Canva published DesignArena results for its own image model Craft. By that measure, the overall score is Elo 1340, ranking fourth. In portrait photos and natural landscapes, it ranks first in each. But the category results shake up the overall line right away.
A design company's name made it onto the leaderboard
A company known as a design tool has released the name of a generation model. The model is Craft, Canva's own image generation model. On the DesignArena standard Canva published, Craft holds fourth place among image generation AIs overall.
By the standard Canva published, Craft's overall place is fourth. A name that was known for editing screens has also come up as a generation model name. The story does not end at fourth overall. The same published standard also includes portrait photos and natural landscapes.
It plans the composition before drawing
According to Canva, Craft does not generate an image right away. It designs the composition first, then makes the image. The place of each element on screen is set before generation.
The order is composition first, image next. Canva said this approach improved text rendering and placement accuracy.
By the DesignArena standard Canva published, portrait photos rank first. Natural landscapes also rank first. These are the results listed alongside the overall fourth place in this announcement. A scene that holds people and a scene that opens up a landscape are each listed as first. Looking at the items listed this time, the lineup splits.
Here is where Elo 1340 places it
By the DesignArena standard Canva published, 1340 is the Elo for overall fourth place, and first place sits in portrait photos and natural landscapes.
| Category | Result |
|---|---|
| Overall | Elo 1340, 4th |
| Portrait photos | 1st |
| Natural landscapes | 1st |
There are three items listed this time: overall, portrait photos, and natural landscapes. This is not a count of all DesignArena categories. There are two firsts and one fourth. 1340 is the overall Elo Canva published, and 4 is that overall place. One 1 is portrait photos, and the other 1 is natural landscapes. Read the overall alone and it stops at fourth, while the two category items show first place up front.
It is available now in Canva Dream Lab. An API is also offered. Those two are the entrances for using the published results.
If the text is right, it goes straight into work
Canva said that planning the composition first improved text rendering and placement accuracy. There are two entrances to using that result.
For individual creators, Dream Lab is the entrance. It is the door where you see results right on screen. Dream Lab is the route you open inside Canva. For developers, the API is the entrance. It is the door that adds a generation step next to the tools you already use. The API is the route you call from outside that flow. Both lead to Craft. The same model is used whether you draw a portrait or a landscape. The portrait photos and natural landscapes that Canva reported as first place are also met on those two routes.
The published results do not end with a single fourth-place line. Portrait first and natural landscape first sit in the same announcement.
Two firsts are clearer than fourth
The two first places in portraits and landscapes are clearer than the overall fourth. Elo 1340 is the score Canva published alongside the overall fourth. Read as one all-purpose score, it ends at fourth. Split by category, first place shows up twice. My read is this: two of the three items listed this time are first places, so the overall fourth alone leaves out portrait photos and natural landscapes.
Overall fourth is not an all-purpose first. What Canva published is the overall fourth, plus first in portrait photos and first in natural landscapes. The order of planning the composition first is separate from that ranking, with the explanation that it improved text rendering and placement accuracy. The next places to look are Dream Lab and the API.
Reference source https://www.canva.com