Import Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop files

Skip recreating your Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop designs on Canva. You can now simply import them for editing.

This is currently only available on canva.com via your desktop browser.

You can import your Illustrator or Photoshop design to Canva by any of the following methods:

1. Drag and drop your Illustrator or Photoshop design to the homepage.
2. On the top corner of the homepage banner, click the Upload button. Drag your file to the Upload section or click on browse.
3. On the side menu of the homepage, click
   Projects, and go to your
   Uploads.
4. Drag your file to the page to upload it, or click on the Upload button.

Once done, click on the imported Illustrator or Photoshop design to open it in the Canva editor.

1. Drag and drop your Illustrator or Photoshop design to the editor.
2. On the top corner of the editor, click on File >
   Upload a file.
3. On the editor side panel, click on the
   Uploads tab, then click on Upload files.
4. Select the files you want to upload, or drag and drop them in the Uploads tab.

To use the file in your design, click on it from the

1. Select
   Projects from the homepage side panel.
2. Select Owner dropdown, then select your name to view your projects or any owner to view all projects.
3. Select the
   Uploads folder where you can also download or delete them.

• PSD file and .ai file types are supported.
• You can import .ai files of up to 100MB and PSD files of up to 300MB.
• You can import Illustrator designs with up to 300 artboards as a single design. If your design has more artboards, it'll be split up to 10 designs, or 3000 pages. There's no limit for Photoshop designs.
• You can import up to 100 fonts
• Images for Illustrator and Photoshop are limited to 1200 images per page.
• Designs with layers, gradients, and masks are supported, but some elements might be rasterised.
• You can only import Illustrator designs saved as “PDF compatible format” files.
• If your Illustrator or Photoshop design has a scan of documents or designs, we can only process it as a flat or merged image. Its text or design elements can’t be broken up for editing.

We’ll try to identify and match the text font during the conversion process. But there are a lot of fonts available, so it’s not always possible to find an exact match.

Making colours editable depends on the original image type used to create the Illustrator or Photoshop design. There’s more chance of success if the original is a vector image. If it’s a raster image, Canva can’t break it down in a way that enables editing.

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