Canva adds over 100 upgrades to Affinity and Cavalry in ProSuite push against Adobe
Canva has added more than 100 features across Affinity, Cavalry and other ProSuite tools, keeping Affinity and Cavalry free while expanding professional editing, motion and AI-assisted workflows.
Affinity receives more than 60 additions, the company says. Its photography update adds batch importing and an improved RAW processing system for users handling large collections. Preset looks can now be applied across multiple images, and new correction tools address mixed illumination and camera movement during editing. Scene Decomposition uses AI to separate flattened pictures into editable components, allowing photographers to modify individual elements without rebuilding images manually. A dedicated Astrophotography Studio adds specialized controls for night skies and astronomical subjects.
Affinity is also expanding the range of files it can handle, including support for bringing InDesign documents directly into the application. Canva says this gives users access to major industry file formats while reducing obstacles when moving projects between different creative applications. Integration with Canva Brand Kit and Canva Sheets adds a route for connecting design work with brand assets and structured information.
Other Affinity additions cover vector editing, typography, brushes, noise reduction, high dynamic range processing and export controls. Sony ARW6 support, OpenColorIO display emulation and improved output matching extend the software’s capabilities for photography and color-managed production workflows.
Cavalry, Canva’s motion graphics and animation software, receives more than 50 changes, including new shape controls, lighting effects, graph editing improvements and expanded SVG handling for motion designers. The integration lets selected elements within Cavalry projects become editable inside Canva while keeping the underlying animation protected. The arrangement could allow teams to make limited changes without repeatedly sending modification requests back to motion designers and animators across team workflows.
Affinity and Cavalry can also connect with AI assistants through ProSuite’s AI Connectors, allowing repetitive operations to be handled from natural-language instructions.
“We're genuinely excited to be releasing such a huge swathe of new tools for professional designers, animators, photographers and other advanced users,” said Duncan Clark, CEO of Pro Design at Canva. “We asked professionals what they actually needed to power their creative work…there’s a lot of noise right now about AI replacing human creatives, but we believe professional craft matters more than ever. We want the Canva ProSuite to be where that craft lives and thrives.”
Editor's Summary Canva has released more than 100 additions and changes across its ProSuite, with more than 60 for Affinity and more than 50 for Cavalry, while keeping both apps free. The update adds AI-powered scene decomposition, batch RAW processing, InDesign import, motion integration and natural-language AI connectors. The release expands Canva’s professional creative toolkit as it competes with established software vendors.