Canva AI -- Expand your Creativity & boost your Productivity by Mastering all of Canva's AI Tools.

1. Canva AI - Course Intro: Hey, this is Greg. I've been using Canva and teaching Canva for many years to students all over the world. And in this course, I'm going to teach you the latest Canva AI tools and how to use those tools to increase your productivity and enhance your creativity. We'll start by mentioning the magic design feature, which essentially lets you create custom templates on the fly, helping you get past the dreaded blank page. Move on from there to talk about Cava's Dream lab, the latest Canva AI feature, which is their Leonardo powered AI image generator, letting you create all sorts of creative images on the fly. And then we'll talk about how this new AI image generator differs from the existing text to image generator, which still exists within the project interface. We'll talk about those two image generators, how you can get the most out of them, and what are the differences between the two versions. Now, we're also going to talk about all the magic studio tools for editing images. That's going to be your magic edit, your magic expands, your magic erase. We're going to talk about all these, make sure you understand these tools, what they can do, what their limitations are, and how to get the most out of these tools. And then we'll wrap everything up by talking about the magic write feature in Canva, which has been newly improved. So now you can have more of a conversational dialogue with Magic write, and you can use it for not just creating new content on the fly, but also for repurposing old and existing content. So we're going to talk about all this and make sure you really understand how to use these Canva AI tools to maximize your creativity and maximize your productivity. So thanks for watching and I hope to see you in the course. H 2. Magic Design: Let's talk about the magic design feature inside a Canva. So this is Canva's way of trying to create a custom template based on what you asked for by using their AI technology. Now, if you've used Canva at all, you can go in specifically and search among templates that already exist that have been created by different designers. So if you're creating something for social media, you could come in here, click on social media. You could choose one of these categories, click C A to see even Me and search for templates and launch a template that way. But you could also just hear on the homepage, type in what you want, so you could type in something about an Instagram post about my dog. You could type that in up here. Or maybe I'm creating a presentation. And so I'm going to type in specifically what presentation I'm creating, and I'm going to give it some information about the presentation I want to create. So I'm going to type in presentation. So let me just click in this search box up here, and I'll type in presentation on the principles of graphic design. So when you do this, it's going to give you a template, and it's going to populate that template with some of the information on the subject matter you give it. Now, is it perfect? No, but we'll talk about that more here in a second. But first, let's just go ahead and hit Enter. When you search in here on the home screen like this, sometimes it shows you your particular content here, but if I want to see the Canva templates, in other words now it's showing me my designs, it's showing me things that happened down here, and then here Canva templates. But if I click right here on the Canva templates, then that's when it's going to go over here and we're going to see a series of results up top here that are the magic design results. Then down here, we're going to see all these pre designed templates. But right here, these are ones that it populated based on the subject I have given it. So we can see here principles of graphic designs. And if we just hover over a slide, it's going to go ahead it's going to go through, and we see that it's attempted to populate this with the information on the subject matter that we gave it. Now, at this point in time, it's just going to give you back seven slides. So you could ask for 100 slides up here. It's not going to matter. It's going to give you seven. So this is limited, and I'm going to talk about some ways I think you can improve it, but it is a feature of Cam. This isn't the only way you can get to it. You could also just launch a blank presentation and then here inside of Canva or under this design tab. Somebody just close out so you can see how I got to that under this design tab right here, it says use four plus words to describe. And then this is again where you're going to say presentation on principles of graphic design. Let's say we want to be more specific. Let's just say color theory. So we're going to be even more specific here. We're going to type out color theory. That we can see down here, there are some generic results that show down here. But this here we see it working. You see how this is sort of pulsing and flashing. When you see it pulsing and flashing like this from the home screen or here, that means it's coming up with these magic design results, and it's going to show you magic design here. It's got this crown because this is a pro feature. And then suddenly we can come over and we can populate this by clicking on it. But first, let's click CL to see all the magic design results. Usually, you get eight results here, and again, each are going to have seven slides. And if we hover over any of these, we can start to see a preview. We can also click on one to go in and see all the individual slides. So if I don't like this one, let's back out for a second. Let's try this one here. Again, we can click in to see all the different slides. And if you like one like this, let's apply all the seven pages. And then suddenly, if we go in here through our pages, just like that very easily, we've got this starting point. Now, is it going to be perfect? No? You have to still go in here, and you still have to make sure the information is relevant, is actually factual, is what you want. So you need to be doing your own proof reading. You need to make sure that you make any corrections you need to. You may want to come in here and update the design because it does give a very basic design when you use this sort of magic design feature. It doesn't make it super, super detailed. But that's okay. Sometimes you may just want to create something quickly, have some of the information in here, and that's when this is not a bad idea. Now, let me just go back to this homepage here that I have in a different browser tab. I could come in here and let's say I wanted to actually have more than just those seven slides. Well, I could type in another subject matter and then combine what I get with this with my other results I just created. So let's come in here instead of color theory, let's say, let's say the importance of alignment in graphic design, something like this. So let's give it another topic here. So again, it's using that AI technology to sort of get information on the topic that we gave it, and then it's going to give us some designs based on that. Now, I do actually have in my other tab this other design here, so I might want to check and look and see what the graphic design elements here are because I'm going to look for a similar result in here. So again, here are my results, so I can see them all here. So let's look at this one here. And so maybe I'm going to click on this one and customize this template. Sure. So you'll notice here from the home screen, it does work a little different where it's asking you to customize these template. Here are the seven slides. I think it's a little bit more friendly when you actually come in here and work under this design tab. So there are slight differences in this tool and how you apply it, whether you're working on this design tab. Or on the home screen, again, I do find the design tab within the project interface, a little bit more friendly. So that's my recommendation, but you can do whatever you want and whatever works best for you. So again, I could choose customized template there. And then, of course, I have different slides here on different topic, and so I might come in here and a little trick here if I go into GridView, I could actually select all these by clicking on the first one, Shift clicking to select them all. I'm going to hit Control Seed copy, or I could right click Copy. Into my other presentation here. Again, jump into that grid view. I want to paste it right after this slide. I'm going to click on this slide. I want to right click. I'm going to choose paste and then boom. Now I have all my slides in here. So now suddenly I have a section on color theory. And then if I click on my slides down here, I can go through my color slides, and then I have now a section on why alignment matters. So even though it will only give you seven pages, you could get really specific on topics and choose subtopics within your main topic, and you could use this magic design feature to really quickly build out, you know, the framework of a design. You might still want to go in here and check and make sure that all your fonts and everything and all your, styling in terms of colors matches up because if I'm copying and pasting one thing and another, I might come in here and if I change this to a different font like this, I might change all so that all of my fonts get updated throughout my whole design. Same thing with colors. So very quickly, you could unify your style elements in terms of your fonts and your colors. So it looks like one cohesive design. Again, you are going to want to proof read, double check all the information as well as adding your own supplemental information because AI is a great tool, but it's not meant to just do all the work for you. It's meant to save you time, but then you have to come in there, supplement, you know, make it your own, make it really what you want it to be, make sure you're bringing something to it, besides just letting all the AI do the work because, again, AI is usually not going to get it perfect. Okay? But this is a way to come in here and very quickly, you know, build out a design. Now, can you do it other ways? Yes, you can template by just choosing any template, even a non magic design template. You can choose any template. And then to do this sort of templating where you're copying sort of pages that sort of fit a particular type of content. And then you can choose use tools like chat GPT to brainstorm and help you come up with information. Again, when you're using AI like that, you want to make sure that you qualify it, make sure it's accurate, supplement with your own information. But this is a way using this magic design feature in Canva to just design things very quickly. Again, it gets you beyond the blank screen. It gives you a format to follow so you might say, Yes, I like this page for introducing a new topic. And then on other pages here, I'm going to give some different facts about it, some different supplementary things. So you can very quickly use this sort of magic design to come up with some ideas, find a few slides that work, research other topics, research subtopics, and quickly put something together. Rather than just always starting from scratch. So magic design and Canva, just one way you can leverage that AI brain, that AI power within Canva to potentially save time. So try it out, see what works for you, experiment. Don't expect it to get it perfect. Don't allow it to do all the work for you because it will make mistakes, make sure you're double checking, make sure you're supplementing with good information, strengthening it, all those things that you want to do when you're using AI, but it is a tool that can help you. So try it out, see if it can be a useful tool for you, and I'll see you in the next video, we'll recover even more of these AI tools in Canva. 3. Dream Lab Basics: Video in the next few videos, we're going to talk about AI image generation inside of Canva. And basically, there are two options. There's this dream lab here, which is the newest AI image generator in Canva. And then if you're within the project interface, we still have under the elements tab this AI Image generator. So we'll talk about how to use these different tools. We'll talk about the similarities and differences between them, and then I'll also give you some tips for getting the most out of these tools. So let's start in this video by talking about the dream lab, since this is the latest AI Image generation tool inside of Canva, and you can access this tool from the Canva home screen here in this left men or if you happen to be on mobile, you may not see that menu immediately, but you can use this sort of accordion style icon in the upper left. You can bring open that menu, and then you're going to find Dream lab right here within that menu. So you can just go ahead and click on that dream lab icon, and it'll take you to this home screen for the dream lab. And this is where you're actually going to type your prompts here and create images. And as you do past creations that you have, we'll show here down on the screen, and you can do some things with those. And we'll talk about all that as we get into it. But let's start up here at the top part of the interface where actually type in with a few words or maybe a lot of words what you want to create, and then we'll go over the options in here. Let's start by just mentioning the differences between free and pro Canva accounts in terms of your access to this tool and how much you can use this tool. So if you are a pro Canva user, you're going to get 500 monthly credits. You reach a new month, those credits are going to roll over, reset to 500. So right now, a new month has just started for me, so I have 500 credits can see this number here in the upper right, and you'll see how that updates as we create things here inside the dream lab. Now, if you're a free Canva user, you're going to have something much less than this. I think it might be 25 currently, but that could vary. And is that going to reset monthly? I'm not sure. So just know that you do have limits on this, and you're going to get a lot more access to this tool if you're a pro Canva user. 500 is actually quite a lot. You'd have to really use this tool a lot to run out of that 500 monthly credit allotment. So you can do a lot on the Pro Canva account. You're going to be limited to less if you're on the free Canva account. Now, also worth mentioning that remember, I said this was built off of Leonardo AI. So if you are a free Canva user, yes, you could come over here to L Leonardo AI, set up an account and get some extra credits that way. And, of course, there are a lot of image generation tools. So you can search around for other options, but if you really want the best option within Canva, then as a pro user, you do have 500 monthly credit those are going to reset every month. Now, one final thing about that, it's not necessarily going to reset on the first of the month for every user. I think this is tied to your billing account and when you started your billing cycle, so it may reset on the first. For some people, it could be a totally different date, the 12, 13, 17th, 25th for different users. I think from what I've read, that is just going to reset based on when your billing cycle sort of starts each so let's jump in here and run a few examples so we start to see how this works. So up here where it says described in the image in a few words, I'll type something like an elderly woman sipping her morning coffee. Okay? So you type in a prompt, you can hit Create, but before you do you down here, you can choose a style and you can choose a size. So under style, they have this Smart option, and then you have all sorts of different options. So if you wanted to return an illustration, you could set it to illustration for your style here. You could come down here and choose minimalist, moody portrait. So you have all these different art style. Now, I will tell you, you can even set it to none. I will tell you that I almost always just leave it on this smart setting here, and that is because when you do that, it's going to try to use its sort of AI brain to determine what the most appropriate style is based on the words you use in the prompt. Now, the reason why I leave it to Smart is because I almost always tell it precisely what sort of visual style I want within the prompt. So that's just part of prompting strategy, which we'll get into. But you can come in here and experiment with these different choices, see what styles you like. But for me, I almost always put in the prompt what sort of style I want, and because of that, I usually leave the set to Smart. Now, the other option here, you can come in here and tell it what dimensions you want to return in terms of the width and height of your image. So you can set it to one to one a 16 to nine, if you want that widescreen, sort of full HD format, nine by 16, if you want an image that's maybe vertically aligned for something like a smartphone usage, like maybe an Instagram story. Then you have your traditional four by three, three by four. And then also two by one if you want something that's even more widescreen. Okay? So you can set this to whatever you want. So maybe I'll choose 16 by nine. Elderly woman sipping her morning coffee, and then we're going to go ahead and hit Create, and you're going to watch it churn here for a second. These sort of flash as it's generating the results. And then for each prompt you enter, it's going to use one credit here from your monthly allotment. So you see how I went 500-499, and it has returned four different options for me down here. Now, I can click on any of these images and sort of get a larger preview. I have the option if I want to use it in a design or under these three dots here, I have some more options. But if I back out, I can get to those same options just by rolling over any of these images. You have a download button here. If you click there, it's going to start downloading. You can download that image as AJPEG just a quick way to download it very quickly. But you also might want to open it in a design, and you can do that by just using the edit button here. Also if you come under here, you have Edit image here. Now, when you specifically choose Edit Image, it's going to open the design, but also open the edit menu. So in other words, if I click on that, it's going to bring up this edit menu immediately so we can immediately get into all these magic studio tools, all the ability to come in here and adjust our images, change the temperature, change the tint, all those different things. So if you choose the edit command, it's going to immediately put you in there with the ability to make those edits. But you can also just under here use in a design or if you use a three dots, you have this create design option. So when you choose Create Design, it opens the image in a new design, but you're not yet under the edit menu. So I think there's a little redundancy in here, but you have those options. You have the ability to download it. And if you choose Download from here, again, it's just going to download a JPEG. But if you go into a design and you have it, then you're going to have that normal download menu that you have within the Canva interface where you can save as a PNG or other file formats. Now, you can also report an image. If there's something inappropriate to the image, you want to report it. You can delete an image. So let's just say I wanted to get rid of this option here. I could just come in here and delete that image, and it says, Are you sure we're going to delete it? And now we see we just see three images in here in this particular generation. So each time you run that tool, it's called a generation, which creates four images. So these are the images, and you can access image options from the three dots. If you come to the three dots to the far right, then it's talking about all the images together, and it's calling that a generation. So again, Portis generation, if something's inappropriate or deletes generation. So if I click Delete this generation, are you sure you can go ahead and click, and it's going to get rid of it. You're no longer going to see it in here menu here of past work. So if you just want to hide something, get rid of something, you can do it that way. But all your other old creations are still going to