How to Animate Pictures in Canva (Step-by-Step Tutorial) — Transcript

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1. 0:00[music]
2. 0:05If you ever wanted to make a video from
3. 0:08pictures in Canva, you don't have to
4. 0:10leave your photos sitting completely
5. 0:12still. In this video, I'm going to show
6. 0:14you how to animate pictures in Canva and
7. 0:17make your photos move, zoom, fade, and
8. 0:20come to life. I'll show you several
9. 0:23different animation options. and I'll
10. 0:25also show you how to control the timing
11. 0:28so your animations look smooth and
12. 0:30professional. Let's get started. Let's
13. 0:33start with a new video design in Canva.
14. 0:36I'm going to create a standard landscape
15. 0:38video and add a photograph to the first
16. 0:41page. For this example, I'm going to
17. 0:43make the picture fill the entire video
18. 0:45frame. You can use any photograph you
19. 0:48want, but I'm going to use several
20. 0:51different photos so I can show you how
21. 0:53different animations work.
22. 0:55Now, let's animate this picture. First,
23. 0:58make sure the picture is selected. Then,
24. 1:01look at the toolbar at the top of the
25. 1:03screen and click animate. This opens
26. 1:06canvas animation options. Sometimes when
27. 1:08you set the photograph to replace the
28. 1:11background, the animation doesn't work.
29. 1:13So, what you might have to do is um
30. 1:16detach it from the background and then
31. 1:17just adjust it to fit into the picture.
32. 1:20You'll see that Canva gives you several
33. 1:22different ways to animate an element.
34. 1:25Some animations make the picture appear
35. 1:27on the screen, some make it move, and
36. 1:29others create different visual effects.
37. 1:32The important thing to remember is that
38. 1:34the animation is being applied to the
39. 1:36picture itself.
40. 1:40Okay, for the first one here, what we're
41. 1:42going to do for this first photo is
42. 1:45we're just going to choose fade. So on
43. 1:48here you have all these choices and
44. 1:50we're going to come down here and you're
45. 1:51going to select fade. I'm going to drag
46. 1:54this to the beginning and you can see
47. 1:55how it fades in. And what you can do is
48. 1:58um you can animate on enter, on exit or
49. 2:01both. And so if you do on enter, this
50. 2:05will just be it fades in. And then you
51. 2:08can also change the speed. So, if you
52. 2:12wanted to go slower,
53. 2:14it could fade in slow.
54. 2:17Um, if you want to go fast, it fades in
55. 2:20really fast. And then there's medium.
56. 2:24I usually like to set it to uh a slower
57. 2:27fade.
58. 2:29So, I'll put it on slow and then it'll
59. 2:31fade in.
60. 2:32So, here I like the second image here.
61. 2:35Same thing. If you wanted to do fade
62. 2:37again for for that, click fade
63. 2:41on enter
64. 2:43and you can slow down the speed.
65. 2:47So
66. 2:51there's so you can see that it can be
67. 2:54really cool to do different
68. 2:59different ones. So you can click on and
69. 3:02do different. There's pan.
70. 3:06There's
71. 3:07you can have it move up.
72. 3:10So there's different animations, you
73. 3:12know, that you can do and you can do
74. 3:13them different animations for each one.
75. 3:16And so that can be really cool. I like
76. 3:18to do this breathe technique. this this
77. 3:22breathe animation
78. 3:24where it
79. 3:27it's moving like zooming in.
80. 3:30So click on breathe
81. 3:33and so you can see it's it's zooming in
82. 3:35on the on the image
83. 3:37and you can do it to where it breathes
84. 3:39in. You can do it to where it breathes
85. 3:40out.
86. 3:42So there's in.
87. 3:45So you can make it look bigger, make it
88. 3:47look smaller. Then there's another thing
89. 3:49you can do. um which you can kind of
90. 3:52make you can kind of zoom in more on a
91. 3:56specific part of the image. What you'll
92. 3:58do is you need to duplicate this.
93. 4:03And so with this next image,
94. 4:06this is the one that you change it.
95. 4:10So let's say you want to zoom in on this
96. 4:12waterfall.
97. 4:16So it's going to zoom in on this second
98. 4:18image.
99. 4:19So you got So you go up to transition,
100. 4:23you get the match and move selected and
101. 4:25you can change how quickly it does. So
102. 4:27let's say um it's going to take longer.
103. 4:31So let's see what it looks like.
104. 4:34So that's a a slower and then a faster
105. 4:37one. Let's go back in and um this this
106. 4:43will be a lot faster.
107. 4:45So let's see what this looks like.
108. 4:48So, that's really quick. I usually like
109. 4:50to set it to a slower one. I think that
110. 4:53looks really cool.
111. 4:58Something else you could do is you can
112. 5:00make it to where the photo moves across
113. 5:03the screen is we're going to make this
114. 5:06bigger.
115. 5:11So, what you're going to do is you're
116. 5:14going to start with it like this.
117. 5:17And then what you're going to do is you
118. 5:18got to duplicate this page.
119. 5:21And now on the second page, what we're
120. 5:23going to do is we're going to grab it
121. 5:24and slide it over.
122. 5:33Now, make sure you right click, change
123. 5:36transition, make sure it's on match and
124. 5:37move
125. 5:39the speed you want, and then play it.
126. 5:44Now, so it's moving across the screen.
127. 5:47Now, let's upload some music.
128. 5:50Click on upload. Then, if you have
129. 5:52something to upload, click on upload
130. 5:54files. And once it's in here, you just
131. 5:57click on it and drag it on.
132. 6:02Now, moving on over.
133. 6:05If you'd like, you can adjust the audio
134. 6:08so that it fades in in the beginning. So
135. 6:12it could fade in
136. 6:14and then they could fade out.
137. 6:17And then of course you can adjust. I
138. 6:20have these. They're each 3 seconds long.
139. 6:22So you can just grab here, click and
140. 6:24grab. And you can adjust the the timing.
141. 6:28Okay. Now let's watch the finished
142. 6:30video.
143. 6:50So, that is how you can animate pictures
144. 6:53in Canva. In my next videos, I'll be
145. 6:55showing you more ways to make pictures
146. 6:57move, create smooth transitions, and add
147. 7:00professionallooking effects to your
148. 7:02Canva videos. Thanks for watching and
149. 7:04I'll see you in the next video.