🎨Gathering Inspiration & Mood Boarding

In this use case, you'll learn the main features of Canvas. By the end, you will have a foundational understanding of how to use Canoa as a creative sales and mood boarding tool.

Who would benefit from this training?

• Commercial Interior Designer, Residential Interior Designer, Furniture Dealer Ancillary Designer, Furniture Dealer Sales/Coordinators, Brand Designer, Brand Marketing, Brand Sales

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Step 1: Open the Canvas for this Training

Presentations & Mood Boards in Canvas 👈

This "Training Canvas" is in Preview/Viewer mode to all users - If you’d like to edit this Canvas, duplicate the Canvas and edit the duplicated version.

• Use the Training Canvas to follow along as you learn the basic functions and create mood boards and presentations of your own.

• Helpful Tip: Have access to multiple tabs and/or screens? Make the most of your training session with Canoa University open on one monitor (referring to the Syllabus with helpful articles and the Training Checklist), and the Training Canvas open on the other.

Step 2: Syllabus

You now have your very own teaching assistant and guided support along side the Training Canvas. Below are helpful articles and videos that will help you along the way.

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• Canvas

  • Canvas Basics Guide - moving around the Canvas

    • Adding in Images

    • Helpful tricks 'n tips to make a mood board

      • The right click menu

      • Bring to Font / Back

      • Flip Vertically / Hoizontally

      • Align and Distribute

      • Remove Background

      • Greyscale

      • Lock & Unlock

      • Group

      • Snap & Align

  • Importing a Floor Plan

    • DWG, DXF, JPEG, PNG

  • Organizing your Canvas for design development and presentations with Frames

    • Example Templates

    • Add Text and Lines & Shapes

    • How to Export to PDF

  • How to share your Canvas with others

    • Collaborating with team members

    • How to Export your work out of Canvas

    • Leaving Comments

• Overview of the Products Library

  • How to bring in products to your Canvas

  • How to use Canoa AI

Step 3: Training Check List

Go through all of the important topics by following this checklist:

• Review Canvas Basics Guide for navigation techniques

• Create a New Canvas

  • Either select a Blank Canvas or Choose one of Templates

• Add inspiration images by drag & drop and copy-paste

• Drag & drop products from the Canoa Product Library or try copy-paste from external websites

• Create a collage/ mood board

• Create a vignette with 2D vector product drawings

• Import and scale a floor plan

  • Space plan with 2D Drawing view of products

• Add Frames to organize your Canvas

• Copy-paste from existing Designer Template 1

• Create a look-book page using product card view, floor plan or layout using drawing view, and vignette or product images

• Add Text & Shapes to identify portions of your Canvas or label your presentation

• Share you Canvas with a team member

• Comment on Shared Canvases

Video Recording & Transcript:

• Coming soon

Resources:

📋 Homework Guide - Canvas: Presentations & Mood Boards

🖼️ Templates - Sample Templates linked here