Canva just launched its Creative Operating System – a massive upgrade built to supercharge creativity with AI

• Canva has launched a new Creative Operating System with upgraded video, email, and interactive tools
• New design-focused AI powers mean faster, smarter creative workflows
• Affinity is now free as Canva expands into full marketing and brand management

Canva the popular all-in-one design platform, has just announced a major upgrade called Creative Operating System.

The new Canva is designed to be people-focussed to make designing pretty much anything easier than ever, and as you’d expect takes AI integration even further than before.

Creative Operating System is being implemented across the board, so it doesn’t matter if you’re a large business creating websites and presentations or you’re designing a flyer for your kids’ football team, the new features are available to everyone.

Visual Suite

The core of the new update is a redesigned Visual Suite that expands Canva beyond graphics and social media posts into more modern formats like video, email and interactive elements.

One of the key additions is Video 2.0, Canva’s completely rebuilt video editing software that makes it easier for beginners while still offering professional-level tools. It has new AI-powered features like Magic Video, that can turn a written prompt into a polished video.

The new update has a whole new layer of AI tools. Canva calls it the first AI model that can understand visual layout and design rules, rather than just text and images.

Using Canva Design Model you can generate editable design in seconds and help keep everything on the page balanced, like a real designer would.

AI has been integrated into the editor, so you can create image textures, videos and 3D elements using chatbot-style prompts that automatically match the current style so everything fits together.

There's also an Ask Canva feature that works like a built-in AI assistant, offering design suggestions, copy edits and creative ideas, all without leaving the workspace. Just tag @canva at any time in the editor and you’ve got a true creative partner to talk to.

To Affinity and beyond!

One major piece of news is that Affinity, the design software suite Canva acquired, is becoming free for Canva users.

Affinity tools for vector graphics, photo editing and layout are now yours to help create professional-level assets, which you can then move into Canva to use in your designs.

There are also a bunch of new tools for brands and marketing teams, not to mention that for the first time Canva can now act as a newsletter hub, so you can use it for sending out newsletter, including designing on-brand emails and exporting them as HTML. Forms and data tools that can feedback into Canva Sheets are also available.

The new Canva is further evidence of the vast changes that AI is making to the design word, following on from recent announcements by Adobe regarding further AI advancements in Photoshop and Firefly.

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