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Transform Your Presentations with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide to Canva Magic

Enoch George Muller

Discover how to harness Canva’s AI tools to create stunning presentations from scratch effortlessly.

Ever wished creating a jaw-dropping presentation could be as easy as a few clicks? With Canva’s AI tools, that wish is now a reality! Let’s dive into the magic.

Welcome back! Today, we’re diving into the world of Canva.com and exploring how to leverage its AI tools to craft a PowerPoint presentation from scratch. Ready to create stunning slides with minimal effort? Let’s get started!

Step 1: Navigating to Magic Studio

Once you’re inside Canva, head over to the Magic Studio. Here, you’ll find several elements that allow you to create different documents from scratch using AI. Think of it as your creative playground. 🎨

Step 2: Using Magic Design for Presentations

Click on Magic Design for presentations . This feature is a game-changer. By selecting Magic Design , you can choose from various elements and input the parameters for your presentation. Canva’s AI will then work its magic, generating slide content and design tailored to your specifications.

Step 3: Customizing Your Presentation

After Canva’s AI creates your presentation, you’ll see that it has designed both the content and the slides. Now, it’s time to personalize it. Add, edit, or subtract elements to fit your specific needs. The beauty of Canva’s AI is that it provides a solid foundation, allowing you to focus on the creative touches.

Step 4: Editing and Finalizing

Canva makes it easy to tweak the presentation. Want to change the color scheme or add new images? Go for it! The AI-generated slides are fully customizable, giving you the flexibility to adjust anything to suit your style.

Conclusion:

And there you have it! A beautifully designed presentation created effortlessly with Canva’s AI tools. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or a newbie, Canva’s Magic Studio empowers you to produce professional presentations in no time.

So go ahead, unleash your creativity with Canva’s AI, and watch your presentations come to life. Happy designing! 🚀

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A Guide to the Canva AI Presentation Maker

Canva is a go-to graphic design software app for small business owners, bloggers, and individuals. As AI boomed in 2022 and 2023, Canva has also become the source of AI-generated images for faster photo creation. What sets Canva apart from its competition is its “Magic Design” tool. This is the all-in-one place to create graphics and illustrations. You can also make presentations using this tool! Here’s how to make a Canva AI presentation!

How do I make an AI presentation on Canva?

It’s easy to get a Canva AI presentation. But first, you need a Canva account to obtain the AI-generated presentation. Plus, you also have to prepare a prompt. It can be as simple as a “colorful presentation for a pitch.”

Once you have these two, you’re ready to use the tool!

On the Canva dashboard, click “Create a Design.” From there, search for the presentation type. 

On the search bar on the “Design” tab, type in your prompt. The AI loads various template suggestions. Once you choose your preferred design, you can load the template to the canvas.

From there, edit your business details and replace the images. Once done, you can download the presentation and export it into a PDF or PPTx file!

However, using the Magic Design tool shouldn’t stop there. You can also use the tool to generate AI images and videos! Canva has multiple integrations to acquire AI-generated photos and videos! 

One of them is Dall-E, the OpenAI image generator! You can use this for free with Canva to get realistic images! It doesn’t stop there, too. You can use the Magic Media tool as an alternative to Dall-E to get videos alongside photos!

You can explore more tools to make your presentation more compelling! Here are other examples to try:

• Avatars by NeiroAI – Ideal for presentations since this is a virtual presentation tool
• Magic Morph – Format your text in various styles and shapes
• Image Upscaler – Make images bigger when presenting them
• D-ID AI Presenters – Add a virtual avatar to your presentation
• Background Eraser – Remove backgrounds and replace them with new ones when you edit it on Canva

Pros and Cons of the Canva AI Presentation Tool

• Use the Magic Design tool to search for cool presentation designs and generate various AI elements for your presentation.
• Get access to hundreds of free presentation templates for various purposes.
• Generate images using their AI tool if you’re stuck on what photos to add to your presentation.
• Canva won’t actually generate a presentation. You will edit the presentation based on your chosen template.
• Some designs won’t meet user expectations.
• Editing the AI-generated outputs on the free plan can be limiting.

Alternatives to Canva AI Presentation Maker

One free Canva AI presentation maker alternative is Slidesgo. Unlike Canva, Slidesgo generates a presentation from scratch. It requires the following details:

• Writing tone
• Number of slides

Once everything’s good on your end, Slidesgo generates a design in a couple of minutes. The AI adds a copy and AI-generated images to your presentations. However, if you’re not a fan of the AI images or copy, you can edit the presentation before downloading it. On the Free plan, you can download the presentation as a PDF or JPG file only. You need to subscribe to export it as a PPTX file.

Tome is the ideal AI presentation maker for professionals, startups, and creators. You can select from multiple templates, like sales and pitch decks, marketing presentations, product presentations, education presentations, and more!

If you choose “Generate with AI,” you need to provide a prompt. Once you provide a prompt, you need to click “Generate Outline.” Then, Tome presents you with an outline before it becomes a full-blown presentation. Once you approve the presentation, you’ll see what the AI whipped up and edit it before presenting it! Like Slidesgo, Tome adds AI-generated photos. However, you can regenerate an image or upload a photo that fits the slide.

Another AI presentation maker to consider is Sendsteps. You can create from a document, import from a PowerPoint, or let AI generate a presentation. You need to type in your prompt on the empty bar. Then, select your language and tone of voice. The AI will generate some titles. Finally, choose the number of slides and click Generate my Presentation !

From there, the AI will show you what it generated. Then, you can edit as needed. If you’re on the Free plan, the AI can generate only two presentations in one month.

Presentations AI

Presentations AI is another free option to try if you need AI-generated presentations. It offers a free plan, which you can try before subscribing. To start, click “Start with a Prompt.” You can choose between Generate outline or Generate deck. You can customize the prompt by choosing how many slides first. Once you click Generate deck, the AI takes a few minutes to create the presentation. Finally, once generated, you can edit the presentation!

So far, Presentations AI delivers in presentation quality. It provides realistic images and illustrations. However, you can’t download the presentation if you’re on the Free plan.

Penji is different from the alternatives presented on this list. It’s an unlimited graphic design service that helps businesses with all their graphic design needs! But in a way, it follows a similar process when you submit a prompt to AI. 

First, you have to subscribe. Then, when you access the dashboard, you start a new project. Then, search for the category and choose various options to customize your project. Plus, you’ll also submit a design brief that your designers will depend on to make a compelling design. It’s essential that your design brief should include the content. However, if you only need slide designs, that’s okay, too! Once submitted, an AI will match you with the best designer. Then, you’ll have to wait 1 to 2 days to get your design draft. 

It may take days for your final design to be what you envisioned. However, Penji designers put great care into creating a final output that doesn’t require additional editing after revisions! And if you want to get a preview of how Penji makes designs watch a demo here ! 

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All the Wild New Canva AI Features You Should Know About

Canva has already democratized the process of graphic design , simplifying things with templates and asset libraries to the point that anyone with a web browser can design something functional, even attractive—if not exactly original. Pairing Canva with new AI technologies only makes sense, as, to put it charitably, AI seeks democratize all digital work. Canva is not alone here: Microsoft offers its Copilot AI features, and Adobe has Firefly technologies, though neither is available yet. Canva’s features, on the other hand, have already started slowly rolling out, and you can try them now, for free. Yes, users on the free plan get limited access to the AI features, but you can upgrade to the $12.99 per month Canva Pro plan to try out all of them. You’ll spot Canva’s AI-powered tools by their “Magic” tag. The tool set includes Magic Eraser, Magic Edit, Magic Write, Magic Design, and more. As of writing, all these features are all in beta, and you’ll find them highlighted at the top of every relevant section. (For example, Magic Design will be at the top of the sidebar when you go to create a new presentation.)

Let AI design the whole project for you

The Magic Design feature has the potential to massively reduce the time you spend designing social media posts. Find the feature in Templates and hand it an image. The tool will analyze the image and create a design using text titles, all on its own. You can help it along by giving it a title. Scroll around and you’ll find a few different designs, each featuring your image, eye-catching graphics, and bold text.

Automate presentations as much as possible

“Instant Presentations” promises to generate a presentation for you from a single prompt. Sure, it won’t output a complete deck, but it’s astonishing how close it can get. Once it’s done, all that’s left for you is to fill in the details.

Instant Presentations does a lot of the drudgery for you. Give a prompt, pick a design style, and it will create a deck with multiple slides. Because it’s using ChatGPT-like generative AI, it will add additional context in slides. When I asked Canva to create a presentation about practicing Yoga, it created a nine-slide deck with relevant images, including slides dedicated to the advantages of yoga, types of yoga, and more.

A solid text-to-image generator

Canva now has a pretty great built-in text-to-image generator. It works just like DALL-E, Bing, or Midjourney, and is based on the Stable Diffusion model. You give it a description, and up pop four different images. You can then choose to add an image to your designs. Like every other image generator tool, our advice is the same: Be verbose with your prompts. The image will only be as good as your description.

You’ll find this is Apps > Text to Image in the sidebar.

Seamlessly remove objects using Magic Eraser

One of the hardest things to do in Photoshop is identify and erase an object. I remember taking classes dedicated to this very subject—but now, it’s as easy as pressing a button, thanks to Canva’s Magic Eraser feature, which works both for identifiable objects as well as backgrounds.

Select the object that you want to remove, then choose the Magic Eraser tool. Paint over the offending objects and wait while Canva does the scrubbing for you. You see the best results against a relatively un-busy background.

Generate copy anywhere

Just like Notion, Canva has also integrated an AI writing model, and it’s available on any design, not just in the new documents app. Type / , select the Magic Write option, and give it a prompt. Being Canva, it’s great at generating social media copy, captions, and email descriptions. Again, the more verbose the prompt, the better the results. In our testing, the Magic Write feature capably created social media captions and gave us relevant hashtags.

