Canva has become an incredibly popular free online design tool. With Canva, anyone can easily create beautiful graphics, presentations, social media posts, and more.
One of the best features of Canva is the ability to add animations to your designs and presentations. This allows you to make your content more dynamic, eye-catching, and engaging.
But you may be wondering – can you download a Canva presentation with the animations intact?
The short answer is yes! In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to download a Canva presentation as a PowerPoint file while preserving the animations.
Step 1: Add Animations in Canva
First, open up your Canva presentation and add any animations you want.
Canva makes adding animations super simple. Just select an element on your slide, click “Animate” on the toolbar, and choose an animation like fade, float, zoom, and more.
You can animate individual elements or add animations that happen when you transition between slides. Get creative and have fun with it!
Step 2: Switch to Presenter Mode
Once you’ve added animations, click “Present” at the top right of the screen to switch to Presenter Mode.
This will show your slides as they appear with the animations, without all the extra tools and options on screen.
Step 3: Take Screenshots
Now, you’ll want to take a screenshot of each slide. This captures exactly how the animated slides look.
On Windows, hit the “PrtScn” button to take a full screenshot. On Mac, press Shift + Command + 3.
You may need to crop the screenshots after to remove extra background areas.
Step 4: Open PowerPoint and Insert Screenshots
Open a new PowerPoint presentation file. For each Canva slide, insert your screenshot into PowerPoint using the “Insert > Pictures” option.
The screenshots become slides in your PowerPoint deck, animations and all!
Step 5: Rearrange Slides or Make Edits
If needed, you can now rearrange the slide order or make any other edits to the PowerPoint file.
The animations should work exactly as they did in Canva!
And that’s it! By following these five simple steps, you can download a Canva presentation with animations intact as a PowerPoint file.
Tips for Downloading Animated Canva Presentations
Here are some additional tips when downloading animated Canva presentations:
- Check animations: Preview the full animation sequence and test transitions in Presenter Mode before downloading screenshots. This ensures no steps get skipped.
- Clear the background: Any background images or elements in Canva won’t download to PowerPoint. Use a solid color background for a cleaner transition.
- Simplify layouts: Complex multi-layered slide designs in Canva may lose their precision in PowerPoint. Stick to simpler layouts.
- Use video export: If taking screenshots proves difficult for any reason, Canva does let you directly export presentations as video files.
More Tricks for Animated Canva Presentations
The ability to animate your presentations is one of Canva’s best features. Here are some additional Canva animation tips and tricks:
- Add animated GIFs: Import animated GIFs from Canva’s library to quickly add animation without building it yourself.
- Animate on click: Make elements animate as you click through your presentation for added interactivity.
- Use Magic Animations: Let Canva automatically apply sophisticated animations to any element with just one click.
- Morph images: Seamlessly morph between images or layouts on the same slide or across slides.
- Animate text: Fade, float, zoom, and slide text elements onto the slide for smooth animated sequences.
- Match with transitions: Coordinate animations with slide transitions to create extra smooth flowing presentations.
Create Stunning Animated Presentations with Ease
As you can see, Canva makes creating animated presentations a breeze. With these simple steps, you can easily download your animated Canva presentation and preserve all that motion design work in a PowerPoint file.
So go ahead – make your next presentation pop off the screen! Ditch boring static slides and turn to Canva to create sleek, modern, animated presentations that captivate your audience.
Let me know in the comments if you have any other questions about animating presentations in Canva! I’m happy to help you take your design skills up a notch.
