AI Painting Generator
Fulfill your artistic vision in seconds. Simply put your concept into words and let the AI painting tools on Canva transform it into a piece that will surely spark your creativity.
Introducing the AI painter
Explore new ways to ignite your imagination, whether you want to freshen up your creativity or find tools to boost productivity without burnout. With the AI painter tools on Canva, all you need are your words and your vision. Simply select your favorite AI painting generator — Magic Media™ or Dream Lab — and enter your text prompt to start painting with AI.
Explore many artistic styles to find yours
Break out of your creative rut and find your own style with the help of AI painting tools on Canva. With the same prompt, generate different artwork styles on your chosen AI painter until you find one that resonates with you. Customize it further by choosing the right aspect ratio for your design needs.
Experiment with your AI painter tool
Find the perfect AI painter tool to match your vision: Magic Media™ or Create an image (powered by Dream Lab). Try out both AI-powered painting tools with Canva. It works with a free account. Or, upgrade to Canva Pro to access more features.
All the tools to boost your creativity
Enhance with ease
Perfect your AI-generated painting with our Image Enhancer, or add or remove objects with Magic Edit (Pro).
Transform with filters and effects
Make your AI painting more enchanting with just a click, with filters and effects.
Bring to life with text art and graphics
Captivate your audience further by adding the right words and graphic elements to your artwork.
Feel safe and secure while painting with AI
Enjoy painting digitally with AI without worrying about encountering harmful or inappropriate content. Canva has put in place safety measures, so you can explore your artistic vision safely and responsibly. If you come across unsafe content, report it here. We won’t tolerate any use of our AI portrait generator that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.
Painter AI for all creatives
For aspiring painters
Find your own style as an artist by experimenting with digital painting and AI.
For marketers and entrepreneurs
Easily come up with creative promotional ideas that resonate with a wide range of customers.
For content creators
Keep up with the demand for content and keep creating without experiencing burnout.
All the photo-editing features you need
Canva’s free drag-and-drop design tools make it easy to create any design, fast!
Generate images from text
Create AI images that visualize a product or idea, draft a creative concept, or push the limits of what's possible.
Various art styles available
Render your AI-generated images in stunning art styles like Watercolor, Filmic, Neon, Color Pencil, Retrowave, and more.
Magic Edit
Want to change the color or texture of an object? Or swap the background for something else? Magic Edit lets you add to, replace, or edit your image with a short written prompt.
Magic Eraser
Instantly clean up your image and remove any unwanted distractions with Magic Eraser—no manual editing needed.
Enhance your images
Use Canva’s Photo Editor to fix your photo’s focus, lighting, and coloring with easy-to-use sliders.
Photo effects & filters
Choose from our selection of adjustable color filters and fun photo effects to remix your photo.
Add Text to Photo
Easily add text to your photo or image to tell a story. Font combinations, colors, and styles available.
One-click background remover
Remove image backgrounds, perfect for product photos, headshots, or transparent PNGs.
Magic Expand (Pro)
Extend an image in any direction. Magic Expand lets you fix awkward framing, save zoomed-in images, or turn a vertical shot into a horizontal one.
Millions of free images, icons, and graphics
Get access to our entire library of millions of photos, icons, graphics, media elements, audio, sound effects, and more.
Access anywhere and autosave
Jump from device to desktop—design how you work best! Canva autosaves your progress along the way.
Cloud storage
Get free 5GB storage or upgrade to Canva Pro and get unlimited folders with up to 1TB storage for all your designs.
Easy sharing and exporting tools
Share and export designs as a JPG, PNG, PDF, and PPTX. And when you embed a doc, you can customize which page will be displayed.
Real-time collaboration
Create, collaborate, comment on designs, and get everyone on the same page, at the same time, from anywhere.
Content planner (Pro)
Create and schedule content to your favorite social media accounts directly from Canva.
How to create AI paintings
- Launch CanvaStart a new design or open an existing one.
- Access the AI painting generatorOn the editor sidebar, click “Apps”’ and choose “Magic Media.” Or, on the homepage, click “Canva AI” and click “Create an image”.
- Type a promptDescribe your painting concept in detail. Or, with Create an image, upload a reference to turn your photo to painting with AI. Choose a style preset and aspect ratio from the available options.
- Customize your imageEffortlessly enhance your AI artwork with the AI photo editing tools on Canva. Clean it up with Magic Eraser, move subjects, or tweak elements with Magic Grab, and more.
- Download or shareDownload your AI painting in your preferred file format, or order canvas prints from Canva Print.
Your questions, answered
AI painting is an artistic image generated by an AI model. The model scans millions of artworks across the internet along with the text associated with them. The algorithms spot trends in the artworks and text and eventually begin to guess which artworks and texts belong together. Once the model can predict what a painting should look like from a given text, it can create entirely new painted images for you to choose from.
The best AI painting generator is one that you can use for free and offers many different art styles to choose from. Canva has two of them in one platform: Magic Media and Create an image (powered by Dream Lab).
Access to the AI painting generator is available with Canva Free, Pro, NFP, and Education accounts.
Absolutely. Canva has built-in tools that you can easily use even without any digital editing know-how. You can also access AI enhancers (Magic Eraser to remove unwanted objects, Image Enhancer to remove blemishes, and more) on the same platform.
Yes, you can use the AI-generated paintings produced with Magic Media and/or Dream Lab for any legal purpose, including personal or commercial projects, as long as you follow our Terms.
Keep in mind that if you’re going to use AI output for your commercial projects, you may not have exclusive rights to your AI paintings. This means other people may also use them.
Please be mindful that Canva doesn’t guarantee that your AI-generated painting is cleared for use (particularly if the painting you create looks like someone else’s work). If you’ll use AI paintings for any commercial purpose (i.e., selling your creations), it may be a good idea to seek legal advice.
We don’t recommend this. Certain public figures have legal rights that allow them to control how their image is used commercially, and they may not be happy with you creating AI-generated paintings of them.
Similarly, if you use Magic Media or Dream Lab to create recognizable characters or brands, these may be protected by copyright or trademarks. You shouldn't use these paintings without permission from the rights owner, as Canva can’t give you this permission.
Our values define how we build our products, treat our community, and impact our world. We want to ensure our community feels safe when creating and interacting with content on our platform.
We’ve put layers of safety measures in place so you can use the generative AI tools on Canva safely and responsibly. These include automated reviews of input prompts for terms that might generate inappropriate content. If you do come across unsafe content, let us know: you can report it right in Canva.
We won’t tolerate the use of our AI painting generator on Canva that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.
AI Painting Generator
Fulfill your artistic vision in seconds. Simply put your concept into words and let the AI painting tools on Canva transform it into a piece that will surely spark your creativity.
