Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30pm Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure, all Bookmap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Disclosure, trading futures, equities and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The focus of my presentation and the focus of the Options-Doug chat channel in Discord is Options, Order Flow, the impact of Options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned on the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range for the day and a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. And I look at real-time order flow in Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow and Spot Gamma Hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And just to be clear, I will be talking about setups today in an underlying asset like a stock or futures, and those can be taken any number of ways. For example, SAP 500, you can trade futures, SPY shares, and SPY or SPX options, or ES options. So again, my analysis planning is based on the options market, but setups can be taken again with futures, shares, or options. And questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching the Options-Doug chat channel and Discord, as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. So please feel free to, again, post your questions and comments. And my agenda for today, I'm going to talk about the economic data that was released today and any additional events and then earnings are over. And then I'll go through my positional analysis and then I'll review setups today, and then we'll go to live market. All right, let's get started. So first of all, today there were some news items, economic data, released this morning. And it was PCE and durable goods that came out at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. And it looks like PCE, all the different varieties, were all higher than forecast and higher than expected. And then also consumer sentiment came out, and I believe that was at 10 a.m. And that was also higher than expected. So that was the data for today. All right, let's start with, let's go to positional analysis now. And I'm going to go to the S&P 500 futures and very strong bullish day today. And before I dig into this chart further, I'm going to take a look at a larger time frame. So second wins, hello, glad you're here. He asked, how strong is the 420 call wall on spy? And we'll see. It's already been tested once. And right now, and we'll get into this in more detail, the ES is trading between the SPX 4200 call wall and the spy 420 call wall. And there's a little bit of a difference there. And the ES is trading in between those two levels. So that level has been tested once, and we'll see. So again, right now, the S&P 500 is trading above the SPX 4200 call wall that I did expect to act as resistance. And it did act as resistance earlier today. All right, let's take a look at the larger time frame first. So this is the SPX, a 30-day chart showing price and key levels. So let me point out a couple of key levels. First of all, this is the dashed move line is the lower and upper edge, the expected move for the day. And note price is trading above that level. And then the dashed purple line, you can't really can't see the lower line here. It's right here. That's the lower and upper edge of the expected move for the week. And note that this is Monday right here. And it looks like overall SPX is pretty much unchanged for the week. With a large trip down almost to 4,100, and then back to 4,200, and maybe has found resistance there. Let me point out spot gamma levels. Excuse me, these dark red lines are spot gamma levels provided to spot gamma subscribers for a variety of platforms. And here these are for, again, think or swim in a 30-day one-hour chart. First of all, there's the put wall. And while I'm talking about these levels, I'm going to talk about changes in levels at the same time. And if anybody wants to see the source of these levels, I usually go to the absolute gamma levels. If anybody wants to see the source of these levels, I can do that. Otherwise, I'm just going to skip over that. So first of all, here's the put wall. That's the strike with the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. And that did move up from Friday. Yesterday, Thursday, it was at 3,900. And today, it has moved up to 4,000. And then the absolute gamma strike is also at that level. It remains at 4,000. That's the strike with the largest absolute gamma. The next level I want to point out is the volatility trigger that is spot gamma's proprietary gamma flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance volatility. On the other hand, like SPX is trading now above the volatility trigger, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. And in a positive gamma environment, they have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to subdue volatility. And that level remains the same from yesterday. At 4,135, it has not changed. And then the call wall is now at 4,200, right where the SPX is trading now. That's a strike with the largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. And note that level did drop from yesterday. It was at 4,300 yesterday. And it dropped to 4,200 today. So I take that as bearish. Just on the surface just by itself, that's bearish. And anyway, at any rate, the ceiling for SPX has decreased from 4,300 to 4,200. All right, so that is the SPX. While I'm here, I'm going to talk about spy levels. And the only change in spy was the volatility trigger moved up slightly from 4,13 to 4,15. So spy is trading above that level as well. The last time we looked, it was trading just below the 4,20 call wall as Second Wins points out. All right, so that is a larger time frame. Now let's take a look at another thinkorswim chart. I'm going to go to a one day, one minute chart. So this is SPX, one day, one minute, showing the levels that are in play for today. I'm going to scroll down just a little bit. And this is the, let me point out levels here, lower and upper edge the expected move for the day for SPX. It's a little bit different than ES. And note now that SPX is trading above that level, trading above the volatility trigger, like I mentioned before, and also chopping around the 4,200 call wall. All right, let's take a look at book map now. So book map, very strong day-to-day. And the last time I looked, this is a fairly broad-based rally. We'll take a look at Marker watch in just a minute. So here, I'm just going to point out my, these are my cloud notes. And I have, there's the SPI 420 call wall, and then also the 4,200 SPX 4,200 call wall. So I have SPI levels and SPX levels, and then also ES levels on this chart. So those are the levels that are in play for today. And again, ES trading well above its upper daily expected move. And now it looks like maybe the options traders are finally getting their way. And the S&P 500 is moving lower. And we'll take a look at that with setups in just a few minutes. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ now. So very, very strong day at NASDAQ. And before I go further into this chart, let's take a look at QQQ here. This is a one-day, one-minute chart, again, in Thinkorswim showing the key spot gamma levels. And there were quite a few shifts in levels. Every level, every key daily level shifted. So first of all, for QQQ, the volatility trigger did shift higher and that shifted up to 337 from 332 yesterday. The put wall did shift lower from 325 to 300. And on the bullish side, the call wall shifted up from 340 to 350. So here's the call wall for QQQ at 350. And then the absolute gamma strike also shifted higher quite a bit from 330 to 340. So here's the absolute gamma strike. So those are the primary levels for QQQ today. And for NDX, there was a shift in the volatility trigger. It did shift lower. All right, so again, if anybody wants to see the source of these levels, I can do that. Otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and move on. All right, so here is NASDAQ, NASDAQ Futures and QFutures, and showing these levels again in my column of cloud notes here. So I've got QQQ levels, key NDX levels, and also NQ levels. So with a strong move today, NQ has sliced through quite a few levels. All right, one thing that I do want to take a look at is the VANA model here for SPX. And right now, we know that SPX is trading, let's say around 4,200. It looks like it may be a little bit less now, but right around here. So what this curve is showing is market makers delta notional, delta exposure, how it changes with price. And that is shown by this light gray curve. So this is showing how market makers delta notional changes with changes in price only. And then this purple curve is showing how market makers delta notional changes with changes in price and implied volatility. And that is the VANA effect, the change in delta with a change in implied volatility. And what this is showing is if price starts to increase from here, market makers will have to sell futures. That's a positive gamma environment. In a positive gamma environment, market makers will be selling again as price increases, selling against price. And what this purple curve is showing is this curve is showing that they will have less delta notional to hedge as predicted by the purple line, the gray line, delta only line. On the other hand, if price decreases, they will have more to hedge. So in this case, in a negative gamma environment, they will have to sell futures to hedge with their delta exposures. Price decreases and implied volatility increases. All right, let me just check the current price of SPX. So SPX is about $4198 right now. So let's find $4198. So somewhere right around here. So at this point, the VANA curve is about flat. I'm looking at the purple curve. So if price starts to increase, market makers will need to start selling futures. And if price decreases, they will also have to sell futures. And second wind has asked, if 4,200 is breached, do you think a short squeeze will happen? Well, we'll watch water flow to confirm that. So anything can happen. All right, so let's go take a look at one other piece of data. Let's see. Here it is. So I'm going to look at gamma notional and the spot gamma gamma index for SPX, SPI, NDX, and QQQ. And note this, all of these numbers, well actually, SPX is positive, gamma notional, positive $62 million. So market makers position on the gamma curve for SPX is positive. And that did increase from yesterday. It was negative yesterday. And now it remains negative for SPI at minus $1.1 billion, but still became less negative than yesterday. And for NDX, the number is positive and did increase slightly from yesterday. And then for QQQ, it's positive as well. And it did change from negative yesterday to positive today. All right, so that's positional analysis. Those are the key things that I look at every day. And I just note this down in a notebook. I write this down by hand in a little table on my notebook every day along with support and resistance levels. So I note volatility trigger, put wall, call wall, absolute gamma strike, spot gamma, gamma index, gamma notional for SPX, SPI, NDX, and QQQ every day. And then I develop a thesis for that. So the thesis really for today was bullish NASDAQ based on the increase in the call wall and the absolute gamma strike for QQQ. And somewhat bearish, really, or less bullish, neutral for the S&P 500. Let's take a look at, again, I mentioned this is somewhat of a pretty much a broad-based rally and more so than yesterday. So tech is obviously leading all the major players. And then also it looks like financials are up. Energy is down a little bit. Consumer