From touch-ups to total transformations, the world of photo editing is undergoing a quiet revolution powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

What once took hours of manual precision can now be accomplished in seconds with the help of smart tools that understand light, texture, and even emotion. As demand for high-quality visuals explodes across industries, AI is emerging not just as an assistant, but as a creative collaborator.

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Several AI-powered tools can now help photo editors with tasks like culling, editing, and marketing. These tools offer features like image enhancement, background removal, object replacement, and even AI-generated content creation.

Here’s a look at the AI tools reshaping the photo editor’s workflow—and what this means for the future of visual storytelling.

Canva

With Visual Suite 2.0, users can effortlessly handle and build projects across multiple formats—such as presentations, videos, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and complete websites—all within a single platform, removing the need to toggle between different tools.

Visual Suite 2.0 enables users to develop and organize projects in a variety of formats—including presentations, videos, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and complete websites—within a single platform. This all-in-one workspace is built to reduce the hassle of using multiple separate tools.

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AI-powered tools for photo editing on Canva

1. Magic Design – This tool will help you to turn an image into a fully customizable template. Magic Design automatically chooses the perfect accompanying fonts, images, graphics and styles to turn your imagination into the perfect design.

2. Introducing Draw – This free drawing tool on the platform will help you sketch up your ideas. Magic Design intelligently selects suitable fonts, visuals, graphics, and styles to effortlessly transform your ideas into polished designs.

3. Translate – This fast and easy online translator will help you reach out to international teams, customers, and audiences without getting lost in translation. The powerful toll will let you translate your designs into multiple languages, all in just a few clicks.

4. Magic Eraser – This tool will instantly clean up pictures online making it easy to remove unwanted objects or erase people from photos.

5. Text to Image – This tool lets you create unique images from a simple description in a matter of seconds. Get the right words and phrases, and transform into beautiful images with Text to Image feature.

Magic Quill

MagicQuill, an integrated image editing system supports users in swiftly actualizing their creativity.

Quill has a streamlined yet functionally robust interface. This enables users to articulate their ideas (e.g., inserting elements, erasing objects, altering color, etc.) with just a few strokes. A multimodal large language model (MLLM) continuously observes these interactions to predict user intent in real time, eliminating the necessity for manual prompt input.

MagicQuill

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AI-powered tools for photo editing on Magic Quill

Dual-brush AI image editor – This AI image editing tool introduces a dual-brush system for precise image manipulation. The interface integrates both addition and removal brushes into one interactive mode, simplifying the editing process.

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