Microsoft has announced significant upgrades to Microsoft Designer, including improved AI for creating more dynamic work, and closer integration with other programs across the Microsoft suite.
As well as a new Designer homepage, Microsoft has added AI prompt templates, offering ideas, styles, and descriptions that you may amend to your needs to help you overcome the mental block that sometimes comes with a blank canvas. As Microsoft says, “If you can describe it, you can design it.” Once you’ve created the template, you can share it with others, aiding collaboration and inspiration.
What’s more, you can create custom emojis, wallpapers, and stickers for use in messaging apps and on social media, or greetings cards and invitations for your loved ones. And if that’s not enough to get your creative juices flowing, you can transform photos into an art-style image, useful for creating fun avatars.
Members of theWindows Insider programwill also be able to trial the new partnership between Microsoft Photos and Microsoft Designer that enables users to remove objects and backgrounds from images, along with using a host of other editing tools, such as auto-crop, filters, markup, and adding text—all without leaving the Photos program.
The full suite of features is available to those with aMicrosoft 365 Personal account, but you can also access a slimline version of the program online or via the mobile app (iOS and Android) for free.
Do remember, though, that you’ll need a Copilot Pro subscription to make the most of the new AI integration. Designer currently comes with 15 free daily boosts that you’re able to use either within the program itself or in its 365 integration, and these are used up automatically each time you use Copilot’s prompt to create your artistic content. A Copilot Pro subscription gives you 100 boosts a day.
Microsoft says it “will be adding more features over time” to Designer, including a background replacer.
