If you’ve been putting off organizing your Canva account because it feels like a big project, folders are the place to start — and the setup is faster than you’d expect. This tutorial covers how to create folders and subfolders in both your Projects tab and your Uploads tab, so you have a structure in place before you start moving anything around.
Once you’ve watched, if you want a clear picture of how folders fit into organizing your Canva account as a whole, my free Canva Organization Roadmap walks you through exactly where to begin.
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If you’re just getting started with organizing your Canva account, creating folders is the first practical step, and it only takes about thirty seconds.
Go to your Projects tab. You’ll see an Add New button near the top of the screen. Click that, choose Folder from the options that appear, and give your folder a name. That’s it — your folder exists and is ready to use.
Subfolders follow exactly the same process, with one difference: instead of starting from the main Projects view, you start from inside an existing folder. Open the folder where you want the subfolder to live, click Add New, choose Folder, give it a name, and Canva automatically treats it as a subfolder based on where you created it.
The same process works inside your Uploads tab as well. If you want to organize your imported images and videos into folders, open Uploads, click Add New, choose Folder, and name it.
Subfolders work there too — open any existing uploads folder and follow the same steps.
Canva currently supports up to ten levels of folder nesting. Most people will never need anywhere near that many, but it’s useful to know that if one of your categories grows, you can keep building a deeper structure underneath it rather than adding more and more folders at the top level.
If you want a clear starting point for organizing your entire Canva account (not just your folders) I’ve put together a free Canva Organization Roadmap that walks you through exactly where to begin.
