 Hello everyone, my name is Dylan and today I'm going to show you how to edit a template in GoDaddy Studio. Now in so doing you're also going to discover how we get started, where everything is, how it all works and ultimately how you can use GoDaddy Studio to create some beautiful visual content for your brand. So let's dive right in and get started. All right, so today we're going to be working in the web version of GoDaddy Studio which means we'll begin in our websites and marketing dashboard and because I know I would like to create a social media post and then publish it I'm going to navigate to the create social post button, click on that and that will take me into GoDaddy Studio where I am presented with a bunch of different templates as suggestions to get me started. Now there are thousands and thousands of templates in GoDaddy Studio so your best bet is to probably search for exactly what you're looking for at the top right corner here and that might be according to the platform that you're creating for or the design style that you'd like to work in or your specific industry but in this case I have a specific intention in mind which is to create a post for a workshop. So I'm going to use workshop as my search term and we'll see a whole bunch of options come up and these are all designed with promoting a workshop in mind. So you can just navigate according to what appeals to you. This one for example suits my needs. I really like the general layout and style of this one but of course now I would like to customize it for my particular brand and my particular purpose and the first thing I would like to do, the first thing I'd like to edit is the image. So clicking on that I know it's selected because of this border that gets highlighted around it and some options pop up at the top here and this gives me the ability to either lock this layer if I want to make it unable to edit. I can shift it up and down the layer order so that it appears either on top of or below other elements on the canvas. I can delete it and if that is a mistake as it is in this case, I can of course go back using these undo redo buttons right at the top. I can duplicate the image very easily by clicking duplicate and now I've got a second version that I can add to my canvas over here and just delete that for now. And then I can of course replace this image by clicking on these two arrows where it says replace and that will call up my image library on the left-hand side. Now if I'm looking for a new image to put in there, I can either navigate to my photos which is going to take me into my photo library that's part of my websites and marketing dashboard. So all my saved imagery as well as anything new that I might like to add from my computer. But today I'm going to go for the second option which is using unsplash. Now there are hundreds of thousands of really high-quality royalty-free images for you to use. You just have to search for what you're looking for. So in this case, I'm going to switch it from a baking workshop to a pizza making workshop. So I will just search for pizza and as expected dozens if not hundreds of really high-quality images are presented to me. I saw one right at the beginning that's pretty cool. So I'm just going to click on that and in a flash it just replaces it on the canvas and I can hit done. Once it's on the canvas, I can of course move it around and resize it until it's in the perfect position. OK, so we've got a new image and now the second thing I would like to change is the text, of course, because it's not the art of baking workshop anymore. It is now going to be an authentic Italian pizza workshop. So let me just enlarge that text box slightly so the longer word can now fit in there. And like the image, you can just move the text elements around on the page until they're exactly where you want them to be. That yellow line lets me know that I am in the center of my composition. OK, so this is looking good so far. I just want to edit this text too. So once I've selected it, you'll notice on the right hand side, I have some editing options now that appear to me. So I'm going to click on text, which enables me to now change things like the font. So these are all my preexisting downloaded fonts in my personal library. But if you're looking for more, you can navigate to browse fonts at the bottom there. And that will take you to the GoDaddy font library, of which there are 500 plus different fonts for you to choose from grouped into collections. For today, I'm happy to use one of my existing favorites. I think I'm going to go with Vevi and that changes it. But of course, it's a little bit small now, so I will just modify the size here. You can either enter a specific number that looks pretty good or you can just nudge it up and down with your up and down arrow if you want to just make incremental changes. OK, so that looks pretty good. I'm happy with this so far. I would like to just change the color of this box at the bottom here. So let me just click on that and what do you know, nothing happens. So that says to me, all right, this layer is now locked. When you open a template, you may find that some of the layers are locked to facilitate easy editing, but it's something we can easily undo. If you just navigate to the top right hand side here, you will see this little sandwich icon. Clicking on that will reveal all my layers. Now, layers are almost like the skeleton of your design, all the different elements laid out separately. And as you can see, some are above each other, some are below each other, and that will affect how they how they sit on your canvas. So right at the bottom here, we see we have this dark blue box, but it has a padlock in the right hand corner suggesting that it is locked. Simply clicking on that will unlock it and now I can edit it. So I'm going to change the color on the right hand side here by simply clicking color and I can now click here and select any any color that my imagination can muster by using the color wheel. If you have a specific color in mind and you know the hex code, you can enter it there. And another really cool thing you can do is pick a color from the image in your design. So clicking on this little drop icon here, it gives you the eyedropper tool and now I can navigate my cursor all the way to the image. And I'm going to go for a particular green that we see in these in these herbs at the bottom here. So I'm just going to click climb the right tone there. And yeah, I'm happy with that. OK, let's just get my design centered again. Right, so now I've picked that color and I just want to now round the corners on this box. So I'll just hit corners over here and simply slide that across. And you'll notice