Did you know that an image can reflect the content of your whole post in Blogger? It can tell your reader what post is all about and that your post is worth their time to read it. For this tutorial I will guide you how to make beautiful post images that is going to be the first image of your blog post. This image will be your post thumbnail or preview when shared on different social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

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The good thing about the image that we are going to make for our blog post is that it do not contain watermarks but it is absolutely for free and will never cost you even a single penny.

For the meantime, what is Canva? According to Wikipedia.org, Canva is a graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals.

Now, let's do our thing and design cool Blogger post images using this amazing tool for free.

STEPS:

1. Go to Canva.com website and create an account. Fill up with your username, valid email address as well as your password. Check the box to confirm that you are not a robot or just a spammer. And lastly, click the Create your Account button.

2. When inside your Canva account, select any category that you wanted for your designs. I just selected Personal for mine.


3. Just skip the next step.

 4. In the "Start your first design" select the category for your image again. I selected wallpaper for this tutorial.

5. In the templates, select the one that suits your taste or the whole content of your blog post.


6. After that, double click on the default template text to change or edit it. Type anything you wanted inside it. You can type your blog post's title as well as your blog's URL.


7. When satisfied already with the template, the title and all elements of your image, click the Download button to Download your image.


8. Just wait for a moment while Canva prepares your design to download.


9. Click Save to continue.


10. Done!


You can now upload your newly created Canva image inside your blog post and make it as your main image or thumbnail.

Note: If Canva will require you to confirm your email then you only need to go to the email address that you used during Step No. 1 and see the email from Canva to confirm your account with them.


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