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This is something new I learnt today. I am a huge Canva fan..been using it for years. Your tips and tricks for using PP are quite amazing. I've begun to use PP again. Thank you. 😊🙏
OMG... I never know Canva+PowerPoint can be used like this! I just want to look for how to custom our frame size, but you give me beyond my expectation! Love this, will try right away ^ ^ Thank you so much!
In case this is helpful to anyone you can also apply elements of this technique in google slides if you don't have photoshop. I just used a GS frame on an image on an otherwise blank slide and then downloaded as a PDF and imported to Canva and it worked perfectly. My only issue now is I don't see how I can add this new style of frame to library, but I can at least copy and paste across projects.
Hi, where do you find an option to convert the image to a shape on Google slides? I've tried searching for it but there dosent seem to be such an option?
@PresentationProcess I forgot to come back here because I got so carried away lol. So it works great, it works on apps like pages and keynote aswell but the tools are in different areas. Thank you sooooo much for this!!
Unfortunately, as other viewers have also noted, the imported PDF in canva appears blank. The shape seems to be in the PDF and is seperately selectable, but pretty much unusable. Can anyonr guide and let us know what we're doing wrong?
Yes. I had the same problem. I forgot to insert a picture in the shape created in PPT. After selecting a picture or text fill, most of us forgot to use the picture source to insert the picture . After inserting a picture then we have to save it in pdf. I think this will solve the problem.
This video was amazing thank you so much, but unfortunately for some reason no matter what I do when I try to delete the picture it deletes the whole thing it is not turning into a frame
This doesn't work for me. When I import the PDF into Canva, click the image and press delete the whole image and shape deletes. Can anyone help please?
It works. Go to options and select detach image from frame and then delete the image after. If you just click delete before detaching the image the entire object will be deleted.
Question - this worked until I put it in Canva and the image (my logo) created 4 separate frames. How do I group the frame together so it be comes one shape?
FYI-- I just learned that Canva never recognizes a Square or Rectangle shape as a frame. So if you're creating a frame that's a square or rectangle, it won't work like it does for other shapes. Some tips--- 1) Make sure you fill the shape with a picture. Texture won't work (when you import to canva the shape will not appear). 2) Then, the workaround is-- when you create your shape in powerpoint, rotate it slightly. That's it! Then Canva will recognize it as a frame. The rest of the steps will work. I'll work on getting a tutorial of this up.
Man, you are SO HOT ! - Super truper usefull video, real trick. ( many other videos about this are bs, not showing a real solution ) Since I work with Illustrator, I created the shape in Ilustrator, by making a path, and some random image, and making converting the path and the image to a clipping path. Exported as PDF, imported in CANVA and VOILA !!! It works !!!
Is there an easy way to resposition a photo within a frame? It seems like Canva places the photo for you without any option of moving, cropping, zooming, etc.
double click on photo in the frame and it will open faded photo with it's bounds visible and then you can drag and resize photo and still remain in the frame. Click off when done and photo will be the way u want it withing the frame
After you filled the shape with a stock image @5:53, your shape changed to that image but on my computer after I filled the shape with a stock image, the shape just turn black nothing else there. Am I missing something ?? LOL I know for sure that I saved the original photo as SVG. HELP!
This was so helpful! I'm wondering if there is a way to take this a step further. I'm trying to color code different counties from an image of a map I have, so I have to separate the shapes in order to change the color of each county in Canva. Is that possible?
Great tutorial! Thank you!! I'm having one problem though. When I get to the point in PP where I add the image (in your case the watercolor over the female head silhouette) my background image is filling the entire square - not just the formatted shape. Any suggestions? I followed your video step by step multiple times, and I can't get the picture source to only fill the shape instead of the entire square of the image you're trying to turn into a frame. Any help is greatly appreciated !!
I'm trying this, but I don't think I have stock images with my Microsoft account. I can fill it with a different image I've downloaded, but the ratio is off (it squishes my photo). Then, when I try to upload the PDF, it fails in Canva. I tried selecting the option "Tile picture as texture" in PowerPoint, which seemed to correct the ratio, and that file uploaded into Canva! But... it uploaded as a blank shape without my photo. I can change the color, but I cannot fill it. I feel like I'm missing a step or a setting. Could you help me out?
