Big Idea

The argument in one line.

The Canva connector lets Claude act as your design team: describe what you want in plain English, iterate with feedback, and ship finished assets to social — all without opening Canva's editor.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

A solo creator or small-team marketer who spends significant time each week building social assets in Canva by hand.
Someone already using Claude for writing who wants to extend it into visual content without learning a new tool.
A freelancer managing social media for clients who wants a faster templating-to-publish pipeline.
Anyone who wants to post the same content to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Threads from a single workflow.

SKIP IF…

You need pixel-precise brand control — Claude's natural-language design feedback can miss subtle layout and spacing requirements.
You're on a free Canva account and need brand kit features — that section requires a paid Canva subscription.
You need social publishing without a third-party paid plan — Blotato requires $29/month for the API access that makes this work.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Canva now has a connector for Claude that turns a plain-English chat into finished design files synced to your Canva account. The workflow covers four use cases: generating new designs from scratch, editing existing Canva templates, building Instagram carousels with your own photos, and pulling an infographic from your website. A second connector (Blotato) lets Claude write captions and post or schedule the finished designs to every major social platform. A brand kit in Canva ensures every AI-generated asset stays on-brand automatically. Most of this works on a free Canva account; the brand kit and Blotato publishing require paid plans.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:40

01 · Introduction

Four design types previewed; promise of 15 hours/week saved; no Claude Code or Desktop needed.

00:40 – 01:12

02 · Setting Up Claude and Canva

Create claude.ai and canva.com accounts; free tier suffices for most use cases.

01:12 – 02:27

03 · Installing the Canva Connector

Settings > Connectors > Browse > Canva. Permission review — always-allow vs. needs-approval toggle.

02:27 – 03:26

04 · The Product Tour Prompt

Prompt that lists every connector tool with sample prompt and plan tier. Produces formatted table in one shot.

03:26 – 05:55

05 · Poster From a New Design

Claude generates four poster variants; user picks one, iterates on text and color, saves to Canva account.

05:55 – 09:00

06 · Poster From a Canva Template

Clone a template, pass URL to Claude, use word-count prompt to preserve layout while swapping content.

09:00 – 10:30

07 · Instagram Carousels From a Template

Template-clone workflow applied to multi-slide carousel; Claude plans slide copy before executing.

10:30 – 13:04

08 · Swapping In Your Own Photos

Upload HEIC photos, Claude converts to JPG, Blotato uploads to Canva, Claude swaps carousel backgrounds.

13:04 – 14:51

09 · Infographic From Your Website

Claude fetches website content, maps to infographic template sections, creates in Canva. Manual tweaks sync.

14:51 – 16:16

10 · Setting Up Blotato to Post

Connect Blotato as custom MCP connector (mcp.blotato.com/mcp). Connect social accounts; $29/mo required.

16:16 – 17:07

11 · Publishing and Scheduling Posts

Claude writes caption, posts to Facebook and Instagram, handles aspect-ratio crop for Instagram.

17:07 – 20:18

12 · Fixing Common Export Errors

Two errors: Canva export domain blocked (pass URL to Blotato) and photo upload confusion (use Blotato).

20:18 – 23:34

13 · Building a Canva Brand Kit

Add logo, colors, fonts in Brand Kit (paid). Claude reads the kit and applies brand automatically.

23:34 – 24:03

14 · Recap and Wrap Up

Nine-step checklist recapped; subscribe CTA.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

The fastest way to learn a new Claude connector is a single prompt: list every tool available, with a sample prompt and the plan required.
Telling Claude to count words per template section before replacing text prevents overfill that breaks the layout.
Claude cannot download images from export-download.canva.com — passing the URL directly to Blotato sidesteps the restriction entirely.
HEIC files from an iPhone must be converted to JPG before Claude can hand them to Canva; Claude can run that conversion itself.
Canva Brand Kit (paid) is the cheat code for AI design at scale — Claude reads your logo, palette, and fonts automatically without re-specifying them each session.
Iterating on a design inside Claude is faster than Canva's editor for copy changes; for pixel-precise tweaks, open the file in Canva after and sync is instant.
You can have multiple Canva brand kits for different clients and specify which one to use per prompt.
Canva generates four design candidates from every from-scratch request — picking a number and giving feedback is the intended iteration model.
Every design Claude creates is saved to your Canva account; ending the chat does not delete the work.
A single Blotato connection lets Claude manage an entire content calendar: publish now, schedule future posts, or fill queue slots.
The Claude + Canva workflow requires only claude.ai in a browser — no Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or local setup of any kind.
The product-tour prompt strategy works for any new connector, not just Canva — it surfaces the actual available tools rather than guessing.

