# Canva releases “Visual Studio 2.0” By Steven Van · 2025-04-14 PLUS: Photoshop teases “AI Workflows,” Rive releases “Text Follow Path,” and more. ## Canva releases “Visual Studio 2.0” ## PLUS: Photoshop teases “AI Workflows,” Rive releases “Text Follow Path,” and more. ![Author]() [Steven Van]() April 13, 2025 ![]() ### **This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources** [Prezi](): Create a unique, dynamic presentation in seconds with AI (Free tool).\* [Wistia](): A free 2025 “State of Video Report” with the latest tips, trends, and insights to build a comprehensive video strategy (*millions* of videos were analyzed).\* [Gradii](): Generate beautiful, customizable mesh gradients (Free tool). [Rotato](): Create stunning 3D mockup images and videos in seconds (Free tool). [Mossaik](): Create beautiful abstract SVG images for your designs (Free tool). ** In partnership with ** [![]()]() *Want to advertise with us? **[Book an ad here.]()* ## **TOP STORY** 🎉 Canva releases “Visual Studio 2.0” ![]() You can now create across every design type without switching between different tabs and tools. This week, Canva hosted its annual “[Canva Create]()” 2025 event (its largest to date) and announced “Visual Suite 2.0.” [Visual Studio 2.0]() is Canva’s attempt at creating an AI-powered, all-in-one platform allowing users to create diverse content, including documents, presentations, videos, whiteboards, websites, and more —all within a unified design format called "One Design.” ## **Here’s everything new in Visual Studio 2.0 **👇️** ** ### Canva AI 🤖 ![]() [Canva AI]() is a new tool that helps you turn ideas into designs quickly with simple instructions—like typing, speaking, or uploading media. It creates things like presentations or social media posts and lets you tweak them with your brand styles or team input. ### Canva Code 💻️ ![]() Building a customer calendar app [Canva Code]() enables users to make interactive creations, like games or calculators, just by describing what they want. No coding skills are needed, and you can share or add your creation to other Canva projects, like websites or slideshows. ### NEW Photo Editor 🖼️ ![]() The new “Background Generator” tool The Visual Suite now includes a Photo Editor, letting you edit images directly in Canva without switching tools. With the new “Background Generator,” you can instantly change a photo’s background to match any scene, mood, or lighting for a polished look. You can also point and click on any part of an image to move, replace, remove, recolor, or resize it, giving you easy control to customize your photos. ![]() Editing a selection of an image ### Magic Charts 📊 ![]() Magic Charts simplifies data visualization by connecting live data from tools like Google Analytics, HubSpot, and Snowflake. It transforms this data into beautiful, interactive charts and infographics with ease. Just pick your data, and Magic Charts suggests the best chart types for you. ![]() ### Canva Spreadsheets #️⃣ ![]() [Canva Sheets]() is a new, creative twist on spreadsheets, designed to make working with data easier and more visual. Unlike traditional spreadsheets, it integrates with Canva’s Visual Suite to help you create charts, forms, reports, dashboards, and infographics seamlessly. **You can watch the full keynote here **👇️** ** [View media]() ## **FROM OUR FRIENDS @ PREZI** ### You + AI = Unbeatable Presentations [![]()]() [Prezi AI]() turns your ideas into unique, dynamic presentations in seconds. Just enter your prompt and you’ll get a stunning, fully-custom presentation—no templates or generic layouts. It’s just like having a professional designer by your side. [Prezi AI]() even helps you refine your text, find the perfect image, and layout your content. Get polished presentations that look like they took hours—done in seconds, every time. [Try for free today]() ## **GRAPHIC DESIGN** ⚡️ Photoshop teases “AI Workflows” ![]() Early this week, [Howard Pinsky]() (a Principal Design Evangelist at Adobe) shared [a preview]() of a new Photoshop feature that uses smart suggestions and simple text commands to make editing easier. In the example, users would be able to choose from “Creative Ideas” that are based on the context of an image. **For example, “**auto brighten,” “remove people,” and “bokeh blur.” Additionally, users would be able to describe a change they want to make to a photo (e.g., replace the sky with a colorful sunset), and Photoshop would make adjustments for them. **In the example, users would be able to choose from several different variations **👇️** ** ![]() ## **FROM OUR FRIENDS @ WISTIA** ### Millions of video insights. One hour. Zero excuses. [![]()]() Tune into [Wistia's State of Video live show]() on Wed, April 15 at 1 PM EDT. It’s going to be filled with video tips, trends, and insights from Wistia’s 2025 State of Video Report. You’ll learn how to scale your video strategy for less money with AI, how to repurpose your webinars into evergreen content, and lots more. Plus, [Wistia]() will fill you in on the latest video learnings from top-tier companies like Semrush, Dropbox, Superside. You won’t want to miss it. [Register now]() ## **ANIMATION** 🔡 Rive releases “Text Follow Path” ![]() Rive announced a new "[Text Follow Path]()" feature allowing users to align text along custom shapes, adjust its placement, and integrate it with data for dynamic designs. This feature builds on Rive's existing “[Follow Path Constraint](),” which simplifies complex motion by constraining objects to a path, now extended to text with customizable settings like offset and data binding. 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[ElevenLabs]() released an official “MCP Server,” enabling users to give AI tools (like Claude and Cursor) access to the entire ElevenLabs AI audio platform via simple text prompts. [Figma]() released 3 design system updates: Hide & show variable paints, Go-to-main component shortcut, and Duplicate & copy styles. [OpusClip]() now allows users to download the full transcript or subtitle file of a video directly from OpusClip. [Figma]() released “Connected Projects,” a new feature that helps freelancers and agencies collaborate more effectively with their clients. [KREA AI]() announced an additional $83 million in funding — the company has rolled out over 50 major product updates, grown to over 20M users organically, and 20x’d its revenue in 14 months. [Runway]() has released “Gen-4 Turbo,” a new AI video model that can generate a 10-second video in just 30 seconds. [tldraw]() raised $10 million — the startup enables users to create beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas designs with real-time collaboration. [OpusClip]() released “Auto Import” for YouTube, enabling you to sync your YouTube channel and allow OpusClip to automatically grab your latest uploads and turn them into short or mid-form clips. [Relume]() released “Premium Monotype Fonts,” a new integration with Monotype that gives users access to 2,000 of the most popular fonts. [Relume]() released “Branded Sharing,” allowing team accounts to add a custom company logo to project links. [Midjourney]() V7 now supports “Remix” and “Title” features, has an upgraded “Enhance” feature for draft jobs, and a new prompt bar with dedicated modal toggles. [HeyGen]() released “Video Score,” a new feature that instantly spots areas for improvement in your footage so that you can create better avatars. [Play]() released “Play Simulator” for macOS, enabling users to interact with their Play projects directly on Mac. [Recraft]() now supports Google’s “Imagen 3” in its platform. [Rive]() released “Layout Direction,” allowing you to flip your layout to flow right to left. [Framer]() released “Framer Creator Micro 2,” a compact, customizable keyboard designed specifically for Framer. [RenderNet]() is now “Affogato.” [Framer]() released a new “Code Preview,” re-engineered to be faster when working with Code Components. [Ideogram]() now allows you to choose how many images to generate per prompt. [Runway]() announced a new first-look development deal with Harmony Korine’s digital IP studio, EDGLRD. [Suno]() announced several small updates. [Screen Studio]() released v3.2 — you can now pause your recordings and continue them later, and they’ve rebuilt their recording recovery system from the group up. 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