Edit parts of an images using text prompts

The Magic Edit feature sometimes really does feel like magic. Because the AI features are deeply integrated in all parts of design documents, you can actually ask Canva to edit a part of the image for you—perhaps to change the color of a bike in the background, or make the sky bluer. And it will do it for you.

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Get Inspired: How to Use AI Writing in Canva to Speed Up Your Presentation Creation

Sometimes you need a little bit of help rephrasing that clunky headline. Or you've been so deep in a project and spent so many hours working on and perfecting one single slide, yet it still doesn't quite feel right.

Sometimes, you just need another set of eyes or a fresh way of looking at your slide content. This is where Canva's new Magic Write feature can help you speed the creation of your presentation by helping you quickly ideate and iterate until you find a message that works for the message you're trying to convey.

Step One: Get Canva

Canva is free to try and is about $12 a month for the Pro membership plan. Make an account if you don't have one. I have the Pro plan, and it's honestly the best $12 I spend per month because of all the incredible design and graphic assets I have access to in their platform. if you can't already tell, I'm a huge Canva fan.

Step 2: Create a Canva Doc

So the thing about the AI writing feature is that it's not yet available when working in a Canva presentation. It's only available in Canva Docs. I'm sure they will roll it out more broadly across their suite in due time, but for now, you have to be in a document to use it.

Step 3: Tell it what you want

Click the plus sign and click Magic Write. Then tell it exactly what you want it to write. If you're just beginning to work on a new business presentation, start with brainstorming and ask for an outline. Voila!

It's not the most impressive or comprehensive outline, but it's a good start for something that took less than one minute. If I were to have written this outline on my own, it would've probably taken me at least five or ten minutes and a few google searches for inspiration.

Step 4: Rise and repeat

It's possible that the first response you get is perfect. But run the exact same request through Magic Write a few more times to see what else you get. It's kind of like searching Google.  

Here, I ran the exact same prompt three times. For a slide headline, option 2 is by far the strongest. Its use of the em-dash is also very advanced because it expresses through syntax a bit of surprise. Usually, only more advanced writers use em dashes in this way. I'm very impressed, and I might have to admit that I like the second option better than the original headline which I wrote (human-generated content). I'm okay because AI and I are a team tackling this project together. I'm going to save the existential issues about the value of labor for another post.

Step 5: Copy text into the Presentation

Copy, paste, edit.

As I mentioned earlier, you'll have to jump between Canva Docs and Canva Presentation.

In conclusion, using AI writing in Canva is a great way to speed up your presentation creation and editing. Save time and get ideas for your next presentation.

One thing to note is that Magic Write uses GPT-3 whereas ChatGPT uses GPT3.5, which is an improved AI model that generates superior text. What's nice about Magic Write is that it is integrated into Canva, and I'm sure more improvements are likely to come in the very near future. Try both and see what works for you!

Good luck with your next presentation! I hope you take advantage of this new feature within Canva!

And if this was helpful, then check out my post on using ChatGPT to outline your next presentation! Or, more generally, how to use AI for a presentation.

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Canva AI: How to use Canva AI tools to enhance your designs

Create, edit, and improve your design workflow with these canva ai tools..

When I first got my hands on Photoshop, I did the most logical thing any other 15-year-old kid would've done: I edited a family photo by swapping everyone's heads onto different bodies. It was the early days of Photoshopping, so my family was blown away. A copy of the photo even made its way onto my grandparents' fridge.

The only problem (other than the creepy head-swapping?)? It was painstaking work. It took hours.

If you're in the market to edit a family photo (or create an image out of thin air), I have good news: Canva's new suite of AI-powered tools is making design—for all sorts of mediums—way more approachable.

Table of contents:

A primer on Canva and AI

Since the launch of Background Remover in 2019, Canva's been hard at work creating more AI tools to supercharge the design process. Canva's arsenal of new AI-powered tools now includes:

I've personally tested each of these tools. Below, I'll walk you through what each tool can do and how you can use each one to speed up your workflow or enhance your creativity. If you're curious about a specific tool, feel free to jump ahead. Otherwise, keep scrolling to learn more about Canva AI.

How to access Canva AI

Canva's AI tools are conveniently grouped together within the software's "Magic Studio" section, which is prominently displayed in Canva's menu. Many of the tools—like Magic Switch and Magic Write—also show up in context as you interact with your design.

Before we dive in, it's worth mentioning that many of Canva's AI features are available exclusively on its paid Pro or Teams plans, including Magic Eraser, Background Remover, Magic Switch, Magic Morph, Magic Grab, Magic Expand, Highlights, Enhance Voice, and Magic Animate.

Is Canva AI free?

Users on Canva's free plan get access to some AI features, though there are usage caps. For example, free users get a total of 50 uses for Magic Write, while paid users get 500 uses per month. And Magic Media gives free users a total of five uses of Text to Video, while paid users get 50 uses per month.

Bottom line: if you try Canva's AI features and find them helpful, you'll want to upgrade to a paid plan.

Can I use Canva AI designs for commercial use?

How to use canva ai tools to enhance your designs, 1. magic media.

Rather than developing its own generative AI model for images and video, Canva has given its Magic Media tool serious firepower by incorporating technology from leading AI firms.

Magic Media comes in three flavors: Text to Image, Text to Video, and Text to Graphics.

Text to Image

To test out this feature, I gave Canva the following prompt: "A golden sculpture of a rabbit on a pedestal, sitting on its haunches, red background, photorealism."

Canva generates a few options to choose from. Of course, if none of the options match what you were envisioning, you can switch to a different style or rewrite your prompt.

Generate images of products that don't exist yet

Brainstorm in real time rather than relying on designers to mock up your ideas

Create viral content with unforgettably unique images

Text to Image also integrates with Magic Edit in some interesting ways, which we'll explore later in this article.

Text to Video

I'll be honest: now that I've been using AI to generate images for a year or two, I'm a bit jaded. I take text-to-image tools for granted, and my standards are ever-higher for the images AI produces.

But Canva's Text to Video tool blew me away. Until recently, creating videos of this quality was entirely inaccessible for most people—or would have taken countless hours and painstaking work. After experimenting with this tool, it feels inevitable that Pixar and Dreamworks will soon have serious competition from small animation teams empowered by this kind of technology.

Text to Graphics

Like any good Canva tool, Text to Graphics gives you a range of one-click styles that radically change the output of your design. You can choose from classic illustration options, like Geometric and Sketch , as well as more exotic ones like Gold foil . 

I asked Canva to create a custom graphic of a golden retriever dressed as a pirate, which it did splendidly. (I'm now tempted to open a pet-friendly pirate-themed restaurant using this as the logo.)

2. Magic Eraser

Here's how you can instantly clean up your photos using Canva's Magic Eraser: select the objects you want to remove from your image, and then click on the Magic Eraser tool. Next, "paint" over your unwanted objects, and let Magic Eraser get to scrubbing.

In the image below, I used Magic Eraser to remove the lamp:

Boom. Gone.

Magic Eraser tends to work best when you're removing objects from uncomplicated backgrounds. For example, before removing the lamp, I tried to remove the two orange pillows. No luck. Magic Eraser left messy graphical artifacts behind.

Even so, this tool will likely become a staple of your graphic design toolkit, especially as it continues to improve over time. Just look at Canva's Background Remover tool, which acts similarly to Magic Eraser. Having only been around for a few years, it's impressively accurate, even with highly-detailed images. Here's what it did to the golf photo below—in just one click:

3. Magic Edit

Magic Edit is the graphic design tool you never knew you needed. With one click and a few words, you can turn one object into another—a bit like a Harry Potter spell.

Take the vanilla birthday cake in the Before image below. I simply highlighted the cake, and then described what I wanted Canva to replace the cake with. In this case, I prompted Canva to change the vanilla cake to a chocolate cake with candles. Presto, change-o! 

If nothing else, this tool is immensely fun to play around with. But it has practical functions too. If you're a marketer or designer looking to adapt images for different campaigns, you can quickly:

Change backgrounds from summer to winter

Customize product photos for different holidays

Modify the clothes the models in your photos are wearing

Canva Magic Edit reduces the time needed to go from an idea to a reality, making the iterative design process fast and fun.

4. Magic Grab

Magic Grab turns static images into editable images by using AI to fill in the gaps. Like Canva's Background Remover tool, it effortlessly replaces what used to be a time-intensive design process. Trust me: this will quickly become an essential part of your workflow.

Just look at how smoothly Magic Grab enables me to move and resize the subject in the below photo:

You can also use a related feature called "Grab Text" to turn static text into editable text. This feature works well enough, but its usefulness is limited—since it relies on Canva's library of fonts to emulate the static text, you won't get an exact match.

5. Magic Expand

Magic Expand uses AI to extend the borders of your image. It's a useful feature, but because of its uneven quality, it requires tinkering to get good results.

It's particularly well-suited to extending landscapes, rather than complex backgrounds:

In my tests, Magic Expand often compensated for its lack of certainty by making the expanded background blurry. This turns out ok sometimes, but the blurriness is often noticeable enough that you won't want to use the expanded image. You'll also want to be cautious also about expanding areas of your photo that have faces and hands, since those tend to come out warped.

6. Magic Morph

Magic Morph allows you to use AI text prompts to transform your design's text, elements, and shapes. For marketing assets like social media graphics, banners, and flyers, this opens the door to unique imagery and creative approaches.

Canva is known for helping non-designers create professional designs. But while Magic Morph is fun to play with, it takes users in the other direction: it's too easy to accidentally generate tacky designs. Sticking to Canva's example prompts, or variations of them, tends to produce the nicest-looking results.

7 . Magic Write

Here's an example of an AI-generated Instagram post for a fictional financial services app. To create it—or, really, to let Canva create it—I selected a pre-existing Instagram template, put a few keywords in, and left the rest up to Canva.

