Stable Diffusion Arrives In Canva

Jim Clyde Monge
4 min readSep 19, 2022
Canva screenshot where an image of a dog is generated with Artificial Intelligence
Image by Jim Clyde Monge

Canva, the online design platform, is about to get even smarter. The company has announced recently that it will be incorporating Stable Diffusion AI into its design tool.

Canva made the announcement in a Tweet on Sept. 15 by introducing a brand new tool called Text to Image.

Text to Image has launched on Canva! Grab something from your imagination, type a simple description and turn it into a professional photo, or create a 3D image in seconds. — Canva

This is big news for Canva users, as it will allow them to create even more complex and realistic designs.

But what exactly is Stable Diffusion? Here’s a quick rundown.

Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI model owned by Stability.AI.

It is a text-to-image tool that takes a simple descriptive text prompt of anything you can imagine and produce an image in a matter of seconds.

The AI uses a process called “diffusion” at runtime. Starting with only noise, it gradually improves an image until there is no noise left at all, bringing it more and closer to a provided text description.

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