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Designed for anyone who needs to create. Canva has solutions for individuals, small businesses, enterprise, not-for-profit organizations, teachers and students.
On-premise graphics manipulation platform that enables graphic designers, photographers and others to create design elements, icons, scripted images and more using various programming languages.
Canva is a fantastic platform, with simple and practical features.n design models and posters, self-explative at the time of editing and intuitive for the standardization of them.simply amazing.
Another negative point is the fact that you are not able to manipulate the material when you download it, it is a little frustrating.
It's just perfect for small businesses. On the one hand because it's a great price and on the other hand because it's extremely easy to use.
The only defect of this app is for sure that it is not completely free. For those who do not use it professionally or are not yet able to invest money it ends up becoming bad.
Easy to use for a great price. I love being creative on canva and seeing how I can make a template my own.
The inability to remove watermarks without the paid version. This prohibits a user from downloading their design and further editing it without a blurry version.
My 45 year old, family-run company enjoys the advantages of a very good reputation. However it takes a LOT of creative work to stay there in our extremely competitive field.
We struggle with putting our so much information to our community quickly that sometimes the product of our communication is boring and disregarded because no one reads.
GIMP is a main reason behind my success as it helps to attract more customers for my products. I recommend GIMP for anyone looking for a reliable photo editing software.
It’s not a program where you can just download it and master it in one sitting. I had trouble storing the edited pictures and would get weird marks on my saves.
I used it more times to edit my photos and get good photoshop, the result were very amazing and i got nice photos from GIMP. THANK YOU TO MADE SOFTWARE LIKE IT.
At times it seems cluttered and lags at times making it frustrating.
I love everything about GIMP , its easy to use and its such a beauty to Been using for over 4 Years now. I'm so proud of the developers for creating this wonderful software for us to be creative with.
My only issue was that I struggle with learning how to navigate the software.
It has every feature we need in an editor with an amazing community supporting GIMP with tools, tutorials, and guidance. Also, it is free which seems impossible coming the the Adobe Creative Suite.
The lack of features, and sometimes the UI feels old and it's difficult to find the correct features to do the job needed.
Faith: My name is Faith. I'm a graphic designer and my company is Just Me. And my one to five rating for Canva is probably a four. I was using Adobe Photoshop before I used Canva, and it was just taking me a long time to boot up and it was super expensive and several of the tools were just very clunky and more in depth than I needed for what I do. I chose Canva because I really like it. It's easy. I can send things to other people to collaborate on. It's a very click and drag format, and it does a lot of the spacing for me, and it has amazing templates that I can customize to whatever I'm doing. Getting started with Canva was super easy. I just put in my name and email, signed up for an account and got to work. I highly recommend Canva, especially if you do social media content or anything like that because you can have it on your phone and your computer and sync changes between both of those, depending on if you're posting on social media from your phone or if you need a more heavy duty on your computer to post a flyer, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Brandy and I'm the CEO of a crafts retail company, and I give GIMP a four star rating. On an everyday basis I use GIMP to do some graphic stuff and editing images is the main thing that I use it for, on a daily basis basis. And it's very simple to use and it's got a very open source and free... A easy user interface, so it's been easy to learn how to do. I like that it's affordable and it's simple to use. And it's easy to do with... Layers you can do, and it walks you through everything very simply, where some of the other ones can be a little bit difficult. But so I like that and how well it does when you editing the images and stuff, everything turns out really good. It would be great if they could improve on the font systems. It's hard to do any editing to the fonts or anything like that, especially if you're already in it, you have to erase and start over. And it just doesn't have a whole lot of customization and good fonts that you can pick from. But other than that, the customer could be a little better. But other than that, it works great.
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