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How to work flawlessly with Canva despite its price hike

The recent price hike by Canva hit many teams like a bomb.

If you are an individual user, you are spared from this round of price hike but you don’t need to be a professor to know that it’s coming for you.

Eventually, the only way you can enjoy its full features for free is to be a non-profit organization.

And since we are recruiters, we don’t fall in that category.

I was on the Pro version before life hits me hard and I “downgraded” to a free version and was confronted by “Canva” watermarked downloads.

To me, this is a fair deal since I wasn’t paying but a watermarked image is a sure backfire.

I use Canva to design posters for hiring ads, and also for my weekly newsletter (this one)

Since the option for fab images is gone, I came up with a way to streamline my design process and interestingly, it freed me up more than I ever asked for.

Here’s the tip and it’s pretty self-explanatory.

With limited options, I begin to trim down because I have to work with only free images.

Before long, I come to realize the easiest way to still get valuable content out is to “ignore” the imagery for now. It’s going to take a back seat and I am not even the first person to do this.

Successful solopreneurs like Justin Welsh of The Saturday Solopreneur do the same. Given his no-fluff approach, I assume Justin would have stuck to this minimalistic design even if he can play around with watermark-free images.

TL;DR:

• Less is more.

• Learn to harness free stuff resourcefully. I just taught you a new way of re-imaging Canva.

p.s. All in all, it had been a fun ride with Canva and I think their price hike affects teams more than individuals (for now). For your own future, you may want to start re-thinking how to work with such resources.

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