Free AI Poster Generator
Generate poster ideas to inspire your next design with Magic Media™. Enter a prompt on the AI poster generator on Canva, and get excellent visuals in seconds to spread the word about your brand, event, or cause.

Introducing the AI poster generator
Design posters with confidence, whether it’s for brand awareness, events, or educational projects. With Magic Media™, the text-to-image AI poster maker on Canva, bringing your vision to life takes just a few words. Generate beautiful, impactful poster designs in seconds with the power of AI.

Explore poster possibilities with AI
With Magic Media™, powered by Stable Diffusion, you can generate AI posters in various themes and styles. Create posters for your store promotions, pop-ups, or local campaigns. Spruce up your parties, events, or workshops. Or refresh your space with posters with motivational quotes, visual guides, and directions. Just provide a prompt, and watch your words transform into a beautiful poster. Get a number of poster generator credits with Canva Free, and unlock more when you subscribe to Canva Pro.

Design and print your poster in one place

Personalize your AI poster design
With Canva’s design tools, you can easily turn your AI-generated poster into a custom design you’ll be proud to display everywhere.

Repurpose your poster for multiple platforms
Maximize your design with Magic Switch (Pro). Resize a single poster and transform it into all kinds of campaign materials with just a few clicks.

Order high-quality, eco-friendly posters
Get your AI posters from Canva Print. Choose the right size and finish and have them delivered right to your doorstep.

Get creative in a fun and safe platform
Enjoy working on your creative projects in a platform that protects your safety and privacy. We’ve put security measures in place, including automated reviews of input prompts for terms that might generate harmful or inappropriate content. We won’t tolerate any use of the AI poster generator that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.
Generate posters for all occasions

For events and promos
Boost awareness for your prompts, events, or activations with stunning poster designs.

For advocacies
Spread the word about your cause or fundraiser with a cost-effective promotional drive.

For education
Design eye-catching educational materials for the classroom and beyond.
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 (Pro) 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.
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 make AI posters
- Launch CanvaStart a new design or open an existing one.
- Access the AI poster generatorOn the editor sidebar, click “Apps”’ and choose “Magic Media.”
- Type a promptDescribe your poster idea in detail. Choose a style preset from our available options: watercolor, filmic, black and white, etc. Click “Generate image” and get multiple AI-generated poster ideas.
- Customize your imageEffortlessly enhance your poster design 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 poster in your preferred file format, or order printouts from Canva Print.

Your questions, answered
The poster generator AI works with a machine learning model that scans millions of images across the internet along with the words or text associated with them. The algorithm spots trends in the images and text and eventually begins to guess which image and text belong together. Once the model can predict what a poster design should look like from a given text, it can create visuals for you to choose from.
Yes, you can use the Magic Media AI poster generator for free for a number of credits. If you need more, consider subscribing to Pro, Teams, or Enterprise.
Yes, you can use the AI-generated posters created by Magic Media 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 poster design. This means other people may also use them.
Please be mindful that Canva doesn’t guarantee that the AI posters you generate are cleared for use (particularly if the design you create looks like someone else’s work). If you use AI posters for any commercial purpose (i.e., selling your books), it may be a good idea to seek legal advice.
We don’t recommend this. Public figures have legal rights allowing them to control how their image is used commercially. They may not be happy with you creating AI-generated posters featuring their likeness.
Similarly, if you use an AI generator app to create recognizable characters or brands, these may be protected by copyright or trademarks. You shouldn't use these images on your AI-generated poster without permission from the rights owner. Canva can’t give you this permission.
Yes, you can. Check out What We Print to ensure poster printing is available in your region. We aim to partner with professional partners located as close to you as possible. For this reason, our print product catalog may vary from country to country. As for printout delivery, shipping times vary between regions, and delivery to more rural areas may be slightly longer compared to metro areas.
- Economy delivery: Up to 14 business days
- Standard delivery: Up to 8 business days
- Express delivery: Up to 3 business days
All delivery times include a production time of 1-2 business days. Note that these do not include weekends and public holidays.
A free shipping option is always available. If you’re looking to receive your order sooner, we offer faster shipping for an additional fee.
Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this! The treatment of AI-generated images and other works under copyright law is an open question. The answer may vary depending on what country you live in.
For now, Canva does not make any copyright claim over the images you create with the AI poster generator on our platform. As between you and Canva, you own the images you create with Magic Media (subject to you following our terms), and you give us the right to host them on our platform and use them for marketing our products.
However, this does not mean you are the copyright owner of the images and that you have exclusive rights to them.
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.
In keeping with this, we’ve put layers of safety measures in place so you can use Magic Media safely and responsibly. These include automated reviews of input prompts for terms that might generate harmful or inappropriate content. If you do come across unsafe content, you can report it right in Canva.
We won’t tolerate the use of the AI poster maker on Canva that violates our Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.
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Free AI Poster Generator
Generate poster ideas to inspire your next design with Magic Media™. Enter a prompt on the AI poster generator on Canva, and get excellent visuals in seconds to spread the word about your brand, event, or cause.










