Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, Microsoft Designer, went live in public preview today with a broader range of features. Microsoft Designer, a web app similar to Canva that was introduced in October, can create designs for presentations, posters, digital postcards, invitations, graphics, and more that can be shared on social media and other platforms.
It uses DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI, and user-generated content to generate designs, adding drop-down menus and text boxes for more customization and personalization.
“Since October, the AI models have steadily improved, and we’ve worked to weave these powerful capabilities throughout the Designer canvas in even more delightful ways while keeping you in control,” Bryan Rognier, GM at Microsoft’s 365 Consumer division, wrote in a blog post.
Now, Microsoft Designer can generate hashtags and written captions for social media posts, providing users with a variety of options. AI-powered animation software can also produce animated visuals with backgrounds and text transitions.
Microsoft Designer will eventually get more editing features, such as the capacity to position an object in a specific location within a graphic and have the rest of the image be filled in automatically.
Users will be able to remove backgrounds, people, or other elements from graphics by using the upcoming “erase” and “replace background” options. Microsoft Designer will remain free throughout the preview period. It can be accessed through the Designer website and the sidebar in Microsoft’s Edge browser. The Microsoft Designer app will be a part of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions once it is generally accessible, and Microsoft didn’t specify what “some” functionality meant.
Microsoft says that users will have “full” usage rights to commercialise the images they create with Designer and Image Creator, answering some of the legal concerns that have recently surfaced regarding AI-powered image-generation systems. However, given the ongoing legal disputes involving OpenAI and other startups commercialising generative AI tools, it’s uncertain whether that will change in the future.
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