8 . Magic Design

In the past, creating designs in Canva meant combing through its impressive but overwhelming library of design templates, and then customizing them to match your images, logo, and overall aesthetic. Now, Canva's Magic Design uses AI to flip that formula around, so you can start designing with a nearly-finished product. Simply upload a photo or enter a text query that describes what you need, and Magic Design will generate relevant design templates to match. No more building from scratch. 

Considering that Magic Design can build templates for everything from YouTube thumbnails and TikTok videos to presentations and infographics, this AI tool might provide users with more time-saving potential than any other on this list. 

To test Magic Design, I dropped in a photo of Honolulu along with the title " 9 jaw-dropping Hawaii travel itineraries ." For the style, I selected Travel . From there, Magic Design quickly spun up a buffet of design templates for Facebook posts, Instagram stories, and more.

You can also home in on a specific media type, like Instagram posts, and have Magic Design create multiple templates for that specific media. This way, you can choose the design that works best for you.

9. Magic Animate

I wasn't prepared to be impressed by Magic Animate—heck, I've been making text and images fly across the screen with Microsoft PowerPoint since the late '90s. But as a result of its AI integration, Canva's animation tool brings something refreshingly new to the table.

In the past, I'd normally animate each element on the screen one-by-one, or rely on a pre-animated template to make life easier. But Magic Animate automatically sets animations for each object in a way that makes them all flow well together. It also gives you a dozen or so animation styles to choose from and some basic controls, like speed and positioning.

10 . Instant Presentations

That's right—no more rushing to finish your presentation the night before your big meeting. In a last-minute "dog ate my homework" scenario, you could theoretically generate a simple presentation at 8:59 a.m., and present it, literally, a minute later.

It's worth mentioning that Canva can't generate a full-fledged presentation for you—at least not yet. But it'll take care of the design and your first draft, meaning all you have to do is fill in the gaps with a few extra details (and maybe a few more slides).

To put Instant Presentations to the test, I gave it the same Hawaii-themed prompt mentioned above: " 9 jaw-dropping Hawaii travel itineraries ." In less than 10 seconds, it put together a 10-slide presentation complete with an intro slide and slides for each itinerary, including a relevant image, title, and brief description of each itinerary.

The main limitation so far is brevity. Based on my testing, it seems that Presentations by Magic Design are capped at a maximum of 10 slides, and their AI doesn't generate much text. Even so—by outsourcing the first draft of your presentation to Canva, you can easily save an hour or two of presentation prep work. It's a pretty fantastic starting point, if you ask me.

Canva also offers AI-powered design suggestions in the Layouts section of its presentation tool. With a dozen or more auto-generated design suggestions for each slide, you'll find it easier—and faster—to refine the look and feel of your presentation. If you're prone to wasting time tweaking your presentation's margins and layout, this is a massive time-saver.

11 . Beat Sync

When you watch well-produced Instagram Reels or TikTok videos with audio, you'll notice that the visuals tend to correspond with the accompanying beats. Why? Because viewers are more likely to stay engaged when the visuals match the beat. 

Here's the problem: syncing the beat is a tedious process (just ask your 15-year-old cousin). It involves manually tweaking the timing of multiple audio and video clips over and over again.

Beat Sync uses AI to take the pain out of this process while producing a professionally polished end product. With this feature, even amateur creators can "harmonize" their videos in seconds.

As an inexperienced video editor, I found Beat Sync surprisingly easy to use. To test it, I spliced multiple Canva stock videos together and added an audio track. Then I clicked Beat Sync to automatically match my video clips to the rhythm of the music, lengthening or shortening the audio as needed.

12. Magic Design for Video

Canva's Magic Design for Video continues a trend I'm seeing with Canva's AI features: when applied to video, they're even more useful and time-saving than when they're applied to static text and images.

Like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, Magic Design for Video takes your raw content and— voilà —returns a social media-ready video, complete with captions, animations, and synced music.

To get started, you just upload the files you want to use:

Magic Design uses AI to identify the contents of your photos and video, allowing it to put everything in an order that makes sense and add appropriate captions. You'll want to make one or two tweaks to the final result to make sure it's hitting the right notes—but in my tests, I found that the AI-produced video got me 95% of the way there.

I ran one of Canva's stock videos through Highlights. Despite the fact that it was a simple shot of two people on a motorbike, it managed to separate the video into three distinct activities and add appropriate labels.

Another clever way Canva uses AI to speed up the video editing process is with a tool called Enhance Voice, which removes the background noise from audio. I dug through my archives and found a video of my family at the beach with a particularly loud group of seagulls nearby, along with other ocean-adjacent sounds like waves and wind. After using Enhance Voice, the noise of the seagulls and waves was reduced dramatically, and it was easier to hear our voices; the side effect is that this process gives the audio a slight "tin can" echo-y effect.

13 . Translate

With Canva Translate, you can translate your content into multiple languages (134 to be exact), including French, Tagalog, and Xhosa. While there are other AI translation tools out there, having the ability to translate your work within Canva is a serious time-saver.

I asked Translate to change my Hawaii itinerary presentation from English to Spanish. Conveniently enough, it translated my text and automatically adjusted the text size to fit my existing design. Not as conveniently, it only seemed to be able to translate one slide at a time.

As with many of these Canva AI tools, I think the biggest beneficiary of Canva Translate will be social media teams. Just imagine the potential for global reach—with less effort. 

14. Magic Switch

Magic Switch solves a serious pain point I've had with Canva up until now: the struggle of moving and resizing objects after changing the dimensions of my designs. (For example, from Instagram Post size to Instagram Story size). Doing this manually is tedious work.

Magic Switch takes away this annoyance, automatically resizing each element in your design and making it painless to expand one piece of content into a multichannel campaign.

For example, you can:

Turn a presentation into a series of Instagram posts

Convert a YouTube thumbnail into a Facebook ad

Turn a blog post into an Instagram Reel

Add in the ability to auto-translate into new languages—from English-language blog posts to Spanish-language TikTok videos—and you've got a seriously productive multichannel marketing tool.

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The impact of Canva's AI design tools

Given its customizable templates and easy-to-use interface, Canva's strength has always been making design more accessible to non-designers. Now, with this new suite of AI-powered design tools, Canva's taking things to the next level.

Tools like Magic Switch, Magic Write, Magic Edit, and Magic Animate massively reduce the time investment needed to create content. But an even bigger impact may be enhanced creativity. Magic Media and Magic Design are transforming the ideation process for designers and non-designers alike. Now anyone can conceptualize an idea and create a proof of concept in a matter of minutes.

So whether you want to speed up your design workflows or you're simply curious about what's possible, the time to test drive Canva's AI features is now—because this suite of tools is changing the design game.

How to use Canva AI tools: FAQs

Still have questions about Canva AI? Check out the answers to these frequently asked questions so you can get the most out of AI in your design workflows.

Does Canva use AI?

Can canva generate ai presentations, does canva have an ai image generator, does canva have an ai voiceover.

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This article was originally published in April 2023. The most recent update was in June 2024.

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Canva Magic Design for Presentations and alternative AI presentation tools

In-depth review of Canva's AI presentation product as well as alternative AI presentation makers to consider

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What is Canva Magic Design for Presentations?

Canva's Magic Design for Presentations is an AI-powered tool that can generate slide decks based on a short text description, aka prompt. The goal is for AI to handle most of the work so Canva users can focus on perfecting their presentations.

To see what Canva's AI presentation maker can do, we asked it to create " a pitch deck for a budgeting mobile app for teens. " 

Within seconds, Magic Design gave us six presentation drafts with around seven slides each:

At first glance, the results look impressive. Magic Design generated multiple decks with cohesive color schemes, layouts, and relevant elements like user statistics, app features, and CTAs. 

Some drafts even had placeholder app names like "PocketFin" and "Budgeteer," demonstrating the AI's ability to consider the prompt's context.

On the other hand, the slide content was thin and largely duplicated across drafts, with only minor differences. Some also had awkward phrasing; one slide declared, "Budget like a pro, teen." Another randomly referenced "Tony Stark" alongside a quote from financial expert Dave Ramsey.

Expanding our prompt into " a pitch deck for potential investors presenting a budgeting mobile app with teens as target users " did give us better content.

Unfortunately, Magic Design has a 100-character prompt limit, so you can't be as detailed as you like (our edited prompt hit 94 characters already). 

To polish the AI-generated content, we turned to Magic Write, Canva's AI writing assistant, but it wasn't particularly helpful. For example, "Rewrite" and "More Formal" just replaced words with complex synonyms. "Continue Writing" added helpful information but was excessively wordy:

That edit broke the layout since Magic Write doesn't auto-adjust the text. The formatting issues extended to most of the slides generated by Magic Design, like this one:

On the other hand, we like how Canva's AI incorporated charts and graphs into the slides, an important element for business presentations like pitch decks. You can easily replace the placeholder text with your own data:

Canva sources its photos from Pexels and Pixabay, so the slides mostly had generic stock images. You can generate your own photos using Magic Media, but Canva's AI image tool may not be able to render objects and people realistically.

For branding, you can use Canva's Brand Kit with Magic Design for presentation– but only the color palette. You still need to manually add your logos, icons, and fonts to each slide, which will likely require reformatting your deck.

Finally, Canva offers many ways to download and share your AI slides, such as PDFs, MP4 videos, and QR codes, or present them straight from Canva.

That said, exporting Canva presentations to PowerPoint or Google Slides is frustrating. 

We were able to download our slides directly as a PowerPoint file, but it corrupted the design:

Canva Magic Design doesn't allow direct export to Google Slides. You need to send the PowerPoint file to Google Drive first before converting Canva to Google Slides . The design was distorted, too, creating more work in the long run.

