--- title: '3 Ways to Use Claude with Canva That No One Has Shown You (Free Prompt)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8V4-2VpdA' video_id: 'Hs8V4-2VpdA' date: 2026-07-23 duration_sec: 857 channel: 'Rob Boliver - Como usar o CANVA' --- # 3 Ways to Use Claude with Canva That No One Has Shown You (Free Prompt) > Source: [3 Ways to Use Claude with Canva That No One Has Shown You (Free Prompt)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8V4-2VpdA) ## Summary This video explores three methods for integrating Claude (an AI assistant) with Canva to automate content creation, specifically carousel posts for Instagram. The presenter demonstrates how to connect the tools, set up brand kits, and use different approaches to generate designs efficiently. ### Key Points - **Connecting Claude to Canva** [01:11] — Access Claude's settings, click 'Customize', go to 'Connectors', search for Canva, and connect. This allows Claude to interact with Canva via MCP (Model Context Protocol). - **Setting Up Brand Kit in Canva** [02:45] — In Canva, create a brand kit with colors, fonts, brand voice, and website. This provides context for AI to generate on-brand designs. - **Method 1: Using Claude with MCP (Direct Canva Creation)** [04:47] — Provide context (e.g., images, links) and ask Claude to create a carousel in Canva. Claude uses MCP to execute within Canva, consuming fewer tokens. - **Method 2: Using Claude Design (In-Cloud Creation)** [07:05] — Create designs directly in Claude's interface, then export or send to Canva. This consumes more tokens but offers more control. - **Method 3: Using Projects in Claude** [10:43] — Create a project with custom instructions, then provide a link or topic. Claude generates the design using the project's context, saving time for recurring tasks. - **Limitations and Tips** [12:47] — Claude may misinterpret format (e.g., creates presentation instead of Instagram carousel). For best results, use templates and provide detailed context. ### Conclusion Integrating Claude with Canva offers powerful automation for content creation, but requires careful context setup and may need manual adjustments. The choice between methods depends on token budget and desired control. ## Transcript Canva, you probably already know that it's possible to connect the two tools. But what you may not know is that there are several ways to use this connection. These are methods that few people are mentioning. In this video, make this connection correctly, but also how you can create automated posts with artificial intelligence using Canva and the cloud. I'll also show you whether it's worth using cloud design or Canva, asking cloud design to be created within Canva, or vice versa. These are questions that people I want to show you all of that. You 'll leave here with the tools to create your posts and be able to take the content you already have and reuse it. So watch this video until the end because I help you a lot. I am Rob. Here we talk about canvas, help you be much more productive and make money online. If you enjoy this channel here. We have videos like this every week, okay? As I mentioned at the beginning, these two tools are working together here. And a lot of how all this works. I'll show you how the connection is made so the tools is very simple. You need to have a Canva and I'll show you how to set it up here . If you don't already have one, click your account. And if you'd also like to try Canva Pro for free for 30 link below. Once you access the cloud here, you'll click down here in settings, but now there's this little button here called customize. You click here and here you will find your cloud, I can bring you more content about the tool later . And here are the connectors. Here in the connectors section, you'll connect various tools that you use in your daily life. As you can connected, but in this case I can click here to add connectors. I custom connector if I want. In this case, I'm going to add a connector that already exists, which is the one from Canva. I click here on connectors, I click there on search and I type Canva here. In this case, I click the arrow to connect. He will log you into the tool if you don't already have a login. And that's it, it will connect here with Canva. And when you click here to see what it can it can do, what the tool's capabilities are, and you can unlink it if you want. From this point on, Cloud is already connected to Canva. And now, if you're going to do something here, you can ask him to search for templates within Canva, you can ask him to create something here within that you have to bring context to the tool, it's not just about coming here and asking to create something, which is the mistake most people make, and then I created didn't turn out well." So I'll show you how it works. Before you go and create it in the cloud, what do I recommend you do? You're going to go inside Canva and here you'll see, brand by brand, what this is so powerful? Because here you can click here and add your brand kit. So, in that case, I'm brand kit. Here I can put my mark, I'll put Oliver here, create. And now, if you have a website or your client's website, you can put