Blogpost was published on June 12, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital signage, content is king. Creating engaging, dynamic, and visually appealing content is crucial for capturing your audience’s attention. Play Digital Signage, a leading content management software in the digital signage industry, has recognized this need and has integrated seamlessly with Canva, a popular graphic design tool. This integration is a game-changer, providing users with a powerful combination of tools to create and manage stunning digital signage content effortlessly. Today, we’ll explore how Play Digital Signage integrates with Canva and how this integration can elevate your digital signage strategy.
Canva is renowned for its user-friendly interface and vast library of templates, images, and design elements. It empowers users, regardless of their design expertise, to create professional-grade graphics, presentations, and social media posts. Let’s look at a few of the key features that make Canva such a popular content editor for all sorts of digital media, including digital signage.
Canva offers a plethora of templates for various purposes, including social media posts, presentations, posters, and more. These templates are easily customizable to fit your brand's aesthetic. You can also apply their templates to designs with custom sizes.
Canva’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows users to easily add and arrange elements, making the design process quick and straightforward.
Canva’s library includes millions of images, icons, fonts, and illustrations, giving users a vast array of options to enhance their designs. Plus, you can upload your own assets as well!
Canva enables team collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously, ensuring consistency and efficiency. You can also share your designs for others to review, even if you don’t want them to be able to edit.
By integrating Canva, users can design stunning graphics within Canva and seamlessly integrate them into Play Digital Signage. For those who choose not to use Play Digital Signage’s built-in content editor, this smooths out the content creation process that comes with using two different platforms. Additionally, many Play Digital Signage users already use Canva for other projects, so it eliminates a lot of the learning curve that comes with digital signage content creation when they can just use the same thing they already know how to use.
Canva’s extensive design tools and stock resources enhance the quality and creativity of your digital signage content, ensuring it stands out and engages your audience. It also just provides yet another way to enhance your content without having your own assets since it has so many free and paid stock media selections.
This integration also ensures that the high-quality designs created in Canva are accurately displayed on your digital signage screens, maintaining brand consistency. Let us elaborate on this. Many Play Digital Signage users, may use Canva to create their social media posts, cover art, and other branding materials. So, by also being able to use it to create their digital signage content designs, it ensures that those designs match their social media designs or other marketing materials. It also allows them to simply repurpose content already designed in Canva to be used on their digital signage screens.
Utilizing Canva with Play Digital Signage is a straightforward process. Here’s a step-by-step guide.
If you don’t already have a Canva account, sign up for one here. Canva offers both free and premium plans, giving you access to a wide range of design tools and resources.
When you create your Canva design it's important you start out with the correct resolution, so when you create a design choose “Custom Size”, and input the resolution of your TV, then lock the aspect ratio. A standard HD TV is 1920x1080 and a standard 4K TV is 3840x2160.
When you've created your design, added your pages, and animations, and everything is ready, click “Share”, then “More”, then “Embed”, and finally copy the URL in the Smart Embed Link.
This URL is what you're going to paste into the Canva URL section of the Canva plugin. To get here, log in to your Play Digital Signage account. Then navigate to “Playlists” and hit “edit” on whichever you would like your design to go to. Once the playlist is open, click “Apps” on the top toolbar, then click “Canva” on the drop-down that comes up. You’ll paste your link in the section on the right that says “Canva URL”. You’ll also have the option to align your design as you see fit.
To make the most of the Canva and Play Digital Signage integration, consider these tips.
The integration of Play Digital Signage with Canva is a powerful combination that simplifies and enhances the content creation process for digital signage. By leveraging Canva’s robust design tools and Play Digital Signage’s seamless content management capabilities, businesses can create visually stunning and engaging digital signage content with ease. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or a novice, this integration empowers you to DIY your digital signage content with ease.
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