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👉 Learn how to easily darken images using Canva's built-in tools. This step-by-step tutorial will guide you through the process, enhancing your visuals in no time!
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hi in this video I'm going to show you
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on how you can make an image to be
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slightly darker in conab so this
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darkening effect is very useful
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especially if you are working with
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multiple elements and you have some text
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that is located on top of the image and
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the text has a white font and the
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background or the image is really bright
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so it will make the text to be really
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difficult to read and that is the case
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for this design as you can see the text
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here is white but the background is also
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kind of bright and it will make the text
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rather difficult to see and that is not
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a good design so we want to make the
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background to be slightly dark darker so
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there are multiple methods you can try
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and I'm going to show you some methods
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that uh will make an image to be darker
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first I'm going to duplicate this page
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uh and then we can compare the before
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and after the effect so the first method
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is really by just applying some filter
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to the background you can click on the
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image and then you can click edit and on
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the filter section you can click see all
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and there will be plenty of different
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options like maybe this one this is a
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little bit darker you can also use this
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effect if you want to and I can tell
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that the text is now much more visible
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but personally I don't like this filter
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technique because it will be applied to
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the entire image and sometimes we just
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want to uh we just want to apply and
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affect the specific to our liing maybe
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we want to adjust the brightness of the
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background but we don't want to
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necessarily change other colors so I'm
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going to go back and remove the filters
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uh the second method is by using the
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adjust technique you can go to adjust
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and you can play around with the
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brightness level you can reduce it to
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make the text more visible and you can
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play around with Shadow with blacks with
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whes so there are a lot a lot of Sliders
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to play around here I'm not going to
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tell you all of them because they can be
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very comp IND at that but yeah uh these
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sliders you can play around and then you
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can see which one do you think will work
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the best another method that you can try
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is by adding some layer of shape on top
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of the image so I'm going to visit
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elements and I'm going to add shapes
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this square shape let's change it to
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Black and I'm going to make it really
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big like it's going to encapsulate
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everything it will cover the entire
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design and after that I'm going to
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adjust the position click position and
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click layers and I want to put it just
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on top of the image so after that click
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transparency and we can play around with
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it so I think that is slightly better uh
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by the way this woman is actually
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isolated from the background so there
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are two photos of woman the the one that
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is in the background and the other one
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that is on top of everything that's why
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it's kind of overlapping the text and I
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think that's a really cool design so so
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that is the result and uh the downside
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of this technique of course it's not
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going to be best especially if you're
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still working on the document you have
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something big that kind of blocking
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everything but I do see the Merit
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because it will make the image to be
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consistently darker like all colors all
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elements of the image will be darker not
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just some colors of the image so it's
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going to be more consistent anyway let's
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see the before and let's see the after
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so that's how you can make an image to
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be darker in cona I hope you find this
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video to be helpful and please consider
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subscribing to this channel for more
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