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What Are Canva Apps?
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However, what many Canva users fail to realize is that there are actually hundreds of Canva apps available!
Best Canva Apps
1. Canva Image Background Remover App


Canva’s Image Background Remover App is without a doubt one of its best apps. With Canva’s Background Remover, anyone can remove the background of any photo or image in just seconds, with a single click, 100% automatically.
Use Cases:
Cropping Photos. Canva’s image background remover tool allows you to easily crop photos. Using its built in eraser and restorer tool, you can easily choose which elements of a photo you want to keep, and which to remove.
Creating custom background. Sometimes you want to change the background in a photo. Canva’s background remover tool allows users to easily create a custom background for their photo.
Creating custom design effects. Many complex design effects begin with removing the background of an image. Some of the effects the Canva background remover tool can be used in are: Adding a White Outline Around People in Photos, Blurring the Background of Photos, Creating a Glow Effect, and many more!
2. Canva ColorMix App
Canva’s ColorMix App allows users to look at the world with rainbow-colored lenses. These fun color palettes will brighten up any photo in a totally unique way.
Use Cases:
Adding Color Effects. Canva’s ColorMix App is perfect for creating a neon glowing outline in Canva.
3. Canva Shadows App
Canva’s Shadows App allows users to take a 2D image and give it a 3D effect to stand out in your design.
Use Cases:
Adding Drop Shadow to Image. Canva’s Shadows App can help you make a drop shadow in Canva.
Creating Custom 3D Effect. Canva’s Shadows App can help improve your custom 3D Effect.
Creating a Long Shadow Effect. Canva’s Shadows App is perfect for creating a long shadow effect.
4. Canva Frame App
Canva’s Frame App allows users to decorate the edges of their images with simple or creative borders.
Use Cases:
Adding Style to Photos. Canva’s Frame App allows you to create cool photo effects with an otherwise boring image. Some examples include adding a border to Canva design, using frames to create a custom shape in Canva, cropping your picture into a circle in Canva, creating a textured vintage photo effect in Canva, or creating a textured frame in Canva.
5. Canva Video Background Remover App
As you can see, Canva’s Video Background Remover actually does a stunning job removing the background of this video! Even when overlayed on a bright orange background (extremely high contrast), there are few elements, other than the intended subject, that make it into the final video.
Use Cases:
Cropping Videos. Canva’s video background remover tool allows you to easily crop videos. By using select elements from previous video footage, users can easily create new videos in Canva, better edit their existing videos in Canva, or create blank copy space so that you can add text to a video in Canva.
Conclusion
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