“AI will steal my job.”

“AI can never replace creativity”.

“AI has ALREADY replaced creativity.”

We hear all these statements on a day-to-day basis.

‘AI’. These two letters have become the highlight of the past two years of our lives.

As every influential personality from Harvard professor to Netflix CEO, everyone has at least agreed on one statement:

“AI won’t replace you. But someone who understands AI will.”

Alright. Let’s understand it, then.

Well, If you’re a designer, this edition is for you.🥰

Topics to discuss today:

1. Canva create event 🎨 

2. One-click background removal 🖱️

3. No more corporate-sounding copy 🙃

4. Magic write 🪄 

5. News of the day 📰 

Canva create event 💃

After successfully creating 25 billion designs and 185 million users, Canva hosted Canva Create.

By the way, it’s also one of the most entertaining launch events you’ll ever see.

You should see it.

Besides the dances, acts, and AN EPIC RAP BATTLE, they announced some pretty awesome AI updates.

If used properly, they’re quickly gonna 10x your design productivity.

So let’s go feature by feature ⬇️

1. No more third-party background removal 🫣

Canva introduced ‘Quick action toolbar AI,’ making editing photos effortless.

Just one click, and the background is removed in a second.

Something every designer was dying to get. Isn’t it?

2. Text-to-Image…FINALLY! 😇

Think Photoshop AI meets Canva.

All you gotta do is:

1. Select your targeted region.

2. Go to Magic edit.

3. Describe what you wanna draw/edit.

4. Enjoy!

3. No more corporate-sounding copy on designs 😌

Adding your brand voice to a document seems like a highly sweaty task.

With MAGIC WRITE - you can finally set your brand’s voice to your designs with just a click.

It will change the text to the exact voice you prefer.

Think Canva meets ChatGPT. 🤝

4. Bonus 🤓

Magic media isn’t just photos and videos.
You can now create and add your own graphics to your designs.

Boring Presentations are not so boring anymore 😎

The best part about AI is how easily it can replace tasks you dread doing.

With BULK CREATE, you can finally remove all the boring stuff out of your hands.

Focus more on creative stuff by removing repeatable tasks 🧑‍💻

As designers, the worst part is when the client asks to change the logo.

And you have to go through every single one of the design templates to change the logo manually.

With Canva Create, the ‘automatically replace’ feature replaces logos in all the templates in the blink of an eye.

Isn’t it amazing?

News of the Day 📰

It seems like two of every designer’s favorite tools are being merged.

Canva just acquired Affinity.

We’re excited to see what cool collaborations it can do.

There are many amazing things that you can do with it:

Like Affinity photo.

You can use it for anything from basic retouching to complex compositions.

Yup, anything.

AI Challenge of the Week 🦾

Every week, we’ll cover one AI challenge. (and you have to do. We’re not the type of newsletter that does one-sided communication, got it?)

And the challenge of the week is 👇🏻

Magical Image

All you have to do is:

• Open your Canva tab.

• Upload an image of any person you like. (Seriously, anything, from Harry Potter to your selfie).

• Now, select the character’s hand.

• Add something unique on the hand by Canva Create’s Magic edit feature. (A bird, a magic wand, crown, anything)

• Hit reply to this email and share your art with us.

• The best ones will get a shoutout in our next week’s email.

See you on the next issue,

Team Top 1% AI.

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