exist here. Another thing worth mentioning as you scroll through your past generations here, if you ever find a prompt you want to reuse again or use as a starting point, you can just click the arrow here and it's going to take that prompt. It's going to put it up in that prompt box, and then you can still edit it. You can adjust it. But that's just a great way to grab a prompt from anywhere here in your generation list and put it back up into that prompt generator at the top of the screen, and then you can edit and modify it from there. And you can do all the things you normally can just by coming in under three dots, deciding you want to edit image. So this is sort of a fantasy sole image that I created before, so I could bring it up into a design. And then suddenly I'm working on it within a Canva project. No, because I just came from Dream lab and opened this image, I could use the back button on my web browser to get back to Dream lab. But if you're looking for another way to get back to Dream lab, since there's not an apparent button over here, just be aware you could use this Accordion style option at here to basically bring up this home menu. So then you have it over here. So then there's a dream lab link and you could jump back to Dream lab that way. One more thing to be aware of just from a practical standpoint, there are no ways to save off images directly from here from this dream lab interface. So usually the first step is going to be opening them in a design. So if I open this image and I use this image in a design, now once you open an image in a design, you have a couple of different ways to sort of save off that image so you can get back to it in the future. One, you could just save this project off to a folder, so I could come under here file and I could choose Save and I could also choose move to folder. So I can save this. I can move it to a folder and say, Let's search for folders. I may not have one, so let's just say favorite AI art or whatever you're working on, figure out what's appropriate. So I could do something like that, and I can move it to that folder. Now I have this image within a project, and that project is now within this favorite AI art folder. So this is just about using folders in a smart way to stay organized. Now, the other thing I was going to mention, if you just want to have the image itself saved to a folder, you can do that also because as soon as you open an image within a project, then suddenly it's going to show here under the upload stabs. So you'll notice I don't have all the images of this woman I created. I don't know if you remember the prompt that we just did for this woman. We don't have all of those because I didn't open them all, but the ones I did open show up here. And so now if I wanted to check on that image and then save it to a folder and move to a folder, then I could do the same sort of thing, where I can move that image to a folder. So now within that folder, I have both the project for this image here, but then also this image itself as a standalone image. So just be aware you can save projects to folders. You can save images to folders. But if you want to save off any of these AI images, you got to first open them in the project, then you can save off the project, or you can save off the image under that uploadTab because that's where you would then see the image. Okay. Okay, so those are just the basics for using this Canva dream lab for creating AI images. In an upcoming video, we're really going to dig into some of the techniques you can use to get even better, even more creative results. So we're going to get to that in a second. But first, let's just do a quick video on the AI image generator within the project interface, just so we can see how that differs slightly from the dream lab because there are some similarities and some differences to be aware of. 4. AI Image Generator: In the last video, we started talking about Cava's new dream lab for AI image generation, but there is another AI Image generator in Canva, which exists here within the project interface. So let's take a few moments to look at that and see how it differs from the dream lab. So here within the project interface, if you want to access the tool, you're just going to come in here under the elements tab. And then under the elements tab, if you scroll down, you're going to find this AI image generator, and you're going to hit the plus icon to generate your own AI image, and then you get this interface. So you'll notice that this interface is pretty similar to what we get with the dream lab, but there are some slight differences. Now, the first difference to note here is that uptop. You can return images, graphics, and videos. Let me just say that at this point, you can experiment and play around with this video option. But you can see right here this is an experiment on new technology. And so I will tell you that you're going to get some pretty wonky results. If you try to generate anything that's complex at all, there's a decent chance it's not going to give you the best results for things like abstract backgrounds or things that aren't going to be the main focus of sort of whatever design you're creating might be able to get something with movement that you could use. But a lot of these clips are going to be first of all, they're going to be really short video clips, and a lot of them just aren't going to be very good because this technology is still advancing. So at this point, I don't think you get result great results from these video options. Now, graphics and images, again, I'm not even sure why they have these as different tabs, because you can come in here under the image option, and again, you can give it a particular style. You can tell it that you want to create something that's more like an illustration that's like a sticker. So for me, you want to put that information here into the descriptor. You don't need to be over on this graphics tab. Have a few more options here, but again, you can type that directly into your prompt. So again, once again, you can hit S A to see all the different styles, and they have lots of styles just like you have with the Dream lab. But I'm going to give you the same advice where I'm going to say, Don't worry so much about those styles. Actually describe what you want here in your prompt. Put descriptors into your prompt. Now, one limitation of this tool here within the project interface is that you are limited to around, I think it's 250, 260 characters, letters that you can use here as you type your prompt. So you can't be quite as descriptive as you can be within Dream lab itself because you are limited slightly in the amount of text you can enter here. So that's just one thing to consider. Of course, the advantage of this is that you're already within the project interface. So you do sort of save a step again, experiment around and see what kind of results you can get with Dream lab, see what kind of results you can get in here. Now, there also is a different credit system. It says use one of 500 credits refreshes 11 30, 24. So here, it's actually giving me the date that this is going to refresh for me. Again, it's telling me the number of credits. This is a different credit system from the credit system you have with Dreamlab. So this is independent of what you have in Dream lab. So it is nice to just have another tool. But again, you're going to have to experiment around and play with the different results you get from these different tools. So I'm just going to use the same prompt I did before, which I think was something like an elderly Woman sipping her morning coffee. Again, very basic prompt. We'll get into how you can make this better. But we're going to go ahead and do that. We're going to leave this set to none. And again, you do have aspect ratios like we had with Dreamlab but not quite as many. Remember, we had that two to one option, that 16 by nine option inside of Dreamlab. We don't have that here. We don't have quite as many. So I'll choose landscape. We'll go ahead and generate the image, and it's going to go ahead. Give us this little animation here. Let's us know it's working on it, and it's going to come back with four results for us to choose from. And again, each time we do that, just like with Dream lab, it is going to use one credit, but again, this is a separate credit system. For the pro Canva users, again, you're going to be limited if you're a free Canva user. If you want to have more credits that refresh monthly like this, then you want to be a pro Canva user. So I can bring these up on screen, and they're not that dissimilar from what we got before with the Dream lab. Again, I know that dream lab uses that Leonardo AI. I'm not positive about this tool within here, so again, experiment around, see what kind of results you can. Once I do click something on screen, once again, yes, it does now show under my uploads. So once you add something to your project, then it'll show under this uploads tab, then you can save it off to a folder if it's something you want to keep track of. So just another thing to keep in mind, you'll get those options here if I come back in here. Sometimes if you do something else, you lose that sort of image generator. But then if you bring it back up, you should see your last run of the tool in here. So now I can see these images again, but some of these I haven't added to my yet. So if I want to get back to them in the future, then I would want to add them to design and then probably go under those uploads tab and move them to a folder just so I stay better organized. Now, you have the three dots, just like you do in Dreamlab, but this time we have different options under these three dots. Generate video, as I mentioned before, I don't think you get great results with video yet. So I wouldn't recommend using that too much. You can experiment around occasionally just to see how that technology is progressing. To generate more like this option, basically, it takes whatever you have these four images, whichever one you choose, and you choose generate more like this. If there's one that stands out just as a better result, you can choose generate more like this, and it's going to create four more images based off that one image you chose, and it's trying to pick up some of the characteristics of that image and keep it pretty similar. Now, again, this is sort of hit or miss. You don't have this feature in Dream lab, so this is an advantage here in this version of the tool but I will say that a lot of the times you can pick up specifically what you like about the image and then just build that into your prompt. Maybe it's a particular style, a particular element it's focusing on, and more and more, you can learn to use your prompt to get the results you want, and you don't really need this generate more like this feature. Now, you can try it out. It's a good way to just quickly generate more that might be more what you want. But again, try to practice getting even better about writing descriptive prompts that are going to give you better and better results. Okay. So again, in principle, though, these tools are pretty similar. You just have different ways of getting to them. One lives here under the project interface. Again, under the elements tab, come down, find this AI image generator, choose generate your own. I wouldn't worry about putting a particular style so much. You can experiment around and see what you can get, of course. But what you want to learn is sort of that visual language you can use right here to get those results and to tell Cava specifically what you want. Now, you are going to have to experiment around because it is going to be better at some prompts than others. It's not going to be perfect at creating any sort of thing you asked for. So you just have to experiment around by that. Again, you're going to see your credits update down here, tells you when it's going to refresh. So this is the AI image generator within Canva, very similar to the dream lab, but there are some differences, okay? In the video coming up, I'm going to talk about some good strategies you can use for getting better and more creative results. And those strategies we talk about in this upcoming video, they are going to work for both this tool here and also for the dream lab, okay? So this is just in general, some tips you can use when creating AI images with Canva to get better and more creative results. 5. Image Generation Tips: Now that in the last couple of lessons we learned about using both this dream lab tool and the AI Image generation tool from within the projects interface, let's talk about how you can use these AI image generation tools and get the most out of them. So there's some creative things you can do. I'm going to give you some tips for really getting a lot of creative results. But then we're also going to talk about some practical considerations because you do want to focus in on what's going to bring the most benefit to you, your brand, your business. So I've started some examples here on this page, so we're just going to scroll through them, and we're going to talk about them. And I'm going to give you some tips for getting the most out of this AI image generation ability within Canva. Okay, let's start by looking at this example here. For this generation, I just used a very, very basic prompt, just typed in a dog. So this is about as basic as you can get with your prompting, and it's returned for results here. And these all look like it's returned something that's probably a golden retriever puppy. So that's fine, but there's a lot left up to interpretation when you type in a basic prompt. I typed in a dog. It's giving us a young dog. You might even say a puppy here. It's an outside scene. So I have not really taken control over the results that this is going to give back to me because I left a very open ended prompt with lots open to interpretation. So my initial tip for you would be be descriptive, be specific, because the more descriptive and the more specific you can be, the more likely you're going to get a result that fits your needs. In other words, it's fun to just come in here and play around, and sometimes you might be doing that. You might want to leave some things open to interpretation, just to see what kind of result you get. But other times you're very specifically going to know what you want. And you're not going to get that probably not if you don't ask for it. So ask for what you want. Learn to use that descriptive language, that's going to improve your results. So I just scroll up one here, and this one here, I've asked for a German shorthair pointer puppy. And so now we see that I am getting a different dog here, German shorthair puppy. This looks like a German shorthair. So again, ask for what you want, okay? You have to be specific. You have to give those details. And, of course, those details can cover a lot of things. What are you looking for? What's the mood? What's the setting? So I would say start for how are you going to use this asset? A very good question to start with is just, you know, what are the needs of my brand, my business, whatever you're using this tool for, start there. Think about those end assets you need, and then use all of that to get very specific with your prompting in terms of what you're asking for. In this example here, I've started to get more specific about my subject instead of just a dog. I'm saying a German shorthair puppy. So I'm starting to be more descriptive. But of course, I can be even more descriptive about my subject. What about the setting? What about the mood? What about the colors? What about the arch style? There's really so many different things in terms of the visual language you used to describe what you want to return that's really going to be important for you to think about this, master these terms, get so you can better ask for what you are looking for. What's going to give you that final result that might be useful to you, your brand, your business. Scroll up the screen here, then suddenly now getting even more specific, a rain soaked German short haired pointer, jumping over a fallen tree on a dreary moonlit night, ominous mood shot from a low camera perspective, fantasy art style. Now, I don't know that it really nailed the fantasy art style. So some of this is hit or miss, and you have to learn the different terms that might give you good results, that might not. Sometimes you have to run multiple generations to get images you like. But the more specific you can get, suddenly, the more varied results, the more creative results you get. So it's going to be important to practice this. It's going to be important to build up that visual language. Think about those different ways you can ask for things, and that's going to allow you to get more and more results back from this sort of tool. Also specifically hone in on the types of results that are going to work for you, your brand, your business. So scrolling up here, you can get even more descriptive. So now I'm adding even more an epic grand scale scene rain soaked germs here a pointer. Now I'm mentioning a forest, and so I'm also mentioning streaks of pale moonlight, fantasy art style illustration, low camera perspective. So all these different terminologies. Now, sometimes you're going to use descriptors that you find don't work. So you're going to have to experiment with what descriptors you ask for, which ones are actually affecting your results. And so you're going to have to have this back and forth play with this tool where you experiment around. It's not always going to instantly give you the type of thing you're looking for. But the more you play around, the more you practice with this, the more you learn this different language, the more you're going to start to, you know, figure out what works and doesn't work for you. Now, as I mentioned before, you want to come at this from a practical standpoint. You can get really creative, and we'll talk about some of the creative ways you can use this. I'm going to give you some great art styles and terms you can use, and you want to build up that language. So just building up that library of terms, keeping track of these images here, being able to review and see what worked, what gave interesting results. That's all great. But then also, remember to return to that practical standpoint. Of what are you looking for. So very simply, sometimes you might just tell it what you're looking for. I'm looking for an image worthy of an ad campaign for a high energy dog food brand. That's what I've typed in here, and I'm getting images that, yes, these images here would work really well for a high energy dog food brand campaign. Now, of course, this one here, which I accidentally just opened in a design. But we can see this one here actually put this little logo on so that's the other thing, too, about prompting like this. Sometimes your prompts are going to lead to things you don't want. So right here, I'm asking for an image worthy of a campaign for a high energy dog food brand. But because of that, it's actually coming in here, and it's sometimes putting a product image in here. And most likely, if you were doing this sort of thing, you would already have your logo. You'd already have your product shot maybe you were going to combine with the result you got, so you wouldn't necessarily want it to show up here in the image itself. So you might not include some of that language in your prompt if you find that that kind of language is resulting in its sticking a logo or a brand or copy on your actual returned image. So maybe instead, you might try something like a high energy dog, lots of negative space, warm, inviting colors. But then when I do this, it's really giving me this inside setting. Well, that's not what I intended. I want outside shot. So be more specific. Outside image of a high energy dog, lots of negative space, warm, inviting color. Suddenly here I'm getting a bunch of results that look like, yes, they would work pretty well. I could see putting some copy over here. So sometimes it's just about this back and forth, where you sort of hone in with each generation more and more on the type of results that are going to work for that end use you're hoping for, okay? So you're thinking about what you need as a brand into business, that end use for whatever image you're bringing back, and then you use that sort of to drive the types of prompts you're going to use in here for