I kept playing with it, and the fix for me (in case anyone else is having the same issue!) was to go into the "format picture" in PowerPoint and edit either the width or height so that the picture extended beyond the .svg shape. Once I saved and uploaded that file, the frame worked in Canva! This is SUCH a useful tip to know - thank you!
This is great! Is there a way to take a graphic and only make part of it a frame? For example, a face with sunglasses but only the sunglasses become the frame and the rest stays?
I followed this tutorial exactly and it did not work - after importing PDF back into Canva, it did not have the picture "layered" over a frame - it was the picture image only.
So this is really helpful, except I have one problem. I am trying to do a triangle shape, like bunting, so it points downwards. Every time I do it in powerpoint, when I put it into canva and drag the photo in, the photo is upsidedown! Have you any idea what I'm doing wrong?
@@23Frankly I figured out the problem. You need a vector element to make it work, and if you simply create a shape in PP or Word, the figure is not a vector. If you have another software (I use Vectornator, which is free), you can create the shape, save it as a pdf, open it in word, add an image to the figure, save it as a new pdf and then import it into Canva. This worked for me, though the added steps are rather annoying.
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This is something new I learnt today. I am a huge Canva fan..been using it for years. Your tips and tricks for using PP are quite amazing. I've begun to use PP again. Thank you. 😊🙏
Happy to help!
What's pp? Not being a smart a** genuinely trying to understand what I may be missing
Tried importing the powerpoint-generated PDF with frame (a picture). But the frame doesn't show the image in canva although its clickable.
Great tutorial thank you ... I created similar in Affinity Designer and it worked perfectly for Canva :)
Nice to know you were inspired by the idea.
Thank you! This was such an easy and straightforward explanation
This was so helpful, thank you so much!
Thank You. This was straight forward and to the point. And Easy to follow. I appreciate this.
at 4:19 you delete the image and the custom frame is left, but HOW?????? If I click on my image and delete it, it's just gone, no frame left.
i just found out that now we just need to upload the file as .pptx file. Not pdf anymore
OMG... I never know Canva+PowerPoint can be used like this! I just want to look for how to custom our frame size, but you give me beyond my expectation! Love this, will try right away ^ ^ Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! I have just started getting familiar with Canva and I'm starting to like it more and more. You have been very helpful.
Great to hear! Its a great graphics software for sure!
In case this is helpful to anyone you can also apply elements of this technique in google slides if you don't have photoshop. I just used a GS frame on an image on an otherwise blank slide and then downloaded as a PDF and imported to Canva and it worked perfectly. My only issue now is I don't see how I can add this new style of frame to library, but I can at least copy and paste across projects.
Can you tell me more about the GS frame please? I'm trying to do that now as I don't have PP. Thank you!
@@twistedsunshine8 did you try the technique outlined in this video using the advice from my comment?
Hi, where do you find an option to convert the image to a shape on Google slides? I've tried searching for it but there dosent seem to be such an option?
You'll use the "Mask Image" option found along the top toolbar. The icon for it looks like your standard "crop" button.@@Dianaaa183
Can it be added to a brand kit?
This worked brilliantly, thank you so much!
Everything I needed in one video. Thank you so much!
It's the way this worked without issues! This is amazing! Thanks.
That was WONDERFUL! Thanks Ram.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hii this didn't work for me but when I imported the .pptx file instead of converting to pdf it worked. Thank you!
Thanks - worked perfectly!
You're welcome! Great to know this worked out. Canva is really fun to use
Very helpful! Thanks, mate!!
Thank you for really explaining how to do this and what each step means! I will try thisss
Glad it was helpful! Look forward to your feedback after trying...
@PresentationProcess I forgot to come back here because I got so carried away lol. So it works great, it works on apps like pages and keynote aswell but the tools are in different areas.
Thank you sooooo much for this!!
oh my god thank you so much for the tutorial! I try make it with illustrator and it works too!!! 😍🤩
That's great!
Unfortunately, as other viewers have also noted, the imported PDF in canva appears blank. The shape seems to be in the PDF and is seperately selectable, but pretty much unusable. Can anyonr guide and let us know what we're doing wrong?
