NVIDIA Canvas
by NVIDIA Corporation • Santa Clara, CA, USA • Founded 1993
Transform Simple Brushstrokes Into Photorealistic Landscapes With AI
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What is NVIDIA Canvas?
NVIDIA Canvas is a free AI painting application developed by NVIDIA Research, powered by the GauGAN2 generative adversarial network.
It converts simple brushstrokes into photorealistic landscape images in real time, running locally on NVIDIA RTX GPUs with Tensor Core acceleration.
Users paint using over 20 real-world material types—including grass, water, snow, and mountains—while nine artistic style presets offer additional creative control.
The app supports layered editing, PSD export for Adobe Photoshop workflows, and custom reference image uploads for unique background generation.
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- Real-Time AI Rendering
- Completely Free To Use
- Local On-Device Processing
- Native Photoshop PSD Export
- RTX GPU Exclusively Required
- Limited To Landscape Scenes
- Windows Platform Only
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5 questionsYes, NVIDIA Canvas runs entirely locally on your NVIDIA RTX GPU. Once downloaded and installed, no internet connection is needed for painting or generating images.
NVIDIA Canvas requires an NVIDIA RTX GPU (GeForce RTX, Quadro RTX, or NVIDIA RTX series). The app relies on RTX Tensor Cores for real-time AI inference.
Yes, Canvas supports PSD file export with preserved layers. Users can save their work and import it directly into Photoshop for further refinement and compositing.
GauGAN2 delivers 4x higher resolution output, produces fewer visual artifacts, adds five new painting materials, and generates significantly more photorealistic landscape imagery than the original.
Canvas offers over 20 materials including grass, water, snow, mountains, clouds, stone, sand, straw, flowers, mud, dirt, bushes, and more for creating varied environments.
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Upgraded to GauGAN2 with 4x higher resolution, fewer artifacts, and five new materials: straw, flowers, mud, dirt, and bushes.
Launched NVIDIA Canvas beta with GauGAN AI model, 15 painting materials, 9 style presets, and PSD export support.
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- Full access to GauGAN2 AI model
- 20+ real-world painting materials
- 9 artistic style presets
- PSD export for Photoshop
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