getting the results you want. I do think that practical approach makes sense, but there are certainly plenty of times when you might want to be creative or you might just do it for fun, playing around, or you might be trying to figure out other styles and other types of images that could work for your business. And so there's nothing wrong with coming in here and playing around. So in these prompts here, I've gone into way more detail describing a fantasy scene. And actually, this language here, I used a different tool outside of Canva to help me brainstorm that language, so you can start to use other tools to help you brainstorm, to help you come up with these visual styles, this language. And so that's something I did here. And then going through here, here's one where I start to use whimsical art style, and then up here, pop art style. Now the reason why I'm pointing out this little sort of different sets that I ran here is because this is a fantasy art style here, sort of right here. I don't think it's perfect, but we can see those elements in the background. Now, when it came up to this next prompt, asked for this whimsical art style, it's not really bringing back to me what I would call a whimsical art style. Same thing if I go up here and I'm asking for a pop art style, it's not really bringing that back. Now, this tool is capable of that, but the reason why I'm showing you this example is because if you continually run the same sort of prompte and you're not making a lot of changes, I've noticed that sometimes this tool either within Canva, in the interface where you're running from elements tab and that interface there, or here when you're in dream lab, I've noticed in both instances, sometimes it can sort of get stuck and sticking with the style you're working on if you continually type prompt that has a lot of the same language. And so sometimes I find that you need to reset by exiting out of the tool, coming back to the page. Re entering the prompt, using some different language. And then suddenly, you'll see when I did that here, I had a couple instances where it wasn't picking up this pop art style. I reset the page. I came back. I simplified. I just said a vibrant pop art style scene of a heroic dog on a cliff overlooking a fantasy kingdom. And now suddenly we see that we are definitely getting that different visual style. You can see this is much more illustrative. It's got that vibrant pop art feel. And so these images here, I was able to generate but to do it, I had to get out of that stuck mode because it was just bringing back that fantasy art style, which I had asked for numerous times. I need to reset the tool. So I have noticed that little glitch where sometimes you have to exit out for a second and come back if you find you're using language in there and it's just missing. Now, there are some things you might ask for that it's just not capable of, but it really can do an awful lot in terms of these different visual styles you can ask for. So you can ask for different art styles. You can even do things like a dog made out of macaroni, so you can tell it to say, Make this object out of something else, and then suddenly you get all these results. This looks more like rotini and not actually macaroni, but it is a dog made out of pasta. So just showing you that you have all these creative outlets when you use this sort of tool. Now, the other sort of thing to keep in mind is, I mentioned before that practical approach of what is your end use? Because you might be something where you're working on a campaign, and you know you need a picture of a golden retriever, but maybe you're going to stick a golden retriever in another scene. Instead of creating all one image. If you're going to do that where you want to be able to cut an object out, you might ask for something very basic and make sure there's going to be contrasts between your subject and the background. That way you know you can use something like the background remover and easily remove your subject later. Here I just asked for a golden retriever on a contrasting minimal background. I know with this sort of result here, I can use that background remover tool and very easily cut out the image of this golden retriever, and then I can generate a background separately. I can just have a plain color, you know? So I can do lots of different things with this image because I want this image asset, and then I can build the scene myself, add in the copy the other things that might be part of an ad. So keep that in mind as well. You can go from very, very creative, but then sometimes if you're thinking about your end use and it's really just a simple asset you need, you might specifically just ask it for something basic, use words like minimal, use words like contrasting between the main subject in the background, and that can be helpful as well. So you want to think about your end use, how you can potentially use it with different tools. And then the lessons ahead, the videos ahead, we're going to talk about those different AI tools in Canva and we're going to sometimes come back to this how we can use those tools in concert with these AI image generators. So you're not always going to be generating the final image you're going to use. Maybe sometimes you're going to be thinking about how I can then use that with some other tools for some other creative effects. The big takeaway from this video is just that the language you use when using these AI image generators in Canva is going to be super important. Now, to illustrate this point even further in the next video, we're going to talk about visual style, and I'll walk you through an example showing you how you can start with the same basic prompt and get endless creative results and vastly different results just by varying a few words. 6. Mastering Visual Style: Okay, in the last video, we talked about some tips for using these AI image generation tools in Canva, and I mentioned how it sometimes makes sense to start from that practical approach of what you're going to need for your business? What's going to be the end use. But we also talked about getting creative in visual style. And I want to use this video to drive home this idea of visual style and show you how easy it is to get drastically different results, even though essentially you're asking for the same subject matter. So I'm going to do this just through an example here. I've typed in this very simple prompt of a woman and her cat. And so if you type in something simple like a woman and a cat, we're going to get some different results here, and they vary slightly, but they're all basically the same here. Now, there are some differences here in terms of culture and ethnicity. So these are all things you can build into your prompt if that's an important part of it. But then also it's going to be important to describe the visual style and to start to develop your language of visual styles. So you can very easily get much more of a variety of results when you use this image generation here in Canva. So let me just scroll down just to show you what I mean. So a very simple prompt a woman and her cat, but you can get drastically different results just by adding a few words, sometimes only one word, but one or a few words to describe a visual style. And that's what I've done here. So I just want to walk you through some of these examples that I created just by using this woman and her cat prompt and then adding a style at the end. And I think this is going to illustrate one while using that style that's part of the built in interface of the tool. That's not important because you can just describe your style and get way more styles than the pre made styles they offer you sort of in that tool dialogue. For all of these, I just let that style, you know, drop down to Smart then I added the style keyword. So in this instance, here, I added pop art. And so then suddenly we get an image like this way different than what you're going to get if you leave off that pop art and you just ask for a woman or cat because you're gonna probably get something more photorealistic. But then suddenly, if you want something more in this style, now, of course, sometimes you're going to get this wonky result here where the cat's body seems separated from the head. So sometimes you're going to have this weird stuff going on. But in terms of getting the style you want, just adding that descriptor, that keyword, that visual style makes a huge difference. So a woman and her cat is pop art. Here we said surrealist. So different art styles, different moods, different lighting conditions. You can include all sorts of different things here as that prompt or visual style. So here I ask for something abstract. And so look at how cool this is. Look at how different this is from just asking for a woman and her cat. So again, it's going to depend on your end use, but if you want to get creative, start to see some of these sorts of different styles you can get, you really have to practice and build up your library of language for these terms. And then the more you do this, the more you're just going to realize that you can really do endless things here. They're really endless possibilities. Let's go over a couple more that I did here. So here, high key portrait. So high key portrait is usually when you have, you know, a lot of stronger lights, and so you're going to have a lot of bright lighting as opposed to sort of a low key where you have a lot of shadows and dark lighting. So high key portrait, you can use something like a lighting style. So it can be an art genre, but it can also be something like a lighting style, a mood. So high key portrait. Here I went with more of a mood. I typed in ominous, and then suddenly look at these, look at how this you get that ominous feel. So again, descriptive keywords. I can just be as simple as using an adjective, an art style, a mood, a texture. So many different things you can do here if you just start to practice, you know, thinking of visual style. So for here, just using the word minimalist. And then suddenly, that's what we have in these results, something that's really minimal, okay? Here, high fantasy art. So high fantasy art style. Again, totally different than if we just don't use any descriptor at all. Just go through some other cubist. So again, sort of art style here, Cubist Gothic. Here's one steampunk. So steampunk art style. Again, totally different results just by adding in one or two words here. Again, art nouveau. So lots of art styles, lots of, you know, painting styles, art deco. You can get drastically different results avant garde. So here's an avant garde one. Up here, we have part. Okay, so here we said whimsical folk art. So look at how this has a totally different style and feel because we use whimsical folk art. So there might be, you know, a campaign you're working on where this type of style really works really makes sense. So again, you're still going to want to think of those end uses, but just in terms of being creative, trying out different styles and having way more options, visual styles, visual keywords. That's going to be the key to getting lots of varying results with this sort of tool. Here's one street art, another one here, anime. So cartoon. So again, you're seeing endless, endless things. So here's one where I asked for three D figures, and so suddenly we're getting something that has that depth, that three D feel to it. Again, it's just about building up this language, building up these styles. So you might want to start to keep a library of these keywords, examples you've created, just so you can start to figure out what works for you. So here, Western sort of speaking towards a movie genre, Western. So something like that, pulp art. Superhero. So again, totally different superhero. You know, just by adding a few words here, suddenly, we get something that could be playful and maybe you'd be doing a playful campaign where something like this makes sense. But you have to understand these keywords and know how to get these different styles, comic book style, futuristic, stained glass. So again, thinking of textures, thinking of art styles. You can get some really creative results if you just start to think in this manner. So geometric, organic kinetic and occasionally you're going to get ones where, you know, a result returns that it doesn't like, and you're going to get that. That's not a big deal. You can generate things again, whimsical style, high fashion, quilling So here's another example this quilling here. So with the quilling, I was thinking of a particular art style, and it didn't quite understand what I meant. So sometimes just using one word like this isn't enough, but then if I actually describe it in detail, so this is just another example where you have to learn when the tool is going to understand what you mean, when you need to provide a little bit more detail. So with this one, I just asked for quilling and of course, it's showing some different things, sort of ink quill here with a pen. I really meant this art style here. And so this time, I specifically described it, delicate designs made by rolling, shaping, gluing strips of paper to create dimensional decorative art. And so now suddenly look at the result we can get back by being very specific with our description. Sometimes you can just use a word, but then other times if you really get creative and you describe something, then you can get these really detailed, intricate, unique results that you wouldn't get otherwise if you weren't descriptive like this. So again, sometimes a couple of words, but other times, if it's not giving you what you want, you might have to really specifically describe what you want. Here's one, we're just saying flat cut paper style was enough. That's all I needed to do, and then suddenly we're getting images and that art style. So again, really cool, really different gives a really different feel from just sort of a photorealistic image. So again, thinking about your end use and what's going to make sense. Okay. So hopefully this all makes sense. Hopefully this really drives home how important it is going to be to develop these visual keywords, these visual styles to think in this manner when you're using this tool to not only describe the scene you want, the subjects you want, but then also in the style you want, because that's just really going to give you way more creativity in terms of the range of results you can create. Okay. So I hope this was helpful, and now we're going to move on to some of the other AI tools in Canva. But we will sometimes come back to this and how they can be used to again take your results here and do something else with them or to help brainstorm sort of language you might use in here. So we'll talk about AIR generation even more, but we're also now going to get into these other AI tools within Canva. 7. The Background (BG) Remover: Lesson in the coming lessons, we're going to be talking about the magic studio tools in Canva, which can be found under the edit menu when you have a photo selected. So, for example, if I have this photo on the screen selected here, and we go under the edit menu, we're going to see this magic studio. Now, we're going to talk about all these tools coming up, but in this video, we're going to start by talking about the background remover. First thing I'll mention about these tools, you're going to notice they all have this crown icon here, which indicates that, yes, these magic studio tools are pro Canva features, so you are going to need to have the pro Canva account to be able to access these features. Now, the background remover does exactly what you might expect it to do. So with the photo selected, when you click on the background remover, it is then going to look at the photo, use that AI technology, attempt to determine what the subject is, and then it's going to try to remove the background from the subject. So if I go ahead and click on this now, you'll see it flash. It's going to do its thinking, and it's going to get rid of the background, and you're left with just the subject here. So now I can move this subject around. I can place it on a new background. I can come in change the background color. Maybe I just want it to be on a blue background. So it's that easy. One click removes the background. It can be very useful. Now, of course, there are some things to keep in mind when you're using this tool because it is not a perfect tool. You have to pay attention to the lighting on your subject. You can't take something in a scene that's lit one way and then stick it into a scene with totally different lighting and expect it to look perfectly. It's also not always going to do a perfect job removing the background. So let's run through some examples just to see the sort of thing I'm talking about. So let's jump over now and take a look at this photo. And if we look closer at this photo, I'll zoom in so we can see even better we look at this photo right here, we'll notice that the subject's hair, where you have these bright highlights all around the hair, and you also have this very frizzy flyaway hair with highlights on a light background. So you can imagine where this is much more complicated. And so it's probably not going to do as good of a job if we try the background remover on a photo like this. But let's go ahead and run it and see what kind of results we get. So we're gonna click Background remover. There we go. It gets rid of the background. But if we look at it closely, we can see that it's done a good job down here, but if we really look up here where the highlights of the hair are, it just doesn't look quite right because not only is it picking up some of those strands of hair, it's picking up some of that background color as well. Now, it may not be super noticeable if you use it on a background of similar color, but if we copy this, someone hit Control C to copy it, we come back to this blue background and we paste it, it's going to be even more pronounced. Now we can see that it really has not done a great job removing the background of this photo. Photo. So this is just something to keep in mind as you use this tool. It's going to do a really good job on some subjects where the subject clearly stands out and is in contrast to the background. But when this object has areas that start to blend with a more complicated background, then you are not going to always get perfect results with this background remover. So just temper your expectations, and you have to sort of understand that going in, that this is a great tool, it does a really good job on a number of photos, but it is not perfect. Let's look at another example to talk about other things you need to keep in mind. So if we jump to this photo here, not many flyaway hairs, clear contrast between the subject and the background. So there's a good chance that the background remover is going to work fairly well. So if I go ahead and run it here, yes, it does a good job of cutting out the subject. But if you are going to composite this subject into another scene, we still need to take in mind sort of the lighting conditions of that original scene, the color of this photo here. So if I were to copy it, for example, Control C, and let's just try pasting it in a couple different scenes. So if I paste it into here and we look at this, Okay, this looks okay, but we don't have a perfect match color tones, I think this background is a little bit more vivid. This here is a little bit more of a muted color palette. So you do have to keep that sort of thing in mind if you're pasting into new photos. So if I pasted into this one here, maybe this is a slightly better match here because both of these are muted color tones, but maybe this one here is still a little bit warmer than the photo we're posting uh, pasting it into. So when you're making a composite like this, you may have to come in here and you may have to make some adjustment tweaks. So under my adjustment menu here, maybe I'll take the temperature of the photo I paste in and just cool it down a little bit. So in other words, I can warm it up, I can cool it down. If I cool it down a little bit, I think it matches a little bit better with the background. Maybe there's a slight green tint, so you could play around with your tinting too. So just keep in mind, you may have to make adjustments if you're trying to paste one photo into a new scene. Also keep in mind that some photos are just going to be too