Beginner’s Guide to Creating 3-Panel Story Art Using Canva

Vanessa Pacheco
3 min readJul 13, 2023

Are you a beginner at image editing and looking to enhance your AI art?

This beginner-friendly guide will help you create a 3-panel story art using Canva’s free version.

Don’t worry if you have no prior experience — everyone starts somewhere. So let’s jump in!

Step 1: Start a New Design:

On the top-right of Canva’s dashboard, click on “Create a design.”

Next, click on “Custom size”, and input the dimensions as 1920 x 2520 pixels.

  • This will allow you to add 3 images with aspect ratio of 16:7, what is perfect for creating impactful story art.

Now, confirm your choice by clicking on “Create a new design”.

“Create a design”, choose “custom size”, change the size to 1920 x 2520 pixels and click on “create a new design”..

Step 2: Upload Your Images

On the left side of the screen, click on “Uploads”. Then, choose “Upload Files”.

Select Your Images, by finding the files of images that you want to use in your design, and clicking on “open”.

Click on “Uploads”. Select “Upload Files”, choose your files, and wait for the upload to complete.

Step 3: Add Your Images to your design

Wait for the Images to load. When it’s done… You can add an Image to Your Design, by clicking on the thumbnail image.

To add the images you uploaded, click on the thumbnail image.

Step 4: Adjust Your Image

Move your image to the canvas corner and stretch it to conform to the canvas width.

Add images 2 and 3, and repeat the adjustment for them.

Stretch the image to fit the canvas width, and repeat it for images 2 and 3.

Step 5: Download Your Design

Once you’re happy with your design,

  • On the top-right of the window, click on “Share”.
  • Click on “Download”
  • Next: Make sure “PNG” is selected, then click on “Download”.
  • Wait for the download conclude.
Share and Dowlond your image

Step 6: Your Design is Ready!

Check the file after the download of the new image has complete.

If everything is OK: Congratulations!

Your design is ready to be shared with the world.

Once the download is complete, your design is ready.

Closing:

That’s it! With these simple steps, you can start creating beautiful story art using Canva for free and without any special skills or knowledge.

Remember, this is just the beginning of your design journey.

There’s so much more to explore and learn.

Finally, thanks to @ProperPrompter for providing the Pikachu images for this guide.

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Vanessa Pacheco

I'm a graphic designer and brand strategist, and now I'm excited to explore engineering-generated illustrations.