Thursday, March 23, 2024 Canva Create event awaited for months, it was held in Los Angeles. As expected, Australian graphic design platform Canva has discovered these latest new features, a redesign that confirms its position among graphics editing tools.
Redesigned user interface, improved AI tools, a thought for companies that resulted in an offer, ten years later, the company Melanie Perkins becomes a chart giant 12 years after its creation.
After simplifying and democratizing the design ecosystem in our first decade, our goal for the second decade is to unify the fragmented ecosystems of design, artificial intelligence, and task management tools, making them accessible and easy to use for all professionals.
Melanie Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Canva.
The biggest redesign in Canva history
This latest Canva Create risks affecting memories for months to come. If the competition between Canva and Photoshop has always been difficult, especially between supporters of the two parties, the latest news from Canva risks fueling this debate further.
Be it the user interface, businesses, students, AI tool improvement, Canva has carefully designed everything to provide its users with a graphics heaven. Dear designers and graphic designers, now everything is at your fingertips to let your imagination run free.
The latest 5 new features in Canva
These are the updates and new features introduced during the Canva Create event.
1. Redesign of user experience
Canva wants to make its users more productive. To do this, the platform focused on the following 3 elements:
- Customizable home page: The user has the option of adding favorite elements (maps, brand models, etc.), pinning company content and using advanced filters.
- Toolbar for contextual editing: this opens on user request, highlighting popular tools such as background remover or Magic Studio AI tools,
- Simplified cooperation: You have comment management and the ability to easily switch from one team project to another.
2. Canva sets
Canva introduces its famous kits that offer a range of team tools. Indeed, Canva Kits bring together tools and models that are tailored to the needs of each department of the company. However, Canva Kit can be personalized according to the needs of the team, and it is possible to integrate media assets (logo, graphic charter, fonts, etc.).
Basically, Canva introduced 4 toolkits with corresponding resources and tools:
- Human resources : onboarding presentation templates and corporate newsletters
- Commercial service: presentation templates and sales reports
- Marketing department: campaign and report templates and publication templates
- Creative Department: Brand Strategy Brief and Models
3. Canva courses
This feature transforms Canva from a simple content design tool into a learning tool. Canva courses allow the user to transform content created on the platform into interactive courses. It can be used to onboard a new employee or offer workshops to train employees on a specific topic.
4. Enhancing the magic toolkit
Canva continues to improve its Magic Studio AI suite of tools. Here are the new integrated AI features.
- From text to illustration, via Média Magique: which allows you to generate graphics, icons and illustrations from queries,
- Magical transformation: you can now turn a Canva creation into a personalized document, from a text request,
- Photo editing: you can move or delete any element (object, person, etc.) present in the photo.
- Voice editing: within your videos, it is now possible to apply a noise reduction effect to the soundtrack to improve the sound quality.
5. A safer offer for companies
Canva has revised its offering for large companies, emphasizing stronger security and more administrative controls. Now organizations can restrict the use of brand assets and regulate access to their Canva templates.
From now on, companies benefit from a scalable cloud, tailored to their specific needs. They can also count on “Canva Shield”which specifically offers them an exemption from liability for content created through the AI platform.
During the Canva Create event, the Australian company did not forget to mention Affinity, which it acquired last March. Moreover, the Affinity platform that offers a set of tools, notably Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, has moved to version 2.5 and is now freely available for schools, associations and NGOs.