Creating Icons with Canva’s Magic Media for Digital Products

At Donarus AI, we tested creating icons with Canva’s Magic Media tool to create a set of sleek, professional icons for digital products like Fonts, Lightroom Presets, and Photoshop Brush Bundles. Using a square layout and the “Filmic” photo style, we aimed for a cinematic, branded look. The tool helped us move fast—generating a batch of visually consistent icons in very little time. But we hit the usual snag: AI still struggles with rendering text. So, we skipped putting text in the visuals and instead added clean typography afterward using Canva’s overlay tools. It gave us sharper control over placement and branding.

While Magic Media sped up our process and delivered solid visuals, it wasn’t perfect. The tool lacked the flexibility to fully represent more abstract products, and keeping a consistent look across icons took some extra refining. Still, by working around the text limitations and pairing AI with manual tweaks, we ended up with high-quality, polished results. For quick visual content creation, Magic Media proves useful—as long as you know its limits and plan for a few workarounds.