The new model plans layouts before generating images, with precise editing and support for 30 aspect ratios.

Canva

AI can generate all kinds of pretty pictures, but getting it to spell a headline correctly or keep a poster’s layout intact can be another story. Canva wants to fix that with Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. Rather than focusing primarily on photographs, Craft is designed around the posters, presentations, social media graphics, and other visual content people actually create. The goal is simple: spend less time fixing AI’s mistakes and more time making something useful.

Canva Craft plans before it generates

Craft uses a two-stage process. First, it interprets a prompt and plans the image’s layout, including object placement, scale, visual hierarchy, and text. It then generates the image at up to 2K resolution, supporting 30 aspect ratios for different formats.…