In this tutorial I will take you through the whole process of creating a recipe book within Canva. I'll go over a smart template workflow so that you can create reusable assets that you can use again and again as optimized starting points that will save you time. In this example we'll be creating a recipe ebook, but this approach works for creating pretty much an ebook or any sort of design you can think of so it's a great approach to employ whenever you find yourself doing repetitive design work or any sort of design project where at least part of the project is similar to something you know you will want to create again in the future.

Some quick links:

00:00 Intro
01:50 How to find a good starting template
04:10 Why start with a magazine template?
08:00 Understanding Pro Elements
09:40 Watermarked Images Don't Automatically Rule out Templates
10:03 Finding Pages that Might Make Good Starting Points
13:53 Editing Down to Just the Best Possible Pages
14:26 Reordering Pages Using Grid View
15:00 Bringing in & Organizing your own Pictures/Assets
15:37 Uploading Assets to Canva
16:40 Stay Organized with Folders!
17:50 Accessing Folders/Images while in the Project Interface
19:01 Understanding Left Menu Appearance
20:14 Dragging Images to Canva Directly from a Website/Blog
22:06 Understanding Grids/Frames/Backgrounds, Cropping, & Swapping
30:26 Naming Your Pages
30:53 Starting to Customize Pages
32:48 Changes All Instances of a Font to a New Font
35:02 Grouping Text so it Expands Together
35:32 Building in Different Page Options/Styles
37:44 Getting Shapes to Expand as Text Expands
40:09 Spacing Elements
42:01 Understanding Text Box Anchor Points
47:24 Using Placeholder Text
48:00 Page Number Considerations
49:40 Adding Hyperlinks
51:11 Making Use of Custom Guides
56:15 Testing Out Pages and Making Final Adjustments
1:03:54 Saving & Utilizing Your Design as a Template
1:10:45 Building out the Final Design from the Template
1:20:24 Final Recipe Book Examples
1:21:32 Saving as a PDF
1:22:50 Final PDF Example
l23:27 Linking to Pages
124:20 Recipe Book Template Examples

A few of my recipe book templates you're welcome to use: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?even...


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