🎨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.
*Also search for articles in the AI Search Bar above
Canvas Basics Guide - moving around the Canvas
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
DWG, DXF, JPEG, PNG
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:
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
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
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