Overall, Magic Design for Presentations could be a great tool for experienced Canva users. The AI-generated slides often require extensive editing, which could be complicated for beginners. 

Canva Magic Design for Presentations Pricing

Canva offers four pricing plans with varying access to the AI presentation maker:

• Free: Limited access to Magic Design, capped at 10 uses a month
• Pro: Unlimited Magic Design usage
• Teams: Unlimited + ability to work on your slides with other people
• Enterprise: Custom pricing for organizations with 100+ members

You'll need a Pro plan or higher to use Magic Design extensively for presentations. The Free plan allows you to generate drafts but charges "tokens" to use them. These tokens are shared across all Magic Design creations, including videos, social media posts, and infographics, so you'd hit the cap quickly.

Tip: Canva offers new users a 30-day free trial of the Pro plan. This includes unlimited use of Magic Design for presentations. Just remember to cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged.

Canva Magic Design for Presentation Reviews

As of April 2024, Canva has a 4.7 out of 5 rating on Capterra (11,700+ reviews) and a 4.7 out of 5 rating on G2 (4,500+ reviews).

Here's what users have to say about Canva and its AI presentation maker:

• Easy to learn how to make AI presentations
• Gives you ten free AI slide decks each month
• Makes multiple versions of slide decks for you to pick from
• AI-generated slides look generic
• Needs lots of manual editing to create professional-looking presentations
• Reformatting is not automated
• The editor often crashes when working on decks with a lot of content
• Not compatible with other presentation apps like PowerPoint

How to Use Canva Magic Design for Presentations

Step 1: sign into canva..

Log in if you already have a Canva account, or create one using your personal/work email, Facebook, Microsoft, Clever, or Apple account.

Step 2: Go to Magic Design for presentations.

Navigate to Magic Studio, then click on Magic Design for Presentations. 

This pop-up will appear on your screen:

Click on "Try Magic Design," which should take you to the Canva editor. You'll see a slide that explains how to use Magic Design for Presentations:

Step 3: Tell Magic Design what kind of presentation you want.

Magic Design will generate your presentation based on the prompt you provide. Simply describe your concept in the search bar, or use the suggested prompts as a starting point.

Step 4: Choose among the presentation drafts generated by Magic Design.

After you hit "Enter," the AI-generated drafts will appear below the search bar under "Magic Design." 

Click "See all" to view your options. At this point, only the cover slides will appear, like in this sample:

Click a cover slide to view the entire deck. See a template you like? Click "Apply Pages" to paste the presentation into the Canva editor.

From here, you can start editing your presentation draft using other Canva tools.

Alternatives to Canva AI Presentation Maker

Canva Magic Design is a generic design tool, so it may be insufficient if you need professional decks for client work and other business purposes. These apps may be a better fit:

• Plus AI – a Canva AI presentation maker alternative with Google Slides integration
• Beautiful.ai – a bot-driven alternative to Canva Magic Design for presentations
• Tome – alternative to Canva Magic Design for presentations with story-based flow

1. Plus AI – an intelligent AI presentation tool for Google Slides

Plus AI is a Canva Magic Design alternative with more sophisticated prompt-to-presentation features .

For instance, Plus AI gives you 100,000 characters to write your prompt vs. Canva's 100-character limit. Aside from describing your concept, you can also upload Word documents, PDFs, and even PowerPoint decks to add more context. 

You can specify the number of slides you want, along with any custom instructions and saved templates you want the AI to use. This level of customization allows Plus AI to produce incredibly strong first drafts. 

Not familiar with prompting? Plus AI can still create meaningful decks out of a short description. Here are sample slides we got after asking Plus to create " a pitch deck for a budgeting mobile app for teens :"

You can also use the "Include Plus Tips" feature to receive tailored recommendations for improving your slides:

Other cool features include Live Snapshots , which allows you to grab charts and data from any site or app, embed them into your  Slides, and refresh the data with one click whenever the source data changes.

Finally, Plus AI is a Google Slides add-on , not a separate app like Canva, so you don't need to leave Google Slides to create, edit, present, and share your AI presentations. 

2. Beautiful.ai – a Canva AI presentation tool alternative with bot assistance

Beautiful.ai offers an AI-powered alternative to Canva's Magic Design called DesignerBot. Like Magic Design, DesignerBot generates presentations from text descriptions and includes AI writing and image generation tools.

One advantage of DesignerBot is its ability to process context from documents, PDFs, and web pages to create more relevant slides. Beautiful.ai also offers auto-formatting Smart Slides and customizable Starter Templates.

However, Canva's editor is more flexible and user-friendly. DesignerBot is also pricier, available only on the $45/month Pro plan (or $12/month annually), with no free tier like Canva. A 14-day free trial is available to test DesignerBot.

Want to learn more about the pros and cons of Beautiful.ai? Read our review of Beautiful.ai and alternative AI presentation tools .

3. Tome – Canva Magic Design presentation alternative for narrative-style presentations

Tome is another AI-powered presentation tool that differs from Canva Magic Design by focusing on visual storytelling and interactive elements. 

Unlike Magic Design, which generates multiple decks from a prompt, Tome allows users to refine the outline and layout before creating a more relevant draft. This draft can then be edited using Tome's AI writer, image creator, and design tools.

Tome offers more presentation-specific features than Canva, such as in-app video and audio recording, CSV data import for charts, and embedding links from external apps like GIPHY and Figma.

However, Tome is not compatible with Google Slides or PowerPoint, which may be a significant drawback for professional users.

Like Canva, Tome provides limited free AI presentation credits. To fully access the AI presentation maker and features like PDF export and custom branding, users must subscribe to Tome Pro at $20 per month.

READ : A detailed review of Tome , plus how it stacks up to other AI presentation tools

Finding the Best AI Presentation Maker for You

With so many AI presentation tools on the market, we recommend spending some time trying each one to see if it fits your needs and workflow. Not sure where to start? Read our guide to the best AI presentation makers , complete with sample outputs from each app.

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Canva recently introduced new tools to create docs, whiteboards, videos, websites, and presentations. As such, you no longer need to rely on traditional software solutions like Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote to create an upcoming business presentation. You can easily create presentations in Canva using its familiar suite of editing tools.

Canva offers real-time collaboration, several export options, a present tool, AI add-ons, and much more to make a professional PPT. Canva also lets you make instant presentations with pre-filed slides. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Pick Up an Aspect Ratio and Template

Before you start, make sure to pick a relevant aspect ratio for your presentation. If it’s a traditional PPT, go with a 16:9 aspect ratio. If you plan to show your PPT on mobile, use the 9:16 aspect ratio.

Tablet users can start with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Canva also offers some ready-to-use templates to get started. We highly recommend starting with a template to save some time.

You can also filter templates via style, theme, feature, and color. For example, you can check company, marketing, corporate, marketing, school, and other templates. Most templates are free to use, while some may require a Canva Premium subscription.  

Under templates, you also find an option to create instant presentations. You can enter a prompt and check Canva’s suggestions to get started.

Customize a Page With Editing Features

Once you pick up a template, you have the option to add all pages to your presentations. You can click ‘Apply all pages’ and check every slide at the bottom. You can always select a slide and hit delete to remove it from your presentation.

Canva lets you change every aspect of the template with different text styles, filters, and image editing tools. You can change color, tweak transparency, copy style, and more.

We suggest spending some time with editing tools to customize your Canva presentation and add some personal touches.

Add Graphics, Stickers, and Images

Your presentation will not seem as interesting without graphics, stickers, images, and videos. Unlike Google Slides or PowerPoint, you don’t need to import media files to Canva to complete your slides. You can easily add relevant elements from the sidebar.

Step 1: Open a slide in your Canva presentation.

Step 2: Select Elements from the sidebar. Add graphics, icons, stickers, tables, videos, and more.

Step 3: You can explore the AI image generator and turn your creative ideas into images and videos with a single click.

You can add simple descriptions and even turn generated images into videos. Canva also offers a long list of graphics packs in several categories. The possibilities are endless here. It’s up to you to make a compelling slide using useful tools.

Tweak Page Animation

Once you create a page, tweak its animation to make a smooth transition between pages.

Step 1: Select a slide in Canva.

Step 2: Click Animate at the top.

Step 3: Check basic, exaggerated, photo movement, and other animation types from the left sidebar.

You can also tweak the animation intensity, which is great.

Add Presenter Notes

Do you plan to present your Canva PPT on a video conference? You can add notes to each slide so they appear during the Presenter view (more on that later).

When you create a PPT, select a slide and hit Notes at the bottom. Enter your notes that you want to remember or talk about during a video meeting.

Collaborate and Edit in Real Time

Similar to Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint, Canva lets you share and edit a presentation in real time. You can take inputs from your colleagues and create a share-worthy presentation in no time.

Step 1: When you are done making changes to your presentation, click Share at the top.

Step 2: Enter people, groups, or your team. Expand the collaboration link menu and select Anyone with the link.

Step 3: Expand the permission menu and select Can edit.

You can also share a link with view or comment-only permission. Select the Copy link and share it with your co-workers.

Enable Presenter View

Presenter view is a thoughtful touch from Canva to give presentations over a Google Meet or Teams call.

You can open a presentation in Canva and select Present at the top. Click Presenter View and check two windows opening up on your computer.

One window shows your presentation with notes open on the sidebar. Another window displays the current slide you are sharing with others over a call.

Download and Share Your Presentation

As expected, Canva gives several options to share and export your presentation. When you complete your presentation, click Share in the top-right corner and expand Download.

You can convert a presentation to PDF, PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint compatible), MP4, JPG, PNG and SVG formats. Check our dedicated post if you wish to print your Canva presentation .