staples and utilities down a bit. Health care also down. But tech communications and consumer discretionary and also financials leading. So it's hard for the market to fall with such a broad-based rally. All right, let's take a look at some setups. And I'm going to take a look at Hero here first. And let's go to the S&P 500. And hold on just a second. I need to take a look at something here. OK, just needed to manage a trade. All right, so this is the hero signal, hedging impact of real-time options for the S&P 500. What this chart is showing is price with the white line and hero. This is, again, hedging impact of real-time options. Showing hedging pressure, hedging flow for a combined signal for SPX, SPY, and ES futures. And really giving a somewhat of a mixed signal today can be a little bit difficult to interpret. So there was a question in Discord earlier today about Hero and its impact. And I will tell you that the way I look at things for futures is kind of an order of precedence. And first of all, I wait order flow highest. That what I see in book map order flow. And the second most important to me is the levels, like the SPX call wall, SPY call wall. Those levels are also very important. And then Hero can be either a leading indicator or a confirming indicator and sometimes neither. So I did post. Let me just zoom in on something here. Actually, before I do that, let's take a look at the individual components. So first of all, this is the combined signal for SPX, SPY, and ES showing for a total one day look back period. And also showing all expiration, zero DTE options that expire today and next week, next month. Let's take a look at the individual components. First, SPX. And note that signal is pretty choppy, too. But overall, a net positive. That number is positive. Notional value, 174 million. And then, so that's SPX, SPY. And that is negative right now. Make sure I'm all the way out. Negative at around 235 million. And then we'll take a look at ES futures. And that is slightly positive. Still kind of a mixed signal here. Let's go to the total combined signal. And minus 42.75 million. So still a pretty choppy signal. Not giving a lot of clarity today. So that's why just looking at order flow and the levels provided more clarity, more detail. So let's do that. Let's go to book map now. Let's go back to ES. So ES, given the very strong rally today, there are a couple of indications here. First of all, just look at the order flow. A couple of primary targets. And the first is the upper edge, the expected move. For ES, ES stalled there briefly and then took off straight up to the 4,200 call wall. That did act as resistance. Price moved back down to the 4,200 level. That's ES 4,200. And then went pretty much straight. A couple of tests of the 4,200 SPX level, 4,200 call wall. And then up to the SPI 4,20 call wall. And note that the SPX 4,200 call wall level was noted as resistance in the spot gamma AM bounders note. But acted as a great target this morning. And there are a couple of indications to be aware of on the book map chart. First of all, this is dark blue line is showing cumulative volume delta, very bullish. Straight up, you can just see all the green volume dots on the chart. Market buy orders, aggressive buyers. And also note the rising yellow line here. This is showing my stop orders, fueling the move higher. And that, in my experience, is a very strong directional indicator. And I would not expect ES to roll over until that yellow line starts to drop down. And then on the other hand, larger traders have been selling this move. That's often the case. Larger traders with iceberg orders, shown by this light blue line, they use larger traders use iceberg orders to hide their size. And they have been fading the move, especially in the morning. And then one large block order here. Let's zoom in and see if we can see that on the on chart indicator. It appears to be this right here, about 1,300 contracts. All right, so the S&P 500, still chopping around the 4,200 to 420 level, the concentration of volume. This is the session volume profile over on the far right. And that is also where the point of control is, this purple line. Point of control, largest volume traded in this area, just right around and below the SPX 4,200 level. All right, so that is the ES futures. The key today was note the levels and order flow and book map. In second wins, ask, do call walls act as a magnet? So yeah, so any level of high gamma, high liquidity, can act as a magnet. And it certainly did today. And now, spot gamma does have stats that show that price statistically would trade a little bit lower after reaching a call wall for SPX. All right, so let's take a look at NASDAQ now. And a very strong day in NASDAQ, straight up from about the cash open 9.30 up until about 11 o'clock. And for NDX, the call wall, absolute gamma strike is at 13,850, well down below. And then remember that QQQ call wall is up at 350, moved up 10 points from yesterday. So very bullish for the NASDAQ. Let's take a look at hero for NASDAQ. And still a mixed picture for NASDAQ. Let's take a look. So this is a combined signal of NDX and QQQ. It is slightly positive. Now shifted slightly negative. Let's see what traders are doing. So no clarity here from, oh, that's on a 30 minute. No wonder. Let's go back and take a look at S&P 500. And I did not realize I had it on a 30 minute look back period. Let's just see if that changes things. So still very negative. This makes more sense. Sorry, I thought I had it on. That's why it was more wavy before, because it was just looking at a 30 minute look back period. So sorry, my bad. We're on the total one day look back period. And this makes more sense. Very negative today. Traders are options traders are fading this move. Again, I'm back on the S&P 500. And they are buying puts and buying calls. But the put buyers are more aggressive. But so far, the call buyers are winning. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ now. And the same story for NASDAQ. They are buying calls and buying puts. The put buyers are more aggressive. But the call buyers are winning. Let's take a look at the total signal here. Still just like S&P 500. Not really providing any clarity for day trading today. All right, let's take a look at some stocks. Typically for stocks, if you're using hero as an indicator, it does provide more clarity, more of a stronger indicator. So here's AMD, one of the better setups today. Assume in on this. Separate out, put some calls. So the rising orange line, I'm going to assume in just a little bit more. Rising orange line shows that traders were and still are buying calls. And the call buyers are winning. The number, notional value, positive $87 million versus minus $27 million for put buyers. Let's go take a look at book map for AMD. And I guess AMD is in the AI cohort. Nice setup here, reversal at this 121 level. Another entry possibility here at VWAP in 122. And a target at the 125 liquidity. And that's also the call wall at 125. So great long setup there in AMD, confirmed by hero in this case. So again, hero using that as a signal is often a lot more clear in single stocks than the indices. All right, let's take a look at a couple of other stocks. And then we'll get to the live market. So the next stock was Amazon. And you can really pick any stock. Any of these magnificent seven tech stocks in particular. But note the strong, strong order flow here. You don't even need to look at hero. Just see all the green volume dots, wrong tool. Very strong order flow, aggressive buyers. And let's go take a look at hero. So there's AMD, call buyers. We'll go to Amazon. Same story, call buyers, let's zoom in on this. Very strong correlation between call buyers and price action. Call buyers definitely winning here. And just let's take a look at. So really, this is not, I was just checking to see how the options that expire today are contributing to this. And according to this, not very much. So the green line down here, these are calls that expire today. And it looks like that's actually negative. So they're selling calls that expire today. And maybe they're rolling further out. So they're selling the calls that expire today and rolling out to further expirations. Appears to be what's happening. So very bullish in Amazon here. And let's take a look at NVIDIA now. And NVIDIA also very bullish after a very bullish week, especially after reporting earnings. Let's go take a look at book map for NVIDIA. Bullish order flow. Let me just check something on NVIDIA here. All right, so NVIDIA, call buyers, strong order flow. You can see all the green dots, green volume dots. Let's just check levels here for NVIDIA. So 380 is the key gamma strike. Let's see where the call wall is. We'll go to, so here's NVIDIA. Note the significant shift higher in the key gamma strike from 300 to 380. Also the shift higher. So the call wall now is at 400 from 330 yesterday. And then the put wall shifts up 100 points from 270 to 370. All right, so that's NVIDIA. Let's take a look at one more stock. Tesla, call buyers are out in Tesla. Again, you can see the strong correlation between hedging flow and price action for call buyers, rising orange line. Let's go take a look at book map. Very strong, very bullish today in Tesla. Very bullish order flow. You can just see all the green volume dots all the way up. Very strong cumulative volume delta. Let's check on levels for Tesla here. So Tesla is well above its call wall at 190. So it breached that call wall earlier today, also above the key gamma strike. All right, let's take a look at life market now. We'll go back to the S&P 500. And options traders continue to take negative delta positions. Go back to ES. So right now, it looks like the options traders may be finally getting their way.  Let's just go take a look at the spy chart. And we'll confirm that level. So this is spy. There's the 420 call wall. And yeah, my level on the ES chart is about correct. That level did act as resistance. Let's go back and take a look at hero. And now, if there's anything that anybody wants me to take a look at, please let me know. Any stock or anything else, any future, let's go back and take a look at hero. So options traders have been bearish all day, buying more puts than calls. Now it appears the S&P 500 may be rolling over. Let's just take a look at VIX and see what VIX is doing. All right, VIX one day, interesting, has been rising since 10 AM. Let's take a look at the more traditional VIX. So VIX has been rising since about 11 AM. Let's zoom in on today. So still VIX is down for the day. But again, has been rising since about 11 AM. And Danny Boy asked, Doug, where did options traders think ES closes at today? Not sure how to answer that. They certainly hope it closes lower. Excuse me, all those put buyers. All right, so VIX rising price starting to finally follow options traders right now the total notional value minus $2 billion. And let's go take a look at book map again. And maybe the larger traders with their iceberg orders will get their way as well. Or this could just be a pullback. Let's take a look at NASDAQ and slight move lower. No gamma levels in play here. Again, remember the call wall is up at $3.50. And that's this yellow line here. That should be a white line. Appears to be obscured with the $14,400 level. Let me just take a look and see if I can change that. Go to my spreadsheet. I'm going to do a refresh here. All right, while we're waiting on that, there's a mention of Broadcom. Let's see if that is. So sorry, I don't see Broadcom in the list of hero-supported stocks. And I don't have it in book map. So off-the-chart trading, sorry, I can't show that. It's