Takeaway

Six moves that turn Claude into a design-and-post machine.

WHAT TO LEARN

The Canva connector does not replace design judgment — it removes the manual labor of executing it, so the constraint shifts entirely to what you ask for.

02Setting Up Claude and Canva

A free Canva account is sufficient for most of this workflow; only brand kit requires a paid plan.

03Installing the Canva Connector

The always-allow vs. needs-approval permission toggle controls whether Claude can edit designs without a confirmation step — adjust based on how much you trust your prompts.

04The Product Tour Prompt

Run a product tour prompt on any new connector before building: ask Claude to list every available tool with a sample prompt and the plan tier required.

05Poster From a New Design

When generating from scratch, Canva returns four candidates; treat this as a direction vote, not a finished result — pick a number and iterate from there.

06Poster From a Canva Template

Use the template word-count prompt before replacing text in any Canva template — Claude maps slot sizes first so your content fits without breaking the layout.

07Instagram Carousels From a Template

For multi-slide carousels, have Claude plan each slide's copy and get approval before executing — it prevents a full redo if the content plan is wrong.

08Swapping In Your Own Photos

HEIC files from an iPhone must be converted to JPG before Claude can pass them to Canva; instruct Claude to run the conversion itself before uploading.
Match photo orientation to the template slot — a vertical background slot rejects a landscape photo regardless of resolution.

09Infographic From Your Website

Passing a website URL instead of writing out content lets Claude pull real data without you summarizing it — useful for any content that already exists online.
The sync between Claude and Canva is live — you can make final pixel tweaks manually in Canva and return to Claude to post, without re-uploading anything.

10Setting Up Blotato to Post

Blotato's $29/month plan unlocks the API access required for programmatic posting — the free tier does not expose MCP tools.

11Publishing and Scheduling Posts

Blotato's content calendar can be managed entirely from Claude: publish now, schedule to future slots, or fill a batch queue in a single session.

12Fixing Common Export Errors

When you see the Canva export domain blocked error, pass the export URL directly to Blotato and skip the download step entirely.
Once Claude successfully handles an error pattern, add 'remember to do this in the future' to carry the fix forward in the session.

13Building a Canva Brand Kit

Canva Brand Kit (paid tier) is the highest-leverage setup investment: once your logo, palette, and fonts are stored, every Claude-generated design applies them without prompting.
Multiple brand kits can be stored for different clients — specify which kit by name in the prompt to switch contexts instantly.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Connector: An integration that lets Claude call external apps directly from the chat interface, similar to an MCP server. The Canva connector gives Claude tools to search, create, edit, and export Canva designs.
Canva Brand Kit: A paid Canva feature that stores a brand's logo, color palette, and fonts so any design — including AI-generated ones — can automatically apply them.
Blotato: A third-party app ($29/month) that connects Claude to social media accounts via a custom MCP connector, enabling Claude to write captions and publish or schedule posts across multiple platforms.
Product tour prompt: A single prompt that asks Claude to list every tool exposed by a connector, with a sample prompt and required plan tier for each — used to quickly understand a new integration before building with it.
Template word-count prompt: An analysis step where Claude inspects each text section of a Canva template, records the approximate word count, and asks clarifying questions before rewriting — preventing text that overflows the design slots.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

00:00toolclaude.ai ↗

01:12toolcanva.com ↗

14:51productBlotato ↗

14:51linkBlotato MCP connector ↗

00:00linksabrina.dev free prompts ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:47

“You don't need Claude CoWork. You don't need Claude desktop, and you certainly don't need Claude code for this. We're just gonna stick to Claude AI, the website.”

Removes the single biggest barrier to entry for non-technical viewers in one sentence.→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

04:36

“You can now just talk to Claude, talk to AI like you normally do without having to fiddle around dragging and dropping different layers and different assets within Canva manually.”

Clean before/after contrast that defines the entire value proposition.→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

17:07

“It's like a very scary sounding error message, but there's a very simple fix.”

Reframes technical friction as solvable — reassurance hook.→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

The Script

Word for word.