Yes. I had the same problem. I forgot to insert a picture in the shape created in PPT. After selecting a picture or text fill, most of us forgot to use the picture source to insert the picture . After inserting a picture then we have to save it in pdf. I think this will solve the problem.
@rahuldange7 ur awsome
Incredibly helpful and easy to follow thank you :)
Thank you for sharing ❤ I’ll try it today.
That's great to know
amazing - thank you for this clear & useful tutorial!
Convert to shape option is not available in PowerPoint. Can you please teach What is the alternative solution for to convert images into shape .
Really helped your video in making customised frames in canva. Thanks bro
omg !!! .. this is unbelievable. Thanks a ton !!!
Great video. Thank you!
exactly what I was looking. Thank so much. Grateful
This video was amazing thank you so much, but unfortunately for some reason no matter what I do when I try to delete the picture it deletes the whole thing it is not turning into a frame
This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of using these tools.
Thank you very much for this video, it's working amazing!!!! That's what I needed 😊
Very helpful - thanks
You're welcome!
Thank you so much!!! This is very helpful.
Excellent video. Extremely helpful! Thank you!
Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for. So helpful!
Excellent explanation. Thank you!
You are amazing! Thank you so so much!
Wow thank you for that I've been wondering about this for years lol
ARGH it worked the first time, but not anymore... NO idea why, I did the exact same thing as the first time! :S
Amazing video 🙂❤
This doesn't work for me. When I import the PDF into Canva, click the image and press delete the whole image and shape deletes. Can anyone help please?
Yes not working
yup me too
Yes me too, did you found a solution ?
It works. Go to options and select detach image from frame and then delete the image after. If you just click delete before detaching the image the entire object will be deleted.
the option to detach the image isn't available for me. Im trying to make a nike tick. Can you help?
@@iolo1999
Life saver, thank you so much!
Tq so much..I really like it very much..Will use going forward....
Wow, how did you find it out? I learned something new today.
Thank you!
Explained so clearly 🙏
I just want to thank for zooming in where the curser is.
Amazing. Thank you for this video.
Thank you Excellent Idea😊
This was so awesome and useful!! Thank you!
Thank you thank you.
Really helpful
Thanks, alot.
Great and easy to follow your video, thanks for sharing.
Question - this worked until I put it in Canva and the image (my logo) created 4 separate frames. How do I group the frame together so it be comes one shape?
Thank you bro, you really helped me!
FYI-- I just learned that Canva never recognizes a Square or Rectangle shape as a frame. So if you're creating a frame that's a square or rectangle, it won't work like it does for other shapes. Some tips--- 1) Make sure you fill the shape with a picture. Texture won't work (when you import to canva the shape will not appear). 2) Then, the workaround is-- when you create your shape in powerpoint, rotate it slightly. That's it! Then Canva will recognize it as a frame. The rest of the steps will work. I'll work on getting a tutorial of this up.
AWESOME!!! Thank you so much!
Not what I was looking for but thank you for your knowledge Indian guy
Thank you so much sir 🙏
Most welcome
This is good but not working for me in PP1019. Can't seem to make the convert to shape work
Which Power point version you are using?
Lovely! I was really struggling!
Man, you are SO HOT ! - Super truper usefull video, real trick.
( many other videos about this are bs, not showing a real solution )
Since I work with Illustrator, I created the shape in Ilustrator,
by making a path, and some random image, and making converting the path and the image to a clipping path. Exported as PDF, imported in CANVA and VOILA !!! It works !!!
For me its a next level learning. I am beginner
Bro you are a genius!!
Is there an easy way to resposition a photo within a frame? It seems like Canva places the photo for you without any option of moving, cropping, zooming, etc.
double click on photo in the frame and it will open faded photo with it's bounds visible and then you can drag and resize photo and still remain in the frame. Click off when done and photo will be the way u want it withing the frame
Hello sir, when i have imported the file, i am unable to get the image which i have inserted in ppt shape.
After you filled the shape with a stock image @5:53, your shape changed to that image but on my computer after I filled the shape with a stock image, the shape just turn black nothing else there. Am I missing something ?? LOL I know for sure that I saved the original photo as SVG. HELP!
