Create Stunning Digital Images with Canva Text to Image Feature

1. Class Introduction: Greetings. I'm Vanessa S of By Vanessa S, and welcome to my course Create stunning digital images using the mva text to image feature. I'm a creative artist and maker of over 20 years. The one thing I can tell you that I love to do is create especially when creation means using my imagination and now using my words. Using the text to image feature that Canva has to offer, which is AI is such a wonderful tool and it's fun to play with. And I'm pretty sure many of you like me, love stunning images. Have you ever thought about an idea or a project or an image that you would like to have on your wall or maybe something that you would like to place in a card or give to someone as a gift, a digit to image, but you didn't know how to do it. You may not be a graphic designer, you may not be an artist or a painter, but you still have an imagination and you have ideas. And that's why I created this course. In this course, I'm going to show you not only how to create stunning digital images, but I'm also going to show you how to navigate the magic media feature in Canva, as well as show you how to create the prompts, the intentional prompts that you need for the images, and I'm going to show you how to edit your images and use the different styles that are offered and how to understand the different styles that are offered. In this course, we're going to do a lot, but in the end, the goal is to have beautiful, stunning images that were created using text to image AI functions in Campa. If you're ready, I'm ready. Let's get to it. 2. Navigating Magic Media: Hi, everyone. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to navigate the Canvas background along with the Magic Media section. I'm using just a standard thumbnail, a YouTube thumbnail as the size, only because it has a lot of space, just for me to navigate around to show you how to get around in this program. Okay, so for your text image generation, you can use the element section in your side panel here to get to it. It says AI image generator, or you can get to it by clicking on the Magic Media. Either one. One is more direct to other is a roundabout way, but they both get you to the same place. Now, the magic media section, the section here, you have three subsections. You have images, graphics, and videos. Yes, you can create two second two to four second videos in Magic Media. Also, the images you can create, have styles to them, and we will talk about that in another lesson, or you can use the graphics, which has its own styling. And again, we'll talk about that more in another lesson. Okay. So within your magic media for text to image generation, you have styles, and you have aspect ratio. Now, the aspect ratio is the size and the shape that you want, whether it's a square, a landscape or portrait. Those are the three that you can choose from. And here is your text box, where it says, describe what you like to create, that's where your text box is. And that's where you'll put your prompt, again, something that we will discuss in a later lesson. Your background for your image can be any color that you want it to be. And depending on what type of image, you may have a full color image, which is fine, or you may have a partially colored image, which is also fine. But if you decide that you want to change the background of your your Canvas, you can. Up here is another legend. And as you can see, you have a trash can, you have a background color, which you can choose any ground color that you want. You're going to choose that one just for right now. If you're going to make it a video, This timer is how you would set how you want each video or how long you want each video to run. And then you also have positioning, which that's a more advanced feature. I may cover a little bit of it in another lesson. Okay. So you have your images, your graphics, your videos. Each one will have a text box. You have various styles for each. You can change the background color if you choose in the positioning. If you want to make it a video, meaning each, a video, you can do that, and you can give each one a time. Another thing you can do is you can add notes. If you're working with someone, you can add notes to the pages. You can also add comments, if you are working with someone and you want to make comments so that you can work cohesively, you can add comments here. One thing to note that I find very helpful is the floating panel. Now, if you click on the panel, it will stay stationary. So for instance, elements, if I move my mouse over, it's going to disappear. But if I want it to stay in place, all I have to do is click it and it'll stay in place. When you click the panel part that you want, it will have a color to it, minus blue. And that lets me know that it's going to stay stationary. But once I disengage it, the panel is going to go away, and see the color has also gone away. All right, I can do the same thing with magic Media. Once I click it, it's now pink, and the panel will stay stationary. But once I disengage it, the panel will go away. That's just a little bit for you. A little trick for you. Just remember that Regardless of the fact that you are creating digital images, you're still using a Canva program. And so everything that you can do in Canva, like adding text or editing images or using backgrounds or using designs, you can still do all of that, even with using text to image features. Okay. So now that you are oriented and how to navigate, let's move on to the next lesson. 