Use Magic Design to generate design templates
Magic Design helps you generate designs using AI in Canva. Add text, images, or ideas to create designs that match your content and style.
You can customise your designs with:
- Your own photos, videos, and text
- Canva’s stock images, videos, and music
- AI-generated content from tools like Magic Media or Canva AI Video
Magic Design does not generate videos from scratch. It helps arrange and stylize your content, but any video generation happens via Magic Media or Canva AI Video.
Compare Magic tools for your content
- Canva AI Video: Generates longer (8-second), high-quality videos with sound directly from a text prompt. It’s best for cinematic or polished storytelling.
- Magic Media: Generates shorter (4-second), silent video clips or static images from a text prompt. It’s great for quick visuals or short animation‑styles effects.
- Magic Design: Sets up your layout using ready‑made templates that adapt to your content. It can pull in files from Canva AI Video or Magic Media, but does not generate video on its own.
Generate design templates using Canva AI
Use Magic Design to create designs with Canva AI from the homepage or the Templates tab in the editor.
From the homepage
- From the homepage, select Canva AI.
- In the prompt box, enter a short description of the design you’d like to create.
- Select the + (plus) icon to add context to your prompt:
- Upload – Attach files from your device.
- Add from Canva – Add files from Your designs or Uploads.
- Apply brand - Use your brand’s fonts, colours, and other brand assets.
- Connect - Add content from connected apps.
- Press Enter or select Submit.
- Canva AI creates your design and adds it to the homepage editor.
- To continue editing your design in the full editor, select Edit design.
From the editor
- From the editor side panel, select Templates.
- Enter four or more keywords in the search bar describing what you want to create, then press Enter.
- Under Can’t find something?, select Try Canva AI.
- In the Canva AI tab, review or edit your prompt.
- Optional: Select the + (plus) icon to add context to your prompt:
- Upload – Attach files from your device.
- Add from Canva – Use files from Your designs or Uploads.
- Apply brand - Create results using your brand’s fonts, colours, and other brand assets.
- Connect - Add content from connected apps.
- Press Enter or select Submit.
- Your generated design is added as a new page.
What are the limitations of Magic Design?
- Magic Design for Video works with social video formats (such as Instagram Reels and TikTok). It supports 1920 × 1080 px (horizontal), 1080 × 1920 px (vertical), and 1080 × 1080 px (square).
- You can use videos of any size. If a video is very small or very large, the result may not look as sharp.
- Magic Design for Video uses both free and Pro content from the Canva library. On a free account, you can upgrade to Pro, purchase the Procontent, or remove/replace it to download the video.
- When you publish to YouTube, make sure you’re logged in to the account that’s linked to Canva to avoid content claims.
- The more context and instruction you give, the better your result.
- Canva Education admins and teachers can use Magic Design for Videos. It's not available to students.
Where can I learn more about Magic Design?
To learn more about access control, safe use, and rules for content made by AI, read Generating unique designs instantly with AI. Read through this page to learn how to use Magic Studio safely and legally.
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