9 New MIND-BLOWING Canva Tools (Just Released!) 🤯

About this video

Kate Hayes walks through nine newly released Canva tools she says can save online business and digital product creators time each week. 1) Element Effects: apply effects previously limited to photos/text — drop shadow, glow, echo, and advanced styles like radioactive, retro, midnight, Malibu, chroma and aura — to icons and illustrations, adjusting sliders for direction, offset and gradient colours. 2) Magic Decorate: select a background, go to Edit > Decorate (marked Pro-only at filming), optionally prompt it (example: ‘summer theme pool party icons and illustrations in bright colors’), and choose from four AI-generated decorated backgrounds whose elements remain movable/deletable. 3) Brand Components: group elements (example: a ‘price badge’), create a component and save it to a Brand Kit category; editing the source and clicking Publish Updates lets you update one or all instances across a project. 4) Personal Brand Kit: create a separate personal kit via Brand > Create personal brand kit for your own logos, colours, fonts, voice and assets apart from company kits. 5) Copy Art Style: copy a style from an element/image with the paint-roller Style tool and click a photo to restyle it, e.g. a puppy photo into a sketch — suggested for paid pet/family/house portraits on Etsy. 6) AI Video Effects: in Templates, apply effects templates (example: copy machine) to an uploaded image and create the video. 7) Video Building Blocks: pre-built hooks, sound effects and text effects for mobile video that you customize by swapping background video/photos and text in the timeline. 8) Caption Style Packs: new preset caption styles beyond classic (e.g. pixel pop, momentum, clickbait, highlighter, bold lime) combining fonts, colours and effects, editable afterwards. 9) Use My Printer: Share > See all > Use my printer to print directly from Canva instead of downloading first. Interspersed, she claims she personally sold digital products to build her business to over seven figures and promotes a free masterclass and starter guide.

Key takeaways

• Element Effects now work on graphics/icons, not just photos and text, with adjustable shadow direction/offset and editable gradient colours.
• Magic Decorate (Pro at filming) generates four AI background options from an optional prompt, and the generated elements can still be moved, resized or deleted individually.
• Brand Components solve repeat updates: edit the source once, publish updates, then choose update-all-instances instead of manually changing every copy.
• Copy Art Style lets you restyle a customer photo (e.g. into sketch or watercolor) — a workflow she pitches specifically for selling custom portraits on Etsy.
• Use My Printer (Share > See all) finally allows printing straight from Canva without downloading and reopening the file elsewhere.

Episode details: published May 19, 2026 · 19:32 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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