Brand-New Era of Design: Gifts & Surprises Unboxed at Canva Create Event

Generate your next Canva Presentation effortlessly with Magic Design. Simply provide a brief idea and let the intuitive tool create an outline, slides, and content for your professional-looking slide deck. Magic Design quickly fills out your story, allowing you to focus on adding personal touches and details to make your presentation stand out. Say goodbye to tedious and time-consuming presentation creation and hello to an unforgettable presentation with Magic Design.

Introducing Magic Write in Canva Docs Building on the success of Magic Write for Canva Docs, Canva made the game-changing tool available across the entire Visual Work suite. Whether you are creating websites, presentations, social media posts, or brainstorming on a whiteboard, Magic Write will streamline your workflow without the need to switch between various platforms to create compelling copy. Magic Write, can summarise wordy blurbs and add ideas to strategy decks without missing a beat. And that is not all! Magic Write is now available in 18 languages, making it one of the first globally accessible generative AI tools.

Canva’s new Translate feature allows you to create designs to share globally. Easily incorporate text into your design, select your desired language, swiftly convert your text, and make any necessary adjustments for a flawless result.

The Magic Eraser tool makes photo editing quicker and simpler than ever before. Users can effortlessly eliminate any undesired objects from their pictures. Moreover, the Magic Edit feature allows users to easily substitute one element with another by selecting the desired location and describing it to the editor.

Text to Image, has had a boost. The process is even more enchanting than before. Text to Image helps you create unique images from a simple description. So if you’ve ever envisioned a visual concept but struggled to locate a corresponding image, Text to Image can bring it to life in a matter of seconds. Since Text to Image was launched last year, Canva’s user community has generated over sixty million images using this feature. The latest update delivers better quality outputs with images now having 16 times higher resolution, albeit at a reduced generation speed of approximately 68%. Additionally, there are exciting new styles, such as analogue Film, which evokes a retro flashback vibe, and Retrowave, which transports you to a cyberpunk future.

After receiving numerous requests from their user community, Canva has introduced a novel method of sketching that can be applied to any type of design. Moreover, the new feature has an automated shape-smoothing function that recognises the user’s creation, making it effortless to highlight points in presentations or plan for upcoming projects on whiteboards. With a few clicks, users can choose their preferred brush and adjust its colour and weight to enhance their designs and give their concepts a more prominent presence. But that’s not all; Canva will soon launch an update that will match users’ sketches with elements from their library, transforming rough drafts into polished illustrations!

With the increasing prominence of video on all channels, Canva is simplifying the process of producing polished and captivating videos with just a few clicks.

The Create an Animation feature brings your story to life. Simply draw the path that you want your animation to take and adjust its speed along the way. Users can experiment with this tool on their social media post designs, presentations, and videos!

Another amazing tool that you are sure to love is Beat Sync. With this simple yet powerful tool, you can add the perfect music track to your video content to make it more dynamic and engaging. Beat Sync, can easily synchronise your footage to the beat of your music track with just one click, saving you time and effort.

Canva’s new Brand Hub enables teams to create on-brand designs within the Canva editing experience. The Brand Hub includes the Brand Kit, which brings together all brand assets, controls, and workflows to maintain consistency as content needs grow. Users can upload and store all core brand elements in one place, accessible from the Canva Editor, making it easy for anyone to create on-brand designs. Brand Guidelines can be added to help teams understand how to use all brand assets. Brand Folders allow users to set up unique branding, templates, and controls within specific projects. In contrast, Brand Controls can be set within project folders to manage access to fonts, colours, templates, and assets. Canva’s new Template Assistant checks the quality of template designs and highlights potential issues. With the asset-replacing feature, users can update any component of their brand identity with just one click, and the change will be reflected across all existing and new designs.

Based on many requests from professional designers, Canva added some other handy new features to Canva including:
• layers: Rearrange elements and make changes without affecting other layers
• Layout guides: Have more control over your layouts by consistently aligning elements. Choose from pre-set layout guides or create your own.
• Gradients: Add depth and character to your design with customisable gradients.
• Position Panel: Get precise with advanced positioning and sizing tools to align elements, reorder layers and even out spacing between elements.
• Alt Text: Describe your designs, providing extra content to remove barriers to usability while adding SEO-friendly metadata.
• New Fonts: Canva is partnering with font foundry Monotype to add 953 popular Latin fonts and 191 non-Latin fonts to their content library