different. They're not going to work together. So this is a great tool, but it's not a perfect tool. You still have to be thinking as you do something, making sure you're using it in ways that make sense. Now, there are a couple other features about this tool to talk about, so let's cover that real quick. Let me go ahead and close this and jump over to this photo here. So again, we could run the background remover on a photo like this. Now, you're not sure until you run it sometimes what it's going to get included as the subject, because we have a lot of things in the foreground here, including the woman here. So let's run it to see what kind of results we're going to get. So again, click that background remover, and it's removed the background, but it's left some foreground elements that maybe you didn't want. So another feature of this tool is once you run the tool, you'll know that it's been run on a photo because you're going to see background remover highlighted up here. So if it's highlighted up here, that means there are some background remover changes apply initial to the current photo, and we can still enter the dialog by clicking on background remover again. And when we do, you see that additionally in here, you sort of have an erase tool and a restore tool. Now, let me tell you, I do not think these options are perfect in here. You have the ability to change your brush size, but you can't do it on the fly with a keyboard shortcut. A lot of other programs will let you use bracket keys to change brush size on the fly. Like having to come over here every time to adjust it, but you do have to come over here and adjust it, then you can see it adjust in your screen. So if I wanted to race even more, I could come in here and start racing now. Now, there's no way to step backwards through your commands, but if you use Control Z on your keyboard, that is the keyboard shortcut for undoing something. So if you make a stroke in here that you don't like, you can't hit Control Z to sort of undo your last pain stroke. Now, if I wanted to come and restore something as well, of course, if I deleted this here, and I switched back to restore, then I could come in here and restore something, we see I brought some of the background back as. That Control Z is helpful because if I hit Control Z twice now, I can step back through my paint strokes, and so I get back to this version here. Now, I'm not currently seeing the whole photo. So sometimes you'll have to come down here and use this Zoom slider to sort of pan out so you can see the whole image. But it's not great at letting you zoom in and pan around. So I think there could be some improvements in the interface from that regard, as well. Did want to get rid of this edge here, this little part of the image. That would be pretty easy because it's isolated over here. But then once you start to get in and sort of have to erase things that are really touching other things, then you have to do sort of precise editing. That's where if you had something like a tablet, it would be a little easier. But just with a mouse on your computer, you are going to have to take care and come in here and carefully make strokes. And again, this is where this tool is far from perfect. If you're working in something like Photoshop or Illustrator and you have that pen tool, you just have much more control. You also have the ability to have a soft edge. You can only have a hard edge in here on your brush so you can't really make a soft edge when you erase something. So, again, a lot of improvements could be made with this tool here. I tend to not use this erase and restore option very much just because I think it lacks flexibility. I don't think it's great. But you can try it out if you want. And certainly for just popping a subject out from the background, this can be an effective tool. So, yes, the background remover, when you have a simple subject that you want to just remove from the background, put in another image on another background. Yes, it works from that. However, in the next lesson, I'm going to go over another tool which does the same thing essentially only with even more options, so you may find that you actually don't use this background remover that often. So we'll go over that in the next lesson, and I'll see you there soon. 8. Magic Grab: Last video, we talked about the background remover tool. In this video, we're going to be talking about another of the magic studio tools, the Magic Grab Tool. And perhaps by the end of this video, you're going to see why I don't actually use the background remover tool that often because I feel like the magic Grab tool does everything the background remover tool does, only it leaves you with more flexibility. So let's take a look at some examples to see what I mean. So we worked on this photo in the last lesson. So what I'm going to do is just come in here again and click on this photo, and again, you find all these tools with a photo selected by following this link here, and then you're going to bring up all these menus here for editing an image, including these magic studio options. Now, one thing I didn't mention before about the background remover tool is if you just click back onto here, this link here or this link in the menu here, you get back into the interface. If you did want to just reset everything, you could reset everything here. But remember, when we use this background remover tool, to remove this subject from the background, it threw away the background, and it didn't give us any options as to what it was going to select out and keep, right? It was all automated. We had no control. It did everything on its own, choosing what to keep, and then choosing what to throw away. Okay, yes, we did have those restore and erase options, giving us some control, but as mentioned before, those were kind of clunky, so not really the best option. So let's go here and reset this tool. So I'm going to reset the background remover. And so if you ever need to reset a tool under the menu here, you have this reset, and you can click Confirm, and it's going to bring the background back, okay? So now this time, same photo, but instead of using the background remover, we're going to use this magic Grab tool. So another one of the magic studio tools. And remember, these are all pro tools. You can tell because of that crown icon. So you do need the Pro account to make use of these tools. So how is the background remover tool different from this magic Grab tool? And what are the advantages we can now get by using this magic Grab tool? Let's go ahead, and this time instead of the background remover, we're going to choose this magic grab option. And when we do, we come into the Magic Grab interface. Now, you may have seen part of the screen sort of flash blue. What it does now is it's using again, that AI technology to sort of identify the subjects in the scene. And if we roll over the image now, we can see different parts of the image will turn blue as we roll over them. Now, remember with the background remover, it was just a one click deal where it kept some of the things, I threw away everything else. This time, we can actually come in here and select different subjects within the scene. So we can see the person herself. The woman herself gets highlighted. If I'm over the computer, that gets highlighted. I can select this plant just in front. And if I wanted to take total control, let's say up here, it's not sort of auto finding this background here, this sort of on the wall, this whiteboard. But if I would go in here and use my brush, then I could come in here and I could brush and I could select just that whiteboard. So if I came in here around or here like that and selected this whiteboard, I could go ahead and I could make that selection, and then I could go ahead and hit click Crab and it's going to attempt to grab just the part of the scene that I've selected. So let me go ahead and click Crab and we'll see what sort of result we get. So when you use this tool instead of throwing away the background, what it's going to attempt to do is going to use the AI technology to fill the background where you select an object with appropriate pixels that it thinks matches the scene. So it's going to select this whiteboard, but then it's going to attempt to fill in this wall where it's removing the whiteboard, because the whiteboard is going to get put up on its own layer. It's still going to attempt to fill those pixels in. So now we can see that this whiteboard is selected, and behind it, what has it done? It's put another whiteboard, okay? So not necessarily the perfect result, but I was able to take this whiteboard out of the scene. So it is going to be hit or miss in terms of how it fills those pixels. Sometimes it's going to match the scene in the manner you want. Times it's going to do something like this where I really wanted to put the wall here behind her instead of what we got. Now, there's another tool which we'll talk about later where we can attempt to fix this, as well. But for now, let me just hit Control Z and step out of it because I didn't particularly like that change. But let's come in here again, do this background remover. Excuse me. I didn't want to hit the background remover. Again, we're going to come in here. We're going to choose Edit menu. This time we're going to choose Magic Grab again. Again, this time, let's go in and select this plan. So this time I'm just going to click on it. Again, you can use the Brush tool or you can just click. I'm just clicking on this area here, and then once you click on something, you'll see it get selected as blue if it's something you can select, and then you can go ahead and click Grab. So I'm trying to do is take this plant here and remove this from the scene, and then we'll see how it fills the pixels behind this plant. So go ahead and click Grab. You're going to see this progress bar as it works, it attempts to fill in those background pixels. It attempts to select what you sort of grabbed or what you clicked on, and it's going to try to put that up on its own layer. Going to take a little while, and now if I click on this, I can drag and move it around. And we can see in this instance, it's actually done a really good job filling in the pixels of the laptop behind this plant. So now if I like this plant, I could try to put it in the scene somewhere else so I could put it over here. But of course, I can see that it hasn't done a perfect job of getting all the pixels of the plant. So I might just get rid of it, but now I have a scene that doesn't have that distracting element in the front. Now I just have the computer, okay? So this is a different way you can use the magic Grab tool. Now, let me hit Control Z just to bring that plant back for a second, just so we can see under the position menu, when you use the magic Grab tool, what's going to happen is whatever you grab, it's going to put up on its own layer you're going to still have the layer behind it, where attempts to fill in the pixels with something new where your original subject was, okay? So this is how the magic Grab tool works, but suddenly this gives us a lot more flexibility than we had with that background remover tool. Because remember, the background remover just threw away the background now suddenly it's keeping the background layer. It's attempting to fill in the pixels where that subject is that we select and we grab, and then it's putting our subject itself on a different layer. So this really does give us a lot more flexibility and a lot more options for making use of this tool. Let's take a look at some of those now just by running through a few examples. Turn and look at this photo, for example, now you remember with the background remover when we use the background remove remover, it just gets rid of everything in the background. But what if we wanted to take her and move her to the other side of the image? Maybe we want space on the right side of this image for copy. Well, that's not something that would be possible with the background remover, but now suddenly with the Magic Grab tool, we do have more possibilities. So again, select the subject, come in here and click Edit. I'll use the Magic Grab tool. It's going to find her as a subject so I can just click on her, click Grab. Give it a second to work. It's going to go ahead and find her, move her up onto her own layer, and then attempt to fill the background layer with appropriate pixels. Now, this is where the tool is hit or miss. If you have a complicated background, just like the background remover wasn't great at that. Filling that in with new content isn't going to be a perfect match if it's super complicated. So you just have to experiment around and see the types of images where it can do a good job, and you'll get a feel for when it's going to maybe be something you can use and do a reasonable job. Let's see with this image here, if I move her now, yes, it's done a pretty good job in the background. You cannot really tell that this is not the original image here. These are pixels that have been filled in. So that's smart technology doing really good job. And, of course, now if I wanted to come in and add some text on the right side of my image, now I have space for that. So the magic Grab is a great tool and you just want to reposition your subject in the scene in the frame, maybe in an instance where you want to be able to add copy. So this is one use of the Magic Grab tool where it does a good job. Now let's take a look at another example. Let's imagine I wanted to take this woman here and place her in a new scene. So I'll hit Control, see the copier here. Uh, now, I could have removed her with the background remover tool to get started, or I could have grabbed her with the magic grab tool, an instance where the starting point could have been either tool. But now I'm going to come over here and I'm going to paste her in this image here, Control V. Now, right now, if I look at this and I look at my layers here within here, I have the background layer of leaves behind her, and then I just have her sitting on top. Let me switch those layers just for a second, so now we have the leaves on top. What if I really want to add some depth here and have these leaves almost act as a frame and have her behind some of the leaves but not behind the entire background? So I want to sort of place her in the scene, make her feel like she's part of the scene, give the scene some depth. This is an example where, again, we could use that magic wrap tool. The background remover is not something that would work. But what I'm going to do is come in here and I'm going to choose this edit menu again. I'll come in here and I'll choose Magic Grab. And when I do, you see it highlights some of the leaves here. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom out just a little bit so we can see a little bit better. Now we can see some of these elements turn blue, other ones did not. So I'm going to go ahead and start by just clicking this leaf here and clicking this leaf here. And I can choose to do this one at a time or whatever I want to be on the same layer I want to grab together. So let's say I'm okay with these two leaves being on the same layer. I can click on one and then click on the other one, and now they're both selected. I can go ahead and click Grab, and so I'm going to put those up on another layer. Now, I can continue, though. I can use this Magic Grab tool multiple times. So I'm going to start by grabbing these two leaves. Now we can see that they are on their own layer. But let me come back again and make sure I selected the original photo here below. I'm going to run Magic Grab again. So again, under the Edit menu, and then again, I'm going to choose Magic Grab for a second time. And this time, I'm going to come in and I'm going to select something different. I'm going to come in now and, again, zoom out a little bit. Now, if I look at this here, it's selected everything, but not necessarily the stem of these leaves. So what you can come in here and do is brush even farther. So I can zoom in if I need to be a little bit more precise. I can lower down the size of my brush. Now, I can select this here. I can select this stem here. Maybe I want this stem here. Something to keep in mind as you use this brush tool within the magic grab tool. It's not It's not selecting and copying the exact area that you're selecting. So in other words, I've gone beyond the edge of this stem here. What it's doing, though, is it's taking that edge and it's looking within that edge for an area of sharp contrast. So where we have the contrast between this stem and the area beyond the stem, it's probably going to cut out just the stem itself. So you are selecting just beyond your subject. And if there's contrast between the subject you're selecting and the rest of the scene, then it's going to be able to recognize that, and it's going to do a smart AI version of the grab. So it's not just selecting the area that you paint. So I'm going to go ahead and hit Grab. And in doing so, I'm attempting to move sort of these bottom layers just to stem stems and the leaves up onto another layer. So again, we'll give it a second to work, and now this is the second time we're going to run this tool, but I'm going to go ahead and run this tool a third time to grab this and a fourth time to grab this. So we'll go ahead and watch how this works. So now we have this on its own layer, and we see how with the stem here, it grabbed just the stem. If we look at these overlap now, and I zoom in here, it grabbed the stem of this leaf, but not the area beyond, even though I had selected a little bit beyond that stem. So this is just an example where now that AI technology is working for us in those areas where we have contrasts. So again, these leaves up here, because there is a lot of contrasts between these leaves and the out of focus area of the background, I can again come in here. I'll make sure I'm on this layer again. And if I move that to the top, just so we can see I've gotten rid of those leaves, I've gotten rid of the leaves that were floating here. So it's also done a good job of filling in the background since there's not a ton of detail. So anytime you have a background that's sort of not a lot of sharp details like this, it's usually going to do a pretty good job. Using AI technology to fill in that background. So now I'm going to select this portion and then this portion. So let me go ahead and run Magic Grab yet again. So again, edit menu magic grab, again, choose a brush size that's sort of appropriate, but there is some forgiveness here. So I'm going to make this pretty big. And even though I'm going beyond these leaves because there's this area of contrast between the leaves and the background itself, it's going to do a good job of selecting just the leaves and then leaving out some of that background area, even though I've selected beyond the leaves themselves. So I'll go ahead and do that. I'll run grab again. And I'm going to speed this up, and you can watch me select this area as well. And I'm going to put all of these leaf elements on their own layers just because that's going to give me more flexibility in the final composition I can create. So again, one more time on this. I'll go ahead and grab these layers up here, edit Magic grab one more time. This time, I'm going to select these leaves in the upper left. And so again, it's going to auto find most of it here. So if I want, I can also just click on it, and then I can come in with my brush tool, get a couple of the areas that it's missing here. So just to be sure I get everything, I'm going to come in here one more time. Go ahead and click Grab. And again, it's going to use that AI technology and attempt to put these leaves up on their own layer and again, fill in those background pixels with appropriate pixels that match the scene. Okay, so if I come under my position menu now to see all the different layers we have, I'll move this back to the background. I'll move the woman forward here. And see, now we have these leaves on their own layer. We have these leaves up here on their own layer. We have these leaves on their own layer. These leaves on their own layer. And, of course, we've placed our woman here into the scene, and now we can put her in front of this background layer, but still behind some of the foreground leaves. So this is just going to give us a lot more flexibility in terms of the composition we can create. So