Canva Creators is a program for creative people including graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, artists, and teachers, to share their work with hundreds of millions of people and earn royalties.
There are three types of Creators; Template Creators, Element Creators, and Education Specialty Creators.

Anyone can sign up and submit elements. Due to the program's popularity, Element Creator signups are currently paused. Register your interest to find out when signups reopen.
The Template Creator and Education Specialty Creator programs are in beta. That means, we are only onboarding a small number of people. If you would like to be considered for early access please submit an application along with your portfolio of work.

Empower, our new content creator program, is now open for applications. You can find more information about it here.

All Canva Creators can upload elements. Elements are design assets that include photos, graphics, illustrations, and vector art.
Those in the Template Creator program also create templates. Templates are customizable layouts like presentations, social media graphics, videos, t-shirts, flyers, and more.

Anyone can sign up to contribute elements (e.g., photos and graphics). Your elements go through a review process before appearing in Canva’s library.
If you would also like to publish templates, you need to apply to this separate program.

Creators earn royalties based on their content's performance. There is a separate royalty pool for elements and templates. The size of the royalty pools grow with Canva's subscription revenues and is calculated every month. Find out more here.

Yes. All submissions undergo a review process. To pass review, templates and elements must meet our design requirements. Guidelines are provided upon your successful application.