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Working with Canva

Use your NSS exports in Canva for social media, presentations, and more.

Importing into Canva

  1. Export your image from NSS as PNG (most compatible with Canva)
  2. In Canva, open your design
  3. Click Uploads in the left sidebar
  4. Click Upload files and select your PNG
  5. Drag the uploaded image onto your canvas

The transparent areas should show the canvas background through — no extra steps required.

Canva and PNG transparency

Canva supports PNG transparency natively. When you place a transparent PNG from NSS on a Canva canvas:

  • The background of your Canva design shows through the transparent areas
  • You can place the cutout over any background, gradient, or photo in Canva
  • The transparency is preserved if you download your design as PNG

Download from Canva with transparency preserved

If you're using your cutout in Canva and need to keep transparency in the final download:

  1. File → Download
  2. Choose PNG as the file type
  3. Check Transparent background (if your Canva design has a transparent background)
  4. Click Download

Note: if your Canva design has a coloured background, the transparency is composited onto that colour at export.

Canva Pro vs free

Canva's built-in background remover requires a Pro subscription and processes images on Canva's servers. NSS is free and processes everything locally in your browser.

If you use Canva Pro's background remover, you may encounter premultiplied alpha issues in some workflows. NSS exports don't have this problem — but once you've placed the image in Canva and Canva re-exports it, the alpha behaviour depends on Canva's own export pipeline (generally fine for PNG).

Common Canva use cases

Social media graphic:

  1. Create a new design at the platform's dimensions (e.g., 1080×1080 for Instagram)
  2. Add a gradient or photo background from Canva's library
  3. Upload your NSS cutout and place it over the background

Presentation slide:

  1. Use your NSS cutout to place a product or person on a clean slide background
  2. Add text and design elements around it

Canva template with your product:

  1. Find a product mockup template in Canva
  2. Replace the placeholder product image with your transparent cutout
  3. The product sits naturally in the scene

Known Canva limitation

Canva does not currently support AVIF uploads. Stick to PNG or WebP when uploading to Canva.

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