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Canva Revamps Platform and Editing Experience; New Affinity Apps, Canva Enterprise Launched

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Canva, the popular online design platform, announced several new features and a new business-focused subscription at its first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles on Thursday. The platform unveiled its biggest redesign in more than a decade which includes a new homepage and editing experience for all users. Further, a new Canva Enterprise subscription aimed at large organisations was also introduced by the firm. The design platform also released multiple new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features within Magic Studio and Visual Suite. Canva platform redesign One of the major talking points from the event was Canva’s decision to revamp its platform including the homepage and editing suite. The company says the new user interface is designed to speed up workflows and improve workplace productivity, and highlighted the following changes making their way to the service. A new contextual editing toolbar with access to one-click background remover and Magic Studio AI tools on the front A new customisable homepage where users can favourite designs, folders, and brand templates Organisations can pin company or team-wide content to …

Canva expands its design tool portfolio with Affinity acquisition | Technology News

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Canva, Australia’s multi-billion-dollar design unicorn, has acquired the popular Affinity suite of creative apps. While the exact financial details remain undisclosed, a Bloomberg report suggests the deal is valued at “several hundred million British pounds,” making it Canva’s biggest acquisition to date. This strategic acquisition brings the entire 90-person team of Nottingham, UK-based Serif, the company behind the Affinity suite, into the Canva fold. The Affinity apps, renowned for their prowess across platforms like Windows, Mac, and iPad, will now complement Canva’s AI-powered tools as the Australian firm expands its suite of online workspaces. The Affinity creative suite comprises three powerful applications that have garnered a loyal following among professionals: First up is Affinity Designer, a vector graphics editor favored by illustrators, designers, and game developers for creating digital illustrations, concept art, logos, and web mock-ups. Then there’s Affinity Photo, a photo editor that rivals industry leaders, offering a full-fledged toolkit for basic editing, advanced retouching, and multilayer photo compositions. Lastly, you get Affinity Publisher, a next-generation page layout software that streamlines the creation of …

Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite

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Official figures for the deal have not been revealed, but Bloomberg reports that it’s valued at “several hundred million [British] pounds.” Nevertheless, the acquisition makes sense as the Australian-based company tries to attract more creative professionals. As of January this year, Canva’s design platform attracted around 170 million monthly global users. That’s a lot of people who probably aren’t using equivalent Adobe software like Express, but unlike Adobe, Canva doesn’t have its own design applications that target creative professionals like illustrators, photographers, and video editors.  Affinity Designer 2 (pictured) is a vector-based application similar to Adobe Illustrator. It would be neat to see professional design tools like this integrated with Canva.Image: Affinity “While our last decade at Canva has focused heavily on the 99 percent of knowledge workers without design training, truly empowering the world to design includes empowering professional designers too,” Canva said in a press release announcing the deal. “By joining forces with Affinity, we’re excited to unlock the full spectrum of designers at every level and stage of the design journey.” Affinity …

FSDL, EA SPORTSTM and JioGames collaborate to bring local affinity in eISL

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Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL) today announced the launch of the third edition of eISL, its esports venture in collaboration with EA SPORTS FCTM and strategic partners JioGames. The eISL champion will get the opportunity to represent the league at the prestigious EA SPORTS FC Pro World Championship Play-Ins. eISL Season 3 promises to redefine the gaming landscape by blending the passion for football with the excitement of esports. All the information for the upcoming season -eISL to host EA SPORTS FCTM competitions for football fans formatted in 3 stages – Qualifiers, League & Playoffs; Qualifiers to be held in Reliance Digital venues followed by the League. -Third season to kick off on February 17 to be held offline across 10 cities. -eISL champion will represent the league at the EA SPORTS FC Pro World Championship Playoffs. -Unlike previous editions, players will have the opportunity to represent home eISL clubs. -Registration on JioGames app – Esports section. -Live action on JioCinema, Jio TV and Jio Games. -Given the success and fan followership in its previous …