How to add that trendy grainy texture to your images on Canva
Here’s a Canva tip I love!
When it comes to your Instagram content, there’s a fine line between making your image interesting enough and having too many elements that make it hard for people to read or comprehend on a fast scroll.
What I love the most about adding some subtle texture, whether it’s grainy texture, paper texture or any kind of noise effect to your text or backgrounds in Canva, is that you elevate your design without making it busier.
Unlike many other Canva tricks, this is an easy one that even beginners can use.
So here we go:
How to add that trendy grainy texture to your images on Canva
Here’s the step by step:
Once your design is ready, on the left side menu in your Canva window, go to photos and search for grainy, paper or any other texture you may want. I will go with grainy for our tutorial.
Pick your grainy photo of choice and add the photo to your design
Go to transparency and turn it down to around 5% or even less. You can see what looks good to you.
If your grainy layer disappear when you click out, it’s because it has been attached to the background. If this happens, click the arrow back or command Z and it will show up again.
That’s all!
It may be easier to see in this quick video demo here:
You can use this tip to add any other textures to your images or videos in Canva. Other options or keywords you can search: marble, stone, texture, paper, wrinkled paper, confetti, glitter… the sky is the limit — and speaking of that, you can search for clouds to dd as a texture to your backgrounds too!
PRO TIP:
If you find a few textures you like, save them into a folder for easy access later. I recommend saving grainy images, paper, wrinkled paper, fabric, brick, denin, and any other cool texture effects you may be looking for.
You can use this trick in pretty much any image, from it’s a lifestyle picture of yourself to simple a quote.
Have fun!
Xx
Manu
Manu Muraro is the founder of Your Social Team, an Instagram training membership and template shop that help social media managers and Instagram-savvy small business owners to grow engagement and sales using Instagram and content marketing, without the overwhelm. Born and raised in Brazil, Manu moved to the U.S. in 2000 right out of college to work for Cartoon Network, where she made an award winning career in creative and strategy.
In 2021, Manu started Your Template Club, a Canva template subscription service to help social media professionals and Canva-savvy business owners to create content that performs on Instagram, add more Instagram features into their strategy, such as Instagram Lives and Reels, and save time.