just not shown in the list of stocks that support hero. All right, so it looks like options traders for NASDAQ starting to join the party here, taking positive delta positions, still net negative for the day. Let's go take a look. Let's go back to the NASDAQ chart now. And same with the S&P 500 stop-driven rally. Note the rising yellow line here. And I would not look for any meaningful pullback until sell-stop orders start to feel a move lower. Let's see if it looks like I got my level straightened out now. So there's the 350 call wall up above. So that would be the, if price continues higher, that would be the final target for today, I would think. Let's zoom in on this. So right now, just looking at order flow, I would actually be looking for a long setup here, and potentially up into 350. Trend break up above the 348 level, or it looks like the good long was at the NQ 14300 level. More of the breakout at 348, QQQ 348, up to a target of 350. Note the shift in CVD here. You can see all the green volume dots. Let's go back and check hero. We'll change the, let's change the look back periods to 30 minutes, see if that gives any more clarity. Yeah, it does. So that really sets up somewhat of a divergence long here. So it did confirm a hero in a shorter look back period, rolling window period, did set up a short, and then here, divergence long with the entry point, additional entry point at the NQ 14300 level. All right, so Danny Boy wants to take a look at ES again. Let's go take a look at that. So again, remember now we're on a 30 minute rolling window period, and not as much clarity to me here as the NASDAQ, but hero is definitely moving up. Let's go take a look at book map, take a look at ES. So there's a long initial entry point. If you took the confirmation, actually hero divergence at the 14300 level, secondary entry at the trend break there at the QQQ 348 level, very bullish order flow just around the 348 level. All right, let's take a look at ES now. And ES looks similar. Shift to bullish order flow, note the increase in accumulative volume delta, also some buy stops, helping to fuel the move higher, and the target at the 420 call wall. So Danny Boy says, I think rug pull on this today, bulls get trapped. Don't see any evidence of that so far. Let's go back and take a look at, actually let's take a look at the NASDAQ first. So far bullish order flow continues to move higher. If you got in at NQ 14300 or around there, you're up about 25 points now, taking that divergence at the initial entry level. Let's go back and take a look at hero. And now for hero, S&P 500, it's turning lower. So options traders could be fading that move up to 420. Hero making a series of, makes a lower high, slightly lower high as price moves up. And now it's moving lower. Again, options traders fading the move up to spy 420. And so maybe Danny Boy is right. And I hope that that's the case. My longer term positions could use a little move lower today. My short calls are getting pressed. All right, let's go back and take a look at NASDAQ. And then on the other hand, this continues to be bullish. And great, great divergence long set up there. All right, Mark Brown asks, what is hero? It's actually H-I-R-O, hedging impact real time options. And that is something developed by Spot Gamma. It's provided to Spot Gamma subscribers. Hero stands for hedging impact of real time options. And that is showing market maker hedging flow responding to options trades. So for example, when traders buy calls, let's take a look at Tesla, for example. Going to go back to the total one day look back period. Separate outputs and calls. So here for Tesla, for example, when traders buy calls, market maker sell the calls. That's a negative delta position. And they have to buy Tesla stock to hedge their delta exposure. And that's what's shown here. And that can be a very powerful driver of price action. And that's why it's important. That's why I look at it. And if you want to know more about hero, I suggest going to the Spot Gamma website. You can take a look at their free resources. Also, take a look at the Spot Gamma YouTube channel. There's plenty of information about hero. So there you go, Mark. I hope that answered your question.  Another interesting day, interesting week. Just a reminder, Monday is a market holiday. And I will not be streaming on Monday. I will be back on Tuesday. So everyone, thanks for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. And everybody, have a great weekend, great holiday weekend. And I will see you on Tuesday. Bye.


My name is Kate Epler. I work at the Bridge at Maine at San Francisco Public Library, and I am so excited and grateful to Michelle, who is here with us, and will be our instructor today. Thank you, Michelle. My pleasure.  This presentation is optimized for using Canva on the web. So using Canva from a computer or using Canva from a laptop, Canva also is an app, and many of the features that Michelle is going to talk about today are also available from the app, but that may look a little different. So if you are planning to use it from the app, don't worry. The functionality is still largely going to be there. It's just that some of the views may be different from what you see today. So now I have something kind of exciting to do. We wanted to start off by launching a quick poll and ask you all a little bit about how you plan to use Canva, what you would like to do with Canva, if you've used Canva before, and whether you're thinking about using Canva for print or digital, and this will help us get a little bit of a better sense for who's here. Okay, and here are the poll results. So a good number of you have already used Canva. That's exciting. Ooh, even split between print and digital. Oh no, Michelle. Okay, and most of our users are on a laptop or desktop. If you're on a tablet, it may be a little different, but don't worry, your functionality is still going to be there. Once again, my name is Michelle. I'm a graphic artist at the San Francisco Public Library, and it's my pleasure to host this overview of Canva today. Just so you know, Canva, for those of you who are completely new to it but have some interest, is a cloud-based. That means it's based on the web. You just have to use a web browser to access it. It's a web-based, cloud-based software platform for creating your own graphic designs, posters, web designs, you name it. So let's go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. I first want to just look at our home screen. So this is where you're going to land when you first log in. And I do have a word of advice for those of you who have never logged into Canva. What it requires is just a simple email and password. There is the option to log in via Facebook or through your Google account. I would actually recommend doing just a complete, fresh login just with a brand new email and password just because there's a slight difference in functionality, believe it or not, as compared to logging in with those platforms. So we're logged in. I just want to give a quick overview of the home screen. So at the top here is our navigation bar. This is affixed at all times for those of you familiar with navigation bars. So when you hop from screen to screen, this is always going to be at the top easy for you to access. And the basic offerings in your navigation screen are a variety of different templates. So these are pre-made screens that Canva provides for free for you to just add your information to and the graphics, photos, animations are already included. This is an easy drag and drop feature and it's one of the best things about Canva for those of you who are new to design and maybe are a little intimidated to just start with a blank canvas. Some of the other features that Canva also offers for free are like an incredible cache of photos. The stock photos alone makes logging into Canva worth it. There's also a bunch of free graphics like social media icons, animations, you name it. These other tabs include print products that they'd like to sell you. So let's say you create something and you want like an actual print copy of it. They have that available. And then the app section is your option to connect to other apps. Like let's say you're a Bitmoji user or a YouTube user or you use Facebook or Instagram. You can actually post directly from Canva to some of those platforms. And explore. It provides some other extraneous stuff that we won't cover today. But when you have a chance, you can look at that. In addition, I would greatly advise you to explore the learning tab.  And I myself have used these quite a bit and they've been tremendous. They update you on the latest trends. They can teach you about designing for accessibility. You name it. I highly, highly recommend exploring their courses. And then, of course, here's the pricing tab. So today we're going to be covering the free version of Canva. But there is Canva Pro for a certain monthly fee. I think it's kind of like Netflix. It's like $12 or $13 a month. And you don't necessarily have to go for this. But if you find that you become like a really avid user, there are some advantages. And if there's time at the end, we can cover that. Okay. So now that we've looked at our navigation bar, I want to give you an overview of the home screen left-hand side panel. The areas that we're going to focus on today are all your designs, all your folders, and create a design. I can quickly go over what shared with you and all these others are. This is just a component that helps you show when another user is shared a design with you. Brand kit, we won't cover today, but this is your opportunity to build your brand. This is where you can import your own fonts and create a brand. Content planner refers to when you want to post content onto social media channels. It creates a calendar for you where you can in advance schedule posts to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. Also very useful, but we're probably not going to cover that today. And create a team is if you end up probably going pro and adding more users to your account and creating a business. So once again, we're going to cover all your folders, all your designs, and create a design. I just want to go to all your designs first. So this area is where all your designs are going to end up. It's kind of a catchall repository. So as I said earlier, this is a cloud based software. So you're not constantly having to save to your hard drive. It's saving it for you on the cloud inside of Canva. And this is where everything goes by default unless you create and label folders. So that brings me to all your folders. I highly, highly recommend you utilize this feature. So let me go ahead and reload. So this, this all your folders tab is a place where you can create and organize your folders. And I'm a big advocate for good, like organizational best practices and like file hygiene. Because as I said, this tab over here, all your designs, it's just going to fill up and the months are going to go by and you're just going to have a ton of different designs that are unlabeled, unorganized. And that great flyer that you produced six months ago is going to be buried and you're going to have to scroll through pages and pages to find it. Not so if you go to all your folders and click on create new folder and name it. So let's name this one. We'll call this flyers. And there you go. It takes you to that folder flyers. Let's go back to all your folders and now you'll see it here. Right now, there's nothing in there, but we'll have a chance to add stuff to it later. As you can see, I already created a folder called photos. And I added a couple of photos of ceramic stuff here that we can get to later. All right, going back to all your folders, you'll see those there. So once again, just please, please, I would love for you to get used to creating your own new folders, naming them, because you're going to see once we start designing, this is going to be really crucial to be able to like find and access all the designs that you've created. So next we're going to go to actually there's one more feature I'd actually like to emphasize, which is uploads. So uploads, you can see the photos that I added to the photo folder. Those are some photos that I uploaded from my computer. Although Canva provides a lot of stock photography, you might have personal photos that you want to edit and add for that personal touch. This gives you an opportunity. So we'll go ahead and click on uploads. And you click on upload in the right hand corner. And it's going to give me I'm not sure if you can see it because you only have a view of my Firefox, but basically it's going to take me to a screen that shows me my desktop and where I can access my photos. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to add them. And you should see some photos appearing now in the upload section, one of a Russian bookstore, a classroom, and a dog walker. So that gives you a general sense of how to upload photos.  And now you see it there. So next, now that we've kind of gotten all our home screen features out of the way, I just kind of want to jump right directly into creating a design. So up in here in your top right hand corner, you're going to see this purple button, create a design, and you'll click on it.  Some of the most common and more popular designs include posters, Instagram posts. It's kind of presented in like a random order, but you can actually type in Instagram, for instance, and it's going to give you pretty much every single Instagram possibility that you can think of. And some that you didn't even realize were available. Some that are really granular and specific. So we can start with a Instagram post, since that is a popular one. I know we were pretty evenly split between digital and print. So we'll just go ahead and start with digital. So now that we're on the design screen before we start designing, I just want to again give it like a little overview of what the features are on our design screen. So this is our canvas that we're going to design on. Here is a little sidebar that you can collapse to create more room. But you can also bring it back by clicking on one of these left-hand sides features. So what you're going to see is templates, elements, and elements is actually, they've recently updated elements to include a lot of, to be honest, there's a lot of redundancy built into canvas. So you're going to have photos, graphics, videos, and audio all in one handy place. In the past, you would actually have to go to more here with these three dots and then click on photos and then add it as its own separate tab. And if you prefer that, if you like having it handy on the side as its own separate entity, you absolutely can keep it like that. Or you can remove it and just access it in this catch all elements tab. It's kind of up to you. So yeah, we have templates, which is the, as I mentioned earlier, all the different pre-made, pre-loaded, with graphics, with photos, with text, with animation, like different styles of templates that you can go in drag and drop and just change the text and you're pretty much ready to go. And the thing about the search bar is you can look for anything you want. Like let's say you're trying to design like a community flyer. It's going to give you a bunch of different templates related to that thing. Or maybe you want to do something to promote your school. Same thing. It's going to give you a bunch of different templates to promote that exact thing. And you can do the same thing with photos. Once again, there's a terrific photo gallery. Type in anything. Let's say back to school. It's going to come up with a variety of different. And if you don't want all, let's say you specifically want photos, hit the photo button. If you're just looking for graphics, hit graphics. There's also the option of video and even audio. I don't know if we'll have a chance to cover audio today, but this is also a supreme goodie because it can provide you with free music. And another feature that I want to emphasize here is this little tab with like these little sliders. You definitely want to make use of this. If you click on that, you can actually filter by color. Like let's say you only want blue black to school templates. Or you only want photos that really emphasize the color blue. You can emphasize that. Let's say you really only want photos that are optimized for a square format. You can do that. Let's say you don't want animation. You want static. And you definitely want free for this demo.  So let's go ahead and apply those filters and see what we got here. Let's just try school. Right? Not much there. Let's take away one of these filters. Let's just do square and static and free. All right. So moving on. I wanted to show you additional features. Let's start with photos. So as I mentioned earlier, we have a lot of stock photography. I want to demonstrate to you how easily it is to add to the canvas and not really have to worry about resizing. So there's two different ways you can add photos to the canvas. One is to simply just click on the photo and it will show up like so. And another is to drag and drop. And this technique, if you go slowly, this will actually allow you to fill the screen completely and it automatically resizes for you. It also automatically crops. If you're unhappy with the cropping and you want to move it around, you simply double click with your mouse and it gives you the option to move it around. Obviously, this photo is formatted for a more vertical size. So that's how we can move it is up and down. And if you're happy with that, you can click done and you're done. Now, let's say you're not, you want more of a border. You can left click, detach image from background and go back to the image as I demonstrated earlier. So in addition to photos, we can add text. So text is over here and you have a choice of all kinds of animated as well as static text that are more like headliners, but you also have more traditional text. And you can access that by clicking on the text and then going over to this option at the top and then scrolling through different text options that are all different names. So we've got Allegria, we've got Alice, Anton, and so on. And that's how you can change your text. And you also can change it with bolding, italicizing, centering, aligning it, and so forth, adding bullet points. It's all very easy. All right. So that's kind of a demo of how to place objects onto the canvas. When you are placing objects in the canvas, you have some options as to what you can do with those objects. So, as I mentioned earlier, you have this little bar up here, you can crop, you can flip, which turns it around. You can position it automatically. Let's say you just want it to be automatically centered in the middle left and right and top and bottom, it'll center it for you. You can also adjust opacity. So this little checkerboard transparency icon, you can adjust transparency. Now let's say you have multiple objects. Let's do another flower. Now let's say you're trying to move this around and you keep accidentally moving this around and you don't intend to, you can actually lock this with this little lock icon. Now, no matter what, I can't move this and now I can move this as much as I want. This is a very handy feature if you find yourself repeatedly moving it or bumping objects on your screen and you don't intend to. This other icon here actually refers to links. We'll cover this maybe later, but this is so that you can add a web link for a quiz, let's say, on your Instagram story. And that's it for objects. I also want to point out what these two buttons are. So one is to duplicate and the other is just to add a blank page. If you're doing a lot of work, let's say you're doing like seven Instagram posts for the next seven weeks and you have a template that you wanted repeated like over and over again. Maybe you just changed the foreground picture, but the background needs to stay the same. This duplicate page is really handy because let's say you want to make a bunch of them, but only want to change one feature each time. It's really great. As you've noticed, I probably, this seems like magic that's having happening off screen, but I end up using a lot of shortcuts. And I'm not sure if we've provided it for the audience yet, but I do have a list of keyboard shortcuts and that's basically the way that I navigate through Canva. So for instance, if I want to undo, I use command or if you're on a PC, control Z, and then it undoes stuff. And if I want to like cut and paste or copy, I'll do something like control or command C to copy and control or command B to paste. So I would definitely highly recommend getting familiar with the keyboard shortcuts to make your life easier because that's going to be your best way of undoing, copying, pasting, all those common commands. Okay, so now we've got this overview of placing objects onto our canvas, how to manipulate and control objects. Let's actually make a design. Oh wait, I actually have one more thing to show you as far as the control panel. Once you've created a design, you're going to want to share it and save it of course to your desktop. And like even though Canva like saves on the cloud, you may want to like save it to your desktop for your own purposes. So I want to show that to you as well. So if you want to share it and download it to your computer, you go to this share button, go to download, and it's going to give you all kinds of options. You can download it as a PNG file, as a JPEG, as a PDF, as a GIF. If it has video animation, you can also do it as an MP4. So you're going to want to make use of that and figure out what your best specs are. And you do have the option to only download one page as opposed to all three that I created in my copies earlier. And you also have the ability, I neglected to show this to you, but there's this like kind of ghosted area here that says all changes saved. Whenever I do a new move, like let's say I just add this really quick, it's going to say unsaved changes because it hasn't had a chance to save it yet. But if you wait a moment, it's going to change to all changes saved. So that's what I mentioned earlier, that this is cloud based software, so it's continuously saving to the cloud. And you may ask, well, where is it saving? And it's back on, if I can go back to your home screen here, all your designs, by default it's saving it here. But as I said earlier, we want to practice good file hygiene. So what does that mean? If you want to save it within the cloud on Canva to a specific folder, you're going to go up here in the upper left hand corner to file. And you're going to go to save to folder. And let's say, well, there's no Instagram folder, not a problem. We'll create a new folder. I'll go back and show you that again, right down here, it says plus create new. You can create a new folder as you're working. And we can make this for Instagram posts, add to new folder. And there's a little bit of a limitation here. Obviously, three folders is like too many for the free version, but we can or actually force too many. It looks like it was able to save it to this third folder. But that is good to know. All right. So now that we've gotten familiar with kind of the layout of the canvas in the design screen, let's actually move on to creating a design using a template. Okay. So we'll go ahead and I'm going to go back to my home screen here. Let's create a design. And oh, one word of advice. There's two ways you can access templates. As I showed you early on the navigation bar, you can look at templates here, like let's say we want to do an Instagram story. And the nice thing about this is that you can see a lot of templates at once in a large screen format, as opposed just to kind of shrunken down on the left-hand side of the design screen. So if this is better for you visually, the ability to just scroll through, this is a great way of looking at templates. And again, you can do a lot of filtering by theme, by style, by price point, which is very important. And you can actually like for let's say a party, it's going to like narrow it down even more. So that's one way of looking at it. But we can also do it within the design screen itself. So we'll go ahead and look at templates. So maybe we'll do something that's really popular. So this shows you how easy it is to design the template. All I had to do was click on it. And it already provided me with a pre-made template with graphics, color choices, and a place to enter text. And if you want, you can just simply add your photo and add text.  