How to Make a Transparent Background in Canva

Canva is a great graphic designing software to create professional-quality images for websites, social media posts, and many others. It comes with thousands of stunning templates and built-in tools to manage your creative projects easily.

Whether you want to design a new logo or marketing material for your business or create a video, Canva will help you.

Their template collection span across different categories like presentations, infographic, brochures, and so on. Sometimes, you may need to create transparent background images during the designing process for creating logos, watermarks, etc.

In this article, we’ll tell you how to make a transparent background in Canva.

How to Make a Background Transparent in Canva?

Canva is easy to use and best for all types of designing projects. Anyone with basic photoshop skills can handle it like a charm. So with Canva, you don’t have to rely on someone else to design posters or make videos.

Follow these steps to make Canva transparent backgrounds,

Step 1: Sign in to Canva and click the ‘Create a design’ button from the top-right corner. A menu will appear, choose your design type from it. If you want to load a template type quickly, enter keywords like ‘Pinterest’, ‘blog’, etc in the search box. Canva will display designs that match your keywords instantly.

Pick a design to open it in recommended sizes. Alternatively, you can create a custom size image from the same menu. Click the ‘Custom size’ option and enter dimensions in the pop-up box to start working.

Step 2: A new screen will appear with a blank screen. On the left side, you will see various templates in the selected category. Many of them can be used for free. But it also includes high-quality themes that can only be used by Canva Pro users.

Since we are going to make transparent backgrounds, no need to use templates. Add texts, stickers, and others from the sidebar as you need. But make sure that you are not adding any background colors or images as it should be transparent.

Step 3: When finished, click on download from the top.

The PNG format will be selected as default. If you are seeing any other file type, change it to PNG. Select Transparent background as next. Only Canva Pro users can enable this option and download transparent background images.

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That’s it.

How to Remove Image Background in Canva?

Do you want to remove image backgrounds? Adobe Photoshop can do it easily using the magic eraser tool. So what about Canva? It, too, can do the same thing in one-click.

Let us check how it works,

Step 1: Upload a photo to Canva on which you want to remove the background. Canva is partnered with popular free stock photo sites to provide high-quality images for your projects. Open the designer and visit Photos from the left sidebar to search for and insert images in the main screen.

Step 2: Select image to view options relating to the layer effects, filters, etc.

Choose effects and you should see the Background Remover option on the top-left pane now. Click the tool to automatically remove the background from your image. 

Wait for a few moments.

Then, you will see an image like this. 

The background is successfully removed. Resize, add texts and other elements to modify it for your design.

Done. 

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