3. Crafting Powerful Prompts : Hi, everyone. In this lesson, we'll explore what a prompt is, why it's used, and what makes a good prompt. By the end of this lesson, you'll have the tools and knowledge to create intentional and effective prompts that produce stunning digital images. First, let's define what a prompt is. A prompt is a specific and detailed instruction given to an AI, artificial intelligent, to generate an image. It acts as a guide, telling the AI what you want to see in the final output. In the context of Canvas text to image feature, a promp is the textural description you provide to create a digital image. Promps are crucial because they shape the final outcome of the image generation process. The more precise and clear your prom, the closer the AI will come to producing the image you envision. Using prompts allows you to harness the power of AI to bring your creative ideas to life, whether for art, design, marketing, or any other purpose. Now let's explore what makes a good prompt. There are several key elements to consider. The first being clarity and specificity. A good prompt is clear and specific. Vague or ambiguous prompts can lead to unexpected or unsatisfactory results. Instead of saying a beautiful landscape, specify a serene mountain landscape at Sunrise with a clear blue sky and a calm lake reflecting the mountains. That's a mouthful, but it will provide you much better results closer to what you're actually envisioning. The second being detail and context, providing details and context helps the AI understand the nuances of your vision. Include information about the setting, colors, lighting, mood, and any specific objects or elements you want the image to portray. For example, a cozy reading nook with a plush armchair, a stack of books, a warm fireplace, and soft ambient lighting. The third being descriptive language. Use descriptive language to paint a vivid picture with words. Adjectives and adverbs can enhance the prompt and guide the AI more effectively. For example, a bustling city street at night with vibrant neon signs, people walking briskly, and a light rain creating reflections on the pavement. Again, it is a mouthful, but I believe it will give you the imagery that you desire. The fourth and the last being focusing on key elements, identify the key elements that are essential to your image and highlight them in your prompt. This ensures that the most important aspects of your vision are captured accurately. For example, a vintage car parked under a large oak tree in an autumn park with leaves scattered on the ground. Crafting powerful prompts is an essential skill for creating digital images using Canvas text to image feature. By being clear, specific, and descriptive, you can guide the AI to generate images that closely match your vision. Remember to focus on key elements, experiment, and refine your prompts to achieve the best results. So now let's look at a few examples of effective prompts. Three prompts that have been thoroughly crafted, and I'm just going to show you what they return. What the return image is going to look like using the prompts. And then I'm going to do a little something extra and change some of the elements in the prompt to show you the difference. So let's start with this one, a fantasy castle on a hilltop, surrounded by a dense mystical forest with glowing fireflies and a starry night sky. So we're going to use this one as a prompt. One of the key things to understand when it comes to prompts is that you will get pretty much what you ask for, but you may not get everything you're asking for. And that's okay. For this one, I'm not going to use a style. Matter of fact, for the three that we are doing in real time, I'm not going to use a style at all. We'll get to that in a different lesson. But we're going to use the prompt. Typically, with the Canva text to image feature, it takes maybe about 30 to 60 seconds sometimes to get the images. You're always going to get at least four images. Most times it's four. The only time you will get less than four is if the system cannot generate what you're asking for. And that doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Okay. So, these are the images that we received. Is it beautiful? Now, notice the elements and what you have requested in the prompt. You're always going to get four mostly four. Okay. All right. So The prompt states, a fantasy castle. Does the image have a fantasy castle? Yes, it does. On a hilltop, surrounded by a dense mystical forrest. Does the image have a castle on a hilltop, surrounded by a dense mystical forrest? Yes. With glowing fireflies and a starry night sky. Are all the elements included? Yes. And you have four different images to choose from? I think my favorite is the number four right here with the large moon and the walkway. I think it's beautiful, but I think they're all beautiful. But when you have a thoroughly concise, intentionally made prompt, you will receive images that you can be proud of, something that you would actually like. Okay. So, let's change a couple of elements here. I'm going to change this from a fantasy castle to a princess castle. And I want you to see how different the elements can be. I mean, just a change in one word from a fantasy castle to a Princess castle. And we're going to say castle on a hilltop surrounded by a dense mystical forest with glowing fireflies and a starry night. I'm going