15 types of visuals to create on Canva: Story, photo montage, mockup, presentation...

Our selection of content to create on Canva to animate your social networks, highlight your brand or illustrate your data.

Canva is a graphic design tool that allows you to easily create many visuals: publications for social networks, announcement of an event, professional presentations, organization charts... Here is a list of visuals to easily create on this particularly intuitive creation tool!

5 types of visuals to animate your social networks

Story Instagram

Canva allows you to very easily create a Story for your Instagram account, in particular by offering different templates. To create a Story, choose Instagram Story from the templates on the site's home page, or go directly to this link .

Then, you can rely on a predefined template to customize or start from scratch, then add text, images, stickers or even animations for more impact.

Use Canva to create impactful Stories. © Canva

Note that Canva also offers templates for creating an Instagram post (square or portrait format), or even a Reel with the appropriate predefined formats.

Publication Facebook

Post, cover photo or Story, Canva suggests several designs to create and share your visuals on Facebook. As with all the supports offered on the platform, you do not have to edit the dimensions. Here is an example of a Facebook post you can make:

Canva offers different templates for your marketing operations, but not only! © Canva

Video

Video is a great way to liven up your social media. Canva offers video formats for mobile, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook or Instagram. You also have the option of using the editor to create video montages , or specific videos for your advertisements. From the menu, choose Video and select the appropriate category. Below is an example of a free, customizable YouTube video intro from Canva.

Need a video to announce a new episode of your Vlog? © Canva

Same

The meme, this famous phenomenon taken up en masse on the Internet, can take several forms such as a GIF or a captioned photo, often humorous. To access the meme library, type “meme” in the Canva menu search bar, or click this link . You can choose the formats, import your own visual or modify the text of the meme to personalize it.

Example of a meme offered on Canva, to use as is or to personalize. © Canva

photomontage

To feed your social networks, present your new collection or the services you offer, Canva provides you with free and customizable photo montage templates. Just type “photo montage” in the menu search bar, or click on this link . Then you can replace the photos and text as you see fit!

Sample photo montage available for Instagram. © Canva

5 visuals to highlight your brand and your company

Logo

A logo is important to identify your business and set you apart from your competitors. Canva lets you create your logo from a library of royalty-free designs , which you can modify and customize. Already have a header image? In this case, you can design your logo from a blank template.

Create your own logo from unique designs. © Canva

Poster and flyer

For your event, commercial or graphic projects, Canva offers poster formats in portrait and landscape, but also flyers , to customize according to your needs (image, text, font, background, etc.). As with other designs, this visual format is easily shareable or printable.

Canva offers different posters to communicate about your events. © Canva

Site web

Since the launch of the Canva Visual Worksuite , the platform has made it easy to create your website, via an intuitive editor that works with drag and drop. To access the different templates offered, click on the Website tab in the Canva menu. You will find templates for professional websites, portfolios, events... Choose the template that suits your business to create a site that reflects your image.

Easily create and publish your website with Canva. © Canva – Capture BDM

You can then publish your website to the internet with a free Canva domain (in beta).

Mockup

Do you want to create a visual to put a product, a photo, a customer feedback in a fun way? Canva offers customizable mockups for optimal staging. To access Canva Mockups, select “Smartockup” from the Tools tab (located on the left of the home page), or go to this link .

Your design will replace the white rectangle in the table. © Canva

Visit card

When making contact, personalizing a business card can make all the difference. On Canva, many templates are available to customize your business cards. From the search engine at the top of the site, type "business cards" to discover the mostly free templates.

To not miss any contact, create a business card in your image! © Canva – Capture BDM

5 visuals to illustrate your data and statistics

Presentation

Like PowerPoint, Canva offers slideshows of several sheets to present your files, speeches, presentations, theses, etc. The colors, images, text and all the elements that make up your presentation are 100% customizable. You can then easily download, print or share your slideshow on your social networks.

Create original and colorful presentations with free templates. © Canva – Capture BDM

Infographics

A visual communication medium par excellence, computer graphics allow you to make your statistics and data more digestible. Canva offers many colorful and dynamic templates to structure your information.

Illustrate your data with customizable infographic templates. © Canva – Capture BDM

Organizational chart

Regularly used in business to know the hierarchical links and the functions of an organization, the organization chart facilitates the understanding of the relationships within a company. Colour, image, text… On Canva, you personalize your flowchart from a wide selection of visuals.

Quickly see who does what in your company.© Canva – Capture BDM

Gantt chart

The Gantt chart is used in project management, and allows you to represent the progress of your activities. Canva has plenty of sample diagrams to show you how your work is progressing.

With the Gantt chart, view the progress of your work at a glance. © Canva

Mental map

To graphically represent your ideas and improve your understanding of a subject, the mental map (also called heuristic map or cognitive map) is the tool that allows you to reflect the functioning of your thought. Canva offers you more than 600 visuals to put your mind in order!

You can create a blank mind map or use templates. © Canva – Capture BDM