Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app, which was available in preview mode on the web and via Microsoft Edge, is now available as a free app for anyone with a personal Microsoft account on Windows, iOS, and Android.
Microsoft Designer offers features such as using text prompts to generate images, as well as a wide selection of templates for creating items such as greeting cards, social media posts, icons, wallpapers, and coloring book pages.
Designer also includes an avatar creator, which invites you to use it on the mobile version of the app. The mobile app includes the ability to create images and edit them on the go, said The edge.
With Designer, you can edit images using AI, allowing you to reshape existing images or even frame them with additional AI-generated decorative borders.
Designer also allows users to change and remove backgrounds, as well as remove people or objects from images, and add text and branding to images as well.
Microsoft has made its Designer tool available through Copilot in applications like Word and PowerPoint.
Copilot Pro subscribers can create images and designs in Word and PowerPoint themselves rather than in the standalone app, and Microsoft is also adding a new banner image generator for Word documents too early.
Windows Insiders now have access to Designer in the Photos app on Windows 11, with features like object erasing, auto-cropping, background removal, and filters all available right within Photos.
Similar built-in features are also expected to come to Microsoft Edge soon.
Microsoft Designer is launching in preview with 15 free daily enhancements that can be used to create or edit AI-powered images and designs.
“Boosts are automatically used when you create or edit images or designs, both in the Designer app and when Designer is integrated with Microsoft apps,” said Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office product group. “You can upgrade to a Copilot Pro subscription to receive 100 boosts per day.”