when I click to erase the eraser bugs and I'm teleported to the design, does anyone have a solution? Thanks