As we speak, Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design software, launched in public preview with an expanded set of options.
Introduced in October, Designer is a Canva-like internet 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 packing containers 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 protecting you in management,” Bryan Rognier, GM at Microsoft’s 365 Shopper division, wrote in a weblog publish printed right now.
Now Designer can generate written captions and hashtags related for social media posts, providing a number of recommendations customers can select from. It could additionally create animated visuals, full with backgrounds and textual content transitions, powered by AI.
New options coming to Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer software.
Sooner or later, Designer will achieve extra modifying options, Microsoft says, together with the power to put an object in a selected spot in a graphic and robotically fill in the remainder of an image. Forthcoming “erase” and “exchange background” choices, in the meantime, will let customers brush over objects, folks or backdrops they didn’t intend to be in a graphic.
Designer will stay free through the preview interval, Microsoft says — it’s obtainable by way of the Designer web site and in Microsoft’s Edge browser via the sidebar. As soon as the Designer app is usually obtainable, 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 a few of the authorized questions that’ve sprung up just lately round AI-powered picture era methods, Microsoft says that customers could have “full” utilization rights to commercialize the pictures they create with Designer and Picture Creator. It’s unclear whether or not that may change sooner or later, thought, given the continued courtroom battles involving OpenAI and different startups commercializing generative AI instruments.