Canva has launched Magic Layers, a feature that turns flat images into compositions with editable layers. This tool processes PNG, JPEG files or visuals generated by artificial intelligence and separates their main elements, such as text or icons, allowing them to be modified individually. The goal is to streamline work with existing graphic resources and correct details in AI images without having to regenerate them from scratch.
Automated breakdown of graphic elements 🧩
The technology behind Magic Layers identifies and isolates distinct visual components within a rasterized image. It uses segmentation models to differentiate between backgrounds, objects, and text blocks, reconstructing a layer structure similar to that of a native PSD file. This allows users to adjust colors, move elements, or edit text directly in Canva, overcoming the limitation of the flat canvas. Compatibility with common formats facilitates the modernization of old image banks.
Goodbye to the eternal ctrl+Z for a misplaced pixel 🎨
With this tool, the classic scene of undoing twenty actions because the corner icon was one shade lighter is a thing of the past. Now you can modify that element without the rest of the composition suffering, as if you had superpowers of organization over visual chaos. It's an advance for those of us who believed that a PNG was a monolithic and immovable block, almost a digital rock. Creative laziness finds a new ally.