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Lol why would this be cheating? Canva is great for specific things, if I need to design something more complicated I’ll just go with a more complex tool (adobe etc). A great designer is a designer that can be flexible with all kinds of tools and softwares.
Btw I’m a designer that went to school and I am still using Canva with some of my clients (mainly non profits) with no regrets 💅🏻
I don't know if I would go as far as saying this is cheating but it's absolutely taking the easy/lazy way out
There’s definitely a ceiling for Canva “designers” in the field. For most, this tool is not enough to reach greater heights in design. It’s Darwinism. My specialty is key art (movie posters, entertainment ads etc), within this niche I have zero fear of Canva users taking over. They can’t do it, they wouldn’t even know how.
Invest in Adobe if you want to try to be a professional graphic designer.
You absolutely have to be an Adobe user to work at any major design/ad agency. My personal experience.
This is not cheating, it’s a design software. In as much there are lot of template like instant artist, you can also choose to start on a blank canvas, and import different images, backgrounds, gradients and texture.
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It’s just a tool. Just like a few years back when people were designing websites in photoshop.
Sketch app came along and streamlined UI work.
Canva is great for non designers needing quick turn around on graphics.
Sure there’s limitations. But for the use cases, it’s a great and fast tool.
This debate is a non issue. Whether you can be called a designer for only knowing canva is a different topic. Just my dos cents.
i think it's a mistake to judge the design work by the the tools used. I've seen good graphic designers create amazing work with PowerPoint. If you're saying the design is horrible then it's not the tools fault.
Canva is a tool just like Photoshop or Illustrator I use it all. It is important to know how to use Adobe if you are going to be a professional designer. There’s also templates when you go on the homepage of photoshop. When you break it down it’s making your job easier, you build from stratch on Canva & you have all your icons & photos in one place. But you have to source & find content when you build with photoshop & pay for envato elements.They have a better background remover. I use it for certain things & made a custom poster that came in third place when photoshop went out on me. It’s just software you guys source templates, photos from pexels, & elements from Envato anyways. Maybe the people who don’t change much in the template design yeah but most people make their own stuff or make the design their own. You still need the skills of design in general no matter what software you use.
As long as that design sells, no one really minds how it was made. In the end the output matters.
If the end result looks good, does it really matter?
What it matters is when something is designed in Canva And then sent to an actual print service provider to be printed, the files are not editable and not press ready. The become an issue for service providers in the hands of uneducated designers.
Canva is not a design software. It is a template depository for anyone with access to a computer and internet. You don't need design thinking or technical skills to put together a piece of artwork because you only need to choose. Canva is design shopping. I use Canva for personal usage when I'm too lazy to think.
I use it to get inspiration and then I do my own design with a mix of ideas from them. “Cheating” has always existed in art any case, painters, film makers musicians, everybody who needs to create always starts by copying what others did and just modifying it a little bit. But I should say I often need photoshop to Edit the images, the editing tools of Canva are very limited.
I don’t think it’s cheating lol like I’m not really sure what that even means but I think people use it so they can make files their clients can edit and use
I don't really think it's cheating, because they are using what they feel is convenient for them
I don't really think it's cheating, because they are using what they feel is convenient for them
It's just a tool that kinda help me shorten the process a little when I was still in school but now I stop using it bc it limits my creation and creativity tbh. I don't think that's cheating, but I def would lose some respect for designers who only use Canva
Sometimes canva more easy some elements. But i use adobe photoshop, illustratot and acrobate pro.
Sometimes canva more easy some elements. But i use adobe photoshop, illustratot and acrobate pro.
I wouldnt call it cheating because canva is such a poorly designed tool that it take twice as long to actually do any design work in it. But I will say that unfortunately some clients are now requiring you to use the tool for their own ease of customizing assets, or handing off templates to untrained marketing folk, so it doesnt surprise me to see people advertising this as a skill these days.
No. Literally it's whatever you need to get the job done. I use ALL the software. Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Figma, and dare I say it Canva. It's just a tool, and a lot of our clients sometimes need Canva templates for them to do some in-house stuff. At the end of the day, we're all professionals and if they need a Canva template, make the darn template. :) Also, a lot of templates are made by actual designers if that helps. But sometimes I'll design something in illustrator and then translate that design to work in Canva since sometimes Canva can be limiting in how I can think creatively.