This was so helpful! I'm wondering if there is a way to take this a step further. I'm trying to color code different counties from an image of a map I have, so I have to separate the shapes in order to change the color of each county in Canva. Is that possible?
Thank you for this
plz help me when i take the svg image on power point i cant see the image
U r amazing sir.
Thanks a lot
Great tutorial! Thank you!! I'm having one problem though. When I get to the point in PP where I add the image (in your case the watercolor over the female head silhouette) my background image is filling the entire square - not just the formatted shape. Any suggestions? I followed your video step by step multiple times, and I can't get the picture source to only fill the shape instead of the entire square of the image you're trying to turn into a frame. Any help is greatly appreciated !!
same problem and don't have the option to merge shapes (is it because im using web ppt?)
Using Fill -> Texture, do not fill it with image.
Could you do the same with Google docs instead of powerpoint?
Excellent video!
Is there a way to do this with a program other than powerpoint? I don’t have access to that
MS PowerPoint and Canva together are a powerful design team.
How? Sir
@@lightupwithgm9111 It's because you can use the powerful features of both, side my side, in your design projects.
I'm trying this, but I don't think I have stock images with my Microsoft account. I can fill it with a different image I've downloaded, but the ratio is off (it squishes my photo). Then, when I try to upload the PDF, it fails in Canva.
I tried selecting the option "Tile picture as texture" in PowerPoint, which seemed to correct the ratio, and that file uploaded into Canva! But... it uploaded as a blank shape without my photo. I can change the color, but I cannot fill it.
I feel like I'm missing a step or a setting. Could you help me out?
I kept playing with it, and the fix for me (in case anyone else is having the same issue!) was to go into the "format picture" in PowerPoint and edit either the width or height so that the picture extended beyond the .svg shape. Once I saved and uploaded that file, the frame worked in Canva!
This is SUCH a useful tip to know - thank you!
Thanks for sharing ur tips!
This is great! Is there a way to take a graphic and only make part of it a frame? For example, a face with sunglasses but only the sunglasses become the frame and the rest stays?
But how can you print them with the shape only. Like for windows decals/stickers?
I followed this tutorial exactly and it did not work - after importing PDF back into Canva, it did not have the picture "layered" over a frame - it was the picture image only.
Maybe you fill the frame with an image? Using Fill -> Texture, do not fill it with image.
Its not working, when I try to change the svg to a shape it just becomes a black rectangle
So cool! How do you save the frame to your frames menu so you can use it over and over?
is there a way to make custom photo grids?
is there not another place to create this other than power point? I cannot get another subscription. I already have so many.
but how to add white border to any custom shapes photo frame as you shown in the video
Thanks.
bummer. My pdf when opened in Canva isn't a frame. Just an image. hmmmm. It sounded so simple and I was excited to try it.
Make sure you fill the frame (in pp) with a texture (Fill -> Texture or picture source as video), do not fill it with image.
So this is really helpful, except I have one problem. I am trying to do a triangle shape, like bunting, so it points downwards. Every time I do it in powerpoint, when I put it into canva and drag the photo in, the photo is upsidedown! Have you any idea what I'm doing wrong?
You can rotate the frame
Wow wow wow
Does this still work for people? When uploaded, it just acts as an image and I can't see how to upload pdfs anymore aside from just dragging it.
I am having the same issue. Were you able to figure it out?
@@23Frankly I figured out the problem. You need a vector element to make it work, and if you simply create a shape in PP or Word, the figure is not a vector. If you have another software (I use Vectornator, which is free), you can create the shape, save it as a pdf, open it in word, add an image to the figure, save it as a new pdf and then import it into Canva. This worked for me, though the added steps are rather annoying.
@@marlenelillebaek8961 Thank you very much!! I will try this out tonight!
Hi, After creating the frame in powerpoint. i am not able to upload the PDF file in canva. ( free account ) The file is grayed out. any advise?
You have to be sure that is able to show any doc
This doesnt seem to work for me anymore :(
Brother I am not getting the option merge shape
I would love to know how to add a border and use it in Canva
which version of power point you used sir
Yes, I was wondering that also. Because I don't get the option to convert to shape
Can you save this frame to your brand hub?
This doesn't work for me. The "Convert to Shape" is no longer there and you need that
this dont work on free online powerpoint