Key points
- Canva's Magic Studio provides AI tools like Resize and Magic Switch to easily resize designs.
- Magic Translate helps you translate designs while maintaining style and tone.
- Magic Write offers tools to improve writing, and Canva's Magic Morph adds dimension to designs.
Canva’s Magic Studio offers great ways to enhance your Canva designs using AI. While you can do just about anything with AI, these are my favorite AI tools in Canva and often my go-to options when designing.
1 Magic resize and switch
When you create designs for multiple purposes, such as a variety of social media assets or digital posters and ads, it can be quite a hassle to have to resize and reconfigure your designs for all of the many formats.
Canva’s Magic Switch and Resize tools let you resize your designs to fit other size formats with the click of a button. Using artificial intelligence, this tool reconfigures your design in a way that works best for your newly chosen format — of course, you may need to edit the placement of elements to get it just right.
If you use Canva for more than just a small creative hobby, access to Magic Switch and Resize could be a great reason to upgrade from Canva Free to Canva Pro. While not specifically an AI tool, Canva’s Docs to Decks feature delivers a similar result when reformatting your design documents into presentation decks.
Once you've finished your design, simply select Magic resize and switch Check the boxes—or add a custom size—for the design sizes you want, then resize them. Open them after resizing to position the elements before saving.
2 Translates
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 is sending the right message.
I like Magic Translate because not only does it translate entire documents while maintaining your design style, but you can also choose the tone of voice to ensure your translation delivers the right message for your brand design.
While other tones may be correct in terms of the same translation, there are many languages that use more specific terms to change the meanings of entire phrases based on tone alone.
You can find the translation feature by selecting a text box, then selecting Magic resize and switch > TranslatesThere are over 130 languages to choose from, with Canva adding more with each 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 of Canva's AI tools, but not all.
3 magic writing
Canva Magic Write offers a full suite of tools to enhance or transform your writing. You can find these tools by either selecting the text box, then selecting magic writingOr by choosing Quick Actions The button in the lower right corner – which is used / Key as keyboard shortcut.
Some of Magic Write's tools include:
- change the tone of writing
- Summarize or summarize your writing.
- rewrite your words
- Automatically correct spelling errors
One of the best ways to use Magic Write, if you are not a confident writer, is to use Custom router Option. This works similarly to AI generators like ChatGPT and you can use these useful AI chat prompts.
Whether you need help adding some sparkle to your writing or you want help writing the entire text from scratch, Canva’s Magic Write tool offers a variety of ways you can enhance your Canva designs. I think this is a useful tool for a lot of people. Some parts of this tool are also included in Canva’s free plan.
4 Magic of transformation
Canva's Magic Morph tool works similarly to Adobe Firefly's AI font generator. You can use some of the same ideas from Firefly's font generator when using Canva's Magic Morph tool and get some really cool results. It can be found under Quick Actions (/) or within the comprehensive list of Canva apps. This is a professional tool.
To use it, select an element or text from your design and then open it. Magic of transformationYou can also add an item from Magic Morph if you don't already have one you want to use. Then type a prompt in the text box, such as “red foil balloon,” and select Magic of transformation To generate it. You will receive four results, and you can choose the best one or even renew more.
I think using Magic Morph in Canva is a great way to add extra dimension to your Canva designs. I think it works best on text, which is often flat, but it can be used on other elements as well. Magic Morph makes designs look more detailed than what Canva offers with its non-AI design tools.
Since Canva isn't a photo manipulation program like Adobe Photoshop, Magic Morph provides a way to include photo manipulation-style elements, and it only takes a few seconds to get great results.
5 Text Grab
Canva's Grab Text tool is one of my favorite Canva offerings. It's another Canva Pro feature, so you'll need a Canva Pro subscription or a free trial to use it, but I think it's worth the money.
My favorite use for Grab Text is after I’ve created an AI image with text in it. Most AI image generators can’t generate readable text in English. Grab Text is the best tool for fixing incomprehensible AI text I’ve found, but you can also use it for plain text in Canva projects or uploaded images. Select the image with text and choose Edit Image > Text Grab.
This Canva AI tool identifies any text in an image, regardless of language, including AI-generated gibberish that doesn’t exist in any human language at all, and turns it into an editable element. This means you can rewrite text in photos or remove text entirely.
Canva’s AI does a great job of recognizing the font or finding a similar font if you want to rewrite text. It also works really well at filling in space if you’d rather remove text entirely. This tool saves a lot of time, whereas using something like Adobe Photoshop would take minutes.
There are many ways you can use Canva's AI tools to enhance your images, and while most of the tools fall under the Pro subscription, you may be able to save money over purchasing expensive subscriptions to Adobe or other software.
These five tools are not an exhaustive list of the AI tools that Canva offers. There are many other AI tools found within Magic Studio or Canva Apps that are fun to use and useful as well. There are image and video generators, including Magic Design, that can compose entire designs based on just a text prompt. There are also Magic Animate, Magic Expand, or Magic Edit, to name a few. In a world where almost every creative software offers AI tools, these five are my favorites that I think are worth choosing over Canva Pro.