This tutorial guides you through adjusting the ratio of an image in Canva to create better-fitting thumbnails. You'll learn how to customize and edit images to improve their appearance on your event homepage.

As you know, sometimes a vendor or an event already has a poster created in a different aspect ratio than what the thumbnail is. Additionally, you may not have a file with layers to adjust the aspect ratio. I'm going to show you on canva how to quickly remedy this.

Customize your image so that it looks better on the event homepage.

Here is our poster that does not fit.

Adjust it to fit the top and bottom height, and I'm going to bring it center stage.

Now, I'm going to duplicate this by either doing control C control V, or right click duplicate.

And I'm going to enlarge this image as big as I can so that it fills up the whole screen width wise.

I'm going to send this image to the back.

Click "Position".

Click here.

While still on that image, I want to hit edit. Blur.

Whole image and bring the intensity to about 50.

Click "Intensity".

Note that while you're here, you will only see the background image. Once you're done exit, the blur.

And you can see the preview for the thumbnail. This is going to look much better on your home screen.

You have successfully adjusted the image ratio for thumbnails in Canva, ensuring a better fit and appearance on your event homepage.