How to use Pixabay + Canva to make your blogging easier

Creating blog image designs just got easier

Recently on Instagram, one of our followers commented that she wanted to be able to write more blogs this year. Getting into the writing groove can be difficult. First there is the challenge of WHAT to write. Once you get past that part, then comes blog formatting.  Finally, how do you design to visually break up the post to make sure it is easy to read?

For me, the visual part has been one of the hardest.I also use a certain amount of stock photos from different sites as part of the visual design for my blog posts. I would find it took me a lot of time to get the images just right in my blog posts. There was a lot of fussing with sizes and I would find myself getting frustrated. 

As I was writing a post, I’ve explored a few different features that have now eliminated my problem of image sizing. For blog posts, I would often use Pixabay as a source of images. In May of 2019, Canva purchased both Pixabay and Pexels. On the surface, no big deal, right?  As a Pixabay user, I didn’t really notice changes in my experience.

While they didn’t change the initial experience, they did add an important feature. Did you know you can download an image straight from Pixabay into your Canva account? While this feature is only available for premium users of Canva, it is a game changer.

Why is this important?  Once you have automatically created your image in Canva, you can resize images easily! This allows you to quickly get images into the sizes you want without all the reformatting hassles. So how do you do this?  There are four quick steps to this process.

Four easy steps to image creation