10 Canva AI-Powered New* Features Review - Design Faster with more Fun

Canva recently introduced a number of AI-powered new features to help you work faster and make designing in Canva faster and more fun. If you have been asking your self if Canva has a drawing tool, or How much does magic write cost in Canva?, among other Canva Frequently Asked questions (FAQs), this article has all the answers.

Supercharge your designs, stay productive and creative, with this set of Canva AI-powered online tools. You can learn more about Canva in our last post or enroll in my Free Canva Udemy Course.

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10 AI-Powered Canva Pro New Features Review - make Design Creation Easier and more Fun.

1. Magic Write

Magic write feature in Canva is your AI-powered writing assistant. You can use it to quickly craft high-quality, short-form, and long-form content for blogs, sales emails, YouTube video scripts, and more of up to approximately 500 words per use. Whether you want to brainstorm ideas for your next marketing campaign or business marketing visuals, Canva’s Magic write helps you quickly kickstart or brainstorm your ideas faster.

Magic write is an AI writer & text generator, copywriting assistant helping you get to your first draft with just a few prompts (questions or instructions).

Why use Magic Write in Canva

• Quickly generate copy (writing) for your social media post, or blog, so you can speed up your creative process and do more in less time.

• Skip the blank canvas and start somewhere with your project. Use Magic write to generate a paragraph, sentence, or outline for your next article.

• Generate text, summarize, expand, and re-write quality content.

2. Canva Draw Tool

Play around with Draw and unleash your creativity with the freehand drawing tool in Canva. Select from a variety of pen types and pen options (Pen, Marker, Highlighter) and colors to highlight, annotate or freely draw your designs in Canva. You can also use the Draw Tool in Canva to turn a freely drawn round shape into a perfectly polished Circle.

How to draw on Canva Whiteboard —Canva Draw Tool can be found under the Tools bar in Canva. It allows you to choose the weight of the pen or marker, as well as use the Eraser tool to easily customize and make a design your own.

Why use Magic Draw Tool in Canva

• Customize the Color of your shapes with the Draw tool.

• Easily sketch ideas and solutions on your Canva whiteboard

• Choose the weight and transparency of the pen or marker.

3. Magic Design Canva

Magic Design is a free AI design tool by Canva that generates similar designs based on your input, and lets you visualize your design ideas with a selection of refined templates made just for you. It helps you save time looking for the right design template allowing you to spend more time editing and perfecting the right design.

How to use Magic Design Canva — Start by uploading your media, find Magic design in the toolbar, choose your media, add a title or headline to be applied to your design, and customize the design with a specific style.

Why use Magic Design Canva?

• Design faster with ready made customized templates

• Generate multiple designs based on one idea

• Save time editing the right design, not choosing the right template.

• Use Magic design to craft different design templates based on the media you upload.

4. Magic Edit

Magic Edit is a simple but veru powerful technology in Canva that allows you to replace any object in a photo with an AI-generated photo. It allows you to easily swap or replace parts of your photo. All you need to do is brush over the part that you want to replace and enter the prompt of what you want to put. Leave the rest to Canva’s AI photo editor.

This is simply how you edit an image using a Text prompt and Canva AI. This is different from the Background remover tool that basically removes background from any photo with just a click of a button. Also note that Magic Edit and Canva Background remover tool are Canva Pro features.

How to use Magic Edit in 3 Simple Steps

Step 1: Once you have a design, go to Edit photo in the top tools menu, brush over the image to highlight the part of the photo you want to replace.

Step 2: Describe what you want to generate with AI by simply typing it in.

Step 3: Click on ‘Generate’ to preview your results.

5. Magic Eraser

Make people and objects disappear from photos with just this amazing Canva tool. Remove unwanted details with just a brush stroke. When you combine the Magic Edit and Magic Eraser, you can seamlessly add or remove objects from your images.

The Magic Eraser is how to remove background from photos in Canva but not for free. It requires a Canva pro account. It’s accessible when you click on the “Edit Image” button, then select the Magic Eraser from the Tools menu, choose a brush stroke size and brush over the object you want to remove. Just like that the Canva AI-Tool will do it’s magic.

