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Design authentic, scroll-stopping videos, posts, and stories for Social Media. With Canva, you can collaborate, create, schedule, publish, and track your social media content all in one place.
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Create stunning social media graphics, posts, and videos for any platform — whether it’s on a widescreen, tablet, or mobile device.
Play with short-form videos
A powerful and free video editing tool
Create scroll-stopping short-form videos for every platform with our free online video editor. Become a motion maestro with one-click animation effects, dynamic transitions, and caption animations. Go from concept to content in minutes with time-saving tools like Auto-trim, Highlights, and Background Remover.
Transform ideas into videos
Powered by Google’s Veo 3, Canva AI’s Create a Video clip lets you craft cinematic-quality footage with a simple text prompt. Instantly generate platform-ready videos with synchronized audio, then fine-tune your creations to suit your brand or audience, all within Canva.
Connect with clear audio and captivating captions
Say goodbye to background noise and hello to crisp and clear audio with Enhance Voice. Add, edit, style, and export captions to ensure your message resonates with every audience.
Stand out on social
Visualize your designs
Describe it and Magic Design™, an AI design tool you can try out for free, crafts buzzworthy social media content, posts, and videos. Pump up productivity and let your brand sparkle in an instant.
Templates for all ideas, events, holidays, and languages
Find Social Media templates for all the big global holidays and local celebrations. Design posts in any language and choose from the inclusive, diverse range of graphic elements, images, audio, and videos.
Set the tone with the right tune
With a Pro or Education account, add catchy popular music from Warner, Merlin, and Sony (available in select countries). Auto-match your soundtrack with your footage with AI-powered Beat Sync.
Edit photos effortlessly
Polish your photos with ease
Skip the learning curve and jump straight into editing your photos with our free photo editor. Edit, rotate, crop, and add filters, effects, or adjustments effortlessly.
Turn imagination into an image
Watch your words transform into beautiful images with access to the best AI image generator tools, including Dream Lab and Canva’s Magic Media™.
Make complex edits easy with AI
With Canva Pro’s AI photo editor, polishing photos is as easy as editing a Canva template. The photo editor detects text, background and foreground elements, and lets you click anywhere to grab, move, replace, or adjust any subject or text. Remove photo-bombers with Magic Eraser (Pro), make a clean, blank canvas with Background Remover (Pro), and create a custom backdrop with the Background Generator (Pro). Promoting a product? Use our custom mockup templates to create realistic product mockups.
Do it all in one place
Transform into new formats
In just a few clicks, expand your design into a whiteboard, swap the format and dimensions of your social graphics with Magic Switch (Pro), or instantly change the language of your designs with Translate (Pro). Do all without ever leaving the page.
Hassle-free scheduling and publishing
Manage your entire social media workflow in one place, on any device. Design in Canva and use Content Planner to plan, schedule, and publish social media posts directly to your favorite platforms.
Keep your designs on brand
Brand Hub (Pro) keeps your brand colors, fonts, and logos in one place, and easily apply them to your social content in a few clicks.
Start inspired with templates for all platforms and events
Make your social media posts stand out. Start inspired with thousands of designer-made and on-brand templates for all ideas, events, holidays, and languages.
For every content creator
Personal
Unlock your creativity and level up your posts with striking social media graphics.
Agencies
Your one-stop shop for social media graphics to amplify your campaigns and captivate your audience.
Brands
Establish a unified, compelling online presence that drives consumer attention.
All the features you need
Canva's free drag-and-drop design tools make it easy to create any design, fast!
Thousands of on-trend templates
Make your social media posts stand out. Start inspired with thousands of designer-made templates that are beautiful, professional, and on-trend.
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.
Content planner (Pro)
Create and schedule content to your favorite social media accounts directly from Canva.
Add link in bio
Create a one-page link-in-bio site for your social media. Create your Canva website and then pick between a free Canva domain and a custom one.
Track your engagement
Canva's Insights lets you know what's working and takes the guesswork out of future creative decisions. There's no need to integrate any third-party analytics.
Automatically translate your design
With Translate (Pro), quickly change the language of your existing design, with over 100 languages to choose from.
One-click background remover (Pro)
Remove image and video backgrounds, perfect for product photos, headshots, or transparent PNGs.
