Canva for Amazon Sellers: 6 Powerful Applications

In the competitive world of Amazon selling, captivating visuals can make all the difference in influencing a potential buyer’s decision. The power of an eye-catching image cannot be underestimated, and for Amazon sellers who lack access to a graphic designer, or those who prefer to create their own visuals, Canva offers a simple and affordable solution. This cloud-based graphic design tool provides an array of features that can help Amazon sellers create compelling graphics to set their product listings apart from the competition.

How Canva Elevate Your Amazon Presence

If you’re new to Canva, it’s a cloud-based graphic design tool that has been in operation since 2013. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface and a vast library of images, graphics, and fonts, Canva offers a range of pre-designed templates that can be customized to suit your specific needs. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced designer, Canva simplifies the design process, allowing you to create stunning visuals in no time. Unlike more complex software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, which require professional expertise, Canva is accessible to anyone, making it an ideal tool for Amazon sellers.

Canva’s diverse features can significantly enhance your Amazon presence. Whether it’s through striking product images, engaging infographics for your A+ Content, festive banners for your storefront, or enhanced visuals for your Amazon Posts, Canva can transform the way your customers perceive your brand and products.

Here are 6 ways to use Canva for your Amazon seller account today:

1. Make your products stand out with Product Image Templates

Amazon listings are more appealing to customers when they have images that contain information the customer is looking for. Canva’s product image templates can significantly elevate your Amazon product listings. These professionally designed templates provide a solid foundation to present your products in an eye-catching and visually appealing way, enabling your offerings to stand out amidst the competition. Canva currently has more than 250 Product image templates available, and you can search them according to the niche of your product. If you can not find what you are looking for, you can always choose one of the thousands images that were not made specifically for Amazon and resize them for Amazon’s specifications

Once you choose a template that fits your needs,  you can customize it and add your relevant information. Here’s an example of a template we adjusted for a different product:

2. Use Posters for A+ Content

Infographics and banners as part of your A+ Content can effectively convey product details, benefits, comparisons, and more. Canva’s pre-made infographic templates are unfortunately too text heavy and have a vertical design that doesn’t work for Amazon A+ modules. However, if you search Canva’s collection of Poster or Banner templates, you’ll find a range design that can help simplify complex information, making it more accessible and attractive to potential buyers. Note that filtering for landscape products banners gives the best results and that you can always resize your design in one click.

3. Dress Your Storefronts for Holidays with Canva’s Banner Templates

Holiday seasons are prime time for sellers to attract shoppers. With Canva’s banner templates, you can easily create thematic storefront banners, keeping your storefront, A+ and Brand Story looking fresh and festive. These banners can increase your store’s visual appeal, helping to draw in and retain customers during these peak shopping periods.

4. Enhance Your Amazon Posts with Canva’s Image Editing Features

While there are many software options for photo editing, Canva’s simple and intuitive image editing features are a great option. They can help you create visually engaging Amazon Posts, which are an excellent way to showcase your products, share updates, and engage with your Amazon audience. The right image can help gain followers, increase click-through rates, drive more traffic to your product listings and improve sales.

Here’s an example of how an image (the original is on the left) becomes more appealing with simple editing, like zooming in, blurring the background and applying a filter.

5. Harness Canva’s simple Video Editing features

Both on Amazon and in Social Media marketing, video content is becoming increasingly vital in capturing customers’ attention and driving engagement. Canva is not an advanced video editor, but it’s accessible video editing features offer Amazon sellers the opportunity to easily perform tasks like shortening down video, combining several recordings together or editing text to an existing video in order to produce captivating video content into their product listings on Amazon A+ Premium. 

A wide range of video templates, can also assist you in creating professional-grade videos that showcase your products in action, provide user testimonials, or offer product tutorials. These videos can effectively enhance the customer shopping experience, offer valuable insights into your products, and significantly improve conversion rates.

6. Leverage Canva’s Magic AI Tools

The most amazing of Canva’s features is also its newest addition to its tool set. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Canva has rolled out AI based tools, like its aptly named “Magic Edit” button.

This demo is from Canva's Blog

“Magic Edit” employs advanced AI technology to replace objects in your images. Just select the object and describe what you’d like to appear instead. As an Amazon seller, this feature can be a game-changer. Imagine being able to tweak your product images based on seasonality, trends, or even customer feedback without needing to do a full photoshoot every time. Need to showcase your product in different settings or colors? “Magic Edit” can handle that too.

Additionally, these AI tools can facilitate A/B testing by creating variations of your images with different objects or details. This can be especially useful to test which visuals resonate most with your audience and drive more clicks.
Here’s an example in which we replaced the lamp in the original image for a plant in m seconds, note how natural the replacement and the shadowing looks:

Conclusion

In conclusion, Canva provides Amazon sellers with the tools necessary to create compelling, high-quality visuals that can boost customer engagement, improve product listing quality, and ultimately increase sales. It’s a game-changer that can enhance every aspect of your Amazon presence. By leveraging Canva’s AI tools, sellers can make data-driven decisions and optimize their visuals effectively. This user-friendly platform streamlines the design process for Amazon sellers, allowing them to focus on growing their businesses while maintaining visually appealing and successful listings.

Explore Canva today and unlock the potential to transform your Amazon presence. Share your success stories with us – we’re eager to hear how Canva has revolutionized your Amazon business.