Use Canva Like a Pro

Canva has done a solid job, granting users access to rich tools to create a convincing presentation. We can’t wait to see how the Australian startup enhances our PPT experience with AI features in the future. Speaking of which, we would love to see a feature similar to ‘Design Ideas from Microsoft PowerPoint’ on Canva. Do let us know if you use Canva for presentations in the comments below.

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Web-based design platform Canva is introducing a colossal suite of new brand management products and AI-powered design tools focused on helping entire workplaces streamline their content creation process. Announced today at Canva’s Create event , most of these new features are designed to make creating content like social media graphics, presentations, and advertising materials more accessible to those without professional design experience. The idea is this would leave graphic designers free to tackle more pressing tasks. The number of features announced is impressive and could challenge Adobe’s ubiquity in some offices.

A new Brand Hub is being added to Canva’s Visual Worksuite , providing tools meant to help users remain consistent with their organizations’ visual identity. Instead of a shared drive and endless Slack messages to designers, users would now create a Brand Kit with company-specific assets like logos, fonts, colors, and design guidelines. Brand Folders would be set up to group assets together for specific events, campaigns, and projects, and Brand Templates would allow designers to create pre-branded reusable templates for more repetitive tasks like email campaigns.

So far, that sounds a lot like Google Drive but with the word “Brand” added to the mix. However, Canva has some additional tricks that separate this from other cloud storage solutions. Administrators can set some permissions to ensure any content being created in Canva remains on-brand, restricting non-approved fonts and colors. Admins can also approve workflows directly within Canva prior to publishing to prevent multiple drafts from being saved and reviewed elsewhere. There’s also a new “Magic Replace” tool that can replace an asset across all of your designs with one click if you just need to update an outdated logo or branded graphic.

The Magic Replace tool is just one of several new AI-powered features coming to the Canva Visual Worksuite. All of them are titled as “Magic,” which can get a little confusing when some of the descriptions are so similar. “Magic Eraser” should be able to remove anything that you don’t want in an image, whether it’s people in the background or an unnecessary object, while “Magic Edit” enables users to swap an object with something else entirely using generative AI. 

There’s also a “Magic Design” tool that generates a curated selection of personalized templates (such as posters or birthday cards) from any image you upload, plus an AI-powered copywriting assistant that can generate written content from a text prompt that you could use in presentations and website copy. If you don’t have time to throw together your own slides, then there’s even a tool that generates entire branded presentations for you. 

A new translation feature automatically translates any text in a design to over 100 different languages, and video footage can be matched up to the beat of a soundtrack without any manual edits. Canva said that it uses a mix of different AI models as the foundation for these features in addition to building its own systems. Finally, 953 new fonts and a host of non-workspace-specific tools are being added to the design platform that have been requested by its wider community. New editing features for layouts, layers, styles, and gradients are available to jazz up your designs, and alt text can now be generated for images directly within Canva.

You can find more details on the Canva website if you need a breakdown of some of these features, which isn’t unreasonable given the sheer size of this update. There’s a lot to digest here. Canva already touts itself as an “all-in-one” creation tool, and it’s honestly hard to argue with that, especially considering how easy it is to use for everyday graphic design projects compared to more dedicated professional platforms. 

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15 Best AI Presentation Makers in 2024 [Free & Paid]

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Creating a presentation from scratch can be time-consuming. Managing moving parts like content, design and visuals adds to the complexity.

The good news: AI is revolutionizing the way presentations are created. AI presentation makers leverage the power of artificial intelligence to simplify the process of creating visually appealing and impactful presentations. Anyone, regardless of their design experience, can whip up stunning presentations, pitch decks, slide decks and more in a fraction of the time.

Yet, with so many AI presentation makers flooding the market, making a choice can be overwhelming. We’ve got you covered!

In this article, we’ll review the 15 best AI presentation makers in 2024. Our extensive review covers their features, pricing, pros and cons so that you can make an informed decision.

Let’s get to it.

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• Beautiful.ai
• Wonderslide

Visme’s AI-Powered Tools

Visme is an all-in-one visual design and content authoring software that lets you create presentations for different purposes.

Visme’s AI presentation maker takes it up a notch. With accurate prompts, you can generate ready-to-use presentation slides in minutes. The tool not only gives you a creative head start but also provides design suggestions and customization options for you to choose from.

The possibilities are endless. All you have to do is converse with the Visme AI chatbot, provide detailed information about the content type, tone and style and watch the AI do the rest. The tool cleverly transforms your prompts into beautiful, multi-page presentations. That way, you can spend more time honing your pitch to perfection! It's like having your very own presentation wizard at your fingertips.

Visme isn’t just an AI presentation maker. It has other AI-powered tools like AI Document Generator , AI Report Writer , AI Business Plan Generator , AI Image Generator , AI Edit Tools and AI Text Generator. These tools can help you create stunning visual content in minutes and boost productivity.

Visme's drag-and-drop editor makes it easy for anyone with little to no design skills to create eye-catching pitch decks , slide decks and interactive presentations for sales , marketing , webinar and business .

Rich Library of Templates and Styles

The extensive template library in Visme means users will always have options to showcase their ideas. Visme has thousands of presentation templates for any purpose, use case, industry and more. Our professionally designed AI presentation templates ensure your slides have a polished and visually appealing look.

 Array of Customization Options

The Visme editor is foolproof. This means anyone can customize their AI-generated presentation to fit their unique needs or tastes. The tool lets you customize every aspect of your presentation or project.

You can change the color theme of your presentation using the preset color themes or create your own color palette. It's also easy to modify the font type and color. You'll have access to 400+ font types to play with in Visme.

Extensive Library of Stock Photos/ AI Image Generator

Not satisfied with the images in your presentation? We've got you covered.

Visme’s royalty-free graphic library includes thousands of free icons, illustrations, stock photos , videos, 3D graphics, audio clips, charts and graphs to include in your presentations.

Or you can simply generate new ones with the AI image generator. There's also the option to upload your own image and use Visme's AI image touchup tools to beautify it.

Audio and Voiceover

Visme offers dozens of free audio clips you can attach to individual slides or set as background music for your entire presentation. In addition, you can record a voiceover for your next presentation. The audio clip will be saved to your audio library for reuse in other presentations.

Data Visualization

If you need to visualize data, Visme has over 20 charts, graphs and maps to choose from. You’ll also find 30+ widgets, tables and diagrams to display data in a snackable format and complement your data visualization needs. Plus, you can modify the color, values, legends and text for all of your data visualizations.

The best part of using Visme is that it supports integration with lots of third-party tools. For more advanced customization, you can connect your charts to live data or import data from other tools into your charts.

Animations and Interactive Elements

Ditch boring presentations and enliven them with animations and interactive elements available in Visme's editor. Engage your audience and keep them immersed with interactive navigations, transitions, hover effects, pop ups, embeddable content and more.

Animated 3D Graphics and Illustrations

Visme's animation software has over 450 3D animation graphics, illustrations and special effects. Not only are our 3D graphics incredibly versatile, but we guarantee they'll wow your audience and take your presentation to the next level.

Keep your presentations consistent with your brand by creating a brand kit with Visme. The kit includes your logo, fonts, colors and other visual assets.

You can either upload these assets manually, use a brand guideline template or use an AI-powered brand wizard. Using the Brand Design Tool is super easy. Just input your website URL and the wizard will grab your logo, fonts and colors and add them to your brand kit.

Collaboration

Collaboration is seamless with Visme, no matter the size of your team. Your team members can edit your presentation, leave comments and draw annotations in real-time or asynchronously.

With the Workflow feature , you can streamline the review, collaboration and project sign-off processes. You can assign specific slides to different team members, set due dates and require approvals.

Presenter Studio

Visme’s Presenter Studio lets you easily record projects and presentations for your audience to view at their own pace. Take advantage of the Presenter Notes feature to stay on track and recall important points while delivering your presentation.

Download and Sharing Options

Once your presentation is ready, there are several ways to share it with your audience. You can generate a shareable online link or an embed code that can be placed on a website. Plus, you can download your slides in different formats, including:

• Image: JPG and PNG
• Document: PDF & PDF with Bleed Marks
• Video: MP4 and GIF
• Present Offline: PPTX and HTML5
• LMS Export Formats: SCORM and xAPI

Track how your audience has engaged with your presentation with Visme analytics. This tool offers valuable insights into metrics like views, unique visits, average time spent, average completion and more.

Visme’s pricing plans include:

• Basic: FreeStarter: $29.00/month
• Pro: $59/month
• Visme for Teams: Contact Sales
• Intuitive and easy-to-use editor
• Ability to chat with the AI chatbot, meaning users are not limited in terms of style, tone, language, or other elements.
• Full suite of AI-powered tools to help users streamline their content production.
• Multiple design and customizable options.
• Thousands of free icons, illustrations, stock photos, videos, 3D graphics, audio clips, charts and graphs to include in your presentations.
• Unlimited number of template styles to choose from
• A wide selection of data visualizations, including charts, graphs, maps and widgets
• Tools that enable teams of all sizes to collaborate effectively.
• A diverse collection of templates catering to different presentation needs and themes.
• Robust animation and interactive features

Due to a wide variety of features, it may take some time to use all available options.

2. Slidesgo

Slidesgo is a popular online platform with free PowerPoint and Google Slides templates to elevate your presentations. The tool offers an AI PowerPoint maker that helps you generate presentations in minutes. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze content and automatically generate visually appealing slides, complete with images, videos and other design elements.

Just type out your topic and choose your preferred style and tone. Then you can customize the template by choosing your own colors, adding and rearranging elements.