So that's an example of a digital template. There is also print templates. I know that in our survey earlier, we had some interest in designing for print. So I wanted to demo that as well for you. So let's do a flyer. So we'll go ahead and type that in. And I noticed when I typed in flyer, for some reason, these small handbill size are already included. But the default that doesn't show up until you roll over it with your mouse is 8.5 by 11. So that's our traditional letter size piece of paper. It doesn't show the size until you actually roll over it. Let's go ahead and try that flyer. And let's do school flyer. Now, I know this might be a popular topic for some users. So let's scroll through and see which one of these really applies to us. Perhaps we're doing teacher appreciation week, or literacy day, or we have a back-to-school registration. Let's take a look at that one. Oh, that's pro. So once again, let's utilize our little scroll here. It should actually filter by free. I think sometimes they put these pro versions in here, even though we've asked for free only just to entice you. So you can feel free to ignore that. Let's try this one. So in some cases, some templates are actually going to be multi-page. If you don't want to have both pages, you can just simply click on one. But if you do want both, it gives you the option to do so at once here. And once again, it's very point and click, very simple. They've provided all the graphics for you. You just go ahead and change the text as needed for your uses. And I wanted to point something out. Maybe you love this template. You like the text choices, the font choices, but maybe you really don't like the color scheme. This isn't true of all graphics in Canva, but many provide you with the option to adjust colors. So let's say you hate this red and you prefer orange. It's going to give you the chance to not only change this one individual graphic, but if you scroll down here to change all, it's going to change all the reds to this orange that you've selected in here. Unfortunately, it doesn't apply to the text. So you actually have to go in separately to the text and go to text color here. And luckily, it keeps track of all the colors that your document is currently using. So that orange is already up here. It's the same orange that you selected earlier. You can just go ahead and click on that. And let's say for some reason you're like, maybe I don't love this font after all. You can go ahead and scroll through and see something that appeals to you more. So that is a basic overview of using templates. I want to maybe venture into something a little more dangerous and exciting, which is starting from scratch. Perhaps some of you in the audience have been faced with this task of completing something totally original. So let's go ahead and get started. And if that's really intimidating, there are still some tools that Canva provides that can help you with that task. So let's go ahead and go back to our home screen, go to create a design. I'm going to do a flyer again. Now let's say I run a business. Let's say I have a ceramics shop and I have a bunch of different classes that I offer and they're all different. And I want to tailor each one to each audience for each class. And I don't even know where to start. Maybe I've uploaded a couple of photos from my class. And that's about it. That's all I have. How do I get started? Well, I highly recommend taking advantage of component called styles. It's over on the left hand side under text. And if for some reason it doesn't appear on your screen when you're doing it, always feel free to click on this three dots more and you should be able to find it. So styles has all, which is a combination of header text, subtext and color schemes, or it has it divided into just color schemes and just font combinations. I really love this feature when I'm just trying to get started and brainstorming, because if I'm at a total loss and don't know where to start, this gives me a little bit of push. So I'm going to scroll through and let's say I have kind of like an off beat, a little bit different like ceramics class. We'll call this my punk ceramics class. I may click on this color scheme, which is this really jarring bright kind of acid chartreuse green. So that gives you a vibe to start with. And if for some reason that color is not working for you, you can hit the shuffle button and kind of scroll through the colors. I'm going to go ahead and stick with this green. And let's say I want to draw my attention to the title of the class, I might go ahead and just scroll through and pick a font combination that I feel like really kind of resonates with the vibe of this class. Let's scroll through and scroll through and maybe this this seems a little too formal. Same. Maybe something a little more casual. And I'm like, I like the look of this. So I'm going to go ahead and pick this. And I'm going to edit the heading, maybe make it a little smaller. Then I'm going to go ahead and add my photo. I did show you earlier that I had a photos folder in which I uploaded imagery from my desktop. And this was one of the images. So we here at the library are not advocates for smoking, but these are really, really cute ceramic anthropomorphized cigarette butts that are really adorable. And we're going to say this fits the theme of my class perfectly. But let's say we're teaching a more traditional class, maybe bowl throwing, and the look and the feel of it needs to be totally different. I'm going to use this handy duplicate page that I showed you earlier. But I'm going to start changing around the images in the color. So I'll get rid of this. Add this. Maybe edit it just a little. I'll say pardon my typos. Change the point size. We're like, oh, this green does not work. We'll go ahead and change the color to something perhaps a little more sedate, like a nice neutral page. So that the photo is more the star of the show. And this is just to demonstrate that even if you're completely at a loss with the blank page, you have these tools to show you different color themes and to give you a different vibe. Can you create a style with custom colors? So what if you don't want one of these color schemes? What if you want to assemble your own? So I believe that is a feature in your brand's kit. And that might be a limitation, depending on whether you have the free or the Camva Pro. Let's see what we got here. There are some options. It looks like you can create a palette. So you can go ahead. This is a very primary colored palette that you might want to use for, let's say like preschool or something like that or a Mondrian art exhibit. So that's a palette that you could create with your brand. That's a really great question. I appreciate you asking. So we'll call this one Mondrian. Because it looks like with Camva Free, it's like it's only letting me do this one palette and naming this one palette with this one set of colors. It's a great question. Thank you. And then if you, there's a couple more, do you want to take them now or? Yeah, yeah. If they seem like they're a good fit right now, I'd be happy to take them. Just on sort of element manipulation, there's some questions about resizing an element. For instance, a photo. If you don't want to crop the photo, you just want the photo to be smaller. Maybe you could demo that again. Yeah, absolutely. So let's go ahead and create a design. Actually, the way I would probably advise doing it is to go back to your folder where you've uploaded your folder to Camva. So let's look at it at just full size. You're going to go to this little menu here with the three dots and actually now click on this. There we go. Pardon me. So you just go ahead and click on the photo and then click on using the design. And the question was how do you edit it? Yeah, like if I like that image, I don't want to crop it. I just want it to be smaller. Okay. So one of the ways that you can make the photo smaller is just through simple like dragging. So you can just pick one of the four corners and drag it and it will actually show you the width and the height in pixels. And let's say you want to actually drag it from its center. You do the same thing. Drag it from a corner, but hold down your option key on your keyboard if you prefer. And that's pretty much it. I would actually advise if you had a specific size in mind that you wanted, like let's say you wanted it to be the eight and a half by 11 flyer size. Like if you wanted to just print it out on a letter size piece of paper on your printer, which is probably most common for most users, I'd click on it and then resize it until you get it to whatever size you want. In this case, because I chose an 11 and a half by eight and a half by 11 letter size, when I drag on it, it's actually showing me units in inches this time as compared to that previous screen where everything was in pixels. So that's really good to notice. And you can do the same thing for, you know, obviously some really common photo print sizes are eight by 10 or four by six, same principle. There is a resize button here, but I've been reluctant to show it to you because I don't know if you've been noticing this little iconography, but every time you see this royal crown, it means that it's not free. And so this is a terrific feature of Canva Pro that automatically can resize it. But I'm unable to demo it for you here. If you could show again how you got a blank page. Yeah. And then what if I want a size that's not like one of the standard sizes? Can I adjust the size of my canvas? So let's combine those two questions into one. So if we go to our home screen, the easiest way to get a blank canvas is from Create a Design. And it's going to ask you, you know, for all these like preset sizes as one of the audience members asked about. I don't want to do a preset size. You're in luck, custom. And then you can do it within different units, pixels, inches, millimeters, centimeters, you name it. So let's say I have like a really funky size. It's like 2.5 by 7. Looks like there is a little bit of size limitation because I'm doing pixels and inches. So let's try that again. So let's do 3.5 by 5.5, let's say. Create a new design. Now it's automatically that size. And the default is width by height, by the way. It's like kind of the convention. So that's why it's more shaped vertically like this. So I'm going to keep going and let's go back to photos. So I want to get into more detail about the