Read-along

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See every word as it's spoken — crank it to 2× and still catch all of it. The same dual-channel trick behind Amazon's Kindle + Audible.

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00:00This is the ultimate tutorial to learn how to use Canva combined with Claude to power your entire marketing team. At the end of this tutorial, you will learn how to save fifteen hours per week creating visual assets for your marketing team and for your social media posts. For example, you'll be able to programmatically within Claude, create infographics like this, Instagram carousels like this, Instagram carousels using your own assets like for your own photos and videos, and events promo posters like this, all within Claude and using the new Canva connector.

00:30My name is Sabrina Romanov. I've gotten millions of views on social media, and I teach AI to millions of people for free. So hit like, hit subscribe, and hit the notification bell so you don't miss my next training.

00:41So the very first thing we're going to do is make sure we have our accounts set up. So if you haven't yet signed up for a claude.ai account, we're just going to use the website.

00:50Okay? You don't need Claude CoWork. You don't need Claude desktop, and you certainly don't need Claude code for this.

00:55We're just gonna stick to Claude AI, the website. So sign up for your account. And then we're also going to use canva.com.

01:01So sign up for an account if you haven't already. Many features will still work with a free Canva account, so you don't necessarily need to upgrade to a paid account just yet if you don't want to. Now the next step is we're going to install the Canva connector.

01:15Go ahead and on the bottom left corner, click your name, click settings, and then click connectors. The way to think about a connector is it allows AI tools like Claude to use the apps that you use every single day. For example, this Gmail connector allows Claude to read your emails.

01:34This Google Calendar Connector allows Claude to read your calendar, and it can even update calendar events. It can create new calendar events. So what we're gonna do here is connect Canva.

01:43Click browse connectors in the top right corner, search Canva, click the plus button, and now it's going to ask to connect to your Canva account. Click allow. And if it works, you should see Canva here.

01:55And a lot of people do ask me for permissions, so I just wanna point out where you can see what permissions Canva has. So click configure, and, basically, this shows you all the different things you can do with Canva and also the permission associated with each one.

02:08So this check mark means always allow. So this means Canva will always be able to do things like searching through designs without asking you for permission every single time. Now you can change this.

02:19You can change this from always allow to needs approval if you want Canva to ask for your approval, for example, before editing a design. And now that we have Canva connected, let's go and start a new chat. And what we're gonna do first is what I call a product tour prompt.

02:33I like to do this with every new AI tool or connector that I'm playing around with, and it basically asks Claude to understand everything about the connector and explain in simple terms what are all the things we can do. So take a screenshot of this and drop it into Claude. So this is really, really handy because we have a nicely formatted table here describing what is the feature in Canva connector and what's a sample prompt we can use to try it out.

02:57And does it require a paid plan, or is it available on the free plan? So, clearly, there are a lot of different features that you can take advantage of with the new Canva connector. We're not gonna get through the majority of these today.

03:09I'm gonna be primarily focused on creating new designs from scratch or from using templates, which is the main reason people use Canva, so that's why we're gonna focus on it. So we've wrapped up installing the Canva connector and a simple product tour where you can see all of the different features.

03:25Now the very first thing we're going to do is make a poster using the new Canva connector, and we're going to make it from a new design. So we're not gonna start with an existing Canva template. So for our very first design, we're gonna ask Canva to create a poster about my upcoming flotetto.com sale in the next forty eight hours where you get 50% off your first month.

03:45And you see these four cards here? This is because Canva is gonna show you four distinct visual designs, and you get to choose which one you like the most, and it's gonna run with that one.

03:55And you can give feedback. Like, if you don't like certain colors, you don't like the fonts, you don't like the font size, if you wanna change some of the text, you can provide all of that feedback right here within Claude, and Canva will understand it and update the design accordingly. This is what makes this integration so powerful because you can now just talk to Claude, talk to AI like you normally do without having to fiddle around dragging and dropping different layers and different assets within Canva manually.

04:23So here are the four design variations. I personally like number two, actually. So you can see the instructions, Claude saying, pick your favorite, one, two, three, or four.

04:32Once saved, I can also edit any text colors or details, and Claude can even export it as PNG or PDF so that it's social media ready. So let's say my favorites is number two. However, I want to replace the text get started now with a proof points, like zero to 2,300,000 followers solo.