maybe I'll move those leaves here. And then maybe I'll actually come up here and make a couple duplicates. Now I'm making these duplicates just by doing Alt and then dragging out a copy. So let me hit Control Z, get these leaves here, spin some of these so they're oriented differently. And then I'm going to just make sure I grab those leaves here that I just made copies of here. Let's group those together. So let's group these here. Some of these, I'm going to push behind her. So let me take these and drop them down behind her. Now since they're farther in the background, let's make them a little bit more out of focus, slightly transparent, just so they look like maybe they're in the background here. So different ways to just come in here and add some depth to your scene. Of course, I could also come in here. I could do something like duplicating this background. So let me just come on this background. Duplicate. Now I have another version of this background. Let's place it over top of my subject position it. And all I'm doing now is using this to bring a little color on top of my subject here. So now I can take the transparency and just bring a little bit of that color that's in the scene onto my main subject here. Just to make her sort of fit a little bit better with the scene. So all these different tricks and compositing things we can do. And, of course, I could also come in here. Let's say I don't actually like those leaves here. I could take this version here. I could copy these. I could flip these here. So now with these selected, let me just flip and put whoops, hitting the wrong button. Let's come up here, flip flip these horizontally, put those up in that corner. And so then I could control click to have both of these. Let me group these. Let me go ahead and drag out a copy. Let me rotate these like that, just so we're getting more of this symmetrical frame. That we're going to drop in front there. So again, just giving you an idea of how you now have all these creative possibilities because of this magic grab tool. You can really do way more with this magic grab tool than you can do with the background remover tool, including just doing the simple thing of removing a subject from the background. So a lot of times I will just use this magic grab tool. Now, let me show you one more example to show you how you can take this magic grab tool and push it probably even beyond uses that the creators intended to do some pretty cool things. Let's imagine that we have this photograph here with the hands, and then we have another photograph here with the Earth, and imagine we wanted to place the Earth into the hands. Well, it wouldn't look right if it was completely behind the hands, and obviously, it doesn't look right completely in front of the hands. Really, if this was sitting within the hands, it would maybe be behind the thumbs, but in front of the other fingers. Now, this is something we can actually do if we're creative in the way we use the Magic Grab tool. So let me just show you. I'm going to click on the subject of the hands here. Again, I'll come into the edit menu, and again, I will choose Magic Grab. Now, this time, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my brush tool here and I'm going to come in and I'm going to very carefully brush over the edge of the thumb, making sure I go just beyond where we have that contrast between the thumb and the background. And then I'll maybe do something like that and bring it up here over the top. Again, making sure I go just beyond sort of that area of contrast, but I just want this thumb, and then maybe I want the bottom thumb, too. So again, just going around the edge of the thumb, just beyond the edge of the thumb out to maybe right there, come down like this. And so what I'm doing with this is I'm attempting to move just the thumbs themselves onto a new layer and leave the rest of the hands on a layer below. So I'm going to go ahead and do something like that. Click grab. Now, when you're asking it something like this, it's a little bit more complicated. It may take a little bit more time. And again, what matters is that you do have that edge contrast. So if these thumbs were just soft focus and blurred in with the background, it's not gonna really work. But since they have enough contrast between the thumbs themselves and the background and the rest of the hands, I should be able to put them up on another layer. Now, it's going to attempt to fill the pixels behind where I cut the thumbs out. It's going to do a terrible job, but that's not going to matter because we're going to keep the thumbs right on top. So we're not going to see the fill pixels in this instance. We're just using it as a trick so we can put these up onto different layers. So if I move this now, we can see that yes, these thumbs are on their own layer. Now, it didn't do a perfect job here, so maybe I should try to do this thumb again or do this thumb separate. So I did pause the video and run it again. So now I did each thumb separately, and it did a better job. And again, terrible job behind there. We actually did a decent job filling it if you had a person with only four fingers. But in terms of the pixels behind, we're not concerned about that at all. We just wanted these thumbs up on their own layer. Because now what we can do is we can take this, and we'll notice that this is in front of the hands here, but behind the thumbs. So now if we take this and slide it in, we can start to make it look like this person is holding the earth here. And so suddenly we have a much more realistic result. And something we couldn't do without using this magic Grab tool. Now, we could also do something else. So let's take this top thumb here. I could even do something like duplicating this layer, and then maybe I could come in here with that duplicated. And what I'm going to do is come under the edit menu. I'll go to the Duetne effect, and we're just going to make this. So it's basically black like that, and then we'll come back here and we'll take the blur tool. And again, come on this blur tool, we'll bring up the intensity. Just turning this into sort of a drop shadow then we'll take that layer here. If we come under the position menu, we'll make sure it's behind our thumb here, and then suddenly, we're going to use this to be sort of a shadow layer, so it looks more like our thumb. It's leaving a shadow on the globe. Now, there's extra stuff here which I don't need. So then I could come in here real quick. And we're going to talk about this tool more in a minute, but I'll just come in here under the magic eraser tool. And in this case, I'm just using it as an actual eraser. Do something like this because I'm not going to need all of that shadow. Go ahead and click erase. Just give it a second to do that. And since this has mostly transparent pixels on this layer, now I want to use the magic eraser. It's actually should replace those pixels with just transparent pixels. And that's something we'll talk about more when we talk about this magic eraser. But now if I go back now suddenly I just have this little bit of a drop shadow of course, I can position around, but now suddenly we'll see the way that makes this effect even more realistic just by putting a little drop shadow there where there would be a drop shadow as the thumb is over top of the globe, okay? So again, taking this magic grab tool, understanding how it works, thinking creatively, now suddenly we can accomplish way more than we can do just alone with that background remover tool. So this magic grab tool is very helpful. Make sure you take advantage of it. Now, the one closing point I'll make is if you're someone that uses Photoshop a program like that. You know, with masking in Photoshop, that is still a better program with better options for this sort of masking and compositing, then you get with the Magic rap tool. The magic wrap tool lets you stretch what Cava can do, but I don't want you to become someone that says, Cava can do anything Photoshop can do because that's still not the case. Photoshop is still a better choice for advanced photo dits like this. But for simpler projects like this, you can now stretch it and do more things than you could do. With just the background remover alone. So take advantage of this tool, push it as much as you want. But as you start to really, really get into complicated things, just be aware there still are other tools out there you may want to look into. All right. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next video, we're going to talk about this magic eraser option. 9. The Magic Eraser: Magic studio Canva AI tool we're going to talk about is the magic eraser. Now, this works a lot like the Magic Wrap tool in some respects, it's different. But again, we're going to talk about what are the differences, and does this tool even make sense to use a lot? So let's go in here and click on this photo here, and once again, we're going to find this tool by going under the edit menu. And then here under this magic studio section, we will see this magic eraser. And once again, the crown icon. So yes, this is another pro Canva feature. Okay, so if I click on this tool, we enter this magic erase dialogue. And much like the Magic Grab tool, you have the option for clicking on a section that it automatically finds, or you can brush the own section where you want to use the magic eraser. And with the magic eraser, it's, in essence, like content aware fill, which you have in programs like Photoshop, where you're selecting an area of the photo that you want to get rid of. And then based on the pixels, the rest of the pixels in the photo, it's going to use that artificial intelligence to try to smartly replace the pixels that you're telling it to replace. So in this scene here, let's, for example, say, I want to get rid of this tree. So first, I could check this click option. So if you click on this, you're going to sort of see it process and flash with those blue, purple colors there, and then you have different areas you can select to get rid of. So I can select this tree if I want to get rid of this tree. And of course, you can combine these two tools here, so I can click on something to select it. We'll see it selected. And then I can also brush to select more of an area here. And again, once again, up here, you can adjust the brush size. Choose a brush size like this and add to my selected area just making sure I get this shadow because if we don't have the tree there, we obviously are not going to want this shadow there. So let me select something like that. And then once you have an area selected and you're ready to replace those pixels, then you can go ahead and hit this erase option, and this is where the artificial intelligence is going to examine the whole scene and come in here and figure out which areas to erase. So I'm going to go ahead and click that now. Going to see it processing using that artificial intelligence, and then let's see what it comes up with. Okay, so it has done a good job replacing that tree just based on the rest of the scene. So now if we wanted to have this photo just clear Hill with no tree there, we've effectively done that. Now, the one thing I'll say to watch out for with this tool here, let me hit Control Z. Actually, let me go ahead and hit Control Shift Z to redo what I did because I just want to exit this dialogue for a second. I can move around a little bit more easily in my scene. And so if I zoom in here, then we just look at this area. The only thing I'll say is I sometimes find with this magic or eraser that you get a little bit of a soft area when it replaces those pixels. It's not always great at replicating the noise in the photo, so a lot of times this tool works and you can get away with it. But be a little careful and make sure it does match your scene. Enough as needed. Now this is going to depend on your final use for the photo. Sometimes it's going to be fine. But if you're being really, really precise, sometimes it isn't always a perfect match. Now if I hit Control Z, we can see it come back and then control Shift C. So again, I'm just using the keyboard shortcuts here for undo redo. So that's Control Shift C, control Z to redo, control shift excuse me, Control Shift C to redo and Control Z to undo. Just so if you look at this area right here in particular, when I hit Control Shift C, see, pretty good, but maybe a little bit of a soft focus there, okay? So that's how this tool works. You tell the area that you want it to replace, it examines the whole scene, and it replaces that area. Now, the one thing I will say, let me just hit Control Z to undo this is that do we really even need to use this tool? Because the magic grab tool essentially does the same thing where when you grab an area that you paint on, it then basically uses the magic eraser on the other area in that it replaces the pixels. And so, of course, I could also do that for this tree. So let me zoom out here. As we learned in the last video on the Magic rap Tool, I could also just click on here. I could come in here and use this magic eraser, and I'm using this exactly the same way. Essentially, excuse me, the magic let me back out because I chose the magic Easer again. What I meant to do is choose this magic Grab tool. And like I said, you could essentially use this the same way as the magic eraser. Of course, we are going to have this tree on a layer, which gives us a little bit more flexibility if we do want to use it. But when I choose the magic Grab tool, just like with the magic eraser, we're going to get a new layer here that doesn't have this area in it because it's going to grab that layer, remove it. But of course, I can delete it. And then, essentially, we have this area here. Now, it looks like it pretty much did the same sort of job as the other thing. So the only reason I mentioned this is because sometimes I do find that when I use the magic eraser tool, don't get a great result, but then when I use the Magic Grab tool, it actually does a better job. So I don't know if I've done this enough to make a definitive statement that magic Grab just works better, but certainly for me, sometimes I do feel like I get a better result. So just keep in mind that you do have these two tools. If one of them is not working, you can always try another tool. So let's work through another example just to look at this magic eraser even more and mention a couple other things you might want to know about. It's coming here again, and on this photo here, we're going to come in here. Once again, I will choose Edit. Let's say we want to get rid of this shell here. So let's go under the magic eraser. Again, if you do click, it's going to auto find some things. Now, I found this shell. It did not find this shell. So again, this click option is going to analyze your photo, find some of the subjects, but not always all the subjects. So then you can come in here and grab this brush. Just try to brush around this shell here, along with the shadow, and I'll go ahead and do something like that. Then we're going to click a race and go ahead and see what kind of results we get. So again, how well of a job this does is sometimes going to depend on how detailed the subject is. But with the Sandie, I expected it to do a good job because this isn't really overly complicated, but we see it has not done a great job there. Just tell that this sand does not have the same dark texture pattern. And so you can tell that this is sort of a fake area created by AI because this doesn't quite match the scene. So let me hit Control Z to undo that. Now, I'm going to try the same thing because I said, remember, you have the magic eraser, but remember this magic grab tool is essentially doing the same thing. So let's come in here with the magic grab. I'm going to take my brush. I'm going to brush around an area here, and we're going to go ahead and we're going to click Grab we're going to let it process it. So in the same way, we're doing the same sort of thing. But I'm just comparing the two results that we get because as I've mentioned, sometimes I find that this magic grab does an even better job. So for this reason, I don't actually use the magic eraser tool a ton. And if we look at that and we zoom in on that, I think there's a little bit of a soft focus, but it actually did a much better job. Now, you can tell the focus here. See what I mean? How this is soft focus. I don't know if you can see that super well during the recording, but there's definitely a soft focus here so it didn't work perfectly with the Magic Grab, but it did work better than when I had used that magic Erase tool. So again, you have both of these tools available to you. You're going to have to try it out and see which works better. Personally, I kind of feel like I'm getting better results from Magic Grab, so I don't know that I'm going to use the magic eraser ton, but there is one area one instance where I do use the magic eraser. We've seen it once already in a prior lesson, but I'll show you again just to remind you of something else to be aware of this tool. But first, let's just run another example. So here, let's try one that's a little bit more complicated. Here, we have an entire subject here. Let's say I just wanted the beach scene. Let's see if I can take this woman out. So again, click on her. Click on the Edit tool. Come out under this magic eraser. Again, sometimes if you just hit Click, it's going to find the subject. So let's just try clicking on that to find the subject, and we're just going to erase and see how it does replacing an attire subject from our scene. So we're hoping that it puts sand here and then does a decent job with the water line and then also the skyline here. And if we let that complete here, it's still processing, but it looks like basically it's done. So that has actually done a really good job. Again, maybe a little bit of soft focus, but the focus in the scene was kind of soft to begin with. So that actually looks pretty good. And I think for most purposes, you're not going to notice that this isn't the original photo. So sometimes it's a good job, sometimes not so good. Let's try one more just to see. Let's say, maybe with this photo here, let's say we wanted to get rid of these two subjects in the background. It might be a little complicated because there's a shadow to get rid of, too, but let's just give it a try. So let me come in here and again, select this. We'll select Edit. We're going to choose this magic eraser. We're going to come in here. We're going to up this brush size. Let's get rid of all of this. Let's get rid of her over here. And again, you are going to want to get rid of reflections and shadows. So when you're using a tool like this, on things like this. Remember, you got to pay attention to things like reflections and shadows as well when you take a subject out because you don't want to have those there if you don't actually have the subject. Now, it might be a little tricky here when we come in close, and we'll see how it handles this area here, but I'm just going to do that. And let's just go ahead and erase and see what kind of result you get. Again, you are going to have to experiment around and figure out how far you can push this tool, and you can see this did actually quite a bad job. Now, let me go back and let me hit Control Z to undo that. Let's try this where we again, instead of using the magic race tool, let's use this magic grab tool. And I actually might take it in stages where I do the subjects first and then the shadow and reflections later. But let's go back. And this time, let's choose Magic Grab. And we're going to go ahead and let it process. And it did find these two subjects, so I'll go ahead and click this subject. I'm going to click this one as well to select them both. And then I'm not going to try to do it all at once. I'm just going to start by removing the subjects. If it doesn't a reasonable job with those, I may continue on to get rid of the shadow and reflection. If it doesn't do a bad job, we just know this photos may be too complicated for these tools. But let's try this magic grab tool and see what kind of results. Now, remember, the magic eraser did actually quite a poor job. But if we remove this out of the way, already, we can see we're off to a much, much better start because that actually did a really good job taking them out. Before we had sort of these artifacts in this residue, it just did not work, but now suddenly