Magic Eraser (Pro)
Instantly clean up your image and remove any unwanted distractions with Magic Eraser—no manual editing needed.
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.
Draw
Draw, sketch, collaborate in real-time using Draw in Canva. Use our freehand drawing and Shape Assist tool to mindmap and connect ideas, fast!
Create a Video clip
Generate platform-ready, cinematic-quality footage with synchronized sound, all with a simple text prompt.
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.
Magic Grab (Pro)
Break your image into editable elements using Magic Grab. Reposition, resize, and add filters and effects to your subject independently of the background, or vice versa.
Real-time collaboration
Create, collaborate, comment on designs, and get everyone on the same page, at the same time, from anywhere.
Brand Kit (Pro)
Store your logo, brand colors, and fonts to stay effortlessly on-brand.
Captions
Auto-generate Captions to make your videos more engaging and accessible. Edit, brand, animate, and export all within Canva, no additional software needed.
Custom mockup templates
With the power of AI, Mockups analyzes images and identifies ideal surfaces for product placement, turning any branded photo into a realistic, custom mockup template in seconds.
Photo and video animations
Breathe life into your still images or video clips with photo and video animations. Apply variations of Ink, Glitch, and Paint Brush mask effects for a more delightful element revelations and disappearances.
How to create social media graphics
- Log in to your Canva account. Start with a ready-made social media graphic, video, or post template. Or, begin with a blank slate.
- Upload your images, logos, or illustrations. Edit seamlessly using our free photo editor. Add stickers, text, and other graphic elements.
- Add your videos and clips, then edit them using our free video editor. Crop, trim, or resize your videos, and magically edit with our AI video editing tools.
- Collaborate with others in real-time. Give edit and view access to clients, friends, or teammates.
- Download your social media graphic, post, or video in various file formats. Share them on any platform, right from Canva.
Your questions, answered
Social media itself helps get the word out about your business and drive sales, but social media graphics help you establish brand consistency across all your channels. For your social media accounts and website, you can use high-quality graphics that reflect the real you.
Social media graphics include everything from Instagram stories to Twitter banners to Facebook videos. The most popular options are photos and images, videos, stories, cover art, infographics, quotes, blog images, GIFs, lists, screenshots with arrows, charts, thumbnails, posters, and logos.
You can create a variety of social media graphics for different platforms on Canva.
- For YouTube, you can create YouTube video thumbnails, YouTube intros, YouTube channel banners, and more.
- For Facebook, you can create Facebook posts, profile banners, ads, stories, shops logos, app ads, videos, and more.
- For Instagram, create IG posts, reels, stories, etc.
- For TikTok, easily make TikTok videos, ads, profile cover, etc.
- For Twitch, create Twitch emotes, channel banners, logos, overlays, and more.
- For LinkedIn, create background photos, single-image ads, video ads, and posts.
- For Lemon8, create photo and video posts, and logos.
- And a lot more for other social media platforms like WhatsApp, Tumblr, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, etc.
Absolutely! You can easily add your own logo or artwork to any social media graphic or design you create on Canva.
Here's how you can add your brand logo:
- From the editor side panel, select Brand. If you don’t see it, select Apps first.
- Select a logo to add it to your design.
- Drag the logo to your preferred position on your design or resize it.
Remember, only owners, administrators, and brand designers can upload brand logos to the Brand Kit.
If you are using your own artwork or images, follow these steps:
- On the editor side panel, select Uploads.
- Then select Upload files.
- Click on the images or files you want to add to your design.
- Once the images are uploaded, drag them to your preferred position on your design.
If you include text, make sure it’s clear, simple, and easy to read; use color contrast for enhanced legibility; use a visual hierarchy to grab attention; choose colors that fit the mood you want to create; and settle on the right typography for the tone of your message.
At this time, adding catchy popular tunes to your social graphics is currently only released in the following regions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and parts of Europe (*Only in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Denmark, Hungary, Greece, Norway, Croatia, and Luxembourg). We’re hoping to enable it in more regions soon!
Check our Popular Music License Agreement to see if popular music is available in your region. If popular music is available in your region, you’ll have access to popular music as part of your Canva Pro or Canva for Education subscription.
Popular music isn’t currently available to people using Canva for free, Canva for Teams, or Canva for Nonprofits.
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