Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview

At present, Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design device, launched in public preview with an expanded set of options.

Introduced in October, Designer is a Canva-like net app that may generate designs for displays, posters, digital postcards, invites, graphics and extra to share on social media and different channels. It leverages user-created content material and DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI, to ideate designs, with drop-downs and textual content bins for additional customization and personalization.

“Since October, the AI fashions have steadily improved, and we’ve labored to weave these highly effective capabilities all through the Designer canvas in much more pleasant methods whereas conserving you in management,” Bryan Rognier, GM at Microsoft’s 365 Client division, wrote in a weblog submit revealed at the moment.

Now Designer can generate written captions and hashtags related for social media posts, providing a number of ideas customers can select from. It might probably additionally create animated visuals, full with backgrounds and textual content transitions, powered by AI.

New options coming to Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer device. Picture Credit: Microsoft

Sooner or later, Designer will achieve extra modifying options, Microsoft says, together with the flexibility to put an object in a particular spot in a graphic and robotically fill in the remainder of an image. Forthcoming “erase” and “change background” choices, in the meantime, will let customers brush over objects, individuals or backdrops they didn’t intend to be in a graphic.

Designer will stay free in the course of the preview interval, Microsoft says — it’s out there by way of the Designer web site and in Microsoft’s Edge browser by the sidebar. As soon as the Designer app is usually out there, it’ll be included in Microsoft 365 Private and Household subscriptions and have “some” performance free to make use of for non-subscribers, although Microsoft didn’t elaborate.

Addressing among the authorized questions that’ve sprung up not too long ago round AI-powered image-generation programs, Microsoft says that customers may have “full” utilization rights to commercialize the pictures they create with Designer and Picture Creator. It’s unclear whether or not which may change sooner or later, although, given the continued court docket battles involving OpenAI and different startups commercializing generative AI instruments.