possibilities with photos. Let's choose this cute little dog here. So I showed you the basics of like positioning, adjusting opacity, things of that nature. There's actually way more that you can do with Canada. And if you've noticed, there's this edit image button. And there are some really exciting things that you can do. Unfortunately, I can't do background remover, which is one of my favorite of all time features. That is a premium feature. But just to give you a quick little rundown of what that does, imagine you just want this dog and you don't want any of this background stuff, it automatically like gets rid of all of that. And it's such a cool feature. I have to tell you as a designer, like working in Photoshop and being trained in it, that used to be like a much more difficult thing to do by hand. Now the algorithm can do it for you. I don't want to sell it too hard because you have to pay for it. But if you end up getting serious about, you know, using Canva, it's like one of the cool things that you can do with it. So moving on to the free stuff. There are all these filters that you can apply. And for those of you who use other apps like Instagram, you're probably quite familiar with this, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention it. So there's all these different colors and like tints and just kind of, you know, tones and feelings that you can kind of elicit by changing the filter. And please at your leisure play with this. And there's a practical use for this too, which is grayscale. For many of you, myself included at home, I just have a black and white printer. And being able to see and preview what it looks like in black and white before I print is really useful. You know, I can't necessarily afford to cut a print in color all the time. So you may want to just change that flyer before you print it into grayscale. So this is a really useful feature. Street is kind of like grayscale, but it's just like a way more high contrast. So there's our filter. So photogenic is kind of like filters. Again, for those of you who use stuff like Instagram or you have a smartphone with its built-in filter features, it's very similar. It's just more of options and more color tints, things of that nature. So feel free to play around with that at your leisure. And then for some of you, this is very on trend. For some of you, this might be too trendy, but they're those of us who want to give a little pizzazz in a kind of monochrome color way. And so you have these options to create these monochrome colors. And once again, you know, for some of you, this might be a little cheesy, but it's still popular and you see it a lot in advertising. So it might be appropriate for your use or your business. And some of these I may not be able to link to. They may not be available for this photo, but those were the main ones. Oh, and one more that is actually quite useful when you're doing presentations is kind of a standard feature, even for old PowerPoint presentations and things of that nature, is shadows. Let's see if I can scroll down to it. So the classic drop shadow, pardon me, let me access the shadows again and give it a moment to load. And you get to preview each one. And this is kind of a standard feature, especially when you're doing presentations, especially like, let's say the background color is very close to the foreground color. Sometimes this is really useful. Like, let's say I have a flyer that has a white background, and then the background here is also white. Sometimes it's nice to have a shadow so you can differentiate between the two.  I'm going to go ahead and close this out. Just bear with me one moment. Okay, so let's look at this punk ceramics class. Let's add just a little more text and change it up a little. So let's say we have this flyer and we also want to not only have a print flyer, but have something for digital. Now, based on some market research that I've read, up to like 80% of professional digital outreach advertising is going to include some element of motion graphics, video, it's going to be more eye catching. It's just human nature. If something's moving, it's going to capture your attention more. And you're in luck because Canva offers preset animations. And if you go over to this corner here where it says animate, you're going to have two different options. One is page animation. And the other is text animation or photo animation. The difference between a page animation or an individual element animation is this. If you just wanted to highlight one component and animate it, you would just select the object and then experiment with the different animations that are here. So you go ahead and click on that. Some are more subtle than others. Tumble is a really like very active one as is rise. But let's say you wanted to actually animate the entire page, you would select page animation and it would animate all these features. And once again, compared to just a static image, it's going to be way more eye catching. And so when you select the animation on the side here, it's only going to show it to you once. But you should be able to hit this button up here with this play button if you want to view it repeatedly. And you can also change the timing of it. This one's a little slow. So let's go ahead and try tumble. Let's adjust the timing to three seconds. Make that quick, quick, quick. Try that one more time. And you should be able to just preview that over and over again. You can actually get rid of this. Try that one more time. And this is a really nice feature just because again, like the the focus on motion graphics is getting increasingly higher and higher and advertisers and small businesses. This is to your advantage just to get more people looking at your stuff. Here's a question. As a designer, does animation ever become like too much? It's a fantastic question. I think it can be really distracting. You have to keep your audience in mind. You have to think about accessibility. If you're designing for an audience who maybe has some kind of eyesight limitation, maybe it's too much. You also have to keep in mind that some animation, if it's too flickering and bright, can actually be a health risk for people who suffer from seizure disorders. So that's something that to keep in mind. I would say that the animations that are made available within the context of this particular app of Canva aren't going to pose that problem. And some of them are quite subtle. And as to whether it's too much, that's why I would recommend playing around with just using the single element animation if the page animation is too much. So you can always just focus on just one element for the photo. And then get rid of choose none for the page. And maybe the photo is the thing that is the star and gets everything. So let's preview that. So the text is really static. But the photo is kind of action packed. So that's a really great question. It's really up to you as a designer to decide whether or not your audience needs all that movement. And then if your image has an animation on it, can it be displayed or played on any platform? So where will your animation work? So that's a really great question. So for instance, that's a good segue to sharing this. So since this contains animation, we'll go over to share, download. So you can see the default is MP4 video. And the reason why this is suggested is because platforms like Twitter, like Instagram, Facebook, this is kind of the format of choice for video. And those three aforementioned will allow you to post video. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Some questions about photos and rights permissions. There is a caveat in Canva for their free photos about copyright. Like, you basically, in a sense, you're, even though there's no fee associated with the free version of Canva, Canva is paying those photo contributors a certain type of license, but it's limited. So you can't claim that photo as your own. And there might be some stipulations about how you profit off of its use. Right. This is a good time to say we are not attorneys. That is a great point, Kate. I'm pretty sure that it is posted somewhere on Canva's site about fair use. I'm pretty sure that I ran across it. A question about using Canva for making video, which is a little bit outside our scope today, but it is a little bit. Sure. I, to be honest, Canva, this is a feature. Canva is still kind of beta testing and working through, but they do offer video. It's not going to have the versatility and features of professional video software, like Premiere or something of that nature. But let's take a look what they have to offer. Again, this is the beta. They're still working on this. It's still kind of rudimentary, but I can give you a little. So let's just, just for a sake of ease, we'll just like pick one of their templates and see what we can do with it.  So those of you who are familiar with video editing software, you're probably familiar with those features. Now you can see it's very fast. But, or we can stretch this out and it takes, and it kind of takes a little bit longer. So those are like the basic features. As far as uploading your own video, I'm not familiar with that feature yet. All I know is like using what they already give you in terms of presets. And of course, you're going to be wanting to add audio to that. I wasn't going to cover that today, but I do want to just show you really quickly that audio is available as a resource, either vocal or instrumental. You're going to scroll over these. Most of these are available for free. I don't know if I'm going to be able to demo sound. It may look down here. Yeah. Just trust me. If I could demo the sound, the audio would appear down here and you could add it to your video. Thank you. And then could you go over again? We talked about, you know, it's saving as you work. Yes. The naming files, downloading files. Yes. Getting into the point where you might email it to somebody. Great question. So let's look at one of our previous designs. Let's just open this, this design. So you can save under the file menu to the cloud. So you have folders that you've already created. And just to review, those folders are on your home screen under all your folders. These are some folders that I made. And I think there was like a limitation of three new folders in the free version. So I have this flyers folder. I have a folders folder. So going back one moment. So you can, pardon me, one second. So you can go ahead and do file, save to folder and find that folder and save it there. And again, that's cloud-based. If you want to download it, you can go to the share button over on the right-hand side in the upper corner, go to download, and then save it in whatever designated a file type that works for you, whether JPEG, Ping, PDF, and so forth. You can have the option also of sharing it with people if you have it hooked up to your Google Drive. You can do it that way. You can also create a link to share it over email. Copy the link. And I should be able to like paste that link and send it to anybody. So let's see if I can, so I went ahead and copied and pasted that link. And there it is. There's my design. So you can email anybody that same URL link, and they should be able to open it. And again, I don't know if you noticed, but there were permissions that you could give, whether it's just view only or edit. So the edit link is going to look a little different. It's actually going to give them this design screen, which means they can wreak havoc and do whatever they want. So be warned. But if you're working in a team and somebody else has input to give you as to color, design, et cetera, they can do it. One word of advice