04:53My point here I'm trying to illustrate is you can have this back and forth conversation with Claude in order to update the design. Like, I could have asked to change the color red. Like, it's a little bright.

05:03I could have asked to tone it down a little bit. You can ask to replace the text, to replace different details. You can actually even upload your own images here.

05:11We're gonna get to that in a bit, but it's really cool because you can just do all of this within Claude, and it's going to update to the Canva design. Everything's gonna be saved to your Canva account so you don't lose it just because you ended the Claude conversation. When Claude asks you to save it to your account, I'm just going to say yes, and then we're gonna be able to open it and preview it within Canva directly.

05:31K. Here's the direct link to open it in Canva. Go ahead and click that.

05:35And here's our design with the updated text. Remember, I asked Claude to change this text. This looks really, really good for an event promo flyer.

05:42So just to recap, we talked about use case number one, creating a simple poster, and we did it using a new design. Notice how we didn't give Canva any pointers or design decisions or design templates. What we're gonna do next is I'm gonna show you another option, which I also really, really love.

05:59It allows you to choose one of the many amazing templates Canva already offers, and we're going to start with that template. So in canva.com, if you're not familiar with it, click home on the left sidebar.

06:10Click templates on the left sidebar, and this allows you to browse thousands and thousands of amazing high quality templates in Canva. Let's search for flyer. You can see all the different flyers here.

06:21So choose a template you like. Uh, I actually kinda like this one over here. I do not know what it says, but it looks super cute.

06:27Click customize this template on the bottom right corner, and this will clone the template to your account. So now you can make any changes you want. And here's the prompt we're going to use.

06:37Analyze the following Canva template, especially the number of words per section. Replace this with the link to the Canva template that you just just cloned, then ask me questions to replace the text with my information roughly following the number of words per section. Now the reason this part is important is because you have, like, different defined sections of text like this one, like this one over here.

06:58And if if you were to replace this with, like, five sentence paragraph, it just wouldn't look good. Like, it kind of ruins the points of the design.

07:06So the purpose of this prompt is we have Claude first analyze the template, make a plan for roughly how many words per each section, and then ask us what should be our information to populate to the template. Go ahead and copy paste this or take a screenshot of this. I'm gonna drop it into Claude.

07:22So grab this URL, replace it here, and then hit enter. Now Claude is analyzing the templates. It's going section by section.

07:29It's looking at the current text, how many words is it, what is the role of this section. The headline is obviously big and attention grabbing, and now Claude is asking me clarifying questions like what information do I wanna put in the poster. Poster.

07:40Now you don't have to do it this way where Claude interviews you. If you already know all the information you wanted to put in the poster, you can just dump it into Claude and be like, hey. Use this information.

07:49If you have a website or a blog post, you can also dump that into Claude and be like, use the from my website. Oh, that's funny. I actually am hiring.

07:57So I'll say we are hiring, and then the role is senior software engineer. Benefits are 100% remote, 10 k USD per month in Europe, which is, like, a very competitive salary, and then the CTA hiring at Blotato.

08:13So now Claude and Canva are gonna work together to take the information, the context that I fed in, and create a updated version of this flyer, but with my information. Save it to my Canva account. And the cool part here is now we can leverage the amazingly human design templates from the Canva community.

08:31Instead of hoping Canva will generate a new design from scratch that we'll like, we can take our time to just browse all of these templates, select the ones that we really like, and then we can reuse those. Like, we can just swap out the text, swap out the imagery to make a fresh post.

08:47So go ahead and click open in Canva, and here's our poster. We are hiring senior software engineer, 100% remote, 10 k USD per month in Europe. So now we've covered creating a new design from scratch versus editing an existing template within Canva.

09:01Now I know many people wanna know, can this make carousels for Instagram, for Facebook, slideshows, for TikTok, LinkedIn carousels? And the answer is absolutely yes. Now I just put Instagram carousels here, but the visuals we create can absolutely be posted as Facebook carousels, LinkedIn carousels, and TikTok slideshows.

09:19And what we're gonna do for this is start with an existing template because Canva has lots of really nice existing carousel templates. K. So search carousel here.

09:28We're gonna choose this template here, number three. I like this one because it has photos in the background, and the next use case I'm gonna show you is how to swap this out with your own photos. So go ahead and click this template.

09:40Click customize this template. It's gonna clone it to your account, and we're going to use this prompt for the Instagram carousel. It's very similar to the previous prompt.

