A graphic designer friend who taught Photoshop literacy always said that any idiot can use graphic design software. The technical skills for using an app or piece of software have not been an obstacle for a long time. Knowing a piece of software, no matter how advanced or simple, doesn't make someone a good designer, not even knowing it really well. There are technical elements that are actually agnostic to software, like composition, balance, communication, symbology, color theory, etc. But more importantly, and what they usually spent the most time on, it's also a matter of taste. Like with music, taste plays a very important role in good design. Sort of like drawing, with enough practice and guidance anyone can draw really well. But knowing how to draw won't make a person a famous artist. There are so many more things than the technical use of a tool.
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You put it in a great way. It's not the same to be an expert wall-painter than it is to be an expert oil-painter.
TBF, there was a time when Photoshop was a collegiate course around the world. Now? All but the most niche aspects are automated, and any human user of software offering personal agency in its UX is part of the actual product: mapping humanity's stats.
Canva has a "style" as much as the Marketing Dept has a soul among them. This is the result of countless hours of testing and refinement: not a masterpiece, but it sells like a MFer. Just wait until "AI" gets a real piece of the action.
Are you talking about Canva? You keep saying canvas so I'm not sure.
yup, idk SaaS
I think I'd have to see examples to give you a real answer, but I think one thing you see a lot with Canva is pieces built by skilled designers slapped together by someone who might not even be artistic at all.
I'm a designer myself, and I've had many times that clients have tried to do something in Canva, only to get stumped on why they can't get it to look good. It's usually stuff like bad hierarchy (the relative prominence of different elements to each other) and bad composition. You can have the most beautiful stock art pieces in the world, but they won't fix your composition.
It’s like middle aged women scrapbooking
Examples?
If you check my SoundCloud all of the track art I've used I made myself using Canva. Even I think it's starting to look same-y, but it's more interesting than having no art and cheaper than paying an artist. I say the cheap part because I'm still making essentially no money from music, so Canva lets me put out something interesting with no previous graphical design knowledge or history.
http://www.soundcloud.com/thassodar
So, to me, it's a blessing and a curse. I can whip up some quick art (in an hour, sometimes two), and save money as well. The curse is people look down on Canva and I feel like there's an upper limit I haven't reached with the web based editing.
If you make that a fully qualified URL, people will be able to click on it.
Not sure what you mean by qualified. Edit: I looked it up and it seems like adding the http part, but why would that prevent someone from clicking the link? For me it worked fine.
It's not a URL without the schema. Your app might choose to turn anything that kinda looks like part or a URL into a link, but that's unusual behavior.
Might depends on your chosen interface/browser.
Some random fan art found on reddit