we have a better result. Now, with a lot of these tools, you can run them twice. We've already run the Magic Grab tool, but we can continue to run them on the updated photo here. So this time, let's come in here we're not going to be able to use this click again, actually, if we see this, we actually can click on this. So I did actually find this. I did actually find this. So we could try to brush this as well. So let's try to do it all. But I will remind you and say that sometimes if you do a larger area and it's just not doing a good job, you can try to break it apart into steps and do one step and then the other step because you can run this multiple times. But let's try that and go ahead and again use this grab tool. So I know we're talking about the magic eraser, and here I am reverting back to the Magic Grab, but that's just to point out to you that I do think this tool essentially can do the same thing, and it does a better job. So if I delete that there, then see suddenly, we've taken them out of our scene. It's done a really good job, and I don't know if you remember, but when we use the magic eraser, it did not do a good job. So a magic eraser versus magic Grab, you're just going to have to play around and see which tool gives you a better result. I am finding that the magic Grab does a really good job, a lot of the times where the magic acer doesn't get the job done. So keep that in mind as you decide how much you want to actually try to use this tool. Now, I know I've been talking about the Magic Grab tool as perhaps working better sometimes, but I don't mean to say never try this tool. The magic Racer still is something good to try very quickly when you're trying to get rid of distractions. So just as an example here, let's come in here. Let's real quick grab this magic eraser. So we can come in here real quick. Let's make our brush size a little bit bigger. I'm just going to paint over this text here, pretending like the word distractions is the distraction we're trying to get rid of. So we come in here and maybe real quick run something like this, and I'll go ahead and click erase. So it is a really quick way to try something when you're trying to do a little touch up on a photo just to maybe get rid of a distracting area of the photo. So we can see it did a good job replacing that. So, again, a magic grab sometimes is going to do a better job for complicated things, but other times you can just try this real quick just to see what kind of result you want to get. So just trying to eliminate distractions on photos, it still can be a quick way to try something and do a good job. Now it didn't do perfect up here, but, of course, I can do another area and just run it again. So again, you can run this multiple times. If you get something close, sometimes you can do it again. If you get something really bad, sometimes you might want to use that undo Control Z to step backwards to get a better result. Again, that wasn't perfect. Just look at another couple other photos here trying to get rid of distraction. So this one here real quick, I might say, This is the background. That's pulling sort of focus away from my subject here because it's bright and sort of drawing the viewer's eye. So real quick, I'll come in here magic eraser. Real quick, we'll just grab an eraser brush and come in here like this, like that. And again, as again, just with the idea of using a tool really quickly to potentially remove a distraction from a photo. Type of thing where I like to use magic eraser. Now, it didn't work perfectly there on the edges, so I could try a little bit better. Again, just see if I can get it to blend a little bit better. Again, sometimes you are going to get that soft focus, and it's not going to match perfectly. So this tool is a little hit or miss. Again, soft focus there, so not perfect. Again, right here, let's say on this photo, this bracelet sort of pulling distraction, a little bit is a little bit distracting, I find. So let's come in here real quick. Let's come in here and use the magic eraser. We'll try to get this area here, see if we can get rid of that just so it doesn't draw the viewers eye. So maybe there's a little bruise on her arm here. So we'll go like that, just trying to do some quick touch up again, magic eraser. A quick tool to try for these kinds of distractions. Did a good job here. Not perfect over here. Let's just run it again real quick, eras. So again, try it, run it again, see what kind of results you get. If it gets stuck, you can also try that magic grab tool. So let me just show you one final thing, one final instance where the magic eraser tool can be helpful and can work a little different. So let's look at this example here. Now, I might not want to remove these long tails because that's probably factually correct for these birds, but just imagine this was some sort of distracted area, some kind of area I did want to remove. The way the magic eraser works is if I click on it and I come in here and I use the magic eraser, it's not actually just erasing to transparency. It's coming in here and it's replacing these pixels with other pixels to try to match other parts of the scene. So if I come like that and I come like this, let me get a little bit more there and erase, then yes, it's going to try to get rid of those pixels, but then it's going to replace them with other pixels. Well, okay, I did a decent job. Missed a little bit there. I could run it again, but let me actually step back and let's cancel out of this Control Z to undo that. If I were to come in here and just remove the background first. So if you take a photo and remove the background to where there's suddenly a bunch of transparency in the photo, so now we have this subject isolated with lots of transparent pixels, so the background shows through. Now, if I come in and now I use the magic eraser. Now suddenly it works a little different because now all the surrounding areas are transparent areas. So if I come in here now and I erase this area, it's going to erase the transparency. So now it's sort of like we actually are using an eraser where we can just erase portions of our scene. Maybe I want to make the stick shorter here so I can go like that. Now watch what happens if I run this magic eraser. We'll see that it doesn't replace those pixels with other pixels to match the scene. It actually just erases those. So now another way we can sort of trick the tool get it to work differently because we've changed it first by making some transparency within the photo. And now when we erase areas around that transparency, they're going to sort of erase the transparency. So now we're actually getting rid of pixels, it's working like an eraser. So this is also a helpful thing because there are some instances where that's going to be helpful. I don't know if you remember that drop shadow was creating when I had the hand over the globe and we wanted to have the drop shadow, but it was showing beyond the globe. We wanted to bring that in some. That's where we use the magic eraser in this way. So magic eraser, another tool you have here in the magic studio, another one of these AI tools. Be careful. Sometimes you can just get better results with a magic grab. Sometimes it doesn't work perfectly, and you get that soft focus, but there are times where it's great for removing distractions. And also, if you have transparency in your photo, then you can actually just erase pixel. So this is the magic eraser tool in Canva, give it a try and see what you think. 10. Magic Edit: Magic studio tool we're going to talk about is the magic edit tool. Now, if I click on this image, we access it the same way under that edit menu. And again, under Magic Studio, if we scroll over here, we're going to have this magic edit option. So if we click on this, we enter into a dialog that looks very similar to the magic race dialogue, but with one big difference. With the magic as, what happens is it tries to replace the pixels you select by just matching them to the scene. But with the magic edit tool, it's now going to attempt to fill these pixels with whatever we tell it to fill it with down here. So now we're taking control. So just as a reminder, let's go back real quick and just review that magic eraser tool. So just as an example, if we came in here and we clicked under the mushroom here, it is again trying to just match those pixels with the rest of the scene. So if I hit race here and we go ahead and do that, we're going to let it run, and it just attempts to fill it in with sort of some of this soft background. So again, it's attempting to just match to the scene. Okay? Let's undo that. So we'll reset that. We're going to go back want to reset that, come back out here, and now we're choosing the magic Edit tool. So now we're taking control, and now we actually get to come in here and tell it what we want to put in the area. And it will try to match the scene, but it's also going to listen to us here as to what we described. So what I'm going to do is coming down here and I'm going to drag sort of area underneath this one mushroom cap here. And then I'm also going to come here and pull down from this mushroom to maybe right there. And I'm trying to keep the top element of these mushrooms because I really like the way the top of these mushrooms looks. But then I'm going to also now define another area, which I'm going to ask it to fill with something new. So this is where you can get creative and you can start to ask it for whatever you want. So I'm going to say, I want to create mushroom fairy houses. So, again, this is something totally different from just asking it to match the scene because this is something totally different. We're going to go ahead and click Generate, give it a second to work here and see what kind of results we went. So we see how I sort of captured kept these original elements here. But now, if we look at these results, we have some interesting results. Pretty cool, and of course, we can generate again if we want to see different variations on this. But so this is a really cool feature. The ability to come in here and ask it for what you want to give it something creative and to let it go to work. And again, it's trying to match the scene still, so it's trying to sort of blend everything in with the scene. But suddenly now you have all these creative ways to make use of this magic edit tool. Now, as you use this magic edit tool, there are some things you can do to help yourself get better results. A lot of times it's going to give imperfect results. You've seen that with all these tools. You're going to have to learn what it can do, what it can't do, but there are some tips I can give you for getting better results. So let's work through a couple more examples to see what I mean. So let's take a look at this picture here of these two birds on the branch, and let's imagine we want a third bird over here on the branch. Now, there are a couple of different ways we could choose to do this in terms of what area we select here, and the area of selection actually potentially makes a big difference. So let's come in here and take a look at this. So if I come in here and we're going to go ahead again, click Edit, and we will choose this magic Edit tool, and then I'm going to come in here and I'm going to paste. So I'm going to start first by pasting an area above the branch. So I'll paste an area like this, and we're going to go ahead and run this with this, and I'm just going to type bird here. We're not going to ask for this specific bird. Sometimes you can ask for something specific, and that can be really helpful. This is a Be eater. I ran an example where I typed in Be eater. It did not do a great job. So sometimes AI is going to know what you're talking about, other times not. So you can play around with specificity because it can make a difference, but not always. In this example, let's keep it simple. Let's site Bird, and let's go ahead and click Generate. But we'll notice here, I've only done this area on top of the branch, slightly selecting the branch here. So let's see what kind of results we get. So we get one bird standing on top here. Get another bird here, we get a couple more birds here. So we get some interesting results, but we don't have any tail feathers because we haven't given a chance for it to have tail feathers like this below the branch because that was not part of what we selected. So we have one here where the tail feather looks like it's extended behind the bird. That's fine. But just keep in mind that how you draw your selection is going to affect the range of outcomes and the possibilities of the results you're going to get because it is trying to make a realistic result that it returns of course, it's sometimes going to mess up. It looks like there's an extra leg here for this bird. I don't know any birds with three legs, but just keep in mind, you can make changes here by just varying your selection. So let's go ahead and let's go back here. So let's go ahead and actually let's cancel what we just did. And let's come in here and change our selection. This time we're going to add to it, we're going to go below the branch here just to see how that might affect the type of results we get. So, same thing. We're just going to keep it as bird, and we're going to click Generate again. Now we have an area above the branch, but we also have a below the branch, giving it more of the screen, where potentially it can return a result here. So, again, it's a really small bird on top, so it's not always going to affect your results. Same thing here, except now see, we do have it extending below the branch. So here now one that extends below the branch. So the point I want you to take away from this is it does matter how you draw this area. You got to really think about what sorts of results you might want. It's still going to be hit or miss, and you may have to generate again a few times to get the sort of thing you want, but it's going to matter the selection that you draw here in terms of what area you brush, what area you want to fill in. Now, let's just go back again. So once again, I'm going to hit Cancel. And let's just clear you can use this clear here to clear your brushing if you want to do something again. This time, I'm going to draw a really small area. So obviously, whether you draw something really small or really big, obviously that's going to affect your results, as well. We draw something really small, we're going to get something really small on the branch here. So you also have to think about scale and what fits naturally in the scene because now we have these small birds could be appropriate. But if we're trying to draw something bigger, then of course, we have to go back and draw a bigger area, right? So keep that in mind, scale matters. Also orientation in terms of whether it's below in front, above another object, that all matters. You have to give it area to use if you want to return certain types of results. Another example here, we have this woman here, so let's click on here. Let's click Edit. And maybe we want to replace her hat with a different hat. So again, we could come in here under the Magic Edit tool. I'm going to come in. I'm going to draw sort of just beyond the bounds of this hat. So let me adjust my brush size down a little bit, just so I have a little bit more control come in here, sort of follow this around. I'm extending just beyond the hat, giving it just a little bit of detail about her. I'll where the hat joins and then go. But basically, I'm following pretty close to the area of my hat. And let's keep it simple. Let's just say colorful hat with pattern, something like that. Let's just keep it simple. Go ahead and click Generate, and then let's see what kind of results we have here. Now, again, kept drawing here pretty similar in terms of the area that this hat fills. So we get results that maybe seem similar and might match well. But we'll do it like this way, and then we'll show another example where we want something different and so maybe we need to adjust the area that we select here. Now it's going to take a little while. Sometimes you have more complicated photo. It's having to leverage that AI more. And so we get this spinning circle. So sometimes it takes a little bit longer to generate your results. But let's see what it brings back for this example. See here we go. We have an option here. We have another option here. So all kind of interesting results. So very easily, we could go in there and change the type of hat this woman was wearing just by fooling around with this magic Edit tool. Now, let's go back and let's run this example again. But this time, I'm going to select her, and I'm going to come in here and I'm going to go again, under this magic Edit tool, and this time, I'm going to select the area of the hat. And let's go around here, again, being a little careful, if you go too far into her face, then you really run the risk of sort of making it look unnatural it's not great at replacing, like, human faces and fingers and hands, so you have to be a little careful. But let's imagine we want a hat that's a little bit more robust that maybe has some trailing peacock feathers. So if you want something like that, you have to give it area to work with. So let's make my brush size bigger, and let's just really draw out a much bigger area on screen like this. So, potentially, we have this bigger hat that has all these trailing peacock feathers. So I'm going to type in hat with flowing peacock feathers. And let's see what we get. Obviously, if I hadn't included this back part of the selection, I'm not really giving it a chance to create what I wanted to create because I have not defined that area on screen. So some of this feels like common sense, but it's worth repeating because I see people that don't really allow this tool to even have a chance to give it a successful result because they don't define the area that they want to replace. Okay? So let's see what kind of results we get with this here. So now we have some sort of really, really intricate hats with flowing peacock feathers. This one here I actually like a lot. And still looks pretty realistic here. Now, there's a little bit going on with her eyebrow here. So you can be very careful when you draw your area when you're sort of drawing around facial features because it can throw things a little out of whack. So you have to be careful about that. But you see these flowing feathers here, we would not have been able to create something like that if we did not give the tool, the area to work with required to make such a hat. Now, let's walk through on this example even farther. So let's say here, we're going to leave the hat the same, but let's say we want to change what she's wearing here. Maybe we want a red dress. So let me come in here again. Let's just make this a little bigger so we're seeing even more of this here. And let's come in here. Again, I'll click on the edit. Again, we're going to come into that magic Edit. And now I'm going to come down here. Let me just zoom out so we can see. And again, just brushing. Again, you don't want to brush over unnecessary detail and start replacing things that you want to keep. So I want to keep that hair. I don't really want to go on the hair much, and we're going to come here like this. And let me type in something like red dress. Let's see what kind of results we get. I think there's a chance here that we get some results that aren't great, but let's see. Again, when you do stuff like this, you have to be careful. You have to learn the tool, what it's good at, what it's not good at. So let's come in here and see what kind of results we get for red dress. We might get some good results, but we also might get some results that are a little weird. Let's see what happens. Okay, so you can see what it means. So really weird results. Obviously, this is totally unrealistic. This one here, again, totally unrealistic. Again, none of these are good results. This isn't red at all, and then these, you have some red in there, but just totally unrealistic. One thing this tool is not great at is drawing the human form. So when you give it a large area and you give it something like red dress, it's not always going to give you a realistic body type, anything that matches what you currently have. You can sometimes just by chance, get a good result, but a lot of times you're going to get bad results. So let me cancel that, and let me show you a better way to do this. So this is a little trick, and this trick does not work every time, but this trick will work in a lot of instances and can make a big difference. So in this case here, let me just clear this for a second. I actually like what she's wearing. I like this, whether it's a dress here and this sort of navy color. But what if I just want to change the color of this? Now, of course, I could come up here and start fooling around with my adjust panel as I edit this photo. But you can really quickly throw the rest of the colors in your image off. So let's try another trick. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to paint over again this area. But instead, this time, instead of just asking for red dress, I'm going to add in this right here. I'm going to say same but red dress. So I'm telling it same or you could say something like same or same image. And is using that word enough to let the AI know that we want to keep this same dress? Let's see what the result is now when we run this. So look at that. Just by including the word same, we have basically kept this clothing the same, but we have been able to change the color. So this one here, that's maybe a little too saturated for the scene. I actually like this here, but you could go with either one of these. So let's choose this one. But just by doing that, let me just click over to this one so we can see the color. There. We can see how it's got this pattern, it's got these shadows. We've kept those shadows. We've kept this image down here, but look at the result now. When we just use red dress, really crazy wonky results that were unusable, we just added the word same but red dress. And now suddenly it was smart enough to know that we wanted it to keep those pixels but just to adjust the color of those pixels. So it's tricks like this that can really help you get better results. Now, I've tried this on a variety of different things, and sometimes I'll use that same keyword and it doesn't know what I'm talking about, and it messes up. But a lot of time this will work. Let's go back to that bird photo. So I'm going to go back to this bird photo here. Actually, let me just go ahead and reset it so we'll get rid of an extra bird. So I'm going to come in here on the edit the magic edit. Let's just reset tools. You can use this reset button at any time to reset it. This time, I'm going to go and use this click option, and I will select this bird here. Then I'll select the other half of them here. And so now I'm going to go same bird but red. So again, we know if I just type bird, we're going to get all kinds of different birds, but if I do same bird but red, or maybe I'll even be more specific and say red feathers, just because we want to give it detail, but we want to make sure it knows same bird but red feathers. Let's see if this is enough to once again get the sort of result we got when we used that dress example a minute ago. Again, this doesn't work every time. But a lot of times you can use this same trick to really get good results. Now, obviously, that one there, no good. This one here, no good. It's close, but we're losing the eye here. Let's just generate again because it is close. So let's just try again. And then sometimes if you vary your language slightly, maybe that's enough. So let's try this one more time. So I'm running this again. Okay, so now suddenly we're getting a couple that are a little bit more close. So this one we can at least see the eye. And so, okay. This one here might end up being usable because what I could do is I could say, Okay, we're going to hit done. Let me duplicate this. I'm going to duplicate this image. On this original one here, I'm going to come in here and we're going to reset it on this one, reset tools, confirm. Now we have our green bird back on this one. On the overlaying one, we have this red bird. Let's line up these two photos. Now I can come in here and dial it back a little. Now suddenly we're getting that red bird on top. Again, we were able to preserve a lot of details, but adjust the color by using that magic edit tool and using that same trick. This is not going to work in every instance, but a lot of times you can use this trick to get good results. So keep this in mind, just one trick you can do. Just in general with this magic edit we'll have to keep an eye on how the AI technology is advancing because, for example, let's pull up a different image. Let me just totally grab a totally different image. So let me just bring up any of these here. So let's just go up here. Let's just grab this floral one here. That's fine. And let's try to just edit this whole thing. Let me just come in here and again edit. Let's go and go magic Edit. Let's go and make this brush as big as possible. I'm actually going to select the whole thing. I'm selecting the whole image like this. And then let's go same image. But as minimalist sketch with pen and ink. I don't know what we're going to get for results because I don't think this tool is super advanced yet and I don't think it's going to totally understand what I'm doing. In other words, you can't do everything you can do like you can with the dream lab, but if you want to keep some elements of your image, So actually, I did a decent job. So if we look at this, now, let me just go ahead and add the original back. So we're going to let me just get out of here for a second. We have this, and let's go back under element so I can see that original. So we can see it kept the composition, basically. And it did go in there and do a pen and ink sketch of sorts. So, this is the sort of thing where now we're giving it a reference image. And then by using those words same image as we ask for what we want to put in there, we're able to reference that and get something very interesting. Let's try another example. Let's just go back. Let's try another one. So I'm just going to come here. Let's type in something like model. Let's get an image in here. So let's get this image of this woman here. And again, I'm going to do the same sort of thing where I come in here and we're going to choose edits. We're again going to choose that magic edit if I click the right button. So magic edit. Let's come in here. Again, we're going to select the whole image. So let's select the whole image. And then, again, what do we want to try this time? I don't know. Let's say same image, but as a charcoal sketch. I don't know. I'm just asking for different art styles that's going to generate something way different if it actually works. So let's see if this can create something that resembles a charcoal sketch, but use this as a reference image. Is essentially what we're asking it to do, even though maybe that wasn't the attention the original attention of the intention of this magic Edit tool when they created that's how we're going to try to use it because all this is being leveraged with this AI technology. So part of what you have to do when you start to use these tools is figure out, okay, what can I actually do? You have to experiment around sometimes, sometimes to see what is actually possible. So it's taking a while, so it may take a while depending on what you ask it. Let's see what kind of result it returns. Okay, so for these, it's sort of it sort of try to do something, but it hasn't really approached what I would call a charcoal sketch. No one has sort of made a black and white, and it's kind of an interesting result. So you could play around with this sort of thing, but just know right now the results aren't going to be perfect, okay? But coming in and using this to ask for something new, using this to change the color of something, using this to change clothing items like this, this magic Edit tool really does have a lot of potential. Now, again, it's not a perfect tool. I'm sure it will advance as the AI technology behind it advances. So you're going to have to learn when it works, maybe when it's not going to work so well, but it's definitely worth a try on some of your images when you have edits like this. And remember that same trick when you want to change color. Sometimes that's going to be better than just using something nondescript like red dress or something where you don't actually get a realistic result. Sometimes if you say same image and you just ask it to change your color, change your texture, that might actually lead to better results. So this is the magic edit tool in Canva. Make sure you check it out. 11. Magic Expand: Video, we're talking about another kin of a magic studio AI tool. We're talking about the magic expand tool. And with the magic Expand tool, you can take an image like this, and you can get it to expand to fill the whole screen so we can fill in this white area where we do not have any information, which might be nice if we wanted to use a design like this and have room over here on this side for copy. So just for clarification, I'm not talking about something like this where you resize. You can obviously resize an image using those corner handles. You can crop an image using those side handles. But what I'm talking about is actually filling in extra information where there currently is not information in this photo. So if I come here and extend this all the way, I'm going to go under the edit menu, and I will choose Under Magic Studio, you're going to have to use this write arrow to get to it. But there you'll see this magic expand icon. So I'm going to go ahead and click that to enter into this magic expand dialogue. Now, as I mentioned before, there are a whole bunch of presets in here. So you can do something like nine to 16 if you want to expand this to a nine by 16 ratio if you're creating something for a smartphone, maybe an Instagram story. But what I tend to do is I tend to use this whole page option. This is just going to expand it to the entire page of your design, and I usually start my designs in whatever dimensions I'm looking to have for my final image. So I tend to use this whole page option. Again, you can use any of these options you want, but I'm going to use the whole page option, and that's what we're going to use running through this example. So, choose the option you want. You'll see this blue outline sort of expand to the area. It's going to attempt to fill pixels. So it's going to attempt to fill this area on the left where currently we do not have information. So go ahead and click Magic Expand. And now, like all of these AI tools, it's using that AI technology to attempt to fill in information that isn't there, and it's attempting to match that to the current scene. Okay, like all these tools, it will give you multiple results back. It's giving us four different results, so we can click through, and we can see these different results now, a lot of these have done a reasonable job. I can see sometimes a little seam, and that's the biggest thing I'll say about this tool. Try to expand in just one direction because sometimes you will get this seam. And so if you're expanding in four different directions, that's going to be potentially four seams where you have more areas you might have to go back and fix. So I try to limit to one direction and then go through your different results and see the one where it's less pronounced. This one here isn't too bad. I don't think you're going to notice this in most instances, and you could always use the magic eraser. The magic grab tool, things we've used in the past to try to improve these pixels right here even farther so you get an even better blend. But a lot of times, for simple photos where you don't have a lot of detail in the area where you're expanding, this is going to be good enough. So once you like what you have, you can go ahead and click the Done icon, and then, boom, you have expanded this image. So now it reaches all the way to the edge of our design. And so now if I wanted to add in some copy just like that, boom, very easy. So a useful tool and I use it most often for this sort of application where I'm trying to get some extra space on one side of the photo where I can add some copy or something like that. Now, let's just look at another example here. Here's another one. Let's run it again. Again, I could expand in this direction, this direction, this direction, this direction. But because of that issue where it's not always perfect at the SMs, I'm going to try to limit to expanding in just one direction. So I'm going to go ahead and drag it to the bottom corner, expand it out as much as I can now I don't want to scale it up too much and go like that, so I'm going to keep it like this, and I'm going to go ahead and try this magic expand tool again. So, again, we're going to come in here, choose this magic expand, again, choose whole page, and begin the magic expand and see what type of results I get. Okay, so we can see the results coming back now, and again, works reasonably okay here. But look at how soft the focus is here compared to over here. That's the biggest issue I would say I have with this tool is that sometimes you do get this soft focus. So again, if I come over here, again, you can see the same a little bit, and the focus on this right side is just a little softer than it is in the original photo here. But let's choose one of these anyways, because as I mentioned, you can still come in here and you can still use those other tools in Canva to try to improve your results. So I'm going to go ahead and click Done. But then what we're going to do is I'm going to come in here and I'm going to try to improve this even further. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this magic Grab tool, which we've talked about in a prior video I'm going to come in here. I'll take the brush version of this, and I'm actually going to brush over everything here on this right side where I don't think it did a very good job because of this soft focus. So I'm going to drag over all of this, and I'm going to click Grab. And so we're going to give it a moment to work and see what it does. Now, remember this magic grab it attempts to extract what you selected here and put it up on a new layer. But again, it's using that smart AI technology to replace those pixels and fill in the area where you're taking and grabbing these onto a new layer. As I mentioned before, with the magic eraser. Sometimes I think the magic grab just does a better job with detail. So if I pull this away now, look at this. Let me delete what I pulled away. Now, suddenly, I think it's done a much better job in terms of the matching the noise and the detail level on this right side of the photo. So again, magic expand tool. I think it's really cool sometimes I find that that magic grab tool just gives better results. So this is just all about experimenting, knowing the different tools you have to choose from, knowing you can try these different options, and then seeing what gives you the best result. Because this result here, in my opinion, much better than the magic Expand tool was doing by itself. You have photos like this where you have something more complex, like buildings like this, then sometimes magic Expand is going to have a tough time really realistically matching the scene. Now, of course, if somebody knows this city as well, you're obviously not going to get a true to life factual representation of the area you're expanding. So these are all things to keep in mind. But I will go ahead and click under the Edit menu. Come in here. Let's try this magic expand one more time. Again, I'll just do whole page for this example again, and let's see how it does expanding this city skyline. So again, it actually did a decent job, but look at how the sky is a different color. If we really zoom in on these buildings here, I think we're going to see some issues. So just keep in mind, the more detail that image that you're trying to expand, the harder it is going to be to match things perfectly and get a realistic result. So pay attention to that level of detail, especially on the edge where you're doing that expansion. Don't expect it to work if you're using human faces, forms like that. It's not really going to give you a realistic result. But for other things, it certainly can give you results that are sometimes really good and a lot of times at least passable. Now, remember that you can run the tool and then still use things like that magic rap tool that we talked about just to get better details and better results, have it all match better. So remember, you can always use these different tools you have in Canva together to get better results. Okay? So this is magic Expand and Canva, give it a try and see how you like it. 12. The Grab Text Tool: Have one last magic studio Cava AI tool to talk about, and that is the Grab Text tool. So on screen now, I have a still image. This is just a JPEG here. So if I go here and look at my layers, I can see that just one image. It's just an image. This is not editable text. So the real power of this grab Text tool, is that if you have embedded text, something that is a save design where you flattened it. So maybe at one point in time in another program, it was editable text, but now it is just part of the image. What if you realize, Oh, I made a mistake? I want to come back and make some changes to the text. I want to move the text around, maybe change the font, change the color of the font. What if you want to do all this stuff? Well, suddenly, with the grab Text tool, we have the ability to go back in and find text within an image, extract it much like we did with the magic grab tool. Only now we're grabbing the text. We're bringing it up onto another layer, and we're filling that background, those background with pixels that match the rest of design. And then suddenly we have an editable text layer. Now the best way to see how this works is just through an example. So I have this selected on screen now, like all the other magic studio tools, just come on here with the image selected, click Edit. And under this Edit menu, we're going to find these magic studio tools, and we're going to go until we find this Grab text option, again, a pro Canva feature. So we're just going to click on that. Now, once you click on it, you get in this interface here, you can see it sort of pulsing for a second as it's finding the text within the image. And so it's found all this text. It found this text here. I found this text here. I found this text here. So just like with the magic grab tool where often it finds the multiple subjects and you can select individual ones. You can do that here or you can select all text will convert everything in your design to editable text. Now I'm actually okay with the Canva logo. I'm not going to mess with that, so I'm not going to worry about that, but I will select this one here, and then I will also select this one here so you can select the multiple options available, and then you can go ahead and click Grab Text. Now, if it doesn't find the text, you're out of luck. It's not like where you can brush it and then get it. Now, if it doesn't find it, you're not going to be able to get it. But usually, if the text is clear enough and not sort of blurred into a design, you are going to be able to find the text. We're going to go ahead and click Grab. And when you click Grab, it's going to take a moment. It's using that AI technology. It's converting that text to actual texts. It's attempting to find a similar font that sort of matches the way it looks in your design and created as editable text. And then, of course, it's also coming in and filling those background elements as best it can. Now, it doesn't do a perfect job. We see it left an element that was just supposed to be a blue rectangle here, but that's okay. We can come in here and we can make edits. But what we do have now is we have actual editable text. So I can come in here, and then suddenly I can come in here and I can change the color of this font. So let's make this black, as well. And let's take this five, and let's make that white text. I'll come in here and change that color again. And, of course, if you wanted to say five tips for great, so you could come in here and you can actually change the text if you wanted to, I lost my color change, but that's okay. I can select it again, change it. So this is the great thing. Now we have fully editable text. Now, if I want to drop in another rectangle, I could drop in a rectangle here. Let's change the color of that rectangle. Grab this blue because we're just going to cover over this where it didn't do a perfect