News in short
- Canva has introduced Brush, a new in-house vision-language model for AI-powered design editing.
- It can understand existing designs and make changes while preserving other elements.
- Users can edit anything from individual lines of text to entire presentations using prompts.
- Canva claims Brush is up to 69% faster and 46% cheaper per editing task than its previous design agent.
- The tool is initially available for supported edits to Canva Pro subscribers.
Canva has introduced a new artificial intelligence model designed to make editing existing designs easier. Called Canva Brush, the vision-language model can understand a design’s structure and make requested changes through natural language prompts.
Unlike AI tools that primarily generate images from scratch, Canva Brush focuses on refining existing creations. It aims to preserve elements that users want to keep while changing specific parts of a design.
The model can handle tasks ranging from editing individual lines of text to modifying entire presentations. Canva says it can also maintain consistency across multiple pages, including typography, colours, spacing, imagery and layouts.
Canva Brush can edit entire presentations using prompts
Developed by Canva’s in-house Research team, Brush uses an agentic approach to understand and modify designs.
Users can describe the changes they want in simple language. The model then plans and executes those edits while keeping the original design structure in mind.
Canva demonstrated the feature with an example involving a three-page pitch deck for a bakery. A user can request an Art Nouveau-inspired presentation with matching visuals and backgrounds.
Brush can plan the narrative across the pages, generate and position text, select imagery and maintain a consistent visual style. This could reduce the manual effort involved in updating presentations and other multi-page designs.
The model also uses code-running agents to adjust design elements. It then inspects the resulting page and uses that information to guide further changes.
Importantly, Canva says the elements created through Brush remain editable. Users can still manually change text, images, colours and layouts after the AI finishes its work.
Canva claims faster editing and lower costs
Canva is also highlighting improvements in editing speed and efficiency.
According to the company, Brush is up to 69% faster at general design editing tasks compared with its previous design agent. It also claims the model reduces the cost per editing task by 46%.
Canva conducted internal testing and said Brush matched or exceeded the quality of its previous setup on most editing tasks. The company reported particularly strong results when restyling designs and adapting them to different formats.
These improvements could make AI-assisted editing more practical for users who regularly work with presentations, marketing material and other visual content.
Canva Brush availability
Canva Brush is available for supported design edits through Canva AI. However, access is initially limited to users with Canva Pro subscriptions.
Users can open an existing design in the Canva editor or attach or link a design within Canva AI. They can then select Brush from the dropdown menu to start making changes through prompts.
The launch reflects Canva’s broader push to make AI a more practical part of its design platform. Rather than focusing only on generating new visuals, the company is also targeting the time-consuming work involved in refining and adapting existing designs.