09:49It's just a little bit more planning because we have now multiple slides, and we kinda wanna approve each slide's copy before we create it. So go ahead and take a screenshot of this. Just like before, you're gonna replace the URL.

10:02Now I'm going to modify this template and put in my topic. My topic is nature heals founders.

10:09And here is Claude's analysis of the carousels, each text section. Here's the new plan.

10:15Provide feedback at this point, right, if you wanna change any of the text, and then let's say save it to our Canva. And now click open in Canva so we can check it out. So for burned out builders, Nature Hills founders.

10:26Awesome. So we have changed all of the copy in this carousel. But what if we wanna change the photos too?

10:32Like, I don't know who this lady is. Like, I wanna use my own photo. And really cool.

10:36It's super easy to do that with Claude. Okay? So click this plus button, click add files or photos, and then I'm just gonna throw in two vertical photos from my height the other day.

10:46So let's say swap the background photos with these three to match the topic.

10:52And now I'm gonna say use Votato to upload the photos so Canva can use them. Now this second line is really important because sometimes Claude gets confused like how do I pass this photo over to Canva to use?

11:07The nice thing is my AppLotato makes this super easy. I'm going to cover this a little bit later in the video just because there is a process to set it up, but thankfully, it's super simple. And once you set it up, you can do really nice things like this, like make it easy to upload your own photos, videos, and assets.

11:23So if you haven't set up Blotato yet, this obviously won't work. Claude will try different workarounds, and you may run into issues, just a warning.

11:31But after you install Blotato, stuff like this becomes super super easy to do. And by the way, if you're new to using AI, I highly recommend reading through what Claude is actually thinking here.

11:42Like, it's explaining to you exactly what it's doing. I'll use photo one for slides one to two, photo two for slides either four, etcetera. Now it's swapping all of the backgrounds, and now it's saving it.

11:52And now it's done. So click the open in Canva link. Yeah.

11:55There's me. Nature Heals Founders for Burned Out Builders. That's the same photo again.

11:59And then here's a different photo here on the very last slide. So now we see the Instagram carousel, and you can see now it's using my first photo. So nature heals founders, and then here's a picture of me on a recent hike just a few days ago, and then this is another picture that I also uploaded.

12:14It was not able to handle that horizontal photo that I was just testing out, so that's good to know. So just make sure your photo dimensions roughly match the photo slot. So if the photo slot was a square, just be mindful of that.

12:28Here, the photo slot is the vertical background, so Canva's going to prefer a photo that actually fits that profile. Awesome. So now we just talked about cloning a Canva template in order to make an Instagram carousel.

12:41We used Claude to customize the content in that carousel, and we uploaded our own photos to be used within the carousel. So now you can see we're building upon all the different building blocks that are available in Canva and Claude and getting to more complex use cases. At the end of the video, I'm gonna talk about how do you automate posting this to social media to multiple platforms within Claude.

13:04The last use case I wanted to show you is creating an infographic. So, again, we're gonna go to home in Canva, click templates, and then search infographic. So find the template that you like, okay, here, and then click customize this template.

13:17Again, this clones it to your account, so now you can make changes. So we're gonna use a similar prompt as before, but I'm going to tweak it so that it just uses information that's already on my website. So replace the text with information from my website.

13:31So I'm showing like a couple different variations here. For the very first use case, we had Claude interview us and ask us, hey, what is the content you wanna put in this template? In the second use case, we had Claude plan it out just based on a simple topic.

13:46And in this use case, we are giving our website to Claude so he can analyze it and then creates a plan for how to update the information in this infographic. K. So it's analyzing the templates.

13:56Now it's creating the content plan based on all of the stuff that's already on my website, and it now it is creating the infographic within Canva. Okay.

14:06Now we have our infographic live in Canva. Click open in Canva so we can check it out and boom. This is all stuff from Blotato.

14:13Viral templates, AI writer, repurpose. This looks really good actually. Okay.

14:18That's great. And then one thing I wanna point out here, is another option. Let's say it messed something up or you just wanna make some slight tweaks, some slight edits to get the design to perfection.

14:29So for example here, I don't love like this font and how it makes 1,000,000 look. So I'm just going to edit this real quick. So it says 1,000,000 spelled out.

14:39Now Canva automatically saves everything, and this is all synced. So I can make my final edits here in Canva, and then I can go back to Claude and say, hey. It's ready to go.