that I would give would actually be to make a copy. So that way your original version is saved, and then they can make their own and they can kind of rename it, you know, Open Mic Night 2. And then you'll have more than one version to compare, contrast, and talk about. Great question. What else we got, Kate? We have a question. And I'm going to try to do a justice. It's about placing multiple photos. And this questioner is using the iPhone app version. But sometimes the grids, it's about grids for placing photos. If the available grid don't match the photo sizes they want to use. Can you adjust the size of the grids? Does that make sense? So I'm guessing the photo grid is some kind of template that they're using. Let me see. So let's say, let's just pick one. Okay. And so you want to add a photo to fill in. So we'll go to our photos here. Okay. So let's just go ahead and add our photos. And the question was, what if you want to change the size of the photo or the size of the grid frame? I think it's the size of the grid. So if we want to change the photo, we double click. We can move that around. But you actually want to make it smaller, let's say. And now it's stuck. You're trying to grab this corner. You can go bigger, but you can't go smaller. And that's frustrating, right? So this is a limitation, I think, of some tablet and phone users who aren't using a mouse. So, and I think this might be a limitation with Canva on those formats. But if you have a mouse, you can click the on the photo and then right click, because there's a right click button on my mouse, and there's something called Detach Image. And you're going to be able to like now resize it to your heart's content, right? And that's the only way I know of. And if you're using like an iPhone or a tablet, you might not be able to change the size. All right. So let's go ahead and delete this. I think what you might be wanting is frames. So that was just above grids. Or all grids are is just a bunch of different frames. And you can adjust the size of your frames to whatever you want. And then put your photo in it.  So I'm just like copying and pasting right now. Go ahead. So like, let's say this is my grid one side. But yeah, I would I would actually rely on frames to create your own grid and resizing these individual ones. Yeah. So let's go ahead and pick one of our photos. This is the wrong kind of frame. It's got like a little cheesy tear effect in it, which we don't want. So pardon me, bear with me for a second.  Try to pick a plain one. There we go. Go back to upload. Or could you change the size of the frame? Yes, can do that. Can definitely change the size of the frame. So my advice would be maybe you have to kind of optimize the size of the frame in your grid first, which is a little bit of a bummer. You're really limited in downsizing your image within the frame. Let's say you use the same the same tools over and over again, you've got some like favorite tools or like filter or color or an animation. Is there a way to make like a quick access to borrow your favorites? Yes, I believe. Kind of a stumper. Let's see. I think you can, let's say you want to do, let's see, like what would be a feature? Like let's say you love using, are you talking about like filters? Yeah, like a particular photo filter. Some examples were filter color and animation. So. Okay, so I know that you can pin stuff here. Let's try the image. Let's just do this duo tone right here. So I know that you can look up to a lot of these app integrations and if duo tone was available, like let's, like you can connect like let's say with Bitmoji and they would show up here until you decide to get rid of it. I don't have a Snapchat account so I can't do it right now. But it would appear here. But it looks like duo tone, for instance, that filter is not showing up as an option in this scroll bar. So you can't just click on it and have it added to here. But that's a really great question. That would be a nice feature. Some are, some are. I get that. I think it's just based on their like licensing agreement, but you get this premium real estate where you can add your, your integration. Yeah. All right. I would highly encourage you to hop on Canva if you haven't already created an account and start playing around with all the different tools and features. Thank you so much Michelle. It was my pleasure. And I really do encourage you guys to play around, try something out, try out a project, see what comes up. But Michelle, do you have anything to add about how to add a watermark onto? Sure. Since we still have a couple minutes left, I'll go ahead and create a design. So let's say you want to create a watermark for your trademark adorable kitten here. A lot of times that's just going to be some form of text. And I would suggest using just a high contrast. So a lot of times that's just going to be white and you can take down the size and you can take down the opacity. You can also have it have a little bit of glow, something of that nature. There's the opacity button. You can maybe take that down a little. And then when you go to download it or share it, it'll be in the corner.  You may want to actually put it over the photo if you're really concerned about people using your stuff and reproducing it like for stock photography, in which case, you know, you would choose maybe a darker color. All right. Bye everybody. Thank you so much for joining.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I'm going to check out as there's a loot and location for the 20th of October 2017 and this week he's located on Titan right here so let's quickly load into the rig area to see what he has remember guys if you want to win some epic loot in the form of emblem codes barrel codes gift cards and much much more simply drop a like on this video leave a comment down below and join my discord server links within the video description okay so let's quickly bring up our maps so I can track exactly where he is because I don't know yeah that's where this way right here now you guys probably know there's only one exotic I still need in this game and that is a sweet business and there's no way there's gonna brought that for me because you know you know it's just one of them things so is he down below is he how do you get in is that by going down here or heard him then definitely heard him oh there we go hey that's where you find him so why has he got this week finally he has brought the one remaining exotic I need when there's me I don't have to play destiny 2 anymore the sweet business the last remaining exotic I need to 70 attack 29 legendary shards payday large mag increase hit fire accuracy holding down a trigger boost this weapons range and fire rate and automatic laws ammo pick ups into the magazine I can't believe it actually cannot believe it the sweet sweet business nice okay so for the hunter we have the raiden flux which is a chess piece 270 defense will cost you 23 legendary shards now this thing I don't hear nobody talking about I mean quick successful tax with our staff increase its damage output and duration I mean this thing makes a not our blade what am I gonna say our blade not our blade I can't speak I'm just lost for words because the sweet business is here our strider super it makes it last so long it's unbelievable it seriously is definitely worth your while spending your shards on if you haven't got this already and your hunter great great chess piece for the titan we have the doom fan pulled runs these will cost you 23 legendary shards gain 270 defense horns of doom shield bash melee kills recharge shield pro melee ability kills recharge sentinel shield super for the warlock we have the winters guile these drop in at 270 defense as usual will cost you 23 legendary shards warlord sigil eliminating enemies with melee attacks increases your melee damage and reduces recoil for the equipped energy weapon which is obviously a mud but yes people that is a loot and location for the 20th of October 2017 and I actually cannot believe he has brought the sweet business I seriously cannot believe it that is every exotic in a game I have now looks like I'm taking a break from destiny people looks like I'm taking a break and that note guys I hope you enjoyed the video hope you enjoyed it as much as I did hope you enjoyed sir this week as much as I did thanks as always for stopping by and I will catch you on that next one


Welcome to episode number 22. This is Martin, Michael, come on, love, ask straight out of the Wisconsin. We are in Wisconsin today, straight out of Wisconsin. Where is that place? It's in America. We should be in America when you're listening to this right now. Right now we're in LA, filming with some of the biggest names in the world. Think of the biggest YouTube you can think of. Yes, we're filming with them. Think of the second biggest YouTube you can think of right now. The third, no, though. We don't have time. We don't have time for your thirds and your fourths. Only ones and twos. Pretty much ones, twos are lucky. Yeah, well, that's just what happens when you're at the pinnacle of the game. How's your weekend?  What did you do? I took the boys and girlfriend out for dinner and we went and played bowling and we went to time zone. I was meant to go to that. Couldn't know, sick. We had a very fun time. I was meant to go and have a fun time. Couldn't know, sick. Yeah, I had a good time and I didn't. Sick. Yeah, I'll probably get sick. Hopefully. I'm gonna start coughing in your direction, I think. Thank you. See what happens there. Thanks for that. This is the last week before we go to LA. We've got a lot to do. We've got a lot to give. Just jump straight in and wanna see us. And today's date is 22nd of the 7th, 2019. And let me tell you something right now. In 1933, on this day, the first solo flight around the world happened and it took the dog seven days and 19 hours to do. And that was in a helium balloon.  It was me. It was actually, I was a baby still, but yeah, I was in the helium balloon. That's how I know that. Is that what would it take in solo? I reckon it would take longer than seven days to go around in a helium balloon. They don't go fast or long.        Famous birthdays. Hey, Selena.  Miss Gomez turns 26 today, happy birthday, babe. She's young. Hopefully you got that package we sent you three weeks ago. Hopefully we were right on time. Yeah, we got her a free bag, we sent her a free bag, and Marty and Michael are Michael and back at the university. She asked for that, so we sent her that about three weeks ago, and of course, some of her favorite chockies in there. Hope you like it, Selena. Give me your buzz later, please. Give me your buzz, let me know if it arrived, okay? But yeah, we're really looking forward to getting out there and linking up, so yeah, we'll see soon, Selena. Also, Shawn Michaels, who is a WWE wrestler, turns 53.    You gotta give it a chance.  Okay.     David Spade, who is a comedian and actor, he turns 54 today. Spade, he's getting on a bit, and I heard that his wife was hit by a train last week. So our condolences to you, my brother. Stay safe and strong out there, man. Always look left and look right. Don't just look left. Onto segment number two, and it has been renamed Stuck and Yeet. Ah, man, that would have hurt your throat. That hurt my ears. That hurt a lot of me. That hurt my entire upper region. But that's what the segment's called, and basically this is a segment where we just answer fan questions, fan questions, fan questions. So some people have sent in some fan questions. They want to know some answers to some things, and we're going to answer them for you right now. We've only selected the very best, most unique questions.  