How to Customize our Instagram Superposts™ Canva Templates

I am so excited for all of you who purchased our Instagram Superposts™ Canva Templates!

We have been getting such great feedback from you and so many questions about the best ways to use them, so I will address the most common ones and give you some tips to use them like a Pro.

1 - Edit these templates on Canva.com on your computer, not the mobile app

The reason you like these templates is because they have complex designs with animation, editable mock ups of engaging Instagram stickers, cutouts and more.

The Canva mobile app is limited. You will not be able to edit these properly, use the background remover feature or select which pages you want to download if you’re using the mobile app.

2 - You don’t NEED Canva Pro to use these Instagram templates, but you will WANT Canva Pro to use them

There are two main things you would need Canva Pro for these, but they both have a workaround:

First, the one click background remover tool that I used in many photos and I recommend you replace with your own photos. That’s only available on Canva Pro. But if you want to use the free version, you can go to remove.bg to upload your photos, save the version without a background, upload it to Canva and then use it in your templates.

The other one is the background images I used, like these you see below. Most of them are from Canva Pro—Canva Pro has a nicer photo library.

The workaround for this would be to replace these with photos from the free version or any photos you may have (if you got the Business Bundle, you can also use stock photos from the Stocked Style Membership).

So while Canva Pro is recommended, it’s not needed.

Now, Canva Pro has this amazing resize feature, so you can create different formats of this template to use on Instagram stories, Facebook cover, blog posts, event pages, presentations and you can’t beat that.

*Here’s one of the templates resized for a Facebook cover.*

If you do resize, make sure you move the elements around to better suit the size of your image, like stacking them for stories or spreading them out for horizontal designs.

3 - Customize them all, instead of just creating one post at a time

I recommend you customize a whole set of these templates for your brand, instead of doing a couple of posts here and there.

That way you ensure the consistency of your designs by repeating some of the same background and exact colors.

You don’t need to customize all 100 of them, but you can make yourself a set of 50-70 that you can mix and match.

Here’s how I customized them for my own brand.

Customize them all, instead of just creating one post at a time

Although the original templates are similar to my brand colors, I added my own brand assets and patterns, colors (including yellow) and backgrounds.

Even if you don’t have brand assets, you can do this based on the colors of your logo, your photos or just a color palette you like. See below in nude and navy.

Tips on how to do this:

choose a few backgrounds that represent the colors and vibe of your brand, search for things like beach, coffee, mountains and also your brand colors.
choose your logo color or main color of feed for the gradient background and select different tones of that color or just from your color to white or black.
use your logo or main brand color as an option for plain backgrounds
if you have a font, use your font on some of the text (I just don’t recommend changing fonts of stickers, tweet mockups and memes, since they have their established look).
Get some of your own photos with people, product or objects to insert in the designs and remove the backgrounds.

4 - Replace the cut out GIF stickers to make more video posts

First I need to say again, GIFs can be subject to copyright, so do your own research and use at your own discretion. You you can create your own!

To replace with other existing GIFs, you can:

The harder way:

Save a GIF in video form in your computer, then go to unscreen.com and upload it to remove the background. You can then add this to Canva and into your project. Note that not every GIF will work well without a background, which is why i did the work for you and curated several.

The easier way:

Look for GIF stickers in the GIPHY integration on Canva. Just type what you’re looking for and the word sticker, as you will see below (and yes, these are the same stickers available on IG stories).

5 - Make your very own GIFs!

That’s a fun way to stand out and stop the scroll, because none of the popular accounts you look up to are doing this, k? Haha.

6 - Download only the pages you need

There are 100 templates in this pack. So you don’t want to go on downloading them all every time you want to post a couple. So make sure you’re downloading this on your computer so you can select specific pages.

When downloading one of the pages that has animation, make sure you only download that page, otherwise you will get one big (and useless) video with all the pages combined.

If you’re having problems with opening, editing or downloading them on your desktop, it could be your computer, your browser or your wifi.

If you’re having issues with Canva crashing, contact their customer support.

Let me know in the comments if you have any more questions!

Enjoy your templates!

xoxo

Manu

PS: If you haven’t gotten your templates yet, make sure you check them out here.