• Intuitive AI presentation maker that can generate presentations quickly.
• Easy Customization: Users can easily customize slides to suit their specific needs. They can change colors, fonts and images, as well as add or edit content to create unique presentations.
• Regular Updates: Slidesgo regularly updates its template library, ensuring users can access fresh and contemporary presentation designs.
• User-Friendly Interface: The platform features a user-friendly interface. Users can easily browse through templates, preview them and download the ones they like without any hassle.
• Compatibility: Templates provided by Slidesgo are compatible with popular presentation software, including Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Slidesgo has two pricing plans:

• Premium: $5.99/month/user
• Education: $3.50/month/user
• AI presentation software saves time as users don't need to start from scratch.
• Supports more than 13 languages.
• Interface is easy to navigate and use.
• Number of free templates is limited.
• Limited customization of design elements and layout alterations.
• Prompts, writing tone and style are limited. Users cannot create prompts beyond the provided options or criteria.
• Some bugs and layout limitations
• Animation and interactive elements are limited.
• Pricing is based on the number of users.

3. Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai is an AI-powered presentation maker designed to simplify the process of creating visually appealing and engaging presentations.

The DesignerBot offers users an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate design elements, allowing for stunning presentations without the need for extensive design skills.

• Automated Design: The AI PowerPoint generator automatically arranges text, images and data in an aesthetically pleasing manner, saving users time and effort in designing each slide.
• AI Writer: Beautiful.ai can summarize, expand or rewrite text in a different tone.
• Text to Image Generator: Users can generate an Al image with a detailed search prompt.
• Data Visualization: Beautiful.ai can transform raw data into interactive and visually appealing charts and graphs, simplifying complex information for easy understanding.
• Brand Customization: Users can customize AI-generated presentations to match their brand colors, fonts and logos, ensuring brand consistency across presentations.
• Collaboration: Beautiful.ai allows for real-time collaboration, enabling teams to work together on presentations, share feedback and make edits simultaneously.
• Intuitive Interface: The platform features a user-friendly interface with drag-and-drop functionality, making it accessible to users with varying technical expertise. Integrations: Supports integrations with Slack, Dropbox, PowerPoint and Monday.com.

Beautiful.ai offers three paid plans.

• Pro: $12/month
• Team: $50/month
• Enterprise: Contact Sales
• Rich media library containing millions of free stock photos, videos and icons.
• Supports real-time collaboration.
• Customize templates to align with users’ brand identity.
• Ability to add voice narration over slides.
• Doesn’t have a free plan.
• Steep learning curve.
• Limited design capabilities and interactive elements.
• Only supports integrations with a handful of third-party tools.

4. Storydoc

Storydoc is an innovative AI-powered presentation maker that transforms the way presentations are created and delivered. It combines the power of artificial intelligence with storytelling techniques, enabling users to craft compelling narratives and visually engaging presentations seamlessly.

• Professional Templates: Access pre-made templates for the most popular use cases.
• AI-Driven Design: The platform uses AI algorithms to automate presentation creation. It structures and writes your content, assigns a design template and optimizes performance.
• AI Writing Assistant: Generate any text, rephrase to perfection and brainstorm ideas.
• AI Visual Assistant: Instantly generate any image you can imagine directly in your slides.
• Automatic Analytics Insights : Get full visibility into how people engage with your slide deck.
• Integrations : Connect your favorite tools to improve business processes.

Storydoc’s pricing plans includes:

• Starter: $40/month/ user
• Pro: $60/month/ user
• Supports integrations with a vast number of third-party software.
• AI-powered design results in professional-looking presentations—great for users without graphic design skills.
• Workflow is simple and intuitive.
• Modern user interface.
• Limited number of templates.
• Rigid Platform.
• Limited options to tailor templates, fonts and colors to match brand identity and create a unique visual style.
• Pricing is on the high side.
• Cannot embed presentations through an iframe or embed.

Canva is a popular online design platform that offers a user-friendly AI-powered presentation maker. With the Magic Design for Presentations, you can generate a first draft of your presentation instantly.

Simply input your text and watch as it transforms into a well-organized outline, vibrant slides and compelling content.

• Template Library: Canva offers a vast collection of professionally designed templates specifically tailored for presentations. Users can choose from various themes, styles and layouts.
• Library of Assets: Get access to a library of millions of photos, icons, graphics, media elements and more.
• Drag-and-Drop Interface: The intuitive drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to add text, images, video and other elements to slides.
• Real-time Collaboration: Ability to collaborate and get team members on the same page at the same time.
• Brand Kit: Users can store your logo, brand colors and fonts to maintain brand consistency.
• Magic Write: Easily generate, summarize, expand and re-write text.
• AI Photo Editing: Quickly erase, add to, edit and enhance your photos using AI-powered photo editing tools.

Let’s take a look at Canvas’ pricing plan

• Canva Free: $0/month
• Canva Pro: $14.99/ month
• Canva for Teams: $29.99/month
• Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
• Supports collaboration across teams of all sizes.
• Offers a diverse range of templates suitable for different industries.
• Offers an AI writing tool and an AI photo editing tool.
• Free plan only provides basic features and some advanced elements and templates are behind a paywall.
• Users might need some time to explore all the features, especially the advanced customization options.

6. Design.AI

Design.AI offers a cutting-edge AI presentation maker designed to simplify the process of creating visually appealing and impactful presentations. This all-in-one platform provides a range of powerful features to enhance your creative projects.

With AI writing assistance, a logo maker, a video presentation creator and natural-sounding AI voiceovers, it's your go-to toolkit for creating compelling content.

• Smart Templates: Design.AI boasts a wide selection of smart templates tailored for various presentation needs. These templates adapt to the content, ensuring consistent and polished designs across slides.
• Branding Kit: Users can apply consistent branding on all their presentations
• AI Writer: Create powerful, compelling marketing copy using AI to boost engagement and sales.
• Designmaker: Users can automatically generate thousands of design variations for creative projects.
• Speechmaker: Convert text into realistic voiceovers and add them to your presentation
• Automated Design Elements: The AI algorithms automatically handle design elements, such as layout, color schemes and typography, streamlining the creation process and maintaining a cohesive visual style.
• Millions of Design Assets: Rich library of stock images, graphics, shapes, frames and stickers.
• Content Enhancement: Design.AI provides premade color palettes, font pairs and illustrations, helping users refine their designs for clarity and impact.

Designs.AI has three pricing plans:

• Basic: $29/month
• Pro: $69/month
• Enterprise: $199/month
• Simple and user-friendly design interface.
• Offers a wide array of additional tools.
• No free plan.
• While automation is a strength, users might find limitations in terms of highly specialized or unique design needs.
• Doesn’t provide robust analytics or statistics for projects.
• Lacks data visualization capabilities.
• Users might require time to familiarize themselves with the platform's features.

7. Simplified

Simplified offers an advanced AI presentation maker that revolutionizes the way presentations are created. The text to presentation AI is crafted to simplify the creative process for users of all skill levels.

With the power of artificial intelligence, Simplified streamlines your design, enhances your creativity and improves your presentation quality.

• Premade Templates: Simplified offers a vast selection of smart templates designed for various uses.
• AI-Design Assistance: The platform offers AI-driven design suggestions, helping users create polished and professional slides effortlessly. From layout to color schemes, AI ensures a consistent and visually appealing design.
• Collaborative Tools: The tool offers real-time collaboration features that improve teamwork and productivity.
• AI-Powered Tools: Simplified provides a wide range of AI-powered tools like AI writer, AI image generator, magic resizer and so on.
• Design Customization Tool: An intuitive drag-and-drop interface lets users easily customize their design. Users can easily add text, images, videos and other elements to their presentation.
• Brand Kit: Users can create custom brand kits for their projects and business branding.

Simplified offers three pricing plans for its AI-Powered Graphic Design Tools, Stock Photos & Templates:

• Free Forever
• Pro: $9/month
• Business: $15/month
• Interface is easily navigable.
• Wide range of smart AI-powered tools.
• Rich library of stock images, icons and other visual assets.
• Turn presentations into a video project.
• Offers multiple export formats (PNG, JPG, PDF and SVG).
• Customization features are basic and limited.
• Limited number of predesigned templates.
• Basic animation features.
• Limited Data visualization tools.

Tome is an AI-powered presentation maker that helps users create professional and engaging presentations without any design skills. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze content and automatically generate visually appealing slides, complete with images and animations.

Users can simply input their text and data, select a template or theme and let Tome do the rest.

• Real-Time Collaboration: Tome AI presentation maker allows for collaboration and real-time feedback, making it ideal for teams and businesses.
• Third-Party Integration: Tome supports integration with various third-party tools such as Typeform, Google Sheets, Figma, Miro and others.
• AI-powered Designs: Automated slide creation using AI technology.
• Turn Documents into Presentations: Paste documents into Tome and convert them into structured narratives in a single click.
• AI Image Generator: Generate unique and professional images from text prompts.
• Robust Library of Brand Assets: Search Tome’s image libraries or upload your own.
• AI Writer: Fine-tune your copy by using AI to rewrite text, adjust tone and reduce or extend the length.
• Free Forever: $0
• Pro: $8/month/users
• Enterprise: Contact for Sales
• Easy to use, even for those with no design experience.
• Saves time by automating the design process.
• Produces high-quality, visually appealing presentations.
• Collaboration tools make it ideal for teams.
• Provides tools for incorporating animations, videos, graphs and more.
• Limited customization options compared to other presentation software.
• Occasional glitches or errors in AI-generated slides.
• Limited control over design elements.
• Not suitable for complex, data-heavy presentations.

9. Sendsteps

Sendsteps offers an innovative AI presentation maker that enables users to create engaging and impactful presentations in minutes. What makes Sendsteps stand out is its ability to facilitate real audience participation and engagement.