First one's from J underscore F1234.    Yeah, imagine thrusting back like that. Yeah, you just put your- It'd be like being a chick getting doggied.    I'd prefer it.  I'd use it to piss out of as well. Can we shut that door just so my neighbors can hear this?  That would be a career ender, especially a granny vagina. That's not a very hard would you rather, but it's an important question, and I think it needed to be answered. All right, next question is from Fat Poodle.   Well, it depends where I am. Like, what's closer?  You live in the city, there shouldn't be that many cows about.  Yeah, I could probably get two cows. Oh, not no girlfriend, just two cow. I don't know, it's a tough one, all right? But for now, right now, I'd probably say my girlfriend, just cause she's quite, lives close, right? If she was a long way away and I couldn't get to her, of course, of course I'd drive past some paddocks. It's beautiful, it's scenic. What do you eat meat? I'd eat flesh from- Beef? Yeah, I'd tear strips of meat from the shoulder of a cow. So raw. I'm in a paddock, I'm straight to a farm. Yeah, you're not going home to your girlfriend. Straight to a dairy farm. Yeah, you go straight to the cow paddock.  What about you, piss? I'd probably go, I guess girlfriend? And then I'd go beer to eat I'd freeze the beer and chew it so it's like food if you're not allowed to just have a liquid We're nutritious and then last words would be you know, I'm the best or damn you Stephen next questions from Mike heezy Heezy is spelled h eezy why seven four nine? What were you guys doing before you guys got involved with YouTube? We'll answer this one a couple of times, but this one keeps popping up.    To like 6 p.m So you got this whole part of the day where you're not working, but you're anticipating work And you can't enjoy that free time because you know you've got to work and also you have to Numb yourself on the weekends with drugs and alcohol because it's a shit life So you just spend all the money you make on piss and drugs Wild wild orgies with three large dairy cows you found in the neighbor's backyard Oh All right, so yeah, we used to slave our asses off before YouTube and we still do only to a degree Well, we don't yeah, we just enjoy what we do now We just don't yeah, we do think it's not really working out But and this is only recent to we only just started not ubering last September. So even a year ago So how about you back off? Mmm. Sorry. Sorry. I've got confrontational. I didn't mean to I'm sorry I'm thinking about cows Next question is from Hugh McKenzie. They have asked what's been your favorite travel destination? Top three countries would be Cambodia, Guatemala and Columbia Cambodia for the Paradise scenery and it was the closest I ever found to the movie like the beach if you ever Watched the beach with Leonardo DiCaprio.  Just the wine It's out there. They're really good wine there quality wine. Mmm a pure pure wine You know long vintage is really taken care of there by the locals. So thank you for that No, we're going to America. I've been there yet So who knows it could change over time.  I'm leaving it. Okay, two more questions. The next one is from Alex Katari G a double T a I and they've asked how either of you not enjoy already It's getting close. We have a lot of police interaction now.  Yeah. Yeah, they didn't have my number Oh, yeah, they called us the other night because they thought I was you'll see it would have come out by now Jet one of Jackson's vlogs.  So of course, he doesn't answer private numbers And then they call me and I answered and there was a cops and yeah so it won't we'll probably always be in and out of the legal system getting fines here and there getting put in a lock up for public nuisance here and there but I don't know if we'll ever be truly arrested. Maybe though How long have you two known each other for and how long do you plan to know each other for?  That's like four years. I did say yeah I want to get to Jesus's age, which is 33 and I'm 29 now. That's so scary.  I'm not sure But that's just what happened in a dream heart attack wouldn't be the worst way to go It's incredibly scary. So yeah, it's it's definitely I'm there with one of the worst way So you know that I've told you before I've dabbled in medicine. I've dabbled in it I've been in it.  We'll see what happens. That's all the questions Which leads us to our next seg month. It's been renamed. Oh, what is this one?  That is not my choice. I don't want to have to make those noises I'm just reading the name of the segment. How do you even reach that tone of voice? I don't I'm just reading I can't normally if you ask me to make that noise. I don't know But if you write it, I'll just read it and that's just me reading for this week's story It's a good one kids. Don't do what we do. We were young dumb wild and free We're on a road trip down at Canberra and we we're going to visit my friends from Canberra where I grew up I was 18 Marty was 19. I just finished school I had a month out till I was gonna go to work for the government.  We had a big you with like just full of beer on the back So we just started drinking and we were walking out as we're walking out We walked past a house party and we thought to ourselves.  We're now everything shuts at like 12 o'clock at Newcastle.  It's like candy like for pre-workout some of them Anyway, so there's handless one and I remember we were just sort of looking at each other I'm like, surely these wouldn't be Drugs well, that's that was our reasoning surely they wouldn't give us free drugs So we took one and then ten minutes later we weren't feeling anything So like oh, do you guys want another one?        I remember the reason. Oh, yeah.    Now the streets are just empty first time doing drugs. You don't know how to handle it Yeah, I had my phone and wallet in my hand and then because there's no pockets in a gimp outfit It's very impractical. I remember running down the road and I was sick of carrying my phone and wallet So I just put them down in the middle of the road. Just put them down.  No short-term memory goes out the door And then we'll just walk them back to the party and then I just looked down Just as well. I'm stepping over my phone and wallet in the middle of the road.   It's gone I've put phones down when I've been a bit bent and then once you put it down You never know where it's gone because your short-term memories out the door And I've put it in the middle of a road in the middle of a city at 3 a.m And then continue to run away through streets. I don't know any where I was Unbelievable that I found it. Yeah, very lucky. Very lucky. No, we get back to the house and I don't know It's a black from there.   Yeah, just destroyed like put dint after dint in it piecing himself laughing Yeah, it was funny. It was rough. You had to go to hospital that week.   Yeah, I had to study doing medicine. Sorry.  I'm blind.  That is your go to Come on live edge straight out of Wisconsin. Let me have a sip of the water.   Is that possible?  You got to read about it. Okay, I'll do it You know, we've all put our heads up things and we've this happened to probably most of guys Now our heart goes out to them. Hope you guys made it out Hope you guys stay strong and everyone go get it around them and support them because the family is probably a Bit down about it.      Well, they're gonna.  Yeah, but you'll be able to step inside him. Yeah, step inside him and wear him They'll be prisoners within prisoners.    That's a pedophile. The next story is from Metro news, but not as you know it They have reported Bell Delphine sells gamer girl bath water to thirsty folks and is getting explicit requests Props to her though. I heard there's a chick who was a gamer who was selling her piss. That's great You know, we should we're probably gonna contact our merch store and see if we can start selling some bath water Dude, you love this last night. I got like real peckish with sugar and I ordered cold rock Which is ice cream to the door? Bubblegum ice cream I asked for different flavors.  I got a photo of it I've always said you should have started a Facebook page called the poo guy. All right That is the end of the news stories This leads us to our next segment which has been called. Oh, not renamed It's called called prank call and it's in brackets.  He wrote the right thing this week He does that sometimes with his segment. He does it sometimes.  Probably this week. Let's just go with a Chinese store. Yep, Siri local Chinese store Hey, can I just place a pick up order please? Can I get can I get one of them honey chicken ones?  Also, I was just wondering You guys got them spring roll things a that um that crispy stuff on the outside of it The garlic sounds so good. I'm so stoned. Hey, that sounds so good Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's give them one a do you smoke do you smoke? Yeah, no, that sounds good there do you do you smoke? Um, do you smoke the guns, brother?  Oh, sorry, mate, do you do you smoke weed? I was just asking just curious Yeah, I've got a um, I've got a little stick left if you want to buy nothing I got like a little I could come in we could do like a deal where you give me like one of them spring rolls I could give you a stick for it if you want I got a bit left over I'm just saying if you want weed because you said you smoke I can come in right I'll get a little little baggy for you, right? I'll put my stick of weed in there and I'll give it to I'll give it to you in Exchange for the spring rolls if you want or you can just buy buy the weeds separate if you want I like I accept cash or you can bank transfer as well All right, awesome. Well, I'll get some more food and I'll bring that in for you and you can buy that You's got like curries in that or is that like only them Thailand ones? Yes, we I'll get one of them Thai curries ones and Soda rice with that as well Yeah, I'll get a red one I'll get a red one just because I got these sick red pingas in lately to a man.  Yeah, I'll get a red one Let's go. Let's you know what I'm gonna go.  Hey, wait, have you ever done the the red Mitsubishi pingas? Have you ever done them red Mitsubishi pingas them then pills? Have you ever seen them because if you've got the way like or usually what I do is I'll have pop a couple of pingas first Right, and then just have the weed after since you're already getting the weed Why don't you buy a couple of the pingas as well?   I'll bring five in anyway. I'll do your discount to you for I'll go 20 bucks for each for five of them So it's just a hundred there for that and then just 20 bucks for the stick of the weed So 120 but um, I'll just get a little bit more food too if you want Yes, sorry, man. I'll try and slow down, right?  How's that?   I'll get that No, no, no, no, no, no need to apologize. That's all G. That's all G I'll see if I can find some coins in me wall and I'll give you boys a couple call back all right, but yeah These penguins are sick man.  All right, brother No, I see roll see my Love Josh Josh is my favorite dude ever. He's a good guy man. Oh my god. That was good, dude Thank you. I was cringing as well as just in ecstasy not like as in the ping is Yeah, but in my head always just in a good place. All right Well, that brings us to the end of this podcast It's been a fun time and we all hope you have enjoyed the show. We hope to see you all next week Don't forget to tell your friends about us. We are the best Wait, wait, we gotta get a question comment your house address in the in the comments We may send you some ping is be cool with it. Stay strong always and don't ever forget that we are the best We are the best we are the best