to add fireflies and butterflies. Just to add a different element. Fer flies, butterflies, and a starry night. Now let's see what we receive once we generate again. I'm going to show you another just a little tidbit to know. So here we go. We're starting to get our images. And see the difference in just changing the element. I changed the element from a mystical fantasy castle to a Princess castle. And what did it do? It changed the color of the castle. It didn't change the components of the castle because they look fairly similar, but they changed it so that it's more aligned with being a princess, which in this case, they changed the color. Now, something else, I added butterflies. And so each of the images have butterflies. And if you noticed, also, On top of having butterflies, and some of them, you have actual flowers. So they're making it a lot more feminine. Instead of the mystical and dense forest that we have up here, it's more along the line of being butterflies and beautiful and less threatening, like, a mystical forest that's dense. And so just changing the elements just a little. Okay, let's go to the next one. A modern kitchen with sleek white cabinets, a marble countertop, stainless steel appliances, and a large window, letting in natural light. Okay. Let's take this one and use this one. This is a prompt, a fully developed prompt. Clear this. Okay. We're going to generate again. Before I show you that, there's something else I want to show you. If the three dots in each image, it's going to ask you generate more like this or generate a video. What it's asking you is, if you like this image, but you want to see more similar to it. If you click on Generate More like this, it's going to generate more images that are along this line with the large moon, and the butterflies mountain top is going to look more like this, and it'll give you more like this. So generate more like this, it's just giving you more options of the same components that are in the image that you really like. Okay, let's check this next prompt. Another thing you can do is when you're creating your prompts, if you notice that something in the prompt is not working, Once you get the image and you change it. So for instance, like I just did with the last one, but I changed elements for the last one. All of them elements, but I changed elements. But let's look at this one, and I'll show you what I'm talking about. Okay, so this is a modern kitchen with sleek white cabinets, marble countertop, stainless steel appliances, and a large window liting in natural light. Did we receive what we were asking for? Yes, we did. All of the components are there. The elements are there. Okay. So, What I'm suggesting that you change is not so much the elements that you asked for, but you've noticed that there's something that you like, but you're not liking what you see directly. For example, you asked for a modern kitchen with sleek white cabinets, a marble countertop, stainless steel appliances, and a large window letting in natural light, okay? Which is what you have. But you noticed that the windows are large, but they don't have drapes. So, let's add drapes. A martin kitchen with sleek white cabinets, a marble countertop, stainless steel appliances, and a large window with drapes. Living in natural light. Okay. So now we're going to generate again using this prompt, just adding drapes, because it's a large window and you don't want everyone to see. Okay. So we're going to generate this one. Okay. We're starting to get them in. And now you have windows with drapes. Now, if you want to be even more specific, you can ask for a specific color of drapes, a specific type of drapes. You're going to give a reference to the type of drapes. Maybe they're silk drapes. Maybe they are floor drapes. Some type of drapes that you are being more specific about. Okay. There you are. So here we have drapes. We have window covers drapes. We have window covers here, which are drapes. The other two did not give specific. And that will happen. Okay, so let's go on to the third one. The last one, a futuristic city scape with towering skyscrapers, flying cars, and a sunset casting an orange glow over the scene. That's the prompt. Okay. So our images are starting to come in. And if you look at the elements, what did we tell the AI model that we wanted? We said a futuristic city skate with towering skyscrapers. Do we have that? We do. We also said we wanted flying cars, which we have t. And a sunset casting an orange glow over the scene, which it does. And that is how you create a powerful prompt that is intentional. B as specific as you can be, be as imaginative as you want to be and be as creative as you will. In the next lesson, we're going to explore the artistic styles that are offered for the text to image features in Canva. 