• AI-Generated Presentation Design: Users can describe the topic or upload a document and then the AI tool will generate interactivity, design and content.
• AI Content Creator: You can easily generate compelling text, visually stunning word clouds, or interactive quiz questions to boost audience engagement.
• Multi-Language Support: Create presentations in 86 languages, including English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian and French.
• Interactive Quizzes: Sendsteps supports interactive quizzes, enabling presenters to create engaging quizzes to test audience knowledge and enhance participation.
• Live Polls and Surveys: Sendsteps enables presenters to conduct live polls and surveys during presentations, allowing audience members to participate and provide instant feedback.
• Audience Feedback: Sendsteps' AI analyzes audience responses, providing valuable insights into audience sentiment and engagement levels.

Sendsteps’s pricing tiers include

• Free: $0.00/month
• Starter: $13.99/month
• Professional: $33.99/month
• Easy to use interface, even for those with no design experience.
• Offers a wide range of customizable templates and themes.
• Provides a comprehensive suite of real-time audience engagement tools, including live polls, quizzes and surveys.
• Support for multiple languages makes it accessible to a global audience.
• Limited control over design elements compared to traditional presentation software.
• Not suitable for highly complex or data-intensive presentations.
• Limited design assets and customization options.
• Occasional glitches or errors in the AI-generated slides.
• Limited integration with other apps and services compared to some other presentation software.

10. Decktopus

Decktopus is an AI-driven presentation maker that aims to simplify the process of creating visually appealing and professional presentations. It combines intuitive design elements with artificial intelligence technology to help users craft engaging presentations with ease.

• AI Content Suggestions: The platform provides AI-driven content suggestions, including target audience, purpose text and visuals. This helps users refine their message and enhance the overall quality of their presentations.
• Smart Templates: Decktopus offers a range of smart templates that automatically adjust based on the content, ensuring consistency and aesthetics throughout the presentation.
• Brand Customization: Users can easily customize and personalize the AI-generated content, slide layouts, colors, fonts and graphics to align with their brand identity and presentation style.
• Ease of Use: The user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop functionality make it easy for users, even those without design skills, to create professional-looking presentations.
• Collaboration: Decktopus enables collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same presentation simultaneously.
• Pro AI: $14.99/month
• Business AI: $48/user/month
• Features an intuitive interface.
• AI-driven content suggestions and smart templates save time and effort.
• Support collaboration with an unlimited number of team members.
• Rich library of design assets, including images, icons and graphics.
• Support integrations with multiple third-party software.
• Design customization options are basic.
• Customization options are totally controlled by AI.
• Doesn’t have a brand kit.
• No option to import PowerPoint presentations.
• Users cannot export in HTML.

Gamma AI is an advanced presentation maker that integrates artificial intelligence technology to streamline the presentation creation process. It is designed to help users create visually stunning and engaging presentations.

This makes it an ideal choice for businesses, educators and professionals seeking an efficient and innovative presentation solution.

• Smart Templates: Gamma AI offers a wide array of smart templates professionally designed for stunning presentations.
• Brand Customization: Users can customize templates, fonts, colors and layouts to match their branding.
• Export Capabilities: Ability to export presentations in PDF and PPT format.
• Analytics: Users can measure audience engagement with built-in analytics.
• AI-driven Content Suggestions: This feature helps users refine their message and enhance their content.
• Real-time Collaboration:  Multiple users can work on the same presentation simultaneously, share feedback and make edits in a collaborative environment.

Gamma’s pricing plans are as follows:

• Free: $0/user/month
• Plus: $10 /user/month
• Pro: $20/user/ month
• Presentations have a polished and professional look.
• User-friendly interface makes the tool accessible to users with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Limited export options.
• Free plan shows limited change history.
• Limited capability for highly specific or intricate design customization.

Plus is an innovative AI presentation maker that integrates artificial intelligence to simplify the presentation creation process. The tool makes it easy for individuals or businesses to generate AI presentations or edit slides with AI.

What makes Plus special is that it has seamless integrations between Google Slides and PowerPoint.

• AI Design Assistance: The platform employs AI algorithms to provide content outlines and design suggestions and generate slides from text prompts.
• Presentation Editing with AI: Users can insert slides, remix layouts or create new formats with text prompts with AI.
• AI Writing and Rewriting Tool: You can modify the language and grammar, change the tone, lengthen, summarize or translate your text with Plus.
• Custom Presentation Themes: Easily generate custom presentations and add your logo, custom fonts and colors to match your brand or ask AI to do it for you.
• Multi-language Support: Plus AI can generate, edit and translate Google Slides presentations in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and nearly any other language.

Below are the plan options in Plus AI

• Free: Free forever
• Slides:$15/user/month
• Pro:$25/user/month
• Enterprise: Contact sales for pricing
• Offers multi-language support.
• Real-time collaboration features available in Google Slides.
• Super easy to use, so users are sure to have a smooth and hassle-free experience.
• Supports integrations with a vast number of third-party tools like Slack, Notion, Confluence, Coda, Canva, etc.
• Offers more than 100,000 character prompts.
• Ability to automate workflows for future projects.
• Functions as an add-on on Google Slides, but you need to have a Google account to use it.
• Limited number of layouts and themes.
• Design customization options in Plus are limited.
• Lacks detailed analytics for tracking audience engagement.

13. Appy Pie

Appy Pie's AI presentation maker is a user-friendly and innovative tool designed to simplify the process of creating engaging presentations.

By leveraging artificial intelligence technology, the platform helps users craft visually appealing slideshows without requiring extensive design skills.

• User-Friendly Interface: Appy Pie Design offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone, regardless of their design expertise, to create presentations.
• AI-Powered Features: The tool leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the presentation creation process. It also offers AI-generated suggestions for text, images and design elements.
• Extensive Template Collection: AI-Powered Appy Pie’s Presentation Template Collection offers a vast and diverse range of beautifully crafted designs, catering to every occasion and celebration.
• Customization Options: Users can customize every aspect of their presentation, including layouts, text, fonts, colors, images and layouts.
• Extensive Image Library: With a vast library of AI-generated images, illustrations, icons and backgrounds,
• Custom Design: Appy Pie gives users plenty of options to enhance their presentations visually. You can also upload your visual to add a personal touch.

Appypie design starts at $8/month. Additional features attract extra usage costs.

• User-friendly interface.
• Offers a wide array of AI-powered design and productivity tools.
• Supports integrations with a wide range of third-party tools.
• Rich library of templates.
• Real-time collaboration features are limited.
• Customization options are basic.
• Doesn’t offer a brand kit.

14. Wonderslide

Wonderslide is another AI-powered tool that helps you create presentations blazingly fast. Once you upload your draft slide, select your color, logo, themed images and fonts and the AI will handle the rest.

• Customization and Branding: Users can choose a color, font and style consistent with their company’s brand book.
• AI-Powered Design: The platform provides AI-driven design suggestions.
• Free Start: $0.00/month
• Pay As You Go: $4.99 per one-time use.
• Monthly: $9.99/month
• Yearly: $69.00/year
• Enterprise plan: Book a demo call
• AI designer works with PowerPoint and Google Slides files.
• Brand and customization options are limited.
• Lacks collaborative design features.
• Designs look amateurish.
• Inability to create presentations from scratch, requiring a draft presentation.
• Lacks animations and interactive elements.
• Limited number of design assets, illustrations, icons and graphics.

15. SlidesAI

SlidesAI is an innovative AI-powered presentation add-on tool that simplifies the process of creating visually appealing and compelling presentations in Google Slides. Anyone, regardless of their design ability, can create presentation slides with AI in seconds.

• AI-Powered Design Assistance: The platform provide AI-driven design suggestions, including images, layout, color schemes and typography.
• Magic Write: The AI-powered tool lets users generate high-quality outlines and text or rewrite existing content.
• Integration: The tool supports easy integration with Google Slides.
• Basic: $0.00/month
• Pro: $10.75/month
• Premium: $21.50/month
• Team: Pricing varies based on the number of team members
• Institution: Contact Sales
• ​​Supports 100+ languages.
• Clean user interface.
• No technical expertise is required to use the app.
• The platform is rigid; you must install the tool as a Google Slides extension.
• Limited download and export options.
• Template library is limited.
• Some users report technical glitches while using the tool.
• Overall presentation designs aren’t impressive.

Visme is not just the best presentation maker . It offers a wide range of AI-powered tools to get your creative juices flowing and boost productivity, including:

AI Document Generator

• AI Report Writer
• AI Business Plan Generator
• AI Image Generator
• AI Edit Tools
• AI Text Generator

Brand Wizard

This tool streamlines the process of creating documents like business proposals, newsletters, reports, ebooks, whitepapers, case studies, plans, etc. The tool ignites your creative spark as you generate your first draft and produce incredible documents that will wow your audience.

By using Visme, you get more than the AI document generator. With the AI business plan generator , you can produce investment-ready business plans in seconds. Visme’s AI report writer automates the process of writing and designing reports. It allows you focus on analyzing data and deriving meaningful insights rather than getting bogged down in the intricacies of report creation.

Visme AI Edit Tools

With the Visme AI TouchUp tools, you can modify the appearance of any image. Users can easily erase and replace objects they don’t want in your images, remove backgrounds and unblur low-quality, smudged or motion-blurred images.

In addition, the tool also lets you enlarge the size of your images without losing visual quality.

Visme AI Text Generator

Whether you need creative content, professional articles, marketing copy, or even academic papers, Visme’s AI text generator can assist you in producing high-quality, tailored text.

The tool is also handy for editing tasks. You can edit, proofread, lengthen, summarize and switch tones for your text.

Visme’s AI Image Generators

We’ve reviewed the 11 Best AI Image Generators in 2023 [Free & Paid] . Here’s what we found: Visme stands out as one of the best you can find on the market. The design possibilities are limitless. Users can select from several creative outputs, including photos, paintings, pencil drawings, 3D graphics, icons and abstract art.

The AI-powered Brand Wizard helps keep your design on brand. The wizard generates your brand's fonts and styles across beautiful templates. Simply input your website URL, confirm your brand colors and fonts, choose the branded template theme you like the most and watch the magic happen.