now that this box instead of having right angle corners now has these rounded corners. So this is looking pretty good to me. I just want to add an element now, because bear in mind, you don't have to use only the elements that are provided in the template. You can, of course, add as many more as you would like. So I'm going to navigate to the left hand side menu here and click on graphic to add a graphic. And I'm thinking something to really give my workshop a sense of being authentically Italian. So let's see what happens if I search for Italy in my graphics. I have a few options here, quite like this option of this little Italian stamp that I can add. It seems to add a sense of authenticity to my workshops. I'm just going to change the size and pop it in the corner there. And then noticing these maps, that actually gives me a pretty cool idea. So I'm going to click on that and it now adds it to my canvas. I'm just going to resize it appropriately. But you will, of course, notice now that it is covering everything else. So all the other elements are sitting behind it. And that makes sense if you look at the layer stack on the right hand side, you'll see that that layer is now sitting right at the top of everything. But if I just grab it and hold it and drag it down, down, down all the way to the bottom of my layer stack, as soon as I let go, look what happens on the canvas. And now that image is sitting underneath everything, which is exactly where I want it to be. The only problem now is that that graphic is quite it's quite vivid and it's competing with my text, making it quite hard to read. So I just want to reduce the opacity of that graphic. I'll click on the opacity, drag it all the way down to something like that's 20 percent, 22 percent. And now you can see it's just a lot more subtle in the background and creates a really cool effect. And I think it complements my final design really nicely. So that only took a few minutes. I started with an existing template and I ended up with something unique to my needs. And once you're done, you can now either export this to your to your computer by selecting either a JPEG or a PNG and then hitting export. That's typically going to save with your downloads folder. But as I mentioned in the beginning, my goal here is to now publish this, in which case I can simply click continue at the top right hand corner. And that should take me to my social media composer, which is going to enable me to take this design and right away publish it to my preferred social media platforms. So it's just going to process that image. And then I arrive in my social media composer and I can just say something simple. The workshop starts tomorrow and preview that post. So now we can see exactly what that post is going to look like on my Facebook feed, my Instagram feed and my Twitter feed. I could of course also add Google to this if I would like. And I now have the option of publishing it immediately by simply hitting publish or I can schedule that for later. Select the dates and time that work for me. And once I've done that, it's scheduled. All right, so I'm going to close that now because I'm not actually running a pizza making workshop. So let's leave without posting. We now return to the websites and marketing dashboard. But that image has now already been saved without me doing anything. If I click on my photos, I will notice that in my photo library, that image should have been saved already. Yep, there it is with my uploads. So now I have a version of this, which I can use for my website and a newsletter. I can print it. I can add it to social media, whatever I decide. If I want to continue working on that design a little bit later on, I can just head back to my dashboard. And this time I'm going to show you an alternative way to gain access to GoDaddy Studio. Last time we went through Create Social Post, but you can of course also go in by the marketing drop down menu and click on content creator. Now when you do that, it's going to look a little bit different in terms of how you arrive in the design editor. And now you'll see that there's a blank canvas in front of me. And on the right hand side are some format options. So if I decide I now want to create my own unique design, I don't need a template, I'm just going to build it up from scratch. I would simply select the right format that I'm looking for, whether that's for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Or I can of course do what I did the last time and begin by searching for a template and using a template as a starting point for my design. I also want to draw your attention to the top left hand corner here because if you access GoDaddy Studio via the content creator, you'll also be able to access my projects. So clicking on my projects, we see that the design I've just been working on has been automatically saved. I don't have to save at any point. And I simply click on that and it will reopen my design and I can commence or recommence the editing process. So the designs are going to remain editable throughout their lifetime. So you can always modify them, make slight adjustments as you go. So we see once it's called in, it's just as easy to edit as it was in the beginning. Another really cool thing you can do, just by the way, if you head into my projects, I have the ability to now duplicate this project. So these three dots in the top left, click on that and then hit duplicate. So let's say I've done my pizza workshop and then next week we're running a pasta making workshop. I don't want to start all the way from the beginning again and start the design from scratch. I just want to modify the one I have so I could do something very simple, like replacing this image of pizza searching for pasta and just popping in a new image. Just setting that up where I want it to be. Yeah, that's good. And then instead of an authentic Italian pizza workshop, it's now on an authentic Italian pasta workshop. And voila, Mamma Mia. There it is just in a few seconds. I've modified that design into something completely new. Finally, from your design editor, you also have the option of starting a new project. So clicking on that will take you back to the blank canvas view where, again, you can start from scratch or use a template. And you can, of course, return to your dashboard, which takes us in a nice little loop all the way back to where we began inside the websites and marketing dashboard. And that's pretty much all there is to it. So as I said at the beginning, starting with templates is definitely the easiest way to start designing and go daddy studio. But try it out for yourself, jump in, play around and see how much fun design can be when it's this simple.