Canva Launches Creative Operating System and Free Affinity Design Suite – Biggest Update Yet

Canva just drop their biggest update ever – the Creative Operating System and a brand new Affinity design suite that is now completely free for everyone. This new move by Canva is changing the whole game for creators, small business, and pro designers too.

With already 260 million+ active users and $3.5 billion yearly revenue, Canva is now one of the biggest design platform on planet. It’s used by 95% of Fortune 500 companies including LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snowflake.

Canva Creative Operating System – A Whole New Era

Canva calls this launch the start of the Imagination Era, where technology helps creativity instead of replacing it. The new Creative OS is not just a small upgrade, it’s a full system that combines AI, teamwork and brand management in one big place.

Key Highlights & Features

• Video 2.0 – A new editor that looks simple but work like a pro. You can trim, sync and layer clips easily or let Magic Video automatically create content for you.
• Canva Forms – Make interactive forms for website or survey and get all answers synced straight into Canva Sheets.
• Data in Canva Code – You can now build interactive, data-based web pages using Canva Sheets connected with Canva Code.
• Canva Email Design – Make branded emails using drag-drop blocks and AI that writes text and finds images for you.
• Ask @Canva – This is like your design assistant inside Canva, giving instant feedback and help while you create.
• Guided Presentations – Canva helps you plan your presentation, asking your goal and suggesting layout and slides idea.
• Canva Grow – A marketing tool to make, post and track your campaigns across Meta and other social sites with AI insight.
• Brand System – A new homepage for all your logos, fonts, templates, colors and brand rules.

There’s also a new Canva Business Plan, sitting between Pro and Enterprise, with extra AI power, more storage and better analytics for teams and freelancers.

AI Powered Design Tools

Canva’s AI is now smarter with Canva Design Model, a system that understand layout, hierarchy and branding style.

• AI Powered Templates & Elements – Instantly make templates, images, videos, and even 3D icons.
• Style Match & Magic Background – Helps keep same theme and make auto background that matches your design style.

Affinity Design Suite – Now Totally Free

Canva also launch the new Affinity suite, now totally free for all users. Affinity is known for pro tools for vector, photo and layout design. Now it’s part of Canva’s ecosystem but still high performance and independent.

Key Affinity Features

• All tools for vector, photo, and layout in one place.
• Non-destructive photo editing with GPU boost.
• Custom studio setups for teams.
• Works fast even at 10,000,000% zoom with many layers.
• Consistent workflows that pro designers already love.

Affinity now connects with Canva AI Studio, giving access to tools like Generative Fill, Remove Background, and Expand & Edit. All while keeping user privacy safe – Affinity projects are not used for AI training.

You can easily export from Affinity to Canva for teamwork, sharing, and publishing – connecting pro-level and simple workflows together.

Availability

• Affinity is available now for macOS and Windows, with iPad version coming soon.
• Canva Premium users can enable it from their account.
• New users can just make a free Canva account and download it directly.
• Supports all main formats: PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, IDML and more.

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