Easily Tap into the Power of AI with Visme

And there you have it—our comprehensive review of the finest AI presentation makers in 2024.

But hey, if you're on the hunt for an exceptional AI presentation maker that not only meets but exceeds your expectations, look no further than Visme! We highly recommend giving it a try.

Our review clearly shows that Visme offers an unparalleled array of features. Not only can you create captivating presentations with ease, but you also gain access to a treasure trove of content authoring and visual design tools. Plus, the added perks of Visme's AI-powered solutions take your creativity to a whole new level.

But that's not all! By choosing Visme, you unlock a world of possibilities. Explore an extensive library of professionally designed templates for presentations, infographics, reports, plans, social media graphics and other assets. Collaborate seamlessly with your team, add animations and interactive elements and choose from our vast library of icons, stock photos and videos to make your content exceptional.

Ready to get started? Sign up now and let Visme's AI presentation maker transform your ideas into captivating visual stories that dazzle your audience.

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How to Use AI to Make a Work Presentation

For a different perspective when creating a presentation, let artificial intelligence step in, and see what happens.

Is a presentation supposed to be concise, or is it a storytelling process for sharing your ideas with others?  

I don't have the answer to that question. But I was recently tasked with creating a presentation for a client, and though I was unclear whether it was going to be verbally presented via Zoom or handed off via email, I needed to edit my presentation so it would feel more conversational and less like a to-do list. While beautiful in design, it lacked the same personality in its content.

So to prepare for any potential outcome, I hopped on goblin.tools , a free neurodivergent-focused AI platform used to help navigate daily tasks like meals, time management, digital communication and even tone. 

With a few shortcuts built exactly for my immediate need -- like the Estimator (just tell me how long this will take), the Judge (am I misreading the tone of this?) and the Formalizer (turn spicy thoughts into classy ones, or vice versa) -- I knew that refining what I'd created would take less time than if I were to sift through my syntax and edit on my own.

If you're curious about how long something like creating or editing a presentation will take, just turn to goblin.tools' Estimator.

And for more ways to use AI for work, check out CNET's AI Atlas hub for tips on  how to use AI to summarize a Google Doc and  how to use AI to get a summary of a Zoom call .

How to use goblin.tools to make a presentation 

Step 1: goblin.tools was created for ease of use, so navigating the site is pretty easy. First, jump into the Estimator to get an approximate time -- and set an expectation -- for how long creating your presentation will take. My estimate was two to four hours and didn't exceed that. 

Step 2: From here, insert your copy into the Formalizer and toggle through the drop-down menu to find the tone you want to work with. With 14 different tone options, the Formalizer makes it fun to figure out how you want to get your point across -- or how (and if) your message will land. 

Step 3: For my presentation's setup and closing, I clicked on more passionate and found myself turning to easier to read for any areas where there was complex information. If you have an outline or article or brief to turn into bullet points for your presentation, this is also the place to do it. 

Step 4: Inevitably, you'll find a part of your presentation that you'd like to expand on or dig into a bit more. Another great asset of goblin.tools is the Professor, which gives you a crash course on, well, anything (goblin.tools has access to OpenAI's GPT models , and its training data for all that "knowledge"). Enter what you'd like an explanation of, and the Professor will answer with a simplified explanation of your subject and an example that puts its explanation into practice. So, when I found my presentation reading with a gap between what I was speaking about and why it was important for this specific target audience to hear about it, I toggled over to that part of the site.  

Step 5: Once you're satisfied with your draft presentation, copy it over into the Judge to gauge how it comes across. I used this feature to see whether goblin.tools understood my main ideas. If the AI platform could read into my presentation from a similar perspective as my own, I felt oddly confident about how an actual person would respond to it.

Step 6: Read, refine and repeat until you can call your presentation finished. Congratulations!

Should you use goblin.tools to make a presentation?

This particular AI tool can't be used to both help you design and write a presentation, but it can set you up for success in the writing portion. You can learn about a subject, design best practices and even have your presentation's outline, bullet points and first draft refined on the platform. 

But if you're seeking an AI tool to help you with all aspects of the presentation-creation process, I would utilize another tool before this one. A few currently that are creating digital buzz are Beautiful.ai , Tome  and the long-standing  Canva . Because I was solely needing to (re)write my presentation, this wasn't a pain point for me. But I can understand the need for a tool that can create everything at once. 

I believe goblin.tools is helpful for many aspects of professional and personal life, and since it doesn't have a paywall (unless you're in China), you're not losing out by trying it.

It may not be the all-in-one presentation tool that you might be seeking, but it can be helpful for a myriad of "life admin" tasks -- like writing an email to a client to clarify whether your presentation will be held via Zoom or in person. 

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Can’t wait for Microsoft’s AI-generated presentations? Canva has it now

Canva is taking aim at Microsoft’s Office Copilot initiatives with several new AI-powered Visual Worksuite features that can touch up images, design new visual templates, and even create whole presentations for you with minimal input required.

Although Microsoft has far many more users than Canva — Canva’s monthly user base now tops 110 million, which was about half of where Microsoft was in late 2019 — Canva has grown its user base by 30 million since last September in part by quickly launching new features. One example: Canva launched Magic Write last December, an AI-powered content tool that can write copy or suggest ideas. Microsoft launched Edge Copilot , which offers similar features, earlier this month.

Microsoft 365 Copilot promises to be a game-changer, with features that will allow users to create PowerPoint presentations via a user prompt: type in “a marketing deck for RuffRuffFunStuff’s new spring line of dog chews,” for example, and PowerPoint will attempt to generate a deck based on what it knows of the hypothetical brand and its products.

But Canva’s Magic Presentations looks similar. Type in a similar prompt, and Magic Presentations will incorporate your brand imagery, if you have any, and lay out a presentation in various templates from the images it finds in your catalog. Canva will create the entire presentation from start to finish, though you can tweak it too.

“So often, when you’re thinking about giving a presentation you have an idea of a kind of broader-arching theme that you want to communicate,” said Cameron Adams, one of Canva’s co-founders, in an interview before its Canva Create conference this week. “But getting from that blank page to actually having a presentation structure can often be a bit of a hurdle for people.”

Canva Magic Presentations isn’t the only update that Canva is launching this week, however. Canva Magic Design, for example, is more in line with Microsoft Designer, a gorgeous AI-powered design tool that PCWorld went hands on with last fall…but Microsoft has yet to launch in general availability. Like Designer, Magic Design allows you to upload an image or as style, and Magic Design will create a presentation around it.

Other features that Canva will announce at Canva Create include:

• Magic Edit: Essentially, this is Canva’s version of “inpainting,” an AI tool where you can define part of an image and let AI replace or fill in additional detail. Alternatively, you can preserve just the highlighted area and let AI replace the rest.
• Magic Eraser: Like the feature that Google has added to its Pixel and Android phones, Magic Eraser allows you to select an object and “erase” it, replacing it with the background. This requires AI to process and isn’t always perfect.

• Expanded Magic Write: Magic Write is now available across the breadth of Canva, and not just as a copywriting tool.
• Beat Sync: One feature that Microsoft’s Clipchamp doesn’t yet offer is syncing an audio track’s beat to a visual scene change. Canva does, using AI to detect the audio transitions and sync them to video.

Canva is also adding features that Microsoft already offers, however. A new inking tool will transform a sketched shape, like a circle, into an actual circle (which Microsoft OneNote began doing in about 2016 or so), and Canva’s new translation feature has been a staple of Microsoft’s Teams and Skype for several years. New AI-powered layouts and styles, however, are shared by both application suites.

Many of these AI features don’t come free, however. Though Canva offers a free tier, it charges $119.99 per year for a Pro subscription, or $12.99 per month.

Magic Write can be used 25 times while in the free tier, but 250 times for Pro subscriptions. Magic Design and Magic Presentations are free while they’re in beta, but will be charged later. Magic Edit is free, but only up to 100 images per day. Magic Eraser is part of the Pro tier, like the AI-powered Beat Sync, as well as anything that includes your own branding, Canva said.

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Canva was one of the mainspeakers during The Webinarverse. This blog post summarizes Canva's journey, mission, AI innovations, and future directions.

Revolutionizing design for all

Let's start with an overview of Canva . While many are likely familiar with Canva, here's a quick summary: Canva is about making design accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or experience level.

The platform integrates various design tools into a seamless user experience, unlike traditional design software that often requires multiple applications and steep learning curves. With Canva, you create stunning visuals effortlessly, whether it's for personal projects, business presentations , or social media campaigns.

Canva's mission and community impact

The mission at Canva has always been to simplify complex design processes. They empower individuals and businesses alike to create professional-quality designs with minimal effort. From non-profit organizations to educational institutions and small businesses, Canva has become a go-to tool for millions worldwide.

The role of AI in Canva's evolution

Now, let's delve into the exciting realm of AI. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword; it's a fundamental driver of innovation. AI enables us to improve creativity, streamline workflows , and offer intelligent design solutions that adapt to user needs.

AI features in Canva to improve user experience

Here are some key AI-driven features within Canva that are transforming how users create:

Template creation: AI-powered templates that adapt to current design trends and user preferences.  

Content generation: automated content creation for faster, more efficient workflows.

Image and video editing: advanced tools for editing, improving, and easily customizing visuals.

Collaboration and sharing: seamless integration across teams, allowing for real-time collaboration and sharing of designs.

Future directions and innovations

Looking ahead, Canva is committed to expanding its AI capabilities to empower users further. Future updates will focus on improving AI-driven functionalities across various design elements, making creativity more accessible and impactful than ever before.

AI isn't just transforming design; it's revolutionizing how we approach creativity itself. Canva is dedicated to using AI to empower individuals and businesses worldwide, making design tools accessible to all.

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