If youâre a blogger or marketer who uses social media to generate traffic, youâll be aware of how time-consuming the process can be. Not only do you need to create content consistently, but youâll also need to design attractive images to get attention on these ânoisyâ platforms.
In this tutorial, youâll discover a highly useful hack that you can employ to bulk create images for your web properties quickly and easily.
In fact, you could even set up a gig on a freelancer site such as Fiverr and offer this as a service⌠like what the seller in the image below is doing â and make money with it.
While a lot of tutorials on this topic will tell you to use a spreadsheet such as Excel or Google Sheet, weâre going to skip that step and keep things VERY simple.
Letâs begin!
This is what youâll need:
- ChatGPT (free version) â https://chat.openai.com/
- Canva (Pro version) â https://www.canva.com/
- Notepad
Step 1: Generating the content
In this example, weâll go with motivational quotes. But the same method applies whether youâre generating fitness tips, marketing pointers, nuggets of wisdom (for your niche) and so on.
This is the prompt weâll use, âGive me a list of 10 popular quotes on self-discipline. Numbered format not required. Just the list.â
Weâll then copy all 10 quotes and paste them in notepad. Remove any unnecessary spacings, quotes, formatting, etc.
Step 2: Log into Canva
Click here to open Canva. Youâll need to have the Pro version if you wish to use the bulk create feature.
Now, weâll click on the Instagram post (Square) template. This measures 1080 by 1080 px.
Click on it and open the design page.
Search for âquotesâ to find templates you can use.
Choose a template you like.
Step 3: Bulk creating the quotes in Canva
This is the fun part!
Once youâve chosen your template, you can edit it a little by adding your website URL or your name⌠or brand.
We make edits on the first page so that they repeat on every page when we use the bulk create feature. This is useful for branding or watermarking your creations.
Letâs assume our brand was âChatGPT Master.â We shall add that to the bottom of the quote image.
The next step will be to look for the âBulk createâ feature in the left sidebar.
Click on it⌠and youâll see thisâŚ
Click on âEnter data manuallyâ and youâll see thisâŚ
Click on âClear tableâ on the lower left corner.
Now click on the box with the âTâ in it and type âQuoteâ ⌠Weâre naming the table now so that we can connect it later.
Open your notepad with all the quotes and copy all of it (Ctrl + A followed by Ctrl + C)
Now click on the â1â field and paste all of it (Ctrl +V)
This is what you should seeâŚ
Click on âDoneâ
Weâre almost there!
Now right click on the quote and youâll see thisâŚ
Click on âConnect dataââŚ
Then click on âQuoteâ â which is the name we gave our table earlier.
Now Canva will associate the quotes in the table with the quote in the template.
Youâll now see thisâŚ
Click on âContinueâ
This will show up⌠and youâll need to click on âGenerate 10 designsâ
Since we used 10 quotes, it says 10 designs. If you had 50 quotes, itâd say 50 designs.
Within seconds, Canva will generate 10 quote images for youâŚ
From here, you can manually change the background image and tweak the elements a little to make them look good⌠and you could even transform the images to look totally different from each other with just a few clicks.
Since the images were bulk created, editing them will be much easier and faster.
In less than 3 minutes, you could have images like theseâŚ
Thatâs how easy it is. It helps to familiarize yourself with the Canva interface so that you can edit your photos proficiently.
Follow these steps and youâll be creating awesome social media images, blog post graphics, quote posters and more in no time at all!
Side note:
If your sidebar does not display the âBulk createâ feature, hereâs what you doâŚ
- Click on the Apps tab
- Search for âbulk createâ
- Hit enter and click on this icon
And youâll see the bulk create feature in your sidebar.
