🙃 Canva raises prices by 300%

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🙃 Canva raises prices by 300%

Canva is increasing the price of its Teams subscription, citing the addition of new AI tools as the reason.

• For U.S. users, the price for a five-person plan jumps from $120 to $500 annually, with a 40% discount for the first year.

• Australian users will see their flat fee of $39.99 AUD per month change to $13.50 AUD per user, with a minimum of three users required.

• The price hike applies only to Canva Teams, not to the Pro or Enterprise tiers.*

Many users are unhappy about the change, especially since Canva communicated it via email rather than publicly.

Big picture: Canva’s move to increase prices by up to 300% has caused backlash among its users. Some customers feel that the platform’s value as an affordable alternative to Adobe is being lost.

The change comes as Canva prepares for an IPO and expands its offerings with new acquisitions and AI tools.

AUDIO
🎵 Premiere Pro lets you search for free stock audio

Premiere Pro now allows you to search for sound effects directly in the “Essential Sound panel,” including thousands of free files from Adobe Stock.

• You can filter these by “free” or “premium” categories and even license tracks while you edit, making it easier to find the right audio for your project.

• The update also introduces Timeline Sync, which lets you play a music track or sound effect in the Essential Sound panel and hear it in sync with your video on the timeline (this helps you preview how the audio fits with your edit in real time).

Additionally, Premiere Pro now supports Linear Timecode (LTC) for better syncing of video and audio files and has added compatibility with Canon EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1 cameras.

Here’s how it looks like in-app 👇️ 

SOCIAL MEDIA
📱 YouTube releases thumbnail features for YouTube Shorts

YouTube has expanded its thumbnail editing options for Shorts, allowing creators to customize their thumbnails with text, filters, and emojis after upload.

While the option to upload fully custom thumbnails isn’t available yet, these new tools provide more ways to enhance the visual appeal of Shorts.

With the new update, creators can choose a frame for their Shorts thumbnail and apply text, filters, and emojis to make it stand out.

• This feature is available on both Android and iOS platforms.

• When selecting a thumbnail for a short-form video, new floating options for adding text and filters will appear on the top right corner of the screen.

Despite the new customization options, YouTube has stated that custom thumbnails are less critical for Shorts because most users discover them within the Shorts feed, where full-screen videos are displayed instead of smaller thumbnails.

Consequently, Shorts thumbnails will only appear on search, hashtag, audio pivot pages, and the creator’s channel.

Watch the full update from YouTube 👇️ 

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Figma released a new font called “Figma Sans” in collaboration with Grilli Type.

• Restream added a QR code you can add on screen in Studio 2.0.

• ElevenLabs is hosting a SFX competition — you can win 1 year free of their Pro plan and a pocket operator of your choice.

• Midjourney launched personalization for their Niji (anime) models.

• ElevenLabs now allows you to regenerate “Text to Speech” and “Speech to Speech” two more times for free on their site at no additional cost.

• Framer released a new “Framer Marketplace Dashboard” allowing you to manage all your templates in once place.

• Rive’s “Renderer” is no in the editor — on average, simple files are 2.06x faster on the web and complex files are even faster.

• Canva is hosting “Canva Extend,” an event for developers, on September 25th.

• Tella now allows you to embed videos into Glide.

• Figma made changes to “UI 3,” including constraints now being displayed inline when toggled on, and blends modes now displaying inline when the default is changed.

• Elgato Stream Deck now supports an Adobe Photoshop plugin on macOS.

• Photoroom is giving users 1 month of their free plan for free with code “THREESOME” after Canva increased its prices.

• Webflow updated “Variables,” allowing you to drag & drop them to reorder them, create groups, delete them, and re-order them in bulk.

• Framer updated it’s “Animations” page — it nows shows Framer’s creative effects including scroll, appear, text effects, and interactive components.

• Jitter released jitter.new, a new website for their changelog.

• Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve received an update (19.0.1) which includes improved timeline responsiveness when moving a large number of clips, smoother playback when using a fixed playhead, and more.

• Luma AI released “Camera Motion” in Dream Machine 1.6 — you can now direct text-to-video and image-to-video scenes with simple commands.

• Opus Clip now allows you to place captions anywhere on your video.

• Framer now calculates elements sizes and positions server-side before loading a webpage in your browser — this means faster load times and smart optimizations by default.

• Framer’s “Design” page got a redesign.

• Lottielab added “Rename" and “Search” allowing you to rename files without leaving the editor and find any file.

• Pikzels launched Pikzels 2.1.

• Photoroom removed watermarks from all image exports, for all users.