Revolutionize Your Designs Using Our Team’s Favorite New Canva Features

Our team recently attended Canva Create 2024: Work Redesigned (virtually from the comfort of our desks, of course), where the Canva team hosted a live presentation about the tool’s latest features. As a team that uses Canva daily to create beautifully designed graphics and collateral, this webinar left us buzzing with excitement. To celebrate the freshly upgraded platform, we’re sharing 6 of our favorite new features that will elevate the way we design for our clients and ourselves. 

1. Brand Styles – Carson’s favorite

It’s crucial to ensure designs are consistently on-brand, and the new Styles feature makes this easier than ever. With just one click, you can apply a brand’s newest colors, fonts and logos to a design, brand template, or even an image. This easily keeps branding updated when a company refresh or logo change happens. 

2. Bulk Create – Carson Grace’s favorite

The Bulk Create tool allows you to design more quickly because it can generate on-brand assets at scale. By simply uploading a CSV or Excel file, Bulk Create quickly updates images, text and graphics across various designs. This means you no longer have the tedious task of editing individual assets manually. 

3. Magic Media – Evan’s favorite

I’m most excited about Magic Media, an AI-powered image, video and graphic-generating tool. Whether you need icons, stickers or illustrations, all you have to do is describe what you want, and Magic Media transforms the words into beautiful visuals. Now, you can quickly produce high-quality, custom graphics for the specific needs of your designs.

4. Magic Write – Jordan’s favorite

Canva’s Magic Write, an AI-driven writing assistant, offers the ability to generate text using a specific tone of voice. By uploading sample copy, Magic Write crafts personalized text designed to sound just like the reference copy. This feature can help ensure messages are not only high-quality but also consistent with a client’s voice.

5. Video Editor – Olivia’s favorite

The improved Video Editor is packed with AI-powered features that make video creation and editing a breeze. Canva added a Highlights tool, which captures the best parts of a video and generates short, engaging clips, as well as the Enhance Voice feature, which removes background noise. These updates help create high-quality video content that requires fewer edits and revisions.

6. Partnership with Affinity – Bri’s favorite

Canva’s recent partnership with Affinity, a powerful creative suite (similar to the Adobe suite) known for its capabilities in professional photography, graphic design, illustration and typography, is a gamechanger. This integration allows you to make complex images in Adobe, such as a logo or piece of art, and integrate them into less complex Canva designs.

We’re excited to use these new features to create efficiencies and enhance the quality of our designs. We can’t wait to see the incredible results they bring!