job of replacing the background. Let's just do that, drag that up. Let's grab our five tips. Let's bring that over. Let's expand it even more. I can take this rectangle in the back. Let's make it a little smaller, like this. Then this text here, we can line that up so we get everything aligned nicely down the page. Okay? So this is the powerful thing about the Grab Text tool. I suddenly now if you save something off as a flat image and you decide later you want to edit that text. Well you can upload that image into Canva, use this grab Text tool and now you have a way to come in and interact with it again. Mentioned, you can do any of the things now that you can do with any text, you can come in here. You can change the fonts, all these different things. So everything once you use this grab textol and you extract it out as text, everything that's in play with normal text and Cava is then all stuff you can do because it actually converts it to actual text in Cava. Now, it's possible if you had an image like this that doesn't have a lot of text, maybe you could just recreate the text if you had all the same background graphic elements. But of course, if you didn't, you'd still need to start with this original and be able to extract this text or use something like the magic eraser so you could delete the text and have that design as your background, then add on whatever text you want. Now, of course, if you have larger areas of text, potentially, this is then even more useful because you're talking about a lot of time you could save and having to recreate that text. Let's just show you an example of something with more text. So I'm just going to go here under my Uploads tab. And I have this screen grab I have of the webpage where Canva is announcing their acquisition of Leonardo AI, and this has a lot of text in it. Now, right now, it's just a screen grab, so something I just was able to pull using that screen grab command on my keyboard and getting this as a JPEG. But of course, now if I want to grab the text, I could come under the Edit mode, use this grab text option, and then it's going to go to work. It's finding all these areas of text in here. Now, I'm not going to grab them all, but let's just grab this one here and grab that just to see that, yes, it is going to be able to extract and pull out this large area of text. So now suddenly we have this text, and this is editable text where I could go in here and start making changes with this. Of course, for this example, I'm using a webpage that's somebody else's work, so you don't want to take and use somebody else's work and pass it off as your own. But there are lots of instances where you may have a document that's a lot of texts that you created that you want to go in there. You want to be able to pull that out. You're working as part of a team. You want to extract something that somebody else has you done, that you have permission to use that text. Then this is where this tool could save you a lot of time. So this is the grab text tool in Canva. Give it a try. I think you'll find in instances, it can be a tool that can save you a lot of time. 13. Magic Write: Previous videos, we've talked about the Canva magic Edit tool, the magic Grab tool, all the image generation tools in Canva. All these ways we can work with images in Canva, but the Canva AI tool that potentially might save you the most time is the magic right tool. So what is the magic right tool? How do you use it? What are the different options, and what are some ways you can use it to potentially save a lot of time? That's what we're covering in this video. So from the Canva home screen here, I'm going to launch a doc format. Then from another home screen, I'm going to launch a presentation format because I'm just going to show you how you can access the tool from each of these different document types, and you're not limited to just working within a Canva doc. But a Canva Doc is a format where you may make use of magic, right, a fair amount. So we will start in there. This is a Canva doc document. So here we are inside of the Canva Doc, and inside the Canva Doc, we're going to have this menu up top, and we have this magic write tool. So if we click on Magic Right, we see all these different options. And so it's giving you some sort of template starter ideas. In other words, you can describe a writing task in five plus words. You can idea brainstorm. Here's a paragraph generator, a blog post. If we scroll over here to the right, we can see even more options. List LinkedIn article, media captions, course outline you're not really limited to just these choices. You can tell it to do anything you want. It's just giving some good suggested some good suggested starting points. So basically, the magic right tool is you tell it what you want it to write, and the Canva AI is going to go to work and attempt to do the writing for you. So you can type anything in here or you can click on any of these options down here to sort of get a boilerplate, a template with the idea of the type of prompt you might write. So let's say I click on blog post. It's going to say, write a comprehensive 15 to 2015 1,500 to 2000 word blog post entitled Ten Effective Ways to support and boost visibility for local small businesses. And then it's giving some additional details. And remember these guidelines. So, in other words, you can keep this as loose as you want by giving it some very basic instructions, or as it does here, you can build in some extra detail, some extra guidelines. So let's go ahead and clear this and give this a try. Okay, so here is what I have typed out. I typed out right a 1,000 word blog post about Canva AI tools, and I could have given it a range here. So let's just say 1,000 to 1,500. Let's give it a range here. Blog posts about Canva AI tools and how to take advantage of them specifically focus on all the magic studio tools, but also cover magic right in the dream lab. For each tool, give a brief description of what it is, where to access it, and how to use it. Also, for each tool, could you give a bulleted list of ways in which a small brand or business might take advantage of this tool in their regular workflow? And then finally, I said, Could you also brainstorm for me some different creative title options for this blog post. Okay, so I could have made this totally open ended and just say, give me a blog post about Canva AI. But I've given it a few more parameters because including some of these parameters, some of these guidelines, that can be a good idea and just steering this tool a little better for the type of results you want to get. Okay? So let's go ahead and generate this and see what kind of result we get back. So we click it, and now it starts to build out what we've asked for, including those elements and guidelines that I've asked for it to do. So let's give it a moment here to finish, and then we'll take a look and see what we get. Okay, so it has returned our result to us, and let's see exploring Canvas AI tool is a guide to enhancing your creative workflow. Then it gives a little intro paragraph, and then it starts with Magic Studio, and it says, What is Magic Studio? Where to access Magic Studio, how to use Magic Studio. And so we got magic resize, magic effects, magic animation. And so then we talk about magic right and here's a dream lab. So I like these results, but I think I can modify this a little farther. So I have this more like this option. I'm going to try this this but option. This is where I can tell I want this, but I want you to make some changes. So I'm going to say this but Could you specifically include sections on, and let's say magic, edit, magic, grab magic, text or actually grab text. Magic eraser and magic expand. So I like what it's done, but I'm giving it sort of a more specific parameter now. So I'm going to go ahead and click Generate. And again, it's giving me back the same thing. But let's see now if it goes in and adds in specifically what I asked for. So here, let's see, magic write, magic Edit. Magic grab. So, okay, it's going in, and it's picking up grab text. So now it's including those different sections I asked for, okay? So this is the type of thing where you can have a back and forth, almost conversational style with the Magic write tool by using this butt option and giving it some additional parameters, asking it to make some changes. And then, of course, when you're done, you can go ahead and click Insert then of course, you can always come in here, you can delete bits, you can add bits, you can edit bits. You can highlight something like this. And if you highlight something, then suddenly you have this magic write option that appears above the highlighted section and you can say, Well, I want to shorten this, I want to summarize this. I want to fix spelling, change voice, all these different options. So let's just say I want to shorten this intro, and it's going to go ahead and give you an option like this. And if you like this, you can replace, or you can add below. In this case, I may just skip it. So if you just click out of the tool, then it's not going to apply any changes. But all these different ways to come in here and very quickly, generate a document where before this, maybe you're creating all this from scratch. Now, you still need to do your homework. You need to go in. You need to check these things. You need to make edits. You need to make sure it's accurate. You're going to have to probably do some design work if you want to add some styling to this. But this is a tool that can very quickly get you started. Now, let's look at some other ways we can take advantage of this magic right tool. So as I record this, I'm preparing this for a YouTube video, and it's going to be a series of videos on AI technology inside of Canva. And once I have that up there on YouTube, that is a piece of content that I've already put a lot of work into that I've already created that it might be nice to leverage in the future. For some different format. So once you have content out there and available, whether it's something you've written or whether it's a YouTube video or something like that, we can use Magic Wright to leverage this to summarize some of our existing content and potentially repurpose it. Let me just show you what I mean. So if I jump over here, here is a video I've done in the past on the Canva Magic Grab tool, and this is a 26 minute video. So there's a lot of information in this video. So how do I take this since it's in a different format, and maybe I want to turn it into a summary inside a Canva document or something like that. So potentially I can chop that up, use it for some different purposes. Well, here on the video itself, if you go into any video on YouTube, you can expand under here. And if you scroll down, eventually, you're going to see this show transcript option. So I can come in here, I can pull up this transcript. I'll hide the timestamp since I don't need those, but I can very easily come in here and grab basically all of my text, all of my content. In other words, when you upload something to YouTube, it automatically is going to do this sort of transcription. And so I'm going to grab all of this text. I'm going to copy it. So control STA copy then I'm going to come back here to Canva and let me just go to a untitled document, and I'll come down here and I'm just going to take all of this that I just copied, and I'm going to paste it onto screen. So now on screen here, I have everything from that video I've done on the Magic rap tool. Now, of course, this is a lot. I don't remember everything I said. I need something that's going to be a little easier to digest. So let me just click and then just drag down here. I'm just clicking and dragging to highlight all the texts. I'm holding down my left mouse button just to highlight all the text. Now, once you have text selected, remember, you get this pop up menu and you can access Magic Right with this icon here. I'm going to choose this custom prompt option. We can come in here, we can rewrite, we can shorten. But if you do custom prompt, you can actually tell it what you want to do something like turn this into a list. I want this to summarize. Now, I have a feeling this might fail when I do this, but let me just put summarize in here. Let's see what happens, and then I'll talk about whether it works or not. So I just generate and we're going to summarize it says, This topic may not be intended for magic write. I think what happens sometimes is just magic write is not perfect at this yet. Sometimes you just give it too much text. This is where if you use another tool like hat GPT, I highly recommend hat GPT for this type of summary exercise, but you can get magic write to work to a degree in here. You have to be careful how much you put in here. So let me just come in here and let me shorten this a little bit. I don't think I need these last couple sections. So let me just come in here and maybe grab from here. And still, I'm grabbing an awful lot of texts. I'm just leaving off a little bit. So let me try to come in here again. Again, I'm going to choose this icon. Again, custom, and I'll prompt, and I'll turn into a detailed summary, and we will go ahead and hit Generate and see what kind of results we get, see if it works this time. So this time it is working. So now it's taking this text, and it's turning this into a detailed summary, selecting the multiple subjects, using the brush option. So that's great. So if this is what you want, you can go ahead and replace or add below on the page. And you've taken this long video format that we had. So this was all started as a YouTube video, right? But now we're taking it and we're translating To written form a summary that now maybe I can reuse in other ways. Now, I could tell it, I want this, but I wanted to do something slightly different. So I'm going to say this, but I'd like to turn this into a slide show tutorial on the magic Grab tool. Could you summarize it in a manner suitable for suit. Well, for this. So I'm giving it maybe more details than I need to, but you can try to be as specific as you want to be here and see if it can give you better results. So we're going to go ahead and hit Generate. And this is where this custom prompt option, something that wasn't in Canva until recently, now gives you ability to have sort of a conversation, which is something I love about tools like chat, GBT. Now you can sort of do it here and Magic right and now suddenly we have something organized into something that's going to make a lot more sense for using here in Canada and repurposing this YouTube video into different content. So I'm going to go ahead and replace what I have with this on screen. So now I have this replaced here, this other part down below, which I didn't use. I can get rid of that. But so now I've taken that one YouTube video potentially turned it into sort of like a ten slide presentation I could give on this tool, or maybe this is going to be something I turn into an Instagram story, and these are going to be my ten different slides. So I could take this now and run with it. But you can see how using this magic write tool potentially saves a lot of time by allowing me to take existing content, YouTube video that's in a different form. Now I can grab that transcript. I can paste it over here, I can summarize it, and suddenly I'm off and running in a new direction. I've saved a lot of time. I haven't had to tediously take notes on my video I did this all by automating the process so this Canva magic write can be very helpful. Now I mentioned before, you do not have to be within the Canva Doc format to use this tool. You can use this in any sort of Canva design. So here I am in a presentation. Let's say I was actually making a slide about Canva magic right here and the uses. I could actually generate content on the fly here just by bringing out some body text, and then right here when I have this text on screen, then I can bring up this magic write tool. So I'll do a custom prompt and I'll say list ten ways you can use Canva magic right. So here on the fly, I'm going to have it give me some content that I can use here. So we'll go ahead and we'll generate this, and then we can go ahead. And once we have this, we can go ahead and add below or replace. So if we do replace, it's going to put it in here. Of course, when I did replace, it did sort of throw off my formatting there, but I can come in here now and do something like bring up this tool again, custom prompt, and I could say, keep the same Action maybe I'll say shorten and make item titles capitalized and bold. So I'm giving it a little bit of format here. I'm going to go ahead and generate that. And then when I generate that, I'm going to go ahead and just put Ad below, and then I'll get rid of this one here, delete. And then we see now it's actually taken my formatting instructions, and it's included that in everything as well. So now I can come in here and mess with the spacing a little bit. So line spacing. So you can very quickly come in here and get it to work for you, creating content on the fly, okay? So very powerful and something that can save you a lot of time. Another way you can use this tool is just brainstorming. So here, it gave us some uses here, but I might do something like this where I come on here. Again, I'm just going to bring up some text because you have to have text on screen to be able to access this tool. So now we'll come under Magic Right. We're going to do a custom prompt and I will type in. Can you help me brainstorm ten different creative ideas for an ad campaign for high energy dog food? For each campaign, write out five image prompts I can use in Canva Dream lab for generating appropriate images in each campaign. Go ahead and click Generate. Here it is generating this list for me. I will go ahead and choose this when it's done. I'm going to choose this AD Below because when I choose Add Below, it tends to keep better formatting. So I'm going to choose Add Below, and there it is right there. So now I can take these, and of course, I could take these prompts, and I could ask it for more specific prompts, more detailed prompts, and we could go over to Canva Dream lab and paste these in if we were having trouble coming up with ideas on our own. So it also can just help you get unstuck when you're having trouble coming up with ideas. Can use this as a tool to brainstorm and help you generate those ideas. And then, of course, once you get your juices flowing, you can add in your own ideas. So just another creative way to use this tool as sort of an assistant just to help you save time to automate some of these tasks and then to brainstorm and help you get started when you are stuck, okay? So this is magic right inside of Canva. Make sure you take advantage. 14. Class Project: Thank you so much for watching this course. I really hope you learn something. Now, the best way to lock in these tools and really get good at these tools is, of course, to practice. So you have a chance to do that right now with the class project. So for the class project, what you want to do is come under the Project and resources section of the course. Here you're going to find some project instructions. Now, basically, all I'm asking you to do is to, in one of your Campa designs, use something you've learned from this course. Use one of these magic studio tools, one of these Campa AI tools in some way. And then what you can do is once you've decided what you want to do and you've completed your project then from your Canva design, what you're going to want to do is come in here and you have a couple options. You can either download a JPEG or something like that, or you can share a public view link. And then you can come back over to the project sections of this course. And then here if you come down, you have the submit project, option here, submit project, and you can come in here and you can either post an image or you can post a link. And in the project title, you can just call it Class Project or whatever. Then for project description, just give us a little write up on what you did. So if you're using Dream lab, what prompt did you use? If you had created some sort of image composite where you used one of the AI tools like Magic Edit or maybe Magic Grab, what did you do? How did you use that in your project to get better results? I look forward to seeing what you create. Thanks again for watching this course. I hope to see you soon.