14:50Now post it to social media. Now before I demo that, we have to just set that up. And I built my own app to help me do this.

14:57I personally use Claude with Blotato in order to distribute tons of content each week completely solo. The only caveat here is to use the API. It does require a paid plan of $29 per month.

15:10This is because it helps filter out spammers, which the social platforms don't like. But if you're unhappy for any reason, you can get a full refund, no questions asked. Okay?

15:19So I just make it super easy. So once you sign up, go to settings in the bottom left corner. This is where you connect all of your social accounts.

15:26And on the lowest tier plan, you can connect up to 20 social accounts on any platform. So you could connect 20 Instagram accounts or 20 Facebook accounts or 20 LinkedIn accounts. K.

15:37So go ahead and do that. And then the last step is to connect Bloatato to Claude just like we connected Canva to Claude.

15:44So go to settings. K. Click connectors just like before.

15:49And the only difference is we're gonna have to add a custom connector. Okay?

15:53So click add custom connector, call it Blotato, and then you wanna type this into the URL, mcp.blotato.com/mcp. Go ahead and click add.

16:04Then it's gonna show up here and there will be a button that says connect. So go ahead and click that. And just like when we connected Canva, it's gonna redirect you to an authorization page and you should be good to go.

16:15So now let's go back to our chat and then let's just tell Claude like I made some final tweaks in Canva, it's ready to go. Let's say write a caption then post to Facebook and Instagram right now.

16:32Now what's really cool with Blotato is you can have Claude manage your entire content calendar. That means it can publish posts right now, it can schedule posts in the future. You can even set up calendar slots.

16:43Like if you go to calendar weekly schedule, basically, can see all of the different time slots where you can post for these social accounts. So what you can do is like use Claude and Canva to make content and then just schedule it out onto the queue.

16:59So if you sit down to batch content for the day, you set up this queue and it'll just, like, schedule everything out to the time slots where it's supposed to be. Now if Claude runs into any issues like exporting JPEGs or just exporting any visuals, this is the simple solution to it.

17:16All you have to do is push back on Claude and say export from Canva and then pass the Canva export domain URLs directly to Blotato to post. Claude will know what to do with this information. Okay?

17:29So you you need to do this if you start seeing errors or complaints from Claude that the Canva export domain is not in my network, etcetera, etcetera. It's like a very scary sounding error message, but there's a very simple fix. Similarly, if Claude gets confused that it has to upload assets to Canva, again, you can just say use Bloatato to upload my photos or videos so Canva can use them.

17:51Okay? These are the two most common errors people get stuck on. But the solution is actually very simple.

17:57Once Claude does it once, then you can say, hey, Claude. Remember to do this in the future whenever I'm posting to social media. So here's an example where Claude is getting confused about how to I, like, grab this Canva export URL and get it to social media.

18:12Right? So here, Canva export domain blocked by the network. So again, if you see something like this, just stop Claude thinking.

18:19In some cases, it'll eventually figure it out, but let's just make it really easy for Claude and tell it exactly what to do. Now it says, great idea. Okay.

18:27Yes. So, basically, all that's happening here is Canva already has exported URLs. We're just gonna take those URLs, pass it directly to Blotato because Blotato knows what to do with it.

18:38So now the Facebook post is live. Instagram initially rejected the first post because of the aspect ratio, but really cool, Canva and Claude were able to work together to export a square crop for Instagram. So I probably shouldn't have posted this really long infographic to Instagram.

18:53Maybe I should have done this carousel as an example instead. But, yeah, hopefully, you get the idea. And here, Blotato actually returns the exact post URLs.

19:01Here is the infographic on Facebook. Okay? And then I'm going to refresh my Instagram right now.

19:06And here is the infographic for Instagram, which actually did work at this awkward aspect ratio, but still really cool. Okay.

19:14So just to recap, we've created a simple poster starting with a new design. We also tried it starting from an existing Canva template. We've also made Instagram carousels.

19:24We uploaded our own photos to be included in the Instagram carousel, so using your own media. We also created an infographic just using information already available in our website, and I showed you how to make final tweaks to the infographic before exporting it to social media.

19:42Everything is synced. That's the beautiful part. You can have Claude make changes.

19:46You can go into Canva manually and make tiny tiny tweaks and everything is synced. And then I showed you how to automate posting to social media platforms. Now I showed you Facebook and Instagram, but with Blotato, you can also post to LinkedIn, threads, blue sky, Twitter, even TikTok slideshows, etcetera.