4. Exploring Artistic Style: Hello, everyone. In this lesson, we are going to explore the various styles that Canva offers for the text to image generations. I'm going to start at the panel. Now, before I get started, I want to just take a moment to provide some insight or some clarity to images and graphics, the differences between the images and graphics. Canva breaks down the images and graphics styles as two different styles. The terms image and graphics are often used interchangeably, but there can be a subtle difference, especially in the context of digital design software, like the one offered by Canva. Images are generally considered a broader category encompassing any visual representation. Canva has a whole section of images to include and I'm talking about the styles that include photography, digital art, and fine art. And as you can see, there are several offerings. Then you have graphics. Graphics are often referred to as visual elements specifically created or modified for design purposes. They tend to be more stylized and symbolic than photographs. Images are broader term for visual representation, and graphics are a subset of those images. But Canva has them broken down, and we're going to look at both images and graphics. Now, there are several styles to choose from, the photography, the digital art, and the fine art. One thing to note is that in the mva offerings, you can only select one, which is different than a lot of other AI models where you can select several stylings. In Canva, you can only select one. If you select photography, it's going to be the minimalist, That's all you can select. You can't select minimalist and then animate. It can only be one, right to generate the images, but you will get four different images. Now, there are so many to choose from, and there are a lot of fun. So I've selected a few that we can look at, you know, just so that you can get a feel for what an image would look like. So I use the prompt a Basini dog, in the snow with a scarf. The style I use for this one is high flash, which high flash is in photography. It's right here, if you're following my prompt, it's right here. And so all four of these, which were generated are high flash, and this is what it would look like. Moving to three D, which is in the digital art, section, the second section, the digital art, the same prompt, but a different style. The prompt the Basini dog in the snow with the scarf, but I use the style of three D, and this is what I received. Gradient. Gradient is also a digital art. And so this is what I received. So as you can see, each style has its own characteristic. So here I use colored pencil, which is in the fine art section. Beautiful. They're coming out beautiful. And then this is paper cut. Paper cut is also in the fine art section. And lastly, here, we have concept art, which concept art is in the digital art section. And again, same prompt, using one prompt, but just using the different styles. Now, let's look at the graphic side. With the graphic side, if you notice that the styles offered are simple. Again, using my prompt, my g my mouse, simple, artistic and detailed. And so hand drawn, which is artistic. Notice that there's color involved. I didn't give it color in the prompt, but the result provided color. But this is the hand drawn. And then we have the doodle. Notice that the doodle, which is the simple style is just black and white. You have vintage, which this is what vintage would look like, and a risograph, which is meant to look like a portrait or picture, and then three D chrome. All of these are in the graphics section of Magic Media for text to image. All right. Here's something I want you to pay attention to, and I did mention this in a previous lesson. Sometimes when you are creating digital images, you will receive something that looks like this. You'll have images, you may have two images, and then one of the boxes has this triangle, this red triangle. That means that the system could not provide another image that they felt should be shared. No worries. All you have to do is just regenerate the purple box down here that says generate again, just regenerate so that it can pull and try again. I will refresh. The system will refresh again. Okay. And so now I just have a couple more images that I created using the same prompt and just using different styles. Another thing to note is that you do not have to use a style at all. If you select none, You'll just have a general image, but it will still provide you with the components and the elements that you've requested. It's just not going to have something specific, like, it's not going to be watercolor, it's not going to be anime. It's not going to be filmic. It's just going to be a plain image, still beautiful, but just a plain image. So you don't have to use a style. You can also regenerate as many times as you want to. Or like I showed you before, if you go to the top corner of the image, you can click on the dots that will say, give me more like this. Give me more images just like this one, and it'll regenerate images. Okay, so we're going to use a prompt that we used in a previous lesson. And when we used it in the previous lesson, we did not use a style. This time we are going to select different styles just to see what is generated for us. Let's start with The photography section, and I will do vibrant. So we're going to generate images using the style vibrant. And the prompt is a fantasy castle on a hilltop surrounded by a dense mystical forest with glowing fireflies and a starry night sky. And this is vibrant. Beautiful. Okay. Now, let's see. Let's try another one. Still in the photography section. Let's try long exposure. You don't have to change the prompt. You don't have to add the prompt again. It'll stay in the box just as long as you don't clear it. So this time we're using long exposure for the same prompt. I'm just going to select one and put it on this board here. This is long exposure. Long exposure, as you can see, is a photograph that's taken from a distance. That's what it's supposed to look like, a photograph of an image that was taken at a long distance. Let's try digital art