8 INSANE New Canva Tools to Level Up your Graphic Designs 🤯

About this video

Kate tours eight new Canva tools she recently discovered, saving her favorite for last. First is Background Generator, a Canva Pro tool marked with a crown, where she types a prompt such as a kitchen counter with a window and rain and chooses among four AI backgrounds. Next is perspective correction in the modal photo editor via Upload and Edit image, using vertical and horizontal perspective sliders under Crop. Third is Magic Media style reference, where she uploads a reference image of a cat in a pop art style so a generated dog wearing sunglasses matches that style. Fourth is custom mockup templates in the Mockups app, which turns a plain laptop photo into a frame she can drag a design into. Fifth is line text direction and width, using the L shortcut and a text direction button to keep text horizontal on a diagonal line. She then covers the Image Splitter app, the Frame Blur app for brush, shape and text blurs, and finally the Texture app, her favorite, with paper, paint, VHS, grit, film grain, light, fabric and grunge textures adjustable by scale, opacity and blend mode.

Key takeaways

• Background Generator is Pro-only: select a photo, open Edit and Magic Studio, describe the new background, and choose from four generated variations
• Fix skewed photos with perspective correction in the modal photo editor, using the vertical and horizontal sliders under Crop
• Use Magic Media style reference by uploading your own reference image so AI-generated images copy its stylistic elements instead of relying only on a text prompt
• Turn any ordinary photo into a usable mockup with the Mockups app’s create a mockup template option, which adds a Canva frame you can drag designs into
• Use the Texture app to add paper, paint, film grain, fabric or grunge textures and tune scale, opacity and blend mode, plus Image Splitter for split-image effects and Instagram grids

Episode details: published July 8, 2025 · 17:05 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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