Glossary term
What is Canvas?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Canvas" means: The blank page you design on, set to a size in pixels, inches or millimetres. It is taught in Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers. Related terms include Aspect ratio, Layer, Resolution and Hierarchy. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Canvas?
The blank page you design on, set to a size in pixels, inches or millimetres.
Where is Canvas taught?
Canvas is defined in Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers.
Which lessons cover Canvas?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers, lesson 1.3: Pick the right canvas size
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers, lesson 2.2: Alignment: give everything a shared edge
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers, lesson 6.3: Design a flyer for print
Which terms are related to Canvas?
Next to Canvas in the course glossaries: Aspect ratio, Layer, Resolution, Hierarchy, Vector graphic, White space, Raster image and Contrast ratio.
Aspect ratioLayerResolutionHierarchyVector graphicWhite spaceRaster imageContrast ratio
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Canvas?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers: You can use a web browser, save a file and find it again.