Microsoft Designer, the company’s AI-powered graphic design application, is now available to the public for users with personal Microsoft accounts. Microsoft Designer was already available on the web and Microsoft Store as a PWA, but it now gets a free mobile app and new integrations with Microsoft 365 apps like Word and PowerPoint.
“Designer is now available through Copilot in some of your favorite Microsoft 365 apps on the web and on PC to help you enhance your slides and documents,” Microsoft announced today. In Word and PowerPoint, access to Microsoft Designer will require a Copilot Pro subscription. By clicking the new Copilot icon in the apps, users will be able to describe custom images, banners, and other elements they want to create in natural language.
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Microsoft Designer is also getting some new features. The company has redesigned the app’s home page to help users get started faster with what they want to create, and new prompt templates and custom stickers are available to inspire creativity. The new Restyle Image feature can transform an existing photo into a completely new image, and a Replace Background feature is also rolling out soon to select markets.
Later today, Windows Insiders will also be able to test a new Microsoft Designer integration in the Windows 11 Photos app. This will give users new AI-powered tools to remove objects and backgrounds from photos, apply filters, and more. Microsoft said its Edge will get similar photo editing capabilities in the near future.
Microsoft said that the designer editing experience in Windows 11 Photos will be limited to Windows Insiders whose language is set to English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese (Brazil). The Windows Insider Team said today that this new Photos experience is now rolling out to all Insider channels and you will need to update your app to version number 2024.11070.12001.0 or higher.