🎨Design: Mood Boards & Presentations

Delve into the Canvas design toolbox and learn to create and share mood boards, vignettes, presentations and other compelling visuals.

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

Design: Mood Boards & Presentations 👈

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 Basics

• Recap:

  • Canvas & Canvas Basics Guide - moving around the Canvas

  • Adding in Images

  • Adding in URL links to Canvas

  • How to bring in products to your Canvas

Creating a Mood Board & Vignettes

Helpful tricks 'n tips to make a mood board

• The right click menu

  • Bring to Font / Back

  • Flip Vertically / Hoizontally

  • Align and Distribute

  • Lock & Unlock

  • Group

• Features that appear when you select an image

  • Appearance icon: Opacity adjust

  • Appearance icon: Remove background

  • Appearance icon: Greyscale

  • Crop

• 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

• Arrange your Canvas Dashboard

Step 3: Training Check List

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

• 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

  • Try creating a layered collage vs. a collage in a grid - explore the right-click menu vs feature icons when you select your images

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

• Create a vignette with the image view of your products

• Create a layout with the 2D vector product drawings

• Add Frames to organize your Canvas

• Copy-paste from one of our Designer Templates

• 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

• Arrange your Canvas Dashboard

  • Rename your Canvas

  • Set a Thumbnail Image

Video Recording & Transcript:

• Sent directly to you at the conclusion of your training session. Contact [email protected] if you haven't received this.

Resources:

📋 Training Canvas - Design: Mood Boards & Presentations

🖼️ Templates - Sample Templates linked here