20:04You can even post Instagram stories, Facebook stories, Instagram trial reels. So just really, really powerful because you can have Claude schedule everything out, publish everything from within Claude. You don't even have to go anywhere else.

20:18Now the last thing I'll talk about, I saved this for last because it requires a premium Canva subscription. Okay? So you won't have access to this if you're on a free Canva account, but it is a really powerful feature.

20:30So I at least wanted to talk about it. So let's go back to Canva. And on the left sidebar, there's a button that says brand.

20:36Notice it has this crown icon, means it requires a paid plan. And this is where you can input your brand's guidelines. So we're just gonna start off with simple ones.

20:45For example, here, I'm going to add my Bloatato logo. A little blurry, but we'll still use it. And then these are my color themes.

20:53So it actually just imported this from the Bloatato logo. I don't love it. I like my original color palette of bright orange, bright pink.

21:00These are the fonts in my theme. If you want to change this, for example, I can click that. Now let's say I just want a different cool font.

21:08Like, this is pretty cool. Okay. Click save.

21:11Okay. So now this is my font brand kits. And there's a lot of other stuff you can add here, guys.

21:15Brand voice, your photos, your graphics, charts, guidelines is really in-depth. I'm not gonna fill this out, but certainly highly recommend you take the time to.

21:25So brand guidelines, purpose, about the brand, mission, vision, logo, primary logo, secondary. You don't need to do all of this if this is your first time. Okay.

21:34So I'm just starting with logo, colors, and fonts just to keep it super super simple. Okay.

21:40So now let's go back to Claude and say use my brand kit to create an Instagram post image and include my logo somewhere. I'll let Claude and Canva figure out where to include my logo.

21:52Um, but this is really cool because Canva has access to your brand kits. You can have multiple brand kits by the way if you have multiple clients.

22:00You just specify which brand kit you want Canva to use. Now it says it's got my brand kit. Now it's generating the Instagram post and I'll ask Canva to include my logo and brand colors and fonts.

22:11Now remember the first example, when we generate something from scratch instead of a Canva template, Canva is going to give us multiple design options, four design options. Then we choose the design direction we like best.

22:24I do like two. Okay. So I'm gonna say use two, but use more of my brand colors like accents.

22:31So I can tell it is using my brand kit because of the fonts that it's using. So if you look at this number two, like this font and stuff, and this really dark blue background is this color. However, I do want it to use more of my accent colors, orange and pink.

22:46So I'm just gonna give that feedback to Claude in Canva and hopefully it listens to it. By the way, another quick thing I'll point out is you can actually open any of these variations in Canva.

22:56Right? So click open in Canva here, and it will take you straight to it. So overall, I just love how streamlined and how well integrated the Canva connector is within Claude.

23:06Like, it's a quite a thoughtful user experience. Oh, okay. So I actually really like this fourth one here, and you can see it's using more of my brand colors.

23:14So, like, this gradients from orange to pink. Right? These are my two brand colors here.

23:20Right? So this one's pretty cool. So I'm gonna open this in Canva, and then you can see, like, this particular kind of comic book like fonts.

23:27If I go to my brand kit fonts, that those are my fonts for the title and subheading. So you can see how it's using the brand kit there. Okay.

23:34So just to recap, we covered Claude and Canva, how to set everything up, how to generate new designs, how to use templates for your designs, how to make final tweaks and edits before finalizing and exporting to social media, how to actually publish to social media, schedule to social media, and how to create a Canva brand kit that Claude can also use to make on brand designs at scale.

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The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Fourteen chapters in 24 minutes — no drag-and-drop, no design background required. The Canva connector turns Claude into a designer that reads your brief, generates four options, and saves the final file directly to your account while you stay in the chat.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

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Product Tour Prompt

On first use of any new connector: list every tool available with a sample prompt and the plan required. Produces a practical capability map in one shot.

Steal forAny new MCP connector or AI integration — run it before building so you know what is actually available.

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Template Word-Count Prompt

Analyze template sections
Count words per slot
Ask clarifying questions
Fill with your content

Before replacing template text, have Claude analyze each section's word count and role, then ask what content to insert. Prevents text overflow that breaks layouts.

Steal forAny template-based design workflow — email, slide deck, social post.

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