Tim Davies explains how Canva became an Adobe competitor by adding AI features that let users generate and transform images through text prompts, though the AI outputs don't have traditional editable layers like Photoshop does.
The impact to the platforms that were selling this licensed imagery will be huge. And just watching the journey that canvas come on from being a lightweight, consumer arty tool, to now directly competing with Adobe in the enterprise space and incorporating all of these different tools and technologies in a way that is incredibly easy to use. So you can go on a journey in ChatGPT and you can say, based on this conversation, now, create me an art image, or take my photo and make it this and tweak the logo in that way and happily do it. But it's not giving you the layers that you can then manipulate in a sort of traditional art package.
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