Microsoft Designer was announced today, based on the Designer feature in PowerPoint, which attempts to match the content of your slideshows with less-generic backgrounds. The new dedicated Designer app is branded as a graphic design tool “that helps you create stunning social media posts, invitations, digital postcards, graphics, and more, all in a flash.”
The new app allows you to type in text, which appears like the title of a PowerPoint slide, as well as a text prompt for generating a background image. Microsoft is using DALL-E 2 by OpenAI to create the images, so they should look reasonably fine — though generating designs for commercial use with AI art is still a murky field. You can also substitute your own images, which are integrated into Microsoft’s templates.
Designer is available today as a web preview, which is free but has a waitlist. Microsoft says it will be available as a free app when it’s ready, with “more premium features available to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.” Microsoft also plans to add a version of Designer to Microsoft Edge, because Edge definitely needs more bloat.
Source: Microsoft 365 Blog