the website link here and Canva will retrieve some information from there. Or you can bring in all the information manually, that is, you can add the colors, the fonts, include the brand voice, how the brand communicates, this will help you when you're creating your designs. What many people end up doing is creating without giving context to artificial intelligence, and the creations don't turn out well. So what you're doing here is providing this context. In this case, I'll put one of my websites here, robolvercreates.com, and information. You can also bring a PDF here with the information you have about going to look for information on my website. Maybe there aren't that many things. here. I can continue configuring. He has already found logos here. He found some colors here, you see? Look, the colors aren't wrong. sources and everything else here. Otherwise I can't upload my sources. Why I do that, when I go there and talk to Cloud and ask him to simply bring a context and ask him to use exactly this kit from the brand here. And then he'll use this, he'll use these fonts, he'll use these colors, and that way I'll have everything customized for me or my here so you can see it, to use as an example of a title and . I can bring my files here, a PDF with that can be done. I can bring more content here for you later. Canva when you're creating your templates. Then you go back to the cloud and now you can go there and bring context into the tool. So in that carousel posts that I thought were interesting. This is even from a content creator I'm following, Rafael; he makes some really cool posts. So I grabbed this and took screenshots of some posts. And now I can tell the cloud that I want to create something using this style. So I'm providing context for the tool. I can also take a link from an article or something that happened turn it into a blog post. So, in this case, I'll say the following: I want you to use the attached images as inspiration and use Canva to create a carousel post with six slides for Instagram, talking six slides for Instagram, talking about the new features of Canva Create 2026. That's it, I've included that information. And now, look, I'm going to, I can I'm using the Sonet model, which is the cheapest model, so to speak, okay? This one here is the fastest model, but I don't recommend you use and it works very well. I'm going to ask him to start creating. What is he going to automatically search to see if I have any skills, if I have any abilities. Here he analyzed this information, analyzed the visual identity, and he's bringing me the information here, look. To define the car, the a few questions. He's going to ask me some questions. What is the purpose of this reference. What visual style do you want to use? Exactly, look, you see? Look mark! I want to adapt it for my brand. I might adapt it. I want something more technical and editorial. So, if there's anything different, I can type it here. I'll leave it to you to do it in the same style. Which handle do use mine here. He already knows me, so he's already got my new things. See? Look, he researched the latest trends and now he's going to put together a complete carousel for me. I think that's interesting, but as I will do the work, but it won't deliver the final product; you'll have to go in and make adjustments. In the meantime, you also have another way to utilize So, when you access the cloud here, you have a few options available. So, I'll show you some options. He's creating it there using Canva. Here you can go to design, and when you click on design, you can create a project. information here, create your design system, and everything else. In this case, select the prototype here and put it here, see, carousel slide, and then I'll put it here, see, high fidelity, and create. Now I can do the same thing. I can bring that context in here and ask him to create this for me. However, there is a difference between creating it that way and creating it here in cloud design, because here you can even send it to Canva afterwards. However, the difference is as follows. Look, when you ask the cloud to create something MCP, which is like a bridge, okay? It's called the Module Context Protocol, which is how the tools communicate with each other. So the cloud makes the request, then there's a bridge there that connects to Canva, and it's executed within is working inside Canva to create it for you. So, if you have a cloud plan and you don't want to spend too many tokens, it, because you'll spend fewer tokens if you create it this way. So, how does cloud design work? The difference is this: when you place the order, the cloud processes it and creates it right there within and forth, talking. So, you're spending more tokens, you need to review things and so on. So he'll then you can go there and ask him, " Hey, send this to Canva." He's going to MCP, which is the same bridge he used to send this to Canva, okay? So here's how the token issue works, right? Oh, Opus 4.7 consumes a lot of tokens, which is that top-of-the-line version from the Cloud. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the models here, the versions that Untropic has. So, there's Sonet, which is the one we use most in our daily work, version 4.6, and then there's Opus 4.7, which is fantastic, but it's much more geared towards programming. I use it a lot in my daily life. Here I have the Max plan, which is super generous, example, you'll most likely be using the other version, which is use something here that's faster and costs less, you use MCP. When you use cloud design, you can create something from scratch, but you can also use it as a template for future reference. So there are these differences, okay? So before tokens trying to create something in cloud design, thinking it will create it for because you'll end up burning through your tokens. Look how cool, he created he's asking if he wants me to he didn't create it within Canva, he created it right here . Look, I can ask him to export this to a PNG and he'll download it directly here. But again, I'm editing here in here. If I want to save this whenever I need it, I'll have to move it to Canva. Or there's give you a prompt for you to do right now . But I'll say this: look, I want you to do this using Canva, not here, okay? I'll create it directly in Canva. Okay, then. He has already activated Canva's MCP (Mastercard Creation Process) and he will create it within Canva, but he hadn't done it anyway. Oh, he asked if I could review the outline. So I can check if the text is correct here customize, I can customize. I'm simply going to ask to be able to generate it. see? And then I ask him to be able to generate it here for me. And now he's going to open Canva and start looking for some inspiration, so to speak. you. And then you can use that as a template. So the more context you bring here, the better your design will be , the more the AI ​​will get to see how things turn out here. And another way you can do that is projects. When you click here on projects, I've even posted a Instagram. If you're not following me, go follow me later, okay? within this new project, we're going to put here, look, a car. And here I can describe my project. So I can add a description, creating posts for social media. And then inside there I'll put, I'll create the instructions for that project. See? This is where I'll be providing all those customized instructions. I'll leave you with a prompt to go there and . In this case, I've already customized it with my information, else. I'll put it here so I can save it. Okay, it's saved now. What can I do? I can simply come here, provide a link to a news article or something similar, and ask to be able to create a carousel post using the now. Look, instead of providing a link, I'm going to do the following: create a post with six slides talking about the latest news from Canva Create 2026. I've included it here; use your own instructions. So, he's going to start working for me here. Remember that every time I talk to the cloud here and information, it will be using up my tokens. Ready. Here he will confirm is this useful? When you create something, turn it into a template and you have a max plan like this one I have, then you can use it until it's maxed out . Oh, it says my plan doesn't have a profile picture yet, so I will replace it for me. Look how cool! So he's already started creating it here for me, look. Carousel. Ready. He told me right here, look. Text for any slide, circular image, and it will place the image here, okay? Change the font size want to change something, add a photo, you see? So, it's all ready here. Let's see if I can visualize it. Here's my carousel. can keep asking for improvements. Yes, like I said, you can provide within the cloud. So you can bring in context and stuff, it becomes kind of generic, but you have to keep context you provide, the better it will be for you here. And in the meantime, I have to mention this to you all, because I need to be honest. When I asked to be able to create the carousel within Canva, he understood, but instead he went and a presentation. This has happened to me a few times here, okay? Even though I was very specific, saying that I wanted it created in Instagram format, he did it this way, I don't know why. And then I asked for it to be corrected. Okay, , okay? So here I already have a looking for some templates here. Then you can go there and edit it in Canva, saving it as one of your projects. See? very quickly. But there are other forms as well. If you'd like, comment ways for you to understand how to create carousel posts using artificial intelligence and Canva. I think that using it this way, unless you create a pattern there and use that pattern and ask to edit that pattern, then yes, it becomes very efficient. I'll leave the prompt I used to create it below for you . You can customize it, ask for improvements, change the colors, add your images, do it however if you've already tried it, if you've already used it, and how you plan to is interesting, yes, for those people who create a lot of content. Now, there, I would go directly to Canva and do it there, because that way you even use Canva's own artificial intelligence, which is more optimized for templates and information within Canva. It's OK? So, I hope you enjoyed it. See you in the next video. See you later.