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Canva Integrations

If you have a Canva premium plan, you can now unlock powerful Canva tools directly in Affinity for a supercharged workflow.

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Craft in Affinity. Scale in Canva.

Do more with your Affinity creations. In just a few simple steps, export your files straight to Canva to collaborate and create at scale, or access your Canva Brand Kit in Affinity to design with brand elements and publish them back to Canva for your team to scale consistently.

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Thoughtful AI meets precision craft

Creation is all about craft, and we're here to simplify your creative journey, not complicate it. That’s why we’ve brought only the most useful AI tools into Affinity with the Canva AI Studio.

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With Canva premium plans

Smart features, no fluff

  • Fill your selection, expand your images⁠(opens in a new tab or window), or add what’s missing — just by asking.

  • Automatically detect and isolate the main subject in an image with Select Subject or seamlessly erase unwanted backgrounds with Remove Background.

  • Type what you want to see and watch it appear before your eyes (even in ultra HD!), then use Affinity’s pro toolsets to refine.

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With Canva premium plans

Purpose-built for your workflow

The Canva AI Studio in Affinity provides powerful, purpose-built AI tools to complement your workflow.

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Portrait Blur

Add DSLR-style depth to portraits in a click.

AI-edited coastal photo showing a lighthouse on a green hill surrounded by sea, with portions of the sky and rocks highlighted in red to demonstrate generative editing and background replacement.
AI-edited coastal photo showing a lighthouse on a green hill surrounded by sea, with portions of the sky and rocks highlighted in red to demonstrate generative editing and background replacement.

Portrait Lighting

Light your subject with ease, even after the shot’s taken.

Portrait of a person in a black top, sitting at a patterned table with arms crossed and a calm expression

Colorize

Bring black and white images back to life with smart color restoration.

Affinity bringing an old black-and-white photo to life — a couple smiling as half of the image is restored with natural color tones.
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Depth Selection

Select objects based on depth, not just pixels.

Super Resolve

Upscale your images without losing detail.

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Remove Background

Erase unwanted backgrounds instantly.

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Generate Images and Vectors

Describe what you want and Affinity will bring it to life, ready for you to refine.

Affinity showing a text prompt for creating a surreal digital painting — demonstrating vector and image generation options within a creative design tool.

Generative Expand

Extend the edges of any images⁠(opens in a new tab or window), seamlessly. No cropping, no compromise.

Canva AI interface showing a generative expand feature in progress on a landscape photo of mountains and grassy wetlands under a cloudy sky

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With Canva premium plans

Purpose-built for your workflow

The Canva AI Studio in Affinity provides powerful, purpose-built AI tools to complement your workflow.

Start of list: Purpose-built for your workflow

Skip to end of “Purpose-built for your workflow” list

Portrait Blur

Add DSLR-style depth to portraits in a click.

AI-edited coastal photo showing a lighthouse on a green hill surrounded by sea, with portions of the sky and rocks highlighted in red to demonstrate generative editing and background replacement.
AI-edited coastal photo showing a lighthouse on a green hill surrounded by sea, with portions of the sky and rocks highlighted in red to demonstrate generative editing and background replacement.

Portrait Lighting

Light your subject with ease, even after the shot’s taken.

Portrait of a person in a black top, sitting at a patterned table with arms crossed and a calm expression

Colorize

Bring black and white images back to life with smart color restoration.

Affinity bringing an old black-and-white photo to life — a couple smiling as half of the image is restored with natural color tones.
Image

Depth Selection

Select objects based on depth, not just pixels.

Super Resolve

Upscale your images without losing detail.

Affinity showing a vibrant portrait of a woman surrounded by neon pink and blue leaves, with sliders adjusting scale and resolution.

Remove Background

Erase unwanted backgrounds instantly.

Person wearing a large fur coat in a dry field being edited in Affinity Pixel Studio

Generate Images and Vectors

Describe what you want and Affinity will bring it to life, ready for you to refine.

Affinity showing a text prompt for creating a surreal digital painting — demonstrating vector and image generation options within a creative design tool.

Generative Expand

Extend the edges of any images⁠(opens in a new tab or window), seamlessly. No cropping, no compromise.

Canva AI interface showing a generative expand feature in progress on a landscape photo of mountains and grassy wetlands under a cloudy sky

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Unlock AI directly in Affinity

If you have a Canva premium plan, you can get started with these AI tools right now. If not, you can get a free trial of Canva Pro to try them out. Just follow the prompts in the Canva AI Studio to get started.

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Motion design, now part of your toolkit

Bring motion into your workflow with Cavalry, now free with your Canva account. Built for professional motion designers and trusted by leading studios, its procedural, systems-based approach makes complex animation more accessible to everyone.

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FAQs

  • Yes. Affinity is now brought to you by Canva, and your Canva account gives you access to Affinity and other Canva products and features.

  • No. You can access all of Affinity’s vector, layout, and pixel tools for free with just a free Canva account. If you’d like to unlock Canva AI tools within Affinity, however, you will need a premium Canva plan.

  • No, these are only available to those with Canva premium accounts.

  • Nope! All of these AI tools can be unlocked within Affinity, no exporting or app-hopping required.

  • Yes! If you have a Canva premium plan and are able to unlock the AI tools, you can add them to any of your other studios.

  • Yes. The new Affinity by Canva app will receive free updates and new features over time.

  • No, your content in Affinity is not used to train AI-powered features, or to help AI features learn and improve in other ways, such as model evaluation or quality assurance. In Affinity, your content is stored locally on your device and we don’t have access to it. If you choose to upload or export content to Canva, you remain in control of whether it can be used to help AI features learn and improve — you can review and update your privacy preferences any time in your Canva settings.