The easiest way to Resize your Mockups in Canva
Resizing your Canva designs is incredibly handy when you want to use the same design across multiple platforms. Imagine you’ve crafted an eye-catching Instagram post and now you want to transform it into a Facebook banner. If you’re using Canva Pro, the resizing tool comes to your rescue. However, even with this tool, you might find yourself tweaking the design, especially when shifting from a square format to a horizontal or vertical one.
For example, let’s say you’ve bought one of my mockups, which are originally 3000 x 2000 pixels, and you want to convert it into an Instagram post. Auto-resizing will place the horizontally laid out objects onto a square canvas, resulting in empty spaces at the top and bottom.
Depending on your design, there are several ways to adjust this:
- Resize and rearrange the objects in the design to spread them out (my personal favorite).
- Duplicate some of the objects to fill in those spaces.
- Add new objects to the design.
- Incorporate text into the empty spaces.
But what if you’re not using Canva Pro and don’t have access to the resizing tool? No worries! With just a few extra clicks, you can still resize your design in Canva’s desktop version. Here’s how:
- Select everything on your original design by dragging your cursor over the entire page.
- Right-click and choose ‘copy’ from the dropdown menu.
- Go to ‘file’ in your toolbar, select ‘create new design’, and choose ‘Instagram post’ from the options.
- In the new blank design, press cmd/ctrl + V to paste all the copied objects. They will automatically adjust to fit the new size.
- Rearrange your objects to perfectly fit the new canvas.
- To match the background color, go back to your original design, copy the Hex color code, and paste it into the colour tool for new design’s background.
By following these steps, you can easily adapt your designs for different platforms without missing a beat!
Important note
Sometimes weird things happen when you copy over a design manually. Object shadows can go wonky or insert themselves into the page background, objects sometimes ungroup, and backgrounds don’t copy over so you’ll need to reapply them. You might need to do a little damage control – this is the nature of Canva, and all the more reason to use the Pro version so you can use the resizing tool.
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