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Time of India
21-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Canva not working? Check out these 5 apps you can use meanwhile
— nengninii (@nengninii) — 912daze (@912daze) — UKBeautyRoom (@UKBeautyRoom) 1. Adobe Express 2. Snappa 3. Pixlr 4. Visme 5. Stencil It's a designer's worst nightmare — you're racing against a deadline, and your go-to design platform suddenly stops working. That's exactly what happened on June 21, 2025, when Canva faced a sudden outage, leaving users around the world stranded mid-project. According to Downdetector, over 400 outage reports had been logged by Saturday evening, and frustrated users wasted no time heading to X (formerly Twitter) to voice their concerns — and, of course, drop some user expressed their frustration over being unable to meet deadlines due to Canva's another complained that the downtime interrupted their attempt to update fan-made photo pointed out the irony that Canva's official status page reported no issues, despite the platform clearly being down for many the app is working fine again, here are 5 apps you can try when Canva is Express is a powerful web and mobile-based design tool that integrates seamlessly with the Adobe ecosystem. It offers a wide range of design assets, fonts, and templates, allowing users to create standout content. Its drag-and-drop interface is beginner-friendly, and tools like background removal and AI-generated recommendations are impressive. However, it has fewer templates than Canva, and some features require an Adobe Creative Cloud is a user-friendly, web-based graphic design tool ideal for beginners and small businesses. It gives access to all templates, graphics, and design features—even on the free plan. The interface is clean and intuitive, making it easy to create marketing visuals quickly. However, the free plan allows only three downloads per month, which can be limiting for frequent users or larger-scale content offers a suite of creative tools, including Pixlr X and Pixlr E for quick or advanced editing. Pixlr Designer provides Canva-style templates that users can customise for social media, ads, and more. It's free to use, with basic AI features and a user-friendly interface. However, its tools are divided across different apps and the free version limits users to three saves per day, which may be is an all-in-one visual content creation tool tailored for businesses, educators, and professionals. It goes beyond basic graphics, offering interactive elements, infographics, presentations, and over 30 data widgets. Its intuitive drag-and-drop editor is bolstered by over 10 AI tools. While feature-rich, Visme is more enterprise-focused, and its best features are behind a paywall, making it less ideal for casual users seeking simple is a lightweight, browser-based design tool designed for the quick creation of social media and blog graphics. It features over 1,350 ready-made templates and a large library of stock photos and icons. Users can easily resize projects and export designs in seconds. While its simple interface is a plus, it lacks the depth and variety of templates seen in Canva, and some users find the workspace too small.
Indian Express
13-06-2025
- Indian Express
5 powerful AI image editing tools you can use right now
For years, photo editing has been a skill that requires expertise and experience. But with artificial intelligence getting better and easier to use with each passing day, and precisely identifying elements like faces, skies and objects, one does not need to use complex digital tools like Adobe Photoshop to edit images. If you are looking for generative AI-powered image editors, from Canva to Google Photos, here are some of the best tools available on the internet. Adobe Photoshop, one of the most popular image editing tools on the planet, also has a built-in AI-powered image editor. Powered by the company's Firefly model, Photoshop users can use features like the Remove Tool, which lets users remove unwanted elements from their pictures at the click of a button. You can also use features the Curvature Pen Tool, Match Font, Sky Replacement, Object Selection, Refine Edge, and Preserve Details 2.0 to instantly improve your images and make them visually appealing. If you are looking to expand an image using AI, try Photoshop's Generative Fill. Canva has been the go-to tool for millions around the world to edit and modify images. The platform also features an AI photo editor, which offers tools like Magic Edit, Magic Eraser, AI Frames, and Background Cleaner, to name a few. While some of these features are free to use, most of them require a paid plan. Pixlr is another popular image editing app that has embraced generative AI. Designed for both beginners and professionals, the platform is available as an app and can also be accessed directly from a mobile device. Some notable AI features include Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and AI Face Swap. Designed for professionals, Imagen is a powerful AI-powered post-production image editor that adapts to an individual's editing preferences over time. It also boasts a new feature called Talent AI Profiles, which are presets created by the best photographers that let you modify images to your liking. Some of the more advanced features on the platform include Crop, Straighten, Subject, and Smooth Skin. Most Android phones come pre-installed with Google Photos, the tech giant's cloud storage service that also doubles up as an image editor. This is hands down one of the best apps for adjusting lighting, improving clarity and even removing unwanted objects. Some of the AI-powered features include Magic Eraser, Magic Editor, Unblur, Portrait Light, and Cinematic Photos.
New Straits Times
03-06-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
Pixlr backs Malaysia's AI push
KUALA LUMPUR: Local tech firm Pixlr Group has expanded its support for Malaysia's national AI education goals. This is by offering free access to its digital design tools through the Ministry of Education's Digital Educational Learning Initiative Malaysia (DELIMa) platform. The initiative, known as Pixlr for Education, now reaches more than 4.1 million students and 500,000 teachers across the country. Pixlr, best known for its AI-powered photo editing tools like and was first integrated into DELIMa in mid-2022. The company also launched a teacher training programme in 2023 to accompany the rollout. To date, more than 1,500 educators have received instruction on how to incorporate AI tools into the classroom, free of charge. Pixlr founder and chief exceutive officer Stephanie Sitt said the move was driven by a desire to contribute to the local education sector, especially after seeing the software's impact in other countries during the Covid-19 lockdowns. "We saw Pixlr helping so many educators overseas during the Covid-19 lockdowns, especially in the US where it is widely used on Google Chromebooks. That's when we thought: Can't we do the same here at home?" In addition to its work in Malaysia, Pixlr is also part of Singapore's national digital learning ecosystem. It is currently whitelisted on the country's Student Learning Space, used by over 35,000 teachers and 450,000 students. Despite its growing international footprint (its mobile AI photo editor has surpassed 100 million downloads globally), Pixlr said it remains committed to regional digital education initiatives. "By embedding accessible AI tools in classrooms, Pixlr aims to support skills development and digital readiness among students and teachers in Southeast Asia," Sitt said.
