Free Online AI Art Generator

Imagine, describe, and create in an instant. Turn pure text to art within seconds with the best AI art generator apps available at your fingertips. Watch as your words generate beautiful art and images you can’t find anywhere else.

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Introducing Canva’s AI Art Generator apps

Find the perfect image for your presentations, social media posts, and more with Canva’s AI art generator apps. Turn your flights of fancy into actual art. Cut down hours spent drawing, concepting, or searching for the right image. Encapsulate your idea into a simple text prompt and see the result — beautifully unique artwork you can use on your passion projects and professional designs. Simply select your favorite AI art generator, whether that be Magic Media’s Text to Image, DALL·E by OpenAI, or Imagen by Google Cloud.

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Different Art Styles When Using Magic Media's Text to Art Generator

Play around with different art styles with Magic Media

Experiment and have fun creating. Use Magic Media’s AI art generator and discover different art styles to express your vision fully. Choose from various art style presets that you can easily apply to your AI art—from Watercolor, Filmic, Neon, Color Pencil, and Retrowave. Edit the image and adjust the image ratio to generate art in the size you need. With our AI text to art generator, you can effortlessly go from imagination to creation.

With a Canva Free subscription, you can use Magic Media’s Text to Art generator across all Canva designs up to 50 times in a lifetime. With a Canva Pro, Teams, EDU, or NFP subscription, you can use it up to 500 times per person per month.

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Refine your AI-generated art

Polish your artwork with ease

Make precise adjustments with our free photo editor. Without leaving the app, Magic Edit lets you add or replace objects and watch as it appears in your artwork.

Stylize with filters and effects

Transform your AI art by layering it with Canva’s stunning filters and effects—no need to switch apps. Or take your design further with Canva's AI tools.

Complete your art with words and graphics

Let your art speak. Add stickers, text animations, and other design elements to turn your AI-generated art into a design story worth telling.

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Preview of Magic Media's AI Text to Art Generator Tool

Discover more AI image generator apps

Magic Media - Canva’s AI image generator lets you choose image variations based on a preferred look and composition. Generate up to 50 images on a Free subscription, or upgrade to Canva Pro for 500 uses per user per month.
DALL·E by Open AI - With the DALL·E image generator, create realistic imagery from descriptions. Include your preferred art style or technique. Access up to 6 free uses, upgrade to Canva Pro for 50 uses per user per month.
Imagen by Google Cloud - Imagen, Google Cloud’s AI image generation tool, lets you generate novel images from input text. To get captivating AI-generated art, add specific text prompts of your preferred artistic technique or style. Enjoy up to 6 free lifetime uses, or upgrade to Canva Pro for 50 uses per user per month.

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Create freely and safely

Enjoy creating art without worries. To protect your process, Canva has put in layers of safety measures to block prompts that may generate inappropriate images automatically. Encounter any unsafe content on our AI artwork generator apps? Report it here, and we’ll address it right away.

We won’t tolerate any use of our AI art generator that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.

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The AI art generator for every creator

For aspiring artists
Bring out your creativity and get instant inspiration for your passion projects.
For content pros
Brainstorm and visualize concepts for your audience quickly.
For entrepreneurs
Find a cost-effective solution for creating exciting branding.

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 enhance the color or texture of an object? Or change the photo background? Magic Edit lets you add to, replace, or edit your image with a short written prompt.
Magic Eraser (Pro)
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 (Pro)
Remove image backgrounds, perfect for product photos, headshots, or transparent PNGs.
Automatically translate your design
With Translate, quickly change the language of your existing design, with over 100 languages to choose from.
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 100GB storage for all your designs.
Easy sharing and exporting tools
Spread the word with easy sharing and exporting options, including as a JPG, PNG, or PDF.
Real-time collaboration
Create, collaborate, 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 art

Start a design project from scratch or with a template. On the editor, go to the sidebar and click “Apps,” then select the “Magic Media” app. Or, choose from other AI image generators from DALL·E or Imagen.
Describe the artwork you’d like to generate. Specify your preferred art style or technique. The more detail you can provide, the better.
If using Magic Media’s Text to Image, you can also choose an art style from our available options like Watercolor, Filmic, Neon, Color Pencil, and Retrowave. Then, click “Create your image.”
Customize your AI art with photo effects, filters, text, and other graphics on Canva’s photo editor.
Download your AI-generated artwork, use them on your other Canva projects, or share them directly from Canva on your online platforms.

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Your questions, answered

AI art is generated by an AI model. The model is trained on millions of images along with text associated with them, including many works of art. From the data it analyses, the model learns about which images and text belong together. After the training, the model is ready to generate new images, based on the text input of a user. The model uses the learned connections between text and images to create new, unique AI images and art each time.
Yes, Canva’s AI art generator is free to use. Our AI-powered text-to-art tool allows Canva Free users up to 50 lifetime uses. With a Canva Pro, Teams, EDU, or NFP subscription, you get up to 500 uses per user per month.
Other AI image generator apps like DALL·E by OpenAI and Imagen by Google Cloud give Canva Free users up to 6 lifetime uses. While Canva Pro, Teams, EDU, and NFP users can get up to 50 uses per user per month.
Canva offers a range of AI image generator apps that let you start with a text prompt and get matching AI-generated images. These AI image generators are:
1. Text-to-Image by Magic Media: An AI image generator that lets you input text and choose from different image output style options.
2. DALL·E: Powered by OpenAI, the DALL·E AI image generator lets you create photorealistic images from text.
3. Imagen by Google Cloud: Another AI-powered text-to-image generator that visualizes your text prompt into matching images, artwork, or illustrations.
Why not use an AI art generator? Using AI generators has many benefits, whether you’re a budding artist, a professional content creator, or a start-up entrepreneur. You can use it to gain inspiration and get over your creative block. You can include it in your creative work process as a handy tool to make instant rough drafts and blueprints for concepts. You can even use it for brainstorming new ideas. With the help of AI art apps, you can create countless designs for social media, marketing, and promo materials, and even for your own passion project.
The issue of copyright in AI-generated art is still an open discussion, so the answer to this question depends on where you’re located and creating art.
At present, Canva makes no copyright claim over any images created using our free AI art generator. Between you, the user, and Canva, you own the AI art you generate with the Text to Image app (subject to you following our terms). In turn, you give Canva the right to host your AI output on our platform and to use them for marketing our products.