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Canva’s Magic Studio offers great ways to improve your Canva designs using AI. While you can do almost anything with AI, these are my favorite Canva AI tools and are often my go-to options when designing.
1Resize & Magic Switch
When making designs for multiple purposes, such as a variety of social media assets or posters and digital ads, it can be a huge hassle to resize and recompose your designs for all the many formats.
Canva’s Magic Switch and Resize tools let you resize your designs for other size formats at the click of a button. Using AI, this tool recomposes your design in a way that works best with your newly chosen format—of course, you may still need to edit element positions to make it perfect.
If you’re using Canva for more than just a small creative hobby, then access to Magic Switch and Resize can be a brilliantreason to upgrade from Canva Free to Canva Pro. While it’s not an AI tool specifically,Canva’s Docs to Decks featureoffers a similar result when reformatting your design documents into presentation decks.
Once your design is finished, just selectResize & Magic Switchand select the boxes—or add a custom size—for the design sizes you require, and resize them. Open them after resizing to finalize the placement of elements before you save them.
2Translate
Canva introduced Magic Translate as part of its AI tool library in 2023. Using AI to translate designs can save you a lot of time and money when creating multilingual designs; however, you should always check the results with a native speaker to ensure the translation sends the right message.
I like the Magic Translate tool because it not only translates entire documents while in-keeping with your design style, but you can also choose a tone of voice to ensure your translation gives the right message for your brand’s design.
While other tones may be correct in terms of translation itself, there are many languages that use more specific terminology to change entire meanings of phrases based on tone alone.
You can find the Translate feature by selecting a text box, then selectingResize & Magic Switch>Translate. There are over 130 languages to choose from, with Canva implementing more with every update.
Although Magic Translate is a Canva Pro tool, Canva Free users can use it with one of their 50 free AI credits. These credits can be used on some—but not all—of Canva’s AI tools.
3Magic Write
Canva Magic Write offers a whole host of tools to improve or transform your writing. You can find these tools either by selecting the text box, then selectingMagic Write, or by selecting theQuick Actionsbutton in the bottom right corner—which uses the/key as a keyboard shortcut.
Some of the Magic Write tool offerings are:
One of the best ways to use Magic Write, if you are not a confident writer yourself, is by using theCustom Promptoption. This works similarly to AI generators like ChatGPT and you canuse these helpful AI chat prompts.
Whether you need help giving a little sparkle to your writing or you want help writing the entire copy from scratch, Canva’s Magic Write tool offers different ways you can use it to boost your Canva designs. I think this is a helpful tool for a huge number of people. Some parts of this tool are offered under Canva’s free plan, too.
4Magic Morph
Canva’s Magic Morph works similarly to Adobe Firefly’s AI font generation tool. you’re able to use some of the sameideas for Firefly’s font generator toolwhen using Canva’s Magic Morph tool and get some very cool results. It can be found under theQuick Actions(/) or within theextensive list of Canva’s apps. This is a Pro tool.
To use it, select an element or text from your design and then openMagic Morph. You can also add an element from Magic Morph if you don’t already have one you want to use. Then type a prompt into the text box, such as “red foil balloon”, and selectMagic Morphto generate. You’ll receive four results, and you can choose the best one or even regenerate more.
I think using Magic Morph in Canva is a great way to add extra dimensions to your Canva designs. I think it’s best used on text, which is often flat, but it can also be used on other elements. Magic Morph makes designs look more detailed than what Canva offers with its typical non-AI design tools.
Since Canva isn’t an image manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop, Magic Morph offers a way to include image manipulation-style elements, and it just takes a few seconds for great results.
5Grab Text
Canva’s Grab Text tool is one of my favorite Canva offerings. It is another Canva Pro feature, so you’ll need a Canva Pro subscription or free trial to use it, but I think it’s a tool that’s worth the money.
My favorite use of Grab Text is after having generated an AI image with text in it. Most AI image generators cannot generate readable text in the English language. Grab Text is thebest tool for fixing AI gibberish textthat I’ve found, but you’re able to also use it for regular text in created Canva projects or uploaded photos. Select the image with text and chooseEdit Image>Grab Text.
This Canva AI tool identifies any text in an image, regardless of language, including AI gibberish which isn’t in any human language at all, and turns it into an editable element. This means you’re able to rewrite text in photographs or remove text entirely.
Canva’s AI does a great job of identifying the font—or finding a similar one if you want to rewrite the text. It also works very well to fill in the space if you’d rather remove the text entirely. This tool saves so much time, whereas using something like Adobe Photoshop will take several minutes.
There are many ways you canuse Canva’s AI tools to improve your images, even though most tools are under the Pro subscription, you may save money versus buying expensive subscriptions to Adobe or other software.
These five tools are not an exhaustive list of Canva’s AI tools. Many of its other AI tools found within the Magic Studio or Canva Apps are fun to use and helpful too. There are image and video generators, including Magic Design, which can compose entire designs based on a text prompt alone. There’s also Magic Animate, Magic Expand, or Magic Edit to name a few. In a world where almost all creative software presents AI tools, these five are my favorite ones I deem worthwhile to choose Canva Pro for.
