Canva launches an image model that plans the design before generation

CEO Melanie Perkins started Canva to make design easier for non-specialists. Craft applies that premise to image generation, trained on what Canva says are millions of human-made templates.

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Primary source: The Verge

Why it matters

Canva is making its image model part of a broader design workflow, not just offering another prompt-to-picture tool. The test is whether planning and editability help users turn generated images into usable designs.

A designer arranges colored shapes beside a large-format printer producing an image in a Canva-branded studio.

Canva launched its first in-house image-generation model, Craft, on Thursday, October 22nd, giving CEO and co-founder Melanie Perkins a new way to pursue the problem that started the business: making design work for people without specialist training.…

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