this time. This time, let's use three D. Same prompt. Oh, cool. Okay. So this is a three D model of a fantasy castle on a hilltop surrounded by a dense mystical forest with glowing fireflies in a starry night sky? This is a three D image. All right. Now let's look at one more in digital art. How about gradient? We'll do gradient this time. H. This is gradient. Beautiful. All right. Moving along to the fine section. Let's do stained glass. Same prompt stained glass as the styling. Okay. And this is the stain glass. All right. And let's see. One more in the digital art. Let's do retro Well, we have a lot of dark. The other ones kind of gave us some darkness. So let's do playful. Or how about anime? Yeah, Let's do No, let's do playful. Let's just choose playful. Let's see if we can lighten this up a little bit. Okay. And here we go. I like this one has so that's the playful. All right. Now, to me, the playful looks a lot like the gradient. Similar. Not necessarily the same. Now, as I said before, what if I wanted more images like this one here? If you're following my prompt, this third one, the second one on the bottom. There's these three dots here. I can click on and say generate more like this. Notice it's holding this one that I said I wanted more images of. It's holding that one in place. Then it's going to generate based on the elements that you see here? Very good. Similar, but not the same, but in the same ballpark, and that's what it did. Okay. The focus and the main goal is to one have fun, but know that you can't generate too many images at all. You can make as many as you want and as many colors as you want. Just play with it. Go through each and every style. Use one prompt so that you can compare. And I would also suggest making yourself a little file of like I did here. Make a little file and add whatever the style is so that all you have to do is go back and look at it to know what the generation is going to give you. Once it's generated, it's going to look like this. And so you have your own personal catalog of what your images will look like if you use whichever artistic style. And then you might find that you have a favorite style. I do not have a favorite yet. I do tend to use digital art and photography a lot. I don't use a lot of fine art, but it doesn't mean that I won't. But again, I play with them a lot. And so I just like what I receive and I do something different. I change colors and the prompt and make sure you're prompt. Is fully and thoroughly developed. You can always change the wording. You can always change the wording. In the next lesson, we're going to discuss refining and editing your digital images. See you in the next lesson. 5. Refined Effective Editing: Hi, everyone. After you have created all of the wonderful images that I know that you have been creating throughout the course, you might find that there's some fa paz or some things that you just might want to change. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to make edits. Yes, you can edit your AI images. What I've done is I've created four images, and the prompt was a Basini dog in the park with large tennis balls, trees, and flowers. And as you can see, that is what we have. But I just want to make a few changes, and I'm going to show you how to use the editing features to edit AI images. And they're quite simple. There's several of them. I'm only going to go over a few. So for this first one here, I like the dog. I like everything about the image. With the exception of the tail. If you look at the tail, the tail is a little bit fluffy. And I really don't like this ball here around his neck. So to edit the image, you click on the image and notice you have a panel up here that says Edit. You click on edit, and your editing panel for Magic Studio will appear. Now, in this case, I just want to remove a couple of things. So I'm going to use the Magic eraser. And I'm going to make my brush size fairly small because I just really want to touch it up, so to speak. So I'm just going to get rid of this tail area around here that makes it so fluffy. I'm just using my mouse, and I don't want to get rid of the whole tail. I just want to get rid of the part that makes it look more like a brush as opposed to a tail. Okay. Click you raise. You might find that you have to go through the process a couple of times, and that's okay. So as you can see, I got rid of most of it, but I still have a little bit more that I want to get rid of, and so I'm just going to do it again. And so you can just repeat the process as many times as you feel is needed to get the desired outcome that you want for your image. Click erase again. And good. I'm okay with the tail the way it is right now. I think it's actually kind of clear. Okay. So that's it for the tail. Okay, so let's take this little guy right here. Now, with him, I want to do at something different. Now, if you look, it seems that everything is perfect, except for the fact that his balls are so spread out on this image. To me, the balls are just a little bit spread out. So I want to move a couple of these balls to be a little bit more decorative. Look at bit like they're his balls that he's playing with, and we're going to use the magic grab function. If you're not familiar with the magic grab function, the magic grab takes objects and moves the object to a different location. In this case, I'm going to move this ball over here, and I want to move it over here. I have the magic grab. Notice that when I scroll over