Pros
- Excels at creating fun, whimsy, cartoon images
- Easy to use on desktop and on the mobile app
- Doesn’t share your content to train its AI
Cons
- Cannot refine images with follow-up prompts (must create new prompt)
- Free plan has a hard limit on how many AI-generated images you can create
- Hard to generate non-square images
I’ve been using Canva for years to easily put together custom social media posts, high-quality presentations, infographics for data reports and even resumes. It’s one of my all-time favorite online services, so I was pretty excited to see what Canva had come up with for its AI image generator, Magic Media.
Canva’s Magic Media AI image generator is one of many AI-powered tools Canva has introduced in the past year. When I dove into my first project, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that you can actually use three different AI image generators on Canva: Dall-E 3 by OpenAI, Imagen by Google Cloud and Canva’s own Magic Media. This review only deals with Magic Media, but Canva does get an extra gold star for having these other options available as app integrations.
Despite its whimsical name, Magic Media is a very practical, easy-to-use AI image generator. But it’s not likely to be suitable for every project you have, and there are some pretty annoying limitations. If you’re on a free plan instead of paying for Canva Pro, you’re going to run into even more. Magic Media certainly would be useful in certain cases, but I’ll warn you now not to go looking for professional-level image-editing tools, fine-tuning features or any other frills.Â
Canva says that it doesn’t use your content to train its AI. It will occasionally ask you if you want to opt in, but it’s optional. For privacy-minded Canva users, this is a huge plus compared to other data-hungry AI companies. (If you use one of the other AI image generator…
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