JUST RELEASED: 6 Brand New Canva Tools to Level Up your Designs

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Kate Hayes demos six recently released Canva capabilities. First, Dream Lab for brand photos: inside a Brand Kit (a Pro feature storing logos, colours, fonts, voice and assets), you pick an uploaded photo, choose ‘generate from photo’ and prompt for new stock-style images in the same look — her example asks for a marble kitchen countertop with a laptop and coffee mug — then tick the results you want to add to the kit. Second, drawing in Present mode lets a presenter select a marker and colour from the bottom menu and annotate or doodle on slides live during a full-screen presentation. She pauses to note that slide decks and other Canva templates sell well on Etsy, and offers a free bundle of six templates in two styles with commercial usage rights as a starting point. Third, Smart Swap: select evenly spaced elements and click the arrows between them to auto-swap their positions while keeping spacing. Fourth, video mockups in the Mockups app now have colour options — after dragging a design onto a tote bag video, she opens Edit, picks a colour such as light green and applies it to the product itself. Fifth, bar charts gain data labels: toggling them on in Settings shows the values on each section, with centre, base or end alignment and optional stack totals, and labels resize with the chart. Sixth, Magic Media’s AI video generation has been quality-improved, which she tests with prompts for a waterfall at sunrise and a field of flowers in the rain, judging the results more realistic than before.

Key takeaways

• Dream Lab can generate new on-brand stock photos from an existing Brand Kit photo used as a style reference, and save chosen results straight into the kit
• Present mode now includes a draw-on-page tool for annotating slides live with a choice of marker and colour
• Smart Swap exchanges evenly spaced elements with one click while preserving their spacing, avoiding manual repositioning
• Video mockups can now be recoloured — drag your design onto the product, then change the product’s own colour in Edit
• Bar charts can show toggleable data labels with alignment and stack-total options, and Magic Media AI video quality has been improved for more realistic results

Episode details: published February 4, 2025 · 13:12 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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