🚨 Big Canva News New Features Rolling Out! Lots of Magic!

Are you ready for some HUGE new Canva announcements?

:white_check_mark: Magic Design
Magic Design will create the scaffold of your presentation, fill it with relevant content and design it for you. It’s half your work done, so you’re off to a productive start.

:white_check_mark: Magic Replace
Replace is a brand-new feature that allows users to replace any image or logo across their designs!

:white_check_mark: Translate in Magic Design
Users can quickly and easily machine translate their designs.

:white_check_mark: Freehand Drawing
Give it a whirl on any doctype with the Draw tab. Select any pen, scribble one of our shapes or arrows listed here, hold down your pen, and see it transformed to a Canva shape or line.

:white_check_mark: Brand Hub & New Brand Kit Page
All your ingredients are in one place in the editor. Quickly find brand templates, logos, colors, fonts, photos, graphics, and icons for your designs.

New Brand Kit Page is here to support all your branding needs — Brand colors with color names, All new brand text styles, supporting up to 9 font styles, Support for Brand Photos, Brand Graphics, and Brand Icons all wrapped up in a new design

:white_check_mark: Gradients (for Backgrounds and Shapes Fills)

:white_check_mark: Magic Write
Users can now use Magic Write across the worksuite - presentations, websites, social media and more. Magic Write now has 1-click Summarise, Expand and Rewrite options as well on selected text!

:white_check_mark: Magic Eraser in the Modal Photo Editor
Erase distracting things easily and seamlessly from photos.

:white_check_mark: Layers
The new dock makes it super easy to select the right element on the page (particularly when multiple elements are overlapping). Users can also drag to rearrange the order or quickly access any editing actions with the right-click menu.

:white_check_mark: Layout guides
Default Layouts can be added with just a few clicks or easily configured to a custom arrangement. A live preview on the page lets users know what this will look like! Guides are also now lockable!

:white_check_mark: Create an animation
An easy way to create animations. Simply activate the new create an animation tool and drag the element along the path you wish to animate. The path and timing is recorded to play back the motion.

:white_check_mark: Canva assistant
A universal search tool powered by contextual recommendations. From public content to private content to in-editor commands, Magic Search Button provides access to whatever you need to design when you need it, making it the fastest and easiest way to create on Canva.

:white_check_mark: Layouts
Magic Layouts provides inspiring layout ideas for the content on your page.

:white_check_mark: User-editable Alt Text
Give people with visual or cognitive impairments a way to experience your designs. It allows you to add written descriptions to any image or element in your Canva design. Screen readers can read these descriptions aloud, giving a textual alternative to visual content.

:white_check_mark: Gradients
Fill and correct your object with Gradient colors and not only solid! Super easy!

Which will make your job easier?

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I am sooooo happy!!! After 20+ years as an Adobe Illustrator user LOVE that we are finally getting LAYERS…this wins over everything else with me!

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They should hire you to do their social live reporting @deb - THIS is way better than anything I saw online as they were rolling things out. :clap:

MY favorite was how they’ve integrated Magic Write into ALL the formats - yay!

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Here’s their press release with lots of visuals too

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-create-brand-new-era-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3UATFFlThDYrHH-ml8Jz20woT95CZKjaL4HNif3YCGmkWudbVi1htWWyA