Canva's Magic Layers Rips Flat Images Into Editable Parts
Canva's new AI feature extracts text and objects from bitmap images, turning them into fully editable layered projects.
Canva just dropped Magic Layers — an AI-powered tool that takes a flat bitmap image and breaks it apart into individually editable components. Text, objects, backgrounds — all separated into native Canva layers you can actually work with.
If you've ever stared at a flattened PNG wishing you could just grab that one headline or move that logo, this is the fix. Magic Layers effectively reverse-engineers a static image into a full Canva project.
The tool tackles what the design platform calls "pixel-locked assets" — those maddening flat files where everything is baked together and nothing is editable without starting from scratch.
It's a meaningful step for Canva's AI toolkit, turning what used to be a manual, tedious reconstruction process into something essentially automatic. No more recreating designs element by element from a screenshot someone emailed you.