Free AI Art Generator
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Free AI Art Generator
Turn pure text to art with Canva’s AI art generator. Simply enter a prompt, pick a style, and watch your words transform into beautiful art.
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Introducing Canva’s AI Art Generator
Find the perfect image for your presentations, social media posts, and more with Canva’s AI art generator. Turn your flights of fancy into actual art. Cut down hours spent sketching, concepting, or searching for the right image. Simply enter a text prompt, describe the image you have in mind, and get a unique artwork you can use on your passion projects and professional designs.
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Play around with different art styles
Use Canva’s AI art generator and discover different art styles to express your vision fully. Type your preferred art style in the prompt or apply one of the many options available when regenerating and refining your image. Canva AI’s style presets include Watercolor, Filmic, Neon, Color Pencil, and Retrowave. You can even add a reference image and pick the image ratio that suits your needs.
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Refine your AI-generated art
Polish your artwork with ease
Make precise adjustments with our AI-powered photo editor . Without leaving the app, Magic Edit lets you add or replace objects and watch as it appears in your artwork.
Stylize with filters and effects
Transform your AI art by layering it with Canva’s stunning filters and effects—no need to switch apps. Or take your design further with Canva's AI tools .
Complete your art with words and graphics
Let your art speak. Add stickers, text animations , and other design elements to turn your AI-generated art into a design story worth telling.
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Create freely and safely
Enjoy creating art without worries. To protect your process, Canva has put in layers of safety measures to block prompts that may generate inappropriate images automatically. Encounter any unsafe content on our AI artwork generator tools? Report it here , and we’ll address it right away.
We won’t tolerate any use of our AI art generator that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy .
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The AI art generator for every creator
For aspiring artists
Bring out your creativity and get instant inspiration for your passion projects.
For content pros
Brainstorm and visualize concepts for your audience quickly.
For entrepreneurs
Find a cost-effective solution for creating exciting branding.
All the features you need
Canva’s free drag-and-drop design tools make it easy to create any design, fast!
Generate images from text
Create AI images that visualize a product or idea, draft a creative concept, or push the limits of what's possible.
Various art styles available
Render your AI-generated images in stunning art styles like Watercolor, Filmic, Neon, Color Pencil, Retrowave, and more.
Magic Edit
Want to change the color or texture of an object? Or swap the background for something else? Magic Edit lets you add to, replace, or edit your image with a short written prompt.
Magic Eraser
Instantly clean up your image and remove any unwanted distractions with Magic Eraser —no manual editing needed.
Enhance your images
Use Canva’s Photo Editor to fix your photo’s focus, lighting, and coloring with easy-to-use sliders.
Photo effects & filters
Choose from our selection of adjustable color filters and fun photo effects to remix your photo.
Add Text to Photo
Easily add text to your photo or image to tell a story. Font combinations, colors, and styles available.
One-click background remover
Remove image backgrounds, perfect for product photos, headshots, or transparent PNGs.
Automatically translate your design
With Translate (Pro) , quickly change the language of your existing design, with over 100 languages to choose from.
Millions of free images, icons, and graphics
Get access to our entire library of millions of photos, icons, graphics, media elements, audio, sound effects, and more.
Access anywhere and autosave
Jump from device to desktop—design how you work best! Canva autosaves your progress along the way.
Cloud storage
Get free 5GB storage or upgrade to Canva Pro and get unlimited folders with up to 1TB storage for all your designs.
Easy sharing and exporting tools
Share and export designs as a JPG, PNG, PDF, and PPTX. And when you embed a doc, you can customize which page will be displayed.
Real-time collaboration
Create, collaborate, comment on designs, and get everyone on the same page, at the same time, from anywhere.
Content planner (Pro)
Create and schedule content to your favorite social media accounts directly from Canva.
How to create AI art
Describe your artwork
Type a prompt describing the artwork you want, like the subject, art style, and technique. Sign in to Canva if prompted. You can attach a reference photo, too.
Generate your AI art
Click "Create AI art," and your artwork appears right on the page in seconds.
Refine your AI artwork
Provide an additional prompt, choose a preset style or a different aspect ratio, and click "Regenerate."
Download your AI artwork
Save your new, customized AI art and use it in your projects.
Edit or save your artwork
Open it in the Canva editor to customize your artwork further, or save it to Canva for later.
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Your questions, answered
What is AI art? How does AI art work?
AI art is generated by an AI model. The model is trained on millions of images along with text associated with them, including many works of art. From the data it analyses, the model learns about which images and text belong together. After the training, the model is ready to generate new images, based on the text input of a user. The model uses the learned connections between text and images to create new, unique AI images and art each time.
Is Canva’s AI art generator free to use?
You can use the AI art generator on Canva for a number of free uses. To get more uses, consider upgrading your subscription.
Why use an AI art generator?
Why not use an AI art generator? Using AI generators has many benefits, whether you’re a budding artist, a professional content creator, or a start-up entrepreneur. You can use it to gain inspiration and get over your creative block. You can include it in your creative work process as a handy tool to make instant rough drafts and blueprints for concepts. You can even use it for brainstorming new ideas. With the help of AI art apps, you can create countless designs for social media, marketing, and promo materials, and even for your own passion project.
Who owns the copyright in AI-generated art?
The issue of copyright in AI-generated art is still an open discussion, so the answer to this question depends on where you’re located and creating art.
At present, Canva makes no copyright claim over any images created using our free AI art generator. Between you, the user, and Canva, you own the AI art you generate with Canva AI (subject to you following our terms ). In turn, you give Canva the right to host your AI output on our platform and to use them for marketing our products.
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