At the Microsoft Ignite 2022 event, Panos Panay, product manager, presented the new Surface line of laptops and tablets, new software but also Microsoft Designer, a graphic design application available with Microsoft 365, powered by AI including DALL∙E 2 from OpenAI.

The Dall-E 2 AI model can generate original images and illustrations from a textual description and combine concepts, attributes and styles. This means that Microsoft Designer users will be able to create posters, greeting cards, digital postcards, graphics, social media posts or even illustrations for PowerPoint presentations from a simple description.

More than 100 million images and videos are available to create visuals. Microsoft Designer includes a graphic editor that allows you to modify them, apply effects and add text. The result can be shared on social networks or downloaded.

Microsoft Designer was born from PowerPoint Designer, which uses AI to make suggestions for templates to create a presentation and has already allowed the design of more than eight billion slides. The new application is therefore also integrated with PowerPoint and, depending on the type of content, will offer several options.

The free application is available now, but you have to join the waiting list on the dedicated website . Microsoft plans to add more features to improve it, and it will then be available both as a free app and with premium features for Microsoft 365 subscribers. After that, it will be integrated into the Microsoft Edge browser.

Translated from Microsoft lance Microsoft designer, une application de conception graphique qui intègre DALL-E 2