Design essentials
Find your way around Design, start from a template, add photos, shapes and text, keep your layers and pages in order, set the size, then save, download, post or schedule.
Design is the editor inside Postfjord where you make pictures for posts, stories, flyers and more. This course is for someone who has never opened it. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with something you do in the real editor.
Seven lessons, one project. You make a post for a small made-up business: Maple Street Cafe, which sells cinnamon rolls for $4 on Saturday mornings. Use your own business instead if you like. By the last lesson you have a finished post, saved and ready to send out.
You need a Postfjord account, and the free plan is enough. To schedule the post at the end you also need a connected channel. Get started with Postfjord covers that. If you want to know why a design looks good, Graphic design basics is the next course.
When you finish: one finished post, made from a template in Design, with your own words and photo, in the right size, and saved, downloaded or scheduled for your channels.
Lessons
- 1Open Design and find a templateWhere Design is, and how to find a template with the search and Filter.
- 2Change a template into yoursEdit the words, change the colors, put your brand on it, and undo anything you do not like.
- 3Add your photosUpload your own photo or find a free one, swap one in a template, and use a photo as the background.
- 4Elements, shapes and textAdd a shape, an icon or a sticker, add your own text box, and choose a font.
- 5Layers and pagesSee, reorder, lock and line up the layers on your page, and add more pages for a carousel.
- 6SizesWhy feed posts, stories and banners need different sizes, and how to save one design in several.
- 7Save, download, post and schedulePress Share to save your design, download it, or turn it into a post and schedule it.
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