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Collette Deighan's avatar

Well this is very exciting! Not sure I’ve ever subscribed to anything quicker! 😊💕

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Sara's avatar

Yay!! A sure sign we made something useful! 🥰

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Collette Deighan's avatar

I'm pretty sure it's just me, as I saw someone else comment about watching the video, but when I click on the video link it comes up with a message on Vimeo saying Sorry we couldn't find that page.

Ay ideas why that would be? Thanks!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Hi Collette! It’s not just you, the Vimeo link every now & then glitches out, we think because of high traffic. It is the correct link though, refreshing a couple of times. ⭐️ Sorry it’s doing that!

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Collette Deighan's avatar

Ahhh ok, no worries. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll try again in the morning! 🤞🏻

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Malin Olsson's avatar

Is the link working for others now? I still can't see it...

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Kim Van Bruggen's avatar

I tried canva before and couldn’t figure it out. I ended up building a logo thru Looka and was just about to buy it. Can I take the logo from there and apply it to these specific Substack sizes? Or do you have to start from scratch with logo on canva?

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Keeley Rees's avatar

What did you get stuck on in Canva? If you do decide to buy the logo you can upload it into Canva as a png with transparent background and adjust that image to the canvas size. However, it will depend on how the logo sits within the allocated size. Sometimes you can play around with a screenshot of the logo you're looking to buy, upload that as a placeholder in canva just to see if it's going to work for you. It won't be perfect, but it will give you a bit of an idea before you go & purchase the logo. Just means you can more easily check if that logo will suit the Substack dimensions before you get more technical/fiddly with stuff.

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Kim Van Bruggen's avatar

I felt I needed to be a graphic artist with Canva. Where the others were more for laypeople like myself. I knew the image I was looking for and name of course, but I will give it another try after watching your tutorial.

And I’ll try the tip about using a pic of the logo first. At very least this might save me having to buy the full brand package as its geared to all other social media and not substack. Which is why your post and tools are so brilliant. I can’t thank you enough.

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Give it a go, see if it helps. You can also copy and paste any element or text from any of the designs and add to the canvas you're using. If you open up the design you want to copy from in a separate tab, you can copy it and paste it onto your wordmark for example. Just if that helps you with creating your logo. So if you see a logo you like in one of Canva's templates, you can copy and resize/adjust to what you're creating.

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Sara's avatar

You can upload your own graphic elements to Canva, yes! If it’s been a while since you tried using it it’s worth another chance, I think - they have made things a lot more intuitive over time

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Kim Van Bruggen's avatar

Ok gang. I tried for hours today. I was able to get my Looka logo into Canva. I really like to fool around and learn new things, but I started to get too frustrated. I'm not a graphic designer and it still felt too technical for me. I'm going to leave it again for awhile and try again another time. But for now, it's back to the writing part. Thanks for trying to get this untrained graphics person slightly better educated. :)

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Susan Mar's avatar

Hi! from Looka you can export SVG files, do that one instead and then upload to Canva and that will give you the freedom to change color and resize (even for printing) without getting blurry (or look low resolution); it will also be useful to put on top of a photo like the "Square logo & profile pic" included in the bundle!— SVG is a vector file which Canva can read—yes, the App is that amazing! ^.^

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Kim Van Bruggen's avatar

Thanks very much. I'll give that a try.

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Ben O'Hanlon's avatar

How to access it?

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Hey! Did the welcome email reach you ok? The bundle is in there, but if you haven't received it yet let me know & we'll send it through to you!

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Debbie Brauteseth's avatar

Hi @keeleyrees, I signed up almost immediately for this but never received the e-mail. I'm wanting to make a logo now but don't know how to access the bundle. Would you mind emailing it to me again please. My email address is @debibrau@iclod.com

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By Nat's avatar

Hi @Keeley - sorry to jump in but I signed up a few weeks ago and didnt receive the email . Can you please resend? Thanks x

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Carey Miller's avatar

The answer to my prayers....I’m in!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Hurray!! Welcome.

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Geneviève Berclaz's avatar

Thank for so much for this brilliant bundle. My substack account went from bland to spicy. And I learnt a lot about Canva too. It made the whole process so much easier. A big virtual hug

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The Substack Soirée's avatar

This is amazing to hear! Thanks for letting us know! A huge virtual hug right back. xx

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Karen Michaels 🦋's avatar

So. Darn. Excited. I’ve been doing OK… but wanna be much more fab thank youuuuuuu!

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Patricia Meier's avatar

Hello beautiful souls and thank you for doing this for us. I already use Canva but yes, the struggle with figuring out the sizes for things is real and HOW COOL is your signature sign off!

Unfortunately, the video is not launching for me. It tells me, sorry, we couldn't find that page.

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Hey Patricia! Thank you! And it’s not just you, the Vimeo link every now & then glitches out, we think because of high traffic. It is the correct link though, refreshing a couple of times. ⭐️

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Patricia Meier's avatar

Well that is a good problem to have then!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

🙈 true. It took me a moment to figure out what was going on!

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Patricia Meier's avatar

I rarely use Vimeo and searching Substack brought up some interesting results…. Not what I was looking for though.

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Patricia Meier's avatar

The talented and generous Michael Estrin of Situation Normal was kind enough to assist me. I am happily updating My Weird and Wonderful Life right now!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Oh that’s great! Thank you to Michael!

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Louise Stevenson's avatar

Hooray!!! Loving this and excited about what might be next!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Thank you Louise! So glad you’re here! ✨

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Aimee's avatar

This is amazing, thank you! And so lovely to hear a fellow Australian voice on your walkthrough video! For anyone new to Canva, you’ll need to have a pro account to use the transparency option 👍🏻 thanks for creating these templates, I can’t wait to play around!

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Sara's avatar

Ooh I didn’t know that about the transparency - been so long since I switched to pro. Thanks so much for the heads up Aimee - will add a note to the post to let others know xx

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Aimee! Fellow Aussie! 🤍 So good to have you here. We might need a secret handshake or something. And yessss thank you for bringing that up! Like Sara, it’s been ages since I had a free account & I forgot transparent background was probably my main motivator for going pro!

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Debs Stott's avatar

Even though I'm an expert Canva user, I think this is a great idea, and will have a look. Sometimes, we all need a fresh take on things! Thank you for sharing your resources! 😊

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Sara's avatar

Thanks Debs! Mostly we just wanted all the sizes and elements in one place, so we didn’t have to go hunting around for the different dimensions etc. Those little jobs that end up sucking up so much time!

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Debs Stott's avatar

100% agree!

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Edward Rooster's avatar

The answer is ... YES (please).

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CB's avatar

Cbmullin86@gmail.com definitely interested!

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Robin LaVoie's avatar

Love this! Thank you!!

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Keeley Rees's avatar

Very welcome!!

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Ramona Grigg's avatar

Thank you SO MUCH. I've tried to do my own on Canva but I'm getting nowhere.

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Keeley Rees's avatar

You're so welcome!

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Sara's avatar

So glad you found us!

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Tracy O’Brien's avatar

Thank you for this.

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Stephanie Ascough's avatar

Thank you!! This is amazing.

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