How to upload your brand assets to Canva: Uploading Illustrator (AI) files and vector images (svg/eps) files to Canva
Whether it’s a brand identity, a logo, a website, or marketing materials, we love helping our clients’ companies express themselves. With that in mind, one of our top priorities with all of our designs is that our clients not only to be able to update all designs on their own, but feel confident doing so.
In this blog post, we’ll break down how to edit an .ai (Adobe Illustrator) or SVG (vector illustration) file in Canva. Canva is a great design tool because it allows non-designers to design! It gives anyone the opportunity and the potential to create digitally. However, as with all design tools, there’s still a learning curve. Let’s dive into how to upload a design file to Canva so you can change colors and move assets around on your own.
When we work with clients on branding projects, we usually use Adobe Illustrator to create their logo and other branding materials unless another software program is requested. In today’s example, we’ll be taking an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file containing our EnticEdge icon and showing you how to change its color. To upload and edit an SVG file, just follow the exact same steps!
P.S. Shoutout to Super Creative for redesigning our logo a few months back. Even though we do branding in house, we always encourage founders to look outside of their team to get branding done because it can feel a little bit too close to home to do it yourself 😉
STEP ONE: UPLOAD FILE
When you first log into Canva, your screen should look something like this — with an upload button in the upper right hand banner.
When you click “upload” a window will pop-up, prompting you to select a file to upload, or drag and drop one over.
Drag and drop your Adobe Illustrator (.ai) or vector image (.svg or .eps) file over and click “upload”.
STEP TWO: EDIT AWAY
Once you’ve uploaded your file, you should see a color box (or several color boxes) appear in the upper left hand corner. When you click on each of these color boxes, different color options will come up (or you can always click the rainbow box with a plus sign to enter your own custom color code). Selecting a new color from this window will change the color of your uploaded asset.
STEP THREE: BUSINESS AS USUAL
Now that you’ve uploaded the file to Canva, it will work just like any other Canva asset. You can change the colors, as we did above, crop, duplicate, copy and paste between Canva files, resize, share, export, and more.