Microsoft Designer is an AI-powered generative graphic design solution in internet versions and standalone mobile programs. But Microsoft has incorporated designer features into other Microsoft 365 and Windows 11 programs since its inception. And this week, it highlights two new integrations.
“Microsoft Designer is an AI-powered visual creation and photo editing app that helps you generate personalized images, stickers, greeting cards, and more, with just your words. You can also seamlessly modify your images to be fair, removing distractions, photobombers, and even more,” says Lisa Chan and Akshiv Baluja of Microsoft. In combination, the designer and other Microsoft 365 programs like Word, PowerPoint, and more, all in one place.
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Microsoft announced Designer as a new Microsoft 365 offering in October 2022, launching it in private preview on the web at that time. Its generative AI image creation capabilities are based on OpenAI DALL-E and are essentially identical to what’s still available separately as Bing Image Creator. But the full Designer product is similar to Canva or Adobe Express, in that it targets individual, amateur, and professional designers and other content creators with a wide range of tools for creating graphics for online and print use.
The designer entered an open preview in April 2023, when it was incorporated into the Microsoft Edge sidebar. App on Windows 11.
These characteristics remain in photos, however, one more designer can also delight directly in the application. It is enough to open an individual photo and click on the Yetton “Modify with designer. ” New Revel in offers several generative characteristics of AI, adding selective publications (with erase of objects, movement, color burst, cut, development, etc. ), automatic improvement, elimination of the back plan (and replacement of blur and colors), Tips for generative text and generative additions of images, stickers and icons.
As for the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Android and iOS–which, yes, was previously called the Microsoft 365 app–you can access Designer directly in the app by tapping Create in the bottom toolbar and then Designer. From there, you can use “Create with AI” to create images, social media posts, invitations, stickers, wallpapers, and other content, “Edit with AI” to use generative erase, frame image, edit image, remove background, and blur background on a phone-based photo, or “Design from scratch” to start a new design. I assume this works much like the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint capabilities in the app in that it’s a full-featured mobile experience without the need for separate apps.
(If you’re using Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows, navigate to create> will open Microsoft on the web. )
The photo designer for Windows and Microsoft 365 Copilot in Cellular requires a non -public Microsoft account, while IA generation functions require a circle of relatives or non -public subscription of Microsoft 365.
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