Why use the Magic Eraser

• Cleaning up your Instagram photos just got easier. Remove unwanted objects or erase people from photos faster with AI.

• Brush over distractions to instantly remove them with Magic Eraser.

• Clean up your travel shots and tell your story more clearly.

6. Canva Translate

Translate your Canva designs into over 100 languages with just a few clicks. Canva Translate is an online AI-powered machine translation tool that allows you to automatically and instantly translate the text in your designs into any of 100 languages. From the Canva editor, select your text and go to the Translate tool, select the language you are translating from, and select the language you are translating to, then apply to any page of your choice.

Why use Canva Translate?

• Translate your designs without having to leave Canva.

• Translate from 100 languages.

• Free 500 uses with Canva Pro.

7. Magic Presentation

Can you create a PowerPoint presentation in Canva? Yes you can.

And now with the Magic presentation AI tool in Canva, you can create and edit your presentations even faster, and more easier. Reimagine presentations with stunning data visualizations and a rich content library.

Start with inspiration from professionally designed presentation templates. You can then customize your designs with thousands of free images, videos, graphics, and other elements from the Canva content library.

Don’t forget you can invite collaborators, clients, co-presenters, and designers to help you put your presentation together via a design link or email invite.

Why use Magic Presentation in Canva?

• Share your final output as PDF, video, link from Canva, or a website.

• Record your presentation within Canva.

• Canva Live allows for real time engagement with viewers, commenting, and sending questions as the presentation goes on.

• Access your Canva presentations on any browser, or mobile device.

FAQ: Can I convert a Canva presentation to PowerPoint? Yes you can. Simply download a Microsoft PowerPoint file from Canva.

8. Create Animation

Bring your story to life with unique animation styles in Canva by simply dragging your elements across the screen and recording their path. You can edit and play around with speed and direction.

How to Animate in Canva Step by Step

Step 1: Drag freely or remember to hold down the Shift key while dragging for straight lines. This is how you record your animation key frames.

Step 2: You control the movement or speed of your element by dragging them faster or slower.

Step 3: Simply stop dragging to complete your animation.

9. Beat Sync

Auto-match your sound track to your footage with Beat Sync. From the Canva editor, you also get more control to move the clips around and snap them to any beat. Use your own sound by uploading it or simply search for royalty free music from a rich content library in Canva.

10. Canva Text-to-Image Generator

Type what you want to see and let Canva AI turn your imaginations to life. Canva text-to-image generates any image you describe and transforms your words and phrases into beautiful images, saving you a lot of time spent looking for images for your projects. Canva text-to-image produces content for Commercial use so you don’t have to worry about licenses or a third party subscription.

Other Canva Pro Features

Brand Hub

Stay organized with all your logos and brand assets in one place. Canva Brand hub allows you to create designs, effortlessly replace logos, images, across the designs, and manage up to 100 separate brands, all in one place.

Content Planner

Create and schedule content on all your favorite social media channels including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, right from Canva. The content planner allows you to visualize your designs on a Calendar helping you stay prepared on your most important days.

Cloud Storage

Did you know that you can get up to 100 GBs of storage with Canva Pro? The free Canva only gives you 5 GB, but if you upgrade to Canva Pro, you get unlimited folders to organize your work, and 100 GB storage for your designs.

Free Online Video Convertor

Did you know that Canva has a free and beginner-friendly video to MP4 converter tool? This tool makes creating video content for different platforms effortless and fun. Convert your video in one click.

With Canva’s free video convertor, there is no need to install a separate video converter software or app. You can easily convert your video asset to MP4 on Canva’s video editing dashboard simply by downloading your file as a high-quality MP4. You can upload and convert videos in various formats such as MOV, GIF, MPEG, MKV, or WEBM file formats to MP4 files in minutes.

Conclusion

This is just a sratch of what AI can do. Canva uses AI in many other aspects of their business. For example, collecting data for all designs ever downloaded, recommending you elements with Magic Recommendations. In this article, we have seen how Canva has integrated AI on a mission to make creating designs faster and more fun.

Imagine typing a word and the right images are generate for you. That’s super convenient, huge time saver, and super fun. I will close the article by inviting you to share your experience. Which of these AI tools have you tried out? Leave a comment and don’t forget to share the post in your groups.

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