different objects, they turn a different color, like a purple or lavenderi ish. That's letting you know that using the click function, all you have to do is click on it and the feature will work. It will grab it. I'm going to grab that ball. Click grab. And what it's doing is it's isolating the object so that I can move it. Now it has isolated the object. You can tell because of the box around it, and now I can just move it. As you can see, it's only a half of a ball. Because it's only a half of a ball, I really don't even need it, but I just don't want it right where it is, so I can just delete it. There you go. Now, what if I wanted this ball, I'm going to do the same thing. I want to bring this ball instead of having it here, I'm going to move it over here. Go through the same function, the magic grab, going to use the click factor. Click on this ball. It's going to isolate it because it's a whole ball. It should look good in a different place in the image. It's isolated. Now I'm just going to move it over here. To me, that's a better place. And we're done. Okay, so the last feature I want to show you is, instead of removing objects and moving them, I want to show you how to add. Now, this image has a lot of tennis balls, and there is some greenery and trees, but I think it have ale bit more floral. Going to the edit panel, Instead of removing, I'm going to use Magic edit, and I'm going to add. This requires using text to image, just like you created the actual image. You need text for this. And so what you're going to do is you're going to highlight an area. So I'm going to highlight all of this here. I'm just going to highlight the whole bottom area where all the tennis balls are and the grass, and I'm just going to highlight it like this. Then what I'm going to tell it to do there. Now it's highlighted. Now I'm going to tell it at flowers. A field of flowers. Multicolored. And click Generate. And what should happen is I should receive images with a field of flowers. Now, what I really like about this is that I have a choice of which one or which ones I like. Here's a field of flowers. It's added more purple lavender color flowers. This one added more lavender at the tips and different types of flowers. This one moved the flowers around. It added flowers. Now, the difference with this one is adding the flowers meant that it removed the tennis balls. I removed the tennis balls. If I wanted it to have the tennis balls and the flowers, I would say add a feel the flowers, multiclored, and multicolored tennis balls. And generate again. This way, I'm getting both tennis balls and flowers. That's cute. So I have tennis balls and flowers. Okay. So that is just some of the features that you can use to edit your images. And when it comes to adding texts like in Magic edit for adding images to your image. B as clear and concise as you can be to get the desired outcome. Maybe you want soccer balls, maybe you want tennis balls, maybe you want a specific type of tennis balls. Maybe you want them to be in a certain location. You can do all of that. You just have to be clear and concise about how you do it and how you stat it. 6. Class Project: Let's talk about the class project. After you have watched all the videos and you have practiced with the technology, it's time to put your practice into an actual work. What I want you to do is one create a fully developed prompt, fully developed, and you're going to use that one fully developed prompt and create images using three different styles. Three different styles. Then one of the images, I want you to edit. It doesn't have to be a large edit. It can be a very small edit, but it needs to be a edit. And then you're going to take three of the images that you want to share using three different styles, but one prompt. You're going to submit your work to the class folder, the course project folder. And I want you to go one step further and I want you to also post them to the class discussion board so that your other classmates and peers can see your work and can comment on your work, as well as you see theirs and comment on theirs. Now, here's a tip for you. When you're commenting on your peers work, when you're in the discussion board, be intentional about it. Ask questions, make comments that can provide some type of value to the person that you're responding to. So don't just say nice photo or a nice image. Be intentional. What makes it nice? What is it you like? Do you like the color scheme? Do you like the style? Do you want to know what style? Now, here's another thing. When you submit your work both to the course project and to the discussion board, make sure you add the prompt. Don't just add the images, add the prompt that you use to get the images. Remember, one has to be edited. Then once you do all of that, then you're done? 7. Wrap-Up: Well, congratulations. You have completed the course. By now, you should have watched all of the videos and completed your course project and submitted your course project to the course project folder, as well as submitted your work to the discussion so that your other classmates and peers can comment on your work and you as well on theirs. I do have other courses, if you would like to check them out, feel free. Also, I hope you have found value in this course. I enjoyed sharing my knowledge of text to image AI with you using the Canva feature, and I hope that you have learned a lot and you had fun doing it. I can't wait to see where your imagination takes you.